Gnostic Wisdom

A good definition of dignity is that it is something that enhances the essence and therefore the Being in a person. Dignity is very intimately linked to balance and the inner Law. Within each human being there is their own inner Law. To uphold this law and keep to this law is to have dignity or to act with dignity.  If we don't obey or follow the wisdom or dictates or guidance of this inner law we end up transacting against our dignity and losing it or lowering it. The inner law of each person is authored by the Being of each person and it is there as an expression of the Being's divine condition (hierarchy, experience, condition as a divinity) and level of consciousness. The inner law is accessed and perceived using our level of being. The higher our level of being the more we can perceive it.  For example: to act below one's level of Being or one's standing as a human being always means to lose one's dignity. Pride relates to dignity by managing dignity outside of...

One of the properties of the sexual centre is magnetism. It is very magnetic and the sexual energy is very electric. It is a magnetic centre which produces a certain kind of gravity that attracts influences, qualities and it even attracts events and people.   That magnetic power can be cultivated... Gnosis teaches that it is cultivated through retaining and transmuting the sexual energy.  This is so because when a person transmutes, the transmuted energy circulates through our body through the many circuits. This flow of energy creates a magnetic field. No flow of energy no magnetic field. Furthermore, this magnetism stays with the person and is constantly recharged with their transmutation. The raw sexual energy has a magnetic power that emanates and is received by the physical-vital, and the transmuted sexual energy has a magnetic power that impresses more the higher centres such as the heart and the spiritual. There are many kinds of attraction. There is the sexual att...

The way we think about serving others is that it is somewhat degrading. Well, the thing that it is degrading to is our pride. With some separation from pride we can treat this topic. All human work is a kind of service. All vocations are a service in one way or the other. Everyone's jobs serves a purpose and at the bottom of it, it is about providing some service to someone. Serving others seems mostly unfair! That is really what we don't like about it!  But is it so unfair? Seeing that the Cosmic Christ is at the service of human beings, the masters and angels are there to serve human beings is it then really unfair? Is the Cosmic Christ a Being that co-operates with what is unfair? Or is it perhaps a part of life, a value that the movement of life is based upon, in order to maintain life and enrich life? There must be more to it than it being unfair. The way of pride is to have others serve us while we forget about others, especially about the possibility of serving others. P...

No doubt our own life is a living book of wisdom. If we meditate on the events of our life and even the small details we can learn many things. Our own life is a divine flow in motion. Nature expressing itself. It is even a divine Being, though conditioned and limited, expressing Itself physically. If only we think deeply about the things that happen in our day, we can learn a few things. If only we meditate on the things that happen in our day. Our life is a huge book of wisdom. If we can concentrate and look deeply into the things of our life we can read from that huge book. I'm trying to do that and the effort makes a difference. It helps one to go inside and to look for depth and it also helps to give one more of an esoteric inner life. It is a way to train ourselves to learn how to extract wisdom, learning and insight. End (4099).  

Lets see, there are some points always to reflect on when it comes to cultivating humility.  Pride is so worth us working on. As most likely our fall was due to it. Meaning it has marked our whole experience of life from that moment back then to now. Classically the falls are sexual, but before that there was pride. A pride that deemed ourselves 'more' than the Being in us. That our desires etc. are 'more' than the Being in us.  Pride does that all the time, it sacrifices the good, the right, the correct for itself. That is it sacrifices those good things for our own personal interests, face (save face), position, standing etc.    Cultivating means to work two things in parallel. Dying in pride and living out humility. Within pride is the majesty, dignity and sense of balance of the Being. So then if we exercise these values we will be cultivating humility.  Doing a study for ourselves of these values really helps to be able to apply them, and above all to know ...

We don't like humility because of the concepts we have about it.  Let's see our concepts then. It's an interesting exercise to review all of our concepts. This post in some way is a very short review of some common concepts.  The proof is that hardly anyone has read this post, typically posts on lust get 40 to 50 reads while these humility posts have gotten a third of that over the same time. We see it as being submitted or having to submit to something that we don't like or want. When we like something there is no feeling of submission. There is no feeling of having to be humble. When we don't like something then we feel the pain of having to be submitted. In this case the wise thing to do is to look deep into what we are submitted to and find goodness in it or value in it so as to like it more and more. If we can't then it is karma and we just have to pay it, that's all. It will end. Or just change it.  It seems that we are never going to be able to come o...

We get identified with others and we adopt a certain subtle identity with them and to do with them. We do this with every group of people we are a part of. The more we like that group of people or the more attached we are the stronger identity we create. We only really notice that we do this when we are with two opposites groups. Like when we are with our work colleagues at a work party and we then go to Gnosis class straight afterwards. At class we feel really odd, we feel that we shouldn't be at Gnosis and that we should be the engineer, the teacher, the analyst, the manager and not the Gnostic in class. This is all due to identification and the subsequent clash of identities. When two groups are similar we don't feel such a clash or when we deeply identify with both groups going from one to another we don't feel this clash either. That is when we are naturally able to make a quick transition we are fine. But identification is not the best thing, to be self-remembering is...

I don't really have an answer to this question. I am only reflecting about it. How can we help our Being? I think that there are things that we can do that help and then there are things that not doing them helps as well. To accrue more karma will not help our Being. Karma is a delay, an obstacle, a problem to be solved and paid for which will only restrict our Being. To increase our consciousness will help our Being. To be more awake. To free more essence, to cultivate more values will help our Being. As there is more space and facility for It to act in us. To conduct ourselves in an upright manner in life will help our Being. To acquire capital and merit will help our Being. To make the events of life more complicated and difficult won't help our Being as there is extra things that It has to solve and untie or undo. To strengthen our egos won't help our Being. To lower our level of Being won't help our Being either.  To draw closer to our Being will help. To be more u...

Humility is the most beautiful thing. It confers inner beauty.  The will to be humble is the beauty of Tiphereth. The so called coveted inner beauty appears more and more, the more humility we have. The outside beauty counts for very little compared to inner beauty. In fact when the inner beauty of humility is lacking one has no other resort than to compensate with vanity concentrated on the exterior. Whether it be of the intellect, the body or anything else. With humility we are closer to our human soul, as its maximum virtue is humility. The human soul is Tiphereth. When we have humility we can see the presence of humility and consequently the beauty in others. How beautiful it is to see and deal with a humble person. How difficult it is to deal with a proud and arrogant person: all their coarse words, rough tones, sharp looks, reprimands, demands, tension, belittling etc. Humility opens doors. A humble person is one that can be trusted and so opportunities are given. A humble pe...

Introduction What I am going to do in this post is to write what comes to me about what humility is. I'm not going to follow any order, just what surfaces. Of course it is only for reflection, to sift through if you like, and think about or not what seems worthwhile.  Humility Humility is a conscious state, it is know and understand in reality our place in the cosmos. Once we know our real place, humility is to think, feel and act in accordance with that.  If we do not have pride in our human machine we are humble. Humility presents the facts but does not exaggerate nor underrate them. To be humble is to not be more or less than what we are in our place. It is also to be in our place and not below or above it.  What is our place? So many things. But it is what we are as an essence, as a human being, it is not something cultural, but yet our place varies from scenario to scenario from scene to scene from environment to environment and from activity to activity. At work for...

Absolutely no doubt we need humility for the path, even more than many other values.  Of course we need trust, hope and faith and the many other values such as patience, persistence, tenacity, yearning etc. However, humility especially in the begining is one that seems to be constantly needed in an all encompassing way, and it is also that which pays very handsomely by opening many doors for us.  Of course if we don't have transmutation as a value we are going nowhere on the path even if we are very humble. Anyway a real humility at some point would take us to transmutation. As we would recognise that we must handover within us the way we use our sexual energy to our inner Being, taking it from the hands of egoical interests that upon examination appear selfish, mistaken, mechanical - habitual, superficial etc. etc. offering it up to a higher principle of ourselves, which is what humility is most often about. More about that in later posts. The main two values we really need a...

A true thing is that most of the time we have our consciousness in our mind. Very rarely are we in a state that we have our consciousness out of our mind. When the above happens that is pure freedom, magic, light and so many things that we just don’t ordinarily experience. We can have our consciousness activated but still have it in the mind. That's heaps better than when our consciousness is asleep but it still logically implies some kind of conditioning imposed on our consciousness by our mind. Anyway what I wanted to post about is something a lot simpler.  There are some bothersome pesky states where our mind gets so active, for example when we think people are looking at us maybe judging us and we become self-conscious or awkward or restless, or when we get worried about what others are thinking about our gestures and facial expressions when we are talking to them, or we can't forget about ourselves and be natural around others, like when a photo is being taken etc. etc. we...

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...

This week I received this question from a lady right before I was about to give a talk. "Is Gnosis homophobic?" was the question she blurted out. Way off track from what I was going to talk about, but well I said to myself I'm up for the challenge to answer that one. I said no, because here in Gnosis we approach sexuality esoterically and scientifically, not morally. I said that Gnosis says the two forces represented by man and woman are the ones that can engender a type of creation that has reality on its own side. As Gnosis is interested in an inner creation, those two forces are needed to be worked with. Two men or two women are not able by the laws put in place by the cosmos to engender an inner creation such as what a man and woman together can engender. That's all.  I said the moral question of it, whether it is morally right or morally wrong, we don't get involved in. If we don't see something wrong or right then why would we be scared of it or scandali...

When we are worried about what people think about us, it is a sign that our pride is alive. That statement which comes from Master Samael is a bit puzzling at first I found. Putting aside my confusion, it means that pride is the one that worries about what others think of us, so if we work on pride we will worry less and less about what others think of us. That's the key - work on pride.  This affects so many of us and so many of us don't have this key - to work on pride.  The real issue of this, is what we do in our mind with the thought that 'others are thinking negatively about us', or 'will think negatively about us'. If we just have the thought and forgot it there would be no problem inside of us. But that does not happen we have problems. We are never worried about people thinking positively about us. This does not cause problems for us. We may infer in our mind that if others think negatively about us, then we are less than valid. We are wrong, we may thi...