Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction Master Samael said in one of his talks that the sexual centre is a centre of gravitation. Which is at first, quite a strange statement and invites one to reflection. What Does this Mean? It means actually that the sexual centre is unlike any other centre in that it has some very different properties than the other centres. It essentially means that the sexual centre has the power or special characteristic to become a centre where things, events, circumstances, people revolve around it. It has the power to draw things into it and to it. The other centres of the human machine such as the emotional, intellectual, motor and instinctive centres don’t do this. Conclusion Master Samael says that many social events revolve around sex or have their centre of gravity in sex. This may be taken wrongly, in the sense that people reading these lines may think that the sexual act is involved or that ...

Introduction Duality is a very large conditioner and nearly everything except our consciousness is conditioned by duality or conditioned by virtue of the opposites. Temptation to Bring Out Contradictions Temptation is seated in duality. It is like temptations are there to bring out your inner contradictions so that you unify yourself, that is unify yourself in the ego or in the Being. We are really only tempted when we are fighting or struggling between the two opposites of the duality within the temptation. Wherever there is duality the re immediately is relativity. For someone a temptation is not at all a temptation because they just naturally chose the ego without a second’s thought and some may chose the Being or the essence without a second thought. Use Duality We can use duality to our advantage when we face temptation. If we see all that we will acquire or experience when we pass a temptation we see temptation as a chance to win something new. The big key is ...

Introduction This excerpt from Eliphas Levi, reveals how important balance is. For me what this excerpt reveals is that there are two opposites or two different qualities and when you bring them together in balance you create something very different to both of them and that something different is a magical quality that is of the Being and the consciousness and is a quality that is most useful in life and esotericism and it is a quality that creates harmony. The following excerpt comes from a book titled “The Great Secret” by Eliphas Levi. The excerpt is the first thirteen paragraphs of chapter VII. Excerpt “The whole power of magic is in the central point of the universal equilibrium. The wisdom which strikes this equilibrium is contained in these four dicta: know the truth, will what is good, love beauty, do what is just! Because truth, goodness, beauty and justice are inseparable; so that he who knows the truth must n...

Introduction This is one passage from Eliphas Levi is one that at least I found myself understanding, rather than the perplexed feeling (going straight over my head) I get when reading Eliphas Levi. I found it very illuminating actually concerning the nature of pleasure. The following excerpt comes from a book a very good friend gave or lent me (have to ask him – maybe he only lent it to me) titled “The Great Secret” by Eliphas Levi. The excerpt is the first four paragraphs of chapter III. Excerpt “Pleasure is a foe which is fated to become either our slave or our master. To possess it we must fight it, and before we can enjoy pleasure it has to be conquered. Pleasure makes a charming slave but a cruel, pitiless and murderous master. It tires, exhausts and kills everyone it owns; after cheating all their desires and betraying all their hopes. Servitude to some pleasure is called a passion. Domination over some pleasure...

An Aspect of Temptation Temptation is about getting something, what makes the temptation powerful is that there is something to be gained or obtained. The greater the desire for that attainment or the more important it is to us, the greater the force of temptation will be felt in us. We have to know or see that that there is something positive to gain in not giving into to temptation. Missing Out Usually we feel that we are missing out on something or loosing something. If we see that we are gaining something when we triumph over a temptation then we can actually give ourselves a better chance in actually triumphing over or not succumbing to temptation. To counteract this we have to contrast what we will gain by not succumbing to temptation and what we are denying and what we will lose if we fail. So it is to do the opposite of what the temptation has us do. Conclusion See the side of triumphing, see th...

Introduction The main engine of self-love is fear. Deep down in self-love is the fear that we will lose the love of the person or that we will lose love itself. Love can not be Lost If there is love, it won’t be lost. Love is a quality of our being and so we can not lose it. Fear This fear is what moves us and what makes us feel real panic and anxiety. It is behind the search for confirmation, for verifications, for further insults and further demands. It is what really propels the ego of self-love into action. It is felt as a strong pang and it combines very well with the belief that we feel we can not live without the other person, which of course is not true we will continue to breathe, eat, walk just as we did when we were born. End (803).

Introduction Hatred as far as I know is not an instant thing. It develops inside one, and it does not appear without reason. A cause for hatred can always be found, it never just appears without a reason. This is what this post is about, explaining a little about how hatred in human beings comes to be. A Process – Good News! Very briefly, hatred develops inside of us according to a process. That is, it has a beginning, and in the beginning it is not hatred but something much less intense, furthermore it may not even seem like hatred in the beginning, it may feel like pain. Left unchecked this beginning develops into something else and with our wrong intervention or lack of intervention it develops and continues to develop transforming from one thing to another until the feelings of hatred are felt in the person. This is very good news, because it means that we can catch the beginning of it before it becomes hatred, and if we didn’t happen to catch it we can reverse ...

Introduction Sometimes I wonder what would Master Samael feel if everyone abandoned him and rejected him. If all the masters of the white lodge and the human beings turned their back on him, what would he feel? (A very silly thing to think because why would the Masters of the white Lodge reject such a Being or Master in the first place, human beings could reject him because they have many “I’s” that accept and reject, but for argument's sake lets go with it.) The answer is that I am not completely sure, I can only imagine that in such a Master that has no ego, he would not feel as the ego feels. Such a Master has his Being and is one or very close to his Being, and the Being is one with the absolute and all the other Beings. So where would really the rejection be? No Rejection at the Deepest Levels of Being It seems that at the very deepest levels of the Being there can be no rejection and therefore no rejection can be felt. So if such a Master lives very deeply...

Pray and No Answer Sometimes we pray for an answer and we get some sort of guidance or warning or indication of what to do, but then are times when we pray and pray and we don’t seem to get any answer. I’m sure that most of us have passed through this experience. Why? It could be that the answer or guidance that we want has to come from within us, or in other words it has to be the human part (us) that decides as we will bear most of the consequences of the decision. When we receive no answer, instead only a very quiet and peaceful feeling when we ask, then it is because it is up to us, and that it is us that must decide. This is hard sometimes, because we would rather not go through the hardship of making that decision and would rather receive a clear order from someone else or even better the Being or the masters. But we just sometimes have to bite the bullet ourselves. End (800).

Apparently Not Apparently Gnosis has not made its way to Norway yet. Which is a shame. It seems that a very large portion of the population speak English in Norway and Gnosis is quite well developed in the English language, so there would be a bundle of material available to start with. Gnosis in Scandinavia It is always a question as to how a new country will take to Gnosis. Norway being part of Scandinavia, I wonder how the Scandinavian mindset or personality would take to Gnosis. Scandinavian People and Gnosis The Scandinavian people are known to be a little cold in their nature, however this means that Gnosis would or could grow slowly (not like a raging fire) but what is more relevant is that the people are mature enough to recognise the need for such a knowledge and I think that they are. There is a high level of being in Scandinavia and certainly the sexual mysteries could help them a lot, because perhaps t...

Answer Because we decided it some time ago, maybe we don’t remember but we decided upon it. We may not have told anyone or even verbalised it out loud to ourselves, but none the less we made a decision some time ago, perhaps 20 years ago that has lead us to be where we are now. If we are unhappy right now, then perhaps we made the wrong decision. You know we made that decision because we didn’t have the wisdom or experience of the consequences of having made a decision like that before. So all in all we can’t blame ourselves. Things are different now, we have this wisdom. So in the future or in the next life we won’t make such a decision again or at least not so lightly. With this wisdom now we can help others and we can help ourselves, because there may be a way out of it. How do we get out? Well easy, if we decided to get in, then it can all be undone by deciding to get out. After all that is what we do when we work ...

Introduction Sometimes we can feel really low for this or that reason, perhaps due to the consequences of something that we have done or perhaps due to some impressions that we have received from others. GET UP! Whatever it is, we have to say to ourselves: “GET UP!”. Then we have to get up and fight again. We feel weak and it seems hardly worth even trying, the same applies: “GET UP!”. If we have erred along the way, we feel demoralised, ok feel demoralised but “GET UP!” all the same. Fight again! Acquire momentum, small steps look ahead with true optimism because this real: our fight will wash away the consequences and debts from our errors. End (797).

In Better Condition When we are in a better condition, that is without an internal state brought on by vices or we are not bearing the weight and charge of mistakes, the elementals of nature are more willing to help us. After all it has been said that they respect the noble qualities of the soul. When we have thoughts of vice or very egoic thoughts or we have very prominently in our vibration or aura the charge or weight of mistakes, insults, offences, lust, lying, deceit etc. we can’t concentrate or communicate or work effectively with the elementals of nature. It is like we are psychically bounced away from them. We can approach them or enjoy the elements physically but psychically we are buffered or blocked. We need to correct ourselves and wait. Seek Contact with Nature’s Elementals To seek direct contact with the guru deva of your city’s river is worthwhile and is very interesting. A city’s river is very special actually. This is because it is the heart or centre...

Introduction In short, most certainly you should try it. No harm will come to you. You may feel fear first and as soon as you see that it is something natural and the feeling of magic and wonder will awaken in you, and you will look forward to the times with great excitement where you may be able to astral travel. The following excerpt from Master Samael explains that there is nothing to fear when it comes to astral projection. We certainly can not lose contact with our physical body by astral travelling. This is because our astral body or consciousness is connected to our physical body by the silver chord and the silver chord can not be easily cut. It is only the angels of death in accordance with Divine Law and the Cosmic Mother that can sever the silver chord or antahkarana (Sanskrit name of the silver chord). This is done, at the moment that has been destined or determined by the Great Law. So in short astral travel won’t make our time come any sooner, it has already be...

Introduction This article presents a very thorough explanation of what dreams are and how they relate to astral travel. The short answer to the title of this article is yes, dreams are astral experiences. The only difference is that our sate of consciousness during a dream is not as lucid as it is in a conscious and positive astral unfolding. There are dreams which are majority, are simple mental projections that are projected while we are out of the body and our consciousness not being alert enough identifies with the images and remains fascinated by the projections of its own mind the whole night until the body wakes up. The main feature of this article is the following excerpt from the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac by V.M Samael Aun Weor. Excerpt on Dreams “Gnosis teaches that the modern, decadent psychology of the Western Hemisphere is ignorant of the various kinds of dreams that exist. Dreams have a diverse and...

Introduction This article is an attempt to describe what astral travel, astral unfolding or astral projection is and of course to provide you with some practices to experiment for yourself. Astral Travel Definition Excerpts The following excerpts describe what astral travel is and how it can be done. “Before we go into these ideas in more detail, let me say this. To an occultist, the act of astral projecting entails transferring one’s consciousness to the astral body and exploring the astral plane. “ Excerpt from: “ What is Astral Projection ”, by Donald Degracia “It is not dangerous to project the astral body because everyone goes out in the astral body while sleeping. Whoever wants to awaken consciousness during sleep must know the key of “discernment.” While sleeping, every human being moves in the internal worlds with the consciousness asleep. The soul, dressed in its astral body, abandons the physi...