Gnosis Wisdom

Read Time: 30 seconds ⏳ The body is something that is left behind...  The essence leaves and carries on with its cosmic and terrestrial life. That is the person, the essence, the inner person, that is the beauty and loving part of any person - the essence. Death does not conquer the essence, only the body. But the body is lifeless without the essence. We usually feel sorry for the person who has died but only their essence has separated from their body. Their body was always like that - a suit of flesh and bone. But their essence is the same, better off now even - free! Death interrupts our line of life.. When a person has an immortal body then there line of life is no longer interrupted.  Because we have the ego we are interrupted but without the ego we can continue our line without interruption... End (2917).

Read Time: 25 seconds ⏰ When a person wakes up they open their eyes and see. So when we wake up in the way of our consciousness waking up, we see with our consciousness. When we see with our consciousness we see the things that our eyes don't see.  We see deep within ourselves, we see behind our thoughts, we see the consequences of our actions, we see our past now, we see the good in the bad and the bad in the good, we see the balance, we see the darkness, and we see the light... And it goes on... We must switch often between flood light consciousness and spot light consciousness. Because with spot light consciousness we miss many things happening around us and how we are affecting others and with flood light consciousness we miss details.    End (2916).

Read Time: 1 minute 15 seconds ⏰ Unity, Protection, Circuit... Circles are magic and are used in magic. Principally in invocations.  We have all probably heard of the magic circle of protection, and have seen images of a magician inside a magic circle reciting a magical invocation... The Absolute is depicted by a circle. Life is depicted by a circle, time is round, planets are round, karma is round, creation is round, space is round... Magic Circle of Fire in the Hanuman (Monkey God)  Blessing Ceremony in Bali A circle indicates the beginning and the end as well as completeness, unity and sealing or enclosing. Sexuality is symbolised by a circle with a dot in the middle. When a circle is formed unity is created. When hands touch something is created, just as when two hands shake: trust, friendship are made and an agreement is struck.   A circle of people joined by holding hands creates something... The first magic is unity. A ...

Read Time: 30 seconds  ⏳ No doubt we have spoken languages other than English in our past lives. However, the question remains how is it that when we remember our past lives we remember in English? When we were in our past life we thought in the language that we spoke and so when we remember our thoughts in our past life we remember them in English. How does that work?  Easy, as our consciousness remembers our past it translates what it is understood and felt through our inner mind into English. End (2914).

Read Time: 1 minute ⏱ Balance is a feat of consciousness, an achievement or a result of consciousness. Every achievement of consciousness is takes conscious and voluntarily effort. Meaning it has a certain cost.  Balance is the result of the conscious contrast of the two opposites. That is bringing the two opposites together, taking the good and bad of one side and the good and bad of the other side and forming based on lived experience a new point - the balance point. Which floats above the two opposites.  Floating above has the advantage of seeing the zone where both sides begin. This vantage point allows one to navigate so to maintain the balance.  Sometimes to find the balance we have to get unbalanced. For a while the unbalance is fine but there comes a point where it begins to hurt. This hurt plus the pain and effort to correct it is what costs. The result of the correction to balance is consciousness and the wisdom based conviction to keep the b...

Read Time: 30 seconds  ⌚ Why? Why do we concentrate? Good to know why. If we are not sure why we won't put effort into developing our ability to concentrate. Penetrate We need concentration to penetrate into something. Especially our own subconsciousness, the flavour of an ego, any kind of vague or mysterious subject. Become We need concentration to become something that is to transfer our free essence into something. Connect To communicate, to listen, to invoke, to call, to pray, to find or reach our Divine Mother etc. End (2912).

Read Time: 15 seconds ⏱ By far psychological space and the ocean. Because these are the things that we can transfer our free essence into and become them, and learn and experience things from them when we are one with them. What is your favourite thing to concentrate on? If you have a favourite thing make it your magic lever of concentration to help you develop concentration.  In some of the posts to follow I am going to present some practices, methods an techniques through which you can develop concentration.  End (2911).

Reading Time: 10 seconds ⏳ Being in a state of concentrated attention or concentrated thought exercises our will and this allows more energy of will to flow to us. Resulting in having more energy and more will. That is will in the sphere of the mind and will in the sphere of will. How are the powers developed? Does not concentration have a lot to do with that. End (2910).

Read Time: 30 seconds ⏲ We need it to see into our abyss, we need it to practice Alchemy, we need it to pray, we need it to meditate we need it for anything where some control or depth or retention is required. Without it we are severely handicapped. It is best I have found to work on developing concentration. Then as soon as a good level has been attained then go into life practicing it. To think that you can develop it in life, sounds good but it does not really work out. You can spend years thinking that way and not getting very far, but as soon as you reverse it you make more progress in one month than what you have made in several years. End (2909).

Read Time: 1 minute 45 seconds ⌚ Introduction There are several types of concentration. There is a life concentration and the technical concentration of the mind. There is also dual concentration and then non-dual concentration, and there maybe some other types but these four types will suffice for now. Mind and Life We can learn how to concentrate our mind on something like a pin head for example. And we may be able to concentrate our attention on it for a decent length of time. That is good, but we may not be able to concentrate our life. We may be so distracted in our life that we don't regularly practice and so even though we can concentrate our mind we do not get anywhere in life or in the path. We may be able to concentrate our life but not be able to concentrate our mind on something for long. We can still arrive at results in our life and path. But if we combine both we go far and quickly. Dual and Non-Dual Usually we concentrate on something s...

Read Time: 30 seconds ⏱ Not having concentration means to be on the surface of everything and not being able to penetrate into anything. Master Rabalu said that all of Master Samael's practices work, if we have concentration. So the reason why many of our practices don't work is becasue we lack concentration. Both Master Samael and Master Rabalu for certain had a high degree of concentration. Concentration image. Concentration makes the difference between us being useless in our practices and being effective. My conclusion is that we need to be able to concentrate well. If we have weak concentration then we need to do something to improve our ability to concentrate very promptly, YESTERDAY!!! End (2906).

Read Time: 1 minute ⏱ Principle Concentration works on the principle of bringing force to one point. Hence the term associated with concentration is one-pointedness. If we have a sharpened spike and we press down on it we can easily drive it into the ground. This is becasue the sharpened spike has been sharpened to a point and nearly all the downward force that we apply goes directly to that one point and something happens. If the spike is not sharpened to a point then the downward force that we apply goes to a flat surface that is spread out and it will be really difficult to drive a blunt spike into the ground. So the same principle applies to our mind and will. Our will is our driving force and our mind is the spike, that is the instrument that channels or organises our will. So one-pointedness is a matter of our mind.  When we concentrate our mind all of our will and energy and also consciousness is applied and our chances of a result or of somet...

Read Time: 15 seconds ⏱ Well we don't remember them do we. We are not left with the details of any of the languages that we spoke but only with an affinity for that language. Perhaps even with a natural aptitude for that language, a natural understanding even of how it works and an ease of learning. End (2905).

Read Time: 40 seconds ⏱ An Esotericist is a Polyglot In truth, a real esotericist speaks several languages. The esotericists of the past knew Sanskrit, ancient Greek, Latin etc. But besides that the esotericist learns to move within the language of symbols, the language of the consciousness, the language of each centre and of course the sacred or universal language. So really an esotericist is a kind of polyglot but in a unconventional sense. Personality Thinks No More Languages The personality rejects vehemently learning another language. It self-protects by thinking that I don't need it and it we don't foreign people and cultures here and I don't like it. For sure each country needs a little bit of that kind of person to protect the interests of the country in some regards blah blah, but for an esotericist that is not really the right way of thinking. Learning another language makes you more universal, it enriches one's knowledge and expands one's a...

Read Time: 50 seconds ⏰ Spot Light, Flood Light and Laser Master Samael says that the consciousness is point of light. This one sentence tells us so many different things. Imagine we are at the beach at night and there in the distance we see a point of light. Modern physics would tell us that some of the rays of light from that light manage to enter our eyes allowing us to see that distant point of light, but we don't know much about that light. We only know that is a light. However, if we were to jump into a boat and travel toward that light eventually we would end up finding the light and if we were to go close to it we would be bathed in that light. Being in that light we can then know a lot about the light itself. That is, what it contains, its intensity, its colour, its quality etc. So our consciousness is like that, it has a quality, it contains awareness about different fields, one can enter into it, it has an intensity and it can be like a spotl...

Read Time: 1 minute 40 seconds ⌛ Introduction Normally people say seeing is believing. That statement is for the sensory mind, for every man and his dog. But for the free essence: believing is seeing.  For example, when concentrating on water, say the ocean, we can use our imagination to become water and if we do this well we begin to see in our imagination. As, 'to be' is 'to see'.  To Be is To See To be something we must be seeing as that something. To be a human being is complete when we see as a human being. To be a lion is complete when the lion sees as a lion, and sees itself as a lion. The two go hand in hand seeing and being. But of course being is more transcendental and is above, beyond and deeper than seeing. This brings into account, that 'to be' is 'to see' correctly. We can not be our consciousness or essence unless we do not see it or understand that that is what we are. There are human beings that see themselves a...

Read Time: 1 minute 10 seconds ⏱ Come to this Life For... We come to this current life for several reasons and with several charges (duties). Here are some reasons why we have this life: ●To learn and mature. That is, primarily for the essence to learn and mature. The Monad also learns as the essence matures and learns. ●To prepare for the future. This obviously pertains to a greater plan of the Monad and the Divine Law. ●To complete certain works or processes that were left incomplete or failed. Our self-realisation is one of them. ●To compensate in many different areas of life and through many different stages and events of life. ●To receive compensation owing. ●To forgive and to seek forgiveness. ●To heal, repair many different kinds of relationships, with ourselves and our values, with our interior Divinity, with others, with nature... End (2901).

It is so convenient that we practice at the same time each day. It is like magnetism.  I say this because when we sit down or kneel to do our practice we can feel straight away the continuity.  We know where we were up to yesterday and we continue where we left off. It is just like as if we were a magnet. We attract to us the knowledge of where we are up to. Using this way of practicing, we bring the practice as a thread or a line into our life. In other words, it begins to link into our life. And it brings our life into it and we become more connected to the practice. Using this link into our life that we create, we can drive deeper into the practice and see the results of the practice in our life. This is the power of the link that we create through constant practice. If for example a person is doing a mystical practice concentrating on their inner Being each day, they are very wise, because by the power of the link created by constant everyday same ti...

See you at Yelo 6:15am Friday and Saturday celebrating with coffee. End (2899).

There are several past life triggers that can give us a sense of the places and events we lived through in our past lives. Of course movies and books are tremendous triggers. Certain scents are also acute triggers. Our travels are another indication. In this modern day where travel is quite readily available, the places we visit are usually the places we have lived in. We carry many blocks within us from the past and as we carry them through one life to the next, when we work on them they have a great quantity of energy that can be released and returned to us. End (2898).

Reading Time: 1 minute ⏲ Major Virtue and Defect M.m.m says that our major virtue and defect come from high up within our Being, like from the top of the Tree of Life. He says that our major defect is our P.P.P and therefore our major virtue is the opposite of that. The P.P.P of many people is pride and so the major virtue is balance, majesty and dignity. So then the major thing to do in life would be to also exercise the major virtue which is essentially in the case of pride - balance. We would always need to balance our force, our energy, our patience, pour emotion, our words, our will, our mind, our love, our enthusiasms, our sexuality, etc. etc. Another major defect is lust and so the major virtue behind lust would be to transmute, that is always consciously transforming something inferior to something superior. Taking something up to the Being within us. This teaching is fabulous as it gives added meaning and clear didactic purpose and action to one'...

Reading Time: 25 seconds ⏱ Hate Being Lied to Right We all don't like being lied to. It can be something of ill-will in some situations. So to fantasize is really to lie to ourselves. Lies never work out.  When we fantasize we are believing it and when we believe the fantasy we are drugging ourselves. In other words being unkind to ourselves, that is not acting with good will to ourselves. Just as if someone was lying to us and leading us astray! So we lead ourselves astray as well. Primarily through fantasy. End (2896).

Read Time: 35 seconds  ⏱ When a bothersome though arises, don't go too deep into it. Stay above it examining it without thought with concentrated focus of your consciousness. Going into it gets you lost in it and no light comes out of that. Hovering above it within the space of your psychology, examining it, puts you above where you can see and get light from it. So focus on the thought and feeling, and naturally insight and a new perspective and a new way of thinking or seeing it will appear in you and this is creative comprehension. This works, you just need the ability to concentrate or focus. End (2895).

Read Time:  1 minute flat ⏱ MAMA PAPA The mantra MAMA PAPA Master Samael says is excellent to remember our childhood. He says it like activates the atoms of childhood that we still have in our brain. So when we are in touch with our childhood memories of our intimate psychological processes we can certainly get the feeling our penultimate life and previous lives.  This is really true!  As children we are very much in touch with our past lives. This is a very good lever to study more our past lives. Really it is amazing. Give it a shot.  Practice Chant MAMA PAPA and go back in time in your memory to your childhood and focus on your memories of what you were thinking.  You will be able to see how you were nostalgic for the life and environment that you left behind. You will remember a certain pining, a certain expecting, a certain familiarity for the life left behind. Also a certain dis-adaptation and disorientation and misunder...

Read Time: 50 seconds ⏱ Spark of Sacrifice Becomes a Flame in the Hearts... The sacrifice that others make out of love for humanity is a spark that catches fire in those that are ready to be caught on fire. The sparks of the sacrifice that others make are pure inspiration in the hearts of others. This spark is very powerful in the heart of others and when it catches fire on the prepared coals of a person's heart the original spark has become a flame. This spark of sacrifice is what founded all the religions and spiritual movements and fights for justice of present and past... The Gnostic movement was born by tremendous sparks flying from the bodhisattwa of the Logos Samael that caught fire in the hearts of many and upon this flame the Gnostic Movement was born and continues to burn in its fight for the transformation of humanity because that original flame is burning in our hearts and it is a horse of fire running into the future to help the humanity of the fut...

Reading Time: 1 minute ⏲ Answer: Pride The defect of Pride and its "I's" are the originators of cruelty that are personified later on by certain other "I's" of cruelty. It is precisely pride when it feels superior and does not feel the need to maintain any link for any benefit that it disdains, dismisses and falls negatively against - cruelty.  Why are human beings cruel to another and why are human beings cruel to animals, is all becasue of this, becasue of pride. The sense of superiority. The sense of superiority produces disregard, and dismissal. The pain and suffering of others are dismissed. Even when pride is so great the suffering of those whom it considers inferior is not even valid. How horrifying is that ignorance. Because of pride we dismiss totally another person's right to suffer or even an animal's right to feel pain and suffer. This makes us cruel. Pride believes its pain and suffering is the only legitimate...

Read Time: ⏰ 35 seconds Introduction Past life posts over now and flowing onto something else. In this post just a little bit of esoteric culture. A Gypsy's Crystal Ball The famous crystal ball of the gypsy clairvoyants is not a fairy tale. It is rather a real thing. Crystal ball. Best is a crystal ball with flaws, as the flaws produce a glint which is where through the glints of light the clairvoyants can see images etc. Scrying There are also other clairvoyant tools such as water, fire, a holy stone, a mirror. Basically employing the help of the elementals of nature in the case of Fire scrying - reading fire. Water scrying - reading water (a bowl with a black bottom is best). The use of these tools for clairvoyance is called scrying. Master Samael actually gave the practice of water scrying to develop clairvoyance. End (2891).

Master Samael said that in previous lives he devoted himself to the awakening of the consciousness and so what he had of awakened consciousness he brought into this life. So then much of what we have of consciousness and faculties comes directly from our work of the past. And what we take into our next life depends entirely on what we do now in the work. There are for sure some egos that we really must eliminate or make so weak before we leave this body. That is all that really counts. Just looking at how terrible these egos made our life, to go through that again in the next life makes us take up the conviction to eliminate them as a priority. End (2890).

Imagine a man terribly arrogant and fiercely proud. Whom no one commands and whom no-one betrays lest they suffer terribly for it. A leader whom no-one disrespects or belittles. Then that man dies and returns into a woman's body. Very few would submit that lady and if by social norms, circumstances etc. she has to conform to a more humble status: such a depression, such a frustration and such an angry state ensues... Such a lady naturally would end up commanding the house and the man would be relegated to taking a perennial back seat in the parliament of the household. Which happens and is relative some men are fine with that... It is a tiny bit unusual to see such a woman like this, but none the less there are some and so they will be that way due to having been a man before where they strengthened that pride greatly. This makes a lot of sense because it is only now in this modern era that women have more equality, previously it was all a man's world, where it was me...

When we just can't understand the why of some egos, then we need to investigate our past. We may understand a fair amount about a difficult and mysterious ego, but something very key to breaking the back-bone of that ego that still bothers us, is to be found in the past. That is, precisely in the remembering of the moments in which it was created. In cases such as these we have to ask like crazy to our Divine Mother to help us to remember, or show us what happened. Past life practices are very useful in this regard. End (2888).

Reading Time: 40 seconds ⏱ Answer: A Beggar We are not always a king in each life. Imagine if we were, how corrupt and rotten we would become. How totally removed from the way the rest of the world lives would we be...How arrogant, spoilt and unjust? In our series of lives we can go from one extreme to another, and this makes sense. Because having been a beggar for example, we have that experience engraved in our consciousness and that will make us a person who is with a certain conviction more considerate and fairer. Such a person who was a beggar and now a king or queen carries within him or herself the didactic material to contrast the opposites and arrive at justice, that it is just decisions. It is said that beggars will be kings and kings will be beggars. Also a beggar having suffered so much has the merit to be a king. And the king who abused his position has the deserving quality to be a beggar. End (2887).

We see with our physical eyes. Yet this is not really to see... To see is to see with the consciousness... With our eyes we only see a thin veneer of reality. There is so much depth and levels of dimensions that we do not see, and we can not see with our physical eyes. We are really blind, we have this vision of the consciousness blacked out. To see into depths of our psychology, into the depths of the consciousness in the moment and into the past and projecting within the consciousness entering our real Being is to see. To see what our Being sees for the future, in amplitude through the cosmos is to see. When the consciousness sees it sees many dimensions at once, but the eyes only see one world's set of dimensions, that is the three dimensions of the physical world. End (2886).

Just an interesting quirky point to consider, is that our unusual tastes in food can come from a past life. For example an Aussie dude brought up at home with mash potatoes and meat pies who loves Japanese food, and he gobbles down raw fish as if they were a sausage roll dipped in tomato sauce. What we love in food comes from our subconscious, we could be travelling and be little sick and have no appetite, but when someone brings us the food that we were brought up eating, we end up eating. This is the power of the subconscious. So the cuisines that we feel so familiar with are past life clues or keys to investigate End (2885).

The study of past lives reveals the reason for so much in our life and it actually even gives meaning to our errors. With the knowledge of deep meaning we alleviate much suffering. Knowing why someone is treating us so terribly and that we are cancelling a debt through suffering their harsh treatment, we feel so different. So much different to if we didn't know anything. It can make the difference between life and death even, or being freedom or going to court. Some lives of our lives are used to know evil, for reasons that something in our interior can record this experience so as to not repeat this again and to have knowledge of this one side of duality so that the opposite side of duality can be contrasted against, Then with the result of the contrast that which we have within our interior, we can consciously come to the balance and get consciousness in that area of life. The natural understanding that a given person has about some area of life in this life coul...

When our consciousness remembers a moment from our past life, it is almost like we relive that moment, we are the person of the past. The consciousness remembers "being", and in a second of 'being' that person, we get to know so much. We know the person we were, we know our role in life, we know our background feeling, we know our place in society, we know the country, we know our level of being, we know our moral standing, our moral dilemmas etc. So we really only need our consciousness to remember a moment of the past to gleam so much about who were in the past. The most important thing that we gleam is the feeling of being who we were. Coincidentally that feeling is the one that carries over or can carry over into this life. This feeling is reflective of our karma, our spiritual stands, our spiritual longings and our spiritual mistakes... End (2883).

Introduction The teaching of successive lives has very impactful implications to our psychology and therefore our lives. Internalisation of the Teaching We have to make contact with the teachings. We do that by bringing them inside of ourselves. By taking it to our mind and asking ourselves: , "how does it impact me?", "what does it really imply?". Then taking it to our heart and asking: "what does it really mean to me?". We must make contact with the teachings through our interior. Through the inner side of ourselves and through only our intellect in an a study external to ourselves. First to the centres to cause our consciousness to activate. Implications Death Past lives means we have died before, and so we have already passed through what seems to be the most difficult thing that we have to face in life. The more we go through things the easier they become right? We should be getting good at death by now shouldn't we? G...

Reading Time: 1 minute ⏱ Timeline Map The study of our past lives is a whole area of study, that if done right requires some attention to detail. For a really complete study we would end up constructing a timeline map. That timeline map would mark some of our past life experiences and some of the details that we can gleam from our own psychology right now. To start such a study, a list of all that is the past living in us here and now is a good start. For example consulting some of the pointers mentioned in Post 2880 helps to create this list. Once we have that baseline list we can begin to start penciling in that timeline map. Then it is a matter of concentrating on a point in the map and taking these list items into one of the past life practices or into meditation to actually remember and get exact information, and we can convert the pencil marks into pen marks. End (2881).

Read Time: 4 minute 10 seconds ⏱ Things in this Life that Link Us to Our Past There are certainly practices to discover aspects of our past lives. Master Samael left us with a few. There are three main ones: 1.) The magic mirror and the mantra OM-HUM 2.) The Damsel of Remembrance and the mantra LA-RA 3.) A retrospection of this current life while drowsy making the leap into the previous life. Besides these three main practices there are some other avenues through which we can get some hints about our past lives. Main Point The main point here is that in this life we basically surround ourselves or gravitate to what we enjoyed, were comfortable with or were happy with in our previous lives. In other words in this life we will have the tendency to seek out the familiar, comfortable things of the past. Home If we observe the things we have at home we can find symbols and clues which point to our past lives. Some of those...

What to Do? Sometimes things unfold so easily, things start easily and later on when they are about to finish up another thing miraculously appears for us to transition to. What do we do there? Trust it? Go against? Break away from it? Is it a temptation and therefore not go with it? What to do? Temptation The last one is easy at least to answer. Temptation is where we have a choice between two options and we have a very good reason not to decide for one of the two options.  Break Away Sure we can break away from it, making sure that what we break away from it will bring to us something better than what we have already.  Go Against Go against it, we could. Would that yield circumstances that are convenient for us in our life and esoteric work? Trust Definitely trust it we can. Because it is the Law giving to us what is in accordance with the Divine Law, which is the karma and the capital that we have. End (2879).

The love we have inside of us and feel benevolently for others is always the more real when it comes to when we look and deal with others. the love that we have inside of ourselves is the love that we can bank on. As it is something from our own nature - our own essence and we always have that with us. The love from others like the love we have for others is realer in them! The love of the other can be real in us, and we can feel the love of the other sometimes a lot and sometimes not a lot. Sometimes it is all ok, love is not thought of...  Because we are not in the other person we can not know their love... or their feelings or their thoughts... In a wrong state of consciousness we can fall into imagining or thinking about the love of the other, and we think: "Do they love me?". "Do they really love me?". "Do they love me deeply?" We can ask all these things when we are imagining their love. Has to have been built, perhaps way bac...

In our daily physical work we often have to come up with a solution. Here we require effort and an act of creation. This is real work. When we work on an ego we advance in dissolving it when we arrive at creative comprehension. Creative comprehension is a new discovery, a new understanding, a step deeper in our understanding. This 'new' comprehension transforms our interior. It opens a new perspective within us and instills a new internal peace. In conclusion, we must always seek a creative comprehension which comes from our consciousness. This is what really counts and propels us forward. End (2877).

It happens that sometimes we do very little during our day. Then the best thing that we can do before we close our day is to pray. To pray in such a way that we draw closer to our inner Being-our inner Father-Mother. We can't forget our inner Father-Mother, even while working on ourselves. Because forgetting our inner Father-Mother will eventually lead us to the loss of meaning in the work... End (2876).