Gnosis Wisdom

Introduction There is a test called the "Test of Justice" on the esoteric path. Once again, it is a test that everyone who treads the path has to face. Because of the latter and being aspirants to the esoteric path - it is a good idea to know about it. Especially to know it enough so as to recognise it and know the qualities needed to pass it. The idea of this post is to open up the theme a little and explain a bit about it, essentially covering the points of: what, when, how and why. What If we examine the process of human justice we see the process being made up of a few steps. First there is accusation, then there is a trial, then there is judgement then there is the sentence. The test of justice is about passing through these or similar circumstances. That is, the circumstances of being accused, judged and sentenced to some degree. Often it is the Gnostic people that are the ones who provide the circumstances for this test. There are some very ...

Things There are things at times that we need. Because the circumstances of our life require that we have these things. Like a mobile phone or laptop for work for example. There are also things that we don't need but something in us would like to see ourselves have those things. This is clearly related to ego. To not feel the need and want to have it anyway is a little upside down or absurd. That is ego for you. When what we really need is serving a real need, then that thing will prove to be useful. When what we need is not serving a real need, that thing ends up being something redundant. That is, something that does not get used and can even later on turn sour and be a problem for us. Experiences There are some experiences that we think that we may need, but really we do not need them. But the egos inside of ourselves want to have them. If certain experiences that we think that we need  are going to be inconvenient we can apply this bit of knowledge: "that wh...

The Work - Pain and Pleasure The work is always about being over the top of things within ourselves. Pain and pleasure are two factors that every human being must reckon with. We usually fall under both of them. The key of the work is not about not feeling pain or pleasure but not being under either of them. Pain We are usually under our pain and because we are under our pain we suffer. When we remember the painful past the emotions and sensations of pain rise in us. The injustice brings a bitter taste to our system. When we are under pain we are a victim, that with time becomes helpless, to the point that we lose the capacity to help ourselves out of the hole we have dug for ourselves. Pleasure People fall when they give themselves to pleasure and put themselves under the rule of pleasure. When a person does that they become ruled by 'the more' and that creates restless seeking. Pain and pleasure are two things that with the benefit of experienc...

A little board, card or notebook is good to keep ourselves to account. It is sometimes so easy to pass through our day without dying... At the end of our life what really counts is how much of our essence we have freed. Our essence is what we will take with us into our future moving forward beyond this life and into the next. We can often forget that... If I havn't made a mark on my death board I havn't died in something today. Actively working the key of dying in the small facets of a big ego so to fabricate the defintion needed to overcome the sructure of that whole big ego is made easier when we use a card, notebook or little white board to track the progress of this work. End (3175).

We may find ourselves having difficulty trying to define ourselves for the death of an ego. This may really worry us. Don't despair - all is not lost, there is a remedy. The remedy is to work on facets or small parts of that ego which we find ourselves ready and capable to dissolve. For example, if we take anger, we may be very happy to dissolve the part of anger that swears. But yet we feel incapable of dissolving the whole big block of anger. Somehow we need it or rely on it or whatever it is - we just feel we are not capable to dissolve it yet. If we work on these small parts of anger we will end up weakening the defect of anger and the "I's" of anger that characterise it. One day soon due to the work that we have been doing we will be ready to dissolve the defect or the big "I's" of anger.  The big "I's" all feed off the smaller ones. If we have been taking down that ego piece by piece we will find ourselves pretty muc...

When the ego is really hungry it is a great moment for discovery and death. It seems especially when it is hungry does it releases to us if we are observant enough, what it really wants and why. A good trick is to deliberately make it hungry and then observe! I don't mean here the egos of gluttony but any ego. Because all egos consume impressions - things that they wish to hear, to see, to feel in emotion etc. End (3172).

Are you finding that you have very little time to tend to things, like walk around your house and tidy a few thing up? Well, we say to ourselves - I'll just have to do something about it. But then you realise that there is nothing that you can really do. Well, trust is the answer. Trust that when you need more time it will avail itself. When the Law and the inner Being decree that we need more time to take it a bit easier then it appear or we will be able to make it appear. For the meantime enjoy the movement - be like air - swiftly moving from place to the next - free not needing to tend to ourselves and affairs (e.g. tax return) until it is time. End (3173).

Introduction This is a test of the path. A unique test. A test unlike others, where if it is failed it is significantly maiming for the person's path. Gnostic students often hear about it in passing and it is usually only given a mention. Even though it is a topic that is not often spoken about, it continues to be a test on the path that all those who tread the path must pass through it at some stage. This post aims at answering: what, when, how and why of this test. By the way I hope to one day find out the origin of the name Direne. Some research is in order. I will keep you posted when I find out more. What This test is for those who are married and are practicing the Alchemy. It is not a test that a single person would face. A single person may be involved in the scenarios of such a test but the Direne test is not for single person it is for the married person.   In certain respects it is a test of definition for the Alchemy - which is the sexuali...

The goal is to be aware all day. This is really hard to do! We have to try and try.  To divide our day into compartments and try to be awakened in those compartments can help. For example, as soon as we get into the car - alert, aware, watching our mind time. Walking to the toilet at work - alert, aware, consciousness engaged time. Checking email - focus and observing that we are focusing time. You can make up your own compartments and do your best to be awakened in those compartments.  Then practice until your are getting good at it. Doing this will then cause you to expand into other compartments. If you do this you will be quite surprised how it gradually starts to make a difference.  You will see a continuation from day to day. A link or a bridge will begin to be made between the days - thus forming a continuation of consciousness. You know we actually wake up in areas - such as in the use of the word, sexuality, relationsh...

When we depend upon our mind to work on ourselves we are going to find it difficult. We will get somewhere but later we'll get stagnated. Working on ourselves is about bringing in the many parts of ourselves. Due to this characteristic of the work on ourselves, the various parts of our essence develop. If our mind is no longer helping us to arrive at comprehension, then try our will. If the action of the will, for example, stopping ourselves from acting, does not take us closer to comprehension, then try love, if love falls short, try wisdom or knowledge, if wisdom or knowledge do not help, try consciousness justice - that is work with the Divine Mother. End (3169).

When we find working on a defect difficult we can try calling upon the many other qualities of the essence that we have. Even if they are well developed or not - calling upon them can and certainly will help. You never know, because in the process you may find one quality that is the one that you need to tip the scales in your favour, and make winning easier. For example, a person is working on their anger, then invoking the qualities of respect, honour, dignity, serenity, intelligence, foresight, patience, love etc. all help us in the battle. To be relying on one quality may not be so effective, especially when it is not really the key antidotal quality. End (3163).

The worst is when any ego becomes instinctive. When an ego enters the instinctive centre we are in trouble. Because we lose control. Our mind and will lack the ability to control the instinctive centre. The instinctive centre works normally without the mind. So when an ego has becomes instinctive and functions through the instinctive centre we can not easily get access to it so to control it. We can, but it takes time and we need the help of our Divine Mother. It is then a good precaution to not allow any ego to become instinctive. Fear, lust, gluttony, angry, pride when they get into the instinctive centre they are really difficult to uproot and work on. End (3167).

Instinctive Centre Anger has a lot to do with the instinctive centre. When a person is tired and hungry anger easily appears, and this has much to do with the instinctive centre. Being tired and lacking food are ultimately all to do with the a lack of energy. Anger and a lack of energy go hand in hand. We may come home late at night after a long and busy day's work and have spent the night giving a class and fielding questions, then when one is just about to retire - you hear your name being called to help fix a problem with the phone or the computer. You think why just now, why not ten minutes earlier, I'm pretty tired and have been working hard - give me a break etc. etc. We are tired yet we get angry and are filled with energy... We march down there and forcefully solve the situation...  Certainly not all that good. Much could have been done better.  Contradiction - Tired and Hungry - No Force Yet with Anger Full of Force Such a contradi...

The ego can not wake up. If there is an ego in us that thinks it has woken up - then oh dear... If there is an ego in someone that thinks they have woken up then run...  The essence in us is the one that wakes up. Our awareness is the one that wakes up! To wake up is to enter into remembrance of what we have ignored for so long. To wake up is to remember what we are, who we are... Who and what we are has always been with us. So then to wake up is to not re-invent the wheel but to remember and know once again our inner nature. When we realise that we are not our thoughts for example, we have woken up a little. We have always never been our thoughts, and this until that moment of awakening, we had forgotten. To awaken is also to realise what he had totally forgotten or what we did not know. End (3166).

The emptiness that is so often referred to in zen and buddhist circles is no more than what we know in Gnosis as consciousness or awareness. Emptiness - because there is no "I" present, the mind is clear or empty. If there is no "I" - no person - no ego - there is just empty psychological space - however it is not really empty it is full of awareness. Empty and full always go together. If something is empty it is also at the same time full of something else. An empty glass has no water but is full of air. A full glass is full of water but has no air in it.  End (3165).

A gnostic student may not be able to imagine his or her own Divine Mother. Perhaps if such a student tries, they become confused - Egyptian, Christian, African, Greek, Roman, Aztec, Vedic - which imagery do I align with? None seem right. Even such a student may try to imagine his or her Divine Mother and he or she just can't. If feels like lifting a car - just so so heavy. With persistence one day while just imagining to be at the feet of our Divine Mother She will come into our imagination and then we see Her clearly and definitely - confusion gone. She has her style, her presence, her look, her majesty and dignity - She is what we can now trust in. This a new octave in our relationship with Her. A very definite octave where you feel it is you and Her. Now you know that it is you and Her that are going to do the work of dissolving the "I's". Not much else is needed, your best efforts to comprehend and counteract and Her efforts to dissolve. End (...

To be late is stressful and is a less 'a consciousness moment'. To be late means that we have been ignoring something and only realised until late in succession. To be early is to be on top of things - that is more conscious and more responsible. A later person lacks some responsibility. When we wake up early that state of being early to greet the day and the vibrations of the early morning lead one into good and wholesome things. One can focus, meditate, develop imagination, pray etc. with clarity. Late at night is different - in normal life all the trouble goes on at night. The night clubs, pubs, other types of activities all go on late at night.  It seems that the night leads to confront our negative traits and the morning leads us to find our more conscious parts. So then, one time is naturally better for mystical death and the other time is naturally better for works of the consciousness. End (3164).

Introduction Before being physical the elements are spiritual then psychological. The elements are living principles. We all relate in some way to the elements. Sometimes we don't know how to relate well with them. Not the elements that exist outside of ourselves but the elements that are in our body and psychology. This post gives some pointers in this regard, i.e. how to better relate to them, by looking at how we relate to them in normal human life. Fire We see in life that fire is mainly controlled. We see that fire is always dialed down or up. It is dialed up or down by controlling what it consumes. It is given less air or more air and it is given more coal or less coal. Fire is used this way in cars, boats, planes, power stations, boilers, kitchens, refineries etc.  Within us, life would teach us that we can benefit greatly by moderating our enthusiasms. This covers the expressions of our emotional and sexual energies. Fire used without moderation is ver...

Many egos project happiness and we bight that hook, line and sinker. This makes it hard to let go of the ego. But we can help ourselves to let go by focusing on the real happiness of not having the ego. When dissolving the ego we can imagine ourselves happy and peaceful rather than fighting against the seeing images of the ego being happy getting what it wants. End (3161).

If a person's name is John, then third person thinking for John would go something like this inside of John's mind: "John is a good guy, he is really helpful, he fought hard to achieve that goal" etc. etc. Obviously when John thinks in that way his imagination is being fired imagining scenarios that are often fictitious and so John is then asleep. If John was to think as he is direct from his awareness onto the subject he is not sleeping. Thinking in third person, is fantasy really and puts our consciousness to asleep, because we identify with the 'John' in the scenarios and our identity is not here right now in who we are living in this moment. End (3160).

A large part of the ego of lust is its projections. It is really the projections that we see and latch onto more so than the person. If we can separate from those projections then we have taken a good step forward in overcoming lust. Just asking ourselves - are those projections true and honestly answering this question for each projection will give us the space to be able to separate from them.  This is because we will see with our consciousness that these projections are not really true. afterall, how can we really know for certain that the projected experience will be the way it is being projected? It could be terrible (indeed it will be, if balance and order is broken). In conclusion, separation from projections, not believing in them, not believing in the projected happiness. End (3159).

Each ego has its own menu and it own way of eating. Though Most seem to prefer buffet style.  That is they like to take in as many impressions as they can and that is the way that they function.  They eat and eat until they are totally full to the point of satiation.  The egos always like to be well fed. They like eating freely and abundantly. That is their preferred style once they get to eat. The egos of gluttony reflect this style of eating of the ego. the ego is a glutton in its field. Pride likes to receive lots of praise, lust likes lots of impressions, laziness and selfishness like to be surrounded in lots of nothing to do but 'me time' moments. Self-importance and self-compassion love to wallow in impressions of love and commiseration. Well, gluttony loves to eat big - the more delicious impressions of food the better and the happier it feels. I think that you get the picture. This is a good detail to take note of. The ego when left to its...

I find that it is really helpful to 'register' consciously and voluntarily with the Divine Law. We are already registered, because we all have our karmic accounts, but to register voluntarily is different is an octave higher in our trust and co-operation with the Law. To visualize and then concentrate on the Divine law is really good for us. To enter the temple and ask for help, to register with the Law saying that you want to dissolve this or that big ego and that you honestly need help and you are honestly going to do your best to dissolve it is really a blessing for the soul to do that. This is a formal declaration that you wish to die in that ego and the help will come! This declaration once made, is made, and will last as an official and solemn record. End (3156).

People don't love their sexual energy... The egos of lust and fornication don't really love a person's sexual energy... Just because it brings people pleasure, does not mean they truly love it. To love consciously the sexual energy is something quite different to loving the sexual energy because it brings pleasure. People may wish to use their sexual energy, but for various reasons they find that they can not, and so they can become bitter towards their sexual energy. They turn bitter thinking that it is the fault of the sexual energy for giving them impulses or desires which they can not realise. It is not really the fault of the sexual energy (it is more the fault of a lack of knowledge). This is not love, conscious love remains as love even if what we supposedly love, pleases us or doesn't please us. Conscious love is not dependent upon receiving, it remains and is present whether or not something that we desire is received or not. People do not love ...

"See it – Own it". That is an interesting expression used these days. If one sees something out of order or wrong, then one happens to automatically own it - that is it becomes our karmic responsibility. What happens next is somehow our karmic responsibility. We don’t like to assume responsibility do we? We get the karma anyway whether we like it or not. To know what is right and not do it is one definition of what it is to be a coward. Cowards also get karma…The one who takes courage and tries but gets it wrong I think gets less karma then the one who never tries because they are scared to get karma. Imagine seeing someone drowning on a beach and you just freeze. Or imagine then, if you try to help the drowning person but fail. Which is worse? Freezing is worse right. End (3154).

We all have an image of ourselves. We are mostly not aware of it, yet it most of the way we think and what we do and say. So then the first step in relation to our self-image is to know it. Knowing it makes us conscious of it. When we are conscious of it we can see it everywhere. The fantasies that we, have show up our self-image as well as show up what we truly lack. What we truly lack makes our our reality, and knowing our reality is what is helps us and is whjat really counts. When imagination and reality coincide we can be awake and there is consciousness. When imagination veers away from reality we fall asleep. If we begin to construct our real self-image by looking at ourselves in the mirror of our facts, we can have something real and powerful to immediately contrast and counteract our false self-image from which many fantasies still come from. If we have not built up our real self-image yet we do not really know oursleves too well yet and we are not...

Usually before the candidate starts the path he or she are shown their most dangerous defects. By dangerous, I mean the defects that would take one off the path. The wisest thing to do is to work on these defects seeking their definite dissolution. Because our future path depends on it. To even seek the help of the Divine Law is very wise also, as these defects are karmic and causal in nature. If not, we will certainly face much difficulty and even failure. Sometimes by grace of our inner Divinity we are not allowed to progress until these defects are taken care of. That they have been dissolved so that any possible danger has been greatly minimised. End (3152).

If we are ever stuck in what to die in. We just need to get our list of virtues and then embrace one or two of them. It won;t be long before we see how difficult it really is to be that virtue.  What makes it so difficult in us to be that virtue are the things that we must then die in. A psychological inventory helps us to do this. You'll see that doing good in you attracts the evil in you, and then it will be a matter of transforming that evil. End (3151).

We participated in a retreat on the weekend and a wonderful missionary gave a talk on Love.  During the talk he shared an astral experience that he had with his Divine Mother. In the experience his Divine Mother concluded saying: "that love is the only value that can not be given. It has to be created." He commented that we can be surrounded by the love of others or the love of the Masters and we can feel well to some degree but to be filled with love we have to have love coming from inside of ourselves. To truly feel love we must have love and it must flow from deep inside and meet the love that comes from outside.  There is really even on Earth in these dark times much love around us. Even though there is so much love around us, if we don't have love for something, that is we don't feel love we can feel lonely, sad and without love. We have to generate love because it is intimate and personal and it is really of the nature of our Inner Being. ...

Will and imagination can shape and locate our consciousness. With imagination we engage our consciousness. Our consciousness is where our attention is. If we control our imagination we control our attention and therefore we activate our consciousness. Whenever we imagine, we engage consciousness. The consciousness participates in the two poles of imagination. When we visualise we do so consciously, using our conscious understanding of what we are visualising. When we receive in our imagination we use the newness of the consciousness. Where something previously unknown appears as a revelation through our consciousness. When we fantasize - our consciousness sleeps. Consciousness breathes life into what we imagine. Our psychology is based on our state of consciousness. Our consciousness is totally flexible, elastic and transferable. Through our imagination we give it a reference point, then our psychology take on that reference point or base and function relativ...

In our remote and ancient past in Lemuria human beings were hermaphrodite, that is the physical body of human beings accommodated both sexual organs - male and female. With both sexes integrated into the one body, these ancient human beings had many powerful creative powers. This is pretty obvious. Because one had the ability to manage directly the creative energy manifesting through both poles, and so the power of creation was in the hands of each human being.   Much later the division of sexes occurred. However there is a part of our body that is still hermaphrodite. It is our moth. Our lips are female and our tongue is male. When these two parts work together they create the word. The word as we know has tremendous power to create. With our word we can construct wonderful things or wreak havoc and devastation. Our word in energy is totally sexual - that is totally creative in power. I don't mean it is all about the physical sexual act but in origin it i...

If we have our base in another person or in a group of people basically we are not very spiritual. The spiritual person has their base in God or in their spirit or even in their essence. To have our base in another person is to forget the spirit that we have within us. To try to love another person through having a base in them means that after a while we are not going to love them.  First is to love God then through that love - love others. To have a base in others means that one day that base will crumble as it must, because nothing in life is permanent and then we will crumble just as our base did. If we ever say that "we can not live without.." or "we can arrive at something without..." or "we can not do something without.."  then we have forgotten our Inner Being. End (3147).

Emotions and sentiments of all kinds pass, even vanish, leaving only facts or what is real. The work on our self when done sincerely and correctly is real and causes facts...  It is always better in any issue or when making any considerations or evaluations or do so by the work, or by the facts, because if done based on emotion or sentiment such emotional based considerations or reasons will one day fail you. End (3146).

As Gnostic students there are three temples that we should really know or if not know, have constructed them as accurately as possible in our imagination, so that when needed we can powerfully conjure up that image and transfer our attention there and connect to Beings who are there and can help us. These three temples are: Our Heart Temple, Hospital Temple of Alden and the Palace of the Law. End (3145).

Normally we relate thinking to be being asleep. Certainly that is right though there is an exception. When we are psychologically asleep we think indirectly, that its we think in relation to other people and we even use the third person’s point of view to think about ourselves. Don’t know about wine, but coffee helps this way. If we think directly from our attention on an object in front of us. We are thinking as we are, that is, as essence or consciousness. As soon as we think relative to another or think in the language of the “third person” we assume a new identity and we fall psychologically asleep. One definite way to tell we are thinking asleep is when we think via a scenario. End (3144).