Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

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).

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...