Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Away Just to let you know, I will be away for about a month and so there won’t be any new posts until I get back.   I plan to take heaps of notes while I’m away so that when I'm back I’ll be able to write new posts with a fury. Hear more from me then! Take good care! End (952).

The Word Temple The word temple is derived from the Latin word for time, which is tempus. Why Time It is very interesting that time has been woven into the word temple. We all know that a temple is a certain place, even a physical building and it seems that every religion or spiritual/esoteric order has one. When we are inside a temple one thing that we are invited to abandon is time. That is the time that we use to carry out of all of our earthly duties and deeds. When we are in a temple time stands still, we are invited to go outside of the past, that is the things that we have done and outside of the future, that is the things that we still have to do. I say invited because we can enter a temple, any temple in a mechanical way and just stay there day dreaming until it is time to leave. It is a place where we abandon time to find time for ourselves. We are invited to forget about the mist...

What do Lonely People do? They work at their jobs a lot and work maybe even a second job, they have many hobbies, they read late at night, they watch heaps of TV and movies, they keep themselves busy downloading useless things that they don’t need, they get engaged in useless issues, they get a dog or a cat, they walk a lot by themselves, they seek people and social engagements, they like to talk a lot, they detain people from being on their way, they feel sad at night and in the mornings and so on and so on. All of this to escape that gaping feeling of loneliness or that feeling of inner solitude or that feeling of inner desolation. Expecting Something Interesting to Happen One interesting thing about what lonely people experience, is a feeling of waiting, waiting for something interesting to happen. Maybe there is something coming to their life or maybe it is telling them that they have to make something happen! Forge it blaze the trail become the author of their own dest...

Sorry Sorry about being so rude, I am only writing from experience. I am not targeting anybody (in the whole post) I’m just posting something I have experienced with this ego. When it Grows Self-importance when it grows just like every other ego it becomes quite harmful to us and others, and one place that it harms more than any other place is our mental health. Lust for example affects more than anything else our mental and sexual health, and anger - the health of our heart, fear - the health of our stomach and nerves, and so on and so on. When this ego becomes very big we start to suffer like crazy and think that whatever is said positive or negative is about us or for us, when of course it isn’t. We think that when a lecturer is talking he or she is talking about us or for us. We, for example see a bus with a message on it or a number on it and we think that it is a special symbol or message for us and we thin...

With Regards to Infra Sexuality The way infra sexuality begins is by the sexual centre breaking free from the reigns of the two other centres, namely the intellectual and emotional centres. This breaking away generates certain circumstances that leave their mark in the intellect and the emotion. “I’s” are then created that are complete in the sense that they use the three brains. Essentially in infra sexuality the sexual centre leads and using the “I’s” of infra sexuality, the emotional and intellectual centres are put to work in favour of the run away sexual centre. The sexual centre becomes a run away because of many reasons but some of the main one reasons are that the sexual energy accumulates and the egos of lust as they are centrifugal in nature, propose to solve this problem of the intensification of the sexual energy with the accompanying building impulses, sensations and feelings etc. by sending this energy outside by many means. Even people may use sex for...

How Others See Us We don’t have to see ourselves as we think others see us. But in truth that is also the way we see ourselves. We most of the time don’t really know how others see us. When we do know though, ow others see us, that is because they say so or somehow indicate it, we don’t have to see ourselves that way. In conclusion here what we think others think of us, it is really what we think of others and ourselves. It is really the same thinking process going on all the time though we are just not aware of it. Everything really is a projection of our own thinking. We don’t know what others think but we project what they are thinking based on what we think. When we don’t project we can see what there is to be seen. The Right Way to See Ourselves The right way then to think about ourselves or see ourselves is to see yourself as a consciousness and then to look at yourself through the eyes of your consciousnes...

About Geburah or Buddhi Note This description comes from a short talk that my marvellous missionary gave one day, these are my notes. Geburah Geburah, She is the messenger of Atman. She is the force of the consciousness. She is so beautiful yet so strong and powerful. She is the power of cognition and the power to shape and express the 'to be'. Buddhi or Geburah needs to gain the ability to actually shape things here in creation. Buddhi and Manas carry out the conviction of Atman. That is why they are his two legs and also his two souls at the same time. Tiphereth is also the medieval knight that fights for his lady - Geburah. This medieval picture of Geburah or Buddhi as a damsel in distress gives us the idea that Buddhi is delicate but she certainly has a strong side, especially as the consciousness. Master Samael said that to withstand the Absolute or the Tallity we need the consciousness to be as strong as a diamond. She is wisdom, beauty, elega...

A Discipline? Not Really! The way you can get your will back we think is to impose upon ourselves a rigorous discipline that relies on us using our will power to keep it going. This may help a bit but it fails! This is because we lack motivation, but more importantly because it does not address effectively enough the point of supplying us with more will. To get our will back we need more will not just to strengthen the will that we have. So where do you get more will from then? We get more will by using the little bit of will that we have to stop the things in us that use up or weaken our will. All these egos use up will, lust especially also pride. Just notice when these egos are active you don’t do anything. So if you invest the will that you have into stop them from eating or manifesting you will take will from them and get a bit more of your will back and the more you do it the more will you will ...

A Buzz We get a buzz when we fantasise about doing something or being something and that feeling of the buzz or high keeps us dreaming. The emotion that is generated is like a pleasing high but after the fantasy we glimpse reality and come crashing down. While fantasising we are fine and things seem great but afterwards it is always the same - things crash. High or Buzz Maintains Fantasy What keeps us fantasising is that high or buzz that we get in our emotional and intellectual centres, when we dream that we are doing something or being something good. If we didn’t feel the high or buzz we would stop fantasising! There is a payback for everything even fantasies and thoughts and feelings. Know Something Well do you know that if we do, act, carry out, learn, start, live and be we get the same buzz and satisfaction without the crashing down, disillusioned, hopeless feeling that always appears after we fantas...

We Think Others Should Care They don’t really, they may listen but deep inside they know that it is an ego complaining and they know that you are better than that and can overcome it and so they don’t mind. They may care a little but not as much as we would like to them to, that is more the case. They care but not as much as we want, and besides there is not too much that they can do without our co-operation anyway, it is ultimately us that gives and applies the solution. Truth is – Only you Really Care Only you really care about yourself and about your Being and about getting yourself on track and better in all the senses and improving your psychological work. Then Fix Yourself up No one Else will do it! That is the principle of our Being, self-generated, self-transforming, self-realising and so therefore self-healing. We have all done this and we will all continue to do this. So we have to join the party and do what everyone else does even if it seems cruel, e...

We are Sentimental We are quite sentimental people and we often think that if we stop thinking about people we are somehow going against them or harming the relationship that we have with them. Sentimentalism is always corrected by opening ourselves to see the realities and truths that surround us and people. In Reality In reality none of the above is true. It in fact is sometimes better to not think about people. Why? Because we may not know it but a lot of our thinking towards people even friends is negative. And after not thinking about people we give our system a break where we feel renewed and more enthusiastic to see them, talk to them and spend time with them. Thinking about them sends telepathic waves that can affect them but not thinking does them no harm at all. Conclusion We may think that the relationship that we have within them on our part within us gets weakened. It may well do, but t...

About Wisdom Wisdom is a remedy. Wisdom is what gives us a balm to our painful heart. It is also what soothes the soul. It is what brings us solace. It is what gives us the solution. It is what calms us. It is what changes things within us and it is what transforms our life. There is the tree of wisdom which releases an atom of wisdom at a time for us to absorb into our system, it has to be this way - gradual. It is light or consciousness or part of consciousness is wisdom. It is the self-revelation of the teachings, it is truth or knowledge or teachings revealed by the consciousness to itself. It is self-revelation. It is truth apprehended by the consciousness. Wisdom is different to knowledge, where knowledge mainly dwells in the mind wisdom is what becomes a part of you, that is, it is what integrates into your own Being. We usually say he or she is a wise person indicating that the...

Silent Flute or Circle of Iron? The movie starring David Caroldine and originally written by Bruce Lee is really worth watching and is full of lessons. This post is about one lesson to do with lust. The Scene Cord the seeker faces his next trial “the rose in the dessert”. This trial has all to do with lust. Cord finds himself in front of a very beautiful, accommodating yet tempting Tara who is married to Shamsa. Cord has been travelling alone for many months or years and is tired and has endured many hardships along the way and Tara’s offer of companionship, affection, pleasure and comfort are too much for him to resist, so he succumbs to her offer. The Lessons Lesson 1 After cord has spent the night with Tara he awakens the next morning in a desert on the bare sand and all the people, tents, animals, festivities etc. are gone, nowhere to be seen. . This is a very important symbol because it tells us that what awaits one when one gives into their lust forgetti...

Strong Hypnotic Ego When an ego is manifesting very intensely in our human machine and it hypnotic grip is firmly upon us, one very powerful thing that we can do to get it to release its grip is to question everything that comes out of that ego. Thoughts, Feelings and Words Question the thoughts asking yourself “is that really true?”, “is that absolutely true?”, “what’s so bad about that?”, “what’s so good about that?” and “is that that important?”. To be hypnotised is to believe in something that is not true. So we have to find out the untrue belief and then when we see that it is not true we will get some more freedom. Question everything that comes out of that ego with intensity as if you are looking for its falsity. We suffer because we don’t accept or see reality. Our interior nature – our essence or is the truth and knows the truth and when we are against that interior nature – our essence believing something false we suffer and feel pain in all its variety ...

Feel Awful? We have a lot of expectations and we wish that others fulfil these expectations. When others don’t fulfil them we get usually angry, upset or disappointed. Why do we have them? Answer: For us to Fulfil them The real reason why we have expectations is something that people don’t often see and the real reason is for us to live them out. However we get it wrong and expect that others do them, so then we become very controlling and demanding and unreasonable at times. It is really our philosophy that is there for us to live out and not to force toehrs to live it. How can we force others, we can’t and if we try we upset others, make their life miserable and make our life miserable at the same time. Conclusion Live out your expectations for yourself that you have of others! Give what you want to receive, including give to yourself! Be the change that you want others to make! End (938).

Feel Awful? When we feel something from an ego that we don’t like turn your sight inwards! Gnosis says the answers are inside of us, in our psyche and consciousness. Make this work! Get your answers! Use your will to make it work! How? Just do it! Get the answers and be free! I quite like the image below. It is good for self-remembering. End (937).

Introduction There are people nearly everywhere that see, feel and hear things and have this and that type of fantastic experience. During meditation they see lights, auras, images, angels, pyramids you name it. So what is going on with them? They Lost their Consciousness They have lost their consciousness but their faculties remain, they are fallen and so in doing this they have lost the consciousness related to that faculty. They what’s they don’t understand what they see, hear and feel and they tend to see things that are off on a tangent to what they are doing. So say we are all meditating on dissolving pride they end up seeing trees and swirling lights which have nothing to do with the task at hand. Their faculties distract them and because they have lost the consciousness to manage and understand them their faculty bothers them and unbalances them. They all end a little strange, talking about airy fairy spiritual things in the most inappropriate moments. C...

Introduction We can even meditate on people so to know our connection with them from the past. Work an Ego in Relation to Someone We can work on an ego in relation to a person, and sometimes we really have to do this. Because with this one person we can have a lot of egoical history such as fears and resentments etc. Past Lives Practices in Relation to Someone We can also bring a person into our past life practices as well. Doing the past life practice and then concentrating on the person asking the Divine Mother to show us how the relationship was in the past and what events took place to have shaped these feelings and emotions that we now have. This knowledge if we come by it will certainly help us in understanding our psychology in relation to that person. End (935).

Thank goodness for that because that means that what you feel now in the present was created before and therefore is the past. Knowing the present profoundly we get to know the past. This means that much of our past lives are in the emotions that we feel now. The psychological is always the door to the esoteric, this is because it is the bridge between the esoteric and the physical. So want to know the esoteric start at the physical and then progress to the psychological and reach the esoteric. End (934).

Introduction What is wrong hurts and what is right doesn’t. That simple. There are times in our psychological work that we seem not to be able to understand or see that something is wrong. One Way to Know Which is Which One way to know that something is wrong is to look at its consequences in two fields, what happens inside of us and what happens outside of us. If we hurt as a result as a result of what happens in either of these fields then it is wrong. Consider this example. An Example We may not think that to have a beer now and then at 100pm at night is wrong. We say it is not hurting anyone, I am drinking it in my house, no one knows, I feel apparently ok etc. If one is to look into this deeply one may feel inside of him or herself that one is faltering in their personal will and not doing their best in relation to their work and heir Being and so one deep down feels low or disappointed. See hurt equal wrong. Consider the Consequences The othe...