Gnostic Wisdom

Many temples are up on a hill and have so many stairs leading up to them. The oriental temples seem to be built this way, as are the pyramids of Egypt and South America. The stairs represent the way to heaven. Indicating that we must climb - one step at a time. They also are representative of the vertebra that the kundalini ascends, that is from one vertebra or step to the next. They show that the heavens are conquered one didactic pass at a time and that a descent is taken with as much effort as climbing. When climbing the effort is to lift oneself and in descending the effort is to not become unbalanced and fall. A fall is different. In a fall a large number of steps are flown over at a time. A fall is not didactic, and of course it always has a reason and a cause. As one falls one tumbles and rolls with the law of accidents, as one does falling down a flight of stairs. They also represent the many steps and the effort we need to make to climb to the heights within the spheres of our...

Every temple that we can visit here in the physical world, no matter the denomination is clean and orderly. This invites us to reflect that our inner temple should also be clean and orderly.  The vestibule of our inner temple is our psychological space. So if our psychological space is clean and orderly this will help the inner temple. Clean equals no thinking and the conscious use of the mind. Orderly equals an organised psyche, which is only possible by bringing as much as we can our consciousness to be the priority and giving it a chance to function. End (6027).

That's really good advice to do our practices from within the third state of consciousness. Not ever thinking about doing the practice or or narrating to ourselves the practice.  Start by observing ourselves practicing. Be aware of how we are practicing, however we are, from the second state or third state or second and two thirds state, whatever it may be. Stay there, keep letting go of thinking and keep observing and stay there. Wait for the separation to appear when we start to shift into being that awareness that is aware of itself. Then dive deeper into the practice. End (6025).

To be too sure of ourselves to such an extent that we cross the line of fairness and cause hurt to others  results in situations where we doubt ourselves resulting in a state of panic that we can't control.  This attitude of being too sure of ourselves ends up in us taking the right others have to explain or defend themselves.  When we are balanced in the certainty about ourselves we don't take the right others have to explain.  It could be the elements of pride and fear that is behind this attitude. The best remedy for pride is justice and the remedy for fear is trust.  A good way to deal with such people who conduct themselves through this attitude is to state one's rights calmly and trusting in the correctness of what is just.  End (6024).

For the approval seeker or people pleaser the common belief is that people won't like something that we want to do or that simply we are not allowed to do something that we want or need to do. This is really just another hallucination of the "I". Another false belief that must be dissolved. People are not stopping us and even if they are, truly very few people can really stop us. Perhaps momentarily but in the long run, that's not really possible. End (6023).

This post gives the basic stages that occurs when we move through a lower state of consciousness to a higher one. First we start being identified with something negative and we are in a negative state of consciousness. Consequently we experience a flow of negative thoughts. In such a state, the priority is to lift up into a normal state of consciousness.  As we calm our nervous system and displace the negative state of consciousness we enter a mundane state of consciousness where the thoughts are neutral and trivial but not of a negative nature. We also fall into a day-dreamy state but it is very much mundane and normal. As we realise that we are now in a normal day-dream state, we begin to become aware and by being aware of being aware the mind begins to quieten. As we enter deeper into the quietness of the mind in this conscious, relaxed yet alert state, all the prayer, concentration, imagination and mystical practices become possible and give fruit. This is another way of saying...

In the human sphere there are two ways to the top. One way is to go by yourself and create your own mini-sphere. Blaze your own way to the top. The second way is to go and be the best and most loyal 'right-hand man', and when the person at the top quits, retires or passes away, rise to the top. Both ways really have their price. There is great sacrifice to be made in both ways. The sacrifices are expressed differently but involve the same values (time, energy, family, friends, ourselves, desires, comfort zones etc.). Both are hard work that's the sure main thing in common. The same in the spiritual sphere. There are the wet and dry ways to the top. The dry way leans more to the way of 'creating your own mini-sphere' kind of way. Because you directly serve a greater number of others and more directly and deeper on yourself, which is the Christic way. End (6015).

Self-love in the egoic sense expresses in reaction. To love ourselves in the conscious way is the correct thing to do. So to have self-love is correct it is just how consciously is it expressed. When self-love is expressed mechanically it is expressed through the other person as a reference point and the way of expression is through reaction. The conscious self-love is expressed through non-reaction. It is the non-reaction that opens the door to generating true self-love. Each unfair comment directed our way becomes fair when we use it to increase our quality of self-love. This is essentially how we overcome the unfairness that mechanical self-love reacts to. At the heart of the mechanical defense reactions of self-love is the protection of the love for ourselves. If we always react when we are treated with unfair disrespect it will be truly difficult to develop conscious self-love. With mechanical self-love we often think we are not worthy of the love of others and so we get disappoin...

A concrete way of doing this while avoiding falling into new age romanticism, that can feel 'fake', is to observe carefully the negativity of the ego and give to ourselves exactly the opposite of the negativity. The ego then becomes the reference point. This is in fact to do the opposite of the ego within ourselves. Also as it is essentially the ego that is bothering us with its negative inner talk, giving ourselves the opposite of what the ego is giving us, is really what we need. There is little point in giving ourselves things that we don't quite need, and that is often why we have the feeling: "that is good but not quite it, almost but not quite what we need". Through observation of the ego we have the all the keys we need to give accurately and appropriately to ourselves. For example, before we get angry we give to ourselves a lot of poison. The opposite is to give to ourselves sweetness and true values of psychological nourishment. Then we get angry at the o...

What matters most really is how we pass though the events of our life. Not so much on what happens in the event. When we are trying for a certain result, for example, to win a contract, what matters more is how we were internally when we were trying. What were our inner qualities like? No matter if we won the or lost the contract how was our inner state is the question. If we make our inner state the priority then things will shift in us and we can triumph. That is something that we can actually determine. Wining or losing the contract is something that we can not in many cases determine.  No matter what happens, holding onto our values and keeping them high is the the most important thing of all.  Shifting priorities to the inner takes away the desperation, the frustration, fear and uncertainty. End (6021).

When someone rolls up the class handout using it a baton to tap to beat out a tune, and or leaves it on the floor and one of the chair's legs accidentally rides on top of it, crinkling it - we know the chances are high that they are not going to read it. What we value, we look after and protect. When we value something the emotional centre is operating. What is intellectual only to us, we don't tend to value or look after. What's real to us has emotional weight. What we value also has importance to us. These are important observations that we can use to make great changes. When we are told for example that we have an attitude towards something that causes us to be  disengaged, disoriented, disassociated, aloof, distrusting and disdaining, it means that are emotional centre is not operating.  All of these attitudes and many more all disappear when we put the particular issue/s into our emotional centre. The intellect is what complicates things. The rigid intellect as well as...

Is different is one word.  The truth is it happens everywhere and it is nothing more than an expression of a person's different facers and the effects of the atmosphere and environment. That is something that we should understand and know that the glowing person on stage is different in real life. End (6019).

Purpose Notes in point form for the preparation of this talk topic. "Transmutation is a biological insurrection and a psychological revolution."  Alchemy is not a method to avoid having children, it is a practice for the realisation of the Being within us. It is practiced to fuse ourselves evermore deeper with our interior Divinity. Alchemy is a vehicle of realisation, as it awakens the fire and builds the solar bodies. It also has the power to dissolve all our egos. Notes Introduction • This talk is about the Practice of the Alchemy. It's aim is to provide practical guidance for the practice of Alchemy. • The practice of Alchemy is a true practice of deep transformation. It is practiced for the Being within and for the Being within our partner. • The reference point of the practice is not ourselves or our bodies' desires but the realisation of the Being.  • It is a sacred act of inner creation. • Quality is the guide for each practice. we must seek improved quality a...

The way to giving is to cultivate the happiness of giving. To feel happy to give to others in whatever form that may take is the way to develop giving. Using happiness and forgetting astuteness is the road to developing the power of giving. Astuteness comes into play trying to not give or give less or give later. Astuteness is also that which expects something in return. No gift is empty as that gift will boomerang back to you when you most need it. To be giving means you can be or are already an instrument of the Divine Law and the White Lodge of their benevolence. To give for giving sake also helps us to forget about the pain of giving which is all about not getting anything back in return. Regarding astuteness everyone turns out to be astute to some degree and the one being astute thinks that the others don't know he is being astute. The goal of astuteness to not give but make the other person to give.  Giving is affected when we forgive the   To give means to ignore a...

When it comes to patience it is not really about the time. It is more about being able in ourselves to hold high a high quality of hope. It is the quality of hope that we have that sees us through the time we need to wait. If the quality of hope and faith be high, time goes quickly. End (6018).