Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Believing in ourselves is something that we all do before we truly start something. We often don't start something becasue we don't believe in it or that we can do it. To believe we can do something is really the biggest milestone. Once we believe that we can do something, results are not too far away. There is no doubt about it, we are going to make head way towards whatever it is that we believe we can do. For all the great things that human beings have done, there was a point where they believed that they could do it and so they did. No one achieves something believing all the way that they can't do it. We may start out not believing that we can, but there is a point that we start to believe. Often that point is when conscious faith turns on. It is the point that through our persistence or struggles we catch a glimmer of light and this glimmer turns into a knowing that our hope is real. Truly a large part of the battle is won when we believe that we can do something. Thi...

The most important thing are the works and efforts that lead to changing our interior nature. That is, efforts that change our inner processes, specifically the way we think and feel. Powers may not do that. But there are powers within us that do change our inner processes. The great qualities of Being do that.  The faculties are there to serve those qualities of Being. Not to transact against them. If there was ever a choice to be made, the wisest choice is to invest our time and energy into changing our interior processes. End (5953).

In our own world is there someone wiser than our own devil?  Just imagine what psychological knowledge our own devil has to have. The sum total of the wisdom from of all our life's experiences from the beginning of creation.  The Sun up in the sky is another one who is supremely wise, as it has witnessed all the errors, problems, solutions, triumphs, failures and sufferings that human beings have passed through since the beginning of creation. The devil is so old and because of that he is so wise. He has seen so much of our folly. He knows it all... Seeing folly over time means to have seen what lead to it and the consequences it had. The total of that witnessing of our folly comprises knowledge. The wisdom of the devil comes from this knowledge, and the way his wisdom is expressed is in the way of helping us to see and undo our folly. The devil being the shadow of our inner Being knows what it is that we lack. As our lacking is the shadow of our Being. From fire comes much kn...

Our complement is what we lack. So to look face to face at our own complement is to see directly in the mirror what it is that we are lacking. What we have is us, and what we lack is also us.  Knowing what we have is knowing ourselves and knowing what we lack is also knowing ourselves. We all tend to not like too much what we lack. Seeing what we lack is also not much fun. What we lack is what we are weak at and what we are weak at means lots of effort, patience, discomfort and so on... That is the reason why we have many problems with our complement, because we don't like seeing or hearing or facing up to what we actually lack. We also often don't know what we lack so there is denial in operation. Denial brings sufferings. We are a lot happier when we interact with someone who is like us, because what we lack does not come up and there is little to no discomfort. However interacting with someone that we like, even though it is easier does not show us what we lack and does not ...

It is a lot easier to find ourselves working more on ourselves during the day when we are a person-soul. It is natural part of being a person-soul to work on ourselves frequently during the day. When we adopt the identity of a 'just physical person', we work happily physically in our job the whole day and even night sometimes, and forget all about our inner work. We find that being just a person we don't have time or even enough mental space to remember to work on ourselves. Because the 'just a physical person' identity does not include in its structure the inner work on ourselves. There is no background support for the work on ourselves. The reason why our day in the work fails is because of choosing the wrong identity for the day. Whereas as in the background of the person-soul identity, there is much support for the work on ourselves. Adopting the identity as a person-soul we work on ourselves and also work physically in our job. We produce both physical merit, p...

The warrior in his or her depth is spiritual. This is because a true warrior is one that fights for a cause much greater than him or herself. It is really the cause that gives the warrior his or her purpose and the purpose gives the warrior his or her strength. The depth and truth of the purpose gives the warrior the sublime willingness and fulfillment to die for it. The willingness and openness to die for the cause makes the warrior fearless. Every true warrior has the common quality of fearlessness. The greatest weapon of the warrior is the heart-felt remembrance of the cause that he or she is fighting for. The forces of Mars are the energies to fight as well as the intelligence to fight effectively. If the warrior is true in his or her depths, is just and loves the cause for which they are fighting, it can only be that the forces of Mars will be by their side. The ethical triangle within each of one us is the constitution of the spiritual warrior.  The human soul fights down he...

There is the wonderful yoga exercise for brain enhancement which is a combination of physical exercise, breathing and transmutation. This combination feeds the brain with a lot of energy. There are studies that have proven that it does enhance the brain's power. Most of the studies have been with students that after practicing super brain yoga have significantly improved their performance. The basic super brain yoga exercise is to cross your right arm over your left lightly grasping your opposite ear lobes and performing squats. Breathing in when squatting down and breathing out when rising up. Repeated 14 to 21 squats per day. Another form of super brain yoga is Alchemy, which is really more powerful, because it involves the use of two energies plus their magic combination which is entirely creative in nature. The energies that are circulated in Alchemy saturate the cells the of the body, starting with the brain first of all. The energy of Alchemy, the mercury (transmuted sexual e...

People usually when asleep express the opposite of their ingenious cosmic ray. This is because when asleep we polarise to the opposite, because duality is the main conditioning that cause our consciousness to sleep. When we are asleep observe our own lives and look for the main character issue and then see the opposite and you will find out something interesting about your own cosmic ray. The best thing to learn the qualities of the a certain ray is to be around a person who belongs to that tray. Depending on their level of consciousness, we will have to learn about the qualities of their ray either in the light or in the opposite. That is what the qualities are or what the qualities are not. The qualities will be visible in the small details and also more importantly globally in their life. A person influences others the most with the ray and affects others negatively the most with the qualities of their ray. End (5947).

What is worse to bring to bring only something for yourself to eat and drink at a gathering or to bring nothing and eat and drink what others have brought? Both are not quite right. Though one is worse in relativity than the other. The one that brings food and drink only for himself is the worse one. Because it is a conscious and deliberate decision and action to not participate in sharing, caring or helping others. It is sometimes means to not participate with others during meal times. The other one who brings nothing at least connects to others, creates a debt to later cancel with others. While the other one does not create any link or debt to cancel later on. Even in such cases there is more room for it to not be so deliberate. These people are more open to do the correct thing. While the other one is closed and isolating. The interesting observation that can be made over the time is that people who are selfish and only ever bring for themselves don't persist for too long in the...

We can have the wrong idea about strength. We think it is always something that it is not. We try to be strong but it seems to make us feel weaker. Why because we have the wrong idea of what strength is. From the esoteric point of view to be strong is to be integral, aligned, and in all essence it is to be what we are, that is to be our Being, which in common terms means to be ourselves at the deepest level of authenticity. We think we have to be strong to be successful at whatever it is we need to make work.  We can make something work and be strong by knowing what we our strengths are and who we are.  When we know and accept those two areas of ourselves, who we are and what our strengths are the thing to do is to use those strengths to do what it is that we need to do to make it work. We just need to adapt our strengths to getting things done from a different angle. There is always an angle a way in which we can make our strengths work in the given situation to benefit our n...

The sexual energy has magnetic properties. It is worth clarifying and saying that these magnetic properties are universal in nature, and function within a very vast scope, reaching far outside of ourselves. As we know, magnetism is the power to attract. Universal magnetism attracts all things. It is a principle that works to bring 'like' to closer 'like', and it also keeps the two polarities (opposites) relating to each other. For example, love attracts love, force brings force, wealth attracts wealth and so on and so on. The knowledge that keeps the two polarities relating well to each other is the in-depth knowledge of magnetism. Back to the sexual energy, it has a great magnetic power. Meaning if we work with the sexual energy, causing it to circulate through our system we will be able to be make use of its magnetism. Just imagine a child forming in its mother's womb. All the energies and substances have to be brought together to create the child. Just imagine, t...

For our internal qualities to develop we need the external supports to fall through. We actually do learn and develop many qualities (to some degree) having external supports. Having external supports until the appointed time is all ok. The appointed time is set by our flow of life.  Our Inner Being is the one emanates our flow of life. The events and their sequence comes from inside of us. Holding onto external supports beyond the appointed time becomes a hinderance and delays our progress.  When external supports fall it is always the time to first of all recognise this, then look to give ourselves the same value that the external supports gives but this time to give it to ourselves from inside.  The final step is to develop the giving to ourselves in all its aspects. Make it strong and vibrant and give it to others. When we give to others, it is most important to show them how to give it to themselves. If not, we don't complete the karmic learning cycle. We become an e...

More and more it is this way these days that people are not really ready to take responsibility for the things that are wrong in their life, even the things that are wrong with their health. It is a huge block for the inner work. But what can we do about it? Not much with others but we can see it in ourselves. When we see it in ourselves it is just as hard sometimes to take responsibility.  What we can do to help ourselves take responsibility?  The only first thing to do is to accept that we find it hard to take responsibility. If we can do that we have made a huge start that leads us to a path to be able to take responsibility.  End (5942).

In the absence of love, force always appears. Why not other qualities? That is a good question. The observation is that it is usually force that comes to do the job love would normally do. When we want to help a person and usually the love we have comes to show us how. If love is slow to appear, force will appear to help instead.   Using force we make a mess unless love comes quickly to the rescue. Often love comes along late after we have made a mess. Then if pride is not too big, usually feeling sorry at making a mess brings love, and we work things out with love and force.  The truth is that force and love must work hand in hand to help a person. Not love alone and not force alone. Together! Combining love and force together guided by truth gives rise to another virtue called wisdom. End (5941).

Our karma tricks us! It has to. We don't really want to pay it. Our subconscious knows that we have karma and we know that paying it won't be pleasant. So our subconscious naturally does all that it can to keep us far away from the people and scenarios that would make us encounter our past debts. To overcome the avoiding power of our subconscious our own karma tricks us by enticing another part of our subconscious that is just as powerful. That is why so often we feel divided. We feel so drawn but at the same time so very wary. As soon as our own karma begins to trick us using another powerful subconscious element, the will that is conditioned in us is available to be compromised by our karma, and that will works driving us closer and closer to the people and circumstances to get involved and stay involved until we encounter our karmic debts.  This can also work for our dharmic payouts as well. But there is less trickery involved. A very different force other than our condition...