Gnosis as Healing - (5821)

It is something really helpful to do a kind of psychological and spiritual check-in with the students that come to the classes. The check-in allows the teacher to see where the students are at and from which internal state they are attending with.

For a particular group somewhere, we are finding that people are generally unwell, overwhelmed, semi-lost, suppressing, unbalanced, tired and a little broken etc. - basically needing healing.

The classes of Gnosis about the classical topics of the four ways, sexual hydrogen, the seven rounds and seven races, involution and evolution - all those kind of things, help a little, but they are not as helpful as they could be, because the students are not in the right space to receive these teachings, which is totally normal when one is suffering in some way.

Sometimes these topics add a bit of extra weight to their already suffering minds of people. 

So Gnosis as knowledge focussed directly to heal our inner life, presenting practical tools is the answer for such students.

If our inner life balances and heals so will our outer life.

Of course, Gnosis or self-knowledge is the answer to all healing. We can never heal something we do not know.

To study simply the different personal issues of suffering with a determined focus on the remedy is the way Gnosis can be healing and useful to such people.

Such healing topics are: balance, energy cultivation, order of our psyche, conscious love, self-remembering, awareness of the mind, trust, hope, conscious faith, solving problems, meditation, consciousness, introspection and so on... 

End (5821).

Base and Heart Chakra as Foundation - (5820)

Forgetting the about the base chakra and not aligning with it, that is not being present and connected to your reality means that it will be difficult to focus.

We tend to only be interested in the upper chakras and what they can tell us, though if we are ignoring the base we can not focus and provide the balance, stability and energy that they need to function.

If our heart chakra is blocked and not working properly or very inactive (stone heart) we are simply not aligned and it will be very difficult to access the chakras above the heart, and the information and energy that they transform and bring to us won't arrive.

In summary, if we ignore the base chakra (Muladhara) we can't focus and balance ourselves. If we ignore the heart chakra we are simply not aligned with our Inner Being, the higher centres and knowledge are 

blocked.

We ignore the base chakra by not grounding ourselves, and being fully present. We ignore the heart chakra by not opening it and allowing it to be spin freely through sending good will to others and to the unitotal of ourselves. 

End (5820).

The Volume Aspect of the Word - (5817)

The volume at which we speak is a legitimate characteristic of the word. The volume we chose to speak with conveys information. The function of the word is to convery information and the word does this through content or vocabulary and through its three characteristics of tone, rhythm and volume.

Volume has to do with empahasis. High volume equals high empahsis and a lowered volume equals a lesser emphasis.

An opposite unappropiate use of volume usually goes hand in hand with sarcasm.

Just like the tone it can be the volume used that makes all the difference to the interepateion of what is being said. 

The main interpretation of the tone and volume of the word has to do with perceiving the intention of the speaker. It is often the perceioved intention that is objected to rather than the actual words spoken.

The volume at which we speak, if we investigate can reveal to us something about our psychology. For example, there are people who are capable of a decent speaking volume but chose to always speak softly. Then there are others who always speak loudly.

Many cultures characteristically speak with a particular volume.

Each ego makes use of volume. Anger speaks loudly or very quietly.

We know in practical terms that if we lower our volume in a volatile environment we can get much better results. If we use a slightly louder volume in a meeting we will be heard and our contribution listened to.

End (5817).

Key of Life is a Centre of Gravity that We Love = Happiness - (5819)

A key universal to all life is to find a centre of gravity, that is a centre of priority about which life revolves.

Having a centre gives us a reference upon which to order, organise, priortize and balance our life by.

A balanced life is a happy life.

Having a centre also gives us purpose, meaning, and a reference upon which to make the difficult decisions in life by.

The key is that our chosen centre of gravity is something we love. That is the key to happiness.

Life for everyone is miserable when our centre of gravity is something imposed upon us and it is something that we don't love.

End (5819).

A Reflection on Healing Can Produce a Shift - (5800)

Mechanical Norm

There is a certain shift that can take place within us when we think deeply about what it is to heal.

This is what I found when I began to reflect.

When first examining our ideas about healing we may see that we what we think and feel are things that are a little vague and weak.

I don't want to say for sure, but often the feeling of weakness related to healing comes from disbelief. 

When someone knows something or believes strongly in something, they are immediately and automatically strong.

It makes sense why we don't belive so much in healing, because overall we tend to hear more about the cases where healing didn't work out, and so in time we become skeptical in relation to healing.

When we think about our health it is like by the grace of God we are healthy and we are not sure why we feel ok and are apparently healthy. It's like we are lucky, and those whom we know that are sick, have been unfortunately struck by a stroke of bad luck, for who knows why.

But of course we are lucky, we say quietly, because it is 'us'... 

That's how the ego sees it anyway. 

The egos sees that we are healthy because it is 'me' the 'special one' and so because it does not know anything else, it takes advantage of being healthy and then later, when by cause and effect we get sick, it protests 'why me', 'why me for heaven's sake'.

Finding ourselves in good health, we hope that we will continue that way - feeling ok and we hope that those we love will continue that way too. 

We don't know for sure and we don't have anything to tell us with certainity how things will be. It is all about hoping and that by turning a blind eye - "I'm all ok and things will be all ok".

The above is the mechanical view of health and healing and can be changed inside out when we reflect deeply about how true the mechanical norm is in logical confrontation with the esoteric teachings of healing. 

Healing Shift

What about healing as an esoteric science? If to be awakened is to know our destiny and know when we are going to die, why not be awakened to our health and our ability to heal? As our health will determine our death, so knowing about our health is part of awakening. Yet it seems to be something that is often not given too much attention.

Healing as a sciecne does exist and there are ways that we can heal ourselves and work to maintain our health. When we open ourselves to the possibility of healing all of the above "Mechanical Norm" crumbles away. 

The ability to work with healing practices, negotiate our karma and work intensely along side with the Masters of Medicine for our own healing and that of others produces a shift.

The shift is one of consciousness and responsibilty, where we are responsible for our own health in its current state and furthermore we can consciously determine to a great degree the state of our health from here onwards. If our health deterioates, being conscious about our health we can at the very least know precisely for ourselves why it is that way. 

To heal is also to fight with love. Force and medicine have their connection. That is why medicine advances so m,uch during times of war.

The shift to healing is one of fighting for oneself and others with love.

End (5800).

Death as a Universal Cosmic Intelligent Force - (5815)

Notes

Death is a cosmic intelligent force that is truly needed for the maintenance of order and balance in the cosmos.

It has a very transcendental aspect to it. 

It is far more than loss and sorrow...

Essentially the teachings of life and death invite us to see death more and differtent to loss and sorrow.

With Death we learnt eh essence of life. Death is needed to teach wehat is most imnportnat aboput life.

Death takes us to new life in a new and transcendental way. 

Death takes us intward to enter higher internal dimensions.

Death brings ever and ever closer an ending and naturally when an ending is close we enter into a evaluation of what is close coming to an end.

Death is the result of life. It summarises life. Death produces the summary and the end result.

Death has its own particular special nature, qualities and charactistics. Just as life and birth do.

Death speaks to us about an ending but there is no ending, there is with the process of death - a new beginning. 

Death unites endings and new beginings. Death is a bridge. 

We expereince death all the time, what the human being has trouble with is that we don't see the new beginning and the new life unfolding in the internal dimensions.

To die consciously is a lifetime effort. 

Death sets the goal for life, organises and priorotises life. The 'end' determines the process.

To be well prepared for death is a matter of several factors:

    Standing balanced before the evaluation of our life. 

    Fulfillment of life's purposes.

    Resolved refgrets or little regrets.

    Forgiven and released hidden truths and grudges.

    Made amends and reparations. Comprehended and dissolved the cause of life's errors.

    Knowing about the new life in the internal worlds that death will bring. 

    Cultivated a closeness to the Inner Divinity.

    Developed as much self-awareness as we possibly could.

Complimentary to the above are the following:

    A lot of being balanced before the evaluation of our life has to do with having expressed the love we     needed to and was there. Noting that he expression of love is very wide and covers many ways.

End (5815).

Basic Parameters: Eating, Sleeping & Enjoyment - (5816)

Simple but surprisingly true. If our eating changes there is something to look at in our emotions. If our sleep changes there is also something to check with our emotions. If we what we usually enjoy ceases to make us happy then there is something defintely affecting us.

Eating, sleeping and enjoyment are definite and clear indicators that our psychological state is now affecting our whole life, not just one area but now the whole. 

End (5816).

Be the Consciousness to Your Maximum & Stop Worrying - (5814)

We truly burden and worry ourselves sick about how much we are or are not working on ourselves. That worry carried constantly becomes very detrimental to our mental and emotional health. 

We can take that tension out of our lives if we just natually dirrect our presence and voluntary effort into being our consciousness.

Being our consciousness we will exercise our consciousness (awaken), we will behave correctly (no karma) and we will also die in ourselves.

Plus a very important thing - our worries and guilt will stop and we will consciosuly enjoy and get the most out of our life!

End (5814).

We Don't Like/Dislike a Thing - We Just Like/Dislike Our Own Idea of It - (5813)

We don't like or dislike things in themselves, that is how the thing really is in itself. 

We don't like or dislike the experience of the thing.

The experience of the reality of thing is above liking and disliking.

What we like and dislike is our own idea of the thing. We don't even like or dislike another person's idea of the thing. What we like or dislike is our own idea about their idea.

The real experience of the thing is different to the idea and the ideas of others.

The idea traps us while the experience frees us.

It's worth reviewing our ideas and seeking the experience of them and holding off on judgement and opinions until we experience.

End (5813).

How Simple Life is If we Answer to the Moment's Request - (5812)

Life is simple if we endevour to answer to the question of the moment. A lot simpler and kinder than we think.

To stick to the question of the moment is enlivening and relieving at the same time.

To do this simple thing is not easy. We find that we need to train for it.

We always anticipate more because we have been conditioned to feel that we fall short of the mark and so the ego always looks for more to avoid that from happening.

Life does not really require more. All that life requires is that the question of the moment be answered.

More ends up falling into the 'not good enough' basket. In the effort to deliver what is sufficeintly good we go over board and produce what's not required and the 'not good enough' feeling appears.

When the question of the moment is seen fully the question of future consequences can be gauged accurately.

Seeing the future accurately we can solve problems before they exist.

End (5812).

See A Person As Needing Love and Want to Give them Love - (5811)

A beautiful way to see people, is to see them as an essence just like us that needs love. An essence, as all essences are, worthy of love and whose life and well-being is transformed with love. 

This is the first part. The second part is to feel the happiness within ourselves to give our love so that the other can feel loved.

This can be applied for anyone.

I find this the best way to see people and a better way to live.

There may be hundreds of reason why can disagree with the above. Some people are not worthy of love, some people take advantage, some people will take and never give anything... Some people don't need love but correction adn ti goes on. 

All these things may be true observations of people, yet there are many ways to give love...

End (5811).

Past Life Memories of Dying - (5810)

I think one of the most important memories to have is that of dying. Even better is that of remembering life after death while waiting for a new body.

At the moment is a summary of our life. Where the most essential valuation of our life just lived is perceived.

So to remember this is to know the essence of the life we just lived. It is like to read the concluding findings of a report.

From these memories we can form a different view of death. A truer and more exact view.

These memories reveal information that break our concepts, that generally make us sit uneasy with death.

If we change the way we see and relate to death our life right now will also change. Our own life is very conditioned by the way we see death.

These memories tell us that death is not as bad as we think. That coming back here is worse to face our unpaid karma and the same egos as before.

It's very much like an going in for a operation. We are 'put under' then we wake up to discover if luck is on our side with the results: things went well or there were complications, little pain or a lot, long or short recovery etc. 

The angels of death help us to make it an easy experience. They tell us that it will be quick, not so hard, you'll feel much better soon and you'll feel free...

In the nature of death is liberation and sublimation into the internal... It is not just a painful loss inot the unknown.

End (5810).

Finally Knowing What to Do in Your Life - (5809)

When we through some revelation of our consciousness know what it is that we need to do in this life there is a profound shift within. 

This may come late in life... But better whenever it comes than never.

When you know you are at peace and you are set free. That is set free from confusion, guessing and supposition. All you have to do is to achieve it.

It is all your own responsibility. In taking up that responsibility is where your power is.

It is your task adn your task alone. No one will share in it with you and no one will tell you to start and no one will care or know if you are doing itshare it with you.

You have one thing, one task in sight. All else that is not about that task orders itself to lower priority.

Everything makes sense, you will know why such and such a thing is and was so important.

Your life is about that task. No more wondering just doing and doing with purpose, love and conviction of knowing.

What others say and how they judge does not matter anymore. It only matters when you don't know really what to do or what you have to do.

End (5809).

Compressed Heart Chakra - (5808)

When we suppress emotions we end up affecting our heart. Before we affect our heart we affect our heart chakra.

There are all manner of ailments due to suppressing emotions. High cholestrol, high blood pressure are one of them.

The way our heart chakra is affected by suppressing emotions is that it gets compressed. The result of compression is that our heart contracts.

A contracted heart is one that is harder - that is on the way to becomming stone-like. A contracted heart is also a painful heart. A painful heart is a very reactive and volatile heart.  

It takes a contracted heart a long time to return back to normal after a small incident. Whereas before our heart contracted, we would return to normal very quickly. 

A human's beings natural capacity to expand in openess and positivity reduces greatly when our heart chakra is conrtracted.

A contracted heart chakra affects the head. Where our head narrows and a certain forgetful numbness sets in where possibilities become limited in a fuzzy unaware-like pessimism.  

We end up suppressing emotions in the beginning because of some grief or hurt. When that hurt is not wanted to be looked at we suppress it. We suppress due to judgement and fear, as well as social norms.

When that suppression accumulates is when our heart contracts and that is when we become very reactive and volatile. This is because the heart is being held under pressure and any difficulty or insult releases the grip and hence comes an explosion.

When we are aggressive towards others there is usually a lack of foregiveness somewhere. Often towards ourselves for having done this or that and made this and that mistake...

To attend to the emotions being suppressed in freedom, in inner non-judgement with patience is the start. To know them openly and pateintly is where it starts. 

The next step is to forgive. Then the way out appears. 

The next step after that is to heal, recover and repair.

A major part of repairing is to learn, comprehend and dissolve the cause within of the mistakes made. If or whatever they may have been. 

End (5808).

Close but Not Quite -Teaches Us A Lot - (5807)

Near or close misses teach us a lot. It's like we go right to the edge and get to look down below.

There we can see the danger and what's expecting us if we are to go over.

It's all about timing. To be able to stop in time.

This is the second level of learning. The first level is our consciousness alone, the second level is the edge and the third level is over the edge. 

Maybe we have to go over the edge a few times to benefit from the learning of the edge.

Maybe we have to go to the edge several times to be able to benefit from the consciousness alone.

The learning from the edge goes like this: we back away and we come back to ourselves and our life and we appreciate much more what it is that we have and nearly gave away...

We also learn at a deeper level how much more complete or convenient the line was that we were following before we met the edge.

We may also have discovered the folly of the illusion or false values and beliefs that took us to the edge...

The third typwe of learning over the edge, is bitter and requires much recovery depending on how high the cliff was. The learning of the edge does not spell disaster but almost does and there is little to no recovery. 

There is no risk in the first learning, little in the second and great risk in the third.

We can take a horse to water but we can't make it drink. These three learnings teeach us to drink and to drink better and more.

End (5807).

The Negative is Not More Real - It is Less Conscious - (5806)

We think (because of the past) that the negative outlook regarding future projects is the more real one, the more reaslistic and down to earth one. While the positive outlook is silly, new agey and airy fairy.

Due to karmic memory we tend to think eveyrthing will be difficult and will go wornog or not go right so easily.

However, this is very conditioned and mechanical as thinking positively and maintaining positivity while acting in alignment towards the success of the project is a conscious action that engages conscious will together with various conscious values of the soul.  

End (5806).

Motor Centre More Crime - (5805)

It seems that countries for where people are more based in their motor centre crime is greater than countries where the people are more based in their intellectual centre.

The main reason for this could be that people who have their centre of gravity in the motor centre act without giving serious thought to their actions.

The main thought process to engage before acting is about seeing the consequences. 

There are the instincts then there should be right thought then there should be action. 

End (5805).

Each Birthday is a Death - (5804)

Master Samael says everyone's death is their crown.

Every birthday is a birthday because the year has come to an end. In other words the year has died.

So each birthday is a celebration of a death as well as a birth into a new year.

It's good to train ourselves to see birth and death together always. Our suffering begins when we separate the two and only see one alone.

Just like we should always see good and evil together in the same instant. Seeing both gives some transcendence and nuetrality.

End (5804).

Judging is Karmic - (5803)

Judging is quite a karmic activity. Essentially for ourselves. I say this because so often it happens that when we judge others we end up in the same position as them and acting just the same. This is exactly the pattern of karm. It is as if the Law of Karma is saying don't judge leave that up to 'me'.

It is even worse when we verbally judge others. We end up being the same with an extra bit of humiliation on top due to the inconvenience we caused them.

Meditiaton teaches us not to judge mentally. While we are judging mentally we can't bring any stillness.

Not judging teaches us to not align the judging of ourselves with the judgements of others. For example, someone may say that what we are doing is a waste of time and we feel upset. Why we feel upset is because we then go and align the judgment of ourselves with their judgement. 

When we are in control of the way we judge ourselves we are getting free from others and our egos. We increase our power to not get identified. 

End (5803).

We Relate to Others Differently When Seen from Different Dimensions - (5801)

Intellectual Dimension

When we see others intellectually, that is from the intellectual dimension, we tend to see them as being logical or illogical expressions, that is, logical or illogical words and actions. It sounds very cold and machine like, but that is how things tend to be and it is inline with the nature of the intellectual centre.

When seeing only logic, it is unavoidable to see people in duality. That is, as either right or wrong, making sense or not making sense, logical or illogical. 

As others do not often use their intellectual centre to speak and do, seeing others intellectually often produces an intellectual kind of frustration that eventually leads to a kind of irritation, because of finding it difficult not being able to understand people and their decisions.

The common question is why would someone be illogical? Impossible to understand right from that point of view where everything is logic.

We are often stuck in the intellectual way of seeing others and relate to others most of our life this way.

We can think while in this mode of relating, that is what counts in life - logic and reasons. Because everything works by logic, there is a reason for everyhing and we even may have along the way gotten use to getting things to work in our favour using technical logical arguments.

However, human beings are mostly driven by emotions, by feelings. Feelings are always the most powerful driving force in a human being. So to be seeing a human being only illectually is to only see a part of the human being. The part which often does not make sense.

We can see others from an emotional dimension, and when we do others will make much more sense. Becasue we all live mostly emotionally. It is the most powerful centre in all of us.

Emotional Dimension

Seeing others from an emotional dimension is much more natural and makes it easier and more natural to understand others.

We understand that others just want to feel happy, avoid drama and difficulty in their life. Plus we are mostly all in favour of ourselves, if not in love with ourselves, and that is the place from where we decide, speak and do things, mostly or partly favouring our interests, which is normal.

Seeing others emotionally we want them to be happy and joyful, seeing others intellectually we want them to conform and to be logical and correct. 

Intellectually we often limit the expression of emotion of others because we don't understand,  it's illogical to our intelect, consequently we only allow our emotion to express, because it is logical when we do...

The emotional centre in all of us is much stronger and often we decide emotionally. Which is often illogical to the intellect but logical to serve one's emotional interests. 

We can't understand why someone says they are interested and then not at all show it for example. Intellectually, it is difficult to understand but emotionally it is easy - their emotions changed they didn't really feel like it anymore.

Emotional undestanding is much for flexible, open and closer to reality. Remembering that our reality is our emotion.

Other Dimensions

We can see others from an essence dimension. 

We can see others from the dimension of the Monad.

I won't say much about how things are when we see others. When we start to see others through all three brains we can start to see others from the essence dimension. Why? Because we are closer to our own essence.

End (5801).

Three Kinds of Word - (5802)

The three types of word are:

1.) the spoken word

2.) the written word

3.) the silent word

It is not only important to know about the three types of word but when to use each type of word.

Some things are better spoken about then written about, and for some other things it is better to write than speak. Some things it is best to keep quiet about and not speak or write...

The one thing that it is not applicable to use one kind of word all the time. This leads us to great imbalance. Just as if we were to use one centre all the time we would be end up being a menace and very unbalanced and very difficult to relate to.

All the daily experiences of life are training experiments for us to know about the power of each type of word and to learn which type of word is best suited for which situation.

The silent word also includes the word spoken in our mind that people mostly do not hear. Sometimes people perceive our internal word through our atmosphere/mood which is a direct result from what we are saying in our mind, or they may observe our body language.

End (5802).

How Critical is the Right Order of Things! - (5794)

Order Related to Balance

It is always critical!

To have balance we need order. The right order will always set up balance.

Imbalance most often comes from the wrong order to start with.

The wrong order can only be sustained before balance is broken for a brief window in all cases, until the right order must come in.

We all bank too heavily on that small window... There are businesses and people that make a living out of that small window.

The wrong order will create imbalance. Imbalance creates inequality and injustice. Inequality and injustice then create suffering.

A vicious cycle then begins... which takes a long time to rise up out of.

Order and the Mind

In popular terms mindset is an order in our mind. The right mindset is the right order.

Balance starts in the mind, therefore the right or wrong order begins in the mind.

When we are more awake we get this order and therefore balance right.

When we are operating from our sleeping consciousness, identified with something other than our true nature, we get the order exactly in the opposite way it needs to be to establish balance.

We can't work on ourselves effectively when operating according to the wrong order of things.

Examples

The horse before the cart. Is the perfect example of the right order.

The Being before life. Or the Being with life. The work before life or the work with life.

Listening before speaking.

Working before deserving.

Working before receiving.

Having before spending.

Internal change before external.

Make a plan before starting. Not start, finish and make a plan.

Live before dying. 

Unbalanced before balanced. Lost before found. Fallen before ascended.

Know and comprehend before changing. Instead of changing before knowing or comprehending.

Transmute and continue transmuting before practicing Alchemy.

Intellect, emotion and motor and sex. Instead of sex first then the other centres later.

Conclusion

The wrong order can create instability in our mind. Instability creates worry and fear. Fear soon debilitates us.

The right order creates stability and stability creates strength.

End (5794).