Gnostic Wisdom

Conflict draws everything out, and makes everything slower, long and complicated, which is perfect to keep the wheels turning... Conflict requires money, and keeps people and minds very busy. Conflict draws so many areas of life into its vortex. For many it's gives a meaning to life and in so many ways it is the spice of people's lives. There are conflicts happening at so many levels, even in spirituality.  Conflicts are a strong driver for a multitude of businesses and therefore it supports the economy, without it, the cogs of the machinery of nature just wouldn't turn so well.  The interesting thing is that conflict in the way things are set up in this world, is a necessary evil.  Conflict is needed yet it is carefully watched over, just so that it does not grow too much and become unbalanced and threaten the status quo of everything. There has to be people healthy and upset enough to engage in conflict. The conclusion we can draw from all of this is that when we are en...

Accept my pain is what some egos say. Especially self-compassion.  Accept my wallowing in suffering is what it really wants from others. It definitely doesn't want someone to say that my pain is 'nonsense'. Self-compassion is inverted anger. It above all wants that the pain we feel from failure to be understood, empathised with and accepted as valid.  This is because we are lacking at a given moment to accept that the cause of our present pain is something that is within us. As soon as we do that, that demand on others disappears. What is waiting to be done is for us to accept our own pain and not wanting others to accept our pain when it is not even theirs to have to accept. The definite test for awakening is when we are able to sacrifice our pain. Letting go of our pain is when we are able to walk away from sleeping in fascination and dream with our pain. End (6121).

The Third Logos or the Holy Reconciling force of the cosmos is a gentleman by nature. He is responsible for bringing two opposites together in such a way to create the new. That is why He is the sexual act or the sexual force that attracts the two opposites and produces the new from the coming together of the two opposites. Every gentleman is respectful and wise. What makes a gentleman a gentleman is his manners, politeness, respect, decency and a certain wisdom or discernment as well as discretion to know what is appropriate in the given moment. A brute or rough unrefined man who is stupid can not be a gentleman or even pretend to be one. That is why with the sexual act we are bringing the Holy Spirit into action and if we refine the sexual act and create the new inwardly we are enhancing the gentleman nature of the Holy Spirit. To bring the two opposites together much tact, wisdom, love and timing is needed. Which are all the qualities of the Holy Spirit. End (6125).

We make a leap forward in dissolving anger when we realise that it is of more value to use our force with love and wisdom than using the conditioned force that is anger which is just plain force without reason.  When we look at what the deciding point is we see that it is really all about time. When we use anger or conditioned force we get a solution quickly and when we use force, wisdom and love we actually take longer to get a solution. The solution of force, wisdom and love is a longer lasting solution and does not harm anyone. The thing to see is that using wisdom, love and force saves so much time and energy in the long run. Just analyse this. We don't have to apologize and we don't have to repair anything and we don't have to wait for our image to be redeemed or or for things to return to normal.  So if we have patience and are ok with time - we hold out through the time and we are not defeated by it we can win the fight over anger and dissolve it. End (6124).

Master Samael says that the " superlative consciousness of the Being resides inside the essence ". These words say a lot... These words say that there is an intimate relationship between the two, between beingness and consciousness. It is almost like consciousness is the heart of being and being is encompassing of consciousness.. For their to be consciousness there must be a being of some sort, so they have to both be intimately related.  There can not be a being of any kind without consciousness, without being aware to know that it is a being and having even a basic awareness of how to function within itself and in its environment? There can't be. So the Being can't be without consciousness.  The whole tree of life is the Being and Geburah the spiritual soul or consciousness is below the Logoic triangle, which is really the Being. Yet there can not be a being without consciousness. The tree of life tends to point out that 'to be' sits higher in the unfoldment...

It's an amazing thing that when we don't find love for our Inner Being and lack appreciation for our Inner Being we demand it from others and tell others - "you don't love me really" and we doubt secretly that they can love us and others are far more worthy of their love. All of this disappears when we begin to honestly love our Inner Being.  That is true that others may not love us for their reasons but that should not affect our love for ourselves and our Inner Being.  Continuing to love our Inner Being takes us to others that do love us. It is karma that takes us to people that don't love us for us to learn the lesson to love our Inner Being first before all else. As soon as we learn that lesson and love the Being within us those people change or disappear from our life. This mini-realisation is something from your own consciousness that provides the remedy to that question of the suffering of self-love.      End (6123).

Something that we want to do and progress towards may just repeatedly not work out because we have an inappropriate attitude about how to do it and why we want to do it. We find as soon as we embrace a new attitude what we are looking to do shows progress. An example, is that often we want to do something yet if we are wanting to do it for money, progress seems very difficult to make or the project remains blocked from us, both outside and inside. The quality of the appropriate attitude is one of genuinely embracing the project with one of the values. For example if one wants to write a book, one should do it out of genuine joy of researching, learning, writing and helping others forgetting totally about any financial renumeration. Afterall, if the attitude is egoic and it has never worked out, it is really silly to keep that using attitude to progress a project. End (6120).

When something is not working and we are not getting anywhere and the same disappointing result as always we need to do something different. There is no point banging on the same door expecting to get a different result. That is getting crazy. We have to do something different. Before we can come to the conclusion that there is a karmic impediment stopping us we have to try doing something different, that is approaching it from a different angle all together. The different angle will always be the choice of value that is superior in relation tot eh work and Being that the values used in the previous approach. That new choice creates a new plan and attitude within us which our interior Divinity and our Kaom and the Divine Law see, and the doors open. Things work and progress but the same door that is now open closes if we revert back to the previous values and approach. Our interior divinity can show us that right or adequate approach. Sometimes we have to ask for it and sometimes not. ...

Why that difference? How is it that we can accept some statements or implications from certain people but others say the same thing and we get upset? It feels mysterious as to why we can't accept some 'words' from certain individuals but from other individuals we can. We find ourselves say: "What is it about that person that just triggers me so much?". It is said though that nothing is mysterious with the psyche, there is a reason for everything. The reason why resides in the fact that we have an accumulated history with that person that has developed a concept or belief about them. It is really that belief that makes it so difficult for us to accept 'words' from them. There is the concept which is a tough one to get over then there is the implication of the concept, which in many cases can be even more difficult to get over. So there is a double concept or belief at play, which is why we get so triggered into an upset state. Let's see an example. Beca...

Walking the path is not about being perfect. Because that becomes a huge bottle that stagnates us and causes lots of suffering. In the long run it becomes a performance which deceives and stops the path. The focus of the path is not being perfect, it is rather in seeing our reality - exactly as we are. When talking about perfection and the path, the factor of perfection comes into being able to see ourselves as we are as perfectly as possible at that stage. Then after seeing ourselves as clearly as we can to then polish as best we can according to our capacities at that stage.  To then repeat that and repeat that...  To think that we have o be perfect hurts so much and that pain distracts us from the real work we have to do. To even come to see ourselves perfectly is a long process...  You know, here's the truth, to see ourselves perfectly we have to be NOT be perfect!  There's the paradox of how the consciousness walks on the path. End (6118).

It is a mistake of ours to identify with being 'wrong' or 'right'.  'Being' or the Being is neither wrong or right. There is not such a thing as a 'wrong' being or a 'right' being, or a 'wrong' person or a 'right' person. There is just a being that is, there is just being, that is a being that just IS. The Being in all of us Is present, Is alive Is radiating... We can get it wrong or get it right but that is so different to being 'right' or 'wrong' as a whole being. In fact no one is ever getting it right or wrong all of the time. Getting it right or wrong is not a function of Being it is rather a function of consciousness. As difficult as it is, we have to not allow ourselves to identify with being right or being wrong. In reality it does not make us better or worse in the Being or in our Being. Making a mistake or having thought wrongly is a chance for consciousness to work. That is all it really is in reality. W...

The interesting thing about wisdom is that by nature it sits on the side of negativity. Meaning that wisdom is gained from much experience of things going wrong. The understanding and knowledge of what went wrong is then used in the present to prevent things going wrong anew or again. That's why on the tree of life wisdom is the attribute given to Chockmah. The second logos is Chockmah which is also the Holy Denying. Wisdom essentially in its nature wishes to deny failure. That is what wisdom is essentially good for. In that wish of wisdom to deny or in other words prevent failure, there is mercy. That is also why Chockmah (wisdom) sits on the side/column of Mercy in the tree of life. Wisdom is also inert and needs to be completed by love or action. In the first logos the Father we see the Holy Affirming force and there is only the will to act. It is the supreme crown which means to author, to decide to bring froward. Then the wisdom of Chokmah is the there to shape what the Father...

It's a must really for our well being and for the work on ourselves to receive, be around and generate positive energy. Often when we visit others and partake in meetings with others we receive and also give a lot of positive energy. We come back home energised, optimistic and organised ready to continue forwards with renewed energy. This shows us how important positive energy is. This energy helps us in may ways in our work and overall emotional well-being. Experiencing the opposite (negative energy) it is really difficult to maintain our work at an upward angle and just as difficult to not allow our morale to lower. That is why when we go to help others who are experiencing negative states we need to make a greater effort within ourselves to keep that upward angle in our inner state. To help others well, we need to often take refuge within ourselves to regain that upwards angle and while helping others, it is 'a must' to remain warm but isolated, which in itself is a trem...

We are commanded to dissolve the egos we have. That's the task. How we go about it, doesn't matter so much, what matters is that we get there.  So if we don't walk a straight path towards dissolution but a bit back and forward and windy zig-zagged but we are getting there, what does it matter? What matters is that we are honestly getting there. End (6112).

We all gravitate and frequent places, people, activities and times of the day where we for some reason or anther truly relax. We actually come to value highly those times, places and people where we truly relax. We also understandably come to be quite attached to those times, places and people where we truly relax. We are not attached to the place, person or activity but the feeling of relaxation that we get. True relaxation means where we can be our true selves, be as we ae, relaxed into how and what we are. Where the tension of having to present as something is far far away. In normal life that is what we see so many people all looking for and finding it in so many ways. With the inner work deep relaxation is found most commonly in seeking refuge in the silence of our heart temple. End (6113).