Gnosis Wisdom

The death of a person is always a little or a lot unsettling. Every death is a mystery, we ask ourselves: why now, why in that way, why that suffering, why that condition?  We are so powerless to stop death. As much as we want to stop or delay death, the more we are shown that we must resign to it. We must accept it as we are not beyond death our very own selves. There are higher powers that are willing it to be this way. Those powers why do they will it this way? The teachings tell us that it is the Divine Law that is behind all happenings and goings on in life. The values of past actions are summed up and our destiny calculated, and every step of life follows the tracks of destiny .  When a person is dying, we are witnessing their life, their process. It is our love to accept it and embrace it as a part of the mystery of their life. Both birth and death are a mystery. The when, the how and the why. Death happens to everyone as soon as they are born. ...

Very tough stuff. The ego of pride finds it pretty tough to endure when what we have in our image is being challenged. going back in time, when at school being teenagers, we were called a coward, and we think we are tough, it is the ego of pride that suffers terribly and then gets us into trouble, all because we don't want to be seen by others as being a coward and further more we can't accept to our own selves that we could be a coward. Sometimes it is hard to do a review of our image until it gets challenged. But when it is challenged can we accept the challenge of acceptance within ourselves? That is really where the tough stuff of courage comes into play. There are no values of our essence in activity when we react. To react is the way of pride and it is the cowardly way when seen from an internal point of view. Pride itself is too weak to accept within ourselves the various challenges against our image. If we are able to accept the challenge within our...

To be stuck in an inferior state, feeling low, pessimistic and resigned is not how our inner essence feels. This is really good to remember: our essence does not feel like that. Among the truly beautiful things that our essence can feel is the true happiness to be alive. Yes true though, our situation may be very difficult, but none the less, amidst such difficulty, our essence would not feel lost in negativity. Our essence just always shines, radiates and deals with the situation in the best way that it can.   To forget our essence and our Inner Being behind our essence and to not look after our body, our nutrition, our hygiene, our home's cleanliness is to forget our essence and our inner Being. This is to disrespect our inner Being. To lower its dignity.  To uphold all these things when we for some reason go through a very low state is very helpful. It sends a message deep into ourselves that there a Divine essence dwelling within us and that we  ...

As some of you know a very good man and a really good missionary - John DeMarco passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning on March the 26th.  John really went through a lot for more than a year. Several lengthy surgeries, numerous treatments and a lot of really tough side effects to deal with. I often imagined how he could have dealt with that. I can't stand feeling nausea for even few minutes. Really, no can doubt that he showed great courage and endurance in the last years of his life. I never heard news of him, complaining or losing the plot or anything like that.    I remember John and Janice doing the missionary course in Perth in the year 2010 to 2011. I have fond memories of John giving his lectures, he liked to deliver a lot of info in a very efficient (speedy) way. So when John would step up to give his talk, we would take a sigh of relief as we knew it would be good, to the point and not run over time. He always had a lot of  examples and ...

Relative Right or wrong is relative. Relative to one reference point what you decide is wrong, but relative to a different reference point what you decide is right. You may be right now, but change the reference point and you're wrong. That's what happens to us a lot of the time. We decide according to one reference point, then the next day we think about what we decided relative to a different reference point and then we feel lament or regret. So it all depends on your reference point that you choose. Worst and Best Reference Point The all time worst reference point is any ego. It always betrays us. We end up left without force, feeling disappointed and deceived by our ownselves. This is becasue the ego used as a reference point is usually displaced another ego or by reality itself. The best and most reliable reference points are: the work, the path and the Being. When we are ready and actually do make these three things: work, path and Being our referenc...

All Do Now and Then For various reasons we do feel quite strange at times. Some times clearly due to the ego. Other times due to the essence feeling out of place in this world with the many systems that run catering to the interests of various very egoic factors. Flowing On Does the Trick No matter what the strange feeling is, stopping our flow and continuity of life and work doesn't really help us. The trick is to flow onwards. Most of the time, knowing that it is there and not allowing ourselves to bothered by it (because we know it will pass) and continue on as normal with our work and life, usually does the trick of moving past these strange feelings.  End (2971).

More and More True I am coming to know more and more how true a statement the above is. All the negative emotions that we have in our relationships or dealings with others felt and been bothered by, we have also in the past inflicted upon others. What's more is that if we remain ignorant of that we perpetuate the cycle - hurting and being hurt. But if we radically work on the ego that hurts and feels hurt, the cycle ends. Cycle This cycle exists because the ego - usually pride that hurt others by making them feel inadequate for example, stays in our psychology and becasue it is there, it will at the right time in the future just turn on ourselves (going against ourselves). Where we will feel inadequate or inferior in front of someone or a group of people even if they are not really provoking that. Key The key then is to understand that if we did not have that aspect of pride that makes others feel inadequate, we will not feel inadequate. They both depend upon...

Remember Gandalf when he had to go, he yelled "Run you fools!". More or less, he was saying wake up, look at your situation, continue on with urgency, save yourself so to finish what has been started. In other words remember yourself! This situation is not nye, but things change and if we forget the Being in us, we collapse. Well we can collapse, who says we can't but we have to pick ourselves up! Self-remembering is the way to pick ourselves up, suffer less and press on. End (2968).

When our circumstances are about to change we tend to use our imagination to focus on reference points that we feel comfort us. We think to ourselves, well I'll still have my friends, my family, they'll still be there to rely on for help and advice, we then imagine people in the new circumstance and we imagine other reference points as comfort providers. The best comfort provider of all is to do self-remembering! That is the one constant through any circumstance. The Being does not go anywhere. It is always there and always radiating peace and comfort. End (2967).

When we go astray, it is our Divine Mother that teaches us through karma. Creation is hers, it is of her, and the many laws and principles are of her also, and so through the law of karma, the medicine law she teaches us about the many laws and principles we are going against in our ignorance. End (2966).

The psychological work is hard. We have to be so happy that we have someone to help us with it. Someone so special that can even dissolve  the elements that give us so much grief. Even someone that knows us better than we know ourselves. End (2965).

Whenever I am concentrating on something the thing I always feel is the yearning to be one with the thing I am concentrating on. When we are one with the thing we are concentrating one we have very good concentration, no battles, no more mind straying, no duality etc. The ego becomes totally powerful when it gets our concentration, which we give to it when we identify with it. When we identify with it we become one with it. We are it. "I am angry (I am anger)", "I am upset at you (I am resentment)". etc. So then real concentration is when we become one and to do that we have to drop the sense of self we have. From keeping the self we keep the source of discursive thought and distraction. In effect we are always distracted. Remember the consciousness does not have an "I" or a sense of self. The sense of self that we feel is a false. Just examine what you find to be your sense of self and see how weird a flavour it is. Could our con...

Even Just Thinking Negative When we just even think, let alone speak about ourselves in a negative way, thinking things like: how we are really this and that bad and that is not at all what others see, that we are in capable, worth little, know nothing, can't do this and that, fail at this and that, a liar, a dreamer the list goes on... We can be 100% sure that self-compassion is behind this because pride by itself would never allow this.  In a case like this self-compassion taps into what pride hides from itself and others and exposes it. Feeling that it is doing job at ruining ourselves. Why It Does What It Does? Self-compassion does this sort of thing to avoid reprimand and to extract compassion from others. Self-compassion is about getting compassion for ourselves through others. It is set-up in relativity, using others as a reference point. Really the best thing that you can do for a person who is pitted against this ego is to ignore them, so that they can fa...

Self-Compassion as said earlier is the one that sets up a will against oneself. It sets up will to go against ourselves in many different ways. The way that it goes against ourselves has a lot to do with the events or circumstances in which self-compassion has become manifest. The word self-compassion is a very limited word to describe this ego and even when one hears one does not really get a good idea of what this ego is about. It is about having compassion for ourselves in the wrong way, in the negative way. The right self-compassion is about accepting responsibility and acting to pay what is owed. This is to have compassion for ourselves to act so to redeem and clear our debts, not feeling terribly down about ourselves and making the debt worse by going against ourselves. Anyway back to the topic... So this ego of self-compassion combines with other "I's" to set up a powerful whirlwind of will power energy that drags other elements in its wake so to g...

Remember what Japan did after WWII, it decided to limit itself by only equipping itself with military might capable of defence. Germany has done a similar thing in many ways, where one of these ways was to let in several hundred thousand new immigrants of very different culture and value set to native German people in an effort perhaps to compensate for the atrocities of WWII. Self-compassion is the ego that does the same, it is something that works from within our subconscious punishing ourselves. Going against ourselves, castrating ourselves, diminishing ourselves, lowering ourselves etc.  When this ego is very karmic we punish ourselves even when we really don't want to. Those people who destroy themselves with drugs, sex, alcohol etc. have the ego of self-compassion laden with a heavy burden of karma. The karma does not allow them to so easily leave those ruining activities. When we have this ego working in our subconscious it actually attracts abuse and so o...

Pride deeply believes that it is right and being the ruler in its own style and environment, often is unaware if it is really right or wrong. However, when there is justice there is an authority outside of it that bears down upon it surpassing it and it is evident that it was wrong and it then suffers a disappointment and a kind of disillusionment which manifests as a kind of depression.  All these feelings of disappointment and disillusionment are all related to pride, to a lesser or greater degree. End (2960).

To look up and open up, totally wishing to connect to the above and totally accepting of what will descend! This is I feel so needed. We spend our life looking down into the 'humdrum' of life, proud in it and separated somewhat from above. Look up, connect to above, open up to above - smile.   What we have is what It wants - Thank you for the day!  End (2959).

Looking for This... I have been looking for this bit of info for a while now, to complement the posts on temples. So then, the site of many temples are located on the intersection of these ley lines or magnetic lines of energy just as the excerpt below says. Ley Lines and Temples "Earth energies such as ley lines are natural paths which usually follow magnetic lines in a network all over the planet, linking natural power points. All living beings have a sensitivity to these paths—they form for example part of the navigation capacity of migratory birds and are also used by sea animals such as whales. The magnetic component is measurable and acts like a carrier wave for the non-physical ley energy. A convergence or concentrated criss-crossing of these lines carries a special intensity, is therefore considered a power point and many such places, for example Stonehenge, have become sacred to religious use of some kind in history. Many great cathedrals in Europe are built ...

The practical conclusion to this issue of the Law of Octaves and the Law of Seven is then to know that in any project, en-devour or enterprise there will always be 'stops' or intervals characterised by obstacles and that we will always have to renew our efforts so as to drive forward towards results or our aim. The Nautilus Shell - A Perfect Example of the Law of Octaves. It is good to know that renewed efforts will become at the due moment super efforts, the higher the octave. The Law of Octaves also tells us that everything has its right moment and that efforts are best made in an interval and the aim of all things is to strive towards higher octaves. Also the higher an octave is taken, the more and more spiritual or sublime the endevour becomes. End (2957).

First Interval Here is our octave: Do Re Me Sol La Fa Si Do Master Samael says that Do Re Me marks the beginning of the project or enterprise. In the beginning some progress is made however there comes a kind of a 'stop' or pause.  This 'stop' occurs between Me and Sol. This 'stop' is characterized, Master Samael says, by obstacles and difficulties. What's more he says that these obstacles are usually from the events and issues of life. If we lack will, determination and are weak in conviction, this is exactly where we fail or give up or put the project on hold. What we need Master Samael says is to produce a renewed effort to surpass the obstacles so as to be able to continue forward. Second Interval If one overcomes the first 'stop', then another waits in the interval between Fa and Si. Once again difficulties and obstacles appear, usually of a different nature to the ones experienced earlier. Once again ...

In the Beginning was the Word The Law of Octaves or the Law of Seven corresponds to the unfolding of Universal Sound. It was actually sound that made creation possible, and it is even sound that is sustaining creation. Everything is vibrating and therefore in a state of producing sound.  Before there was creation there was sound, in the way of : "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" .  Orders the Way Any Creation Unfolds The Law of Seven determines the way anything that we do unfolds. It plays a vital role in any project or enterprise no matter what it may be. Secret Why we Fail The Law of Seven actually holds the secret as to why so many of our enterprises or projects actually fail. Therefore if we know how it works we can take any enterprise or project to fruition! YEAH!!! End (2955).

Introduction I have been looking for this information for a long time now.  Thanks to m.m.m who brought it to light just the other day actually. You will find it very illustrative and practical. It is taken from a talk Master Samael gave and was transcribed and included in the "El Quinto Evangelio". Background Before diving in, it is good to have a little bit of a background going on. An octave consists of eight notes. In an octave there are really only seven distinct notes (that is where the Law of Seven comes into it).  An octave is a spiral where there is a starting point - the first note, then the notes rise in pitch or frequency and the circle or cycle reaches an end - the eight note, which is the beginning note but at a higher frequency (higher or new octave).   See the following notes below: Do Re Me Fa Sol La Si Do  See how the first and eight notes are the same (both are Do). That cycle is an octave, and it is v...

The elementals of nature most certainly do have their kingdoms. They have their dominions where human beings are out of place and do not necessarily belong. If you have ever been to Milford sound in the South Island of NZ you will know what I mean...  What a foreboding place, one can really feel that one stepped into a special kingdom that ought to be treated with respect. Waves of reverence emanate from the mountains, the trees and the waters sending the message - "what is man doing here?".  What force and strength of vitality there is there! One feels so rejuvenated and left in awe of the great vital forces of the Earth that are still in activity. Images of the "Hall of the Mountain King" come to mind, the domain of the giant talking tress, elves and the mountain king bearing down upon you.   Imagine the ocean depths, the ocean trenches the many lakes, seas, estuaries and rivers, they are the domain of the undines, the high spheres of the Ear...

Karmic Psychology In general when a person breaks the law they can go to jail, depending on the law. Fair enough, that is the law. When they have served their time, they are out, their debt paid and a new life begins. They can live rightfully so as a free person and enjoy life just as much as anyone else. If their psychology co-operates that is. Otherwise the person can psychologically stay in jail continuing to punish themselves, feeling unworthy, guilty, wretched, below society etc. This psychology of punishing ourselves is what we can call karmic psychology and takes up residence in our psychology when we are paying karma and even after the karma has been paid. A person can err and not break the law of the country. But none the less that person can him or herself into jail by creating a total downwards change in their psychological structure that lowers, doubts and humiliates themselves. Many people even feel like this without having made an error in years. This tells us t...

Check this Out  Our psychological death or transformation begins in the intellectual centre, then progresses to the emotion and ends in the motor centre, and our liberation begins in the motor center and progresses to the emotion and ends in the intellect. So our separation from the ego which is a stage in the death of ego begins in our intellect. Got that? Separate So then, do you agree with the ego? Do you honestly agree with the way it thinks, with its point of view, with its proposed way of solving things, with its projections, with its actions, with its words, with its pain, with its sense of unfairness, with its needs, etc. If we honestly find that we do agree with some of the above things from the ego, then separation will be difficult and will require work. To honesty answer these questions we have to separate ourselves from the ego don't we? If we have the view that the ego's views, ideas, protests, way of thinking, etc are our ways of thi...

We awaken in areas. There are people very awake and balanced in certain areas of life, but they are unbalanced, out of wack and unaware in other areas of life. Usually when there is a big ego, we are quite asleep, unbalanced (out of wack) in that areas of life. A person has a rather large "I" of lust means that person is rather asleep in that area. There are many areas for us to awaken in. The first chamber lectures area essentially areas for us to awaken to. People are totally unaware of the Law of Karma. So we have to wake up to it. People are mostly unaware of the power of the word, so we must wake up to it. People are aware that we have an essence, a personality and many "I's", people are unaware about life and death so we must awaken to those mysteries, people are unaware of cosmic laws such as return and recurrence so we must wake up to those laws etc.etc. Of course, by dissolving the ego we begin to wake up in these areas an acqu...

We don't really see people. We only see the image or the concept or the belief that we have of them. We all have everyone inside of our head. Of course not literally but in the form of a concept, an image, a belief etc. It is this concept, image and or belief that we get angry at, feel hurt by, get upset at etc. This image or concept or belief is not the person, it is ourselves, it is our own creation. We get upset at ourselves - holy guacamole hey! Yummy for the Tummy I assure you if you remove this image, concept, belief, expectation etc. that we have of the other person in our mind then all will change. Just remove it and see what happens in you! End (2949).

To the essence all is magical.  The essence is the one that has a sense of awe. A thought arises from an unknown origin within us. It is like a gift. Something that comes to us. How magical, it came to us by magic, as if it was brought by invisible hands. What do we do with this gift? Certainly not waste it, use it, convert it into knowledge of ourselves, convert it into consciousnesses by examining it, working it, transforming it into a tiny spark of wisdom.  Then we have made good use of this gift, whether it was a nice thought or an ugly thought. End (2948).

There is significant truth behind that age old saying. We can see it on two fronts. One is that we have so much karma and ego that we can not afford to rest. The other one is that the poor devil (our own inner Typhon Baphomet) when we are fallen and stuck in the mud of so much ego is always so busy trying to help us to learn how to get out of the ego. When we have no ego left, the Typhon Baphomet becomes Lucifer and can finally rest, preciosity becasue we are no longer wicked (full of ego). End (2947).

When we lack the remembering of our own Being we actually imposer that others do not remember their own Being as well. The above usually expresses itself in a disguised way where we expect others to love us deeply as the most important thing in their lives to the point of even hoping that they forget their own Being and put us first before their own Being. That is not so good... When a person does not forget their Being and interacts with us they give us their best... End (2946).

There are some interesting paradoxes that go on with our past lives. The person who is so meek, kind, easy going was not like that at all in the past. The easy going one which many people find agreeable was a terrible previously. And the those that are jolting, jarring, abrupt, rude, arrogant are actually all ok. Those that are push overs, can't say no and are often taken advantage of were actually quite terrible in the past, and becasue of having done something awful they have created a compensation for that within themselves by swinging over to the other side. This their way of compensating for the past by being the opposite in nature in this life. So then things are not always the way they seem. The rude, abrupt, jarring person, speak your mind hard and tough, the one that everyone is careful with what they say around them, is a good person in the grand scheme of things, and the meek, 'yes' person, who is flexible, agreeable, no dramas and friendly is the ba...

Qualities If we look at the creatures of nature they all have a certain salient quality or qualities which are hard to miss. How can we miss the determination and cycle closing of salmon? How can we miss the courage and nobility of the lion, the astuteness of the python, how can we miss the fidelity of the swan, how can we miss the diligence and foresight of the squirrel, the special passivity and innocence of the lamb who is taken to slaughter, the tenacity and strength of the bull, the intelligence and playful innocence of the dolphin, the ferocity of the shark, the gregariousness of the Elephant etc.etc.  All the animals have a salient quality as do many plants, trees and minerals. If we can't see them it is because we have not studied them closely enough or that special quality is not physically visible.  Each of these qualities represent a psychological quality. So the essences that evolve pass through various states so to acquire the many psychological qu...

Encounters As mentioned earlier there are a few different classes of elementals. Those that have physical bodies and those that don't are the major two. Gnosis teaches that human beings can have an encounter them. That is human beings can benefit from their help and even human beings can see and talk to them. Master Samael said that the fairy tales, legends and myths are there to prepare children to see the elementals of nature. The many fairy tales and stories open the mind of children to feel, sense and catch a glimpse of the elementals of nature.  Master Samael says that we really need imagination to be able to perceive the elementals of nature. He says that the best way to develop imagination is to imagine the life and death of a plant, such as a rose bush, which if we do it well, will culminate in seeing the elemental, which is the essence of the plant, which also confers life-force to the plant. I recommend the undines for Aussies because Australia is...

Human State To have arrived at the human state is an achievement of a cosmic order. Because to have our essence inhabiting a human body is is the result of many rounds of evolution.  Our own essence did not descend straight away into a human body but rather it started off as a mineral, then a vegetable, then a animal then finally a human. To have arrived at having an essence in a physical body, means that our essence has gone through many cycles of involution and evolution and has numerous lessons through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms to be fit to live the life of a human being. In the way of the learning of the essence, the state of the human being sits above the learning of the minerals, plants and animals. However, this is the ideal case but the human being with the ego has lost its learning. Microcosmos The human being is a cosmos. Though a cosmos in miniature. An animal, a tree, a plant a rock is not a cosmos - that is a microcosmos. Only a cosmo...

Elemental - Essence of a Virginal Spark Master Samael is pretty clear when speaking about the elementals.  He essentially says that they are essences whom derive from a virginal spark (does not have self-realisation yet) of the Great Universal Fire of Life. That is, an elemental is an essence, whom has a Monad or a Real Being just as we do. He says that the essences of the Monads who descended from the Absolute into creation began their presence in creation as mineral elementals in the first round of creation, then as vegetable elementals in the second round, then as animal elementals in the third round, then in the fourth round as human elementals. The word elemental brings us the idea of the most basic, the simplest state or stage or substance. So that is what an elemental is, an essence which is the simplest part of the Monad, the bare essentials of the Monad.   So then there are several types of elementals, there are those who have a physical body, ...

Before I Start For me this topic is so fascinating, relaxing and heart warming. But some people may see it as just airy fairy time wasting and not taking one to die and awaken. Well, it all depends on how one takes it. For me, this topic when I take it inside of myself, allows me to see my inner corruption, ugliness and wretchedness. When one sees the purity, the beauty, the innocence of the elementals, the inner urgency to change can not help but powerfully well up inside of oneself. Such a topic also helps us to understand more of who we are as an essence. It helps to understand the oneness of life, how we are nature are linked in relationship to the oneness of life. This is really an understanding that currently humanity lacks. If only humanity had this understanding, could we help the Earth and look more carefully and considerately after it. So I hope these posts may do something for you in this regards. Question of What A few books have been written about th...

Playing the Garden Did you play in the garden when you were a child, talking to the plants, tress and bushes? Did you spend hours there all by yourself feeling that you had company, that you were in an enchanted space, climbing, hiding, playing, talking, enjoying yourself?  Maybe you did, but you just don';t remember yet. Well Master Samael has a remedy - the mantra MAMA PAPA to remember the enchanted days of our childhood. You may even seen an elemental but have now forgotten... Here to come is a series of posts on the elementals, exploring many interesting questions and their answers.   End (2939).