Gnostic Wisdom

Stuck in Limbo The word ‘limbo’ in common usage means ‘to be in between’ or ‘stuck’, and it usually implies having to wait. Esoterically this is true, though there is much more to it than that. This post attempts to present what Gnosis reveals about Limbo and why it may be relevant to us. A Region Limbo is a real physical location as well as an internal dimension. Which sounds strange doesn’t it, how could Limbo be both a physical region and an internal dimension at the same time? Well read on… Both Dante and Master Samael locate Limbo in the first Dantean circle or the first infra-dimension of the planet Earth.  What we mean by infra-dimension is that within the planet Earth there are particular layers to the inferior side of its psychology. Yes that’s right I just said that the planet has a psychology. The planet Earth also has it superior dimensions which are the various layers to the superior side of its psychology. I say psychology because what Dante a...

Short Answer Basically because we deny those things to ourselves when fear or anxiety is in our human machine. Read on though, to understand why… Fear Produces Anxiety Fear produces anxiety, and anxiety is about the anticipation of the negative effects that the consequences of something will have on us.  That something could be unknown to us, residing deep within our subconscious or something that we do know about such as an error that we have committed or a difficult upcoming circumstance.  In the anxious state there is a constant intruding type of "bad news'' thought, in which we think and feel that we don't deserve happiness, wellness and that includes the ability to eat and sleep. We feel that we can not have life, that it must be deprived of us or degraded somehow, and so as life is to enjoy eating, sleeping, relaxing, walking, being with friends, talking, joking etc. our ability to eat and sleep is taken from us by our own selves. It is Our ...

Still Have Time? People-remain as they are because they believe they will have time in the future to correct and change themselves and make reparations for their past. However, the problem is, that people keep believing that until the day they die, and by then it is too late. People do this because of the sleeping consciousness. Even if we are not completely awake we can be awake to this point and try our best to avoid that lament. I don't want to make that error, nor do I want you or anyone else to make that error, either. End (2255).

Clarification of Terms In Gnosis when the word individual is used, it is used to refer an inner state. Not to a person who physically stands alone. It is more about a person who within him or herself, that is, within their own psychology, they are an individual. Meaning that their essence stands alone, separate from their egos, and to find someone like this, is a rare find. Such a person has a sufficient enough degree of development of his or her consciousness so to be able to decide and act independently of any "I”. It does not refer to being a loner, or distant and separate from people. But to have our consciousness isolated and separate from the various “I’s” that we may have. In More Detail In Gnosis, individuality begins to be created within a person when the same person is separate or independent from the various interests, desires, impulses from the various “I’s” that the person has, as well as the patterns of thinking and feeling created by customs, trad...

Happened to Master Samael Do you remember that experience that Master Samael narrates in the book “Yes” where he was a teenager and after spending the night drinking at a party, he had an experience with his Real Being in the astral, where he saw himself at a table where a drunken feast was being celebrated and then his inner Being laid out a white sheet and whipped him mercilessly with a thick chain, asking him “You are my human soul will you work for me?”. Applies to Us That experience and decision applies to us just as well. Have we decided to work for our Being yet? Many of you have already decided. Though there are those that havn’t yet. One should not be scared to do so, especially if one has cleared much of his or her life for the Being. Because the work for and with the Being is only fulfilment and happiness. It is nothing of that which may wrongly scare us. If a person is serious about their work they will decide to take up the work for the Being and to f...

No Astral Psychology Yet A reason why people have difficult with astral unfolding and in staying in the astral when they wake up there is because they are not fully comfortable yet with the astral psychology. Each Dimension Has a Psychology Each dimension has a particular psychology or mind set or frame of mind. This is because each dimension has different laws and each dimension has particular correspondences and properties related to our own psychology. For example the astral is related to our emotions. If we can not switch to the psychology of positive emotion we will find astral unfolding difficult. If we, while we are in the astral think very materialistically and intellectually we will gravitate straight away to our physical body. Positive Emotion The astral psychology is about unfolding positive emotion and being able to be cantered in that. Of course the astral psychology is emotionally comfortable with the less number of laws, such as the difference betw...

Whenever there is a Problem… Whenever there is a problem in one’s sexuality due to the “I’s” of lust it is always because the sexual centre has divorced itself from intellect and emotion and is tending to or is rogue. For the most part, at least a part of the intellectual and emotional centres do not want the person to participate in the escapade of lust. Sometimes these two centres are mostly against the escapade. Yet the sexual brain or centre is fully willing to go ahead with the escapade. This important observation shows us that the problem lies in the rogue sexual centre not being reigned in by the person’s will acting through their intellectual and emotional centres. If we know the problem we then know the remedy. The remedy lies in joining all three brains or aligning all three brains into one, one purpose, one way of functioning. Sexual Centre Needs Guidance The sexual force is blind and needs guidance and direction. The intellect and the emotion are what have to g...

Creative Energy The sexual energy is the energy of creation, and creation itself is movement, expansion, unfolding, development, action etc. Therefore the agent of creation – the sexual energy must be of the same nature.  That is why Master Samael said that the sexual energy is volatile and difficult to store. Because it is dynamic and it holds the qualities of creation. The prime function of the sexual energy is to create. Therefore deep within our sexual impulses, is the impulse or anxiousness to create, and once something has been created, a pause (magnetic pause) or a certain repose ensues. Psychologically that deeply inherent impulse within the sexual impulse can take the form of anxiousness to create and contentment that the sexual energy has been used to create. In other words for the sexual energy to be used to create and the repose is the contentment that the sexual energy has reached its potential. Three Creations We can create in three ways using th...

A Common Situation Often when we are in the midst of people, in a happy environment and we receive many impressions, we are drawn to go along with those impressions and if there is any influence present that is inline with the many impressions that we receive, we are even more drawn to go along with the impressions. The interesting moment is when one is by oneself left to face the reality or consequences of what one has gone along with. Then that is when we really feel deceived by ourselves. In all these cases we think that we are doing something good. Sometimes we know that it is not right for us or that it is simply not right. The interesting thing is that the impressions, environment and influences have the power to override that feeling in us. Decide when Alone The best or more objective way to decide something is to be by oneself for a while and then allow the decision to come from inside of one not bein...

Psychological House We all have our psychological house. What is our like? Is it tidy and orderly? Are there unpleasant guests staying? Master Samael said that he would review his psychological house constantly paying special attention to any unwanted guests. Clean House Organising our mind, cleaning out useless and wrong concepts, transforming impressions and working on those unwanted guests (heavy egos) keeps our house tidy. In relation to those unwanted guests until they are eliminated we can only kick them out and clean up after them. The longer we keep them out the cleaner our house will be. End (2248).

Introduction Master Samael does a wonderful job here of clearing up the question of mummification. What knowledge! Excerpt “There are two types of mummy; one of these types relates to the dead whose cadavers were submitted to the processes of mummification, and the other to the dead in a state of “catalepsy”. There was a very special secret related to mummification; the brain, viscera and heart had to be removed. These were preserved in sacred vessels, and in the space left by the heart a Sacred Cow of gold and the attributes of Hathor were placed. The bodies were preserved due to the fact that the Egyptians maintained the Etheric Body. An ingenious form of dressing was used by them upon the chakras, on the palms of the hands, and in the arches of the feet. Honey from the bees helped to conserve the mummy, and upon it were placed the Elemental Genii to care for the mummy. These were placed under the protection of Keb, ...

Introduction It is really good to let the Venerable Master Sanat Kumara know, with a prayer from time to time that you are here and that you want the path or that you want to move along the path or that we want to return to the path. Master Samael says that the Venerable Master Sanat Kumara is the founder and head of the college of initiates of the white lodge. He is also the one that confers the initiations (from the third major initiation onwards) to the initiate. Excerpts “Sanat Kumára, the founder of the Great College of Initiates of the White Lodge, is another living Christ” “The supreme ceremony of the third initiation is received with the Christ Astral. Upon the altar appears Sanät Kumara the Ancient of the Days, to confer upon us the initiation.” “In the world of the mind Sanat Kumära always welcomes the candidate saying, “You have liberated yourself from the four bodies of sin. You are a Buddha. You have e...

The Essence is Immortal First thing is first, our essence is immortal and on that level we are already immortal. All human beings are immortal on the level of essence and Monad. Though the concerning issue is the immortality of the physical body, which is the type of immortality that the great masters of the past achieved such as Cogliostro, Count Saint Germain, Nicholas Flammel, Fulcanelli, Dante Allegeri, Babaji, Mataji etc. Alas, that type of immortality is not for a single person. The completion of the Great Work is needed, implying many years of Alchemical work. Then the Closest Is? The closest a single person can get to this type of immortality is to have developed his or her essence and consciousness so much that they are given another chance in the next life to continue doing their work, finding all the conditions necessary to complete the Great Work. The key factor is to work psychologically to devel...

Generally Refers to Transformation, Ending or Psychological Death Seeing a setting sun in a dream or meditation means that something must end so that something else can be rise anew (sunrise). Every sunset is linked to a sunrise. It is just like life and death. Life takes one to death and death takes on to life. Basically, we can not see death without life. If something is to die in us then something else will be born in us. What the Sun Sets Over is what is Important What the sun is setting over tells us what specifically must end in us for something else to be born. If the sun sets over the waters, then something related to our sexuality must undergo transformation. If the sun sets over a city, then we must work more on our attachment to life and our personality.  If the sun sets over the coast then we need to work on the more visible aspects of the ego.  If the sun sets over a country landscape then i...

Good for us to Know this Our very own essence and Being is not at odds with the Law and all the laws of the cosmos. Including the laws of life and death, return, recurrence etc. Our very own essence trusts in these laws and harmonises itself with them. It does not fight death nor fear it! It tries to die consciously! It is only us: our mind and egos, that due to our ignorance of the above point (essence harmonises with the Law) that we fight, rebel and suffer when there is no other possibility open to us. Hold On! But hold on, the law of revolution also exists, the law of sacrifice also exists and the principles that a superior principle washes away and inferior one, also exists. Our essence too when given the impulse by its Monad, jumps and screams out for joy for the chance to give itself to these other Laws, namely: revolution (of consciousness) and sacrifice. End (2243).

Angry, Annoyed, Worried, Scared… It is not an easy time when our loved ones get sick. Whether that be our parents, brothers, sisters or friends. It is even worse when that sickness looks like it will or may take them to that which we don’t want to consider. We may feel any or more of the above strong emotions. From our Gnostic work point of view such a time is a chance for us to produce within ourselves the noblest act of transformation whose result is a love that changes everything inside of us and blesses, protects, heals, comforts and a brings comforting peace closer. Accept As hard as it is, accepting is the first thing to do to transform all these emotions into that love from our essence that I mentioned above. This can be such a huge task, such a huge thing to do. But to not do it is to deny ourselves the grace of the love that can flow so beautifully and powerfully out of heart for them. Everyone has to die, everyone has to pay some karma as some point. Do ...

Sorry – An Awful Post Sorry in advance, this is an unpleasant post. None the less a post to reveal more about the nature of the ego that may be useful to derive a kick of motivation to push a bit harder in the psychological work. Really? This may not seem to be true: that each ego is an abyss - a psychological abyss, that is. But to those with the experience it is true. One only knows it to be true when one is engulfed by an ego. This being engulfed by an ego may perhaps occur for reasons due to one’s own doing or for a special reason that escapes our immediate comprehension, but for whatever reason it has occurred, it is a chance of our life time for us to realise much about the ego and to use those realisations to catapult us out of that abyss. When… Basically when the identification with that ego is great (three brains or even just intellect and emotion) and we live with that identification, then we fully enter the abyss of that ego and we realise that we are t...

We Develop it in Gnosis In the work on ourselves we come across at some point the need to develop what Master Samael calls psychological thinking. Which in a nutshell is to think by virtue of our psychological work. What I want to do with this post is to just define the term: 'psychological thinking'. Normal Thinking - By Virtue of Physicality Our normal way of thinking is to just think by virtue of our senses, sensations and the way things in the three dimensions interact. There is not much involvement of values or ethics. The problem a Gnostic instructor fights against with his or her students, is this way of thinking in relation to sexuality and to esotericism. If people think about sexuality only in terms of senses and sensations and they discern between wrong and right based only on what pleases the senses, it will be so difficult for such a person to accept supra-sexuality. Because everything that pleases the senses is good to them but within the psy...

Annoyed We are terrible with our annoyances and anger.  It is very easy to see in so many people that we easily get annoyed when another person, coughs, sneezes, burps, breaks wind, clears their throat, eats, drinks, rubs their eyes, picks their nose, fixes their hair etc. etc. Annoyance Arises Because If we observe the annoyance or anger that arises we can see that we are taking that body reaction of another person to be something against us, as if it is something that is harming us or ill-affecting us in someway.  This is really ridiculous because these things are not at all harming us or ill-affecting us and they are not done with the purpose to affect us either. Coughing or sneezing or burping does not have anything to do with us it is about their body's instinctive centre.   we may see them as stupid doing these things but it is actually the intelligence of their instinctive centre operating here. There is a reason why they are doing th...

An Observation on the Five Senses We have the five senses, which we can break up into two groups. One group with sight and hearing and the other group with touch, smell and taste. The difference between these two groups is that one group of senses works in close range and the other works at a distance. To taste, smell and touch we have to come into close contact with the things that we can taste, smell and touch. Whereas with hearing and sight we can see and hear things from a long distance and not have to come into close contact with those things. We also have the superior octave of sight and hearing in the spiritual faculties of clairvoyance and clairaudience. We can say that sight and hearing are less instinctive in nature because they do not require that very material or bodily contact. Perhaps we can even say that they are superior in some regard to the senses of taste, smell and touch. This is not at all to say that we should disregard the importance of taste,...