Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction As we may well know Master Samael’s priestess wife, who was also an adept, was a specialist in the science of Jinas. The name of her inner Master is Litelantes, with the Venerable Master occupying a seat among the 42 judges presiding in the halls of Cosmic Justice. Her physical name was Arnolda Garro de Gomez. This post is about how it seems in her own account the young Mistress Litelantes first learnt the science of Jinas. How She Learnt it It is written that she gave an account, where as a youth of thirteen years old living in Columbia, she would help an old lady by carrying water up to her abode, located on a hill top, roughly a one kilometre high climb. As a kind of a reward for her efforts, the old lady offered to teach the young Arnolda the science of Jinas, as long as she abided by this one condition, which was that she would not use it to see her boyfriend or to see any other man. The y...

Attention, Organization, Relaxation and Silence Here is a very effective practice to use to arrive at the silence of the mind. This is a practice that my marvelous missionary took us through one day. The above four words (Attention, Organization, Relaxation and Silence) are stages of arriving at the silence of the mind. This post explains this particular practice, which some, I think will find effective and which others may not, as with everything... Attention With the body relaxed, place your attention on your mind. Do this carefully and serenely. When your attention is placed on your mind your awareness of how your mind is and what is happening in your mind will gradually increase. This is good and necessary. If you are a little patient and keep your attention in a relaxed yet aware way on your mind this will happen. Once we are aware of our thoughts we can begin to organize our mind. Organization This is the more difficult stage and this may take a lit...

True We Can Work On Ourselves at Work But… It is very true that we can work on ourselves while at our physical work place, fulfilling our daily work duties. But… a big but… After a while this can become a form of self-deceit, where we work all the time and are busy doing things all the time, thinking that we are working on ourselves or that we can work on ourselves and we end up being in a state of alertness for only two minutes and learn nothing and do nothing. Stop and Practice The order is to create a foundation for ourselves which is a discipline, where we have created space and time in our life to practice entering within ourselves so to know ourselves more and to transform our darkness into light. Once we create this discipline we can work while at work. Because to work while at work is much more difficult. It is very silly to think that we can work while at work when we can’t even work at home. So no more se...

The Question… The problem with us human beings is that we only look for effects. Someone may say that’s right, results is what counts here. And in many ways they are right. However when it comes to the psychological work, if we really want to change we have to look at causes. There are two principles at play here. They are: one - that the causes for what we think, feel and say are within us, not outside of us, and two – that changing the cause changes the effects. Let’s have a look at a few rough examples. The Drinker A man is about to go to a bar and drink, he thinks: it’s a hot day, nice cold drinks, friends, conversation, laughter and enjoyment – a good night out. Seeing those effects of what he is about to do, off he goes to the bar and drinks. But what about if he were to look at the causes? He would certainly see a very different side to the projected pleasant things (they seem pleasant but turn bitter quickly) that he saw earlier. He will see the gluttony to ...

Why When the "I'' of lust looks at a person, it does so to feed its fantasy. The "I's" of lust maintain a set fantasy and all that changes are the people that feature in it. Lust looks at a person to assess whether that Perron could feature in its processes. When a person sees and clearly understands that it is the ''I'' of lust or one or another ''I'' of lust that looks for its own purposes, we are in front of a great opportunity. That great opportunity is the chance to separate from it. Separation We can separate from this ego, because it is not us that looks in the way that lust does and there is no subconscious purpose to look. The essence which is us, has no need to feed anything and it doesn't. The essence sees rather than looks, and the essence does not avoid either, because it is aware of life and it sees with a clear psychological background ...

Introduction Someone wrote in saying that they quite liked a previous post that described how interesting bits of wisdom can be learned from observing things in one’s home. We can see many laws and principles at work and these laws and principles also are at work within us here and now. So for that person, here is another post with two lessons. Exaggeration Destroys the Virtue Balance is always best. We sometimes think that a lot of a good thing is always good. But it certainly is not. Just look at the piano top in the photo below. Beautiful, elegant and expensive statues they are, but there are too many of them, so much so, that the whole piano top just looks tacky. The beauty and elegance of the statues and piano is all but gone and one gets an overcrowded, 'just too much' kind of a feeling. We Gnostics can make this mistake psychologically in our dealings with other people. We can be just to...

A Gift… Because you had the special insight that you are not the ego that bothers you, and that that ego is something totally separate from you can now begin to really die in that ego. Before that moment of separation arose in you, you were like hitting yourself rather than hitting it, and secretly finding that ego as something impossible, and as something that you were secretly resigning yourself to live with, even though you knew it would be very difficult to do so. Separation comes to us as a gift, almost as a grace from our own consciousness. Armed with Separation Armed with the insight of separation you know that you are definitely not it. You see that you are no longer weak, you do not have something wrong with you, you are not weird, you don’t have a complex, an issue, a problem, a phobia, a trauma, a special condition, You just have an ego that is weak, weird, problematic, weird, scared, crazy, stupid, needy, etc. etc. You as the free essence are none of th...

Desperate to Try but Just Wait for the Best Moment The best time to make our degree of separation from an ego stronger, is when that ego is in our human machine. That is the best moment to gain ground on the ego. When the ego tries to take the human machine observe the psychological flavour return, observe the outlook on life change, observe the feeling priority to fulfil its desires, observe its thoughts, its plans etc. etc. Just at this moment is the very best moment to fiercely apply separation. Remember the many moments when that ego was out of your human machine. Remember how you felt at peace and you saw life in such a peaceful way. That is the way you really feel. Now that ego is making you feel differently. Beware You Can Lose Your Degree of Separation Be careful that once you have some separation always use it! Because if you stop you will lose it altogether and have to work hard again to win it back! E...

M.M.M’s Formula for a Successful Practice Reason Why My marvellous missionary spoke about this formula yesterday. Explaining why many practices that we do are not successful. The reason why our practices are not successful is because they lack concentration which is the force of will that unites the three brains into doing the practice. There is a huge difference when chanting the mantra KRIM asking for the dissolution of an ego with all of your three brains aligned, than just chanting KRIM with the motor centre, while our intellect and emotion are absent. This I am sure, you know quite well because we have all been there and done that. The Formula He explained that we can take our yearning to practice up to our very own causal world. That is, up to the place in us where we have will. Once the yearning to do the practice is in our will, we then can make this will that contains the yearning to do the practice, cascade d...

Introduction A previous post described 'psychological separation', now what is needed to make this topic more complete, is to present a way or a few different ways through which somebody can separate from the ego they wish to gain some separation from. Arrival of Separation Separation is basically a deeper understanding of the plurality of the "I" in relation to the "I" that we are concerned with. Separation occurs when the consciousness realises that the ego that bothers it, is not itself and it sees that ego as having an agenda, a function and a use of the three brains that are not of it, that it is, that the ego’s will, mind, emotion and action do not belong it but rather to another entity living within our psyche. It may even feel like a complete other (usually strong) person is living within us, and that is precisely when a determination arises within us to do whatever it takes to finish off that psychological person within us. Separatio...

When we control others we lack certain respect for them. For example, to not give them space to think and decide for themselves is to not respect their freedom of thought and decision etc. This is why we tend to not control strangers, and we control those that we know well, such as our close friends and family members. This is because regarding strangers we have a natural respect and with that we know well our initial respect has waned somewhat, as we have seen them being angry, sick, weak, annoyed, scared etc. etc. Conclusion If a person wants to curb their habit or tendency to control others, concentrate on feeling respect for the person or people that you find yourself wanting to control. Then I am sure that you will say to yourself to the effect of: "that is not really good is it, it is a bit mean...". End (2274).

I Feel Happy But this Can't Last, Something is Going to Happen... There are moments in the life of a person where they genuinely feel happy and then they think to themselves, this can't be, something is going to happen, this can't last I can't be happy like this for long. People then become like distrusting, waiting for something bad to happen and for their happiness to go with that bad news. They think, I'm going to get sick, an accident, someone is going to die or get sick, a phone call bearing bad news etc. etc. I Feel Happy But I Don't Deserve It... Another side of the karmic psychology or thinking is where one feels happy and then one thinks, no way I don't deserve to feel happy like this and then one starts to wait to feel bad. Origin All these thought patterns come from the karmic psychology which I will post more about soon... Because I have just been told to get off the computer! End (2273).

A Special Moment... There is a special moment when we after working on the ego arrive at being able to see the ego we are working as something totally separate to ourselves. Then and only then do we understand deeply to our core that it is not us that suffers, or desires, or fantasises or cries, or hates or needs or lacks etc. etc. Allows... Separation allows us the freedom from the terrible feeling that it is us that needs what that ego desires. There is then nothing wrong with us. We are fine, we have always been fine in fact. Separation also allows us the possibility of now moving forward to voluntarily weakening that ego with the firm purpose of dissolving it. Separation allows us the necessary insight: that we do not need that ego. Thank God! End (2272).

Introduction Esotericism speaks about the cup of forgetfulness and the cup of remembrance. Dante Alighieri in the second book; “Purgatorio” of his work, the Divine Comedy, wrote about the two rivers: Lethe and Eunoe. These two rivers and the cups of forgetfulness and remembrance are directly related. This post explains their relation and is an improvement upon the last post ( 2270 ) attempting to make the theme more complete and clearer, as to how the two cups fit into the big picture of self-realisation. Cup of Forgetfulness and the River Lethe The cup of forgetfulness can be seen in two ways. One way is in the general esoteric sense and the other way is in the esoteric initiatic sense as introduced by Dante Alighieri and corroborated by Master Samael. General Sense – (Spiritual Fall) The cup of forgetfulness is the cup it is said that one drinks from when one falls spiritually. When one drinks from this cup, it is said that one’s esoteric memo...

Introduction Esotericism speaks about the cup of forgetfulness and the cup of remembrance. This post is a little about each cup. Cup of Forgetfulness This is the cup it is said that one drinks from when one falls spiritually. When one falls, one’s consciousness falls asleep and with that, disappears one’s esoteric memory. One forgets about one’s Being, one forgets about one’s values and ethics, one forgets one’s past lives, one forgets even who one is (an essence). Improved Post Click here to read a new post containing much more information about these two cups. Cup of Remembrance The law of duality applies nicely here. Where the cup of remembrance is the opposite of the cup of forgetfulness. One is said to drink from the cup of remembrance when one awakens one’s consciousness once again. Then one knows one’s Being, one knows profoundly one’s own consciousness and one remembers their p...