The Thought - "to be like..." Creates Personality - (5719)

Personality is created by imitation. 

What is original and authentic does not come from imitation, but from deeper within. Mostly from the essence, but sometimes from an ego that can tap into our creative energies.

Anyhow when we say to ourselves I need to be more like this or that person, or more like a certain quality, we are going to end up creating a new layer of personality.

We can study another person who has this or that good quality, and extract the wisdom, method and truth of their ways. Then blend that wisdom and method into our own way of things. That way we won't create new layers or aspects of personality.

Imitation is often not a conscious process. 

What we add to personality we have to later dissolve. As circumstances change...

Personality is always about adding something to ourselves to make us fit in better. Each new circumstance, relationship, environment always puts pressure on us to add an extra aspect to our personality.

If we learn the essence of the new quality, and fuse that learning into our essnece we will fit in consciously, without adding to our already heavy personality. To learn the essence of a new quality is consciousness, not personality. The personality remains bypassed.

End (5719).

Who do you want to be? Life's Biggest Crossroad - (5718)

The cross roads the big deciding points in our life and in everyone's life always come down to be 'being'.

There is always that question we ask ourselves or others ask us: "Who do I/you want to be?".

There's always two possibilities: dishonourable or honourable, honest or dishonest, fair or unfair...

No doubt we have chosen both in life at various times.

The crisis points in the work on the ego take us to this point. 

These crisis points are an opening direct to our Inner Being, where our Inner Being can answer.

When we accept Its answer, which is "I want to be myself" (which is the same as a value), is when the begining of the end process of the given ego has started.  

End (5718).

Right Power is Right Knowing and Right Doing - (5715)

The use of power has great potential. It can do so much good or harm. Therefore, It can bring us much future happiness or suffering.

We all have some power in some area or direction. Even if it is just to do with a broom cupboard or the laundry sink cupboard.

In fact, as human beings we have power in our word which gives us some pwoer in the world (life) and power within ourselves. We also have power in our consciousness and sexual energy, which gives us power inside of ourselves, which can be projected outside of ourselves into the world.

Power goes along with dignity, majesty and balance. However, power used with balance brings dignity and majesty.

What is within the balanced used of power? The balanced use can also be known as the right use.

The right use of power comes from the right knowing and the right doing. Right doing comes from right knowing. 

We have to know what is the right way to use our power. To know the right way to use our power, we must know the wrong use. The wrong use is anything that humilates, puts down or is a diservice to ourselves or others.

The interesting thing is, the more we have been subjected to the wrong use before in life, we get to know the right use. 

We often misuse our power as parents or children or husband and wife, even as friends, mangers and co-workers by humilating and doing others a diservice.    

The right use of power is edifying and honest. Sometimes that is very difficult to fulfill given the always deep complexity of the many situations we find ourselves in. Someone will always feel 'hard done bye'...

The general rule is that if others fear us because of our use of power, then we have gotten something wrong in our use of power. If someone uses their power with justice there is no need to fear them. Because justice will mostly always prevail. If we can see justice in the situation then we will agree with the perosn who has the authority. If we don't agree, maybe we have a short sighted or narrow view of justice, and therefore we stand to learn something... Or either the person with the power has to learn something, or perhaps both parties stand to learn something.

Knowing comes from the consciousness and it is the start of power. The next step is to actuate that knowing with action. 

A security guard may know that that person over there is the boss, and has great power within the company. That knowing will then allow the security guard to give the boss full access to the building. Most good bosses became the boss by using his or her power through knowing and action, to become the boss that they are.   

End (5715).

Ninth Sphere: The Link to Sexual Energy and Betrayal - (5716)

Master Samael speaks about the descent into the ninth sphere which is sex. He also says that in the ninth sphere of the abyss, the ninth Dantean circle, we find treason as the main characterisitic.

How are these two qaulities, sex and treason linked in the same ninth sphere?

The answer is beyond adultery, which could be the most common point where sex and betrayal meet.

Everything comes from sex, the sexual energy is in everything of and about us. The conditonings we have in the different "I's" were created by the sexual energy.

The sexual energy desccends from above unfolding itself through all the dimensions into the physical and further into the abyss.

Any and every "I" or ego that we have is also really a betrayal to our own consciousness and the Inner Being. To get identified is a betrayal as we intimately betray the real identity of ourselves as the essence for something false, which is a made up identity of an "I".

Therefore all the "I's" we have, began with the intimate combination within us of the sexual energy and betrayal.

Therefore from the ninth sphere the very bottom of the abyss, we find the deep origins of everything. All that is above the ninth spehere within the abyss has its origin in the ninth sphere. 

End (5716).

If Something is a Disaster Check for Fornication - (5717)

If something is not going well and is a mini-disaster, it could be worht checking for the signs of energy leaks and disorders.

Places where an upside down priority is at work or where there is just too much thinking or talking with no action, or large quantities of energy or resources are just not being used wisely or correctly. 

End (5717).

Mental Commentary Gone by Doing and Being Aware - (5714)

When we are trying to be aware, often our mind starts talking narrating what is happening and thinking about be aware, instead of being quieter and actually allowing us to be aware and hold the knowing that we are being aware.

The problem seems to be that the mind takes over the knowing that we are aware by commenting and narrating.

There is a way to stop this. A way to stop this is to be doing something and being aware that we are doing it. The trick is to know what to do when we are aparrently doing nothing, such as in meditation.

When meditating we are always doing something. We are sitting and breathing and even imagining. So sit and breathe with the mind trying to do the breathing and sitting while our awareness knows that we are breathing and sitting.

Soon the mind will stop its narration and things will clear, we will have clear attention on breathing and our consciousness will be clear knowing that we are watching our breathing.

End (5714).

Notes on the Wider Scope of Fornication - (5710)

Introduction

This post attempts to present the many areas in which fornication occurs. Fornication not only occurs in relation to the physical loss of sexual energy.

Notes

Definition

Fornication is a word in Gnostic studies that basically means: "to burn out". As in how a fire can burn out a house.

It implies to consume something until there is little or nothing left.

Fornicaton in general is related to expending values, energies and resources. 

We are all free and have the right to use our energies and values as we please. However, we can all objectively discern what kind of use brings enhancement to us and what kind does not.

It can be seen that when we use our energies and values wisely, enhancement follows and there is little or no loss. However, using our energies unwisely, in the style of fornication, we see that no kind of enhancement follows.

Money, physical resources, psychological and spiritual values as well as all kinds of energies, are very applicable to fornication. 

The general theme of fornicnation is to spend what is truly precious for something that has little value. Just as in the example from Mathew 7:6 in the bible: "Do not give that which is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, for they will trample them under their feet".

For more reading material have a look at these two pages from the glorian.org website.

https://glorian.org/learn/glossary/f/fornication

https://glorian.org/connect/blog/what-is-fornication

Areas

Fornication occurs in the mind, with the word, in the emotion with anger and worry, and in the sexual centre with the physical loss of the sexual energy.

When we overthink and think excessively to no useful end about something, we are using up precious mental energy. When we get a head ache and feel 'down', that is the result of what could be called mental fornication.

When we 'spill the beans' and or talk excessively that is fornication in the word. Speaking breaks seals in which things are needed to grow and develop.

Fornication besides expending energies and values breaks seals. 

There is also fornication when one allows others to wash his or her values or principles away.

Fornication and betrayal share some relation. To fornicate in any area is at the very bottom of it, to betray oneself. Because one denies oneself to enhance oneself. Often it is the case that betrayal of a spouse does not occur for one to transmute but for one to fornincate.

Source of Energies

All the energies of the centres come from the energy of the sexual centre. When we fornicate through the mind or word we are actually also expending the energy of the sexual centre, which brings us back to fornication being of the sexual energy.

The more significant degrees of fornication are to do with the energies of life and creation. Which are the sexual energy, imagination and the word. 

Our sexual energy is the final synthesis of everything we think, feel and do. In other words, if we fornicate a lot in our mind and word, then our sexual energy will inevitably become weak, and so there will be the tendency for our sexual energy to be weak also. Even the transmutation of the sexual energy may be weak. 

Fornication does not allow something the right conditions to grow and develop. So fornication stunts creation, the crystallisation of virtues and the awakening of consciousness. Anything that requires an accumulation of energy to build upon and produce a break-through to a new level. 

Other Characteristics

Fornication as we can see produces misery. To expend most or all of what we have, brings us misery. It is an action of ingratitude of not valuing and looking after the precious gifts we were given and taught how to cultivate and maintain.

To fornicate is something unjust. We can use our energies as we wish - we have that right, that is clear. However in fornicating, that is spending our energies on things that don't bring a return, causes us to take from elsewhere to replenish what has been lost. This is the unjust aspect of fornication. 

In the fullest sense of the term, to not fornicate is not an easy task. It implies to cover many areas gross and subtle.

End (5710).

Right or Better Approach to be Alert or Remember Our Inner Being All the Time - (5314)

How do we stay alert the whole day or be in self-remembering the whole day?

The answer is via a process. The process we choose is critical. If we choose the wrong approach we won't get anywhere. If we chose the right method we will get somehere.

The approach that defintely fails is to start by trying to be alert for the whole day. 

A way, a very good way is to start by being alert for a whole 5 minutes. A whole solid high quality effort five minutes! Put all  your effort into being psychologically alert for five minutes.

If we master the smaller durations and then practice frequently throught he smaller durations, the intensity and quality will spread. Making its way into many other activities and areas of our life, that we move through during the day and night.

You will definitely see that it will spread throughout your day and night. A momentum will develop naturally and it will spread.

This is something that we can do. We can't really do the whole day right now. We start and forget too easily and we then forget the whole day. 

Let's face it. Being conscious is an intentional and voluntary action that implies being responsible. For how long can we be responsible? We should only really start at the duration in which we can be responsible.

The goal is to work up to doing the whole day and night. Right now it is difficult but we will get there by the right approach.

We must start with something, and with something that we can defintely do. We can do five minutes.

Master Samael actually gave this procediure in pone o fhis informal talks that is transcribed in the volume titled: "El Quinto Evangelio".

You will see that you will prgress a lot quicker and at the same time you will improve your concnetration.

End (5314).

Power is More than Knowing - (5713)

Power can be defined as the ability to get something done.

Power in Physics is defined as how much work can be done in a certain time. This definition alludes to power as the ability to get things done.

We all need to cultivate some power to do things in our life.

Is there power in knowing, if knowing does not do anything?

Knowing is rather power in potential.

For knowing to be a power, something besides knowing is needed.

That something is action, application, implentation...

We can not do anything properly if we don't know what to do.

Power then is the combinaton of knowing and doing. A powerful person is one who knows and who can get something done.

Conclusion: real power is in knowing and doing. 

End (5713).

Notes on the Task of Not Judging - (5712)

A terrific remedy to judgment is to apply comprehension instead of judging. When another person bothers us, try to understand them instead of falling into commentary about them. 

Understanding someone brings a new and higher dimension into our mind and consciousness. 

This new dimension allows us a new way of relating. It also produces a transformation that is lighter and happier. Becasue there is more consciousness.

We judge because we want something perfect while being imperfect.

Accepting our own imperfections allows us to accept the imperfections in others.

There is perfection only the high and deep inner reaches of our own Being.

When accept imperfection we judge less and forgive more.

Judging something does not make it better or transform it from imperfect to perfect.

We judge mostly due to pride. 

To judge gives a false sensation of power or authority and being right.

"To be right is a poor man's version of self-worth". It is the ego's version of self-worth.

We judge with anger when our pride is hurt.

Judging can annoy and hurt others. Ill-will within us knows this.

Judging allows us the opportunity to look inside ourselves and see if we are the same.

If we are the same as whom we judge we don't see this because we are deeply identified with the same defect.

Judging opens the door within us for inumberable negative processes to unfold.

Not judging allows inner peace and keeps our level of Being stable.

Not judging allows us to like people...

We judge so much without knowing it. 

We judge people telling them not to judge. 

There are also certain areas in which we judge people more. It could be their appearance, their intelligence, their lifestyle, the manner or way of speaking etc.

Knowing this shows us our inverse values. That is, the values we consider important to us yet we lack those values.

End (5712).

Reasons for Our Imbalances Can be Found in the Past - this Life and Before - (5711)

We come into this life in some ways as a clean slate and in some ways not.

In terms of the potential for balance, we are, in many ways a clean slate. 

It is the experiences and the inner decisions we made during our upbringing that produced our imbalances.

No doubt our upbringing creates our personality. With our upbringing contaiing many karmic circumstances, our personality is marked by this karma, meaning it is unbalanced.

It is our personality that in later liufe contiinues to unbalance us. 

The various unbalances that are created are those: amongst our centres, in our relationship to the various virtues, abilities, principles and powers that we have within.

The reasons for why we use one centre more than another, and have unbalanced ourselves in relation to our centres, can be found within our childhood. That is where we made a decision to use that centre much more than others because it gave better results in terms of us fitting in.

End (5711).

Laws that Govern Dreams - (5709)

Master Samael said that there are laws govering our dreams. These laws are the laws of: affinity, analogy, correspondence and opposites. The law of sequence also influences our dreams.

What we are open to, we dream about. This is the law of affinity.

Many of the contents of our dreams are simialr to the way things are here and many scenarios in our dreams are close to the ones that took place here. Also many people and events in our dreams represent values we need to work on and take into account.

What we do here physically we also do in our dreams. This is the law of correspondence.

What we don't have or can't do here in the physical world, we have in our dreams. If we lack food physically we will dream about eating abundantly. This is the law of opposites. 

If we quieten our mind before sleeping and we set the strong intention to dream about something, we will dream about it.

These laws can be used to interpret dreams. As they were what set the dream up.

End (5709).

Addicted to Artificial Light - (5708)

In this day and age we almost have an addiction to screens which all emit artificial light. 

We are in the iron or dark age also known as the Kali Yuga, where the natural light of the spirit is increasingly less present as the focus of human beings becomes more and more material.

As compensation for the lack of light in this age, and because of not looking within ourselves to find it, we go outside to find it in screens.

The emergence of AI is also related to this, as light is intelligence and knowledge.

It seems to be one of the signs of these times.

End (5708).

The Confidence and Faith we Give Others Becomes Strength Inside Them - (5707)

When we give others our confidence and faith, we make them stronger, and impart inner strength to them.

Our faith in them turns to strength inside of them. 

This strength is a superior kind of strength that perpetuates further abroad in time and space and is the base of many other kinds of strengths.

Inner strength helps people to perservere and overcome their difficulties.

Sometimes confidence from someone not so close to you, and somewhat out-field in your life, is what surprisingly helps the most.

Sometimes in the difficult times, it is just the memory of someone giving you their confidence, that helps us the most... 

Why that is, I'm not too sure. Maybe because it was an out of the ordinary gift, made certain that it would be remembered, because it wasn't from the usual sources (family, friends etc.).

The moral of this little story is that you never the know how the small event of giving someone faith can help them and others in the future.

End (5707).

Attention: Our Living View Finder - (5698)

Introduction

Here are some practical notes on attention.

Notes:

To starting working with our attention we need a good concept of what it is.

With exact concept we can connect to our attention a lot easier.

Imagine our attentiont to be a living view finder.

What we do with attention is to locate it or place it on something. That something could even be nothing. That someting could also be the consciousness doing the placing of attention...

A view finder is placed over a map for example, and ambient light or light from a light source within the view finder, is collected and directed by the view finder onto a specific area of the map. The view finder lights up that specific area of the map.

There is another aspect of working with attention, and that is, will power is required to keep the view finder of our attention placed on what we are looking at or reflecting on.

Attention is the precursor of concentration. We could never have concentration without attention.

To see attention as a living view finder, is seeing only a small part of it what it really is. 

Attention is actually a flow of life and energy as well as will and consciosuness that brings more will and consciousness into activity.

Attenton is a vehicle of presence. It allows our consciosuness and therefore our Inner Being to be present in any given moment and situation.

Where our attention is our consciousness follows.

We don't usually experience life. We only experience the life that we put our attention onto.

Our attention brings our consciousness and our consciousness illuminates what our attention is placed on.

There are levels of attention.

    1.) Placing Attention: When we start by placing our attention on an object.

    2.) Intermittent Attention: Attention that falls off and on the object.

    3.) Constant Attention: Alertness is experienced, attention is more on than off the object.

    4.) Fixed Attention: Attention is settled on the object. We can hold our attention with ease.

    5.) Lucid Attention: Quiet mind and aone is fully aware of attention being placed on the object.

    6.) Mind Pacified: The mind has deeply relaxed and one is very lucid of attention.

    7.) Intense Attention: Alertness amplifies and single-pointed concentration appears.

    8.) Absorption: Consciosuness appears above the totally quiet mind. 

End (5698).

Will Power has Its Opposites: Important to Know - (5706)

Excuses, evasions and justifications are the opposites of will power.

Evading responsibility is the biggest evasion.

The above things are for sure not will power.

The above things stop will power from devloping.

Will power is used to be and to conquer.

If we work seriously on eliminating them we will strenghten our will power.

End (5706).

Serenity is Crazy! - (5705)

To be serene from the normal human society point of view is to be crazy.

To be serene, we need to be so above ourselves. So above our logic and projections of danger and discomfort...

As an internal power it is very transcendental and appears to the outside as pure crazy.

Imagine a man walkikng slowly yet firmly while array of arrows fall to the ground around him...

Maybe the next arrow will pierce his back...

The spirit of serenity is that nothing from inside of us has the power to disturb us and produce fear or anger.

To be serene we need force. That is why those who have a tonne of force are those who can be truly serene. The masters of force are serene becasue they know the great force they have and the wisdom they have to use it.

The ways of conscious force are surprisingly more aligned ot serentiy than to violence. 

Things from the outside disturb us from the inside first.

End (5705).

Meditate Deeply on Something Causing Us Pain - (5704)

The truth is, if we know that something causes us pain, we will all drop it, as if it were a tonne of bricks.

If an ego causes us pain, and we persist in identifying with that ego, it can only be that we do not really know that this ego causes us pain.

Imagine then that we just dedicate ourselves to meditate on how that ego causes us pain.

We would accelerate our freedom!

We would go right to the heart of the issue. 

We all know that a given ego causes us pain...

We need to go further, to truly, deeply comprehend that.

As we meditate on the truth that an ego causes us pain, we transfer that intellectual knowing into our emotional centre. Then understanding appears, and that understanding is of our essence. As the understanding enters deeper into the essence, it also enters into our consciousness.

Then we will definitely, radically drop that ego as it were a tonne of bricks.  

End (5704).

God in Every Hour! - (5696)

Imagine God (your Being) to be every hour.

One hour to do what we have to do at home, at work, and the same hour to do what we have to do for, and in our Being.

Just focus on that one hour. See it as God. See it as your Being. Just that one hour. 

It is not just one hour of our day. That one hour is connected to the past hours and connects to future hours and the rest of your life to come.

It is a shift more towards symbiosis bewtween all the parts that make up our Being.

End (5696).

Wake Up and Stop Making Excuses - (5703)

That is a really good statement.

We make some manmy excuses every day, especially in the mornings as to why we can't or won't do something that day.

This is especially relevant to working towards our goals.

To wake up with this resolution in the morning and go ahead and do it brings changes.

Wake up and stop making excuses! Make this your motto for a while.

End (5703).