Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction The following text comes from a documentary made by a Gnostic institution that quotes Gurdjieff explaining why it is difficult for the human being to realise that he or she is many rather than one. Gurdjieff Explains “Before it all, man must know that he doesn't have a single, permanent and immutable ‘I’. Before it all, man must know that he is not one and always the same but that he is many. This idea is difficult to assimilate, but fundamental to a correct interior work. In reality, there isn't a psychological unity in man. There is neither one centre of command nor a unique ‘I’ or permanent ego. What creates the idea of unity or integrity in man is partially the sensation of his physical body, partially his name that doesn't usually change and lastly his mechanical immutable habits implanted in him by education or acquired by imitation. By always having the same physical sensations, al...

Introduction It is a very good moment when we discover that our intentions to work on ourselves or to practice come from our mind. This is a very good moment because now we can understand why we fail in those intentions. It suddenly all makes sense as to why we have had the good idea of changing or stopping a bad habit and then we end up after a week or less giving up on the idea only to fail again. Only when we realize that this or other intentions come from the mind can we begin to change that situation and break the cycle of new intention and then failure. The ideal is to always to come from and work from the heart. The solution and a large part of the work is moving the work from the mind to the heart. Before we do this there is usually a battle between the mind and the heart and this battling is really very taxing. From Mind to Heart When intentions are born in the mind and do not go to the heart there i...

Introduction What does it mean to have our waters black or white, yellow or red? I am going to introduce my address to this point in this post by talking about the colours of the waters from the classical Alchemical point of view, and in the next posts to follow I’m going to go into the point in a lot more detail and depth. The Four Colours in Classical Alchemy In the study of Alchemy there are qualifications of the mercury or the waters. This means that the waters pass through transformations in quality, that is they start off as having a relatively dense, impure or raw quality and pass through successive transformations to take on a more refined, lighter and purer quality. These qualifications of the mercury or waters in alchemy come under the topic of the four colours that appear in the hermetic flask, or the four stages of the Alchemy that are represented by four animals, namely the crow or raven (black), the dove (white), the eagle (yellow) and the pheasant (red)...

Introduction If the waters are something more than the physical aspect of the sexual energy the waters must then have a lot to do with sexuality. The question I think that is pertinent to ask then, is what really is sexuality. We all have some sort of an idea about what it is, however it is good at times to review our concepts and ideas about it, so to come to a clearer and more concise view.  When people think about what sexuality, many things can come to mind, such as it being the way a person participates in the sexual act or how one approaches the sexual act, our attitude towards sex, our sexual preference, whether we are refined or unrefined etc. etc. However, there is really more to it than that. There is the psychological and esoteric layers that are far more important. More of a Way of Relating to Sex and Sexual Energy Sexuality is more of a psychological thing, it is about one’s understanding of sex, it is how one relates to one’s sexual function, it is one...

Introduction I have asked myself so many times what really are the Alchemical Waters? I have been thinking a lot about that lately and here is a relatively more complete understanding of what they are. I don’t want to say that the following explanation is the best or the most correct but according to what I have understood in the past the following is a more complete, coherent and clearer picture. More than the Physical What are these waters really truly in depth, what are they? They can not only be the sexual energy they must be representing more than that. We know that the waters change colours but the sexual energy physically doesn’t change colour, even when a person has the waters red the sexual energy has its natural colour. So then the waters must represent something more than just the physical. The Psychological and Esoteric Dimension In a previous post we established that the waters in alchemy are the sexual energy but with another dimension added to it. As ...

Introduction Master Samael in one of his talks that was recorded mentioned a remedy to depression. Perhaps he had passed through some kind of depression or knew someone that had or was passing through it at that time. We don’t really know, never mind the remedy he gave is what is important for now. His Remedy He said that if one enters into mediation and goes into profound remembering of the Being one can come out of the depression that one feels oneself to be in. How to Start to Apply the Remedy If we though start by practicing mental silence, that is take 15 to 20 minutes to sit down and focus on not thinking at all. This practice though so simple has some really profound effects. It has some profound effects because it activates the conscious which displaces the fear that is causing the depression. Also with depression there is a kind of vacuum or emptiness and that needs to be filled. When we activate ...

We Don’t Like it There are parts in us that don’t like justice and balance. There are the parts that inside of us think that it is unfair, dry, cruel and a lack of love. We may even look upon a balanced or just person sometimes as lacking love. However this is all wrong. How can a just person be unfair and cruel? These things are perceptions of the ego that are wrong and the opposite of the reality, how wrong is the ego to perceive balance as unfair. Well maybe because the ego always expects more, more than what it deserves and it thinks that by getting more than what it deserves that is love. Especially in close relationships, the ego of self-love always wants more, more than the right proportion or amount. Does a just person lack love? It may seem like that because our idea of love is to receive good things when we have done wrong and to be given a second chance because it is us. But really the balanced person is the one who is more awakened and sees the good and the bad ...

A Shock I heard this statement a while ago during a class. It was a little bit of a shock I must admit. I seemed to have had a concept that concessions were possible and gifts were admissible. With some reflection it makes sense and it seems that that is the way it has to be, and thankfully that is the way it is. In fact if it were not this way it would break the law. We think that the angels and the Masters are ever merciful and good, but they can’t be they have to abide by the law, they must be just and balanced. If they were sentimental they would break the law and in breaking the law they would inevitably end up giving to others who do not deserve the good things and in giving to others one must take from those who really deserve it. A terrible imbalance would end up being created and where there is imbalance there are problems, in fact a chain of problems. What does it Mean? It means basically that whatever one ...

Water in Alchemical Texts In the study of Alchemy one can come across various symbols, with one of them being the waters, for example: “mercurial waters”, “sweet water”, “pontic water”, “water of the wise”, “black water” and “white water”. The waters in Alchemy refer to the waters of life or to the mercury, as we can see in the term “mercurial water”. We know from the study of Gnosis that the waters are the waters of life which are the sexual waters, as all life comes from sex. We know also that the mercury is sexual energy and furthermore the mercury has three classifications, starting with the raw mercury which is the raw sexual energy or the seminal entity in men or the sexual secretions in women. To Summarise So then, we can summarise saying that the waters are the sexual energy. The Waters are More than that Though But that is not all there is more to it than that. When the these waters are seen in...

Series of Posts In the next few posts I would like to address the topic of the waters as found in the study of Alchemy. The Points to be Developed I wish to explain further the following points: 1.)     What the waters are in depth. 2.)     What transformations take place in the waters. 3.)     Describe each of the states of the waters. Concentrating on the black and white waters. 4.)     Practical points to transform the waters. Whitening the waters. 5.)     Other points of interest that will compliment one’s background understanding of this topic. End (820).

Introduction The temptation these days is to be doing two things or more at once. For example driving and then checking our phone or driving and talking on our phone or walking and checking our phone etc. etc. Actually the smart phone has helped in some way to making doing two things at once more of a habit. Plus this is very dangerous especially if driving. If We Observe If we observe people doing this, we can see that they are like semi asleep. They are not really doing either one. They are only slightly aware of their physical environment and at the same a little while they look at their phone they are a little nervous in the background, because they know that it is really the right moment. When they look up from their phone they have like a semi absorbed and blank type of look, showing us that their consciousness has been fascinated. If we Choose One Thing When we chose to just do one thing we give ourselves the chance to focus and then with focus we give o...

Introduction Master Samael mentioned the word superman in his books a few times and he also uses the word man and the word humanoid quite frequently in his books. There does especially, in the context of how Master Samael uses them, seem to be a difference between them all. The superman seems to be the most developed and the humanoid the least developed. This post is an attempt at making the difference between all three clear. Stages of the Path This section shows the difference between the three in relation to the path. Humanoid:    From the beginning of the path to the first major initiation. Initiate:          From the first major initiation to the fifth major initiation. Man:            From the fifth major initiation to the second mountain, through the second mountain, man as angel, man as archangel, man as dominion, man as throne etc. all the way up to the eighth year of Job. Superman: ...

Egos Plus Attachment to Them We have the many egos which is a problem to itself, though what we also have on top of that is attachment to the many egos. We have some kind of attachment to all of the egos, though with some it is very strong and with others it is very weak. The egos that we have less attachment with are easier for us to weaken and dissolve. The egos that we have a lot attachment to are much more difficult to weaken and dissolve. In the cases of the egos that we have a strong attachment to, what is typical is that we make progress in weakening them then we slip back and strengthen them again. Really before we work on those egos what we should first of all do is to work on the attachment that we have to these egos. The general observation is that the more an ego harms us or the more unpleasant it is the less attachment we tend to have to it, and when an ego is quite interesting, useful and pleasurable the more attachment we have to it. When we see that ...

With Self-Love Sometimes with self-love we just have to transform the impressions by going inside and compensating from within, that is in short by generating love for ourselves or for our Being and that is it. But other times we need to compensate from within (we always do) and also to give love outwardly. Why May we Need to Compensate Outwardly with Love? I’ll tell you why we may need to give love outwardly. The reason is because we are at fault or that we have done something unfair, and that our inner scale can not be fully balanced until we do not compensate the other for the unfair treatment. When we did nothing and were insulted we don’t have to give outwardly, usually not but sometimes people are so difficult that it can help a lot. What can stop us from giving love outwardly is pride. Pride the Obstacle Pride as you know is about the sense of balance and justice that we have. As we have been affected or harmed or offended or insulted or criticised then w...