Gnostic Wisdom

Let's work with definition. It is a powerful factor. It does not matter how many egos we have. If we are defined to dissolve them there is no problem and there won't be any problems. We define ourselves all the time, everyday. Taking definition results in action. We define to concentrate, we define to do, we define to practice, we define to die in ourselves, we define for the path, we define for the Being, we define to accept reality... When we define ourselves, the battles between 'yes' and 'no' stop. Definition brings peace and focus which equals forward motion. End (4862).

We don't do because we think too much. We stop doing because we think. "Don't think just do." is a famous quote. We don't practice either because we think. "Don't think just practice." has to become a famous quote recited to ourselves everyday. Basically in Gnostic terms we let our intellect run too much past the limit where our motor should take over. We have to reverse that and just get into the task with the motor centre. End (4864).

Giving and receiving form the two poles upon which we must find balance. To give and to receive are two things we need to learn. We are typically unbalanced, we give too much or we receive too much.  Giving and receiving follow a cycle. We receive and we give or we give and we receive. We receive light and we give the received light to others. Ego infiltrates everything. We need to purify our giving and receiving. When it is an "I" that receives  or gives we are getting it wrong and that can bring effects that are not quite those that were expected. When we give for example, we may not be really giving but taking control through giving. When we want to receive it could be because we don't want to give it to ourselves when it is proper that we should. End (4863).

Factors that we introduce into our own causal dimension are always by nature transformative. Transformative for better or worse. Whatever is a cause produces effects and new effects are what transform our life. Any causal factor changes something from negative to positive. That is why the Intimate Christ must be seated in our causal dimension. Because from there and only from there can He transform us and author a new future inside and outside of ourselves. Truly by working with new causes and modifying existing causes do we really change ourselves. Transmutation is causal because it changes us and our life. So when we transmute we are also touching our causal dimension. End (4860).

We may do something tedious fairly happily all by ourselves and then we may be asked to do the same thing by someone else and we get upset and protest. In the end it is the same task but why the protesting? Pride is the answer.  Something in our psychology thinks that we can't be told what to do, or we are being taken advantage of or we should not be told what to do because we are an adult and we are not anyone's subordinate or mother or father or anyone else etc. etc. We think pride is right. But really is it? Is it really right when it is the same task and it has to be done and the only difference is being told or asked? No one is going to take advantage of us - that only happens if we allow it, so what is pride fearing or thinking is wrong? Is it true that we are beyond being told what to do? Yet we go to work and we are told what to do so many times a day.  Isn't it true that with pride we do not possess humility? When we are proud we do not know our place. Thinking tha...

Relating to others is a science and an art.  To relate really well to others in our life we need to know others and we need to know how to relate to them. To know them is the science and the practice of how to relate is the art based on the science.  The more we know them and the better we know how to relate to them the better overall the relating will go. The more difficult the person is the more disciplined we must be with our science and art. After all everything is a discipline. Every profession has its disciplinary aspect. Answering emails on time, organizing files, quoting on time, reporting, etc. etc. It is a worth while science because to know the other we have to know ourselves.  To not know the science and art of others is to be like a 'bull in a chine shop' or to use a 'spoon to cut a steak'. To know the other we have to depart from ourselves, not remain stuck in our thoughts of how the other person should be but actually 'see' how the person really i...

What kind of karma do we get if we abandon our responsibilities whether they be human or spiritual? A little hard to say exactly right? All that I can think of to write in this moment is that if we abandon something we are later abandoned.  If we abandon the light, then the light one day will abandon us, or either it will be more difficult than it should be to find the light that we so need. The teachings say that we get karma for the good that we don't do... We get as much karma for not doing the good, as we do doing harm to others etc. Master Samael taught this and it was also known it seems before him by Voltaire in France and I would say much before him also, as it is a universal hidden truth. If we have a spiritual responsibility to help the great cause through maintaining and adding to a point of light in the planet (gnostic centre) and we actually have the ability to do so and we don't, then we are not doing the good that we can do. In other words we will get some some k...

We know that we need sacrifice to move ahead and to produce octaves in quality. Sacrifice is a tremendous engine for our work and with everything and anything in the cosmos. So what do we sacrifice when we want to work with sacrifice to progress.  Remember sacrifice is the conscious choice of one good superior to another. We can sacrifice: our time and energy, our sleep, our meals, our money, our interests, our comforts, our egos, our way of thinking, our desires, our 'me-time' etc.  End (4853).

Time Karma is in time and in life. To escape time and life means no more recurrences and no more of so many other things. The future is already real. The three instances of time are one. We will be in the future as we are now. Time is one unit, it is not fractioned. Our realization is already happening. We are in Gnosis because our realisation is in motion. The Inner Being knows already that it will be reached and so It has us in Gnosis.  The reason why we pay karma now from the past, is because we are the same perosn as back then. The fourth state of consciousness is all about unity. Especially about of time. Personality We need to escape from the personality. If we are not working to escape our personality we are not doing anything in the work. The personality is the foundation of the 'myself'. The egos need the personality to manifest. It is the amalgamation of all of our "I's". It is the basket in which the eggs (the I's) are held. The personality is about...

Monastery life from the outside seems hard, but after a while it is said, it becomes easy. An established routine, the body conditioned to the routine, one environment only to deal with and everything taken care of.  The Gnostic working in the three factors has the hardest life, working spiritually while working physically, and dealing with the matters present in several different environments. There is no doubt, there is substantial sacrifice in the Gnostic and in the monk. Besides the life of the Gnostic being more difficult, the life of the Gnositc allows for every part of his or her life to be touched so as to self-discover and dissolve any and all conditionings.  Plus there are endless opportunities available for sacrifice in the life of a Gnostic, in a monastery the opportunities for sacrifice are limited by the nature of monastic life. All that a monk can do, a Gnostic can also do, however, a monk can not do all that a Gnostic in the three factors can do. End (4854).

From one gnostic to another, what activity in a Gnostic centre has helped you the most?  Was it a lecture, a practice, a retreat, a conversation with another Gnostic student, a book study, a certain incident in the centre, a one to one talk with the instructor...?  This is good to know so as to be able to make the activities in a Gnostic centre more effective for the  students. End (4855).

When we make a 'had enough' claim and we don't do anything about it, then we know it was not real and an "I" was saying "I've had enough". Then if we are still in the middle of those 'had enough" circumstances, then we know that we have not really had enough, and what it is all about, is us deciding to dissolve that "I" that says I've had enough.  The teachings say that when we decide to dissolve and "I" and start to do it, circumstances change. But as long as we don't accept the remote possibility of working on ourselves the circumstances persist and persist. Makes sense doesn't it?  End (4856).

Gnosis calls us to surpass ourselves. Not to stay in our concepts and ideas of what is personally right or wrong. We only really die when we surpass ourselves. That is when we transcend the personal good and evil, the wrong and right inside of ourselves. The Being in us who is waiting there above good and evil, wrong and right contains within itself the limit and the real impersonal line of good and bad, wrong and right. Courageous are those that can make this jump. This is the revolution that breaks all the cycles. Even those whom are good and are right at some point fall into the mechanical cycles of nature... We can't understand our fellow Gnostics being in the bottles of personal good and bad and personal right and wrong. When we jump above we can... That's the spirit of Gnosis - the tests and the work are summarised in the above quote. We can't get our work back until we decide within ourselves - that we are going to surpass that difficulty, no matter how hard it is, h...

Post Revised: 12/02/2024 I think the best start to this work of cultivating love as a value is to start by using love to work on the heavily negative egos that affect others. To use love to work on anger. To use love to work on pride and resentment. To use love to dissolve the hurt and angry self-love and self-importance etc. To use love for our Inner Being to climb out of the hole of self-compassion. I say respectfully if we use love this way we are on the right track. Love is very tricky. We can not define it. as soon as we do we fall into error. There are so many ways to love, however we only see and accept one way based on our ideas and concepts we have of love. Because of these concepts and ideas of love we can't see love. The mind as Master Samael says kills love.  We can use love to come out of our concepts. Use love to let go of our concepts.  Many times, parents discover that to love their children they have to let go of their concepts and accept them as they are. Aft...

Background This is a very important dimension for us. Our internal causal dimension is the more important. To change our life, to change our future, to change our destiny we have to work within our own causal world, and we certainly can work with it. We all have worked with it at some point in the past. Perhaps no consistently, but at some point we have. When we change a part of our life it is because we managed to shift or move something in our own causal world. Nothing can unfold without a cause. That is, there are no effects without a cause. The causal world embodies in living reality the Law of Cause and Effect. The causal world inside and outside is a great network, where causes generate effects and effects become causes and so many things all link together by the great chain of effects becoming causes. Our causal world is linked to the causal world of the cosmos. Changes in our our own causal world are linked to the causal world of nature. The internal changes create correspondin...