Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Why? We drink, we smoke, we take drugs and we take in all sorts of impressions that just produce ill-feeling and pain. Why do we do that? It seems that a part of the sleeping human condition is to ingest physically and psychologically elements that cause us harm.  When we really think about it, it is such a bizarre and strange thing. Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and negative impressions are all things that are unnatural and are really  a poison to the body and our psychology. The question remains, why do we take in such elements that are so harmful to us? A Payment Sometimes because we can't help it, sometimes because we overlook it but always deep down because we believe that the poison is worth it that it gives us a higher value that is worth sacrificing or comprimising our health, our psychological well-being and our spiritual well-being for. If we observe ourselves closely there is something within the egos that do this sort of thing, where ...

Introduction As always one only really knows what one has until one loses something. Either by going backwards or forwards. This applies to our states of consciousness, to the degree in which the qualities of our essence are developed, to our waters and to many other aspects of ourselves in the work and in life. Black Waters Physiologically speaking a person having their waters black may not really dramatically affect or limit a person. However psychologically speaking, it is a complete different story. This post has a look at how and why this is. Basically the waters permeate us and are in our psychology as well as in our chakras, our heart and many other places. Having our waters black does not mean anything greatly beneficial in terms of the state of our psychology and our ability to work on it, read on and you will see why. When we Start our Waters are Black When we start the work on ourselves, our waters are black, and that is very noticeable within us. Amo...

This is just to let you know that there will be a temporary pause in my posts as we begin our event of the year, which is a long retreat. Any retreat is a good opportunity to advance more our mystical death. As of tomorrow 17-11-2017 until the 29-11-2017, there will be a recess in posts. But you never know I may sneak a couple in without photos. End (2073).

Introduction Certainly, self-love gets mortified or perhaps irate when the image we are trying to project is not believed or is somehow broken in front of others and to ourselves. This only happens when the image that we are trying to project is false. Furthermore the suffering is terrible only when wee actually believe in that false image and have made it our identity base, or have inadvertently made it who we are. It Hurts It hurts because we have been believing that image to be what we are and when that image has been broken we feel that we are debased, broken, made invalid etc. and all of that is very painful stuff. Radical Self-Acceptance We can radically avoid this with self-acceptance. The more we accept ourselves consciously as we really are, good and bad, the less we allow false self-images to grow or become a base. We may even have an image that we use in a particular relationship or in several re...

In the Moment All we Find is Mystery When delve into the moment all that we try find is mystery. we are surrounded by mysteries.  When we look at the person in front of us talking to us, we find a mystery, who really is that person and why am I in his or her life and why are they in my life. If we are alert and truly in the moment we mostly likely will not be able to find a sincere answer, hence the mystery. This is the 'don't know' mind that is honest and open, and transcends the sensual and intermediate minds. When we also look into the moment we may ask ourselves: "Why am I here, Why am I in this country? This city? What am I doing here?". Once again a real mystery. Perceiving the Mystery The important thing here is to be able to perceive the mysteries all around us and to be in awe of them. The person who does not see the mystery all around him or her is the one who is asleep. And to such a person they will find an mundane, trivial explan...

For the Consciousness In relation to the consciousness listening is more important than speaking. We see this clearly amongst the indigenous elders and in general amongst the wise men and women of each culture. Where we would hear that the wise elders would spend time listening to the ‘land’, to ‘nature’, to the ‘sea’ in an attitude of receptive learning and knowing than talking. If they spoke it was to pass on what they had heard. If silence is the eloquence of wisdom, we must conclude that those who are wise, are those who listen. Here we have a fundamental key for those aspiring to wisdom; we must learn how to listen. To listen is to study, to learn by discovery and to touch the mystery of the events of our life. Fundamental Listening is certainly an art, that now in this time and culture here in the west, is not taught nor cultivated. Yet it is fundamental to life and relationships, and even more fundamen...

Clear Sign This is a very clear sign to us, if we ever feel some kind of a pang of pain, or suffering, uncomfortable or awkward emotion we can be very sure that in that moment we are believing something that is untrue. Then it is high time for us to investigate. Investigate via the question questioning of thoughts is bound to reveal to us the untruth that we are believing in. You will find it if you question sincerely and when you do you will find that a sigh of relief, a laugh or a smile breaks out in you. End (2069).

Every Person with their Theme! One learns a lot about this, when trying to unify people to come to a decision. Everyone presents their own set of interests at a tangent from the common. It is like a bomb burst flying jet formation, with parts flying out from the centre with each part expressing its interests, reasoning, points of view etc. We have the same thing going on with us, amongst the many “I’s” that we have. Each “I” expresses it’s own particular semi-related interests. It is obvious that we need a unifier, a leader a cohesive factor to unify all of these interests into a conclusion. Luckily within us, we have our essence and within our essence is our consciousness. To unify ourselves and others and change that ‘cada loco con su tema’ situation we have to use our essence within us and appeal to eh essence of others. Using reality is a good way to do that. End (2068).

Nature Abhors a Vacuum This is a law of nature, in that there is a great tendency for nature to fill a vacuum. In physics it is well know that to obtain a vacuum much effort is needed, all because nature abhors a vacuum. It requires some discipline in our consciousness to experiment the illuminating void. So, the very same within us. When we create a void within us that void tends to be filled. If there was once love in our inner space and that love was removed then that void will be filled by something. Perhaps another love or by its opposite value – hatred, resentment etc. Dissolution is the Creation of a Void Plus the Filling of that Void So, when an ego is dissolved a void is created but thankfully it is filled with the essence that was inside that ego and now it is the free essence that fulfils that function from within our own Being. So as one thing dies in us the opposite is born equally. If we are fee...

Spanish Here you go for a bit of fun, I have half disguised the title (only half because google translate will reveal all to you) so you wouldn’t read it. But if you are, here’s a combination of half fun and half truth. A Smattering of Pride Sometimes because we are studying Gnosis, we, can come to think, that we are special and deserve a special someone, and that alone or that combined with some other beliefs, is the cause of a few odd attitudes and a few odd things to take place. More about that later on, but for now back to this issue of pride… Mind you, there are people, men and women in the spheres of human normal life, that consider themselves special because they think that they have a good looking face (they may well have even though beauty is in the eye of the beholder) or a good healthy, in-shape looking body, and because of that, they feel that they deserve someone just as good or even better etc. etc. There are people that believe because, this is normal –...

Positive and Negative Values Our karmic dealings are very mathematical. If we don’t cancel our karmic negative values with their opposite, which the positive opposite value tot eh negative value, the debt or the unbalance is paid or rectified with pain. Why Pay with Pain Sometimes we can only pay with pain, which maybe physical pain or psychological suffering. We end up having to pay with pain because we are too asleep. Too asleep to have not noticed that pain was coming and then to have corrected them, and too asleep to not have known how to counteract those errors. Progress and Karma When we have more dharma than karma in one specific area we can progress. If our karma is heavier in value than our dharma we are delayed and we find ourselves locked in a payment cycle. Each action has a karmic or dharmic value or weight. When the accumulated karmic weight of our actions outweighs our dharma we inc...

The Law Allows Us a Grace Because we are full of ego and are asleep we make mistakes, yet because we are truly working we are given a certain grace or margin in which a certain buffer is applied to us. If we stop working this buffer grows very thin and the Law begins to bear down upon us. The work on ourselves offers us a certain protection and a certain grace or buffer conceded as an act of good will from the Law. We are though watched and given a time to correct ourselves while also being allowed to move ahead. But if this does not happen then well the noose so to speak tightens. Conclusion It only makes sense to work and work! This post is not an excuse to go ahead and make mistakes. But something for us to be more conscious of in our relationship to the work, the path and the Divine law. This corresponds to the Mercy column of the Divine Law! By the way, this is not my invention, but a summary o...

Say: “I am Willing” We sometimes go through a very difficult moment with one or another ego and afterwards we say: “never again!”. After saying that we become very closed and fearful and avoiding. However, this is not the way to live, we can live like that but it is awful. It is much better to say: “I am willing” to go through it again. Why? Because it will take us back into ourselves and then back into the work on ourselves, this time in a deeper way. Saying this opens us up and it will if we remain open help us out a lot, in one enjoying our life more and two, in the case that we pass through that difficult gymnasium again, it won’t be so hard. Willing is Powerful When we are willing we get help. We have to be willing for the change and willing for our Being and the Masters to help us. A person with closed hands is difficult to grab by the hand and help and the person with a closed heart is also much more d...

A Judge of the Law and an Angel of Death Both the masters of the Law and the masters of the ray of Death wear black vestments. This indicates to us that black is not a malevolent colour when it comes to vestments. It is when it comes to auras but not necessarily when it comes to vestments. The black of the vestments of the masters of the rays of Law and Death is a very different black, it is one that even being black emits light. Malign Entities Black magicians may wear black vestments as well, logically. However, they mostly wear, we have been told, a hood. The black of the vestments of the malign is strange in that it does not emit light, or shines in a very different way to the positive, peaceful, majestic way the vestments of the beings of the rays of Law and Death shine. End (2062).

We Can… We can, with the work on ourselves perform a shift in the play of forces within ourselves. Normally Normally, we are so scared because of someone or of a coming situation, because we are going to come under the control of another person and suffer a miserable outcome. Well, it is not really that we come under the control of another person, but what happens is that we come under the control of our own karma or our own weaknesses. Examples For example, we may be scared to see a person because they will invariably insult us and because of our weaknesses we are going lose our happy state and spend most of the time while are in that event suffering. Another example could be that we try to avoid someone because they talk and talk and stick to us like glue and we are scared of our lack of capacity to be able to handle the situation. Another example could be that we are scared of someone of the opposite sex because we are weak in that area and our lust will ...

Deeper Reason Basically when someone seeks control outside of oneself the deep reason for that is a lack of inner control or inner mastery or dominion. In whatever field of life, you look at and you see a very domineering person whether it be yourself or another person, there is in that person or yourself a lack of inner dominion related to the values or qualities of the essence that are involved in that area of life. For example, all that dominating business within sexuality, that very quickly becomes one of the many branches of infra-sexuality, is due to a lack of control over ones’ own sexuality, sexual energy, desires etc. For example, those who are very pro-active and go getters can lack control of themselves in the difficult situations of life and so they are very controlling of others and circumstances so as to secure easier circumstances for themselves. End (2060).

Best Way… That's the best way to live a day. That is how we get the most out of our day and that is fulfil the cosmic duty assigned to our Monad. At this stage of our Monad’s presence in creation, It’s job which is also our job is to transform everything that comes across in this life into consciousness. Light and Fire Transmuting is transforming and the sexual transmutation is one part of this overall transmutation, but not all of it. There is also the psychological transmutation which is to extract the light from the events and happening of our life. The sexual transmutation is to extract the fire from the sexual energy. Light and fire are the result of the overall inclusive transformation or transmutation, and both are spiritual substances and qualities. The Typhon Baphomet helps us in this daily transmutation. It is He who provides us with the material to transform, both sexually and psychologically. ...

We Live There But Don’t Have to We basically live in our subconscious. But we don’t have to, we can choose to rise out of our subconscious and live in the light of day. 7 Superior Levels of Consciousness The physical dimension has 7 levels of consciousness and it is these 7 levels that we first of all must strive to live our life in, and not in the our subconscious or in other words our own abyss. We have an attentive part and an inattentive part to us. The inattentive part is the subconscious. Practice It serves us well to cut or stop or simply let go of the psychological processes that take us into our subconscious where we dream and get stuck. To live the moment takes us out of the subconscious. End (2058).

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff said that when two people talk there are not two voices but actually four. Two Out Loud and Two Inner The four voices are the two out loud voices and the other two voices are the hidden voices of our subconscious. Often our hidden voices, or internal voices or simply our subconscious contradicts our spoken, out loud voice. Inner Voices - Subconscious This subconscious voice often calculates, and plans to gets our hidden or vested interests to come to fruition. It for example, protests and tries to find a way to express our protest in an acceptable way. That is our subconscious at work. The inner voice is the realer voice. Why? Because our life is internal and that is where we really are, the real us is inside. That is why Master Samael said that what really counts is how we treat others inside of ourselves because that is the real treatment that we give to them. End (2057).

Answer Because we lack the practice of being in the moment. See Time Flies! Being in the Moment Slows Things Down Just try it. Enter the moment and stay there a short while. Be in the moment, watch your awareness of the details of the moment and the environment soon come into your focus. As your awareness increases you enter more fully the moment and then in that state time slows down and the awe, amazement and love of reality enters you. Our problem is that we live in our mind constantly projecting the future and always doing things to please the future. If we try to just ‘be’ in the moment our perception of our life and time will change. That of 'time flying' is a matter of perception! End (2056).

To Accept To accept positions of power within an institution is at some point to hand the hard end of the stick to your friends. Contradictions We may think that such a position will allow us the facility to help more. But it always turns out that the-many rules, interests, influences restrict that beautiful intention, so much so causing us to contradict even our benevolent promises that we made to ourselves and others before accepting that position. One learns the lesson", "You cannot please everyone" more than ever, and ourselves is included in that "everyone". I don’t know if the sacrifice of some of our own ethics and values is worth it, because we can’t even please ourselves in such a position. End (2055).

Inspired By This post comes from an insight from another very good Gnostic missionary. The Mercy of the Law Resides in Preparing Us The mercy of the Divine Law resides in waiting for us to become mature and ready enough to pay our karmic debts. The delay or postpone our debts until we are mature enough in consciousness to be able to pay such debts in a more conscious way. This is very merciful because in such a way we pay our debts consciously, with some pain but more importantly learning the lesson hidden within the payment of the karmic debts. The lesson is always about becoming acutely aware of the consequences of such errors and to create within ourselves the conviction to not err in that way again. To Erase our Karma is Mostly of No Help If the Divine Law were to erase our karma they would not be helping us, because then we would not learn the very important lesson hidden within our karma, and we w...