Is Balance the Full Truth and the Full Love - (5937)

The really interesting thing is that balance is not the full truth. It is more the truth, it is stable in the truth and based in the truth, yet it is the wise combination of the two opposites which are truth and falsehood.

In a balanced reply there is truth yet there is not the full truth, there is an element of omission or flexibility.

A balanced response is the response required for the situation at hand, discerned by the alert consciousness.

Balance comes into a rendition of the facts by not revealing the detail of every second. Yet what is revealed is fully true.

More lies that truth can never create balance or stability in nearly all situations, yet in some extreme situations the lie stabilises by keeping us alive.

The same applies to love...

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Dark Psychology - Can't Justify Somethings - (5934)

Dark psychology as used popularly can be understood as the psychology of the subconscious.

Justifications exemplify the psychology of the subconscious really well.

The general modus operandi of the subconscious is the iceberg model. Where an acceptable visible layer is present while underneath there is the unacceptable reality. The visible layer looks fair and nice while the invisible is dark and ugly. 

The subconscious psychology works to present and while keeping the invisible hidden and undetected. The subconscious psychology uses many tools such as lies, excuses, justifications and anger to prevent the larger and invisible side from being seen.

The invisible side holds the real reasons for everything and it is larger in size and stronger than the visible surface.

There are some things that are difficult to justify. The default of the ego and subconscious is to try. When the justification is not accepted or is forcibly proven to be based on lies it is common that we get angry.

This is because we don't want to admit our errors and we don't want to change. Changing often means releasing a very strong will to do, have or be something.

It's difficult to see our errors, we feel angry with ourselves for having the error and we feel angry at others for shedding light on the errors.

We then become very bitter, negative and resentful. In essence, the "I's" of pride and self-love were very hurt. The aspect of pride that was hurt was the sense of being able to feel well with ourselves and the aspect of self-love that was hurt was the sense that we should have been treated more fairly or more considerately than we were.

The solution is to see the light presented and accept what we see and what has been exposed, and instead of feeling hurt confused that we are meant to be superior and above the error - feel grateful because we can now see more of our own truth and now we have the gift to truly change. Thanks to that new change that problem will never come up again.

Another transformative thing to do is to look forward to the new change that this discovery will bring. This is the psychology of the visible and of the light. Very different to the psychology of the dark and subconscious.

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Work Seriously and Diligently in Each Practice - (5933)

A key to help in our practices is to be serious when doing them and to work diligently during them.

Many of our practices go no where because we are not serious about them and we slack off during the practice.

The guarantee is if we work seriously and diligently during the practice we give the practice a chance to work for us.

We develop with giving seriousness and diligence. Even just giving those qualities will help us to progress, and these qualities are transferrable everywhere in life above and below.

"The only 'bad' practice is the one we didn't do."

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If Needing to be Fully Prepared, Feel Fully Fine - Never Will Start - (5932)

Waiting to be fully prepared, fully studied up, full of love and 'positive vibes' before we get to work on something or start something new, means that we will never start or never work on that project.

We will never be fully prepared or fully knowledgeable or feel full perfect good feelings.

We will never practice Alchemy if we are waiting to be fully in love and feeling fine with our partner. We may feel not so great but still practice. We practice for our Inner Being above human feeling side of ourselves.

We are not perfect Gods and to think that we are that is harmful. This way of thinking in all practicality leads us to stagnation and disappointment

Practice means progress. The statement "Practice makes perfect" is something that is well intended but it is not fully real. Because there will always be some kind of flaw and it is too much pressure and un realistic to think and expect ourselves to be perfect. We are the rough instrument - perfection is left to our Spiritual parts.

The realistic and best thing is to start as we are and improve and progress as we do.

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Violet Flame, UV Light and Divine Mother - (5931)

There is a lot of mention about the violet flame in many spiritual and esoteric books. Then there is a bit of mention about UV light and the superior worlds, leaving us who studying Gnosis scratching our head a little.

What if we were to say that the Divine Mother being an electronic force is related to the violet flame and UV light.

The Divine Mother is all the light of nature but in her aspect of Kundalini and Mother Death with the power to disassemble so as to free light, She is the ultra violet. 

Physically we know that ultra violet light is the one that burns and disintegrates and it is also the one that carries the highest energy. It is the one that burns the most and the deepest into things. Lightning is more white, blue and ultra-violet than any other colour of light.

It is a different experience to work with the Divine Mother in light and as light. The word 'die' often brings up some subconscious pain. To see the practice of dissolution as the same as bringing light and transformation instead, introduces a different feeling, and this is helpful.

The practice of Alchemy changes the destiny of the practitioner. This can be felt inside of the person. Because the transmuted energy enters into the cells and bodies of the person and it also goes to the Inner Being causing the Inner Being to have a quant of energy to do It's side of the work. The Inner Being armed so to speak, with this very special energy can then do something which inevitably changes the destiny and future of the person.

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Mental Clarity - A Very Important Thing Needed to Work - (5928)

Without mental clarity it is truly hard to work on ourselves. We need it!

When we are all congested and fogged up mentally it is so hard to see and remember our thoughts, let alone work on them.

This mental clarity is really a matter of energy hygiene. Keeping our head energetically clean is the key.

This cleansing effect comes via accumulation.

We start and continue and as we continue the more we feel defogged.

Work with transmutation and prana yama and the Divine Mother and the mantra S to clean our mental atmosphere, inner space and aura.

Salt baths, cleansing herbal baths and burning incense also help.

Doing concentration exercises after at least 15 minutes of mental silence also helps.

The most important thing is to avid negative emotions s they cause a lot of unnecessary mental activity and they accumulate a lot of negative energies in our centres and chakras which make our whole system congested and congestion brings haziness.

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We Are Not Gods Hence Psychology - (5930)

None of us human beings here are gods. We are human beings. 

This is so obvious yet we ignorantly treat others as if they are gods. We abuse and treat them harshly expecting them to still be ok, and what's worse we expect them to be fine with us and treat us kindly or the same way they have always treated us.

Well that way of thinking is out of order. Human beings are not like gods in that they are able to continue feeling ok after being abused.

Even people who are working on themselves are not gods. They are human beings working on themselves.

Hence we need to give others solar values and work with our psychology to work within the bounds of their psychology.

When it comes to working with the gods, we even need to give them our beautiful values. I don't think a god will help indifferently when there is one one who gives love and the other gives disdain. This is because the gods also work with justice, where love weighs more on the scale than disdain.

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Fantasy to Self-Knowledge - (5931)

The study of fantasy converts into self-knowledge.

This is because for every fantasy that we have there is a reason for it. The reason is mostly found in compensation.

Through studying any fantasy that we have we can find what it is compensating for. 

What the fantasy is compensating for tells us directly what we lack and what we need to develop within us.

The study of our fantasies are a guide to filling ourselves up with a real value.

Fantasy after all is an attempt at filling us up with something. 

Compensation works in duality. The fantasy will be the opposite of what we are.

A weak person will have fantasies of being powerful and dominant and vice versa.

The question to ask is what do my fantasies tell me about myself?

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Paint What You See and Present that for Dissolution - (5927)

When we are going to dissolve something in our psyche don't say anything about it, don't label it talk about it in your mind. Just present the feeling of it as you feel it and work on dissolving it with the Divine Mother.

That is where painting what we see comes into it instead of painting what we think.

The real thing is what we see and if we are presenting what we think no wonder why our dissolution is not too effective because there is no real target presented.

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Thank you for the Beautiful Comments About the Best Spiritual Image to Meditate on - (5923)

Here are the ideas from the readers:

• "There are so many beautiful paintings of the Divine Mother we can use as inspiration to reach the internal purity She embodies."

• "Jesus' death, the eclipse, entombment, earthquake, and union of his spirit with the earth's."

• "Roses blooming on the cross."

• "Our own Being."

• "Liquid water in whatever way one wants: a stream, a flow from a garden hose, rain on puddles, on glass, flowing over rocks; water as the thoughtful living medium of love and memory we exist in and sense everything through."

• "Paintings of Christ from the masters."

• "Recently the image of the Christ from the shroud of Turin has been helpful for me. Thanks."

• "Lovely post. I also enjoy the image of the sun, the Christ, milky way, of course Buddha, DM, kneeling in front of divinity."

Lovely suggestions and thank you very much for commenting.

Let's do them.

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Transformation from Things Come Up and Up from Deeper and Deeper - (5924)

When we focus on a project, obstacles are likely to appear. The interesting thing is to see the obstacles that come up from inside.

The obstacles come up from inside plentifully. One after the other. Thankfully, as we present them for dissolution the rate at which they come up slows down.

What is interesting to see, are the types of obstacles that come up.

They start off as very related to the project, and a bit later they still come up but apparently semi-related to the project. But with careful reflection these semi-related obstacles are deeply related. They are just more personal and intimate in nature.

The obstacles come up from deeper levels within us, and the deeper the level they appear from the more buried in time they are.

Choosing a project and seeing the obstacles one after the after, eventually brings obstacles from our past lives up to the surface for examination.

The way to cause them to appear is the dissolution mindset. Which goes like this: see them, understand them, and present them for dissolution. That is doing this with the determination to get past them quickly. 

When we get past the obstacles quickly there is space for others to appear.

If we don't dissolve the obstacles, the deeper ones can't rise up to be seen.

In summary, the keys are to take a worthwhile project focus on it, open up to see the obstacles from inside, dissolve them and open up again to see others, dissolve them, and repeat and repeat until there are less and less. By the time there are less, you will be focusing on obstacles related to the remote past.

Working on the remote past brings us all a lot of transformation.

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Encounter the Lacking in Ourselves from the Negative - (5926)

Knowing what we lack is an encounter with ourselves. Some may say it is an encounter with our shadow side. Either way it is to encounter ourselves.

Anyhow the point here is that what we lack will only come to our attention via the negative side of things.

Often the negative side of things could be a sarcastic comment, criticism, a reprimand, a fine, something not working out etc. etc.

All of those things are just helping us to encounter ourselves, that is, to see what we lack. At the end of the day it is all about ourselves and seeing ourselves.  

Whatever people say about ourselves is always reminding us of ourselves. The happier we are to meet ourselves and make some adjustments, the less and less of a problem it is.

The more we see that we are not perfect and we are working and working on ourselves, the less upset we will be about having to see ourselves and the more we will appreciate it.

(If we are forced to see ourselves, that shouldn't really a problem because it is our own selves. We see ourselves every waking minute. We could have a problem being forced to see someone else that we are not interested in. That is fair enough. The problem is that we don't really want to see ourselves and we are not really that interested in ourselves. To love ourselves consciously is the key to dissolve self-love.)

This bit of understanding can really help us to weaken self-love and anger. Be happy to see the lack in ourselves through the negative, is the start to transform the negative and the lack into a strength and the into the very positive.  

To see ourselves perfect is to love ourselves way too much in the impractical and painful sense. To see we are a huge work in progress is to love ourselves consciously.

To see others as a work in progress and we are all working towards fixing ourselves is to love other more consciously also. Expecting them to be perfect is insane and is a lack of maturity.

To see something as our fault when it truly is, is to see ourselves. Many of the lacks we have are our fault and the negative that comes our way is often our fault.

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Are We Giving in Every Area? - (5925)

The Divine is that as we give we will receive.

If we are not receiving what we need, it has to be that we are not giving.

But we usually all say: "But I am giving!".

We are giving, it could be though not in every area and especially not in some important areas that for some reason or another really count.

Often these areas that we are not giving in are blind spots and they really count more than we think and accept.

The best policy is to be giving in all areas and be giving more than receiving.

An simple audit of our giving and receiving balance in all areas of our life: spiritual work, health, physical work, home, family, relationships (friends), finances, environment, community, will reveal a lot to us.

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Rushing is a Very Negative State - (5922)

Rushing is a state that opens us up to many other negative states. Rushing is also something very characteristic of a low level of the Being.

I don't want to be judgmental. I so often see people in the city who are mentally unbalanced rushing here there and everywhere yelling this and that. Where are they going in such a hurry?

Generally people of a high level of being don't rush.  

Anyway getting back to ourselves when we are rushing it is because we have been irresponsible and we are worried, stressed and impatient. Such a combination leads to anger and an angry state leads to brash action.

Rushing also alters our nervous system and affects our energy levels and state of energy within our body. Especially our sexual energy.

Rushing leads to unwanted accidents at all levels, not just physically...

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Using Transparency to Die in Ourselves - (5866)

Introduction

Master Samael spoke to us about knowing how to die, how to suffer and I think about how to be silent.

To know how to die can mean to know the many ways that we can die, and when to apply those ways.

A really good way to die is to do practices that displace the whole 'myself'. Meaning to put aside the whole personal identity of myself.

A good way to do this is to be awareness, which is to embrace the following qualities: transparent, formless, invisible knowing.

This post lists some of the ways that we can die in ourselves by embracing some the qualities of awareness, namely transparency. 

If we know some of these ways we can apply them in the many different parts of our day and life.

Here is the list and some of the events in which they can be applied.

The key of this post is that for each of these situations there are particular attributes of the consciousness for us to embrace, and by being those attributes, we help ourselves to die with precision and to a very deep level within those events.

List

Listening

Listening with full attention brings much opportunity to die in ego-centric based distraction, and be only awareness with no personal interests.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Paying Attention

When consciously paying attention there is much that we can die in. 

Be like a still clear lake.

Essentially our attachment to ourselves and selfishness, which resists us giving over our full attention to the moment.

Focus on awareness, be formless in identity and be present. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Speaking

When speaking consciously we can observe much of our vested interests, much of our ill-will, much of our subjectivity (biases), much of our memory and much of the mechanical nature of our psyche.   

Be like a crystal knife cutting and shaping our words as they are being formulated. The knife of the consciousness.

Focus on alert awareness using it to see the consequences of what we are going to say and using it to correct to the process of forming our speech by formulating speech that adheres to reality.

Taking note of the ill-will, vested interests, applying on the spot letting go and taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Difficult Situations

Difficult situations as Master Samael said give us the best chance to die. That is totally true but we always have a tough time accepting that in the moment. 

Be like a river. The consciousness is like a clear river that flows ever onwards taking us to continuously through learning experiences and to experiences of new states of consciousness.

Focus on awareness, allowing ourselves to be like a river that flows, and flow with what we have to accept and do. Be consciousness repeatedly, helping ourselves to separate from the storm inside our centres.  

Taking note of what appears psychologically, repeatedly applying on the spot comprehension, and if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Walking

To walk like glass. Being only awareness, not attaching to anything and not giving attention to anything but that which is awareness. 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Social Events

There is so much that we avoid and get identified with in social events, 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Shopping

Be like a spotlight where we are focused on finding what we are there to buy, and where the impressions of all the interesting things in the shop do not enter our mind. 

Focus on a focused awareness, a line of light that illuminates essentially what we need. 

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension of need vs wanting as well as what is behind the sensation of having. If required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Praying

Be a fire, a source that radiates warmth which is life and light which is consciousness.

Focus on the heart as a source of light and love for the higher part of ourselves and others. Be the consciousness so that we can perceive all that comes into our awareness and not get distracted from continuing to direct our light and love inwards and upwards.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Remembering the Past

Be like air, something that is everywhere and something that does not get stuck. That sees yet does not become and does not get stuck.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and reacting.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Physical Job

Be focused awareness and caring for things done right. 

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Gnostic Class

Be awareness in its qualities of openness, inwardly explorative and transformative. Looking to bridge gaps and transform impressions through knowledge of ourselves.

Driving

Be both focused and peripheral awareness.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Eating

Be transparent transforming awareness. Extracting the best substances from the food we are eating and moving our awareness all through the body from the stomach to take the most advantage of the food being eaten.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate (eat less maybe).

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Meditating

Be a mobile light that moves in our interior and sees all that arises, witnessing it all and letting it pass while seeing into it to become more aware of what is in our mind and how our mind works.

Meditation gives us the model of what it is like to be our consciousness and what's more important is the way to repeat keep on being pour consciousness.

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