Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Scary This can be a scary theme actually. Because we can feel that it is us as a vehicle that is not going to get realised, and that the other vehicle will arrive at it instead. We can feel the fear of annihilation which is very scary.  We may even feel like a little abandoned, not being the one and only vehicle. We may even think we are in darkness becasue the Being is helping the other physical vehicle, then again what do we really know, it is just the silly human jealousy and self-love that we have projecting itself onto our inner Being. Our inner Being is justice and is above having a favourite vehicle, like a teacher's pet type of thing. That is human psychology and the Being is spirit.   I want to tell you though do not accept these type of feelings without first rigorously questioning the thoughts that generate these feelings.  Investigate Let's for a minute investigate this...  This is of course our mind thinking about something...

A Real Existing Sense There is the psychological sense to fight within us, and this sense is something very necessary in all the three spheres of life: physical, psychological and esoteric. There are some people who have this sense very well developed and fight over everything and there are others who have this sense very underdeveloped and never fight. In any case the best is the middle, where the consciousness governs, either extreme always brings trouble. This sense has a legitimate presence within us, because apart from being so necessary, it is an expression of the energy and force that we all have within us.  What is karmically and esoterically decisive, is how this sense is put to use.  This sense is very powerful and engages the energies and force we have available in all three realities. It engages our will from our spiritual sphere, it engages our mind, emotion and focus from our psychological sphere and it engages the centres and ene...

With will and imagination combined in meditation we can travel to the natural sacred sites within our microcosmos, that within ourselves - our chakras, our heart, our essence etc. Obviously these sacred sites being sacred offer us a fount of spiritual energy and a channel through which to connect in a deeper way with the Divine, the sacred energies swirling and dwelling within us. End (2638).

Many are They There are really many sacred sites on the planet Earth. Most are related to religions and indigenous peoples. There are even instances where the one site may be sacred to a number of religions but not to all religions. Such an example is the temple mount in the old city of Jerusalem. Where the mount is sacred to Judaism, Islam and also Christianity. Those sites that stand unrelated to any religion, but are sacred to indigenous people more often than not, are those that are felt by every visitor to be special, regardless of religion, race or culture. In these cases, it is the sacredness of Mother Nature that impresses the spirituality (essence) of every human being who visits. Whereas perhaps in the religions sacred sites it is the structure of beliefs held in a person that are deeply impressed, more so than the natural essence of the person. But it can also be that both, one’s belief structure and one’s essence can be impressed visiting a sacred site. Th...

Introduction The next few posts will relate to the theme of sacred sites and temples. Cosmic Life At a glance, this topic appears to be one that touches upon an aspect of cosmic life. It appears that each religion at least on the planet Earth has at least one sacred site. It also appears that each religion also has its sacred buildings (temples). Gnosis teaches us that we too have a sacred building – our very own heart temple. The axiom: “as above, so below” rings true in relation to “sacred sites and temples”. As there are sacred sites and temples on the face of the Earth (macrocosmos) there are also sacred sites and temples in the microcosmos (man). End (2636).

The Teaching A Monad can have two or more physical vehicles. The most common version of this teaching is that a Monad can have up to 7 physical vehicles. Excerpt I will find it and add it in here as soon as I can. If my memory serves me correctly I believe there is a mention of this teaching in “Perfect Matrimony” by V.M Samael Aun Weor. Examples or Anecdotes As a very concrete case, as related by m.m.m, there was a man in Gnosis who lived in Mexico, and whom Master Samael knew had his essence shared among himself and another man: the Gnostic man and another man. The Gnostic man in Mexico was a lawyer by profession and the other man whom he shared his essence with was a farmer in Colombia. An attempt was made for the lawyer to attain the essence that the farmer had, however, it happened that the Gnostic man later died, and the essence in the Gnostic man went to the farmer in Colombia. It is has also been said that Samael the Monad, the Logos, the regent of Ma...

In a documentary I was watching once about the Amish cultiure, a teenage girl was explaining why teenagers go out on the town, drink, go to bars and clubs and behave in the wreckless way that they do. The teenage girl said that they basically do that sort of thing to ‘feel good’, to ‘feel happy’, ‘to enjoy life’. Then an Amish teenage girl said if I want to feel good and happy I pray! How marvelous is that! Here we have the search for the same value. One seeking it through the outside means of ‘life’ using the wreckless, the dangerous, drink others etc. and another seeking it through the Being, through God. Always the one value can be sought in two ways - duality at work in creation. Awakening we are taught is to be able to chose. There is always a choice, between the internal - the inner Being and its self-edifying, self-dignifying and renewing means and the outside – ‘life’ with its consuming, exhausting means. End (2634).

Love is in giving, less in receiving. Receiving is a product of first having given. The completion, the joy, the rest, the peace is all in giving. The joy of love resides in the choice to help others. Authentic love is not dependent on receiving, circumstances, events etc. Love always starts in the small details, that is in small actions. To smile at a stranger even though it is so brief, is an act of love. There is love in movement in the teacher who is tired after having spent the whole day working to make the money necessary to survive, and stands up in front of a group of people to impart to them the knowledge and keys that will benefit their human and spiritual lives. We shouldn't dream of giving our life or accomplishing great acts of love if we can’t accomplish small acts of love for the same person, such as being patient, not getting annoyed, washing the dishes, etc. No real act of love is worthless, every act of love enhances our essence and brings u...

A Feeling You Say! – Ah Come On! – Think Again! More Like an Action Mate! If someone just feels love and never does anything about it then what a waste. An action is the result of thinking and feeling. An action is more complete. We love our Being and others through actions! There are so many feelings of love: “I love chocolate”, “I love yellow”, “I love my mum”, “I love palaeoanthropology” and “I love you”. All very complicated as to which feeling is really love. Is “I love chocolate” really love, that is the same love as the love for a spouse or a friend? But there is nothing clearer than action. End (2632).

Introduction I was listening to an audio book while driving to Gnosis from work and these so called five languages of love sounded through my car speakers. Even though it is not a Gnostic teaching, I find it quite practical and in my experience quite valid. So, these five languages are the languages through which we express love to others. In other words, love speaks through these five languages. In many of us, our love may already be speaking through these languages, but perhaps not all five, maybe one or two only. To know about these languages and to use them consciously I find certainly enhances our expression and giving of love to another person, people or our own Being. The Five Languages Quality Time Means to give our time, our interest and attention to a person, or even our own Being. Affirmation To affirm our love, to appreciate, to honour and this is essentially done with words and body language, as the language of the body speaks many words. ...

Drive Will Make your psychological work of dissolving the various “I’s” as your main preoccupation of your life. To do this we need to gather up our will and channel or focus it into our psychological work. To do this requires a high level of definition. This level of definition required implies clearing the way from many distractions and other unrelated occupations. Our will is finite and it gets syphoned off into many other distractions and activities. Then we lack the will to move forward. We have to focus and guard our will by clearing the way. Constantly! Our will is always caught up in something. It is always driving, hoping, desiring towards something. There is always a main drive in our life. The key to move forward is to make what we want to progress in our main drive. To rise to the dimension of will in ourselves is to rise to come to rule over our psychology. Consciousness and will operate together constantly within our psychology and they...

Outline 1. Why Study Anthropology? 2. Importance of the Origin of Man to Us 3. Darwinian Theories of the Origin of Man 4. Effects of the Darwinian Theories on Man 5. Origin of Man According to Gnosis 6. Unfolding of Man According to Gnosis 7. Important Events in the Unfolding of Man on Earth 8. Rise of the Intellectual Animal 9. Intellectual Animal and Humanity 10. Implications of the Intellectual Animal 11. Extinction of the Intellectual Animal 12. Humanzee Attempts in Science 13. Intellectual Animal and the Path 14. ... Note These post titles may change slightly or the list of titles to be added to in time. End (2629).

We have created our biggest weaknesses and because they are so big they have so much of our previous energy trapped within them. So, when we unravel and free this trapped energy we will have transmuted that enormous weakness into a great strength of ours. Always our greatest weakness with work becomes our greatest strengths. So be so happy if you find a great weakness and be even happier when you go to work on it. Because your greatest strength is coming! End (2628).

The biggest help to you in your Gnostic studies is to try and understand what of the teachings really baffles you. When you make the effort to understand what baffles you, you will receive the most light or understanding about the teachings you have ever received. There is a terrific guidance and messages of instruction in what baffles, bothers and disturbs us in the teachings, in life and in our relationships with others. If we pay attention to these disturbances, instead of avoiding them, we can really help ourselves to progress in our development. So many times the guidance that we seek is present right here and now in what we dislike, reject, are confused about, baffled by and are ignorance of. Seek these out and you will have the guidance and light you require. End (2627).

When we have a reason for not doing something and that reason is something that is not really acceptable (illogical, absurd, silly, invalid like fear, jealousy, resentment etc.) or it is something that we can’t really express out loud (because it would cause big trouble) then what we do to cover that subconscious reason is to fabricate a lie. We fabricate a lie to cover up the subconscious reason (keep it hidden) and make the fact that we are not doing something or are doing something acceptable or forgivable. Lies are a bridge between our subconscious and what is seen to be acceptable or forgivable. It is very good to know this mechanism of lying, because human beings use this mechanism continuously – daily in fact. End (2626).

Passive Keeping our personality passive is best done when we know how to do it – of course – pretty obvious nothing new there! The thing is though that we mostly don’t know how to do it, but we really want to. So then, to do it, we have to know when our personality is active. To know when it is active we must first of all know our personality. Knowing when our personality is active is about knowing when what constitutes our personality is active. That is, if we know the characteristics and properties of the personality we can know when they are active in us, and then therefore we can know when the personality is active in us. So here is a little list of some of the properties of the personality. Name Role Job Nationality Social Class Marital Status Country Education Religion Traditions Upbringing Sympathy with personal likes and circumstances Preoccupations Vanity Reputation Personal likes and dislikes Human life matters Fashion Personal traits and cha...

In a retreat last year we were all taught a very nice and simple technique to lower our heart rate. The technique is to relax and begin to breathe. Breathing out for a longer duration than you breathe in for. Here are some photos showing my results of practicing this. Here is my heart rate at work. Here is my new heat rate after deliberately relaxing and breathing out for a longer duration than what I breathed in for. I did this for only a few minutes. Such a change ~ 25% decrease. Master Samael taught that we all have a determined number of heart beats. So, it implies the slower our heart rate the more we prolong our physical life. So the key is to relax, relax and relax and breathe out long and slow to drop your heart rate. End (2624).

‘Being’ is higher than ‘having’. In many ways and from within many egos we have to transform ‘having’ into ‘being’. Many egos are about ‘having’. Lust is certainly one of those egos. When we truly transmute we actually leave behind the having of lust and embrace ‘the being’ and this takes us more into our Being. End (2623).

When we remember our Being or we practice some kind of self-remembering it is always reacted to remembering our origin of some kind. When we remember our Being we remember always our source, our origin from which we replenish ourselves with renewed energy, light and strength. We have many origins in time. All of our origins in creation are relative, though the primordial Absolute origin is our inner Being. End (2622).

Two Ways Master Samael suggested not in the same talk but in various talks, that to keep our consciousness active we can practice these two keys. One is definitely more difficult than the other to apply. Passive Personality If we are able to keep our personality passive we can keep can provide access for our consciousness to take place in us. Keeping the personality passive also keeps the mind passive. Don't Allow Mind and Emotion to Interfere with the Practical Matters of Life This is very difficult, because when things are close to us we get emotional and we decide based on our emotions and we get very involved. To not get involved emotionally but to act with our consciousness is the way to apply this key. End (2621).

Language Each centre has its language as I have mentioned in a previous post. There is the language of emotion, the language of action and the language of the intellect. The language of the superior centres is symbolic. That is why we really the consciousness active in ourselves to communicate and understand these two centres. We mostly come into contact with the language of the superior centres in dreams and in meditation. When we see a symbol in our imagination while in meditation or when we see certain symbols or archetypes in our dreams we are witnessing the language of the superior centres. Contacting the Superior Centres In order to make contact with the superior centres we need Master Samael says to make our personality passive. If we wish to live in continuous contact with the superior centres then we must dissolve the ego and the personality. End (2620).

Alchemy Master Samael says that the book of Genesis in the bible is all about the processes and works of Alchemy. It is not an account of the way the cosmos was created. Master Samael says to take it literally and use it to investigate or explain the creation of the solar system is erred.  To match Genesis in the bible with what is known in science is may bring to light some similarities and insight, but only ever up to a certain point, because they are two different things. The Alchemy is the Alchemy and it does not account for the many events that took place during creation.  In other words the book of Genesis in the bible is not to be taken literally.  End (5319).

Introduction We went to a retreat today and some really very helpful talks were presented. This is a snippet from one of the talks. Our Body Heals Itself and We Can't Change That If our body is injured then our body using the intelligence installed into the body's instinctive centre, will heal itself. This happens fully automatically. We can say that this is the body's responsibility to heal itself.  What is really ours and is us, is our psyche. We can change, modify our psyche and make it worse or better and it is totally our own responsibility to take care of it, healing it and transforming it. If we don't work on it then it does not get better or heal itself or rejuvenate itself. Like how the body does. What we can really have inner or innate power over, is our psyche.  One day though when our consciousness extends over our physical body, it too we become part of what we can modify. Our body is a gift but our psyche is what is us, and taking...

Will is Determinant Will and self-remembering keeps your consciousness active. As soon as we lose our will to work on ourselves and keep up our efforts to awaken we begin to lose our grip on our consciousness and our consciousness begins to lose its intensity, and we forget the work and we fall asleep. Conclusion We need will, we can't forget about will. It is a causative power in us and it is determinant in our path and for that matter everything that we wish to succeed in.  The Being that has captured will, is one that will triumph. End (2617).

Perhaps we are not aware of it, but in working on ourselves esoterically we have accepted that we have an origin other than the Darwinian Theory and any other commonplace offshoot of such a theory. To work on ourselves means that we have a destination. In the esoteric work that destination is our very origin. The work is a return to our pristine point of departure. Time after all is a closed circle. The Universe is that way where all returns to its origin. A person who believes in evolution as their origin is one who also believes in linear time. Such a person will not believe a future cataclysm or a cycle of time ending. Sorry don't think so... I find it very difficult that a person working on themselves esoterically believes that their origin lies in a process of evolution from a starting point of an ape, fish or the likes. The theme of the origin of man is central in the background of the work. Because man has a divine origin and because time is roun...

Master Samael says that when an essence descends from the Absolute into creation, that essence does not start off in the humanoid state, but rather in the mineral state. After countless processes of evolution as a mineral, vegetable and animal, the essence of that Monad rises up to occupy the humanoid state. That is become a human being. In short then, even the essence and the Monad start off at the bottom and work their patiently upwards. This seems to be a law of nature and life. Start at the bottom at the foundations and work your way up. Of course, the egos of impatience and ambition really wish to bypass that law. As is very typical of pride. The worst enemy of pride is justice says Master Samael. End (2615).

Willing Upward Willing our energy upwards within our interior causes our mercury which is our transmuted energy to spiral upwards within our interior. This is a very important point. To will with yearning our energy to rise within ourselves. This way we give our energy an upwards path within us, where it can move, open and positively modify create and modify things within the higher realms of our interior. This is in stark contrast to when the energy precipitates downwards where it causes new abdominal creations to form in the deep and dark places of our lower dimensions (abyss), and new motivations to be moved. Our Mercury with wings on, can reach our essence, our consciousness and the parts of our Being. To transmute is to give a precious offering to our inner Being. This is the direct and exact opposite of the ego of fornication that erroneously thinks it is giving but in reality it is not giving anything, it is wasting senselessly, because no one ben...

We think that someone is against us. The fact is that we think it. Before we think we feel fine, not a single problem exists. As soon as we think it, strange unsettling emotions and problems set in. We think to ourselves negatively, with a logic and charge from our subconscious. If we can study and know that subconscious thought we can stop hurting ourselves with that thought. The other aspect to work on is once the thought has been thought, then to not believe it. To question it and find evidence against it. If our evidence does show that the person is indeed against us, well we have to then appeal to reality and see that another person being against us does not damage us in our Being and it only damages us psychologically if we allow it. That is if we do not work on it and we do not free enough will from it to extract ourselves out of any negativity dungeon that one or another ego would drag us into. When we see reality we can deal with things in a much better way. ...

Proposal The proposal is to delve into the area of Gnostic Anthropology, and to present what is learnt in a series of posts.  The reason to delve into a study of Gnostic Anthropology is because this area of study investigates the origin of man. This area of the origin of man is one which concerns all of us, and it is one in which most of us are asleep. As we awaken by areas, this is one area in which we can also awaken… In fact I wish to show through some posts how the ideas and concepts of the origin of man have some really far reaching ramifications in science, religion, philosophy and more importantly our very own life. End (2612).

Get Behind the Master A master is the best help for a group of people wanting their self-realisation. When a neophyte becomes an initiate and that initiate attains mastery and that master then completes the Great Work, many doors are laid open for those who are behind. The doors to enter the path, to become an initiate, to attain mastery and to possess the philosophers’ stone are opened. Such a person opens a channel, very much like a slipstream. Which drags those who are behind him or her upwards towards the path and the Being. Such a master brings to the people who are behind him or her the real possibilities of entering the path. The keys to work the heaviest egos in the most efficient way, the impetus the strive to reach the path and the Being and the unspoken instruction and teaching of how to live the path. Clearly before Master Samael attained Mastery the way to the path was practically closed to humanity. He brought to us the reason, the impetus and the ke...

Seven Minds Master Samael says that we have seven minds. In each of our seven centres is a mind. This is really amazing. Master Samael says that our intellectual centre is a mind and our emotional centre is a mind. Our motor, instinctive and sexual centres are also a mind. Read on for more info about this… If there is a Mind There Must be Thinking So if each centre has a mind, then each centre must think, and indeed they do. Master Samael says that the seven minds are synthesised in the mental body and each mind expresses itself through the mental body. In other words, each centre thinks through our mind. When each centre thinks it thinks with a particular language and indeed, we have very intellectual language, very emotional language, very definite action based language and sexual language. To Think, Logic or Parameters are Needed How does each mind or centre think? The answer is by virtue of parameters as always, and these parameters are their f...