Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction This post presents some points to do with the comprehension of the "I". Some general characteristics of comprehension are also covered. The Midday Sun, the pinnacle which is what comprehension is in the process of dissolution. Points General  Comprehension of the "I" is the most difficult part of the work of dissolving an "I".  Comprehension is the middle stage (Observation, Comprehension and Dissolution), it represents the peak of the dissolution process. Comprehension is our work to complete. While dissolution is the work of the Divine Mother. So we mostly have to do it alone, with whatever degree of consciousness we have. When comprehension is complete the "I" is ready to be dissolved. Comprehension is the process of extracting the essence from the bottle of conditioning that traps a fragment of essence. When comprehension is complete there is detachment from the "I". The process of comprehension is really the act of the...

Here are some egos that in combination with anger. Remember that anger is an effect ego and behind it, there is always a greater cause ego.  There is also an egoic state that links the 'cause ego' to anger. Working or separating from the link ego or state avoids anger. The diagram below shows some of these cause and effect (anger) relationships. There will always be one more relevant for us to work on at any given time... Examples pride 🠊 impatience 🠊 anger  anxiety 🠊 impatience 🠊 anger  frustration 🠊 exasperation 🠊 anger  self-importance 🠊 humiliation 🠊 anger  self-love 🠊 frustration 🠊 anger  self-importance 🠊 lack of respect 🠊 anger  self-importance 🠊 aggressiveness 🠊 anger  self-importance 🠊 intolerance 🠊 anger  frustration 🠊 aggressiveness 🠊 anger  envy 🠊 intolerance 🠊 anger  gluttony 🠊 impatience 🠊 ange...

For teh person that wants to die in themselves what m.m.m said last night is gold.  The following is what he said: He said that mystical death is not a practice it is an attitude , which impregnates a person completely. He went on to say that this attitude is very visible in a person who has it.  It is what is needed to really die within ourselves. We must embrace mystical death emotionally. The intellect is not enough, it is not powerful enough for the work of mystical death. To embrace mystical death makes the spirit of mystical death to enter inside of us. Imbued with the spirit  of mystical death the attitude to die before every event of life, no matter how painful or apparently wrong or unjust, naturally appears in us. The attitude of mystical death allows us to resort to mystical death before any event and in any circumstance of our life. It simply allows us to die within ourselves, and that is really the way that we die within ourselves. Any other way just does not...

The key to do what we need to do and how, is right there before our own eyes and ears. It actually comes out of our mouth, but we don't her it and see it because it is wrapped in disguise of duality. What we tell others to do and want for them, yearn for them and push them to do is exactly what we need to do ourselves. If only we would take that advice that we freely give to others and apply it we would be fast on our way... It is our own our essence instructing us but our subconscious transforms it with duality and applies it to 'the other' and we forget ourselves.  That would be an example of a superior habit: to apply the advice we give others. End (4801).

This is a very old post that was left unfinished in draft. I'm decluttering and so I thought it is best to post it. There really does exist ties or links between souls. We all know this at some level within our consciousness. We basically feel this... We also know that there are different types of ties or links. Really if we survey the Gnostic doctrine we find many different types of links. The links that really interest us in Gnosis are the links of an esoteric nature. That is the links that were made through esoteric work and these links carry esoteric values, that is values of the soul. These are strong and endure the test of time.  There are also links that are made in life and through the events of life.  The general way of working of all these links is that 'like' links to 'like'. Soul to soul, heart to heart, ego to ego, personality to personality.  The links of soul to soul are not that of the mutual attraction generated by the senses in the physical world. ...

Introduction This post is a collection of notes on the topic of erasing self-importance. Notes It is the sense of importance concerning ourselves that we define as self-importance. Emphasis on that - 'our personal sense of importance'. It is not the sense that others give us it is our own self-made sense. Everyone until they work on it carries around with them a sense that their person is important. Our sense of personal importance is something that we ourselves over time have fabricated. So dissolving self-importance is dissolving the false structure of importance that we have made for ourselves. This is important to understand - we are dissolving our own false fabrication. Plus that fabrication is made up of several concepts and beliefs that we have over time strengthened. These concepts are also mistaken, which we come to understand as we find then and analyze them. Importance is a relative term. Important to what is the always the question.  We are not important by ourselve...

This was a post I wrote some time ago but didn't publish. It remained almost finished in the drafts section for all this time. As I'm now trying to declutter it's worth publishing just to get it out of the draft section. Loneliness is an internal psychological state.  It is a state of lacking, a state where a certain void is felt. It is an inferior state that as it grows it begins to eat a way at our sense of purpose in life. Things seem to lose their meaning or significance and things in our life seem less worthwhile than they did before.  Loneliness causes us to abandon things that would otherwise keep us company. A cause that we are fighting for keeps us company and feeling lonely is not to notice that the work for this cause keeps us company. Some masters travel and spend a lot of time alone in the physical world. They are full of their Being and being full they have their inner company. They have their Being. They are fully connected and so they are not lonely. Through...

We have to work on an ego and make it weaker. When we do that we have to keep it from not getting stronger and days have to pass for it then to begin to die.  Each day of not letting it get stronger is a fight. The fight gets less intense as the days pass and then that ego is really starting to die. It takes its time. It is faster if we ask the the Divine Mother's help more often or if we have the Alchemy to send it powerful dissolving fire. End (3829).

Fantasy morphs a lot. It goes from one scenario to the next, however what does not change is what the fantasy wants. Even though a fantasy morphs the underlying theme is the always the same. Basically we use each fantasy to give us something, some kind of feeling, a feeling that covers up for some kind of inadequacy that we perceive within ourselves. When we are engaged in a fantasy we are forgetting ourselves, that is forgetting our essence and our Being. The fantasy is assuring that we can behave in a certain way in a certain circumstance, it forgets totally the noble one, the virtuous one, the intelligent one, the wise one, the one with strength which is of course our essence and our Being behind it. That has to be delicious! So if we have trust in our essence and in the critical moment we are doing the opposite of fantasy which is to be alert, present and remembering the essence, we can act nobly, intelligently, virtuously, correctly, powerfully, efficiently, in any event or scenar...

When we find Gnosis and accept the work on ourselves, our learning from evil has finished or is fast finishing, winding up, closing, coming to an end, over with, done with, dealt with, caput, finito, terminado...  I think that is good to know right? That it is over! A relief, only forward now! This is because we are beginning the work of dissolving the ego. We almost always start the work by dissolving the 'bad' egos, then later when we have more consciousness we can successfully dissolve the good egos.  To start the work of doing away with the bad egos means we no longer need the bad egos because we have already learnt enough from the bad, that learning chapter is closing. Often that is why you see people who were some years ago 'badies' and now that they are studying Gnosis they are 'goodies' - too good to swear when before they swore like troopers.  Sometimes true they look like too good, a bit forced when we remember the version of them some years before Gno...

Responsibility is a high voltage thing. Maybe even a burden. A burden that may make us tired carrying, and for most people responsibility is a cause of some happiness. But none the less life has responsibilities so we have to find our way of making them fulfilling, worthy and enriching. Also burdens can make us stronger, just like lifting weights eventually builds strength. To be responsible, to take responsibility is an admirable thing. The law favours that, because it is the more dignified, logical and truthful thing to do. To plead not-guilty when we are guilty is evading responsibility and is really undignified.  Out of the ego and the essence, the essence is the responsible one. The ego does not like responsibility and avoids it, even when we are the responsible ones, the instigator of the wrong. Responsibility is a way to die in the ego. If the essence does not take responsibility for its defects at some point it will never correct them.  To take responsibility is one of...

Tridents Master Samael says that the degrees of objective reason are shown as tridents on the horns of Lucifer. Each of these degrees has a particular name. Master Samael in the Pistis Sophia gives the esoteric name for each degree. The highest degree is the sixth trident and it has the sacred name: Anklad. Why Lucifer? Because at that stage of having finished the great work the Typhon is now Lucifer because the ego has been dissolved and His function as trainer is now redundant and His new role is to bring light, which is essentially higher degrees of objective reason.  Before being Lucifer, He is the Typhon that helps us to develop the objective reason. Basically through temptation.  Devil's Advocate Temptation is like the work of the devil's advocate. The Devil's advocate is a term used to describe the role of a cardinal or bishop who while a new pope is being selected has the job of bringing up all the points to oppose each candidate from being pope. Temptation brings u...

When under temptation and mental storms and inner tumult the key and most important factor is to hold.  Hold the work, the values of the essence, the nobility of the essence, don't release it. Holding on, holding in there, holding true, holding steadfast, is always the way to triumph. It is in fact the door way. The next step is to lift what we have been holding. Lift it above the fires of temptation and the stormy clouds. End (3821).

There are two types of pleasures, believe it or not. Socrates our good old friend spoke about this. He never wrote anything down curiously. We have all experienced this before but have not perhaps heard it formally expressed as such. I actually think it is of benefit to receive this teaching as an official thing. Because then one knows that one can lift one's sight from one pleasure type to the other, and know confidently which type is more real. There is higher pleasure, and there is lower pleasure. Socrates said that there are pleasures that have a higher value than others. Good point - quite true. Obviously the higher pleasure has a greater value than the lower. Easy - makes sense. He also said that the distinguishing element is 'quality and 'quantity'. The lower pleasures are about quantity and the higher are about quality . The lower pleasure type is about the egos of: greed, gluttony, lust, laziness, alcohol etc. that are all about quantity , they don't stop a...

When someone is old you are naturally not going to bother them with details, with the past, with manners, with norms, with politics, with buying things, with the world, with the future are we?   We will naturally be concerned with right now, in making the most out of right now and giving them our best right now. So the same with us, we are working on ourselves, so we too are dying and so the same thing applies with  the way we treat ourselves. Right now is the most important and the most important thing is to give our best right now towards where death is taking us. This means that because we are dying we can voluntarily let go of so much kerfuffle that is still swirling around in our head.  End (3822).

Sometimes we go into dream boat mode and we don;t know what to work on or where to work even if we have work to do, we are like a bit lack lustre maybe needing something new, like a new challenge. We can easily give that to ourselves...  The ideal is to make our interior a wonderful place, rich in beautiful thoughts, a warm, sunny, green pasture buzzing with happy life.  To get the beautiful thoughts and feelings we need some spiritual ideals being brought to life within us. Any value, virtue, disinterested love for humanity, altruism, good will, magnanimity, love for the inner Being, nobility of action in the face of adversity etc.  Chose one and try to bring it to life. Then we will find its opposite creeping out of the shadows to make us forget the journey.  Voila! Served on a silver plate is new work to do!   End (3817).

Death is certainly in the small details of the egos.  This morning my mum picked these glorious orchids from her courtyard. Nice long stems with several pink beautiful firm and vibrant flowers - see below.  They looked so glorious on the long stem, like a spinal column with its virtues/lotuses (flowers) reaching upwards... Then she got out her scissors and chopped them all up. Time to die! Not a word and not even object mentally or think that she is doing something wrong blah blah... That's to die in the small details. Life free in its movement, the orchids are happily cut down, by a happy lady and there plonked in the vase with the red roses. Distasteful, weird, "that's not how you do it!", "what planet are you from, that looks..." all have to go, peaceful smiles all round, life flows on.  Flowers wither and next they'll be in the bin, but better if they were in the compost heap, ah well time to die again!  End (3816).

If we were negligent today and careless and got identified and were thinking as m.m.m says, a lot of nonsense, then fight back, get back that lost ground. Say we were thinking real nonsense for half an hour, go and do half an hour non-thinking mental silence. Then feel much better. One really does not feel good loosing ground. End (3814).

The work works. If it is not, something is missing or not being done right, or something in us is sabotaging what we are doing. If your work on an "I" for example or any esoteric practice that you are doing is just not working. Then going back to the basics is a good start. It is often that we are weak in the foundations. Like concentration, focus, sincerity, observation, separation, comprehension etc. Going to back to strengthen and rework the foundations just may do the trick. End (3810).

Forget it, to perform we need self-control. That's it, if we have self-control we can perform, in whichever field that may be, from concentrating, meditating, giving a talk, professionally at work, playing an instrument, playing sport etc. etc. The horrible thing is when we can not perform, because for some reason we can not control ourselves. Whether that reason be psychological or health related. To not be able to perform or follow through with the promise or expectation is terrifying for pride. It is the aftermath or consequences of not delivering that hurts. The thought of the possible hurt, humiliation produces fear. It is the consequences of disappointing others, but it is more something internal of not being able to make it, like there is an inner flaw or a lack of our capacity to control our ourselves is what bothers us, astounds us, and frankly hits us for six (for a home run) into the shadows of dismay. Plus it is also the disappointment of seeing our image in front of ot...