Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

We are not use to seeing ourselves as only awareness or consciousness. So we are constantly habituated at grasping for ourselves. We grasp inwardly in our thoughts and emotions for ourselves. For that sense of ourselves. What we find alas is something false. Something that our mind has created.something set up by our thoughts about ourselves.  If we discard that sense of self generated by the thoughts about ourselves which generate a flavour of our selves, we are left with nothing - like a clear openness. We find ourselves in that openness, in that clarity of awareness.  We have to stop that grasping and beg the Divine Mother to dissolve all those false senses of self that we have. And get use to seeing ourselves and finding ourselves as that awareness. End (3620).

If we die to the outcome of any projects that we undertake we can be guided by our inner Divinity and and we in turn can put the course of the project in their hands for them to determine the outcome best for them. End (5348).

The sense of self we have is false. This is hard for us to understand, but it is quite true. This false sense of self, this sense of "I" is upheld by thought. There must be some thought to set up or create this sense of self or "I". The thought "I" is enough to do it. A perception of our will, our body, our clothes, creates thoughts and that creates a flavour of the false self - that false sense of self gets created.  The thing is that that sense of self does not exist. It is false.  So if there is a "I" there has to then by duality be the other. Then we have the potential for conflict. If the sense of self or "I" is false then whatever thoughts it begins to generate they are also erred. We are really what's left when we take away that false sense of self. And that is a clear awareness. End (3619).

I think being in the moment is really important to discover the work that we need to do.  Normally we have our plan or desires about what we want to do and we miss so much.  It happens that what we think we need to work on is not really what we need to work on or is not important in that moment to work on.  Being in the moment one discovers so many different layers of work to do, which we would normally overlook. Being in the moment inside of ourselves allows us to see the details, which when we have our plan we only see the big things we are hunting down. The details support the big egos and so seeing and working on the small details, the small thoughts, the background thoughts helps us to work on the big things. End (3613).

Just five minutes of not thinking anything on purpose can do wonders for you. You energise awareness, create restful space within you, order your mind and life, remember priorities, direct and clarify your day's actions. Just five minutes can change the course of your day. And if your day changes, your life going beyond that will be changed also. End (3614).

There is a saturation point in us.  We can practice and practice during the day and we will find our saturation point. After we reach the saturation point our system seems not to be able to give more.  If we reach our saturation point we can be very sure that we have put in a very good day's work.  Usually pushing past the saturation point does not become too productive. But just sometimes it is what is needed to produce like a breaking through or a collapsing of some mental structures within us. End (3617).

El Pino in Spanish is a really nice tree to meditate underneath. Being under a pine tree one feels a special kind of calm. Especially those pine trees that when the wind blows through their branches there is a swooshing whisper, like the mantra WU. One can really get a deep quiet extending into the mind, especially if you're practicing early in the morning before dawn, before the surrounding area starts to wake up and get buzzing and humming. Clarko Reserve wooshing pine tree.  In Japan, among many tree species the pine tree has a high regard. It is revered as a symbol of steadfastness, strength and constancy as it remains the same through every season, through the hottest summers and the coldest winters. It does not change colour nor shed any of its needles.  Master Samael also wrote in the "Igneous Rose" that the elemental of the pine tree is related to the mind. "1. The pine is the tree of Aquarius. The pine is the tree of the new age. It is th...

The discipline to live from moment to moment is no doubt good for you. It teaches us how to connect to reality. It is where we can find our lives. It is the realest base that we have. The moment is the real.  By meeting the moment we can see much more about ourselves, which leads us to be clear.  In the moment is the didactic of our life, or the intelligent educating and guiding flow of our life. There are valuable lessons to learn. Real lessons that we need to learn, not the ones that we want to learn for some reason or another. Fantasy and distraction is all about taking us away from this educational didactic of the moment. Through the moment is where our consciousness through our inner mind can teach us, guide us. It helps displace anxiety and fear. It is a big part of the remedy for those two egos. We can really feel peace and calm when we are focused in the moment. We normally think the consciousness is in the body, but perhaps it is the other way around. The body is in t...

This may be helpful. To assign certain tasks that you have to do during your day to become a practice of alertness or awareness.  Remember a practice is something that you are doing to get good at something right! So don't think you are going to be perfect at it until after a while. The consciousness often manifests as remembering. When it gets active it makes us to remember. So when we remember the work it is because our consciousness has sparked up and sent us a jolt. In one simple event like getting a hair cut, being consciousness while sitting on the barber's chair so much can be discovered to work on.  End (3612).

Both kundalini and the kundabuffer are the Shakti. That is the same fire of the Cosmic mother that was present at the first instance of creation.  The difference between them is their polarisation.  The law of duality acts on the Shakti. Shakti is a force of nature, a force in creation where duality can impose itself.  Even though they are both fire or Shakti or primordial cosmic energy they are opposites. One ascends and liberates while the other descends and enslaves.  Both devour and take one to transformation. Kundalini takes one to mystical death and liberation from the ego, while kundabuffer takes one to the second death and liberates one from the ego. The difference is, one has realisation while the other does not. As the kundalini energises your consciousness and helps awaken and clean the psyche, making it think, feel and function in harmony with the cosmos. The kundabuffer does the opposite, it increases fascination, strengthens the ego and is the bac...

Will is very important when chanting KRIM to dissolve the ego. We really need to will with all that we have to make the absurdity in the ego to dissolve when we chant KRIM. There is absurdity in the big egos. There is a lot in anger, in pride, in lust, in laziness, in greed. In my ideas these absurd elements are the ones which are good to target first, as they are the ones that cause the most trouble for us.  End (3605).

I've found it best to give up controlling others, even if it is, we think for their best. Commanding, convincing, reprimanding, being passively unhappy etc. are some of the hundreds of ways of control. The controlling person likes to tell others what to do but can not accept being told what to do. The controlling characteristic is something relentless and constant in people who like to control. It seems if a person does not work on the controlling tendency, they are that way for years.      Control belies weakness. In control there is always something we wish to avoid... The more we wish to avoid something the stronger our grip of control will be. We can't always control people or things. People don't always like that and they can't always obey. It is in fact very wrong for them to sometimes obey. So as the controlling characteristic is something relentless and constant in a person, the control freak is only going to suffer. Ah it is awful to control a person, because t...

When we declare quiet war we sometimes have a better chance of winning the war. Because all the noise gets attention that creates that secret resistance.  When we are full of power and conviction we can declare war on an ego and be successful in many a number of battles. Declaring war on fantasy is best done quietly. End (3608).

It is good to have a bit of info up our sleeves about how to deal with the mind. When Negative and Sensitive When we are in a very negative and hypersensitive state, one negative thought sets us spiralling down. In such a state the best thing is to not think, not even glance at the thoughts. Just ever so gently and nice and quickly let go for as long as necessary until our normal psychology starts to show the first glimpses of coming back. Constant Bombardment Being bombarded by one thought after another makes it very hard to analyse all the thoughts and look into them so to dissolve them. When our mind is like this we have to increase our alertness and use our consciousness to catch what it can in an instant and then let the thought go. For as long as necessary. Negative but One at a Time When the thoughts are spaced we can do it. When they arrive one after the other we have to select the thought we wish to dissolve, by means of analysis, seeing both sides of the thought, seeing the a...

No plans is the main plan some say. But not really, there is always a plan somewhere on some level. All plans are up in the air now. Events cancelled, future events uncertain, borders open by who knows when, flights flying - don't know maybe yes maybe no. Anyway the main plan is to keep safe! But not just hand sanitizer and face mask safe but safe in our work more importantly! End (3604).

She is like Athena a fierce hunter armed and ready. If only you are ready too! Be ready and surrender her something to be hunted and she will assist.  She is a power that that follows our sincere heart felt need to die in ourselves! End (3603).

This is a mind game, this is being stuck in relativity and duality, where in reality you are neither. You are brave because the other person is not. You are brave because of duality. That is brave because there is another factor to compare against. You are brave in relation to or relative to the other person.  Take away the other person then you are not brave. You are defined as brave all depending on what the other person does. If they become brave then you will be a coward. What are you then? You are what depends on others! What you are is what you are in your Being. That is what you really are in reality!!! Cowards were punished severely in the red army, all knew it. We though don't see ourselves that way we see ourselves relative to others, which is to lose ourselves altogether. Within you, you have egos of fear and values of the Being. The more egos of fear you have the less brave we are, but on the flip side the braver we can be.  Conclusion, brave and coward don't exist...

Not all the time, but definitely when there is a mental process that is directly reaching and affecting an organ. For example, the thoughts of one ego may through the brain and nervous system tense or stress a muscle or organ producing pain, soreness and blockages, which then have knock on effects for the whole body. Working on the ego, that is working on its thoughts that impulse, tense and exert pressure on an organ, actually relieves that organ from that ego imposed stress. Hence taking away the pain and soreness, and restoring its natural function. Sometimes this takes some time or sometimes it takes very little time. Fear is an ego that can do this, affecting one's stomach, digestion and breathing. The egos of lust and the egos that are about losing the sexual energy affect the sexual organs. Anger affects the heart as does pride. Worry wracks the brain. If you are unwell and you really know, I mean you really know: no assuming or inferring or logically concluding that a parti...

What is it Really? So m.m.m says that to be awakened one must go to their interior mind and stay there, and see life's events from there as well as process life's events from there using the psychological and esoteric thinking. Thus leaving behind the sensory mind. So I tried that and I hit a wall. The wall I can best describe as being the following: "What is the interior mind?".  So I tried to understand what is the interior mind. In this post I am presenting my findings to you. So that if you are hitting the same wall, what I write here maybe useful. Some Points About the Interior Mind Lake to Reflect Data First of all, we know from what Master Samael says, that the interior mind is the mind that functions with the consciousness, and the data from the consciousness is what the interior mind uses to function. So the interior mind is once a lake that reflects the consciousness. The sensory mind reflects the data from the senses and uses three dimensional logic to anal...

7 Major Desires This is one of the seven major desires that human beings have. Lets hit this practically! Read the cartoon below. Now imagine yourself being all the opposite of being 'sought after'. Unpopular, unknown, obscure, oh so so average, etc. Is something going: "oh no no" inside of you and feeling a little uncomfortable, and thinking life would be like so: "dull, lifeless, boring, I don't know, I can't imagine my life like that."? If yes, you have this desire. Well, who doesn't, except for those you have dissolved it already right? Where's the remedy? To live life more and more in our essence, in our consciousness and in our inner Being, in that order. Yeap that's the remedy. Sound too simple. Well sometimes it is... To invert the polarity of that desire from moment to moment, from being 'sought-after' to 'seeking after'. Seeking the essence, the consciousness and the inner Being. You will only know if what I writ...

Useful Definitions of Self-Importance A most useful one is: "pain". Sometimes the technical definitions are ah just so unmotivating... The opposite of an ego as definition is always so useful. The opposite of self-importance is the priority of the Being (or anything Being related) within us. It's good not to turn a blind eye on it. It can creep up and give us a mighty unpleasant bite... I'll tell you how it mainly works. This is what we need to know, because this is where the pain is. Read the following paragraph... But just before I go on, on a long winding explanation, the key with self-importance is that when we are feeling the pain of self-importance we have forgotten our inner Being. The inner Being is no longer important to us, It has become second or third or fourth place in us. The opposite of self-importance is to make the purpose and seeking out of our inner Being and our inner work the most important thing in our life. If we apply this we have a very effect...

There's the theory and then there's the practice. There always seems to be a difference wherever you go and whatever you study. In Gnosis this applies. When studying theory, there's the equations, all balanced and symmetrical. All is defined, complete, exact and known. When studying the practice, the exactness and the 'all is defined and known' quality of theory become a little hazy. Overall though the practice does follow the theory. But not exactly. There's always some minor discrepancies. Due to the presence of other intervening factors.  In science often these discrepancies are due to external factors such as effects of temperature, air resistance, material impurities, mechanical friction, measurement device inaccuracies etc.  In the practice of Gnosis the particular nature of our interior determines these differences. End (3599).

That's an amazing thing and it is sometimes very true. Just one person failing can be like the first domino that is the cause for so many others to fail. The opposite is true too. The triumph of one is the cause for the triumph of many.  In the case of those studying Gnosis, Master Samael's triumph was the cause for the triumph of several others and also for those yet to triumph.   Such is the causative power of a guru. Every true guru has some hand into the causes of his/her disciples. Master Samael said once, that if he were to lose a drop of the sexual energy it would be the cause for the failure of the Gnostic movement.  Perhaps we could be in a situation where our failure or success will greatly impact others. In fact every instructor, teacher or missionary is in that situation. End (3598).

About Post This post is my jotting pad for a little talk I plan to give on the Guru. But I'm running out of time again so I'll be winging it... Word 'Guru' Guru is a Sanskrit word.  It is made up of two Sanskrit words: GU and Ru.  Gu means darkness and Ru means light. So putting these two words together we understand that a guru is someone who dispels darkness with light. Concept of  The concept of a guru has entered into the common pool of acceptance and the word itself also now has a place in many western languages, especially English. It typically means anyone who has a high degree of knowledge or specialised knowledge about a subject and is prepared to pass it on. Like your IT guru, or Excel guru at work for example.  A guru in the spiritual path is the same, however there are other dimensions to it which I hope to present in this post. A Principal/Law of the Path Everyone who walks the path has his or her guru.  We do need a guru for the path. To have a gur...

The reason why we decide to not keep our mind quiet or stop thinking is because something in our mind says: "Ah mental silence, self-remembering, the essence it's all so boring, so like still and dry etc.". Then we go with the juicy thought... Then we get a slight head ache and feel a little bit disorientated and vexed. All over nothing. What a disappointment, it was only a thought after all. A thought, an idea, an image that is half true or hearsay or won't ever come true... Self-remembering, concentrating, keeping the mind and personality passive are for those who know all too well the futility and disappointment of thinking. Especially thinking juicy rubbish. Also it is for those who have found a true joy in having the mind quiet and exploring their consciousness through self-remembering. End (3596).

Jaguar The jaguar is a valued symbol. Valued for its boldness, fierceness, power, courage and resourcefulness. Among the Aztec or Nahuatl the jaguar was highly regarded. It was given the name ocelotl. The very brave warriors in Aztec society were known as jaguars. There was even a clan of warriors known as the  jaguar knights. What a beauty the jaguar is! The Aztec especially appreciated the jaguar as it ran, climbed, jumped, swam and something else which sorry I forget now, meant to them that it dominated the four elements, and that was a unique set of qualities that was highly regarded. Law Appreciates those Who are Like the Jaguar The law respects courage and valour. The one who tries is seen with higher regard than the one who never tries. This can be a point to consider in our path and in our life. Nature and the Law favour those who try and put something on the line more in relativity than those who never risk anything. Our inner Being is the same. Even we human beings a...

One important thing to know about the work on ourselves, is that it is accumulative . Meaning, that via the accumulation of effort, merit, energy, practice, etc. we get our results.  So we want to keep this accumulation going . To keep up a level of consciousness or psychological work during the day so that the accumulation continues, is quite hard. So this post is about giving a suggestion that I am using, and it helps. Do regular five minute practices. Step out for five minutes, go inside, clear the mind, pray and go deeper inside. Find what you are working on and do a bit of work on it. Send the fire of the Divine Mother on to it or intensify your awareness, whichever it is that you are working on. Then back to work or whatever we are engaged in, then repeat regularly and consistently. End (3593).

Anecdote When I did my missionary course in Toronto Canada, it was given by a husband and wife team. The husband was a French man - good guy and his wife is one of Master Samael's grand daughters. They had spent quite a bit of time they told us staying with V.M Litelantes: Master Samael's wife after they married and they had only recently left staying with her to travel to Toronto.  They related a story one day, where some people came to visit Mistress Litelantes to ask for some advice or similar and one of those visitors was a young Mexican lady dressed in a mini skirt. Ok, the young lady in a mini shirt was there waiting in a room then suddenly out came Mistress Litelantes with a bucket of water and just dowsed her with it and said something like to the effect of  either "get changed or get dressed" something like that.  It would apply for a man as well, singlets or shorts could well get the same bucket of water. Thinking It makes one think doesn't it? Why the b...

All the rays are God. The ray of medicine is the healing of God. The ray of Force is the force of God, the ray of wisdom is the wisdom of God, the ray of Law is the justice of God, the ray of liberation is the liberation of God, etc. etc. Normally people in times of war see the medics, and the solders of the liberating army as a gift of God. The rays are God at the service of humanity in creation and also to creation. There are hierarchies and hierarchies within the rays, this is because the rays descend into creation and diversify.   The specialist sends orders to a doctor and the doctor in turn sends the orders to the nurses and the nurses see the patient and carry out the healing advice of the doctors. They are all part of the same ray just fulfilling the function of the ray according to the ray's descent in making contact with humanity.  The above is just a very human analogy of the hierarchy that operates within the rays. For certain our very own Being must occupy a ...

This is really not easy to do at all and in honesty I can only manage it a day in a week. Because it requires a lot of energy, will and focus and our days are usually packed with lots of distractions - things to do, places to drive to, people to talk to etc. A Blitzer day is to declare 'fair game' as they say on everything that comes in your head. Even the 'nice' thoughts. Any thought gets the rifle sight put on it. Sorry about the gun and war references. With the rifle sight on it we can question it, know who sent it and ask the Divine Mother to pull the trigger. Doing this is very illustrative for us. We see how much of the: negative, fundamentally erred and plain useless slips through and turns into extended thinking.  These discoveries help us in our psychological work of dissolving the "I's", and it also helps immensely to free up our mind as well as clean it and make our processes freer of subjective and erroneous elements. So today can be a blitzer ...

A rather potent drowsiness this afternoon... Hope what I write makes sense, my logic is a bit fuzzy.  The many egos that we have are polarised in one direction more than any other direction.  There are only really two directions for the ego. Lunar and solar. Good old duality again. Because the ego is lunar in nature it is polarised in the way of receiving. Because the lunar nature is just that, it is not a radiator or generator, it is a reflector and it is cold and lacking life. Very much the opposite of the sun. We know well how self-love is all about receiving love don't we. It gives not to give, but to receive. It is all geared up just to receive. This is all because it can't love the essence or the Being within. Once we  have love inside for our inner Being, we can then love others. As m.m.m says we can't give what we don't have. Anyhow what I want to get at in this post is that lust is like that too. It is a massive receiver. If it gives it is to receive. A pers...

Master Samael says that all that we need to do the work is a healthy body and mind. But even if we don't have a healthy body and mind we can still work on ourselves. It is just at times a bit more difficult, more challenging as we can all appreciate. We have a student that is not all that well physically and unfortunately he is often distracted in class because of the physical pain he feels. He says that often, most of the meditations that we do with him he devotes to just relaxing out the pain. But for him he says the pain does go away and he can then concentrate. Often our physical conditions do bring up many egos, giving us much material to work through. Such as frustration, anger, fear, worry, anxiety, despair or depression etc. In cases such as this to have the work is a real help. None the less we have to work with what we have. If we wait for things to get better, we may never do any work on ourselves. Sometimes we need to devote all of our energies into getting better and s...

Fierce Fight Put up a fierce fight against that negative "I" that says in so many different ways: "that its all hopeless, useless, gone..." that its all $&!%..." etc.  Its time to question furiously with rigour and for God's sake not believe that "I's" proclamation that all is wrong, ruined, bad, corrupt etc.  Things are not ever all gone or all bad. There are levels and levels of 'bad'. The thing is that the "I" exaggerates. The interesting thing is that things live on and we are still thinking that they shouldn't because it is all 'bad'. When one has been stuck in that perception that things are 'bad' and one lives through that and things were no way near as bad as that "I" projected we learn not to trust that "I" so much anymore and trust reality more. God is reality. God is certainly not fantasy or exaggeration.  Reality Reality is neither good nor bad, it is itself - what is re...

During the day many smells woft up from the vent of the subconscious. They come to us in the form of feelings, strange flavours, that often our mind converts into premonitions, such as: "Oh I feel that I'm going to die soon", "I'm going to go hospital", "I'm going to get sick", "I feel really nervous, the sense of some impending doom", "I'm going to be abandoned"... Well the things that come from the consciousness are the things that are going to take place in our life. The things from the subconscious are not! I don't know any other way to tackle them but to know with the consciousness that they are not happening right now, they are not based in anything real, and that separation from is totally correct and to displace out of our human machine: KRIM is the way to go. End (3586).

This is very ironic: so I have a good business idea for anyone out there. What you do right is collect spring water on a full moon night then store it. Then in the next month pour that water into great big wide vats and expose them to the full moon, all night long. Then bottle them up in a snazzy glass bottle with a nice full moon label on it and sell them as full moon activated water.  Using the marketing: "W ater infused with the full moon giving you the pull of the Moon to pick you up, the Moon's shine to make your mind sparkly clear and the Moon's magic to make your astral fly. "  I thought it hadn't been yet until I found this image. Make some good money from all these hippies and pseudo esotericists that abound in Australia, America, England, Europe etc. Then shut up shop and have a good break. Sometimes some shrewd people have made money off the superficiality of good willed people. Well the karma goes to the people who took advantage.   Full-Moon Activated...

When people love the form more than the essence, that love one day is to turn to pain and grief, as all forms must perish.  The essence does not perish, it continues.... If we see people as being an essence that has a physical form, the love we may feel for them is not going to turn into bitterness later on.  Make our life a work of art Master Samael said. This change in view brought on by the esoteric teachings changes many things in a person. As the love for the essence from the essence continues on, you can just imagine how much sadness this alleviates, as the old way of thinking would have us see this as only a loss. This even applies to our own form. As we get older we begin to lose the form and yet loving our essence more than the form we can pass through this process with comprehension instead of lament, protest and regret.  End (3585).

Master Samael said something so beautiful about the Divine Mother. He said that She has been there in all of the Mothers that we have had through all of our lives, and so in the mother that we have this life, She has also been present.  Now that it is Mother's day, it is at least not a bad thing to remember that which Master Samael taught. End (3582).