Greed and Gluttony Lead to Theft - (5887)

Theft is down deep in the abyss. Dante locates it in the 8th circle. 

When something is located towards the bottom of the tree with many factors above, we can understand that this bottom dwelling element is the combined result the many factors above it. 

It is the culmination of several factors that are lighter than it, with their combination forming something that is heavy.

For example, Malkuth is the synthesis of the whole tree of life, Kether is synthesised in Malkuth, and Malkuth is the heavier and densest of all that is above it.

So theft is the result of many factors above it. Such as greed and gluttony, as well as fear. Because of the combination of the several egoic factors we steal and betray.

That is why theft is at the bottom. At first theft does not seem too bad, however with a careful examination it is something very impactful because it breaks high values - namely trust that greed and and gluttony do not break. Greed and gluttony by themselves are their own weight, however combined into producing theft they make a very heavy combination that gravitates down low towards the bottom of the abyss or infra-dimensions.

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A Good Way to Die is to Try to Be Consciousness - (5885)

A good way to die in ourselves is to be our consciousness.

When we are our consciousness we give oursleves so many chances, almost moment to moment to die in ourselves.

The whole question is really about how we can be our consciousness.

That's the hard part.

We can try focussing on awareness. Become awareness. Understand that awareness is formless, without identity, without colour, intangible and invisible. 

Awareness is naked, it is not dressed in anything and nothing is attached or stuck to it.

Awareness expands, contracts, illuminates and recognises, as well gives cognisance.

Use the imagination to be exactly that intangible, transparent, formless, without identity yet full of seeing, knowing and cognisance. 

These elements above of the consciosuness lead to comprehension and aware/conscious action.

Being the consciousness that way, in any environment, is the same as to meditate and when we are in that state we can make ourselves ready to die in ourselves.

We can see and be alert to die in ourselves. 

The key to it all is to keep the identity to be the consciousness. That is we MUST forget you as a person, your name, your job, your pain, your difficultites and limitations, your relationships... Instead be formless, transparent, naked and flowing - where ntohing sticks and hooks onto you.

Practicing this will accelerate your work and it will not be something dry and difficult. We will find meaning and joy in it. 

End (5885).

Runes for Stuck and Conjested Energy - (5882)

One of the best uses of the Runes is to allow new energies to flow into us and through us.

When we feel stuck, confused, can't focus, can't comprehend something and are just feeling like a heavy blob - moping around not knowing what to do and not feeling like doing anything either, we need to move energies.

If we feel resistance to do that - for sure we need to do that.

Then we know what to do. Do our favourite rune or the most appropiate one and allow the energies to be received move through us, and for us to also generate energies within us.

Some physical exercise is good, as it activates and stimulates the vital body which helps us to move energies through our whole system, which prepares us to meditate and go inside to comprehend or see what it is that we need to see.

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To Die is not to Manage or Solve - (5884)

To die is to not work out a way to manage the situation. It is not to solve the event, nor is it to control ourselves nor is it to respond properly and correctly.

It is to not have the fear for example, present within us that would take the impressions of the event and react.

To die is to have disassembled and disconnected from our psyche a mental - emotional program held together by conditioned will.

What happens in the event when we have dissolved that "I" or part of myself is up to us, there is no program taking over anymore.

End (5884).

Anything you want for Yourself Give to Others First to Have It - (5879)

If there is ever something that we want for ourselves, whether that be recognition, love, appreciation, care, understanding, mentorship, accpetance, encouragement, company etc. then to get that we need to give it to ourselves first and then give it to others.

This is not the answer that we want to hear but it unfortunately it is the only that makes sense and works.

To somehow pressure it or force it out of others is just too hard, unrelaible and turns people away from us.

The way to get those things, not judging if they are appropiate or not, is to begin to give those exact things to ourselves then to others.

As we start to do that we are cultivating that power within us and soon we will be able to give it more to others in purer ways which will then by the law of reciprocity come to us by itself from others.

We can't give to others what we don't have.

In the end, what happens is that we don't really want those things from others, we actually want to be able to have those values from ourselves. Then what has the most meaning to us is give those things to others. To want those things for ourselves from others loses meaning totally.

End (5879).

Gnosis without a Lineage Doesn't Work - (5881)

Many people say that they are Gnostic and according to the general spirit of Gnosis which is to know oneself, they are Gnostic. Yet Gnosis without a lineage doesn't work for the path.

Gnosis with a lineage connects us to the path. Especially when those of the lineage walked the path.

Gnosis without a linneage is like a lose thread blowing in the breeze. The end goal is difficult to see and stability is hard to come by.

All those masters who were before us, all belonged to a lineage and walked the path because of their connection to that lineage and because of the support of that lineage.

The guru is a link in a lineage that goes all the way back to the source of the one where the final liberation is. Furhermore the guru connects us to that linneage, where the guru's role is to make us into a link in that same lineage.

Gnosis without a lineage doesn't in the end really go anywhere. All those people who in the end leave  Gnosis without a lineage, mostly don't really end up where they originally wanted to end up.

End (5881).

Facing Horrifying Thoughts - (5880)

When we are in a negative state, and sometimes not in a negative state, we can experience very negative thoughts, that easily scare and shock us. We often think: "how can I be thinking that!", "what is going on, how did such negativity come to be insinde of me?".

What happens is that the thoughts pass and afterall they are just thoughts and we return to normal. What though is the worst thing about the whole experience of very negative thoughts, is not knowiung what to do with them and leaving what thought them unexamined.

If there are very negative thoughts, we can think immediately to what the opposite of them is, and straight away know within us that we have the power of the opposite within us. Those scary thoughts are the very opposite of the beauty we have within before there were the negative thoughts. Let's see an example.

For example, a very cruel, senseless and callous thought appears, the opposite is kindness, care, support, protection which is what we actually have in our essence, but has since become partly conditoned in the opposite, somehow and for some reason along the way.

As soon as we see that, we know where the negative thought comes from, and that it is the opposite of our innate qualities of our essence.

The thing to do next is to focus on the opposite to the negative thought and use the contrast to choose and shed more light within. One thing we often see when we do this is that the negative thought is telling us to be more of the opposite, which for eh example above was to be more kind, caring, supportive and protective.

End (5880).

Spiritual Bypassing Trap - (5878)

This happens frequently in spiritual studies. It is actually a big shortcomming and causes many delays and unnecessary problems.

It is a kind of delusion where we see that because we are in Gnosis or some other kind of serious spiritual study, we think so many foundations and basics don't apply to us. It is like those foundations are not needed or that they can be bypassed.

Meanwhile we think they these foundations don't apply we try to operate at a high spiritual level and yet we just crash and crash.

For example, misled by "spiritual bypassing' we don't give importance to the basics in relationships such as communication skills. Then our relationships start to falter and we are there thinking that they shouldn't and hacvig to communicate properly is for sleeping stupid people. 

The ego behind spiritual bypassing is pride. It's good to discover this and let it go. Pride really dislikes it because it means to accept that we are just the same as everyone else and we need to start where everyone else is at.

End (5878).

'Giving-In' is not a Conscious Kindness - (5877)

Conscious kindness is the one that is reciprocated handsomely! 

When we give consciously, that is fully, without contradiction and in full knowing and declaration, the law of reciprocity returns what we have given with a handsome return.

When we give in, we are not really being kind. We may think that we are kind or generous and what we have given will return to us, but we are really just giving from weakness from giving in often against our better judgement, and agaisnt our inner balance or law.

When we give in and we are being 'kind' we are giving unconsciously, and unconscious giving or kindness is not reciprocated.

There maybe some reciprocity from the unconsciosu giving, but it will not be as handsome as when we do it consciously. There is disappointment and future difficulties.

Often giving unconsciosuly, that is with contradiction and agianst ourselves, we are taught the lesson that to give that way produces difficulties, either outside or within ourselves and there is not reciprocity.

We have all experienced this and we have this knowledge within us.

End (5877).

Don't Make Decisions Out of Fear or Misalignment with Your Essence - (5875)

There is wonderful advice that goes - "Don't make decisions when you are in pain.". This is really wise advice.

Very similar to this is the advice to not make decisons when you feel scared or are struggling with your instincts. 

When we are scared or are struggling with instincivve desires not being met we come out of alignment with our essence and spirit.

Any decision that we can make being out of alignment and stuck in the thinking of the lower principles we are not going to make sound decisions.

Decisions made from misalignment with our essence won't serve our spiritual work. They will create suffering later on when dealing with their consequences and trying to undo them.

When people are overcome by their instincts, even if it be due to poverty, lack of sleep, hunger, physical discomfort, we can make decisions that lead to crime. In fact many crimes are decided that way, that is out of instinctive desire.

End (5875).

When Stuck Have to Give to Shift - (5873)

When we stuck adn we all do at some point, in whaterver way it may be, to get unstuck the solution is to be to give something.

After we give something for a certain duration things shift.

There are two ways to give. One is to give externally and the other is to give internally.

To give externally is to give of our services and ourself for the benfit of the environemnet in which we are stuck in.

To give interanlly means to give a reversal of attitude from the negative to the positive and hold that until it becomes stable and a part of our way of being in the environment in which we are stuck. We also have to be that outside of that environment and everywhere else.

We often are not really giving anything, or we are not giving enough or we simply giving in the wrong direction.

So often we are totally blocked to giving and we don't even realise it. 

If we give something and wait for it to work within ourselves and in the environment and then observe the shift.

End (5873). 

Until We See Something as No Longer Being Harmless There Will be No Change - (5874)

For as long as we see something as harmfuless or nuetral or meaningless we will never change.

It only ever happens that as soon as we see even in the slightest that some habit is not useful to us, we start to change.

When see or believe something as having no consequence or not being harmful for us we won't change.

When we still get something from it, we see it as good or nuetral we won't change.

We keep things because somewhere in our mind we believe it is either good, serving some purpoose or it is not harmful.

Even when we see intellectually something as not being helpful, that does not matter in the slightest, meanwhile we still believe or think that it is harmless.

End (5874).

"He Who in the Moment of Ecstasy Gives Dust" - (5872)

There are special moments in life where there is a heartfelt conscious opening. 

Sometimes it is when we realise the suffeering and hardhsip of the people in front of us. Sometimes it is a supreme moment of gratitude, sometimes it is seeing how we have made ourselves suffer, sometimes it is when we see how we have made others suffer and finally sometimes it is when we feel bliss and happiness...

In these moments is when we have to give something! At least a deep heartfelt thank you or sorry or love or gratitude or just moved by the opening to give something of ourselves.

When we don't give something in these moments is when we are going, well not to say something negative, but I would say cold... Which for the individual looking at him or herself is something to be alarmed by.

In a very ancient ritual it says when "in the moment of ecstasy one gives dust then all will be denied to him". 

End (5872).

Lesson Behind So Many Circumstances of Waiting and Waiting - (5871)

There are situations in our lives where situations with the same quality repeat and repeat.

These situations painfully repeat until we learn the lesson of teh value that we lack that makes them occur.

We lacking learning adn application of some kind of quality or power.

There are circumstances where we are forced to wait and wait and while waiting important or critical life issues are held in check.

In these periods it is easy to see things as looking bleak and it is easy to dispair. Everyone else around has it all together and is doing all ok - safe and secure yet evetyhting for us seems to be hanging in the balance.

The powers to be learnt are hope and faith and the lesson culminates in combining them together to continue fighting.

These circumstances are to make a person into a fighter. 

In every battle or fight there are always these pauses, as brief as they are sometimes, they are where the outcome of the battle is decided. 

If in those pauses the warrior lowers his efforts, he may well be deciding what comes next.

It is better to continue fighting towards the result when the result is just and know then to give up and never know.

End (5871).

Know Your Cosmic Ray by Knowing the Rays of Others - (5871)

We can't learn anything from an empty bubble.

So just focussing on ourselves we won;t find out too much.

However, by observing our interaction with others and looking to and knowing their cosmic ray will shed light on the mystery of our own ray.

The value often appears in contrast. To contrast we need others.

If you know someone that defintely knows their ray (not just from a dream but consistently verified through the many spheres) then interact with them and notice the contrast or lack of that appears between you and them in various issues.

From the contrast look into the light of the spark that appears bit by bit, and build up your evidence to one day soon, piece them all together into a clear picture of what your ray is.

End (5871).