Gnostic Wisdom

Stand Still It can happen in life that we find ourselves in a stand still. Locked into a difficult situation with solutions in view but none that either or both parties wants to take up... Who is going to change and take up one of those solutions is the 'big' question in a stand still.  What typically keeps a stand still in place is the following: The Other Must Change One party believes the other must change and take up a solution. This solution is usually suggested by the party that believes the other needs to change.  The stand still comes about when the other party does not want to accept the suggested solution. This attitude can be upheld in one party only or it can be shared, where both parties believe that the other must change and take up a solution that each one proposes.  A stand still can still come about when neither party wants to take up the suggested solutions and both parties believe the other should change. It seems to common sense that the solution to a ...

The way true force expresses, that is the force of the Inner Being, is in serenity, peace, patience, trust.. It is not in violence and fierce activity as we so commonly suppose. Master Samael said that physical strength is the most inferior kind of strength. It is practical in human life yet in the psychological and esoteric work it is not the strength that moves us forward. It takes a tremendous amount of true force to remain serene before someone who is angry and violent. One has to bring under control terribly strong instinctual impulses to remain serene in such instances. The one who is angry and violent lacks the force to put his or her impatience, fear or pride under some kind of control.  Force, that is the true force of the Being conquers. The Being Itself conquers Itself with Its own force. Its own force is the force of Its truth. The force of reason, the force of order, the force of justice, the force of just action verified before the Divine law. We can not react to viol...

This curious point maybe complimentary for the "Seven Rounds and Seven Races" lecture. Master Samael says that in the Hyperborean race, human beings back then were androgynous and reproduced via sprouting. That is a new hyperborean would bud or sprout from the calf of a mature hyperborean, in a very similar way to the plants.  Wihtin our physical nature today this process of sprouting still remains. New hair and nails are 'born' and grown via sprouting. There is also remaining in our psyche today to do with the way of reproducing via sprouting from the calves.  There is within our psyche still a slight fascination, fixation or perhaps appreciation of the calves of the human being. There is very far back in our psyche the quietest thought or recognition even that the calf of the human being looks like a womb of sorts.  Some people find calf muscles to have a certain sexual appeal, often people will look at the calves of others, knowing in the very background that once ...

Why the rigour in Gnosis? That is why the insistence in regular attendance and practice? The reason for it is that is and will be of major assistance to us. It may not seem as to why that is the reason, but underneath whatever we may see, that is the reason and that is the help that is formed in us. If we follow the rigour in attendance we will create in ourselves a certain magnetic centre and crystallisation that will really help us to continue working on ourselves whatever happens in our life. If we can no longer attend a Gnostic centre because of external circumstances then because of that magnetic centre and crystallisation we will continue working on ourselves. Because we created it within ourselves with the help of the rigour of attending classes. In conclusion by rigorously attending classes we are creating by ourselves and for ourselves a magnetic centre. If one appreciates the work on themselves they will certainly appreciate creating this magnetic centre within themselves as ...

It is my musings on this short film that it was written for those already a little awake. To the sleeping person it will appear as pure fiction. However to the one who is a little wake and open to the esoteric (like you who is reading this), it won't at all appear to be fiction. It is a wonderful story, which is short and teaches us a lot.  It shows us marvelously how simple concentration can transform our life. It shows us how easily a simple mind accepts the esoteric. It shows us the realistic discipline, the consistency and what the wise use of psychic powers could look like. It also shows how useful imagination or seeing really is.  I recommend watching it, it is short, 40 minutes or so, it doesn't have any tough impressions to transform and gets straight to the point and leaves one with the feeling of wanting to work more on oneself. P.S - for the personality You can also enjoy a bit of that 'old British' style and speech with an all very famous English cast. End (...

This is a question that we at first say to ourselves: "No, in this life, not in the next!". Though as we go along we start to think about it... Thinking deeply about it, it is not about of having failed but rather having worked and needing more time. When it comes to time and our capacity it is a realistic concern.  We have to be real with time and our capacity and not suffer. One thing though, all this thinking can't mean that we reduce the time, energy and attention we are currently putting into our work. It can only mean that we update our expectations while still doing our best. We know deep down that what will make the self-realisation of the Being to occur in the next life is that we do all that we possibly can in this life. What is important is the bridge, the connection between lives, so that the work done this life is carried over to the next to be taken up again. Sometimes it makes one think that if after thousands of years of living a lives completely divorced ...

In general an organ in any person's body is strong and resilient because of the degree of vital values it has and how conscious we are of that organ.  There is something that we can do to increase or at least conserve the vital values that we have in our organs but there is much more that we can do about increasing our degree of consciousness of that organ. We can study up about any organ and then go to visualise it and start to try and sense it. The more we visualise it and sense it the more we will get to know it and the more familiar we become with it and gradually the more conscious we will become of it. It's the same principle that we find with our hands. Because we use our hands so much, we are more conscious of them, and so we feel a kind of appreciation towards them, a kind of natural control over them, an innate knowledge of them and a realistic view of them in the way of what they can do and can't do and how strong they are. Imagine feeling the same way about our ...

Difficult but well worth the effort to do. To train ourselves to listen for what's behind the anger. Either the anger of others or own. We don't usually come to life with this skill. It is something we have to work at. Because it is an actively conscious action. Not a automatic, mechanical one. To do it means to consciously chose to not listen to our anger and listen with our consciousness to find the issue behind the anger.  What is it that is unfair or hurting in the other or in me that is causing that anger? Is the question to find an answer to. To train ourselves to listen with serenity is another tremendous skill. It means to listen without fear knowing that whatever is said is not something that must 'be' in this very moment. So the quick necessity of fear to react is not something that does not need to be. End (5013).

The longer I live, the more I see that the Earth is really a planet of diplomacy. Not because the Earth's key vibration is diplomacy, in the sense that for example, the key vibration of the planet Mars is spiritual strength, but because diplomacy is what we really need to relate amongst the human beings of the planet Earth. Master Samael said that he came to the Earth to learn diplomacy. Because it is something lacking on the planet Mars because they are so direct and because the ego there is not very strong.  A direct person always rubs people up the wrong way... Because the ego does not like to see the truth presented so clearly and forcefully. If we observe all the Masters towards the end of their lives become in some ways diplomatic, as they have graduated from from the many lessons that dealing with humanity has given them.  Diplomacy is needed here because the ego is so strong. If the ego was not so developed or if relativity and duality was not so acute, diplomacy would...

The reason is that we are far too weak now days, physically and psychologically. The tests now are mostly internally so as not not harm us physically and to psychologically. Previously in by gone days, the tests of the path were very physical. The tests of the elements for example were all physical ordeals in the times of Ancient Egypt. Even the test of the Guardian of the Threshold can be passed physically by divulging to a group of people all of our errros of this life without omitting one single mistake or wrong doing. Obviously now days becasue the general level of dengeneration is so high to divulge all of our errors is not possible and even those listening are not mature enough to listen to number one: keep silent and number two, to listen, forget and act towards the perosn like they like didn't hear anything. End (5011).

Following on from the previous post, I believe one of the lessons learnt from the animal kingdom, to be transferred to the human, so as to live wiser as a human is this: "live like an animal, then suffer and die like one". To live as an animal is to live for the satisfactoin of the instincts. To live to survive, to live for pleasure, to live to satisfy all the appitities of the instinctive centre, whether they be related to: food and drink, sex, sleep, thrill, violence, comfort, security, distraction, the list goes on. We see the animals suffering in so many ways, even the strongest and most powerful of animals suffer as part of the nature of their life. They all die sadly alone - either violently or due to starvatoin or injury. Their daily life is one of intense effort to just remain alive - the fight for survival. So if we as human beings live just to satisfy our instincts then we too will suffer alone in our life as they do. That quest to satisfy our instincts will cause u...

The Itoklanos Principle is the principle which places human beings on the wheel of Samsara. When the human being fell in Lemuria, the human being was transferred from the Fulasnitamnian principle to the Itoklanos Principle. In other words, from being free of the great wheel to being subjected to it along with all of its transmigrations.  A characteristic of these two principles as master Samael explains, is that under the Itoklanos principle human beings repeat the same error time and time again, until learning the lesson, while under the Fulasnitamnian principle any error is only made once. The Itoklanos principle governs so much of human life, from the great things in life involving thousands of people to the small details of life. All of life is about making errors over and over until we learn. This is essentially how we all learn and become 'wise'. "An error is made, what is worse is to persist in the same when we know better."  Just to emphasis the main point: in...

One of the important roles of a teacher of Gnosis is to teach the very important skills of acquiring information from our inner worlds. It is so important to teach students the skills needed to make a connection to their inner worlds. Gnosis is really not about knowledge but about practice. Eventhough the knowledge is profound and life changing what matters most is practice. One of the most important skills to be taught is how to direct one's attention. How to relax the centres. How to activate one's consciousness. How to ask questions of their interior and how to listen for the answers. How to distinguish the flavour of the ego. How to learn about the ego from its flavour. How to pray and how to undo the conditioning of relativity and duality in the mind.   With these skills all that we need for our work we can acquire. Without these skills we are like a tradesperson showing up to do a job without tools. End (5010).

It seems that when life and the path meet, it is life that always tries to subdue and crush the path. The path does not seem to do this to life. Why? Because life has no other means but violence. It does not have a transcendental nature and therefore the capacity to transcend the path. It is the path on the other hand that can transcend life. It is just something that the people who walk the path have to suffer through - the humiliations from life.  This is the nature of walking the path on this planet where life and the path form a cross of the vertical and the horizontal. The cunning walker on the path uses life to help him or her to advance, conceals the path from those of life and organizes things such that the two do not collide. End (5004).  

When the work is part of our nature we stop doing the work. We are the work. The goal is to make our work our life. The path can be made to be instinctive in us. Then we are becoming the work.  The human nature that we have has to be sublimated and surrenered to the Divine Being within us. Life in the three demons is the wrong life. We must at some point see this. The three demons are desire, mind and ill-will. Nothing changes abut us through time. Only the personality, our body and culture. However after the first mountain things change and we do defintely become a different person to the one that carried over from life to life. Life is really a continuity of ourselves, however after the third mountain this continuity modifies. To die in ourselves we must take into account the following points: 1.) Identity 2.) Point of Reference 3.) Contrast (between thinking doing and being, contrast between intention and actions)  4.) Trust in the work. Contrast is a permanent and constant...