Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

We can get the fear going and think that anyone who coughs or sneezes has the virus and then fear says we ought to run or have the person reported. Most of the time it is just fear producing those thoughts. Something to keep an eye on.😷 End (3460).

By 'hang out' I mean to make the effort to go inside and look for that life, for that force, for that intelligence for that fount of love. Sometimes we get the idea from our egos that the Being is a monster and that to 'hang' with It, is boring, painful, fruitless, too hard, too much effort, all empty, see nothing, hear nothing, waste of time - ah shut up already! I don't want to whiff an atom of that thinking in myself anymore. The egos of course what to hang out with other egos.  If we want to hang out with the Being we look to hang out with others who also like to hang out with their Being. Hay de facil! You also don't have to be alone to hang out with your Being. Thinking like that creates weird and strange attitudes that isolates us from others and ends in us strengthening mystical pride. Anyway in reality we can't hang out that much. I think to have the thinking that the Being is a to you friend, is not something of a burden t...

I find that statement hard to deny - "Even God respects the Law". It is mainly true because He is the Law, and as oneness to go against Himself would break the One and make Two.  So there we are with the facets of pride and the defect of pride thinking we don't have to respect the Law or we can be exempt. Pride is a stubborn ego that does not wish to live out this point. Especially when seeing that reality is the Law. End (3454).

As soon as we feel some kind of pain in the emotional centre due to any ego it is time for the work hammer to reign down. Pain is our limit and tells us to stop the ego right there and work on it so to eliminate it. Don't go for more pain, stop right there be kind to your essence. The more pain we feel the more we sink our essence in the murky dark waters and the more confused we become. The best is to not like pain. To make the efforts to let go, to release emotional pain by not going more into it is the action of starting not to like pain. To stop ourselves, and know that in stopping we are definitely doing a better thing for ourselves then going more into pain is conscious action that starts to take us out of pain. Pain is a good teacher and a good guide if we pay attention to it and get to work. rather than slip into it.  If we are to follow with the work of dissolution wherever pain goes we will see a didactic of transformation emerge and we will also be ...

Jealousy does so many things right? It has many modes of functioning right?  One thing it does well, so well actually, that it gives us some grief, is projecting the following thought into the future: "they will displace me, they will become more loved and closer to him/her than I am". etc. Ok that's the thought and there's the awful feeling in the emotional centre and then the anger, ill-will, spite etc. later on.  So what do we need to fly out of these very inferior emotions. Well the quality of trust makes our wings that fly us out of that painful jail.  When there is the future there is fear. Trust is the antidote to fear. Remember that, it will save your life one day. Trust in the person, that they value the relationship and won't let you be displaced. Trust in the other party that they will respect your relationship. Trust in your essence and Being that whatever happens good or bad it is for you to learn more and overcome anything yet t...

When we think of the future and our physical death, we sometimes hope that our efforts and sacrifices will count for something.  We hope that the hierarchy of enlightened Beings above us know our hardships and sacrifices, and that they will reward us with something spiritual, when alas we didn't manage to create it in our life. It seems that this is, as my friend says: "wishful thinking".  What is more level headed and practical is that we have to hope for our appreciation gained through our own hard work. This changes everything. It is like the enlightened beings above us, hand the baton to us and say make your hopes real that is your Absolute. End (3456).

Good to tell ourselves that now and then! Our problem is that we need the ego. Or we believe that we need the ego. We have not developed confidence enough yet in the essence and in its ways which are other than the ego. Confidence means to have strength and faith in the virtues of the essence. Conscious faith in the virtues that they are tried and proven to be better than the ego. As soon as our will is 51% to 50% in the virtues of the essence - that ego is soon going to be toast. So what is the virtue of the essence that is the antidote to the ego you are working on? Find it and study that virtue and embody it, apply it and awaken it - that is understand and know it deeply. What do you reckon? A decent approach: studying the antidote and understanding deeply why it is the antidote and why it is better, then working on the dissolution of the ego using the light from contrast of ego and antidote. End (3455).

I've been studying up on the Kundalini lately and I want to present what I found and understood.  So here is the proposed list of posts: 🔸What is Kundalini? 🔸Origin of Kundalini 🔸Kundalini and Occult Anatomy 🔸Properties of Kundalini 🔸Functions of Kundalini 🔸Awakening of Kundalini 🔸Development of Kundalini I hope I can write them all and not run out of steam. End (3452).

What the ? Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes. Just Like Indiana Jones Remember Indiana Jones in the first movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - when he has to descend into that Egyptian crypt full of snakes, and he says "Snakes! Why does it have to be Snakes!". Ophidiophobia is what Indiana Jones has and nearly everyone else out there (except for those strange snake collectors, keepers and lovers) have. But of course in varying degrees. Well there is actually something very esoteric behind this phobia or fear of snakes. Esoteric Origin Snakes deeply within our subconscious remind us of a tremendous power. Some sort of power, the power to deal out death or some pother potency of nature that is beyond our handling of thought. In the light of esotericism we would call this potency Kundalini. In us the Kundalini is the supreme power. The central occult and potential energy of our occult anatomy. The Kundalin or Divine Mother has to do with death, birth,...

Ah we regret having been distracted like nearly 100% of the time. Right? What did the boss tell me to do again? Ah my instructor just said something really important, the key to understand this and that, but what was it again? We get yelled at: "You don't listen. Listen to me!". The list goes on... In short distraction seems to be the cause of so much calamity,. strife, accident, misfortunes and problems. Seeing this I reckon that it is worth working to eliminate it from our own lives. To do this requires some psychological work, will of course and a degree of mastery over our conscious attention. It makes sense that so many things happen to us when distracted because our consciousness is not there. We get distracted by egos of course - hence the need for psychological work. Sometimes people believe they need distraction. Have to have it they say, otherwise life is too hard, dry, sterile, no fun, no enjoyment no relaxation etc. ...

A part of love is to forgive. To forgive is to heal. It in many ways is a balm for the heart. To forgive allows love again to flow in you. To forgive is a decision of no future resentment, revenge, recrimination etc. Which may be hard to contemplate but I'd go for that as those things are bitter and hurt ourselves a lot. It is also to give up the lament of "if only things were different" and "if only that didn't happen". To forgive does not mean justice is annulled.  Justice is in the Being of all of us, the Law is within the Being of us all. The Being respects the Law. To forgive does not mean to go blind to justice. It means to hand justice over to those Divinities that manage justice and for us to do our part, healing our heart and mind by trusting in justice and forgiving. When we forgive we can move forward. To forgive it is useful to see the other person as an essence, that has egos like us no big deal. Focus on the ...

If we are determined enough and really don't want any ego anymore we can really weaken it to a few seconds of feeble emotion. Nothing special about it, anyone who really wants or wills it, can do it! Sometimes we can be really grateful to ourselves and the help we received (Divine Mother) for having made the effort to die, because without that effort, certain events today would be a disaster.  So the moral of the story is want to dissolve any ego and do it, do it and do it, and that effort will really come through for you.  End (3448).

I think if we have the work and we understand that we have the work, today can be a day to focus on giving dignity to our inner Being. To day-dream, and many other things, I feel is to lower the dignity of our inner Being.  When we see someone dreaming, smiling to themselves, with far away eyes, their essence is clouded over. The essence is absent and as the essence is the only one that can impart dignity to our inner Being, the dignity and valour that comes from facing life is eclipsed like a solar eclipse. By fronting up to life with the essence we have the many chances to give dignity to our inner Being.  Our actions of rectitude or similar give dignity to our inner Being. When someone is angry, desperate, upset, reacting, arguing, chasing another, giving themselves to unnecessary material pursuits the dignity of the inner Being is in a lowered state.  Sometimes it is good to have in mind the dignity of our inner Being. Especially when we have...

I prefer to call chastity 'honesty to transmutation'. It is a little more descriptive. Chastity when speaking to others conjures up images of celibacy and medieval knights etc. Honesty to transmutation is not only when one transmutes but in every area of life. Watching over our thoughts, feelings, actions and words.  The work of being honest to transmutation is generally to be not wasting our energies and to be transforming the egoic, the dark, the grey into light, understanding and consciousness. One thing for sure is that chastity or 'honesty to transmutation' draws you closer to the Divine Mother specially that aspect of the Divine Mother as Kundalini - even if the Kundalini is not awake. It really helps us to concentrate on Her, to imagine Her and it gives us force when we pray to Her asking for the dissolution of any ego. End (3446).

We all have in mind some esoteric goals.  We may have tried and gotten no where. This is the common experience. It is like we have the goal of doing a pull-up and when we try it is so hard, it hurts doing it and we ache for days afterwards and don't feel motivated to try again. The method of just trying to do a pull-up until you get it is not really a good method. It may work but it is the slow and hard way. It is better to do other kinds of exercises that one can really do so to build up the strength to be able to do a quarter of a pull up, then keep going until you can do half of one then later a full one (pull-up). The same with esoteric goals.  Just trying the astral night after night may not work. We have to break it down. Break it down into developing concentration, break it down in quietening the mind, break it down to being all positive emotion, break it down into weakening fear, break it down into developing the heart chakra then try the astr...

Here are some interesting notes to do with Ida and Pingala. The major nadi in our occult anatomy is the sushumna. However, the two other very important nadi are Ida and Pingala. These two channels or energy pathways are connected to our sexual centre and nostrils. They interact or meet the sushumna at three places. The sexual energy we have polarises into two currents when we transmute. It polarises into solar and lunar currents.  Ida carries the Lunar current and Pingala carries the solar current. Pingala is agitating and active, while Ida is relaxing and soothing. The yogis in their tradition say that typically only one nadi is active and they change every two hours. They say that before an event if Pingala is active the outcome will be positive. They say that when a child is being conceived if Pingala is active in both parents the child will be a boy and if ida is active in both parents the child will be a girl. If the currents are mixed then th...

We may think at certain times very shamefully that others or a certain group of others are like not as deserving to have this or that or be here or there.  All that is so very egoic and has to be dissolved. The apprehension of this one truth may help us to do that. The right of every human being is authentic and, real and true. it is actually the right of the Absolute. Every human being is an expression of the Absolute, and the Absolute manifests and learns through each human being.  The absolute distributes its qualities through all human beings. The virtues of the Absolute are spread out among all human beings. For any virtue we wish to learn we only have to look to other human beings.  End (3444).

There's one characteristic about the sexual impulse that is interesting. That, it is typically selfish or individual in a nicer words. There the problem lies. So many wrong things have taken place because of this characteristic - things to do with forcing nature. Because it is particular to the individual it is not readily understood or echoed by others. Often it frightens and alarms others.  Of course there is co-operation and that is where sexual co-operation in Alchemy finds its place.  That is probably one of the significant learnings in relation to sexuality- about how to deal with this impulse. More importantly - how to create love.  Gnosis has the best teaching - transmutation. In transmutation the sexual impulse becomes love. Basically to create love we have to sacrifice, and we start sacrifice with the sacrifice of the selfish sexual impulse.  In love there is sacrifice. Love is a lot about sacrifice. We sacrifice for what we lo...

If we are all naked, all sick, all poor, all rich, all wise, all loving, all caring, there would be no ego or very little ego that would pop up in interactions.  If we are all in the same condition then no one minds. The ego is quiet. As soon as there are differences trouble brews. The magically curious thing about pride is that it disappears when relativity is annulled. The absence of relativity means no reason for pride to appear.   Due to comparison, the more, the less, the thoughts: 'it is fair to have more', 'its unfair to have less' bring trouble.  The main way to rise above relativity is to find an absolute value. The absolute value is found within, in our essence. To find this absolute value we have to do self-remembering. For example, the age old situation: ABC loves the other one (DEF) more than me. Then we feel ABC should love me more and so many other intense and bitter things. We have to go to the absolute value of love. But go to...

When the person (ABC) who is the central point of our jealousy begins to show some dislike towards the one we are jealous of (i.e. the third person - DEF), jealousy feels relieved and creates a false base in that 'dislike'.  Then later when the third person appears again and the person who is the central axis of our jealousy is friendly towards this third person (DEF), jealousy doubles in force and the feelings of indigence rise terribly and almost uncontrollably.    Jealousy does not transform that new impression well. However, it made a mistake to make those impressions of ABC disliking DEF a base belief. We feel betrayed but that is pure ignorance, we feel betrayed because jealousy is still alive.  Such an incident shows us more about jealousy. It does not allow the freedom of the other to like another or find another easy to get along with. It does not understand the freedom of love, the freedom (hard to tie down the heart) and expansion of the ...

Some Movies There are some movies that really resonate with us (not our egos), or it may not be the whole movie but just one or two scenes. The reason for that is, is that it touches something in our essence. There is also another reason, which is that it touches something from our past. In the case of touching the past, the movie triggers the memory of something from our past that also happened to touch our essence. In fact our essence still remembers those things that touched it deeply. We have just lost the lived details. Deep down unaware to ourselves that we watch movies of the past especially or the future (very remote past) to remember the details. Example For example, Ben Hur, the scene of when he was rowing on board a Roman battle ship.  That feeling of closure - committed a crime, justice served, only one thing to do in life now is pay, serve, life is simple - just row, gazing upwards mind melts into the rhythm and sounds of the oars, in a quiet d...

We have to transmute everything. No doubt we can desire many things. Of the many things are the material things. The material things always have their form. Form appeals to the sense of sight. We typically desire something producing pleasant visual sensations. So how do we transmute that desire produced by visual sensation? Well we are seeing something external (looking outwards) and with desire we are going downwards. Transmutation always says inwards and upwards. So inwards means our imagination and upwards means our Being. So the transmutation of that desire for the visual, is to imagine the Being equivalent of that aspect that produces desire. A sports car sleek and stylised taken up into our Being becomes our internal bodies or either just fades away as it has no relevance to our interior at all, because the principle is not universal and can not be found in the Being. End (3436).

The work is a lot easier when we love the Divine Mother that we have inside of us. We have to study first of all, all that we can find on the Divine Mother. Then try to understand what we are studying, then try to experience a bit of what we have understood. When we understand what we study, what we are studying becomes inspirational or emotional. This emotion is what we use to penetrate into experience. In the stage of inspiration sparks of love can appear in us. In the coming days I am going to be writing some posts about the Divine Mother in her aspect as Kundalini. I am going to post what I have studied and have found inspiration in.  End (3434).

We have both dwelling within us.Maybe you see it or feel it. A most beautiful lamb, innocent, white as snow, pure and noble, yet vulnerable.  A most ruthless, cold and ravenous wolf. Always wishing to attack and devour the lamb. The lamb represents the essence, the efforts of the essence and the efforts of the Being to help the essence. The essence of each one of us is a pure, innocent and beautiful creature that tries with a noble heart to grow bigger and stronger than the wolf.  Being smaller than the wolf she is always in danger. The wolf is the danger that we feel, the desiring ego, strong and ruthless, persisting in its attacks to pursue what it lacks that could in a moment of weakness ruin everything. We must in every area grow the essence in strength to defeat the wolf averting danger! End (3435).

I am thinking now with experience that a better way to work is this: Focus and go hard!  Once one goal is achieved go to the next one. I've been juggling many goals in parallel and they take a long time to reach a decent milestone. Maybe it is better to focus on one and being the only one it be finish sooner leaving you free to tackle the next one. What do you reckon? Leave a comment if you so feel inclined. End (3433).

Notes The consciousness is a source of light. It can be focused to a point or spread to illuminate a wide area. Focused to a point it has the power to penetrate. As it penetrates it reveals the hereto unknown.  Insight belongs to the consciousness, it sees what has been overlooked. Its sees the answers in simplicity. The consciousness unites various points into a picture of understanding. In its penetration and comprehending power it reveals by way of becoming. The consciousness becomes for an instant what it is focusing on. In that instant of becoming all is understood.  The consciousness' gift to us is revelation, liberation, truth and action. It has been said that consciousness in manifestation is the union of both a static potential and a dynamic force. Knowing is static and unfolding is dynamic. Where one's attention is one's consciousness is. One has to look deliberately to activate their consciousness.  It has to be prote...

So there we are one early evening before class, Pushjak the cat is being playfully admonished for having arrived later than usual for dinner. Too close to class time is not so good.  Then being a little drowsy m.m.m begins to see some snippets of the life of this nice black and white long haired, round tummied, matted fur-ball visitor.  Once upon a time Pushajk the cat was a like a leopard somewhere, then a lynx and in time a domesticated docile cat (now), with the forward trajectory of being human.  Being domesticated and liking human company is no coincidence - it is all preparation for something - to be human.    The guru Devas that oversee the evolving and involving processes of the waves of elementals, have their plans for each essence/elemental.  There is a reason why an elemental in a dog or cat persists and persists in visiting and being close to humans. You can see the elemental of your cat as a luminous and precious child ...

Just that, always being in a hurry and doing things quickly wears down friendships and relationships. Being in a hurry you don't really listen to the other person/people, plus frustration and impatience creeps in distracting your attention.  Plus you can never get to find out deeply what the other is feeling or going through. It is so easy in this modern life to always be in a hurry. In fact it seems that one lives their life always running slightly late. End (3431).

For our free essence to accept the ego and get identified with it there are some benefits.  Those benefits are processed by the subconscious and we are not readily aware of them. But we can find out. We can know them. It is really good to know them. You know why? Because if we can do that we can know what the ego really wants. It seems it always wants to cheat time. It wants to avoid enduring the suffering of time to get what it wants. Just know what it can't wait for and you have what it really wants. The apology, the restoration of image, back in the good books, approval, etc. are some things that pride wants, and that it can't wait for...   End (3430).

One of these days m.m.m, while I was giving a first chamber talk saw a nice gnome sitting on the royal green footstool near the front entrance to the centre. The friendly gnome swaying his feet in the air becasue they didn't touch the ground pointed to his right to where there are several garden gnomes (statues) from Bunnings. Meaning that the real gnomes feel welcome and are attracted by these statues. Buy a few wack'em (Ausssie slang for 'quickly locate them') in the garden and they will come making your garden happy and alive with the slightest air of enchantment.    End (3429).

Subconscious is so many things. It is really the mover and shaker everywhere amongst us human beings here on Earth. We go into nearly every activity, event, issue, deal, negotiation, meeting, conversation with our subconscious. When we have an agenda or motive in the background we have subconscious. When we have a desire that will benefit us but not the other and it is there in our background moving us into the activity and directing our words and movements we have subconscious. We can though turn this mode off.  First relinquish our interests, let go of pride, know our limits and deal, negotiate, do business prsenting the real reasons.  End (3427).

A very interesting point in the sphere of sexuality is that of accepting one's sexual energy. A person who loses their sexual energy is someone who does not really accept their sexual energy. Just ask them and they will give you a lot of concepts about the sexual energy that go along the lines of it not being an innate value but as something of the opposite. The more we accept our sexual energy the more and more refined we become and the more we integrate with it in a dignifying and edifying way. When we accept something we bring it into ourselves, we comprehend, we come to be at peace, we love, we lower our protest, we change, we move on, we suffer less, we embrace the future, we do many positive things... When you decide to accept your sexual energy on a deeper level you are actually recognizing its wonder, its specialness, its Beingness, its marvel, its power. I say this because we never accept or bring into ourselves mud, sludge, stagnant swamp water. Do we? S...

The art of concentration is to be able to fully put oursleves naturally and spontaneously into something.  The person who has developed that in him or herself can do some terrific things.  Concentration starts with the mind then really takes off when our heart is poured into the issue. The magic of concentration is that it brings ourselves part by part into what we are concentrating on.  The deeper the concentration is the deeper and higher the parts of ourselves that are brought into focussing.  That is why our heart engages something happens because the more special and causitive parts of oursleves engage.  The goal of concentration is always to get our essence into focussing or being interested in what we are concentrating on. Then things happen, we can see something, hear something, feel something, do something... End (3426).

I think that we can not refute this - that if there were more self-realised people on the planet the better things would be. We need, humanity needs, the planet needs, the Absolute needs that we triumph on the path of self-realisation. If we are truly working for our Father we are also working for Our Father - the father of all our Fathers. We can not be wishing our Father and Our Father success in its realisation without people sincerely wishing people success in their self-realisation. End (3428).

When you visit nature, the ocean, a forest, a garden, the desert, the mountains, and that magical feeling, that enchantment, that childlike awe, that invitation to contemplate and flow into the mystery of nature: its origin, its history, its energies, is felt. The elementals are present (your essence is also active). They are the magic, the life, the mystery of nature and the elements, the holders of the memory of the history of nature etc. That's a good moment to say hello, I am a friend,  I appreciate you, can I help with anything? One day may I have the grace of seeing or knowing you? End (3424).

Love starts in the small details and includes the small details and is even quite deeply moved by the small details. A person may think they could lay down their life for another, but in the facts they do not bother themselves to make another a cup of coffee. Something does not quite match. You agree? Perhaps a review may be revealing. End (3423).

We have to keep at it. We may not understand an ego or the teachings right now but we can tomorrow, or in the next hour. Our state of consciousness can change and understanding flows. The effort to understand accumulates and sooner or later it begins to provide insights.  It is a helpful thing to ask our inner Third Logos to help to comprehend. It may take a few days but the help naturally comes and we understand naturally a bit more. End (3422).

The light knows the white and the black. To know the white and stay in the white one must know the limits of the white, that is where white becomes black. The Law in many instance is the limit or either the Being is the limit. However, curiously the black does not know the light. The black does not see the light. If it would see the light it would transform itself. Just like the one who is in error, as soon as they see their error they change - light enters. The dark does not see itself but the light sees itself as well as the darkness. End (3421).

We often try to be managers of the heart of others. Dictating that they should love us, or love our children or family members.  We feel that it is right that they should do that, love our family and us.  However, we leave and forget our own heart in the process. That, if we look carefully we can't refute can we? It is another way of forgetting ourselves. We forget our job is our heart and our heart's business is its love radiating outwards.  We are too busy managing the heart of others, all the way over there and our heart is here.  Plus it is just sooo futile, experience shows us. To manage the heart of others only works for two minutes, doesn't it. We force love and it rebounds. What happens when we stay in our dear heart? We suffer less. We can do something amazing which is to love and not be phased about what comes back.  That is love! To love and not be overly concerned about what comes back.  This may not solve some ...

Self-confidence does exist. We usually smirk when someone in life says we need self-confidence, thinking that it is something superficial that performers, managers, politicians etc. use. It is something based on self-respect. Respect for oneself as an essence, respecting that essence as a real presence, as a real spark of the Divine with very real powers of Being and creating. All in all it is based in real self-knowledge and accepting ones reality. When one does not respect oneself and one has not accepted their own reality they are not at peace, and they feel awkward and embarrassed because they are being something that they can not be and deep down they know it. To be what you are no matter what, is to respect oneself. But before we can be what we are we have to accept what we are. To accept what we are we need to really know what we are. But if we want we can change our reality. But before we can change it, we have to accept what we are. Of course there is also trus...

Here is a didactic to separate our self-image. Imagine a nice photo of you. I then burn it, and stomp on the ashes. Be honest what do you feel? Hurt? Offended? Disgusted? Disappointed? Confused? Angered? Attacked? Disgraced?... The reality, your body is perfectly fine and you, the real you, is there in your body as consciousness streaming from moment to moment. That real you is unscathed and has no idea of the hurt from burning your photo. Yet something in you hurts, is angered, is confused, is dismayed, is offended etc. That is the false you that is hurting. The false you is something that you created and frankly you love and you think is really you. That is why it hurts. What about if we go to the real you and separate that image of you. It should hurt less because we know that the real you here in your essence does not hurt. That false image being hit hurts because we are sentimental about it, we believe it is us and we love it. We are actually attached to it. ...

Life is a huge web we are all interconnected. So it makes sense that we are all links that make up that web.  Our main function in being part of that web is to relate. Life is so much about relationships. The design of the Absolute - 'the multiplicity in the unity' shows that we are here to relate, and not only while on Earth but beyond. so this is our primordial nature and the better we relate the closer we come to that primordial nature. Of course as always the many egos that a person has stops us from relating well. Pride being the worst offender.  Every relationship has a function - a particular main function. When we get that function wrong then we start to relate wrongly with others and the relationship suffers until the right function and the right way of applying it is found. Working on how to relate well to everyone at every moment is something very difficult. It is something that really challenges the many egos that we have and if we take it wi...

Our daily imperative has to be to free more essence! Without free essence what can we do. Many things in our development stand still because of not having enough free essence. Wherever we are, until our essence is not totally free it makes sense that that should be our daily imperative (obsession even) - free more essence. End (3417).

Remember nature resists (for a while) any person trying to awaken their consciousness or dissolve an ego. If there is someone trying to do that don't be an obstacle or don't send them heaps of impressions that distracts or delays their work.  For example, a person is trying to dissolve anger and you are angry about a certain issue and you say all sorts of angry things. This does not help it strengthens their anger. Or if the person is trying to awaken and you bring them lots of problems, this distracts them from concentrating on their work of awakening and impedes them from achieving a certain crossing over point. It is in the best interests of the general work to not be an impediment to anyone trying to awaken and  die. End (3415).

Are you a blurter? Well sometimes. About 8 out of ten times blurting has consequences that we would rather not have. When in an argument or discussion, 8 out of 10 times it is much much better to stay calm and refrain from blurting. Say what you have to say in a dignified manner, clear, to the point but smooooothed out. I mean, all the roughness removed: no jagged tones, reasonable volume and the bitter ill-will boiled off. Then you have something palatable for your listener to respond to in an equally dignified manner. Blurting a little less makes a noticeable difference. The word is so powerful.   End (3416).

Here are the very classical tactics of the subconscious. When we catch ourselves in anyone of these activities we can know that we are acting or speaking out of our subconscious. ◐ Blaming others or factors external to ourselves such as the weather, the traffic, the economy, ◒ We project our subconscious, superimposing it on others. "They're taking advantage of the situation" we say but it is us that does that all the time. ◓ We resist admitting and seeing errors, faults, egoic thinking, feeling and actions etc. ◐ Lying. ◑ We protect our defects and we protect the same defect in others. ◕ Hiding our defects and things like invitations and information. End (3414).

This law of combustion links organic life into one huge domino web. We could perhaps say that the Law of Combustion is an aspect of the Law of the Cosmic Common Trogoautoegocrat. Where Master Samael says that this law is about consuming and being consumed. As life and creation is a loop, a circle, a cycle, what leaves a point will later return to that point. As all physical organic life descends from energy, and to energy it will once again ascend. All organic life combusts at some point or another. The fire creates and later reclaims its creation through devouring by combustion. Fire is energy. Fire is engendered into matter then released by combustion or by consumption.  All organic life eats organic life. A lion eats a deer and the fire in the flesh of the deer is released by digestion in the lion's stomach. The released fire then becomes energy for the lion.  In that way fire is not lost. Neither is water. It always recovers itself. Both curio...

There is always a few. They are characteristically unhappy and they want to enter the advanced group, or change groups or change teachers. Maybe doing the above will help. Maybe they will regret it... However, the ambitious person always forgets him or herself as well as forgetting their Being. If one wants to be happy one has to accept and embrace where one is in life and what one has in his/her life. Make full use of it be at peace and be happy. Then usually the door opens... With our attention directed firmly within and our eyes open we can find much to work on. Naturally our own consciousness will help us to work.  If however we need help, with our sincere heart and well directed will the keys and help that we need will avail itself. Either from within or mysteriously beyond our reckoning from outside. A book drops open on the floor, a person suggests something, we stumble across something on the internet etc. End (3409).

Come on get up! Punch again but this time punch the right thing in the face. The right thing is the obstacle within you, nothing outside. We need a fighting spirit. Never give up fighting for the goals that will enhance your essence! Lying down on the floor makes you sink into the floor. Get up, move, make a plan and start punching the right things in the face that need to come down. End (3412).

Have you ever been in that embarrassing situation where you are with your Gnostic friends at a Lebanese or Greek restaurant and then out comes the belly dancer. How awkward what do you do? If you look at the belly dancer, your Gnostic friends may think you are identified, and then if you say to yourself: "I'm not going to worry too much about what they think, they are good friends" and keep watching, then the belly dancer comes over to you and wants you to dance. Then it happens that you can't dance, you don't how to dance Greek or Lebanese style so you go red like a tomato. Then you say: "no more Greek or Lebanese restaurants!". Then starts the subconscious, the next time someone says lets go Lebanese you say no without a good reason or produce some pathetic excuse. Anyhow, back to the restaurant. All the other patrons in the restaurant are there watching, clapping, singing and dancing. Not just the old men but the children too. All happy ...

The heart has wings! If you are in the astral it is your heart that will make you fly. Whereas your mind will make you heavy and sticky. It will be hard to walk and even lift your feet. So in the astral you have to forget your head and focus on your heart, make your heart feel and with the effort of your effort fly forward. It is the heart here in human life that propels you forward. It is also the heart that takes you flying within yourself. End (3411).

Introduction Disclaimer! This post has not been written for anyone in particular! I am not sending anyone a covert message. This theme comes up quite often actually. A bit controversial.  More often than not, the Gnostic view is taken as old fashioned, over strict and moralistic. The Gnostic view does not partake of these three qualities above, but rather is an esoteric view point. That is a view point based on esoteric or spiritual principles that are easily overlooked. The typical occurrence goes like this. There is a couple, they are not married and don't live together either. The man at one points says that he would like to practice the Alchemy. In the realm of human liberties, human rights and freedom, if the lady agrees then they can do it. No one can stop them.  However, the question remains, is that decision in alignment with the principles (esoteric - not seen) that govern the so hoped for results of the Alchemy? (For the answer read on). Wel...

Introduction Master Samael says that in the ancient times those admitted into the mysteries were foremost taught all the ways of deceiving oneself, with the purpose that they would not later fall into any form of self-deception. It certainly merits I believe to study self-deception and work on it eliminating the possibility from within ourselves. Deceptive Arts Self-deception is much worse than deception. Us deceiving ourselves is worse than someone deceive us. There are many ways of self-deception. In the end, self-deception is what 'shoots ourselves in the foot". Self-deception as is deception, is always about not seeing the truth - not seeing the reality of things. For there to be deception or self-deception there has to be someone, some force, some power, some intelligence malign or otherwise that orchestrates the deception. Within us, it is easy, this deceiving power, is our mind, any ego, our subconscious and the kundabuffer. What deceives us are mis...