Gnostic Wisdom

In the morning when we wake up, we wake up clear of meaning for the day and our life. Then bit by bit the layers of meaning for our life and our day appear, layer by layer. It is so common that when these layers are slow in appearing we feel somewhat lost or despondent. Even as  The strange thing is a good cup of coffee helps to bring some of those short term those layers back and suddenly we have zest and meaning to face our day again. The deeper layers of meaning are the big picture layers. These are the layers that cover us first. The worst experience when waking up when there is a too long a wait for these layers to appear or there is some hold up in their arrival, we feel such a profound panic in experiencing the void. The consciousness replaces all these layers and lives out the greater layers of meaning with true life, not mere mental and yearning life. It is also known in lucid dreaming practice that the dream scenarios are built up layer upon layer. This is observed when e...

It seems that this way of living is an experience so common in Africa. So many experience the situation where there is not enough money and the means to get money narrow down to apparently nothing right in front of one's own eyes. Then the preoccupations begin. I need this amount of money to live and I have no way to get it. Then the nervous system alters and we enter into an instinctive way of living called 'survival mode' where we are only concerned about surviving nothing else. In such a mode we don't have space for anything else. We are all consumed by the need to survive which means get money, and then if we can't get money it means securing or finding food and shelter. The survival mode is highly characterised by hyper focus on the physical means of getting money now. The other dimensions of life are erased from awareness. One forgets the Great Provider of all things - the Being. One also forgets the cosmic laws of giving and receiving and the many practices t...

There is thins thing in life where we all have to learn and sometimes this leaning comes at the expense of others. As learning is a part of life, providing learning for others at our expense is a part of life. That is mostly what parenthood is about. As a Gnostic teacher that is essentially what the mission is about to begin with. Knowing that it is a part of life we can come to consciously accept it. Then when people do us a 'wobbly' we can discern if it was one of those things of life where we were chosen to be the 'classroom' so to speak for something they are learning.  It is not always this way but it is something worth looking at and discerning if it was a learning for them. Surely we have all learnt at the expense (sometimes great expense) of others through their mistakes and through their triumphs. End (6037).

There are some karmic situations that are so 'special' that even talking about them creates such a large and unpleasant disturbance that everyone involved wonders: "what the .... is going on?". Do you have something like that in your life? That by just talking about the issue things turn ugly very quickly. We may all or have had a person that if we talk about him or her, things just go 'bad' and the person or persons are far away. These are karmic situations where the karmic links are very strong and the action of the word precisely where there is no transcendence (expressed as love or kindness) strengthens the negative karmic waves.  This is all becasue the word is causal (karmic) and the situation is mostly due to the misuse of the word in the first place. The word is an energy that links our energies to the karma and energises or activates it. Which then activates the karmic elements (anger, frustration, resentment, ill-will) in the people we are talking to...

From the Western Gnostic point of view ancestor worship as performed in Africa is something strange and not really within the context of the teachings.  For example from the Gnostic teachings point of view, a deceased grandmother is a human being that will return to life on Earth in a new human body. Though for African spirituality someone's dead grandmother becomes an spiritual ancestor that is worshipped, revered and called upon many times for advice, guidance and for worldly as well as spiritual help. Interestingly from the Gnostic point of view our Divine Mother, even our Human soul whom as an essence we are a detachment of, as well as Chesed (our spirit and father) plus Kether (the father of our father) are the ancestors of our essence. So perhaps ancestor worship in African spirituality is really an externalization of the internals veneration of the parts of our own Inner Being. The tendency these days is to polarise what is internal and real to an external representation tha...

It is said by many in South Africa that a very large number of people are living in survival mode. Meaning their nervous system is always in something like flight and fight mode. It seems that this is also the general mode of modern living where we are always 'on the go' chasing something - sometimes the bare necessity to survive and sometimes dreams... In such a state there is little capacity to contemplate spirituality. There is only the fear and the irrational urge to fight for one's survival. To be able to contemplate spirituality in such situations starts with treating the nervous system. That is starting off by addressing the physical to then enter the psychological. Deeper and longer breathing, an open and upright posture and use calmer and steady, yet balanced  words. As soon as the nervous regulates and the person's state changes they can then listen to Gnostic teachings. Where they heard them before but could not listen to them. Here is a very interesting imag...

The "Law of Give and Take" works in a specific way. The way is in the name itself: Give and Take. To receive something we first have to give. It is against this great law to be waiting. There is much taught about waiting for het flow of life, that is true and we need to do that, and we can only do that once we have given trust to our Inner Being. So much wisdom comes from this Law.  The line: "no one is going to save you" is an example of this. If we give work to ourselves and help others to save themselves we will receive help to be saved. If we are in a hard place - to get out of it we need to give first. When we are in a hard place psychologically we need to give first. End (6032).

The issue we have is that we don't accept the many psychological gymnasiums that present themselves in our lives. We spend most of our times protesting against them, trying to get out of them, avoiding them and complaining about them. Thinking a gymnasium should not be is not working on what it is presenting to us. We waste so many hours and opportunities protesting against a gymnasium. We even waste so much time analysing the gymnasium. When really what a gymnasium is for is for us to learn the value we need to give and then go and give it! The gymnasium ends when we accept it. That is we take responsibility for it being in our life and we decide to work on what it is presenting to us. The only resistance to accepting it is pride. This resistance comes in many forms. We feel for some reason it shouldn't be that way, it is wrong, we don't deserve that we are better than that and the list goes on... Basically it is all pride. To accept is humility and when we accept not befo...

How do we make a connection to the Divine Mother within? The feeling for Her is the door way to the direct experience of Her. The direct experience of Her leads to the real knowledge of Her being within us. She is not a thing to verify and prove but something to adore and internally live close to. It is worth much more to live with Her in our heart, adoring, remembering and acting in honour of Her than seeing her and proving that she exists within us. Often to prove that She exists is to then tick a box and forget Her. To 'know' and 'live by' are the two powers that unite to produce conscious faith. Reflection and imagination are the biggest helpers to build this connection alongside the cultivation of the feeling. The first place in which we can meet her is with our mind's eye in our inner space. The reflection on Her builds the feeling for Her, and the feeling will produce the cause and the condition for us to know. At the end of the day we have to produce within ...

Somebody makes food with love and hope, and then we judge the food.  To judge we must compare and rate. When we compare and score, the mind enters and what was made with love and hope becomes all about the past, the future, other people, other people, while the real energies made the food are pushed into the background, and it becomes about the relative taste and appearance. That is the taste and appearance relative to what others have done or are doing. That is a good example of how the sensorial mind takes over using a system of judging and the reality of remains hidden only to be seen by the inner mind that can see the love and hope the food was made with. This is a good example of how judging dissolves our vision of the reality behind things and dissolves the noble qualities. End (6030).

Selfish people who in life don't give others much of anything, whether it be time, energy, consideration, gifts, money and good will, end up not giving those exact same things to themselves.  Their goal in not giving is to save all of those things for themselves, and as a strange twist of fate they seem not to be able to give it to themselves. Later in life they stop caring for themselves, they don't spend the money they saved and they don't enjoy the time they saved for themselves either, because they become very bitter all the time especially when alone with their own thoughts. The irony of it all is that what they didn't want to give to others, ends up being given a by life itself to others when they die or can no longer administer it all. This is because there is truly a law out there called the Law of Give and Take - that is the reciprocity of all things.  We give to others to give to ourselves and we give to ourselves to give to others, that's how that law wor...

The circumstances of the path for some from the outside look really nice. A mission with nice people, in a nice city and with a lot of support. That is their dharma. They have earnt to do their path within such circumstances. Obviously from the past. While others due to their karma and the balancing (learning) walk their path within very different circumstances. The Inner Being also decides what It needs to learn and those needs reflect in our path's circumstances. Sometimes the Being only needs to work to restore the fire and light within It's inner structure and there is not so much karma to balance. Meaning apparently easy life circumstances. Difficult and troublesome circumstances are not needed. Also the Inner Being may take on a mission for the love of humanity with all its included and implied difficult circumstances. Passing through these difficult circumstances may not be needed but provide added merit to the Inner Being for It's path. Then sometimes we have so muc...

This is an important topic for people, especially in countries where there is physical poverty. When we are in circumstances of physical poverty it is very difficult to work on ourselves.  Truly it is difficult to start the work in such conditions and it is even difficult while we are already working on ourselves.  To work on ourselves while in poverty would mean a very dramatic change in lifestyle and change in life circumstances. We tend to think being poor is a really good condition to work on ourselves. For a certain time it really is. However for a prolonged duration it really isn't.  It is also very difficult to work on ourselves being very internally poor. This is how most of us start the work on ourselves. Physically well provided for but internally poor. Even though we are poor physically and internally there is always something that we have that we can make use of. This is the good news. In general karma is not totally merciless. The karma always gives us a tool...

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).