Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction There is a certain mention in the Gnostic teachings of that of "throwing the stone". Certainly in our Gnostic studies we do come across this point from time to time, and each time, well for me anyway, it remains an open subject, with many details left unrevealed...  I am in no way an authority on this, in fact I should not be writing this becasue I do not have any real knowledge on the subject. In this post I will be bringing to light some of what Master Samael said abut this subject as well as some logical inferences that I think we can make from what Master Samael has said. However, I write this post hoping, firstly to have a record of the main points before I forget them and secondly that it may provide a spring board if you will, for further reflection and revelation in any reader now or in the future...  It is Said... When a master achieves the philosopher's stone and later loses it, it is said that the master has 'thrown the stone...

To listen is often a better chance to be more conscious, than the chance to speak. When we are to listen we have the chance to learn. That is learn on two fronts. One front is learning about what we are listening to, and the other front is learning about ourselves. We can learn about ourselves as what is being listened to can clash with certain beliefs and concepts we have in our mind. Until that moment of clash we were not aware that we had those beliefs and concepts, and further more depending on the intensity of the clash we did not know that we held those beliefs and concepts to dearly and firmly. Real listening implies the division of attention. With half of our attention on what we are listening to and the other half on ourselves. To divide our attention while listening allows us the chance to reap the maximum benefit of the experience. A wise person delights in the chance to listen as it allows him or her the chance to learn twice. Though one later must als...

Have you tried in a conversation to have a totally open mind, a mind that does not see right or wrong, a mind that does not attach to one particular angle or way of thinking or of seeing things? A mind that does not see likes or dislikes, interests or disinterests? Quite difficult isn’t it? But if we succeed in doing so there is real freedom there! So often we see something wrong because we think that we know the right or better thing. If we don’t have the right or better thing in our mind we won’t be able to see something as wrong, so still our mind will remain. Sometimes we maybe right, well we think that we are, and then we unfortunately we feel we must focus on the right thing because otherwise the result will be inconvenient or technically incorrect. This though mostly applies with physical things such as the bus timetable, fixing the car, using the TV remote control etc. However, what we really think we are right about, can turn out that we are wrong. So...

What about if you say to yourself to die in this ego is to leave behind my particular interpretations of things and take things with a still mind. With pride and lust there are many interpretations. Interpretations to words, concepts, sensations, feelings and emotions. What about if we are to leave our interpretations behind, and receive all of those things without us adding any interpretation. We would be dying to our skewed vision of things and be being born to the way things are, and that would produce different results in the centres of our human machine. This is a part of the dissolution of an ego. As each ego is a concept and a logic, and because the concept and logic of the ego depend entirely on how things are perceived or interpreted, not adding our interpretation does not allow the ego to function or think even with its logic. End (2663).

Awakening Mastering Attention Our process of awakening has much to do with our mastery of our attention. This is really true! The first thing that we come to learn to master is our attention. The rest of our work depends on it. If we have not mastered our attention we can not meditate, concentrate, observe ourselves, pray etc. To awaken we need to keep our attention, by knowing that we have attention and that we are putting our attention on something. If we just place our attention on something we are not awakened! Awakening comes when we divide our attention! That is when we have a part of our attention on something and another part is on our consciousness knowing that we are placing our attention on something and we are dividing it. I what to say that having all of our attention on something is very good. It is a good skill. Though it is not to be awakened. We need to add the knowing part that to it. Usually though we are all much worse than this. We hav...

When you concentrate on a temple that belongs to the same ray as your Being does, and you beg the Beings of that ray for their help, if it is indeed your ray, you will feel a very special emotion that you can't help notice. It is a special feeling that emerges in you from deep down and it rises up all by itself. You don't call it or expect it to arise. It is like the emotion that you feel, when after travelling away from home for so long, that wells up in you when you are getting close to landing. It is a deeply innate feeling of familiarity, happiness and belonging. It is not because you like the ray or the temple, it is just part of you. It is something that wells up from deep down within your core fibres and you have no control over it. So this is another way that can also find out or confirm. End (2662).

Very Far! Trust takes us very far in our psychological work. It is such an important quality of our inner Being. It is so worthwhile making the efforts to cultivate it. It remedies nearly completely the bigger "I's" that we have. If it does not remedy them completely it greatly diminishes them. It is the antidote to fear and it greatly diminishes envy and jealousy. In the form of trust in the inner Being it is a very powerful remedy to many of the branches of pride. End (2661).

Seventy Percent Self-remembering or remembering the Being within us, m.m.m says is 70% of the work needed to awaken and stay awake. There we have it. Remembering the Being within is the main work and effort of awakening and maintaining ourselves awake. To awaken we must go to self-remembering or remembering the Being. End (2660).

There is pleasure there, the abyss of pleasure. In fact, many egos wish for that pleasure-abyss. Such as gluttony and lust. That is the secret reason why the ego likes movies, because through movies the ego uses the movie’s impressions to project a scene in our subconscious or abyss and there it revels amongst all those projections and impressions. Being our own abyss then causes us to vibrate with the abyss of nature and so going to our own subconscious/abyss all the time, causes us to begin to live more in the abyss than anywhere else. Sometimes the more movies we watch the more we enter our own abyss. Such is humanity! Asleep dreaming in our own self-created abysses of pleasure and also pain, which the ego likes as well. End (2658).

If we are in pain, acting nobly becomes a faint possibility. Just as when we are sick, we tend to get impatient and or lethargic. If we take offence to something that a person says to us, and the next moment the same person asks for help, we are most likely to not respond co-cooperatively. It is imperative to know how to separate our psychological pain from ourselves to be able to act nobly. Separating your pain is a learnt and practiced skill or ability. It is a function of our own consciousness and we have to work at it for our consciousness to learn and develop that. End (2657).

Work brings things under control again! Whether that be at our physical work or in our psychological and esoteric work. Getting to work brings things under control again! End (2656).

We envy others for what they have achieved right now. We don’t really envy others for what they have achieved or will achieve. We more envy others for what they have right now, or what they newly acquire. The interesting thing is, that we may acquire the same, but just at a different time. Envy is green because it does not trust that it will get what others have achieved. It does not trust our work, working through time to arrive at the goal. It believes that we can’t achieve the goal either. There is distrust on two fronts, distrusting our work over time and distrusting ourselves. Distrust is also quite present in envy – giving it its green colour. Maybe we feel envy because we lack the trust in ourselves that we can achieve that goal. When we feel trust that we can also do the same, the pangs of envy greatly decrease, or do not even arise in us. End (2655).

Only time separates us all. It is, even contrary to our ideas, that no matter where one is on the path, one has to work and one is working. No matter if one has finished the three mountains, or is a beginner one continues to work. The work does not stop. It is so different to our ideas. A person who has finished the third mountain feels like a beginner in the face of the higher realities just as a beginner in Gnosis feels overwhelmed by the possibility of starting the path. We are all always working and we are all doing the same work, with the same goal, only we are just doing the same thing at a different octave. End (2654).

I have to apologize in advance that the posts for this and next month are going to be a bit weak. I'll be pretty busy helping in the organizing of some activities and so my attention will be a bit scattered, and that will reflect here on the blog. I still would like to follow through with the Gnostic Anthropology posts but that will be delayed a couple of months, sorry. Hang in there and I'll get onto that in December. Note, Gnosis does not go with that idea that we have evolved from a chimpanzee, and neither does Science now. End (2653).

Bridge Each temple is like a bridge, a bridge between the outer and the inner. In the physical world, a temple can be seen from afar by everyone, though what it holds inside it remains concealed to all. If ever a person wanted to find the mysteries, he or she would have to seek out a temple. To enter a temple is always to enter into the ‘inner’. The doors and threshold of a temple are a bridge that one walks across to enter into the inner. It is said that the self-realisation is to enter a temple of the Divine Mother. A temple is more related to the ‘Mother’, to the feminine. Housed within the temple are the inner teachings and mysteries of the temple’s founding spirit. It seems that always the mysteries are housed in a temple. All that holds a mystery is guarded by a temple. As each mystery is something profound and sacred. To enter the path is to have entered into the temples of the mysteries. Each stage of the path is an entrance into a ne...