Essence Needs Food - (5145)

Our essence needs food as well. Especially the right kind of food. 

We feed our essence by activating it and as soon as it is activated it begins to attract cosmic nourishment, and absorb the nourishment we are constantly receiving through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the impressions we receive and other energies that enter into us from outside and inside. 

We are always receiving nourishment but it is too often taken by the mind, ego and personality, however as soon as the essence is active it can nourish itself with those energies instead.

When we pray, meditate, vocalise, study the teachings, talk about the teachings, reflect deeply, remember our inner Being, practice mindfulness etc. we are nourishing our essence. 

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Male and Feminine Psychologies Intro - (5133)

We have heard in Gnosis about lunar psychology, solar psychology, karmic psychology, human psychology, esoteric psychology, ontological psychology, psychology of the virtues, psychology of the defects...  and I'm sure more will also appear.

It seems whenever there is a principle there is a psychology. It seems the way that these perennial principles express inside of us here in the physical world, is through our psychology.

Therefore as masculine and feminine are the two primordial cosmic principles of the cosmos, there must be a feminine and masculine psychology.

I am studying these two psychologies and as more is learnt more posts will follow.

For the purpose of this post, which is to set the scene for what is to come, it good to say that there exists a masculine and feminine psychology that follows the Cosmic archetype and there also exists a masculine and feminine psychology that follows a broken or unbalanced polarised version of this Divine or Cosmic archetype.

Further to this, there are several other smaller archetypes or principles at work in each of these two psychologies that really need to be studied and understood, as they make up the overall Cosmic archetype (or principle).

Magican, Lover, King and Warrior

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During the Day Spend Time Shedding our False Identity - (5144)

Awakening is all about being our true self which is all about embracing our true identity - which is the essence.

To the essence and truly take up the identity of our essence we need to shed the false identities we have put on.

Many times during the day we put on several false identities.

We need to shed those false identities very often to awaken. In the strictest sense we would be aware every moment of our identity and shed the false every moment we need to.

We are an essence and an essence is not our job, not our mind, not our thoughts, not our role, not our religion, not our country, not our age, not our marital status, not our body...

The above are all labels. We are not a label! 

All of those above things change in time and depend upon other elements which we are not. Our job and role depends on others and a company, if we are married and we are a husband or a wife, it is because of the another person.

We were none of these things when we were born and we will be none of those things when we die. 

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See the Tree of Life Instead of Other Trees - (5143)

When we look at ourselves let's see the tree of life where we are the essence that is linked to Tipereth and Tiphereth is linked to Geburah and Chesed (consciousness and Spirit), who in turn are linked to the Logos - the Three Primary Forces of Creation.

Let's see that we are a soul linked to Divinity.

Let's forgot about seeing our family tree and the org chart at work and all the other trees in society.

Changing these images will change the way we see ourselves.

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As Often as We Can See Ourselves as a Soul - (5142)

In each moment that we remember see ourselves as a soul.

"I am the soul of a Divinity!". We say.

When we see ourselves see ourselves as consciousness which is light, and which contains knowledge and will.

Seeing ourselves as soul, see how a soul thinks, we see how a soul feels and do as a soul does.

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Changing to Seeing Ourselves as Essence - (5141)

A huge part of our awakening is seeing ourselves as the essence, as a soul as consciousness.

Here is a little something that will help.

When we think of ourselves, there are usually images that subtly appear in the background of our mind.

These images tie us to our human personality identity which is what we want to change from. These images are our house, our clothes, our body, our job, our family etc.

This time when you think of yourself see in your mind's eye: light. Consciousness is light, that illuminates, knows, expands, understands, radiates and gives...

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Impression Memory vs Fact Memory - (5138)

We have really two memories, impression memory and fact memory. 

When we live out of impression memory we really get stuck in the ego.

The ego lives in impression memory.

Fact memory is the memory of the facts, what happened, what time it was, what day it was, what was said, what was completed etc. etc.

Impression memory is the memory of our own self-generation impressions about the event or what was said. Impression memory is very subjective and is often erroneous because the element of perception in us is not most of the time is not the objective, that is not the consciousness which is objective or impartial.

When we ive out of fact memory we can know ourselves as we are and we can get things correct in relation to reality.

When we need to be serious about things and get results in our job for example, we switch into fact memory and we leave behind impression memory. Because we know impression memory is not really helpful, nor is it efficient.

In relationships we usually use impression memory and that is usually the cause of so many problems.

All miscommunications all come from using impression memory.

We have to know the two memories so that we can recognise the impression memory and use the fact memory.

End (5138).

Weakening an Inner Value is Never the Right Thing Even if Apparently Just - (5139)

To weaken a value of one's own essence even if it seems fair, serves in the greater picture an inferior justice.

When we chose a justice superior to another we receive a reward that matures internally in time.

When we chose an inferior justice over a superior one, in time we receive an accumulation of negative backlash to deal with.

For example, if a person has a value and sacrifices it to be more compatible to another, that person will in time incur a debt to one's own Inner Being which will manifest in certain difficulties in life.

If a person has a value and they keep it and even though the act of keeping it causes much misunderstanding, the Inner Being of the person will reciprocate and reward the person both internally and externally through the different circumstances of life.

To lose a value is to drop a level of Being and to fall under different qualities and circumstances of life with less options for spiritual development.  

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Efforts are Always Needed - (5137)

We say enough when we are not doing what we have 'signed up' to do.

When our daily routine does not support or allow what we signed up to do, we have to make an effort and this means to sacrifice something of ourselves. 

There is no other way and we usually know that there is no other way because we have spent a long time in the same routine not doing what we 'signed up' to do.

End (5137).

Certainty of Conflict versus the Uncertainty of Peace - (5140)

We may not like conflict but there is one thing about it that keeps us turning back to it over and over again. It is the certainty of it.

We know how the conflict will develop, play out and end. It's something that we have seen many times before. The mind and some egos get very accustomed to it and even comfortable with it.

However, that of peace is scary as it really implies mystical death and changes. Everything has a price, the price of peace may well be having to deal with uncertainty. Yet it is peace!

End (5140).

Right Chokmah and Left Binah - (5136)

If Chokmah and Binah are also in our brain knowing the qualities of both right and left brain will help us to know a bit more about Chokmah and Binah. 

It's not too hard to see. We can see how Binah is rigour (left brain white and black characteristics) and how because of that rigour the attempts against the Holy Spirit or sexual energy are not pardoned. We can see how flexible Chokmah is, how forgiving by the way the right brain works. 

End (5136).

Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Notes - (5122)

The book of Genesis introduced the teaching of the Garden of Eden and the two trees living within it.

One tree has the name: The Tree of Life and the other has the name The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil.

Sometimes the second tree has been referred to as: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

The two trees are said to share the same roots.

The two trees were said to both bear fruit. However, it was only from one tree that Adam and Eve could freely eat from. This was the Tree of Life. It was prohibited to consume the fruit of the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil.

However, to savour the aroma of the fruit of the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil was permitted.

In esoteric terms Gnosis teaches that the: The tree of life is the Kabbalah and the The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil is Alchemy.

In simple terms, 'The Tree of Life' is the Divine Being within us and 'The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' is the work with sexuality. That is using sexuality as a transformative power. 

It is said that through 'The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' human beings came to know both good and evil.

It is a truth that when human beings work with sexuality, they come to understand better the two primordial natures and forces of creation. Which are the masculine and feminine. Through the effort made to make the two opposite natures interact positively, lessons are learnt about the nature of each, which is really the wisdom of duality.

To work with sexaulity is to understand the primordial duality from which emanates good and evil.

Human beings don't normally work with sexuality. They enjoy and plunder the sexual energy. Which symbolically is to consume the fruits of the 'tree of the science of good and evil'.

To work with sexuality means to cause the aroused energy to flow inwards and upwards. Which symbolically means to inhale the aroma of the fruits of the tree of the science of good and evil.

Ill-will comes from centrifugal use of the sexual energy and good-will streams from the centripetal flow of the sexual energy.

The knowledge and understanding of these primordial forces relating to one another always brings wisdom and knowledge.

It is easy to see that the world is still consuming the fruit of the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil'. What do we find in our world? Good and evil and we will always find good and evil in our world as long as humanity eats off the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil'. 

Since Adam and Eve ate of the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' the Edenic paradisiacal state, which is a state of unity with the Inner Being, a state of  Immortality, a state of no time and the absence of suffering, was lost and then appeared good and evil. 

Gnosis teaches that Adam and Eve were the humanity after the division of the sexes from their original hermaphrotic condition. 

The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden was symbolic for the fall of humanity after man and woman in that remote times of humanity's history spilt the sexual energy through the orgasm.

It is said to come to know and eat of the tree of Life one has to stop eating off the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil'.

One of the offshoots of the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' is technology and science, which are used to solve everything for us outside of the Inner Being, that is outside of the 'Tree of Life' which we no longer have access to. 

When we have access to the Tree of Life we really stop needing the external offshoots of the 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil'

The most important is to relate these two trees to ourselves and our life.

Our physical body is a tree in so many ways. Especially when we look at the design of the nervous system, specifically the central nervous system that branches out to all of our internal organs.  

The roots of both trees is the sexual organs. The 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' is in our sexual centre and the 'Tree of Life' reaches upwards into our internal superior dimensions starting from the sexual centre. 

The Tree of Life has many representations in the physical body. For example, the Logic Triangle is in our brain. Kether at our crown, Binah on our left hemisphere and Chokmah to the right hemisphere.

It is said that the Tree of Life has twelve fruits which are the seven chakras plus the five senses.

It is also said 'Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' is intimately and directly related to the hidden Sephiroth on the 'Tree of Life' known as Daath.

It is also good to know that we - the whole of ous are really the garden of Eden. That is all that makes us up - our physicality, our psychology and our spirit/Being.

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Different Inner Laws of the Being - (5135)

Our interior Anubis is the one within us that issues forth into our interior our particular balance setting.

Our interior Anubis is also the part of the Being that emphasises one universal principle over another for a given time our life.

Putting the different egos that we have in our interior aside for a moment, our particular balance setting is the where ont he scale we find balance - that is fulfillment and happiness.

It may at this point of our life, that balance for us is to give to a degree beyond the 50-50 measure activating the law of sacrifice.. 

At another point of our life the 50-50 measure may be the balance setting... 

Of course when two or more people are brought together there will be different balance settings.

One balance setting is not generally understood by another. With the virtue of respect and esoteric understanding this gap in misunderstanding can be overcome. 

It is important to note that we have different balance settings for the different areas of our life.

To know our true balance settings we have to do some purifying of concepts and egos. Then we can see our reality better and know our true and appropriate balance setting.

End (5135).

Shifting Stubborn Ill-Will - (5133)

Once ill-will sets in, it stays.

We can not analyse it away.

We need to bring an equal or higher power. Such as good-will, consciousness or spirit.

We can do this by reciting with intense good-will:

May All Beings be Happy.

May All Beings be Joyful.

May All Beings be at Peace.

Over and over again until the stubborn ill-will shifts.

End (5133).

Manifesting the Being Notes - (5130)

These are notes taken during a class.

The manifestation of the Being has three aspects: will, attention and consciousness. This is the key to manifest the will of the Being.

Another point has to do with spiritual symbiosis. "

The will of the Monad is something special. 

The reality of the will is truly something infinite that we can't fully define.

Describing the teachings about the will damages the true perception of what will is.

It is best understood through feeling. 

Will is the mystery of the inner impelling force of a Divine Monad.

The mind is ill-will. The mind will never know what the will of the Divine Bieng really is.

Attention is the key. It is a power that may we all cultivate.

The intelligence of God is in our physical body. Everything begins with attention.

Will is the impelling force that moves the attention to do something.

If there is no attention there is no life. Attention is soemthing really ontological. Attention is the force of life and light that streams forward to create something.

Knowing how to wisely manage our attention is the difference between the abyss and the absolute. 

Attention is solar and it is really an ontoligical power. The sun is full of attention, it is attention in action with each second that it shines.

The consciousness without attention does not do anything at all.

Lack of attention is a weakness.

Attention causes the will of the Being to enter into existence.

We have to allow the Being to express its will through us.

Allowing the will of the Being to be expressed brings us balance and stability.

The great leaders have transformed the flow of attention into the flow of life. 

The flow of attention, flow of life and then Being.

We have to apply the teachings - this is the flow of life.  

We have to work in the implementation of the will of Being using the essence. The essence is the delegate of the Monad. This way we can bring God down. 

The Monad needs us. 

We then need attention to detect the will of the Being - that is an impulse coming downwards. We then need attention to integrate with the Being.

Once we know why the people who are in our life, we can then better direct the flow of life ot help them and ourselves.

End (5130).