Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Friday 20th of November AS of Friday the 20 th of November I will be busy taking part in a retreat. So I won’t be able to post anything new for a week or more. Though I will take along my special Livescribe pen that converts handwritten notes into text on my computer, so when I’m back after the retreat I will have heaps of material to post. Thanks Thanks again for reading and read more from me then. End (590).

Introduction Epigenesis is the faulty of creating circumstances which have not been experienced or created before. Usually our actions are conditioned by the past. Epigenesis is to generate a series of new causes which will by the Law of Cause and Effect create new effects. How The way to do this is by using our consciousness which is free from relativity and duality to generate the new causes. Use All the Bodies We tend to just think that our life is physical, but it is not really. It is vital, astral (emotional), mental and causal. We do not see this and so we don't bring those aspects down into the physical, or more importantly we don't use those other aspects for real effects and results. We have to bring all our bodies into an activity! We need the causal body to be brought down when we do for example a practice of mystical death. If we use the causal body to die mystically we will cause that ego to be different than what it was beforehand, or b...

Introduction We have envy to relate to our progress in all of our endeavours. Envy has a few different functions within our psychology and this is one of them. It is concerned with our progress. Envy Adapts Envy adapts to what we value the most. At one stage of our life we may envy those who bring home such and such a salary or have this and that possession, and later on when we enter the spiritual studies we may envy those who have obtained this and that or at this point on the path etc. Anyway if in the past we have created the ego of envy it will constantly look for things to be envious about. It won’t stop, it will mechanically compare and project the thoughts and feeling so envy. Envy usually acts with ill-will towards others and harbours a negative attitude towards those we envy. A Solution We tend to feel envy when we are not doing very well, when we are not progressing or seemingly not progressing. It...

Introduction Sometimes we can feel as if we do not belong in a group or in a relationship etc. etc. These feelings have an origin of course. These feelings could come from the impressions of rejection or disinterest from others or from some mental processes induced or flavoured by certain “I’s” that we have within us when we see that we are not so integrated. Why A big reason why we may feel that we don’t belong is personality. Especially if our personality is very different to others. Such as when personalities originating from different countries come together. Solution If we see ourselves not as a person or a personality but as an essence everything changes. We see ourselves as the universal material of life and others are just the same – an essence and then seeing things this things get better for us, those feelings of not belonging can slowly dissipate and we then relate to others very differently. We re...

Introduction I wanted to write this post just to put out there what I have come to understand and experience while studying Gnosis. Expectations We come to Gnosis with a few expectations, some that we may express openly and therefore know about and then there are some that we don’t know that we have. It is only later when certain things happen that come to discover these hidden expectations. The Lists I was thinking about what could be the best way to communicate my ideas in this post. The first thing that came to mind was a list. List 1 So the following list, is a collection of expectations that we can have when we start Gnosis and even have while we are studying Gnosis. Though the trick is that these expectations are ones that unfortunately can not be or are not fulfilled by Gnosis or a Gnostic school fully or even partially. We can though fulfil them but in a different way, which entails bringing Gnosi...

The Key Love! Things Seem Dry – Love is the Moisturiser Things can seem so dry at times, especially the three factors. When things seem and feel dry we tend to feel that just we need a break. Well sometimes a period of lesser activity is needed, which turns out to be good when after the break you realise that you are renewed and fresh and your enthusiasm seems to have increased. But if after the break we feel worse and more distant then it wasn’t such a good idea to have taken a break. Sometimes we can’t take a break so that is when we need to evoke love! Love makes everything smoother and easier and is the magic ingredient to give any endeavour a boost and true sustaining power. Love the Magic Ingredient If we do the three factors with love, the work in three factors becomes completely different. It actually does not make sense to do the three factors devoid of love when we really look at it. The first factor sometimes is hard and dry and we can lose sight ...

Introduction To conclude now the posts on pain is the last post. What Does pain Tell us Pain is telling us that we have a wrong or unbalanced structure within. We have created something within us that is not quite stable or is not quite in the right order of things and we to reach balance or the state of inner harmony we should have a look at ait and fix it up. Of course it is entirely optional we don’t have to do anything about it if we don’t want to. We somewhere along the line have made a mistake where we have placed some value on something that we should not have placed value on or that much value on. For example if we place our happiness on a person we are always going to be in pain. We have to place our happiness within ourselves. We have to allow ourselves to be happy when we want all the time. Not when others are happy and happy with us. This mistake or wrong action in our psychology leads to pain because others can not always be happy with us – impossible! So t...

Introduction There are physical pains that are severe and there are some that are not as severe. There are all sorts of severe physical pains that have to do with different parts of the body. It is said that child birth is very severe, a heart attack is also very severe, cluster headaches are severe, kidney stones and gallstones are also very severe. As with the physical there are also psychological pains that are quite painful as well. For example, being betrayed is quite painful, being lied too and deceived or tricked is also quite painful, being rejected is also quite painful, being ridiculed and criticised in public is quite painful and some kinds of failure can also be quite painful. Why are these Things so Painful The reason perhaps why these things are so much painful compared to other things is all due to the value that we place on these things and also the certain values that are involved. I all these things that are so painful it is usually the case that very ...

Introduction This is just a post to say that the next post will conclude the series of posts on pain. Next Post The next post will be on the worst or more severe kinds of pain that are felt in human beings and why. Thanks Thanks as always for reading and I just hope that what I have written has been useful in some way to you. End (582).

Introduction Master Samael says that in the essence there are particles of pain that belong to our Father who is in secret. He says that those particles of pain can help us in the realisation of our inner Being or Father who is in secret. All of Us Have Them All of us have these particles of pain dwelling in our essence. They sometimes can be felt when we are working with repentance and contrast. They propel us to work more intensely. They allow us to feel the harm that we have caused others, ourselves and our Being. Those particles of pain allow us to feel the need to change. Those particles make us suffer much when we can not change when we know that we have to change. Those particles release a very special kind of pain, one of the essence and the Father, which is different to the pain of the ego. This pain has a very deep feeling to it, a mystical feeling, an eternal feeling, an intimate feeling pertaining to one’s own responsibility and inner Spiritual parts...

Introduction If we are doing things that are not quite right and that inconvenience others and cause others some trouble. We have two options before us. One is for our consciousness to wake us up to what we are doing and then change our conduct or the other option is for the Law to step in and help us. Though when the Law steps in they may help by sending a spark of light to our mind and consciousness or they may send us pain. If we are very asleep they have to send us pain, in the hope that pain will wake us up. Law Helps The Law always helps us to have our conduct on track. Whatever pain we receive we send to ourselves. It is not that the Law sends it, it is us that brings it down upon ourselves. They always try to heal us by bringing us into balance. You know even our own essence may cry out for the Law to help us, because it knows that it can not help itself and so the parts of our Being, our Kaom and other parts work with the Law of Cosmic Karma to help us in any w...

Introduction No doubt we cause others much pain while we are asleep and while we have the “I’s” or egos very strong and alive in us. Magical Thing The really magical thing is, is that because we are all one, what we do to others we do to ourselves. Causing pain to you is the same as causing pain to myself. This is such an immutable law. If we heal another it is the same as healing ourselves now or later. Pain Caused to Others Comes to Us It is impeccable and implacable that if we cause others pain, the same pain will come back to us. Sometimes so very quickly and sometimes not. The more intentionally we do it the worse it is for us. If we did something unknowing and unaware we still receive pain back, and that is good because we need that pain to become more conscious of what we have done and what we do. Even if we do something to another who does not have ego or is not hurt by what we do or say we still receive pain. But a little less than if that person whom w...

Introduction Pain has to come out someway and somehow. Sometimes it can come out in doses over time or all in one big shot. And sometimes it is up to us how we take to it. We can just deal with it over short stints or we can take it to the full as far as we can go towards the end of it. When it Pain Comes Out Sometimes we can not do anything, pain may just come out very intensely and we have to do our best. Sometimes it can come out and disappear very quickly and it may disappear so deep within us that we can’t find it and we so easily forget about it, and even if we want to do more about it, it is very difficult because it is gone making it hard to penetrate into. Sometimes though we can do something about it and pull on it until more of it comes out. This is the situation when we have some control. This though is entirely up to us. Sometimes it is better that way we get healed and over it quicker with it not to repeat later in time. Conclusion There are times ...

Introduction There is that saying that goes: “no pain no gain”. This saying normally refers to some sort of physical training of the body. In many respects within the realm of physical training of the body it is true. Also it seems to be quite true in nearly everything else as well. Even in the area of spiritual growth. Because we know that if we do not make an effort we don’t really get anywhere. Pain to Come Out In our pain is hidden much potential for growth. Really the work on ourselves is all about really healing that pain that we have in one way or another. The pain has to come out in us for us to be able to see it and work to heal it. So with out that pain coming out we can not heal and therefore if we do not change or fix ourselves we remain as we are. That is our growth remains stagnant or stunted. The More Pain – the More Growth So really even though it sounds not very pleasant at all, the more pain...

Introduction Changing our attitude towards pain won’t make pain go away, it certainly won’t affect the physical pain. A head ache or an aching leg will still be there, and even insult or offence will still be there. Though what will change is the way we deal with it and what we do with the pain and how we conduct ourselves with the pain when coming into contact with others. What Changing our Attitude Does What changing our attitude will do is make it easier for our consciousness to work on our behalf to accept the pain and to look behind it to discover what is wrong and then fix what is wrong. The right attitude, that is being open to the lesson and seeing pain as a teacher or prepares the ground for our consciousness to work when we next feel pain. The right attitude allows us to deal with pain properly, it sets us up to be able to liberate it and to be able to not allow our consciousness get so bottled up or caught in it. Conclusion The right attitude towards ...

Introduction I think a very big step to do with pain is to see pain as a teacher! Truly that is what it is, it does not seem like that but when we look behind it we discover this truth that pain is a teacher. When we don’t look behind it and we just want it to go away pain is not a teacher it is a menace. Change our Attitude Towards Pain The tough fact is that pain is going to always be there is one way or the next especially when we have the ego and even when we don’t have the ego. Of course when we don’t have the ego pain will not be there as we commonly know it from the ego but there is always some kind of pain coming from the laws and restrictions in creation. Taught by Pain A lot of us are taught by pain. Pain has been the teacher of many people in life and on the path. It has produced some very strong and virtuous people. However, it has also destroyed many people. The only thing that is best when i...

Introduction Pain in us, that is psychological pain is a very big trap for our consciousness. We really get very stuck in pain. We tend to hold onto to pain for ages and wallow in it, think about it, carry it, protect it, defend and avoid it. Pain Rules our Lives Pain especially avoiding it, comes to rule our physical lives. In the sense, that we do so many things and don’t do so many things all to avoid feeling pain or more pain. Pain is like one of the bosses of our physical lives. For pain to move us around so much, we have to be thinking a lot about it and about avoiding it - especially how to avoid it. So pain is a big space occupier in our mind and of course much of our consciousness gets focussed on it and bottled up in it. Because we don’t understand pain we get stuck in it and get more stuck in it. Liberate it! Really the key is to always try to do something with our understanding and consciousne...

Introduction This is a topic all on its own. I topic I think is worth investigating. We normally are quite aware of our own pain and normally regard it as quite important. However, things are different when it comes to the pain of others. We normally are not very aware of the pain of others and we have the tendency to shrug off the apin that others feel. In fact we can often disregard the pain of others and we can quite easily fall into a sort of pride where we believe “others shouldn’t suffer or their suffering is silly and over nothing” and only our suffering is valid, worthy and makes us more distinguished, experienced, learned and hard done by in life, where we should receive more respect and consideration from others. Relativity From what has just been written it sounds a lot like we when it comes to pain, we see pain in relativity. That is our pain is important and yours or their pain is not important. In some way this attitude of relativity is behind many...

Introduction There are two types of pain when it comes to psychological or inner pain. One is the pain that is triggered from something outside of us and the other is the pain that is triggered from inside of us. Triggered from Outside The pain that is triggered from outside is the very common or typical type of pain that we feel. For example, we fail at something, someone says something about us, we have an argument, we are insulted, we are treated harshly, we are abused etc. etc. So in effect something happens to us and because of that we feel pain. Essentially he one or more ego in us suffers because f what has happened to us or someone close to us. Triggered from Inside This is the pain that can be more intense because it pertains to the way we relate to our inner Divinity. This pain comes from the realisation that we are not doing the best by our interior Divinity. When realise that are attitudes, actions, ill-will etc. are making our inner Being or parts o...

Introduction This is a very deep subject and I am only going to really only touch on one point, which is that pain is a teacher. Pain Appears, Stays and Goes Pain appears, stays and then goes. Most in us pain is usually on the way out – thank goodness right? It leaves us more than stays. But not all the time it can stay for a long time, sometimes very loudly for a short time and then very subtly after that for a much longer time. Why Pain Appears Pain appears because essentially something is not quite right in us. Pain comes to show us something, it comes to show us that something needs to be healed or addressed or taken care of inside of ourselves. Basically something needs to change or be dissolved, and as soon as it is, that particular pain won’t come back. Change our Attitude Upon understanding this point, we can change our attitude towards pain. We can see pain as something that wants our healing or wants us to change for the better, as something that w...

Introduction What I am going to do in the next series of posts is to present a post covering a point or two to do with the topic of pain. Not Physical Pain but Psychological Pain I’ll take this opportunity to say that I won’t be covering physical pain but rather psychological pain. I think with regards to physical pain that it should be treated as quickly as possible. Psychological pain should be treated as quickly as possible too, however for the treatment of psychological pain we don’t need a doctor or a therapist, we can do all of it or a very large part of it ourselves. Conclusion Pain is a very important subject actually. It is something very important because it is something that we all run into all the time. Normally we all fall down when it comes to dealing with pain or we either make great efforts to avoid it, and it that way pain can become the secret or silent boss of our life. End (570).

Introduction Normally we meet desire with the mind, and this from experience this has not worked out so good. The overall result is that the mind tends to keep us stuck or fixated on the desire. The mind will either accept the desire and then make plans or start thinking about how to realise the desire or the mind will reject the desire and keep thinking about it anyway but in a different way. It happens that the ore we think about the more we get stuck and we run the risk of either fulfilling the desire or feeling frustrated or negative, down and blue. Mind does not Liberate Overall the mind does not liberate us, it can prepare the way for us to get some liberation from the desire but ultimately it is our own consciousness that does it. A small realisation of our consciousness is enough to do it. Meet with Consciousness If we meet the desire being awareness or being our consciousness we can change the outcome. When we go to be our awareness we can see from a ...

Introduction It seems that what is first has to be awakening. Once awakened to some degree there must come death. When Awakened When one is awakened the ego can be there but it is not a problem. Because the awakened one will keep his or her essence or consciousness always at the centre, and the egos will be exiled to the outer edges of the psyche where they can not interfere with the central processes of the person. As soon as someone acquires some awakening, one attains an ability to separate from the ego, because they clearly know what they are. That is, that they are not the ego and so they can recognise the ego and separate from it. This makes working on the ego so much easier and actually more effective. Die Being Awake is Better It is much better to die being awakened. Because then one knows what one has to do, why and how. Conclusion There are definitions and degrees and degrees, and there are ...