Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Imagining is Accepting When we imagine something it is becasue we have already accepted it. What we can't imagine is what we can't accept. When you don't accept something you don't follow through imagining it. Skepticism The skeptical person can not imagine what he or she does not accept. If we are skeptical we can start to counteract it by using our imagination. Imagine what we are skeptical about and then see how that helps to open your mind. End (1921).

Because Death Reaps the Esoteric Values of the Life Lived People may understand that death as a cosmic force reaps the lives of human beings as like a kind of harvest. But on a personal level, which is what matters most us, is that death carries a scythe because with our death is only really seen the fruit of the efforts made in our life. If we have worked hard psychologically and esoterically in life we will be given by death the rewards. The scythe is the symbolic representation for the reaping of those rewards. Those rewards are a favourable new life with less ego, a strong and healthy new body, vacation time in the higher worlds and a conscious death, that is being aware that one is dead and aware that one is in the internal worlds outside of one’s body! End (1920).

Why Worried? Because of a Lack of Imagination, Will and Trust Oh really? Yes! Read on to see how these three things can help. Imagination is Knowledge and Direction When we get worried about how we are going to be able to deal with the pain, discomfort, drives, impulses, reactions, consequences etc. when one of our strong egos comes out, it is because first: we can’t or don’t see ourselves counteracting it (sometimes not even trying to counteract it), and two: we don’t know how, and three we don’t have a plan of how to counteract it. Come one see yourself successfully counteracting the and feeling immensely fine in the process.  Imagination is Also a Plan We must have imagination (knowledge and direction) when it comes to the work of the dissolution of an “I”. If you don’t know how to counteract it, can’t see yourself successfully counteracting it and you don’t have a plan of how to counteract it, for when it...

Death Death is a reference point like no other. It is the reference point that brings one to reality and keeps one to reality. It is the reference point that brings one to the essential and keeps one to the essential. Keeping death close to us means that we can be guided in life to live a life that cultivates what is essential. Death is a powerful force that brings you to the esoteric, to the permanent, to what lasts, to what lies beyond and to what is real. A real existing force is Death! A cosmic function! Ubiquitous yet encapsulated in a presence for each one to face! Having death close to us keeps us focused on not giving over too much of our life to what is superficial and vain, as death reduces to dust all that is vain. Having death close keeps us focused on working to be prepared for it and to defeat it consciously, that is, to not die asleep. Physical death and psychological death all take us to the real and to the essential which in other words is...

Pathway to Will What we need to end up is having the goal of dissolving the “I” to enter our will. If it enters our will it will enter our heart. Imagination gives us a pathway to will. Remember will and imagination work together in vibrant harmony. Obviously activating one begins to make the other to activate! This is how you access will! Using your imagination. Read on… Imagination Use Imagination to Start See yourself without that ego. Of course you are happier without it! Of course! But what is more useful is to use imagination to see how you are going to successfully counteract it using the work, using your consciousness and by remembering your inner Being. See that your work takes care completely of the ego when it manifests. Imagine yourself dealing with that issue that he ego usually takes for itself using your essence and the ways of the work, the path and the Being. Using imagination to see this is more critical at this early stage than imagini...

There is NO WAY that an Ego Can Give You More than Your Free and Awakened Essence! The above is a massively impacting truth! However, we have to experience it to be very firm in it. We can be 'Luke warm' for a while but a decision will come: hot or cold?  If We Are Luke Warm If we are ‘Luke warm’ it is because we don’t know that we suffer. We think that we can afford the suffering and that the desire of the ego is worth more than the suffering that we can go through. When we are in this situation we are stuck! We end up being stuck in that ego for as long as we see things that way! As soon as we say that this suffering is not worth the object of the ego’s desires and wants than we are on our way out! End (1916).

So Good to Crack Pride! When in an ER you see that life and death do not bow down before how much you know, what dreams you have had, how much you earn, your social status, the car you drive, your technology, your sunglasses, your special mobile phone. Your life skills, the people who you know etc. All of the that is reduced to dust mate! What a reality check! An Experience to Live By This learning that comes from being in a ER for a while is powerful and is best brought into the way we are inside of us and to the way we act in life. Pride and arrogance have no base, they are not at all as powerful as we think, they can not save us from tragedy, death, injury and accidents and even the death and illnesses of our loved ones. Even the Gnostic can become very arrogant in the mystical field thinking that because he or she is working such things as illnesses, injury or death will not touch them! But that is not always...

In a Recording Master Samael says this in a recording, which was for me a shock. I always thought that karmically speaking the one who kills the cow is the one who pays the most but he says that they pay equally! Wow this is a bit of a change to the way of thinking. Makes sense though and explains a few things in my life! And maybe in yours too! End (1914).

Like Magic Your essence works in non-identification and it works magic within us! This works like magic. If you are struggling and worried about comprehension just do your best to not get identified and like magic within a bit of time you will feel how this ego gets weaker and natural comprehension begins to rise gradually bit by bit inside of you! End (1913).

Wanting is Will and Wanting is Definition! Will is higher up in the human being and cascades down in command to take over mind, emotion and body. We simply don’t die in an ego because we don’t want it!!! As soon as you want it! Its death starts! So the will to die in an ego and in oneself must be conquered first of all for the work of psychological death to begin in earnest! Don’t think you are going to die if you don’t want to! If you are dying in an ego it is because you want to! End (1912).

Back onto Fear of Medical Procedures, Blood, Organs, Bones etc. Fear in our subconscious is thinking something, and what it is thinking is not reality! For example, this fear of medical procedures, people dying and blood etc. has the subconscious thinking behind it that medical procedures are going to be like a huge sharp rigid cold stainless steel thick needle going up through your arteries into your heart or something ridiculously equivalent. Of course, this is totally unheard of and not true! It does not happen. Medical procedures are there to help and to be as painless as possible. They are done mostly carefully and are done only to fix things up or get information so to fix things up not ever to harm us or kill us! Understanding this is important and has to be drummed in over and over again to affect the subconscious. Because in  fear of this type the subconscious is the one ruling the whole drama. ...

Many, Many Things We Intellectualise many things! Nearly every activity that we are involved in, we end up intellectualising. We intellectualise people, events, relationships, many human activities and nearly everything that we come across. Disadvantages This has its certain disadvantages. Intellectualising things limits us, especially the results of the intellectualising is about seeing the thing, person, activity, event in a negative light. This intellectualising leads to the creation of concepts, expectations, reasoning, protests, fantasy, thinking, dreaming, and arguments to name only a few things. How to Not! To see something with our consciousness, or in a state of alert novelty as Master Samael says is the way to stop it. If we are alert we can stop it, and just look upon the person, the thing, the event, the activity with a quiet mind, and then our essence will be looking at it and comprehending...

The Work is not Tomorrow but Now! Thank God it is now. Now is our life! Hope starts now when you start! It is never otherwise! The hope we have without having started is hope but a hope that is in suspence! End (1909).

We are Not Afraid of the Thing but of the Consequences This is a point that my marvellous missionary has mentioned many times. So then applying this point, we see that one is not scared of blood really, or seeing the organ, or the needle, or the scalpel or the medical procedure but the consequences involved with it. Such consequences we see are physical pain, discomfort, adverse effects, diseases, infections, being sick, etc. etc. If the needle didn’t have any consequences, no pain, no side effects we wouldn’t be scared of it. Knowing this helps actually. Don’t you feel that it does? We are not scared of blood or organs or bones. This teaching or point directs us more accurately to the cause of fear. Fear is Due to Karma of Pride where Something was Transgressed Fear is often due to some law having been transgressed and we suffer the consequences and then we feel pain and then we feel rejection and aversion and then fear develops. So what could the consequences ...

In Any Situation Apply this! Say you feel uncomfortable in an environment. Say because it seems people don’t like you, or you think people are staring at you, or you feel like a victim or you feel that you are going to get told off or you feel lust, jealousy, angry etc. etc. Give the following steps a shot! First – Find the Wrong Identity that has Been Adopted Look inside for the kind of identity you are adopting. A victim identity, a hard done by identity, a non-one likes me identity, love me identity, give me a break identity, smile at me identity, pay me attention identity, look at me identity etc. etc. Second – Displace it! Know that it is wrong and that I am not this identity. Prove to yourself that you are none of these identities. You are the breath of life coursing through your body that is aware of itself being that. You are not any of these limited identities. By the way these identities are really immature a...

Introduction Here is an excerpt from Master Samael’s book “The Revolution of the Dialectic”, where he writes about the two kinds of psycho-analysis: structural and transactional. Both are useful to carry out on our psyche when we need more information about something we are working on. With the information gained from such an analysis we can deepen our comprehension. Excerpt “We need inner psychoanalysis, we need intimate self-investigation in order to really know ourselves. Homo Nosce Te Ipsum. Man, know yourself and you will know the Universe and the Gods. When one knows oneself, one can change. As long as one does not know oneself, any change will result subjective. But before anything else, we need self-analysis. How is the force of countertransference which makes intimate psychoanalysis or self-analysis difficult, overcome? This would only be possible by means of transactional analysis and structural analysi...

Not Because You Would Get a Divorce but Because of Esoteric Values Loyalty, fidelity and love are most certainly reasons of sufficient gravity to understand why the principle of “One Hermetic Vase”. This post is an attempt to go behind this principle and see why it is so. Because behind the reasons I have given above, are real esoteric principles that I believe are worth knowing, understanding and expanding upon. Principles Inherent in Sexuality The reason is that it follows the principles inherent within the Value of Sexuality. Such as magnetism, energy, honesty, unity, creation and destruction. This will be a long post, not sure if I can write it all out but will try. Always a Principle to Fall Back Onto It is the esoteric and psychological work and their principles that rule the fires of sexuality. If this were not the case then pure sexuality would take hold and wreak havoc as it is a powerful blind force. Master Samael said: “The Kundalini ascen...

Contrast The values of our essence are shown to us to exist or not exist in contrast. That is when subjected to the opposite. Our serenity is shown and known to us when we are in a hurry, when there is pressure, when there is an urgent deadline and little time etc. One does not know what one has, or the strength of what one has until one faces the opposite. That is until a contrast is produced. This is in some way the role of the Typhon Baphomet in us. Let’s see what Master Samael says about this is in his book “Yes There Is An Inferno, Yes There Is A Devil, Yes There Is Karma”. Typhon Baphomet is “every contrast”… Here are four excerpts about the Typhon being the contrast: One “Only through the struggle, the contrast, temptation and rigorous esoteric discipline can there spring forth in us the flowers of virtue.” Two “Remember brothers that the Devil is every contrast: the Devil is the shadow of th...

Not Interested in Feeling Pain The person working on him or herself will one day find oneself more interested in comprehending than anything else, and this includes forging pain for comprehension. Deeply Comprehending Who wants to feel pain? You get tired of feeling the offence and insult from your own egos and you want more to comprehend why those egos produce that pain. And you want to comprehend why the other person said that or did that. Your own nature that is! Ego is Not Personal One thing that one learns is that the ego in ourselves and in others is not personal to anyone. If bothered enough the ego will rebel against anyone. Even when we rebel against others it is not the other person that we are rebelling against the way we are taking things or perceiving or interpreting the impressions from the person. End (1903).

Fear Makes us Attracted to What we Fear I have always been intensely repelled by horror movies. Mainly because I found them very twisted, unnatural, pointless and morbid. This was enough for me to never watch one. I thought why voluntarily stress yourself out. However, taking away those factors I observe there a kind of fascination, a kind of attraction to want to see or be aware of the horrors that can befall a human being. This fascination or attraction comes from this fear of death and seeing blood and internal organs. This is because what we fear we are attracted to. The proof is that being scared, we think and think about what we are scared of. And of course, this bring to us what we are actually scared of. Horror movies are the product of infernal imagination. Fear has the use of an infernal type of imagination! No wonder we get scared! We have to change our imagination and definitely horror movies have to go and jump ...