Gnostic Wisdom

Say we have an empty room in our house and we are not sure what to do with it or how to improve it. What do we do?  A good way to go about it is to sit in that space and observe it with a clear and calm mind.  While sitting like that we begin to notice all kinds of things about the room that wee didn't see before and ideas to improve, organise and give function to the room appear, all out of nowhere. In actual fact, those ideas appear out of the nowhere which is clear and calm attention. In other words, consciousness. The same thing applies for our interior spaces. If we can just sit and observe inwardly with a clear and calm mind for long enough, creative ideas leading to comprehension will arise with that interior space that is unoccupied or occupied by an unnecessary element.  End (6005).

Often the urges or impulses that we experience are disguised as commands or taken as commands. They are after all just thoughts with a bit of emphasis.  If we let them go they will pass. The very interesting thing is that the urges come for a reason and this is something worth looking into. They often come to cover up some uncomfortable feeling. That is their cause and the issue is not to do what they say, it is to avoid that uncomfortable feeling. An urge is not a command it is notifying us that there is something that we are trying to avoid or that we feel uncomfortable. We are quite surprised how often we feel uncomfortable. The remedy here is then to hold out serenely though the urge to see what it is that it is coming to make us avoid. For example, the urge to constantly snack is covering something up... Maybe it is boredom and maybe that boredom comes from some kind of an unhappiness. Anyhow it is due to something... One should keep an urge or distraction log. It is so intere...

The reason is that we have the same nature within us that would treat others harshly, just as we are being treated now or were treated. The harsh treatment is actually a lesson to help us to not be like that now and in the future. The thing is we don't know that we have the same nature within us. Speaking Gnostically, we have the same egos within us, and we are not aware of that. Consequently we believe the treatment to be unfair and that it should not be. It turns out that from the outside it looks unfair, but it is only so, because we don't know our past. For example, we may have been so upset with our mother, because she treated us so harshly and mothers are not meant to be like that. Only later we come to know that we are like that inside if ourselves, and that is why we were treated that way. Having been treated that way we try to be different in our life towards others. Later when those egos come out that are just the same as our mother's, we then better understand ho...

Beside the trials of the path and karma, all these things going wrong, things being denied and falling apart last minute won't happen to a person who inside of them is good and clear in the light, has good-will and is virtuous.  A person who treated themselves and their Beingness well, will be taken care of and the outside will reflect the inside. When we are a bit so-so inside the outside - our life circumstances are like that - misfortune, things cancelling, 'no' as the more common answer etc. etc. How we treat our sexual energy is a very determining factor.  End (6002).

The sensorial mind yells and is loud and constant. People who talk a lot are using the sensorial mind. The sensorial and intermediate minds talk excessively simply because they don't know. There is a false need for them to talk about what they know. The inner mind does not talk so much because it knows. It also does not feel the need to show what it knows or can know. The voice of the inner mind is quiet. Almost like a whisper. This is becasue it speaks from deeper within. When we are far from our depths it is so quiet and the background noise of the sensorial and intermediate minds drown it out. The conclusion here is that we need more inner quiet and listening to hear our inner mind.  To not give the sensorial and intermediate minds too much power by using them for everything and forgetting about the inner mind helps a lot also. End (6001).

To have the power to decide to relax is huge. The power to relax is also huge but not as huge as the power to decide tot relax. We can gain that power to relax learning a few relaxation methods. Relaxation methods combined with imagination are the best. We think the power to decide is trivial but think again. If we had this power truly things would be very different in our lives and in the world. Imagine if we could have decided to relaxed last time when we were in danger, were getting upset, being annoyed or being shouted at, criticised... To be relaxed goes hand in hand with being happy, and we know to be happy most of the time is no easy feat. Relaxation is super important when in those times when we are not staying long in a state of self-observation or self-remembering. If in those times we run the process of: relaxation, breathing and no-thinking we will find that we can maintain such states for longer. We can cultivate the power to decide to relax by having seen the marvelous ef...

Memory is a big factor in the work on ourselves and in processing any change that we are interested in.  It is due to having forgotten our true and real identity as a soul, that we are in so much psychological and physical hardship. Our main problem when working on ourselves is forgetting ourselves and forgetting about the work and teachings. A whole day can pass sometimes and we only remember the work before going to sleep. In the beginning the issue is to remember and when we remember we work. The key is in memory, remembering the work. When we remember the work we can give different answers. Our work depends on remembering. The process is to remember enough times and for long enough that begins to become instinctive or automatic. This natural second nature provides the trigger to remember and from there we take over consciously. There's no other way to increase memory but keep remembering. Make ourselves to remember or user tools that help us to remember. Keep remembering severa...

The complete solution for us human beings has always to do with the three brains.  If we leave the three brains out of anything the results are unbalanced and just don't feel right. There's that stuck and 'something missing" feeling. Self-remembering in no way can be an exception to the three brain principle of the human being. Three brains is a principle of the human being, but not a principle of an animal. So we can start by knowing that we are aware of being aware. Knowing that we are awareness. We will feel this very much in our head/intellect.  This feels very different but is so tiring, really dry and difficult to sustain. We must follow the three brains. So then lets transfer that knowing that we are aware down to our feelings. Allowing ourselves to feel that we are aware. A shift will happen - we will suddenly feel joy to be alive and be aware in that moment. We can't stop there, even though it feels great. We must then transfer feeling that we are aware to...

We know that emotional centre is stronger than the intellectual, and now it is coming clear that the intellectual centre is stronger than the motor centre. Emotion wins over intellect, intellect wins over motor, and of course emotion wins over motor. Intellect winning over motor explains why we have laziness, procrastination and fantasy. We think about doing something but don't - laziness. We over think and get stuck thinking - procrastination. We think we are doing but not - fantasy. End (5996).

The human being has three brains, allowing the possibility of individuality. With the intellectual brain we can learn how to think for ourselves and develop self-concept. A one brained or two brained creature can not think for itself. All of its thinking faculties are given to it. Meaning it has been thought for or someone else has thought for it. Mother nature has thought for it and the guru devas in charge of the species think for it, and it does what has been thought for it. Plus what has been thought for it has been installed into the motor-instinctive-sexual brain. A one brained or two brained creature can't recreate itself internally because it lacks all three brains. With the power of the three brains a creature can create an new inner nature. A new inner structure and way of processing itself internally. End (5994).

The power of the seven cosmoses talk is that it shows us that we are not just a human being, a body with essence like a human animal we are really a universe. A cosmos which is s replication of the universe scaled down.  Each of the seven cosmoses is the same cosmos but scaled. It is a limitation to think of ourselves as just a human being, in the way that we are like an animal with intellect.  We are really not that - an animal with intellect. That is esoterically incorrect to think of ourselves that way. To reflect about ourselves being a universe blows our mind and changes the perceptions of ourselves. End (5995).

A lips to ears kind of a key is that when working with the elementals of nature, outside or inside of ourselves, the thing to do is to befriend them. This key really works! Patience! For a plant it would be to talk to the plant, water it and give it some extra nourishment in the way of liquid or solid fertilizer. The age old principles of giving our time and energy with our physical presence to pay attention and genuinely care do marvels for any relationship. If we do that we will come to love the plant and the plant will love us. Doing this frequently along with the invocations and mantras gives results. It really gives results. We just need to be a little patient, as every relationship takes time to build. We can befriend the internal elementals of our body following the same principles.  When it comes to giving our physical presence we give our internal presence connecting to them and being with them using our imagination and inner perception. Take a journey inward all inspired ...

What's missing in discipline is the emotional centre. That's why most people don't like disciplines because they lack emotion and emotion is what makes things fun and enjoyable. When a discipline becomes fun or there is emotion in it, it stops becoming a discipline and becomes a way of life. Disciplines are to be done and they make a lot of sense. They are great plans and ideas. They are intellect and motor. Why they fail is because the emotion that has to be created along the way doesn't appear. The best is all three brains together working to integrate into the whole of our life, thus eliminating discipline - which is something that is incomplete in us. Discipline is necessary because that is where we all start. Things take a while to enter the emotional center, yet things can quickly enter and leave the intellect and the motor centre correspondingly. Once things enter the emotional centre they are there for a long while. The key to everything Gnosis says is emotion o...

We often ask where do all these prayers come from? Some prayers have been written down after they were uttered by human beings in deep states of devotion and Divine Love. Some other prayers have been written by those who use them daily when working on themselves. These are prayers of 'ora et labora" that is pray and work. While most other prayers come as gifts to human beings from Divinity. Divinities send prayers with magical words to us through Angels and Archangels, who act as messengers.  These prayers are gifts that are a formula of invocation and petition. They are a bit like a key or a password.  End (5993).

An inner life that we become deeply a part of, begins in earnest when we awaken the fire. When we draw the sword of fire from the rock of sex. An inner life is a lot like human life, where there is movement along a path towards higher and more advanced states of experience and responsibility. Just hanging around allowing time to pass, travelling, coming and going, is not really a life in the sense of growth along a path. It is more like going around in circles. That is essentially what the ego has us to do. It is just to hang around life after life returning to the same - therefore a circle. We all say get a life, meaning get a purpose and follow it and be directly involved in the events of that life and forget about meddling with the lives of others. This is for sure a life and an inner life is exactly like that. We can awaken and become very aware of our interior, speak to our Divine Mother regularly and see this and that part of the Being and know this and that about our future, how...

Sometimes in order to help us when we are starting Gnosis certain defects, habits, lifestyles get turned off. They go and leave us free to go forward in our studies.  In retrospect we see that those things had to abruptly like with the flick of off switch becasue a transition just would not have allowed us to go forward as we needed to. Sometimes they these things that are turned off stay off and we really forget all about them. Sometimes the egos that were involved start to come up and try hard to drag us back to the past. This happens because those egos were buried deep and along the way we didn't get the chance to work on them and so they are still alive.  Now having worked on ourselves for a while we can deal with those egos internally and not go back into the actions of the past. While we are working ion these egos internally we may feel like we are back in the past and we are very similar as we were before. End (5994).

We all have free will and so the universe will not help us if we don't ask. Not asking is a signal to the universe that all is ok. Right? If we ask for something it is because we want something. So when the Universe goes to respond to what we are asking for it knows full well that it is not interfering with our free will and can happily grant what we are asking for. Conclusion: we have to ask. It is silly to think the Universe, even though it is a mind reader, will respond to something that we don't sincerely ask for. End (5992).

When it comes to helping people with charity it is better to say 'yes' and help all the way or simply say 'no'! Saying 'yes' with conditions, such as 'meet me half way' ends up being cruel when it comes to people who have so very little. The conditional 'yes' often doesn't work out. Those who need help make an effort but because of lacking in resources they can't meet you half way and their effort is wasted and they don't receive the help.  Then the hopeless cycle turns again. End (5991).

A big thing in the work on ourselves is knowing how to deal with the 'unfair' feeling. Here are some notes. There are absolute and relative unfair. It's crucial to know the difference. Knowing this can save us so much suffering. The absolute unfair does not hurt. We can do something physically and humanly about it and if it is truly unfair it will be rectified or we understand that clearly it is a karmic debt that we have to pay. The relative unfair is what causes us all the grief. Because the relative unfair only seems unfair to us and not the other person or people. The relative unfair is also unfair relative to some belief, concept or attitude that we have. To clear our suffering we have to find what in us it is unfair in relation to. Often the things people say are unfair to the idea we have of ourselves or the perception we have of our intentions. As soon as we know what it is unfair in relation to, we are almost free. Often when find the unfair reference point we will...

A lot of our issues come from, for some reason not accepting where we are really at, and trying to work at and expect results from a level that we are just not at. When we don't accept where we are at we end up beating ourselves up and halting our progress. When we can accept truly where we are at with something and then go back to the steps at that level we make real progress. Sometimes most of the work we have to do is actually coming to terms with where we are at. Once we do, we progress quickly. Why? Because we actually do some proper work that counts. Many times even though we have been working on ourselves for years we have to go back to the beginning steps. It's false expectations, inflated beliefs in our self-worth and capacities that lead us astray, making us to not see and accept where we are at. End (5990).

To hold ourselves to a higher principle within or outside of ourselves is something that helps us to go upwards in our level of the Being. Holding ourselves responsible to a lower principle inside or outside of ourselves is what makes us to drop our level of the Being. To hold ourselves responsible for our actions and words to our Inner Being is wonderful. It is truthful to do that as we also feel the consequences of our actions within us. To hold ourselves accountable to the noble standard of the work as well as the student's creditability in the work is wonderful as well. This really helps us to hold it together and to keep an upward line. To hold ourselves responsible to our egos or to the level of the Being or the conditions of others causes us to drop our level of the being. When for example, we hold ourselves responsible to upholding our pride we react defensively and get angry causing harm. Instead of holding ourselves to uphold our Pride we can hold ourselves to uphold high...

We ask this question because we are not happy ourselves, or we ask because we are happy and want the other person to be happy.  We ask to sell something, as a starter to our sales pitch.  We ask to check in to see how the other is going.  We ask to start a conversation about making a significant change in our joint affairs or life together.  We ask ourselves when contemplating a life change.  We ask ourselves this when something in our life is going wrong or went wrong? Overall it's a question that inspires introspection and stands at the start of change. It doesn't have to be a sad affair, it can rather be a catalyst to making a great change in life. The question is start and the easy part. The hard thing is the courage to follow up on the answer to the question.  The follow-up actions from this question are what in most of our lives, produces the big changes, the big turn arounds. End (5978).