Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

A Favour for a Dear Friend and Fellow Gnostic As some of you may know a very dear friend Samy Kaplanian received a liver transplant on Tuesday the 25 th of July. He has been in hospital since then and is currently in intensive care. He certainly has had a very rough time over the last several weeks. He is not fully in the clear yet, there are some complications, though in spite of all this, there is much hope, a ray of warm light has broken through the clouds. Utter a Prayer I sincerely ask for a favour, that you may utter a prayer or two of healing for a dear friend to make that ray of hope take hold and come to life! Samy!!! Samy is a Gnostic student who has rock solidly supported our Gnostic centre and many important Gnostic activities (retreats) over a good number of years now. He is a very dedicated student and once he is better he is going to I am sure, push ahead and become a missionary. We are fighting for you mate! End (1975).

Introduction This post offers a little bit of a description on the workings of one of the seven capitals – envy. It also provides one of the many possible remedies. “Unmask envy and you will  find pride”. by m 3 (m 3 = m.m.m = my marvellous missionary) Dante on the second terrace visiting 'the envious'. A Defect Ever Present Envy is behind many painful pangs within us. Accompanying these pangs are feelings of being left behind, being less, being excluded, being separated from, etc. which often lead us to fall into identification with the “I” of self-compassion. There are really many instances where we feel envy of others. As envy comes from pride and because pride is a very large and strong “I”, a very common P.P.P in fact it makes sense that envy is something that a person can feel so often. Perhaps several times during a given day. When we hear the dreams and experiences of others, we may feel envy, when we listen to a lecture we may feel e...

Right Attitude When facing any ego have the attitude that it is just a matter of first of all facing it, then working on it and persisting, then happiness, balance and positive change that we will be at peace with, is going to appear.  The attitude that working and transforming ourselves will solve everything is what we need! The work is there to make us happier ! Only that, to make our life better! If it is not we must look at why, because that is not what is in its nature to do for us. Why? Because such an attitude makes us to go ahead. Other attitudes stop us in our tracks and leave us more or less without resources to overcome the difficulty or solve the problem/issue. Wrong Attitude Attitudes such as where we believe that the issue is too big a problem to be solved or too important and sensitive to be touched or that the problem/issue can’t be solved by working on ourselves etc., just end up keeping th...

As soon as we Think When our mind is quiet all is fine. The trouble starts for us when we begin to think. We are fine with someone and as soon as a different comes along and says this and that about the person things are still fine until the moment we elaborate a thought about what we just heard. Then the weather begins to change, dark heavy clouds roll in, it thunders, lightning strikes and we are in the middle of long storm. Which all could have been avoided is we were not to have thought. For those few negative thoughts we ended up with a storm with no useful outcome, a lot of psychic energy wasted and some egos made stronger. Conclusion Alertness, watch the thoughts and select the thoughts knowing full well the effects they are going to roll out into our interior. Wisely select those thoughts that will have a positive effect or a neutral effect. End (1972).

Include them in Your Prayers I try not to forget those who are unwell. After doing a practice psychological or mystical, I feel that it is a grace to be able to have done, it is natural to remember those who are not well and to ask help for them. PAN CLARA AEGAE GUF (mantra for healing) TALITHA CUMI  S M HON (mantra for healing of the mind) May they who are unwell be healed and made strong and healthy again! End (1971).

Does not Seem Right at First, Though Just Observe… This may not seem quite right, but knowing how our psychology works it is a conclusion that we come to. Why does our psychology work to produce pain in us, when we are insulted for example? There are so many ways that our psychology can react to an insult, however the reaction that our psychology chooses is the one that produces is pain. I would say that our psychology has been conditioned to react in the way that causes us pain. To notice this and to begin to undo this painful conditioning is to begin to wake up and to begin to modify the karmic nature of our psychology. Without awakening we can not undo our karma. Awakening and paying are debts go hand in hand. The beauty of it is that the karmic pain produces the spark to start in the little fire of awakening in us. End (1970).

Need A Global Round Memory The memory that can develop is a round memory or a global memory that encompasses all three realities as well as all three times: past, present and the future. Make Your Memory Round We tend to have a linear memory, not a round one. Time is round not linear. The future comes from the past, and the present is from the past and the present becomes the future, they are all join as in a circle. If we know this, we will understand that our past is conditioning us and making us to behave the way we are right now, all because of what we are remembering . If we change what we remember we will change our present and our future also. Unfortunately right now, we human beings don’t have this type of memory we have a memory very much like the one below! Our Current Memory - Selective Our memory is like this: We remember the drama not the good result. We remember the problem not the...

The Event that Made me Reflect After Gnosis class one night I drove through the city and made a short stop in the CBD. As I was walking along I noticed that on the opposite side of the city’s central street was an old man wearing a white Cuban hat bobbing up and down and jogging in and out of the shadows close to where a bus stop and the entrance to the grand foyer of a large Australian bank was. I looked again at the man from a good distance of say 50 or more metres, and I realised that he was naked, wearing his Cuban hat, socks and some loafer type of shoes. He was running with his hands covering his lap. I wrote this post as an aid to help us understand the enigma of sexuality. One aspect of this enigma is that it is governed by laws and principles. As I watched thinking “my goodness what he is doing?” I noticed that no one else had noticed him yet. The young Asian lady at the bus stop hadn’t and it seemed that...

Just If… So many really regretful and lamentable things have happened because we didn’t talk to someone. Just if we would have talked, we could have stayed a step away from the edge, in a pace where we could have quietly withdrawn from to safer grounds. A Mistake We knew we were in trouble but we didn’t talk. In hindsight that was a mistake. At the time we always think no one wants to listen, no one cares, they are all too high to care, they will think I am useless and not doing anything etc. Still it was a mistake. What is worse to step over the edge or to have asked help from someone willing to help and from someone who is there to help? Just Talk to Someone If we are really having trouble with some kind of ego, talking about it will help to such a beneficial degree that right now you don’t think is possible, but it is. Just talk to someone, it does not have to be the same person that berated ...

Look Inside If there is something that we do not want to let go of to give way to the work or the inner Being or Spirit in us, pride is behind it. Whether it be resentment, greed, eating (gluttony), laziness, a grudge, a certain fear, an avoidance, lust of one kind or another… pride is behind it. Pride wishes us to stand apart with our desire, vice, problem etc. and not surrender to the Being or Spirit within us. The simple act of just standing separate is pride. The fact of believing more in the desire, vice or problem than the Being or Spirit is pride. To believe more in something that is not of what is essentially us is pride. To believe in the more, the less, the extra, the additional, the diversion instead of what is essentially us is a separation and that separation is always pride. Pride always separates us in relativity, it always separates those into the more and those into the less. However, in our case this separation occurs within us. ...

Of Major Help A major help to ourselves is to cultivate the love for the sexual energy and especially for the transmutation of it. The sexual energy is a grace, a gift and the transmutation is another grace and gift. To have sexual energy but not be able to transmute it is incomplete and sad. A person has to really love how they can transmute their sexual energy, and furthermore fall in love with the way their own transmuted sexual energy via the conscious effort to transmute energises them, lucidifies their consciousness, draws them higher within themselves, makes them vibrate differently, produces the ‘to the core’ fulfilling feeling of having done something meaningful, having benefited their Being, having accrued some dharma etc. This Love Holds Us As love always does, it holds us strong during the difficult times, If it weren’t for love we would have given up many times in many different avenues of our life. This love for our sexual energy and for our inner Being or S...

Antidote for Fear The antidote to fear is trust in the good and in the Being (the Spirit dwelling in each one of us). When we don’t believe or even trust in the Being or the Spirit, or in the prevailing power of good, fear arises in us! When we trust in our mind there is not much trust left over to be used for anything else. When it comes to trust, trust is like a spotlight that works by being focused on something. When it is put onto something that something is what we trust. It is very much like our consciousness. When we trust our mind we trust the negativity that there is in our mind and we forget totally the Being. There is no space for the Being or the Spirit within us when we are trusting the negativity in our mind. Thanks to my marvellous missionary we have this God-Send Helpful teaching of Trust! Trust the Consciousness in Your Work We when we work on ourselves we sometimes trust more our mind. We want...

Impressions are Powerful – Time is their Power The impressions we receive may not seem like much at first, but over time they become powerful! Many times the effects of the impressions once accumulated become too powerful to control! A nagging spouse or child does not get what he or she wants initially but over time, you can be sure that they will get it. All because of the fact that impressions grow in power by working overtime. Impressions accumulate, that is why they are powerful over time! Effect of Too Many Impressions Receiving many impressions without being able to digest them makes us mentally ill. We feel overloaded, confused, blinded, mentally bloated and not knowing where to start and what to do next. In other words receiving too many impressions destroys mental order and organisation, and that is critical for the mind. The clearer and more logical and organised we keep our mind, so much the better for us, our work, our life and others in our life. ...

Answer: 7! Master Samael did not say this as far as I am aware but my marvellous missionary has told us a few times through some experiences that he has had, that we can have up to 7 encounters (chances) in a life time, with an esoteric school possessing the knowledge of the initiatic science. This means that a person can leave an esoteric school possessing the knowledge of the mysteries up to six times. As far as the person is interested and the Monad of the person really wants to work for its self-realisation that person can have up to seven serious encounters or chances to study and work in an esoteric school possessing the keys to self-realisation. Certainly Not Advisable It is certainly not advisable to do this, to leave six times and come back! You waste time! You break continuity. In my experience I have seen people leaving Gnosis and coming back maybe 2 or 3 times, then after that, they just give up. ...

Introduction I am trying to find a very interesting book on prana that I once read through. It was a book, where applicable, they were trying to bring the ancient Hindu philosophy to do with prana into scientific investigation. They had come up with a system whereby they were able to gauge the amount of prana in various foods. Prana In Foods Using their system they found to my initial surprise that chocolate is very low in prana. They also said that red meat was not very high in prana as well. The foods that were highest in prana were fish, oysters, most seafood and most vegetables and fruit. With of course some vegetables and fruit being higher in prana than other types. It seems that the foods lowest in prana are the ones that contribute more to easy putting on of weight? It seems better to eat food higher in prana so to nourish the body with more prana. End (1961).

British The British “stiff upper lip” is a clear and common feature of the personality worn by many British people. “Stiff upper lip” essentially means to not show emotion. This is a very British or English trait. (Try making your upper lip go stiff, then you will see that you can smile, laugh, cry or anything, stiff upper lip = no emotion.) It is really amazing how just one feature of the personality can influence so much of a person’s life. If we look deeply and extensively we will find that the “stiff upper lip” features in many human interactions, many attitudes, expressions, ways of acting in events, ways of speaking, gestures, social norms, you name it. This “stiff upper lip” in turn influences much of the way the egos in a British person manifest and react. The ego has a very cultural component to it. What About us If the British have such a single feature that characteristics much of their p...

To get the most out of our precious time and life, the best thing to do is to dedicate ourselves to the effort of making our consciousness more active during our day and doing practices to die in the ego. It seems that nothing else that we can do in our day really has as much meaning and long standing value than these two things. After all these two things are what survive physical death! End (1959).

Too Many Times Too many times we pass through various life experiences, some difficult and unpleasant, some pleasant, some where we got it wrong, some where we got it right and so on... and because we don't meditate deeply on these life experiences we don't fix the learning of each life experience into our consciousness.  Because we don't fix the learning of each life experience into our consciousness we repeat these life experiences, make the same mistakes etc. But what is worse we don't extract from them the knowledge necessary to help ourselves in the dissolution of the ego. The ego stays alive all the same, when we could have given it a good hit instead, thus helping ourselves.  The karma and recurrence remain active and profound knowledge that when understand has the potential to free us from these recurrences lies there in waiting inside the and behind those life experiences. To Meditate To meditate deeply on these life experiences, is to inv...

Just Wanting to Be Loved This is us when we just want to be loved and we only care about how much, how often and how we are loved! A pig (sorry) and we may be very pretty or handsome and athletic, well bred, well mannered, polite etc. But internally we harbour an ugly spoilt pig like attitude. Just Loving If we just give love and more love we end up tired, disappointed and disillusioned perhaps, but in the end - burnt out. We end up like this a burnt out match: Nearly Happened to the Sun This is what nearly happened to the solar sacred absolute sun where it was autoegocratic, meaning it would just give and give, though in doing that it ran into the danger of being exhausted and dying. So something had to be done and hence came into effect the law of reciprocity or the reciprocal nourishing of all things. Because of this law, our sun like all the other suns is Trogoautoegocatic, meaning each sun gives to their solar systems and receives energy back from w...

May or May Not  Happen It could happen along the way at some point or another, that a person, man or woman, suffers some kind of impotence. So it is worth a quick look. So here we go! Why? Answer: Karma. Periods of impotence are karmic in origin. They are a debt against the Third Logos that we must cancel. Shows Us Such periods of impotence show us that the sexual force within human beings descends to us from somewhere, from some mysterious intelligent source that can benevolently allows us the use of that force or it can just as easily take away the use of that force. We are at the receiving grace of that intelligent source. It makes sense that if we have misused that gift before, then it obvious we have not reciprocated and have therefore broken some kind of balance, and to bring balance back, we have to pay or do something - hence impotence. Not surrendering is a marvelous way to show that source our tenacity and firmness of conviction that we are ...