Loving Kindness Meditation - (4531)

Some ideas to irradiate love.

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Interesting Symptoms and Consequences of Identification - (4437)

These are the symptoms we typically experience when we become heavily identified with something that is not, and is not of our essential nature. 

The more more the thing we are identified with the more severe are these symptoms.

When people are under 'stress' these symptoms are common also, especially the hazy memory aspect.

 

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An Origin of Self-Deception - (4434)

Where does the capacity of self-deception come from? One answer is that is something that we ourselves have created. How have we created it? One answer is through the many difficult experiences of life.

We may have found ourselves in difficult life circumstances and maybe the only way to get out of it with minimal effect to others and ourselves was to lie. Which could have included exaggerating our suffering and the difficulties we were going through.

Seeing that this worked, we then repeat it and repeat it. Using it as a way to get out of difficulty, sometimes when it was our fault and sometimes when we didn't have the legitimate means ourselves to get ourselves out of difficulty. Creating a pattern of behaviour. As everything in life demands a transaction, we pay for the lies that get us out difficulty by selling our own truth and developing self-deception. 

In synthesis, self-deception is something that we create through lying, which starts off consciously then in time becomes a habit. As the habit strengthens in time we begin to believe our lies, lying to ourselves becomes a way of thinking. Then our capacity to self-deceive has matured within us to become a feature of psychology and something that impedes our awakening and the ability to see our faults. 

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Learning is Balancing - (4425)

Learning about ourselves is really a process of balancing, restoring the balance.

That is why learning about ourselves never stops, because the universe is always in a state of flux, meaning that the universe is always rebalancing itself, and learning is one of the processes that restores the balance anew.

The oscillations between balance and imbalance is what keeps everything moving. If all was totally balanced everything would become static. But very little is static.

As we are alive and we are in a state of flux and always will be and so we will always be learning to reinstate new and old balances.

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Formula to Take Ourselves Out of the Abyss - (4370)

This really works to take ourselves out of identification with subconscious and back into the light of our own consciousness.

When visiting the abyss of nature, memory and identity are erased, orientation is clouded, sense of time disappears, and there is the impending doom of  total tunnel vision, which is the way of thinking, feeling and acting of an absurd logic, that obeys the abyss...

This is very similar to the state of identification. That is, when we get identified with any ego. The deeper the identification the more intense these symptoms are.

When are there remember the four pillars of Being: love, hope, faith and trust.

💖Send love to yourself and your Inner Being together as one.

📿 Hold hope high in yourself and your Inner Being together as one.

💪 Have strong faith in yourself and your Inner Being together as one.

🤗 Trust in yourself and your Inner Being together as one.

Doing this keeps us out of our own abyss and free from being connected to the abyss of nature.

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World Anger Maps - (4335)

Some interesting maps of anger being expressed in the world.

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The World of Anger - (4308)

Descent into the Abyss and its Connections

When a person works seriously on a defect, for certain periods of time they end up being deeply submerged into that defects states of consciousness. This is so to really know and comprehend it. 

A part of that submersion is a descent into one's own abyss. While in one's own abyss connections are made to the abyss of nature where that defect is dominant.

That connection to the abyss of nature allows a person to see that defect in operation all over the world in nature and humanity. Hence the world of that defect opens up.

It turns out that the defect in our own abyss is the same as it is in humanity. What we have inside is reflected outside. 

The order is to descend into our own abyss to know and understand and then automatically comes recognition and comprehension of the same defect in the world.

There is really so much anger in this world. So much of it is commonplace, so normal and accepted, even revered, and some of it is widespread valued entertainment.

Dante and Virgil crossing the river Styx into the Fifth Circle - Anger.

World of Anger

Politics, political rallies, elections, combat sports, contact sports, sport in general, watching sport, competitions, gambling, public protests and demonstrations, customer service, complaints departments, letters, emails, court rooms, airports, traffic, night spots, schools, young children, car parks, police on patrol, relationships, internet forums, art, music, the written and spoken word seem so full of anger...

Much of our poor mental health these days is due to anger. Depression is anger turned inwards against oneself. 

Action movies, fighting injustice, avenging, revenge, war movies, battle movies etc. etc. are all about expressing anger. 

Horror movies are the expressions of the infra-imagination of anger. Anger working with the imagination creates many gory scenarios. The main genres of horror movies all have to do with the results of anger and violence and angry beings real or supernatural.

The horror movies take advantage of a well known side effect of anger which is fear.

Much of the magical studies these days have been influenced by anger making them black in esoteric nature. Anger is the motivation for a lot of black magic. 

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Prepare for the Critical Moment - (4259)

The critical moment is where we decide to throw away common sense, the work, the essence and what is good and right, to the painful, ridiculous and destructive...

This is the most important moment that we must prepare for in our daily work.

Prepare ourselves to triumph in that critical moment. Rehearse within ourselves before if necessary. 

Work intensely with our Divine Mother to not give dust in that critical moment.

If the critical moment passes without us having thrown away the precious pearl then all else that comes will be easy.

Hold onto the precious pearl firmly.

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Issue of Mystical Pride - (4180)

Mystical pride is a little scary how it can close the path off for a person. To the point where the person themselves will close the door to the path they so yearn for.

To feel that we know it all already, and that we shouldn't have to wait to receive the advanced teachings that we yearn for. To feel that we are ready now and we should be in the advanced classes already because of what we know from other studies, that are not Gnosis, is mystical pride. 

It would be so simple... Apply what has been taught and exercise patience which is everything in every place of life and requires deep self-knowledge, would be all that is required to overcome the first layer of mystical pride and get what one yearns for...

Many newcomers to Gnosis face this obstacle in some way or another. It seems the more knowledge or data rather, the newcomer has the more difficult it is.

To think that the age old tradition of neophyte, chela, apprentice, initiate, master, guru and so on, no longer applies for the path is mistaken.

All one has to do, is to look deeper into the knowledge they are receiving and apply it. Applying it sets it all right!  

Mystical pride mixed with the doctrines of many modern day 'spiritual', 'healing' and psychic beliefs creates a mixture (Kalkian personality) which is mistaken and impedes us from seeing our own reality.

Coast off Madeira

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Escape from Now - Harder to Face Later - (4257)

The more we escape from dying in our defects we are faced with, the harder it will be to face and escape from them later on.

The same task is easier earlier on, but gets much harder later on.

If we leave something for too long, the accumulated backlog can be too much to work through and so another avenue opens up which can be in many ways very disappointing.

Steirischer Bodensee, Austria

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Compensating for Psychological Imbalance - (4179)

Psychological balance rules so much of our lives.

We are always engaged in some sort of psychological balance seeking activity.

When something no matter how small or big happens to us, our psychological balance is affected. 

When we are unable to immediately return to balance within ourselves, we strongly tend to quickly go outside of ourselves to seek that psychological balance.

For example, we may receive criticism which surpasses our concept of what is constructive, and so we feel unfairly treated and inwardly we are out of balance. Unable to balance that inner imbalance, we return fire, until we see the criticising party is somewhat diminished and sorry for their words. As soon as this is happens we feel inwardly balanced again.

That is how we roll, all day and every day.

How to find balance within without having to go outside, is a really good question, and is one that in order to die in certain egos such as pride and anger we need to answer.

Suppressing our outside movements to find balance won't help. It will create more imbalance within, which will implode or explode one day soon.

To find that inner balance within ourselves we need to appeal to higher values within us. These are the actions of comprehending the other person, the action of looking sincerely within to find the truth being presented, the action of staying calm and trusting that the flow of life will bring compensation a little alter on when appropriate, the action of faith in our work to transform it and grow stronger because of it etc. etc.

In conclusion, the crux of this question about inner balance is that to balance ourselves psychologically we need to regain balance via superior psychological values not inferior ones. This way we achieve a stronger balance with a touch more consciousness.

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Practical Invocation Review Notes - (4032)

Reviewing Invocations

There are many concepts to review within us regarding the many invocations that we as Gnostics make.

Points

Here they are in point form:

★The Beings we invoke don't always come. They send another instead or they may wait. Our invocation may not reach them.

★The Beings we invoke can't always help as we are not ready, lack merit, have made an unjust petition or are not willing...

★Sometimes the Beings we invoke can't help us directly but engage others (people) and other Beings to help us instead.

★The Beings we invoke help us. Sometimes it is quick and sometimes it takes time.

★Some Beings respond better to the words we use to invoke and ask.

★Some Beings only come when invoked in the name of the Christ.

★The Beings we invoke may test us before helping us. That is testing to see how much we want what we are asking for and to see what our values are and where they lie.

★Sometimes the Beings we invoke have certain prerequisites to be fulfilled before helping us. 

★Sometimes the Beings we invoke want a sacrifice made before the invocation is done. A sacrifice being having made an effort of spiritual kind. 

★Sometimes the Beings we invoke listen and wait for petitions to follow to consider helping us.

★Sometimes some Beings we invoke are bound by the Law to help and not help.

★Sometimes Beings require a payment of a particular kind.

★ Sometimes the Beings just deposit in the atmosphere atoms of love, light, wisdom and values that we or the group may need the most.

★The Beings we invoke sometimes listen instead of attending.

★In a group setting, the Beings we invoke may only help a few, the few that can be helped.

★In a group setting, the Beings we invoke may only help those that they have a special link with. That is belong to the same ray or have known before.

★The greater the number present actively participating in the invocation the greater the power. If all participants are truly concentrating with all their three brains the better.

★In a group setting, invocations are a work of love for our fellow man. As the Beings invoked may not come to help us but a friend in the group. Invocations in a group setting are often for others.

★Invocations done well will change our interior state.

★One day an invocation will unexpectedly leave us speechless!

★Invocation is a whole magical science...This science begins in being able to put ourselves into the right state and being able to concentrate our three brains into the invocation.

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Separate Person from Ego - (4178)

There comes a moment when we see that it is not really the other person. It is the ego within us that causes our problems. 

The problem we think comes from the other person provoking our ego causing the problem, is not really the case. It is really our deficiency in being able to face and intelligently relate to very real aspects of ourselves. 

Such as: the past, fairness, expression of will, uncertainty, freedom, affection, rejection, difficulty, correction, forgiveness, concepts, ideas, feelings, intellect, mental patterns, sense of right and wrong, the word etc.

Other people are there to make the way we relate to the values at the heart of the issues we face with them, more conscious, and aligned with reality, which includes the reality of the Inner Being as well as the physical and psychological realities.

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The Four Memories - (4045)

Introduction

We have to know how best to relate to memory, which means to know when we have to liberate ourselves from it and when we have to use it to our advantage.

To liberate ourselves from 'something', we have to know that 'something' really well. 

Just like the prisoner who wants to escape his or her prison, the more intricately they know about the prison and the way its managed, the more possible it will be to escape. 

The work with memory is to not erase memory, it is to work on the effects of memory within ourselves. 

Memory is such a tremendous part of the way we work. Try to imagine how we would function without memory...

All of our thinking is based on memory. As are our concepts and perceptions.

The Cosmos, the Gods and nature have memory. As master Samael says when the great Cosmic Night comes, creation withdraws in the AIN SOPH AUR, and what remains of creation, is only memory, that which the Divine Beings remember. 

Memory in the best way allows continuity, it gives us the knowledge of the trajectory of events through time. 

Four Memories

We have four memories teaches m.m.m. He is right, I agree with him we really do have four memories. 

Work Memory

There is the work memory which we all create as well. This work memory is not a memory we are born with. It is not an endowment, it is something that is consciously worked upon. 

The work memory is the result of our consciousness working upon the impressions we have received and the egos related to those impressions.

Perhaps we could loosely say work memory is a fifth memory.

This post gives an explanation of each of the four types of memory.

Senses

This is the memory of the sensations received through our senses. Each of the five senses has a section in our sense memory. We have visual memory, auditory memory, olfactory memory, tactile memory and taste memory.

Quite often the memory of some of our senses links in with the memory of the centres, especially that of the instinctive and emotional centres.  

For example, olfactory memory (smell) connects powerfully to the emotional centre.

Centres

This memory holds the rememberings of what occurred in our centres. That is, what we thought, what we felt, what we did, what we said, what impulses and sensations we felt (instinctive centre) and the sensations of our sexual centre.

Impressions

This memory holds all the rememberings of the results in our psyche of the impressions we received at a given time. In many ways, it is a psychological type of memory. It is a memory of the impressions left in our psychology which often overlaps with the the memory of the centres. It is a memory of the psychological flavours left within us after a conversation, an event, an action, a gesture, a word, an impression of some kind, etc. 

Impression memory is essentially what we live with and through. It is the memory that our egos access and combine with their logic to produce their thinking. Which is often negative.

So often, it is really this memory that being subjective gets us into trouble. It is not a factual memory.

We through experience come to learn that we can not rely on impression memory as it is not accurate. Our impression of what was said is so often not what was said.

Often the strongest memory within us is the impression memory, where we remember only the impression or psychological flavour that carries a certain meaning that we remember about an event or conversation for example. 

The impression memory is not at all the same as the factual memory, to remember what was actually said in facts and compared to the end impression of the conversation, yields a lot of discrepancy. 

The impression memory mixes easily with other memories from the senses, impressions, centres and through the different functionalisms and actions of the mind creates a certain conglomerate that becomes a story.

These functionalisms are: duality, associations and relativity. These actions are: concepts, conjectures, speculations, and plans.

Impression memory is all about parcels of impressions that combine with thinking to produce in us a fractioned memory. This fractioned memory serves the vested interests of the ego within us. This leads us to develop a selective memory and lose sight of the whole picture. The big picture always holds much more of the truth.

The work on memory is really about clarifying and dissolving the errors in the impression memory.

Esoteric

This is a very important section of our memory. There is actually a lot of knowledge held in this part of our memory. This is the memory of having done stages of the esoteric path before, memory of having practiced Alchemy before, memory of life and the path in previous races, memory of esoteric methods and knowledge, memory of officiating in the temples, memory of the dawn of creation, memory of the absolute, memory of past lives, memory of being between lives, memory of rituals and ceremonies and memory of the Being, Divine Mother, 

Conclusion - Practical Work

All work begins with discovery. We can observe and see how much of our thinking is based on memory. Furthermore see how much any ego's processes all use memory (senses, centres and impressions).

Once we see that in any given thought there is memory, then the work begins. The work is about clarifying the truth of that memory based story. To only way to clarify things before our consciousness is to ask questions. Ask serious questions designed to establish the whole truth. 

To do this we must be on the side of truth and the work and step away from our pain, our suffering, our story and vested interests.

Basically it mens to release the death-grip that ego has on fulfilling its vested interests.

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American, Australian, New Zealand, South African and the British Personality Nailed - (4175)

This infographic explains so well the while Anglo-Saxon personality of the countries listed in the post title.

This is a really good description of the typical mask we are given to wear to live in those countries. The work gives us the option to not have to wear that mask.

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