Gnostic Wisdom

That is a teaching but what does that mean for us who are a generation or two down from the resurgence of the teachings by the master. Its definitely true, people these days throw  a fit if they have to drive twenty minutes to come to a class and back in Master Samael's times students would walk hours up and through the mountains to attend the meetings. Well it means that we as sincere aspirants to the path and to our Beings can't allow ourselves to follow that weakening trend, we have to know that to keep strong in the efforts, sacrifices and even super-efforts when required is the way to go by. Simply because it works. It worked back then and will work now. The weaker and lesser efforts do not work.  The path is the same now as it was back then, so how can the lesser efforts be effective? End (4527).

We all want to dissolve our psychological defects right? One thing we realize is that we need to be watching ourselves. When we see we can die in ourselves... To see we have to watch ourselves. But we feel that is boring. But we are a world. A whole new world. The world of ourselves. There is so much to know within that world. So much to discover... If we have the attitude of novelty, the attitude of finding out something new, the attitude of pure discovery - we can get 'stuck into' watching ourselves. Our mind poses obstacles, it feels sensually deprived and an emotional dry vacuum appears. We have to persist and push past this to arrive at the the place where the mind starts to delight in the super-sensuous. The feeling of self-discovery and the feeling and satisfaction of us changing. End (4524).

Often people complain silently or out loud as to why they don't have experiences with their Divine Mother or the parts of their Being and they often feel envy at ,or disbelief of the experiences that others have with their interior Divinity. The bridge, value or key to these experiences is the relationship. A person who experiences their interior Divinity more often, is due to them having cultivated a good relationship with their inner Divinity. Negative self-compassion and all sorts of negativity is not the way to establish a good relationship to our inner Divinity. A good relationship through prayer, work on ourselves, devotion, meditation, veneration and sending love from the heart.... The good relationship which is a tremendous value in itself becomes the bridge to receive from the interior Divinity. To have created a good relationship means to have given A LOT! Once again we find ourselves wanting a lot but have given little. Even in human life, there are so many fruits of a g...

In classic teachings from Gurdjieff there are three lines of work a member of a school takes part in. 1.) First Line: Work for one's own awakening 2.) Second Line: Work to help others awaken. 3.) Third Line: Work to help the teacher and maintain the school. The three lines of work are best done in balance. The three lines are complete - they in general cover all aspects of the work in a school or centre. To leave out one of these aspects means to not be working in the fullest way... In the beginning we only work with the first line. Later we include the second, and later the third. That's the general order.  The longer we are in a school the more we can expand to cover all three lines of work.  If we just concentrate on the first line we become selfish and then stagnate. If we just concentrate on the third line we become too identified with the school and then we fall back in our awakening. If we concentrate on the second line only we forget ourselves and sooner or later ru...

We can use any value or virtue we have as a dissolver of wrong internal states.  For example, our sincere love for the sexual energy of our Inner Being when brought into the centres of our human machine can displace and even dissolve the wrong states of consciousness produced by any "I" of lust. If we bring that value that we already have consciously to our human machine, we can dissolve that internal state.   If we don't have a value we can't bring it. So bring a value we have to learn it and cultivate it. End (44521).

Appearances in human psychology is about speaking and acting in a way to produce the impression in others that things are better than they really are, or that things are ok when they are not. We do this for many reasons. Some to not worry and disappoint others unnecessarily and some for purely egotistical reasons. In any case the truth is always the best thing even if it hurts and causes worry. Time always shows through any appearance that we try keep.  It is actually in the end a much more costly and difficult work to keep an appearance than fix the gap between the appearance and reality or simply drop the appearance. It is even so much hard work to later undo the appearance. Appearances can lead to developing a second life which is more sufferings as well. To not worry others is only really valid when we know we can fix things and on purpose we keep things simple with others while giving ourselves time to sort things out and align the appearance with the truth. Purely egotistical...

Fear like many egos is conditioned by time and space. Even though we feel fear days before a scary event the only real time to be scared is at a specific moment and at a specific location. For example, if we are scared of public speaking, the only time when we should really feel fear is when we are on stage, at the podium in front of an audience and about to speak. Not a day before, not a hour before, not even a minute before and not a minute after. Because a day or even an hour before we are relaxed at home or with friends well in our comfort zone not doing anything scary. This really applies to all fears. Fear is conditioned to work only in a very short period of time at a very specific location. However, we have taken it out of proportion and made it to work outside of that specific moment and location. Our work is to reduce our fear until it is eliminated to that moment and that specific parcel of space. Even though this is not eliminating fear it is greatly reducing fear by bringi...

The right way to look at the past is to look at it with hope. Because by seriously working on the past we can create new strengths. If we have no past of weakness there is nothing to transform into strength. Thanks to the past weaknesses we can now develop new strengths. Redemption and the past are linked. We don't redeem ourselves from the future nor the present. No past then nothing to redeem ourselves from. But yet we are fallen and so there is much to redeem ourselves from. Our inner redemption is complete when we have cancelled the cause of our falls in the past. The key to redeeming ourselves is the past, and ridding ourselves of that inner guilty feeling to our Inner Being is seriously transforming the past. When we have transformed the past we no longer feel guilty. Because the possibility making an error again is gone because now there is a new strength and no possibility of erring. Every weakness of the past can be transformed into a real strength.  The past holds strengt...

When there is heavy karma, any act that is benevolent, kind, warm, co-operative, harmonious etc. in an instant is washed away with the opposite: anger, dislike, resentment, schism etc. The force of karma itself doesn't permit that these positive values prevail. With a superior will and consciousness, with a superior love for the Being and others we remain steady and not swayed by the force of karma, and allow the positive values to prevail. The qualities of the Inner Being are ones that are really powerful and strong to overcome the very heavy weights of karma... Our mind, personality and egos are no way near strong enough as powers to overcome the heavy karmas that we have. They instead make it much heavier. Especially strong and powerful are love, trust, faith and hope to overcome the very heavy karmas that we all have. End (4517).

In general to weaken the "I's" of fear or distrust, self-doubt and self-wallowing in negativity we need to more than ever strengthen our love and trust in our inner Being. Affirm the presence of the inner Being in us, trusting in It and loving It.  Simply doing it by feeling and willing in our heart that we love our Being and that we trust our Being above all else. Really making inner efforts that the love and trust we are feeling goes deep into ourselves and really convinced to not let that love and trust down.  This will help us to weaken those "I's". End (4518).

When there is some kind of conflict there is always some kind of common ground in which two or more parties can agree upon. A most wonderful common ground to agree upon showing each other's humanity is gratitude. Grateful to the Earth for feeding and maintaining us, gratitude for the common help of others, gratitude to the Divinity for giving us life and a healthy body, gratitude to the all Avatars for teachings us the knowledge to free the souls from suffering. If at first there is not much to agree upon in the way of gratitude, just keep going, there will always be something that strikes both gratitude heart strings. Gratitude always has a way of working itself into our minds and hearts.  End (4516).

How many hours a day do we need to spend work to awaken? Like 16 to 18 hours a day. Maybe true maybe not, just to put it out there, some will know well the truth, some will be impressed and say wow but do nothing, some will be impacted and increase all efforts, and some will scoff... End (4515).

After an intense manifestation of an "I" for whatever reason - the triage is to do something to return to normal or as close to normal as possible. That's the number one priority. Return to normal. Breathe, relax, don't apply pressure on yourself, let go of thoughts and and patiently release tension of thought and emotion. For our own good.  When normalising, sparks of common sense and sparks of the work come to us and allows us to see better.  When normal we can then go over what happened. We can reflect, discover and understand. Then we can do something constructive. When upset - thinking is unbalanced and negative and leads to more negative outcomes. It is much better to normalize first and as we do our thinking and feeling becomes more rational and sensible.  So in summary, normalise first then once normal work psychosocially and esoterically. End (4513).

If we are falling asleep while meditating we can try switching to kneeling.  It's not as easy to meditate while kneeling, but it still is a position of openness and silence where we can open up and give to pray deeply as well as receive from the cosmos and from inside ourselves. End (4511).

The past is a factor that conditions our consciousness. The conditioning of the past provides a base for many egos. Such as self-love, resentment, self-pity, fear etc. This post presents a few points to do with releasing ourselves from this powerful conditioning factor. The most important thing to know for any conditioning factor is to know how to get out of it and how to avoid strengthening it and creating more of it When we make a mistake straight away tell ourselves that that moment is gone and work immediately to fix things physically and work psychologically so that it won't repeat. Don't argue about it or issue reprimands and reproaches. We have to learn how to forget the past. A wise forgetting. Forget the hurt and pain but not forget the lessons for our consciousness.  We can't erase our memory but we need to select wisely what we remember. Don't remember the sadness, remember the remedy that the sadness created. The more we cultivate the work memory the weaker ...