Gnostic Wisdom

We react or rather can't stop reacting to tough impressions because we are scratched raw and it simply hurts, and reacting is so instinctively automatic. When our 'skin' is a healed and normal can work a lot better on not reacting. Usually when we have had time to transform and assimilate the tough impressions we can handle a sequence of them a lot better. Our 'skin' is our psychological system, that is affected by our energy levels and how agitated our subconscious is. Meditation (especially the inner stillness kind), transmuting, prayer, contemplation and transforming impressions heals our skin.  End (6053).

We can somehow overlook how the sexual energy influences our psyche and our therefore our thinking and feeling.  From the outside and following conventional thinking there is apparently not much connection between the sexual energy and our psyche. However, there is, just as Gnosis has always mentioned. The reason why there is, is because the sexual energy is in our psyche, and our psyche runs using that energy. Afterall just like everything else, our psyche needs energy to function and this energy has to come from somewhere.  The conclusion here is that what is happening with our sexual energy is at the same time affecting what is going on in the deeper levels of our psyche. There's three types of results that form in our psychology based on the retention of the sexual energy. 1.) Retained used indirectly affecting our psyche in a mixed way. 2.) Retained, not used affecting our psyche negatively. 3.) Retained, used, affecting our psyche positively. When we transmute the retain...

When we speak negatively about ourselves we think that we are doing something no-one else does and is therefore a little special. It's not really, virtually everyone does it at some point, with us all thinking the same thing that it is a little special and should be taken with some appreciation.  Knowing that it is not so special takes away the psychological reward of it (being different and a bit special) and this makes us less interested in doing it to start with. End (6061).

Master Samael writes this to us: "complaining against our karma makes it worse". He is very right... It's best to be quiet, take responsibility, give and give to get out of the situation, and don't complain about having to give whatever it is that we have to give, time, attention, energy, money, values: patience, love, kindness, tolerance, understanding etc. Trust in our payments and isolate ourselves from feeding our 'questionable' emotional needs. Bearing in mind these 'needs' maybe be false needs. End (6057).

Don't write a book for money - write it becasue you want to and are inspired by the topic. We can write a book solely for money but it won't be much fun. We'll experience writer's block. If we start a book we have to finish it. There are so many people who have started writing a book... Write it for yourself and for others. Stay in the belief of it being useful. If we lose that belief we will stop writing. Write it for the future as a record and towards a higher good. To have knowledge scribed is precious. Write it as a gift, that way it will be internally rewarding and a work of love. What good is the knowledge and understanding that life and our work has allowed us to learn and not be able to pass it on? End (6058).

It's great to rule out some many ideas, plans, drives and desires based on: 'what we have', 'what we can control' and 'now'. The purpose is to rule out and forget, and focus. This ruling out allows us to organise. Organising creates a plan going ahead. Seeing the plan inspires action. Action inspires purpose and fulfillment. Action brings momentum and momentum ends in goals completed. End (6060).

As we work on intuition and our consciousness we can know that some things are not going to work out, but becasue of the rules, the people, the situation you have to go ahead with it, knowing it won't work. Just if you open your mouth and say something - you are ridiculed, dismissed or chastised. It's frustrating and a waste of time, yet you have to go along with it... The conclusion is that there are some things that we all have to pass through. The quietly the better. It seems very much to be the case of knowing how to keep silent. These scenarios exist. They are for something., That something we have to quietly look for. End (6056).

Our life really unfolds in the area that we focus on If we focus on reality our life will unfold in a more real way. When our life unfolds in a more real way we feel peace. There is understanding and fulfillment. When our life unfolds in an more unreal way there is worry, excessive thinking, frequent lacking and frustration ending up in restlessness and unfulfillment. To live more real we have to focus on reality. Our reality to focus on is: 1.) What we have . 2.) What we can control . 3.) Now rather than yesterday or tomorrow. Very simple, yet makes a large difference. Gets us going forward on solid steps and takes away so many gaps those: 'just if's' that never seem to come down from the mind into reality here. End (6055).

Have you ever been in that situation where you find yourself making all these efforts to help someone and in the middle of it all you ask yourself: "What am I doing? Why am I running around for this person I have barely any connection to?". "I do not work for this person. They are not my family or friend. I am not getting paid for this and I'm not going to get anything back...They have done nothing for us before and I doubt they really care either?". This is a really interesting situation. There is definitely a higher power at work and present for us to perceive and make contact with, if we choose. Psychologically it is really good to discover why it is that we feel we shouldn't be helping. Is it a personality thing (different culture), selfishness, do we feel the situation unfair - we have given and now we are still giving, there has to be some kind of psychological reality behind that feeling. The interesting thing is that even though we have that "wh...

To Those Who Know! There are those who don't know, and they don't know that they don't know. They are innocent as children, and it is for us to nurture them, to encourage them! Then there are those who don't know and who know that they don't know. They are witting; teach them! Then there are those who don't know and think that they know. They are dangerous; avoid them! Then there are those who know but don't know that they know. They are asleep; awake them! Then there are those who know and who know that they know. Do not follow them because if they know that they know, they would not have you follow them. But listen very carefully to what they have to tell you ...

All these qualities have two sides. Seems like everything walks on two feet... Real compassion is not an exception here. The two legs of compassion are non-judgement and remedy. To give ourselves or others non-judgement is great but it does not take one out of error. It opens the way to get up and get out of error, as it allows vision and understanding of what went wrong. But it does not give the practical steps and the strength and hope to get up and walk again. Remedy alone helps, but later becomes difficult to maintain, if the what went wrong has not been understood due to having justified or condemned ourselves through judgement. Combining non-judgement and remedy together is compassion which is a powerful active reinstating, recuperating, healing and returning force. End (6053).

It's a pretty interesting situation to be upset and want to destroy something. It may happen more often than we care to admit... Anyhow if we catch ourselves there, getting close to wanting to destroy something inside or outside, then just wait a moment and have a look to see what value we are really wanting to have. Remembering the conditioned essence in her conditioning makes 'destroying' the same as 'having'. The ask quietly the question, can we possibly get that value by ourselves without destroying anything.  What we usually want to destroy or end up destroying, even if we are aware of it or not, is the same value that we are really wanting deep down. In wanting respect from others we destroy respect for ourselves and the respect others have for us, trying to get it. End (6051).

When the Gnostic Sophia lacks something in her nature, she is compelled by inner urgency to fill what is lacking.  To fill what is lacking is correct. The correct way of filling our lacks are the lessons for Sophia. The conditioned Sophia seeks to fill that lack by trying to possess the value she lacks externally in this world. Her way of trying to possess becomes 'to have' and 'to have' turns into 'having' by 'destroying'. To the conditioned Sophia to destroy something is a way of having. 'If we can destroy something we have it, we have power over it, it became ours to destroy'. What is more the truth is that we can barely possess ourselves. When it comes to possession what we can only get the closest to possessing is ourselves, yet we can't destroy ourselves. Our own body yes, we can destroy but we can never destroy the roots of ourselves which would be our inner Being. Impossible to destroy the Being. Sometimes conditioned Sophia to have h...

We see many people in dire need, almost as if they are going to come to grief, yet we see them several months later still alive doing ok. They had nothing to eat and nowhere to stay yet they managed. Somehow. It seems that mother nature looks after us and provides so to keep us alive. That is one of her jobs it seems, to keep all of her creatures alive.  This at least makes sense when we look at the mother archetype how the role of the mother is to provide nourishment to her children. It is good to make this conscious, because even though deep down we all know this, we seem not to trust it and therefore don't allow that trust to work within us, relaxing us and freeing up our attention to look to other areas of life. Spirituality being one of them.  End (6049).

There is room for improvement in us yet when we only come to adopt the outlook and philosophy of the work when there is some kind of failure in life and we can't solve or repair it.  We should really be living through the outlook and philosophy of the work ideally all the time but at least much more frequently then when failure in life comes along. That is if we are wanting to integrate the work more and more within us. End (6048).