Gnostic Wisdom

This post is a supplement to the "Hidden Side of the Psychological Moon" lecture. We see the egos of others so clearly and become bothered by them, because we have the same ego, and we are very identified with it. When we are very identified with an ego we have no separation, and so we can't see it in ourselves, simply because we are it. When we are identified with an ego in ourselves, it is tightly glued to us, and because of the fact that there is separation between us and others, it is so easy to see it in others. The separation between you and me is always easy to perceive. Because the ego is an egoic consciousness, when we see it in others, and it feels threatened because it likes to be the only one. Each ego likes to be the boss inside of us. It does this by dethroning other egos inside of us, plus it likes to do that outside of us as well. As it does inside it does outside. The ego in anyone really likes to be the only one present in the environment. To do this ...

Empty words, empty promises, empty friendships, empty marriages, empty ideas, empty apologies, empty activities, empty plans, empty talks...   Going by how many expressions of 'empty' there are in the English language, it's not a far strethch to say that 'empty' is a common human experience and perception. What makes something empty? From my reflection, something is empty because it lacks the presence or the support of the consciousness or the heart… I think that we can say the presence or support of the consciousness is at least the presence of one of the attributes of the consciousness, such as the love of the consciousness, the force of the consciousness, the wisdom of the consciousness and the will of the consciousness. The support of the Divine Law and the Divine Being also make something 'full', or at least to have substance, meaning and significance. Something that is empty is totally the 'known' and is mechanical and superficial. It only has ...

This post is for when we realise that we have a karmic debt with someone, and we are in the position of unknowingly knowlingly wanting to extract payment to cancel the debt. If we ever find ourselves deliberately for 'some' reason, wanting to extract something from someone, such as pain or suffering, that is by making them deliberately suffer. Where tears, anxiety, stress, problems, fights, stagnation are the terms of payment, then we have a karmic debt with that person and we are owed. Some debts that we have with others are really huge and now have to be paid not in the same way but over time so as not to destroy the lives of both people. For example, a person encounters a person who murdered them in a past life. That debt can be cancelled by doing the same. But now because both people are working spiritually, for one life to be taken by anther would be devastating for the spiritual work of both people. The debt collector managers within us are ill-will and the subconscious. ...

From the tradition of the way of the bodhisattwa, the way is begin the day surrendering the merits of all our efforts to awaken, to others, forgetting ourselves. This is the way of trust. This is the way of the compassionare heart of the bodisattwa. We know and trust that if others are helped to awaken we will be helped by them to awaken to something.  We can all do this. As frequently as we want to, or feel that we, or others need. Really, precious are the people who do this seriously, every morning or every second day... Doing this, we get a glimpse for what compassion is, and a flash of insight into the tremedous compassion courising through the Divinities and their bodhisattwas. End (5894).

This is a lesson for ourselves. A lesson about how to look after ourselves. We can not be reacting all the time. Getting angry and upset, manifesting negatively, turning normal circumstances into unnecessary difficulty and suffering. We can't. We end up ruining our physical and mental health and seriously upsetting and worrying others, as well damaging relationships, which in turn, eats away at our own exprerience of life. The key is to take every comment with a serious and real outlook to something positive and truly good for ourselves. It is really also a good workout for our consciousness... We don't do this for anyone else but for ourselves. This is also part of the key. Resentment and pride make it too difficult to look towards transforming something negative from another person, especially if there is some history there.  Pride and resentment just want to fight with the secret aim of extracting from the other person, the pain that we felt, and transform nothing. By knowin...

Human society life these days is all about insurance, backups, liability contracts, contingency plans, warranties and guarantees. We have all these things to protect ourselves from loss. Sometimes that loss is real, objects, money, information, skills and people are really lost - gone temporarily or forever. Most of the time though, insurance, backups and contingency are there to soften the fear provoked by the two worded question: 'What if...?" and the open ended thought: "Just in case, you never know...".  In life we have to have our backs covered. We have to look after ourselves first and don't do anything that risks our security, whether that be financial, physical or our peace of mind. Why is this? Because the main logic of life is to not suffer loss. To always gain, win and be physically, financially and mentally better off.  The principles of the work are different, It is not to win, gain, lose, be up or down, it is to develop the consciousness which somet...

The first part of ourselves that we really encounter more than anything else is our personality. Also the first part of others that we encounter is their personality. We don't actually realise this. Because we are the personality and we can't see it. In other words we are very identified with the personality. We believe that our real and true identity is that of our personality. Becasue we don't easily see the personality we instead focus on the egos we have. Which is good but they flare out much less than our personality which is practically there all the time. The personality is the structure that the egos express through. The way our personality is formed, conditions the way the egos express themselves. The first step is to make our personality passive. The true way of doing this is by understanding that it is our false identity. Our real identity is our essence. The next step is to then stop serving the interests of the personality (false identity) and start serving the...

Thanks once again to the very supportive and generous benfactor of this blog, the blog's app is now available on Android. Here is the link below to download it onto your Android device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harr1424.geswa  End (5691).

It is so important to know when and when not to use our imagination. The use of our imagination makes all the difference. It is our imagination that trips us up and it is our imagination that delivers us success. We use our imagination negatively when we project mechanically or unconsciously, which is not to our or anyone else's benefit. For example, someone is late, and being worried, we imagine them having had an accident.  In such cases we should not use imagination, just know that they are late and thgat is it. It stops there. The same thing when we are feeling unpleasant sensations in our body. Feel the sensations but not imagine anything else.  If we feel the sensations and nothing else, as if we lack imagination, we will help ourselves out so much. We won't activate the emotional cnetre which then activates our insticinvitve centre and the unconscious parts of our physiology, where we lose control and feelings such as panic and nervousness appear, all becasue of the nag...

This is hard to do, but worth it. For example, say we see someone with a bad attitude, remember this exercise and make a conscious effort. Use our imagination to be in their shoes and look out from their eyes in the circumstances they are in, to be open to what they could be feeling. Stay there a minute or two and watch the antipathy and fascination start to release.  As soon as the fascination starts to go, things change in our perception. Judgement goes, and with the judgement, those feelings of magnetic dislike also go. End (5689).

Good to have a study of these processes as represented below. So as to see how they work within us. Once we are aware of how they work within us, we can start to change one process for the other. That is let go of the victim loop and take up more the accountability process. End (5686).

Introduction the ontological perspective it has been said that each Being comes into creation to learn truths about Itself - which are really in turn cosmic truths. The Absolute, the Great Flame from which all creations stem from, knows Itself through Its creation. Furthermore It knows Itself an atom more when one of It's virginal sparks knows Itself. To know and to learn imply the unknown and the undeveloped. That is unrealized. To realize is to know, become aware of, learn, develop and complete that development. So when a Being enters into creation there are lackings and unknowns within It. Even though it is pristine and free of conditioning.  Owing to the duality of creation, what happens is that these lessons or cosmic truths to be learned become the Being's greatest conditionings. The way these lessons are learnt is by undoing these conditionings. Therefore each ego that we have contains lessons about cosmic truths hiding within it. The way it is hidden is via the lesson o...

The anti-dote to anger is certainly force. Conscious force used correctly and internally. Bring conscious force when we are about to get angry and apply it correctly within us, we will avoid getting angry. In the difficult situations of life that call for force, our essence will send force. It will do this automatically and naturally. If our force is trapped in our perceptions of being harmed, it will express as anger. Even if our force is trapped not all of our force is trapped. We always have some force free. Therefore we can all remedy anger. Real and free force can be used to make us enduring, strong, calm and capable of doing the right thing within us and outside of us in the difficult moment. The force that we have must be used that way to remedy anger. To displace anger and make it an obvious wrong answer. Because we are weak inside of ourselves, we become angry.  We get angry to push away pain, becasue we can not deal with it. Whether it be psychological, spiritual,  e...

Literature is an expression of human nature. Really good literature is about unfolding the truths inside one human being, to invite others see the truths lying within them. If literature then expresses what we have inside then the below are the types of conflicts we all face and have to work through at one point. Every conflict that we have outside of us we have already existing within us.  We can work to resolve conflicts by precisely locating what in us gets triggered that we have a conflict with. A person may trigger a feeling within us and then it is not the person we really have a conflict with it is that feeling. The keys are to dissolve that feeling that is produced by ourselves (by working with comprehension and the Divine Mother) and or work to relate better to that feeling. A way to relate better starts with acceptance and stop disliking and projecting negatively when we feel that feeling.  End (5685).

A central theme of greed is taking all for me and leaving none or little for you. A sense of unity, a perception that we are all the same and giving to you is the same as giving to me, helps a lot to diminish the feelings of greed. The perception that we are all connected and that "no man is an island" helps to remedy greed. Your joy of having received my gift is also my joy. Greed is a lot about pleasure - the pleasure of having. Whether that pleasure be physical objects or semi-physical objects or sensations. That pleasure mentioned directly above which is an inferior scale, can be transmuted to a superior kind of pleasure that becomes joy. End (5684).

A good level of respect is when we consciously don't release what is in our abyss, in any situation, on ourselves and or others. With this level of respect we deliberately stop those elements in our abyss from expressing as raw as they are, and take what is correct in them (if there is - often there is not) and express it respectfully - meaning to express the message in a way that keeps the diginity of ourselves and others. This should not really be lacking from any relationship, even in a relationship to an animal. End (5683).

Here is a good guide for how we can form the values in our emotional centre. Using our consciousnesss to do it, End (5682).

Introduction This post presents in note form, points to do with working to understand the Wheel of Samsara, and how we can work to liberate ourselves from it. I  must say that this post was inspired from a study of the lecture presented by Glorian which can be found here .  It is a really excellent presentation that you too, I am sure will gain a lot of insight from it. I believe this is a very powerful teaching, as all human beings can relate to it. There are actually two wheels of Samsara, the great external one and the miniature internal one, which is really psychological - a psychological wheel of Samsara. Notes Definitions For a good understanding of this topic we need to know at least the definitions of Samsara and Nirvana. Both Samsara and Nirvana are states of consciousness and we can find these two states in us right here and now. They are both really something psychological, Samsara Samsara means the continuation of a cycle. Samsara is really a state of consciousness...

When we play with negativity there is that feeling that someone somewhere corporeal or incorporeal is listening... Openly expressing negativity may change things in our future...  Even openly thinking negatively may change our future... Deep down we don't want the negativity that we are expressing to happen.  So we are playing with fire (negativity) and sometimes playing with fire means risking getting burnt. End (5681).

From sacred geometry comes the triangle, the circle and the square. The triangle teaches us the Law of three the most important practical law, that shows us how to balance, resolve problems and how to create. The circle teaches us about the completeness of everything. How the Monad is in everything and everything comes from the Monad and returns to the Monad. Our whole life is a circle. It also teaches us about the work of octaves. How everything starts and returns to the beginning and constantly repeats at higher and higher levels. The square teaches us of  the basis of everything and shows what we need to spread our consciousness across and polish. The four elements, the four ways, the four states of consciousness, the four attributes of the Sphinx for the path, the four steps of meditation, the four bodies of sin and the four worlds. See this post on the Law of Four .    End (5680).

There is so much knowledge out there now that can really help anyone to change and know themselves.  The major difference with Gnosis is that it is the change and the knowing with a transcendental aim of realisation and liberation.  Where as with all this knowledge available people change mostly when needed and sporadically without that transcendental outlook. End (5679).

Our reactions are usually what makes things worse on two fronts: for ourselves and for others. Where producing a response with our consciousness does not make things worse for ourselves and mostly not for others. To watch with alertness our reactions, seeing what is reacting and not give our motor centre over to that reaction is the method.  To help ourselves do this there are a number of keys. One is to listen so as to see what in the other persons or people is speaking. That is to ask ourselves the question: "From what place are they speaking? Are they hurt? Frustrated? Confused? etc. Knowing the above helps us to respond. Instead of reacting. When we respond we can talk to or address the psychological place from there others are coming from. Knowing that reacting makes things worse and at any moment we are standing on a cliff's edge. Where below is an abyss of some kind. If we react we fall down the cliff taking a lot of time and effort to get back up to the edge again.  Kn...

Within ourselves 'not caring' about something that requires care, has real ramifications.  It is basically a wedge in our conscious mind that over time creates an opening to our subconscious where many submerged "I's" have the opportunity to surface.  To not care about something in action means to let something slide or to treat something below standard. In other words, it implies negligence and ill-treatment out of laziness and disdain.    To care is a real quality of our Being. It keeps things going at good levels of well-being. Without people caring, all things would just flop. To care is the precursor for many other values to appear and it also keeps many very negative elements from our subconscious away. To care about others, to care about ourselves, to care about our health, to care about our Being, to care about our work, to care about our future... We have much resistance to care about things and much lack of acceptance ot have to care. There are things we...

When we notice that too often we are being stopped or slowed down by people walking in front of us, it maybe a time for change. Initially we say in our mind: inconsiderate people walking so slowly blocking the thoroughfare. They are to blame. We assume they are inconsiderate and unaware and therefore doing something against us, so we get annoyed. In reality, they are just walking and they don't know who I am or that I am behind them, much less that I am in a hurry or that I just want to walk quick. What happens if we change our attitude, relax and slow down a bit? We don't find any problems at all.  Who is then to blame. Them or my attitude? Is it their fault that I am in a hurry? Are they to blame for that? End (5676).

Imagination Imagination is a huge power that we all have. Imagination links to emotion and to will. When we imagine, we see, but we also feel something. We actually create an emotion. An emotion that a few seconds ago, we were not feeling. Therefore imagination gives us the power to create emotion at will. Try, imagine yourself in a relaxed environment and being relaxed, soon enough you will actually feel relaxed. The trick is to give your imagination a bit of time to work within you. That is why we need concentration, which in terms of imagination is the ability to hold steady the images within our imagination. We need to really develop both imagination and concentration. Study Kasina meditation for some guidelines on this. Imagination therefore gives life to things. It has within it the power to conceive. It brings openings and actually opens new dimensions within us. It in many ways brings new dimensions to us. Imagination is the way to get in touch with dimensions beyond the physic...

There are a few ways to release comprehension, one way is through meditation and the other way is through action. When we act we experience, and with experience we learn. With learning we can then turn what we have learnt into consciousness.  If we do not act we don't get to make anything conscious and we don't expand our consciousness. Meditating is acting even... This is why the three factors are the way they are, that is with lots of action done in the field of life and the spirit. Meditation is never a replacement for vurtuous action. End (5674).

The two values of honesty and integrity help a person to maintain a good relationship to their sexual energy. When these two values especially in relation to sexuality suffer, a person's sexuality suffers.  These two values also help a person to solve problems or issues related to sexuality, as well as regenerate and refine it. End (5673).

The word seems infinite.  Seeing how infinite creation is in all its different combinations, the word as a tool of creation can be used in an infinite number of ways.   We can never get bored of learning about the creative effects of the word, in its different subtilties and aspects of use and results. Just knowing that the word was there from the begining with 'God', tells us about its vast depth. Just imagine if we go deep into the word what will we find... End (5172).

By the Horns To take the work on our life by the horns, means to truly focus on our life and stop looking elsewhere for light.  To focus on our life is to extract light from the areas of our life. Each area has much there to be polished and in polishing we learn a lot. Our life is like a ball room floor upon which we dance. There are many sections of that floor that are greasy, grimy and dusty, and need polishing. There are also sections of that floor that are shiny polished. To be able to focus on our life means to accept that our own life has the most to show us and is the most important thing for us to focus our attention on. Make a list of all the areas of your life. Such as: private alone life, Gnostic work life, relationship life, physical work life, family home life, friends, each relationship etc. Then list all that is good in those areas and all that needs work. Organise what to do to polish what needs polishing in each area. Create a work list and go to work. This is our ...

Morning showers can be so good. We relax, we feel good, we organise everything for the day in our mind so easily, new understandings, insights and ideas all appear.  I've always wondered why these things happen during a morning shower. Is it the conditions? Such as the the running water, the morning, or is due to be able to just relax? Let's say it's all of those things. The thing is to be able to get those effects within us during the day or anytime we want, if we are in a shower or not in a shower. For example, in the mid-afternoon at the office. Relax the body and mind, be by yourself or be close to people not needing to talk to anyone, and then visualise running water over your entire body. Feel the water. Invoke the undines both internally and externally to bring the magic of water, and stay still and relaxed.    Stay with the visualisation and wait a little... You will soon see glimpses of the magic effects. Let go of the visualisation and stay within those conditio...

We can be attached to the money we have. The perception of money we have is relative. To some it is something, to others it is nothing.  Besides that, because we don't want to put it, or some of it, at the service of the work, when there is a real opportunity to do so, we end up getting stuck. Not using that or some of that money wisely at the service of the work and the great cause, ties us further to life and matter. To keep that money intact and do something for the work while keeping that money intact we have to work more and more and the more stuck we get.   When we release our grip on it, things shift forward for us. What are we here to do? To guard a set of figures on a screen or to live and to go forward in developing our Inner Being? Trust is important. If we give to the Being, the Inner Being will give back to us. As we have cared for the Being the Being will look after and care for us. End (5669).

If one day we decide to avoid no one during our day, we will find out how much avoid people. We avoid people many times during a given day. We only really know how much when we try to not avoid anyone. Most of the avoidances are due to not having time or wanting to give time. When we are running late we tend to avoid others. The observation of avoiding people because we are running late tells us a lot. We avoid due to not accepting that we are late and not taking responsibility for our predicament. We may lack the ability to communicate in a nice way that we can't talk right now.  When we have done something wrong we avoid people, because we have fear that they will address that. In this case the avoidance is due to a lack of acceptance and responsibility. To avoid is to not present our face. Which has a lot to do with not being responsible for what we have done. We don't take the step of being responsible because we don't yet want to correct or repair the harm we are respo...