Gnosis Wisdom

Sometimes Pain Hits Some times we feel pain, whether it be physical pain or psychological pain. There is a way to deal with it that is better than others.  This post is a very short description of how we may deal with pain. Aversion No - Mindfullness Yes Gnosis would say not to reject the pain nor avoid it. But rather feel it mindfully. This takes away the psychological dimension of pain which is difficult in itself and does not help in making the physical pain any easier to deal with. Avoiding pain or having an attitude that we shouldn't be feeling it or that we have to be very strong or that our Being will relieve it or that this or that etc. does not make the pain go away and actually makes our experience of the pain much worse. Attitudes of aversion actually begin to engage the flight or fight function of our instinctive centre. Which creates all sorts of tension and other very uncomfortable symptoms.  We can't make the pain go away sometimes ...

When Trying to Decide When trying to decide or process something becomes difficult, have a look at your reference point. It may well be on something very impermanent or on a human detail that is not part of the big picture. When we place our reference points for our decisions or our thinking in solid ground, that is on something that does not change and is of the big picture such as the Being, the work, the path, the overall future benefits we can make better decisions quite rapidly and painlessly. Give it a try, it is certainly worth an investigation. End (1679).

Be Careful with Day Dreaming We know that there are many pitfalls related to day dreaming. One of the more negative consequences of day dreaming is to fall into rumination, which is a negative process that brings about  negative states and therefore negative emotions. Worst Thing when in a Negative State When we are in the middle of a negative state, one of the worst things that we can do is to start day dreaming. It may start out neutral enough but soon it will spiral downwards and we will be worse off! Guaranteed, and it won't take long either. End (1778).

Introduction This post is about some pointers to do with will that will help to make our use of our will more effective. Will Works with Continuity Will really takes effect if we make it continuous. We can connect will to our purpose as often as we can. Especially at night before resting and in the morning when we rise to greet the day. Remembering our purpose constantly and driving our will into it makes the result or the work we do to move along and it creates circumstances. Will is Finite – Simplify Life and Focus it! Our will is finite in quantity so we have to look after it. Not allowing it to become dispersed and directed into several other activities. When we focus our finite will we can do amazing things. Just like a 100W light bulb, unfocussed it lights up a room, but focussed into a laser beam it can cut through steel. Will and Imagination Will is masculine and Imagination feminine. When...

Introduction With the people and in the special situations that involve love, self-love is present. Now, this could be the “I” of self-love or the self-love of the consciousness. For most of us it is usually the ego of self-love that comes to tend to the business that occurs in these situations. Note, the difference between the self-love of the ego is that it feels love towards us through others. That is when others are happy with us and they express their love we feel love towards us. When they are not happy with us we dislike them because we feel debased and unkind towards ourselves. Balance Books As often happens, our ego of self-love gets hurt and so we feel a kind of an imbalance, and a sense that something was unfair. And that makes us unbalanced inside of ourselves. We feel that we have to somehow go and right that unbalance. We usually do it by getting angry at the other, becoming demanding or sad, or...

Introduction The egos make use of the elements within us. This is because our constitution is made up of the elements. Some egos use one element more than others. If we know how to manage the elements we can actually help ourselves in the dissolution of the egos that predominantly use these elements. Egos that Use Fire The egos that use the fire element are egos such as: anger, lust, irritation, annoyance, intolerance etc. When such egos are very active in us, the element of fire is burning intensely. But of course in a negative way. Put Out the Negative Fire If we know a bit about how the element of fire works, we can use that knowledge to put out that burning fire that is polarised negatively. Reduce Air Supply If we starve fire of air it dies down and goes out. As air in us is our thoughts, the less we think the less we feed the fire and the sooner it dies down and goes out. Add Water We know that fire goes out when we add water. Water in us is a...

What is Dead Burns Best What is dead burns best. What is alive does not burn so well. This is a fact with physical fire. Wood that has been cut off from a tree and left to dry burns terrifically well. Where there is life there must be moisture or water. When life or moisture leaves it is then the natural time for fire to take over. The same thing works with our egos. The Divine Mother is fire and when we have done our work of understanding the ego, which is really the same as emptying it of life, which is the same as removing the moisture from it, the time for the ego to be dissolved, that is have the essence liberated from it, it is right. Exceptions Fire transforms what has life removed from it. It can however burn something that still has life in it but the fire to do that must be very intense. These are the exceptions with the ego, an ego maybe still alive and the Divine Mother and the Law may as a special ex...

A Saviour of its Kind Fire makes things into itself. It unifies. Fire acts on something and it draws out more of its own kind. It is a saviour of its own kind. Christic Fire Because the Christ is fire that is why physical fire does this – save its own kind. Physical fire follows the Christic nature. This is because the spiritual is first and the physical is later, physical fire is the way it is because it follows on from the Christic fire. The Christ is known as the saviour, the redeemer, the one who enters the duly prepared bodhisattva in order to accelerate the fight for the liberation of the remaining trapped pieces of essence. Fire does the same, it acts on something material liberating the fire that is trapped within that material form. It then unifies with the fire that it liberates from the material form. Water, Air and Earth Water also unifies with water, air does as well, but earth remain...

Sleeping Person The person who is asleep is stuck in time. Mostly stuck in one side of time actually. Either the past or the present. Awakened Person The awakened person moves in time. If they get hit, as soon as it is over, it is over for them, it has gone. They do not stand still in the past. They embrace the moment. The awakened people before they act they look in the immediate future and also deep into the future to see the effects and consequences of the actions that they want to take. Example This is a tremendously useful thing to do with friends. Friends insult us and then we dwell on that and then we feel hurt and become resentful. Or we may fear that the relationship is suffering and will be over soon. In both cases we are stuck in time, the past and the future. With friends it is best to move quickly in time, especially to move out of the past and into the present. If the past is a little painful move into the present and into the bright and hopeful future....

Observing Fire Observe the way a fire is lit. You start with a striking a match and setting alight some paper. Then when the paper burns it sets alight some kindling, then the kindling sets alight some light wood. As the light wood burns the heavier pieces of wood slowly catch alight. Fire descends from the lighter to the denser. There is no way that the heavier pieces of wood can catch fire from a match. They must receive their fire from a greater source. Fire Descends from Above Fire descends from above into the denser planes. It may descend from the causal or higher and slowly make its way down to the physical. An interesting thing to observe is that a physical fire is lit using a triangle shape with the heavier pieces at the apex of the triangle and the lighter pieces as the base. Fire burns in the shape of a triangle and seeks to ascend and rise up once again into the superior worlds from whence it came....

Radical That is one obvious thing about fire. It is very radical. As soon as it touches something it leaves its mark. If what fire touches has not been tempered (touched by fire before) it leaves its mark in a very radical way. That is totally consuming it. Fire and Earth Earth seeks to contain fire, and when fire acts on Earth fire, further solidifies earth. Fire tempers Earth and makes Earth able to resists its future advances. Metals are made stronger by being tempered by the fire. Metals in Alchemy were known as values of the essence. Every value that we have is made stronger though the various tests and trials. There is no test or trial or temptation without the intervention of fire. Temptation is Fire! Master Samael said that temptation is fire and triumph over temptation is light. Temptation is fire because it impels, it energises, it revolutionises, it puts us at the gate of being burnt or bei...

Observing Fire We see that fire works with air. No air, in fact, no fire. Air fuels fire. Air also can extinguish fire especially when the flames are low. Air can direct and fan fire making fire to travel swiftly and rage with immense intensity. Air – Our Thoughts These observations of fire are useful to us, because we have fire within us. Air within us is our thoughts and fire within us is many things. Some of which are emotion, sex, essence, consciousness. Our thoughts certainly affect our emotion and our sexual centre. If we keep vigilant over our thoughts, we can control the fires within us. As soon as the thoughts grow the fire within us begins to burn and burn in the direction of the thoughts. If the thoughts are negative the fire will burn negatively in us and we will be driven into negative emotion and action. Egos that have a Strong Fire Element The egos that have a strong fire component ...

Introduction When it comes to physical facts, water as an element usually overcomes the fire.  It is only when the amount of fire present is much greater than the amount of water present, will the result be that fire overcomes water.  When water overcomes fire, the fire is lost and the result is a black paste that is mostly of no good to anyone. For the meeting of fire and water to be useful and constructive there must always be a kind of barrier between the two.  With this barrier in place fire can operate on water, transforming it and liberating the energy hidden within it.  This artifice of a barrier is wised used in practical life and especially in what concerns us more, in Alchemy.  Fire and Water in Alchemy When water overcomes fire, there is the loss of the sexual energy and the extinguishing of fire. The result is the black paste which is no good for anyone, and this black paste is lust. The barrier between fire and ...

Introduction Master Samael says that sex is a legitimate joy that any human being has the right to experience. However, Master Samael does not say that it is a legitimate need. Impressions, air and food are certainly legitimate needs because we would not be able to continue to live if any one of these three elements (impressions, air and food) were denied us. We can survive without sex, as thousands have done in the past.  Obviously for the self-realisation of our Being we need sex to complete our inner universe (solar bodies) so that our inner Being can manifest.  Whole Point I am writing this post actually to make the point that the egos of lust have the belief that sex is a legitimate need and therefore because it is a need and needs must be fulfilled, that ego is then compelled to try and fulfill those needs.  The egos of lust believe that sex is a real need, therefore these egos think, that whatever is a real need must then be fulfilled or...

Introduction This petition from the "Our Father" hides a very special psychological truth that is extraordinarily helpful. Hidden Truth This petition from the "Our Father" actually has some relation to the work on the ego of self-love and balance in general. This petition says that we can not be forgiven until we begin to forgive others. As soon as we start to forgive others our forgiveness begins. The same applies to the ego of self-love.  We can begin to fill ourselves with love as soon as we give love to others. This is because psychology when we have given love to others we can feel a wave of appreciation towards ourselves and towards our Being.  Clears Karmic Debts Doing this also helps us clear karmic debts that we have with others. The ego of self-love can be very difficult to eliminate when we have in the past made others to feel awful about themselves through much derision, criticism, very cutting insults etc. Therefore loving ...

Introduction There are times when we feel an emptiness that is quite painful. This may occur after a retreat, or after close friends or family leave return home from a visiting, or someone leaves us or a relationship ends or a person close to us is very upset with us, etc. Why do we feel empty when our essence and our Being are always there with us? There has to be a reason for that. Let's see some of the reasons. Reasons for Feeling Empty One One reason is that we indeed could be very far from our inner Being and so naturally we do feel empty, with certain times being worse than others. However, I think this is not the main reason. Two - Main Reason The second reason is that there is something in our psychology that wants that we be inside the other person's heart or that we occupy a place in their inner space or that we are there with them in their relationship with their Being. The pain comes from the fact that during those special moments when a ...

Cosmic Scale of Things We are from the cosmic scale of things a seed or in others words a unit of raw sexual energy. We are water essentially, and inside the water is fire, where the fire is the essence, which encloses the consciousness. Inside Water is Fire This is exactly like our sexual energy. Inside of our sexual energy (ens seminis) is the fire. As our sexual energy needs to be transformed with transmutation so do we, because we are the raw sexual energy of the cosmos. Fire Liberated from the Water We need to be as a whole transmuted or trans-formed. Just as our sexual energy is transmuted via the sexual contact within the sexual union we too are transformed/transmuted via the friction from outside of ourselves which are the difficult circumstances of our life. Difficult Circumstances With the difficult circumstances the fire inside of ourselves can burn brighter and transform ourselv...

Know what the Sexual Energy is Really For! An essential key for the practice of Alchemy is to really know what the sexual energy is for! Without really knowing, we just think it is for what everyone else uses it for, which is to focus on sensations, senses and matter. Divert the Attention and Channel Energy Another essential key is to develop the capacity to divert our attention towards our interior, that is towards our Being and channel our energy inside towards our inner Being as well. End (1663).

Normal sex or infra sex is focused on creating the emotion of satisfaction. It is focused on fulfilling the many mental images of pleasure. Where pleasure is the combination of sensation and emotion. Where the emotions take on the general characteristics of satisfaction, possession, acceptance, achievement, certainty, control etc. The focus of Alchemy is the Being and the creation of the universe of the Being and the dissolution of what does not serve the Being. End (1662).

Lust and Alchemy are very different. Alchemy is to build and it is to dissolve. Which is to build what the Being requires and dissolve what is not of the Being. The Alchemy is needed to make us complete. Our Being needs the bodies to be complete in manifestation. Without the bodies our Being can not come into manifestation. The Alchemy is there to give us esoteric unity. Lust has nothing to do these purposes or reasons. End (1661).

Lust and sex are very different. Sexuality is independent from lust. Sexuality exists by itself without lust. But lust needs sexuality, lust superimposes itself upon sexuality. If we can separate lust from sex we will discover this truth. We can separate lust from sex, because lust is something psychological. Lust is a whole collection of concepts, interpretations, images, memories and psychological processes that can be separated from sexuality. We begin separating lust from sex when we keep our mind serene and quiet whenever the question of sexuality arises. This is to separate the flame from the smoke, of which the Alchemist wrote or spoke about. End (1660).

Introduction We have burning embers in our soul! Light Them Up These hot coals are our hopes and yearnings that keep us fighting in the path We can use them intelligently to help us especially when we are nearly all extinguished. Blowing on them to light them up in flames can also keep us going even stronger than ever. You have your burning embers in your soul, what you secretly hope for, what you secretly yearn for, what you have always intimately loved are your burning embers deep in your soul. Work for to set them ablaze and make those embers to light up and inspire you onward! End (1658).

Duality of Fire There is duality everywhere in creation. Even fire has a negative side here in creation, but the fire of the Absolute is without fire. For example, there is no war without the, intervention of fire. No fire - no war. Fire is present in the preparation of metal weapons, fire is the main and active element present in all modern weapons, such as guns, bombs, etc. Even fire is present in making vehicles move. If we were to take away all of the weapons and just have two armies of naked men, fire is still present. It is the fire in men in their blood, in their emotions that draws them to war. Anger uses the fire in the human being. Luciferic Fire Fornication is fire used wrongly. When we are controlled by our passions it is fire burning out of control in us. There is also Luciferic fire which is the wrong use of the sexual fire. United States of America For me, the United states of America is ...

Introduction A religion is just a form, and no form is permanent. Things are being added to religions all the time and as new eras approach more will be added to them and because we can not stop this constant change it does not make too much sense to be stuck in the ways of the old religion, i.e. the customs, the rules, interpretations etc. The principles are different they will always be the same. Here is an interesting quote about this: “A religion is a form through which the divine spirit manifests, and no form is permanent. Christianity, which was born in the Middle East, received at its inception certain elements from the Greek and Latin cultures. To these were added elements inherited from the Jewish religion, which itself had been influenced by the religions of neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Mesopotamia. A religion is never born from nothing; it takes on elements from previous religions and is itself...

Introduction According to Master Samael creation began due to some Monads within the Absolute possessing certain imperfections (karma or karmic debts) that propelled them to want to be someone or something, i.e. to be more than what they are. The ‘More’ Master Samael says that the ‘more’ in the external sense is the foundation of the ego. The Real 'more’, Master Samael says is directed internally, that is inwards and upwards towards the Being. When a person discovers the Being, master Samuel says that is the most joyous moment that can be experienced by a person, and then the person naturally wants to know ‘more’ of their Being. The real ‘more’ is actually directed to be within the Being. Creation Avoided Master Samael says that if the Monads would have done this, things would have been different. Because within the Being there is more and more, there is an infinite unfolding within the Absolute. Mean...

Master Samael says: no karma no creation. When creation unfolded there was a derision that occurred in the Monad. Adhi Buddha remained as the un-manifested within the Absolute and Kether unfolded into creation. Master Samael said that there are worlds that once they have paid the karma that they had, they cease to exist and they are absorbed by the absolute. Because there was nothing more to fulfil, those worlds were then acted upon by the law of re-absorption or interior spaces. According to this law those worlds retreated from the physical into the internal dimensions until they reached the Absolute. Master Samael also said that the reason why we have successive lives is because of the ego. We have many lives all so to eliminate the ego. There was an imbalance within the Absolute that provoked creation. Master Samael said that it was the imperfections in the Monads that caused the imbalance. Those imperfections are...

What is our saving grace when we are wrong is that we realise that were wrong. If we don’t realise that we are wrong, then we may get into some trouble later on or we may stagnate in our work. The thing that only matters really when we are wrong is that we realise it and we correct it. The big pride of not wanting to be wrong is a major hindrance. That pride is something that has to disappear for us to advance in the work and in the path. It must go! We are going to be wrong a thousand times more so why not relinquish that pride. Being right or wrong is not the important part, what is important is our consciousness learning and our consciousness fixing that learning into our being. That pride of not wanting to be wrong does not focus on what is really important, it as is common of the ego focuses on the superfluous, the vain, the superficial and the external. End (1654).

The aim of esoteric culture and education is to correct the wrong perceptions, interpretations and uses that we make of the esoterc teachings. An important point is to not mix our personal problems or personal preferences with the teachings, Another important point is to not mix our beliefs with the doctrine. The esoteric teachings are a set of principles.  When a person mixes their personal life and experiences with the doctrine and even makes the latter two doctrine, that person destroys the doctrine. The esoteric teachings are not exclusive to one given latitude and time. In the esoteric teachings the tradition does not become a law. The real esoteric education comes from our consciousness. It is about understanding esoteric, universal and cosmic principles. It ultimately comes from the learning that our Being goes through. End (1653).

About Fire What can we say about fire? As there is fire outside of us in the universe, there is also fire within us! Subtlest Form of Matter Fire here physically is something special. It is still matter but a very special kind of matter. It is matter in a state that is at it subtlest state that it can be at in the physical dimension. It is matter escaping into the etheric dimensions and the higher dimensions. That is why during the petition of writing letters we burn the letter to take the petitions to the higher dimensions. Fire is like a gateway to the higher dimensions. Matter within fire is constantly being turned into energy that escapes into the ether and beyond. End (1651).

Best Fire Part of our education is to know which fire is the best. The best fire is a steady fire. A raging fire is for those who are feeding their passions. Cared For Fire needs to be cared for, so that it does not grow too large and become destructive or become too small and extinguish. If our inner fires are high we are like the Earth in its first primordial state, with much upheaval going on. This is a state where we are being ruled by our passions. Our Fire Our fire is the same as fire that we can study outside of ourselves. It follows the same principles. What is our fire? Our energy, our consciousness, our will etc. Our life is our fire. On a very human level it can be seen as our enthusiasm. Things have fire in them. When it is liberated we see fire. A match has fire latent within it. When it is struck, the friction of the match head on the match box releases the fire latent in the match head. ...