Gnostic Wisdom

First simple thing. We need love to be happy! Yeap that's right we need it to be happy. Say if we don't love anybody and no one loves us, then we can't really expect to be happy.  Worth a bit of reflection right? When we reflect, we find that this goes contrary to a lot of what we have been taught in life. I think even if we have money, a lot of power and influence, a lot of knowledge and learning, a lot of practical and useful skills, we still can't expect to be happy.  In the end we will feel like we are in a desert: all lonely, only blandness around us and when we think about life we’ll naturally think about death, where we will come to the conclusion: "Is this all that life is about, to acquire money, knowledge and then just die? What’s the point?". That's what I call not to be happy. Love allows us to feel that there is more to life, it allows us to get a glimpse of something grandiose in the universe and much more...    End (3851).

I'm going to write up a series of short simple posts to do with love. Love seen from several angles in the light of the esoteric teachings, with a practical focus.    One of the things I have learnt while in Gnosis is that in life we do not really know all too well what love is, and furthermore we don't really know too well either, about how to love.  So that's the motivation behind these posts, to present what Gnosis says about love to kind of remedy that situaton a little if it may be useful to anyone. To end this post and set things up for the posts to follow, Master Samael says that the great souls are the ones who really know how to love. That means for us, that love grows, deepens and sublimates as we progress towards acquiring our soul, developing our soul and expanding it towards the heights. End (3850).

The trick to getting any mantra to work is to get the inattentive part of our psychology to join in with the vocalising. When it finally does, then appears the power of the mantra. Before then, only partial effects really.   When we chant a mantra a division appears straight away. One part - the attentive part chants while the part underneath does not chant and distracts and detracts from the attentive chanting part. Chant the mantra you little inattentive yellow man. That's what we have to say to our mind. Relaxing the rebellion of the inattentive by patiently noticing its distraction and bringing it back to focus and join in with the chanting gets the greater inattentinve part on board.  This can take a while, and is a very good concentration practice. If the mantra is a beauty, it is worth taking the time and putting in the effort.     End (3849).

That's certainly a truth isn't it? That means all the tasks that we dislike doing can be an excellent object for mindfulness.  When we really go into mindfulness we separate the ego somewhat, we calm ourselves down a lot and what we are doing is all valid to help us be mindful.  If we make ourselves tranquil anything can be used for mindfulness practice. It is all valid grounds to observe ourselves. Mindfulness or self-observation and the state of alertness encompasses our whole life, nothing is left out of it. Only we are the ones that throw it out.  To be mindful is also to be courageous. When we don't like something we protest - we are not calm and we do it quickly and the last thing we want to do is to be mindful through the experience or activity.  Mindfulness through difficulty builds courage.   End (3848).

There's nearly an esoteric reason behind eveyerthing. Here's one behind perfume. So women and men like to adorn themselves with perfume. Of course not all, and I recognise that it can have a slightly luring an effect on others near bye. There's those deodorant commericals that exaggerate massively this point.  So in the garden of Eden it is said that it was up to Eve to look after the flowers and it was Adam's job to look after the animals. So in effect Eve was a botantitst if we want to look at her from a scientific point of view. And Adam was a zoologist. Anyway putting that aside perfume comes from flowers. The originator of perfumes are flowers. Flowers in esotericism are virtues and qualities in the world of the soul, in the world of our psychology, and the fragrance of the flowers which are the emannations of those virtues in the physical world is perfume. Flowers are the original source of perfumes. Like what Master Samael says when you have a baby in front of yo...

Sometimes all these measures, being aware, prayer, breathing etc. help but don't quite get the day ordered.   Then what really does, is working on dissolving displacing, kicking in the... the things that are in our mind and background distracting us. KRIM then works best, chanted focusing on the Divine Mother until they leave our inner panorama. End (3846).

Say you got very identified and lost your awareness and your work is now feeble as, and so now you feel really 'off sorts'. Then don't go thinking, lamenting, crying, talking to others, go directly to be aware again and exercise your consciousness. Get back into the salsa. You lost your discipline, the same straight back, don't plan to get back in, get back in. You are low in energy, exercise the energy, runes, mantras, transmutation... That's the principle here, get back on the horse by exercising what you lost. Then you will get it back. End (3845).

How strange I wanted to kneel down before the cleaner of the toilet block... That would be so interesting to do that... How totally out of the ordinary... They have a tough job, they show lots of quality - I mean just to show up and be so friendly when a lot of the 'big important' guys in suits look down on them and often get annoyed with them. The usual way is to be annoyed at the cleaner, because you need to go and they are cleaning, "Cleaning in Progress" sign on the floor - a few exclamations let rip, and you have to go up to level 2 or 3 or 4 wherever the nearest available toilet block is. Our own essence is strange sometimes, unpredictable in what it can be impulsed to do. I have seen m.m.m do some and say some things sometimes that leaves the ordinary mind spinning. Remedy to mind spinning wheels - go deeper to try and see with the inner mind. End (3843).

Kids do that when they feel scared they run to their mother. Then their mother puts things into perspective and sorts things out for them. The same for us. We can't run to our Divine Mother physically. Well if we were in India we can run to the temple of the Divine Mother or Kali, but over here in the West we have to do it all inside of ourselves.  Go to our heart temple, pray a lot and align our thinking, our feelings with the work and the Divine Mother so to be close to Her and so be covered by Her protective and guiding dome. Begging a lot for her guidance. May she guide things in life and may she above all guide our thinking because all stems from there. End (3844).

To die in any ego is not a problem really. We just put in the work and the process of its weakening and dissolution begins all by cause and effect. We run into the problem when we find that we are attached to the ego we are trying to dissolve.  What does that mean - attached? It means we don't want to let it go, we believe we need it, we believe we can't live without it, we believe we will be unhappy, irritated, on edge, only barely making it, if we dissolve this ego. So before really we can die in this ego we have to begin to detach from it. We do that by knowing that it is not the ego we are attached to, it is the concept that we have of the ego that we are attached to. So what's your belief or concept of needing that ego all about? Question and question it. Work on the concepts that we need it or can't dissolve it. We have to use KRIM. The thing is, it is just an ego, when it is dying or dead we won;t need it, life is fine. Life was always fine, we just didn't se...

We know if we do what the ego used to do, while we are now enjoying a new level of Being or state of consciousness, that new state and level will all collapse.  Bitter circumstances will follow. Hardship and all sorts of difficulties will appear. Then also how can we ever demand another person to behave when we have fed that ego in ourselves. End (3841).

During the day we hurry a lot don't we? We all have a rush time.  If we don't rush then things won't get done on time. Sometimes though we are so use to rushing that we rush everything even when we don't have to. We have to stop that! When we are rushing we are not too present. We are ahead of ourselves. Ahead of our present momentary reality. Our mind is thinking several steps ahead of what we are currently doing. In other words meaning we are not present. Then no wonder why we feel that life is flying past and that we are not even living the days, and that they are just slipping through the gaps between our fingers. To slow down, be mindful of what we are doing in the moment is to be present. Rushing does not feel good and is not so helpful to awaken more our consciousness. It makes it more sleepy actually. Doesn't it? Self-observation and alertness is the same as to be mindful. End (3839).

In the Kings and priests of old there was bestowed upon them a touch of the Divine sovereignty.  Even in this day there still is that touch of the sovereignty of the Divine, though its quality of manifestation is not like what it used to be in the old times now passed. Upon a priest or priestess ordained and in a person crown King or Queen, that touch of Divine sovereignty was there for a purpose. That Divine gift laid down upon the person for the benefit of those they are to serve.  That touch of the Divine sovereignty was and is a don, a gift of Divinity, which legend says conferred certain powers to better serve the people. The power to heal, the wisdom to guide and lead, the strength to protect, discernment to distinguish good from evil, foresight to avoid danger, love to help and care, the power to exorcise evil...     As long as the priest, priestess, king or queen were to remain loyal to justice and the Divine those gifts would continue.  Often these...

Here is something that for the esoterically minded person is hard to refute. Our Being is the source of our every blessing, the source of our life, the source of happiness, our joy, the source of the love that swells in our heart, the source of the strength in our essence, the source of the spark of intelligence in our brains, and so many more things... In fact no human being can give us these things which our Being gives us... They can give us objects, occupation, work, love, but still these things are not quite like what the Being can give us.  The Being can then only be our first love as It is the provider of all of these things so essential and innate to us and are us.  But we forget that. If we remember that we are remembering our Being. This does not mean to not love others, we must! As they help us to go the Being. It is others that teach us, it is our spouse that practices alchemy with us, that awakens the fire and builds the bodies for us, it is others that help us to...

Before we can really be present, self-observe or remember our Being with a bit of quality we need to have some inner calm. If not any effort that we make to observe ourselves, be present or remember ourselves just does not last, it just does not stick. So to reach that inner calm first of all is very important. Without it all these things are very difficult. It is not to say that we can't do them but with inner calm they are so much easier to do and so much more effective and are of a quality that transforms us in the moment and gives us wisdom. End (3836).