Introduction
Maat was known to the ancient Egyptians as the divine order through which all of creation was established. The main objective of this talk is mention the divine order in creation and describe in some detail the laws or principles that immediately affect us and how we can transcend them.
Divine Order
There is a we may not realize it an order to creation. There
are seven basic orders of creation or 13 dimensions to creation, which is
represented by the Kabbalistic tree of life. The law of three creates and the
law of seven organizes. The law of seven has in fact as we can see from various
studies in esotericism organized creation or formed the order present in
creation.
Laws
These laws: the law of cause and effect (karma), the law of
recurrence, the law of the pendulum and the law of entropy are the laws that
have the greatest influence upon our lives. There are three eternal things in
life: Law, Nirvana and space said Buddha.
In accordance with the spirit of Gnosis the most important
thing is to profoundly know and understand each law by studying how it affects
our very own lives. With this personal intimate knowledge comes the possibly of
freedom from it or the possibility of freedom from the negative consequences
which in the end are brought about by our ignorance of the law and ourselves.
As we spoke about in the first talk the most important law
is the law of balance, which is essentially the law of cause and effect.
By first of all receiving an explanation (best done through
examples) of the law and looking back over our lives we can see how our life
has been influenced or impacted by this law.
We can see how this law has worked in our favour and how it
has worked against us. By seeing both of these sides we are able to come to the
conclusion that it was our actions (what we said or did) that produced the
outcome of either happiness or pain.
In Gnosis there is something fundamental and that is, it is
impossible to separate one’s actions from one’s psychology. To every action
there is a psychological background. In Gnosis we say before any action there
is thinking, feeling and acting.
It is precisely this thinking and feeling that we wish to
talk about as the cause of our various transgressions or pain. Whenever we
break a law there is an element inside of us that has impelled us to break it.
Gnosis says as did the ancient Egyptians that the human being has a soul
symbolized by the scarab (Egyptian) and a pluralized ‘I’ or ego called the red
demons of Seth by the Egyptians.
It is never the soul or the consciousness in us that
transgresses or fails to see these laws in actions it is rather the
psychological ‘I’ in us that impels us to think, feel and act wrongly producing
the transgression and pain.
By becoming conscious of the psychological ‘I’ inside of us
that produces the error we can following a process of self-observation,
comprehension and elimination become totally free of the ‘I’ that impels us to
act wrongly and the negative consequences to do with breaking the law. We also as a result of this process or work
are able to pay the karmic debts we have accumulated over the years through the
action of this ego or psychological ‘I’.
Law of Cause & Effect (Karma)
This law ties consequences to our actions. Our actions are a
blank karmic cheque for the future, what we get paid in the future depends on
our actions. In fact it is a chain where an effect becomes the cause of another
effect and so on and so on. Because of this law every action or event in our
lives pleasant or painful has a cause or a reason. Karma is a medicine and the
best thing we say in Gnosis to do, if that medicine is bitter is to co-operate
with it and pay it, definitely not to fight against and make it worse.
Law of Recurrence
This is the law that produces the repetition of thoughts,
feelings, actions, events, dramas, problems, pleasures etc. Once an action has
been carried out the law of recurrence acts for the same events or action to be
repeated, for example we have recurrences with people, nations, places, events
etc.
Law of the Pendulum
Our whole life is ruled by the pendulum. Success and
failure, rise and fall, pleasure then pain are all expressions of the pendulum.
The swing from one extreme to the other, that is very visible in our personal
attitudes, in politics, in economics, etc are all examples of the work of the
law of the pendulum.
Law of Entropy
This law works on all human beings bringing us all down to
the same common denominator. For example death is the great equalizer a
powerful and wealthy man in life will after death turn to dust just as beggar
will. Death equalizes all the differences of life. So, more importantly if we
don’t change inwardly and positively the law of entropy will work on us
bringing our level of the being down to the common level in the environment in
which we are in. There we will begin to adopt values of an inferior scale that
we previously did not have. For example, we may begin to drink when previously
we didn’t.
Law of Octaves
The end is the same as the beginning plus experience. The
law of octaves rules our changes in life, whether it be positive or negative
changes. When we are working spiritually our progress moves through octaves. We
may have to overcome a certain type of difficulty one day and then another day
we will have to overcome the same type of difficulty but on a superior octave
or a more refined octave, or giving more. Even our recurrences worsen or weaken
according to the law of octaves. Many things are repeated in our life just on a
superior octave or an inferior octave depending on our degree of inner change.
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