Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Light Costs We can pay, for the light in two ways. One way is to give light to others to others and the other way is to wok to receive it. We can also do both at the same time. The second way of working to receive the light is better and combining the two is even better still. Our Light Light is extracted from our darkness. Our darkness is transformed into light. The light illuminates our darkness. Our light shines and is seen in our darkness, but not by our darkness. Our light can dispel our temporary darkness (negative states). Our light can be focused in order to penetrate. Our light conveys information to us and from us. Our light when it is not bilateral or multilateral casts a shadow. Meaning, if our light which is consciousness does not see both sides of duality a shadow is cast. End (1626).

While we were lazy yesterday and felt the results, our experience of yesterday would have us make a sacrifice today, to make today different to yesterday. Wisdom isn't wisdom until we live it. As soon as we make the sacrifice today that we couldn't make yesterday our wisdom breathes life. End (1626).

Prayer is Wide in Expression Sometimes we think of prayer as only being us kneeling down somewhere and focusing on a part of our inner Being or an illuminated Being: an Angel, a God for example, or the Cosmic Christ or the Eternal Father-Mother of us all. Prayer is much more ample than that… Though that is certainly prayer, and what we do in our life for our inner Being and the essences of other Monads is also a prayer. Because through these actions our prayers can be fulfilled. We acquire the merit to allow our prayers to be fulfilled this way. Prayer in Action Working on ourselves, trying to keep our consciousness active, observing ourselves with the purpose of changing, asking for help from our Divine Mother are all prayers in action. In Nature To go to a park or into nature and to express your joy to be there and to appreciate all that is before you, even that is a prayer because you are conversing wi...

Introduction This is a decision that we can come to consciously make at one point or another in our life. I think that it is worth doing. It can change your life and the quality of your life!  One Side is Better One side is better to live out than the other. We may make this decision unknowingly in life and after realising one day that we have opted for one side, we can always reverse it and make a new decision, this time benefitting from the experience we have gathered in life. Sun For sure though to decide to be here to give love is to set yourself free. And to be like the Sun. Moon To decide to want to receive love is to set up before yourself: periods of dependency, anxiety, stress, dissatisfaction, lacking and empty feelings, insecurity all especially if we identify with receiving love. It may also mean that if we do love in return it is relative to the love we receive” “you don’t love me I d...

2 Years - 27th of March I have wanted to write a brief tribute for a while now, in fact for two years. For the previous two years (2015 and 2016) I ended up being late, but for this anniversary I find myself more or less on time (well a little late). So here goes... So two years ago on this day, the 27th of March 2015 Shirley Painter, a Gnostic missionary passed on. I often think of her for a special reason: and that is to draw strength. There is no doubt that Shirley was a strong person, a person that possessed firmness of character, a person that was tenacious and a person that had amazing courage right to the very end.  Very honestly it is very rare to find anyone else as real and of this current day that showed as much courage, openness, loyalty to Gnosis and the work during such a time, as she did. For my part she is well deserving of many a Gnostic tribute, because she gave us a marvellous opportunity of being able to explode our hearts with prayer and then la...

What is Wrong Later Becomes Right What is wrong at one point in one’s work or path later becomes right at a later point, and vice versa. This seems to be a given in our work and path, it always happens at one point or another. It is a strange thing, you fight really hard to establish within yourself certain gravities and understandings and then those things have to be let go of later on. To not let go of them means stagnation in our work and path. Just as to not have created them meant no progress earlier on. Why? This is because of relativity. This does not apply to things that are absolute such as the different values of the Being, namely sexuality. For as long as a person is working towards their inner Being, to lose the sexual energy will always be wrong. End (1622).

Introduction Master Samael mentions in many places the ‘I’ of self-sentimentalism. So what really is it and what does it mean in practical life terms to have it? I would just like to say that working on this ‘I’ Master Samael says one is able to create the psychological moon and remove much drama and suffering from one’s life, and drastically improve the way one relates with others. What is it? It is to feel sentimental towards oneself through others. It is not really to feel sentimental towards oneself exclusively by oneself and for oneself. If that were the case one would be quite well off. This ‘I’ of self-sentimentalism instead expects others to feel sentimental towards ourselves. That is why it gets upset with others all the time, when others are tough and rough with us and don’t like us or simply don’t regard us as poor, little and needing help etc. etc. In short, it has its reference point for sentimentality in others. If we were self-sentimental with thi...

Introduction There is an element in our psychology that is about "having". It so turns out that this element is not particular to one particular ego, it is actually common to several or more different egos. This element actually links these different egos. This is good news becasue if we work on the "Got to have" element we can weaken several egos all at once. "Got to Have" Lust is a lot about possessing and so is greed, as is gluttony.  When this "got to have" element is strong in us we end up continually buying multiple versions of the same object. Like buying one watch, then another and another and yet another.  Greed, lust and gluttony work incessantly in this way they always want one then a new one, then another one etc. etc. All because the ego receives a new impression and then gets impressed and says "I got to have it".  "Don't Have to Have". In reality we don't have to h...

Unbalanced Inner Scale When we do something harmful to another or we receive something hurtful from others or we develop an inner negative state, we inevitably affect our inner set of scales. In other words we unbalance ourselves. The effect of having our inner scales unbalanced makes us to feel many things, but in general I would say unwell. Can't Escape it! We may do something wrong and nothing negative or restraining or constraining comes to us from the outside, and we think that we are fine and have gotten away with it, but our inner scales have been unbalanced and here is where we will pay. Sometimes this way of paying is much worse... But remember this inner negative process is the result of our own actions, we did it to ourselves and so we pay have to pay for it or correct it. How the Inner Scale Rectifies Itself Within Us Feeling guilty, feeling restless, feeling anxious, feeling unwell, thoughts that torment and nag us, difficulty in sleeping and eating ...

Karma from Outside and Inside We normally see karma as something coming to us from the outside, in difficult circumstances, people treating us badly etc. However, karma comes at us in two ways: from the outside and from the inside, and it is the inside way that we ignore but at the same time we are severely affected by it. The next few posts will be about how karma works within us. Why an Inside Way Because what is outside is also inside. We are a Universe in miniature. When we do something harmful to an individual, a group of individuals or a nation of individuals, the cosmic scale becomes unbalanced, and balance always needs to be restored, so some balancing action will be processed to bring back the cosmic scales into balance.  The cosmic scales are being balanced and unbalanced from instant to instant. As there is a cosmic scale we have to all have an inner scale as well, and certainly we do! End (1618).

Bored When we get bored we look for entertainment, which is usually something new in the old. That is, usually something that we know excites or pleases the senses or the centres. Mystery The consciousness by its nature is light and light always seeks out darkness to illuminate it. Light also penetrates into the darkness wherever there is an opening. So our consciousness feels an excitement, a purpose the sense of new and awe when it begins to penetrate into the darkness and illuminate it. This is revelation and this is a joy. Because revelation frees, clarifies, unveils the mystery and deepens: purpose, appreciation and understanding. If Ever Bored If you are ever bored look deeply into the moment with your consciousness to unveil a speck or more of the mystery and experience the new. End (1617).

A Big Mistake with People is to Think they will Always be the Same A mistake that we can make in relationships is to get attached to the particular way that a person is towards us. All things are impermanent and are subject to change. Relationships are no exception to this. There is an inner bell curve in each of us where things begin, reach a peak and then trail off to end. Relationships like so many other things follow this bell curve. It happens with the way people behave towards us and so it is a mistake on our part to get attached to any section or part of the bell curve. It is not even our fault most of the time, things just do change, relationships do follow the bell curve. When the end of the bell curve is reached the relationship can take on another higher octave, once again following the bell curve. Conclusion Don’t get attached to the way anyone is with you because it will change. D...

Introduction My marvellous missionary teaches that in the ego of Pride are the core values of dignity, majesty and balance. Significant This knowledge is very significant. Because it reveals to us what is at the heart of Pride. Each Ego Hides Core Values It so happens that each ego has at its core certain values or properties of the Real Being. The ego is a conditioned way of manifesting these values. It so happens that the ego is these values processing themselves in relativity and duality. So then, pride is the processing of the values of dignity, majesty and balance in relativity and duality. Advantage of Knowing the Free Values Knowing the values of dignity, majesty and balance in some depth will allow us to make I would say considerable headway in the comprehension and therefore dissolution of pride. Knowing how these values of dignity, majesty and balance process themselves freely by the...

Introduction Everyone has their dignity and is in some way aware of their dignity. It is usually thought of in the way we are treated. To be treated like a dog or a cat is to be treated for example, we say, against human dignity. Within dignity there is a value system or system of inherent worth. The recognition of those values determines what is appropriate or not. Dignity is a lot about what is appropriate or not. What Enhances the Essence Some activities have a higher level of dignity. Esoteric and sacred objects, activities and practices carry inherently a high value system. Therefore, these activities are more dignifying. There is a teaching from my marvellous missionary that says "dignity is what enhances the essence". Naturally what does not enhance our essence is against dignity. To act with dignity is to act with high human and spiritual values. Dignity is the knowing and appreciation o...

Dictionary Definition of “Sex” Online Etymology Dictionary. late 14c., "males or females collectively," from Latin sexus "a sex, state of being either male or female, gender," of uncertain origin. "Commonly taken with seco as division or 'half' of the race" [Tucker], which would connect it to secare "to divide or cut" (see section (n.)). Link to Secare – “to divide or cut” This is quite interesting actually because this alludes to the other side of sex. Sex has it two sides as Master Samael mentions in his book: “The Perfect Matrimony” where he says that the sex is a double edged sword, where one side can liberate and the other can harm and wound terribly. Concentration Lust is then the use of sex or sexuality on the side that ends up being harmful to us. The ego of lust is like any other ego, in that it is a distraction and it is something that our unaware consciou...

Introduction There are levels of learning within the abyss. The first level of learning concerns the first three Dantean circles, where the main lesson to be learnt is to not abandon one’s reason to pleasure and that pain always comes after pleasure. The Abyss is the Place of the Absurd Only what is absurd can lead us to destruction or to nullity. What is correct what is logical and has reason leads to construction, balance and the right order of things, leading to the ability to maintain and sustain itself for as long as is required, allowed or needed. What is absurd collapses by itself in little time. The abyss is the absurd, it is the surrender of reason to the lower passions which create destruction. Reason Reason is what allows us to be with ourselves and absurdity is what loses ourselves. With reason, common sense, consciousness we can possess ourselves. In the abyss we lose ourselves to the second deat...

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Introduction To know that something is wrong we have to know the boundaries or the parameters of where the right becomes the wrong. That is where the wrong begins. The wrong may begin in several different directions from the area of what is right. Imagine the right to be a circle, and what is right is all that is within this circle. This circle represents what is right in relation to a specific area of life, say sexuality, or honesty or trust or love or dignity etc. Then the wrong can begin when we venture out of this circle via many different actions. Mistakes The mistakes and karma that we make serve as this learning. The mistakes show us where the right ends and where wrong begins. So the mistakes map out for us the boundary of this circle of right. The boundaries of the circle of right must be registered by our consciousness otherwise so much bloody suffering is useless! Our consciousness is there t...

If If a situation or an ego is giving you some trouble, try looking at the reference point from which all of your psychological processes that are giving you grief are coming from. Is Your Reference Point…? Is the reference point the past? Is the reference point an expectation? Is your reference point your resentment? Is the reference point your idea of what is good or wrong? Is your reference point a belief that you have about something? Is your reference point your fear? Is your reference point about saving money? Find it! Find the reference point and as soon as you have found it you are very close to changing the whole way that you feel! Change it! Once you have the reference point from which your psychology is processing things from, change it to another one. A reference point that is more correct, one that is within you, one that is in the work or in your consciousness or Being. Magic Then fo...

One very quick measure or evaluation point (one of several) for our personal use is the following: If we during any given period of time, have caught our thoughts, and have questioned them and have become conscious of them, seeing their conditioning in relativity and duality, and subsequently freeing our mind, we can be sure that we have spent our time being more awake and actually awakening! This awakening is in the minute details of thought but it is still an awakening. End (1608).

Introduction Just recently my marvellous missionary gave a class to do with the topic of the hidden side of our psychology, which is also known as the hidden side of our psychological moon. Here is a summary of the main points that came up in that discussion. What is the Hidden Side of our Psychological Moon? It is basically the levels of the subconscious and infra-conscious. It is worth knowing that our psychology has a visible part and an invisible part. The invisible part has two divisions which are a visible part and an invisible part. The visible part of the invisible part is what others can see but what we don’t see. The invisible part of the invisible part is what neither us nor others see. The hidden side of our psychological moon is the whole invisible side of our psychology, that is, it is what we don’t see but others see and don’t see. What Egos are in the Hidden Side of our Psychological...

Have a Look Look at the following statistics about this blog. Interpretation It seems that people are most interested in the above themes. Why? Perhaps because of the themes themselves, which seem to centre around sexuality. The theme of sexuality is one that is very difficult and it is one that has to be deciphered by everyone at one point in their life, even by people in normal life. However, for the Gnostic this theme must be deciphered at the level of the mysteries (a more profound level – sexuality in relation to the Being). Conclusion Perhaps more posts on this theme can be useful. Also perhaps a good point for instructors or missionaries to be aware of in the sense of knowing what people in general may need. End (1606).

Introduction We have a defect that we urgently need to dissolve. We may even feel that we are behind, that we should have worked more on it already and it should be much deader than it is. Ok! But what counts is what we do from now on to make that defect start to die. How then do we go about it? First Decided Make sure you are resolved and really want to do it. Because it is going to fight and it is going to be difficult and the more you want to dissolve the more intense the difficulties in dissolving will be. So do you want it to dead? Have you had enough? Second Aware Ready to face the storms, the pain, the difficulty? Are you ready to not give in? Are you well aware of why you what to dissolve it and what the benefits are? Third Pray Declare to our inner Divinity that we need to die in this or that defect and that we need their help. Declare that you are ready and sincerely ask for their help that will take us to dissolve this defect. ...