Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Often when we go to a building roof top or a high cliff or are walking on a jetty going out to sea there is that strange suggestion that arises in the mind to jump accompanied by strange anxious feelings of falling or sinking into the water. These thoughts and feelings as strange as they are, are semi-conscious instinctive memories and are due to us at some point in our past lives having thrown ourselves or have been pushed or having pushed others. They are semi-conscious in the sense that we feel them instinctively but we don't remember from where they come from. That debt though cancelled physically lives on inside our psyche.  These feelings tell us that there is more work to do to investigate within and comprehend and dissolve what we have found. When we go to these high places or jetties it is like we relive the drama or tragedy in our mind. End (5967).

A monkey and a donkey seem to be the universal symbols of the mind.  Both words have a 'key' in them and they differ by the first letter. Coincidentally the 'm' and the 'd' are the first and last letters of the word 'mind'. The monkey mind is the one jumps all over the place and the donkey mind is the one that is so stubborn that does not want to give up thinking. These two animal symbols give the key to the mind. The mind in its untrained nature is stubbornly distracted. Perhaps with these two symbols we can get a glimpse into the significance of 'm' and 'd' as letters. It seems 'm' covers breadth and is affirmative while 'd' is narrow and negating. End (5966).

We find that we truly need to die (negate the conditioned essence), yet dying and not going forward with the fruits of death (affirming the free essence), which are the qualities, abilities and powers of our soul, is unbalanced.  We need to work in negation towards affirmation. Working with negation gives us the ability to affirm. Affirming without prior negation causes us to trip over and negating only makes us turn bitter and eventually stand still. On the path and everywhere we walk on two legs, and these two legs are negating and affirming. If we get stuck on one leg only, we'll topple over because we become unbalanced. End (5962).

This topic helps us to break at least the following conceptions: 1.) The idea that we are the first wave of humans on this earth. 2.) That we are the only ones in the cosmos. 3.) That our development, science and technology is at the highest level on the earth so far. 4.) That we are at the start of a continuous line of evolutionary development. 5.) That our average lifespan is the longest so far and will end up being the longest. 6.) That our inner development, consciousness and knowledge of ourselves and the cosmos is the most developed so far on the Earth. What is important is not to believe in the details of each of the races but to loosen and consciously open  the way we think about the Earth and humanity. This opening will allow and support new understandings of ourself, humanity and give us a reference to place our own memories and inner knowing that will along the way surface in our work. This lecture opens our consciousness and knocks on the doors of the vaults of our anci...

Energy follows energy via the laws of magnetism, reciprocity and concentration. It does not follow morality, it follows those three laws mentioned above, and of course others. To pray in pain, in the feelings of a martyr and out of morbid sacrifice doesn't bring what we are yearning for but more pain. What we emit we magnetise. If we emit pain we bring pain. Putting our energy into emitting pain by the laws mentioned above brings pain to us. Putting energy and attention into pain brings only more of the like. Energy follows 'like' it does not follow morality in the sense that because we are making ourselves to suffer we are going get help and positive energy. Which is what morality does but the energy of the universe doesn't follow human morality. It follows 'like' for 'like'. If we want happiness show that you want it by making efforts to be happy and help to be happy will come. To awaken and die is to be free of pain yet with wrong attitudes we bring m...

Mostly from evolution. Through the journey our essence undertakes through the three previous kingdoms of nature. Of course also from past lives and from the Inner Being itself and the consciousness, there is much innate wisdom. Each mineral, plant and animal life that we have had has built up in us an understanding of life and creation. It has also taught us certain lessons about the laws and principles of creation. Each life teaches us values that our essence has but needs developing and knowledge about why and how to use it. That's why some people even as humans are 'strong as a bull', 'brave as a lion', 'cunning as a fox' and 'sly as a serpent', 'slippery as a fish' becasue they learnt really 'well' those lessons from their journey through the kingdoms. Even as human beings we are still learning these values. It happens as people in the work we are learning those lessons at fast rate through dissolving the ego. Dissolving the ego i...

So often does what we plan work out. When it does work, it is not always that smooth and everything is as we hoped. Actually, very rarely does what we plan work out so brilliantly for all. There's always a hitch, there's always something that goes wrong. Something changes and things get messed up and it all gets difficult and tricky to fix, and above all it's hard work. When we are not expecting something and we haven't planned for it, what happens and especially how it happens is amazingly intelligent, plus works out perfectly and so smoothly. This lesson of life - tells us to wait, let go of the mind and trust more in the Universe to bring what we would like to happen. End (5960).

If we want to grow more inwardly, and be able to keep relatively stable in difficult times, we like trees, need deep roots. Deep roots are a deep understanding of the teachings and a strong practice of them. Especially the fundamentals.  Strong in the practical fundamentals helps us more than anything. End (5959).

An eternal disappointment in listeners is when they hear spiritual teachers or practitioners speak of love and unity, and then later on in decisions, attitudes and behaviours the love and unity previously spoken of is not there. This happens all the time not really because of there being a lack of love and unity, it is just that in this world it is difficult to apply fully and often it is there but misperceived or expectations are unrealistic. It is out of reality to expect full and perfect unity and love. The full love and unity is only close to being perfect within ourselves between ourselves and our inner parts. Love and unity can not be expressed perfectly physically all the time, it will always be seen as one sided or incomplete or imperfect due to relativity, different points of view, karma and the presence of so many opposing factors that have to be balanced.  Sometimes even it is not there and the teacher or practitioner has indeed contradictions within him or her and what ...

Priorities constantly shift in applying Gnosis. Over the years we have seen the priority shift numerous times. A recent shift has been to priorities the awakening and the application of soul values to accelerate the liberation of the conditioned essence. When the Gnostic movement first begun the priority was Alchemy, later it shifted to mystical death and we all know why.  In terms of teaching Gnosis now days, given that students have such short attention spans, the intelligent order is to focus impactfully on the essentials while we have their attention. What really are the essentials and what would a new priority be? What makes most sense is to focus the teachings on liberating the essence as a priority.  Previously teachings were focused on how the essence is trapped. Now days that tends to be received as depressing information and does not serve much purpose to students other than making the class atmosphere overly serious and heavy. It is more beneficial to all to focus o...

When we find ourselves in a state where we need to establish some kind of order in a our physical life. We need to first establish an inner order.  We can establish an outer order but if there is not an inner order to support we will find ourselves lost and in disarray again - out of order. One of the best tools to establish an inner order is inner silence. When seriously providing the conditions for inner silence to appear within us and maintaining it, the magical ordering power of silence can begin to work.  Inner silence brings internal energies into harmony by giving us visibility of what truly and deeply priority for us. This is because inner silence allows the truer and deeper reference point within us to surface. Silence gives space for the reference point that is deeper and more aligned with our Inner Being to come into view. With the truer and deeper reference point clearly in view we can establish order. Order is to give to the chosen reference point priority. With o...

Introduction We could say that the three types of sexuality are the law of three in the sense of the very classical, three dimensions of a planet which are the:  1.) Infra-dimensions 2.) Physical dimension 3.) Superior dimensions. Note, these are also the same as the three regions of a physical space, a building for example: the basement, ground floor and the upper floors. Which really comes from the three stages of everything which is beginning, peak and end. The three types of sexuality are: infra, normal and supra which correspond directly to these three dimensions of a planet. This is because human sexuality is intimately linked to the planet. Universality of Sexuality Sexuality has a very real reality and it is a true force of the cosmos. So much already has been written about how everything is essentially sexual in nature and how everything through hundreds of derivations comes from sexuality. The base values of sexuality are expressed in these three classes of sexuality. The...

The normal use of a person's inner strength of detachment is to wipe people off that wrong or hurt us or to attack them knowing that because we are strong in detachment, they are not going to hurt us and we are not going to feel anything when we attack them. There is a better use of our inner strength of detachment and it is to use it that strength to detach from ourselves so as to rise above ourselves. This is the more transcendental use of inner strength that liberates because it does not create karma and it causes us to rise in our level of the Being. That is to detach from what it is inside of us that is enraged, hurt, humiliated or bothered etc. This inner strength allows forgiveness and does not need to run away, dismiss or wipe people off. End (5955).

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).