Gnosis Wisdom

Talk Talk coming up soon about this topic. Here are some notes. Feel free to post them, copy them, cut them, paste them, add to them etc. as you please. They are not mine, they come from Gnosis, I just typed them. Notes ⚡A law of life, a law of nature, a law of the cosmos.  ⛬ Life is round. Existence is all round. Time is round. Karma is round. Karma is processed in time and space and so if time and space are both round karma has no other choice but to be round.  🔱 Recurrence is another word for karma. ⚡Recurrence is then based upon cause and effect. ⛬ There is a cause for each and every recurrence. 🔱 They actually form a link in a chain of cause and effect. The effect of one recurrence sets up the cause of the next recurrence. Recurrence is nothing other than a big cause and effect chain. ⚡In a recurrence there is a reckoning that takes place. The reckoning of balance. ⛬ Recurrence brings two or more people together to cancel debts from the past. 🔱 Recurrence works on a su...

Kinds of Love - Big Key There are three kinds of love Gnosis says. 1.) sensual, 2.) emotional and 3.) conscious.  In the beginning this really surprised me. I thought that there were no distinctions - like there was only one kind of love. Knowing the differences is the big key. Knowing each type of love we can separate them. I think this is the big key to it all. To be able to separate sensual love and focus on conscious love. Psychological Lacking, Psychological Appetite and Psychological Consumption In sensual love there is always a kind of lacking and that lacking produces a kind of an appetite or psychological hunger or pining. That appetite then makes one mainly concerned with having it satisfied. Which in turn makes us selfish.  When we are selfish all feelings of tenderness, all that of delicacy and intelligence in feeling seem to disappear. Rough and gruff feeling and behaviour appear, tunnel vision thinking and a kind of very demanding quality appears in our will....

There is that axiom that says as above so below.  If something is not in the superior worlds there is no way it can come down to appear here on Earth. Things must be in the superior worlds first of all. Imagine that all these inventions that make their way into our life in the form of new technology are the things that already exist in the superior worlds.  Even if the exact gadgets that we have here don't exist up there the principles and laws that make them possible most certainly do. Things have a spiritual and a physical part to them. Up there we have the spiritual counter part actively functioning and down here we have the physical part of it functioning. Imagine that all these scientists and engineers, some of them, not all of them were initiates in the past and that from those times remain in the depths of their consciousness recollections of times of when humanity had access to the knowledge that made all that we have now in the way of technology and much more availabl...

Going to write up some posts to do with this type of love: sensual or sensorial love. Posts will be the type that attempt to reveal more about its nature. I'm not really interested in promoting or condemning it but rather shedding light on it. To shed light on it, contrasting it with conscious love works splendidly.  I am writing these posts in this way, because knowing about sensual/sensorial love helps one to weigh up both loves and make one's own decision about these two types of love.   It turns out the more we know and understand about sensorial/sensual love, the more we are drawn to conscious love, and the clearer the way it is to go towards conscious love, because we know what conscious love is not or maybe easier expressed: as we come to know where pain is and where pain is not. End (3871).

If we don't do something on the spot we can forget. If we plan to do something most of the time things change and we don't do it. An ego appears right now, this moment, then that is the time to work on it. We need alertness and the disposition to work to operate this way. That's all. If we don't take advantage of the moment we waste many opportunities and we don't end up working very much.  We may hate wasting food, but we waste so many good moments. Time to hate wasting good moments because they are moments where our essence nourishes itself. End (3882).

Seeing Gnosis as something cosmic and universal, vast and without limit feels great! Feels comfortable and does not tense or tighten anything within us.  When we see Gnosis related to or tied to: a country, a language, a person, a group, an institution, an instructor, a family, a culture, a lifestyle, certain activities, particular words, myself, to my circumstances, etc. then we are limited and not restrained.  To feel restrained is to feel unhappy, and later resentful to what we are dependent upon or constrained by. When we are not free we suffer. Because not to be free is to be dependent upon something. When we are dependent on something we like, dislike, accept and reject. We repeat that in a never ending cycle. When we like Gnosis through a dependency upon something, we end up disliking Gnosis when that something goes. If we think Gnosis is an instructor we will dislike Gnosis, because no one likes their instructor all the time. If we see Gnosis as limited it is because w...

I heard this statement the other day: "What is good for man is not good for God and what is good for God is not good for man.".  A good reminder to do with our work and a good reminder about the relativity of everything. Such a statement is telling us to use the Being, the path and the work as our reference point. I have heard it said that when we are suffering down here in our human physicality the Being up there is happy, and while we are happy down here reveling in terrestrial things, the Being up there is burdened.  Identification and fascination with our human life is not so good for our Being, It delays It's progress/growth. End (3879).

The post 3875 about the masculine and feminine is now complete as I think I'm going to make it at this stage. Now is the best time to read it because I have smoothed out the errors. End (3878).

Maybe just maybe hearing about all these things to do witht the times of the end and relalted to that makes you go banaanas. Many different thoughts and ways of taking it can appear in people. We can get like so down that we can't bear to hear anything more about those things or we just don't want to care about that anymore. We think: "there's no time left, I'm not in the picture, nothing to do now, give up, some people forget about it, but I can't its important, what should I really do about it?, It's too late for me" etc. It's all me me me isn't it? Noticing that is not a bad thing. Read on. Well anyway, have you been in a plane and felt that irrational fear that the plane could or should crash? So you feel that fear and then you look out the window, you hear the engines roaring strong as, the wings steady as, the plane intact and rock solid, the people inside all happy and relaxed watching movies, and you think "why isn't it droppin...

There are these funny states we get into at times. Well what is the most importnat thing is that we notice it, we larn something about it and then we move out of it. To be stuck is the problem! I re-iterate, to myself more than to you, that the real most important thing is to notice, learn and jump out. We may find ourselves not having that will that we had just a few days ago, not having that emotional energy connected to our nervous system, feeling tired, just not 'into' pushing forward with anything or doing anything requiring extra effort than just sitting, finding our system not interested in wanting to know about having to do this, having to drive towards this, fight for this, if you want this you must do that, if you don't do that then this issue will arise, things are hard and you have to fight otherwise you will never get there etc. Sometimes such a state is accompanied by a lack in faith.  The thoughts that arise when we see ourselves feeling this way are not the ...

Notes I have been working on this lately. Here are some points that have helped me. I'm going to present it in didactic note form as time is limited. Time and inclination permitting I may pad it out later. 1. Masculine and Feminine The Ain Soph Aur polarised into two, the Divine Masculine and Feminine Principles. Two polarities of the one un-manifested. These two polarities are known as the Heavenly Father and the Divine Mother. By means of these two polarities everything has been created. Because everything in manifestation comes from these two principles, everything has these two principles in them.  Human beings, men and women have both principles. One is external and the other is internal. For example, a woman is externally feminine but inside of her there is a masculine principle and vice versa for me. Both men and women carry both principles. But of course much more than the other. 2. Law is to Tend to Unity Because these are the first two principles in creation (masculine an...

The way to love our Being is through ourselves. To send our love to the Being we have to go higher up in ourselves and from there send our love. You can only embrace those higher parts of yourself and really go there when you love them. Like loving the virtues, the values,the soul, the consciousness etc. How for God's sake can we be in our own abyss identified with some rubbish ego hating ourselves and the whole world, and trying to love our Being. Ah come'on, just nonsense - too stupid to even think about. It just does not make sense to love the Being and not yourself. But of course loving yourself in the right way. To love ourselves in the right way is to take care of what enters ourselves and to take care of what happens within us. To hate another is to poison ourselves first, to accept all sorts of negative impressions is to make us harm ourselves also, that is not love but we are so stupid, we allow all that in and hold grudges, resentments and negative concepts left right...

There really exists a line within us, it is a kind of a boundary within our psychology. It marks out a zone whereby what we do within that zone still does not compromise the integrity of our self-image.  Thoughts, feelings and actions outside of that zone begin to comprise the integrity of our self-image and we then lose morale, and that is a serious question. A person losing morale is really not too nice at all and it brings some serious consequences for the person. Even there is a line when we fantasize too much, think too much, manifest the ego too much...We lose morale and we have to start again. Usually when we cross over this line, something in our mind says: "I'm really stuffed now, I've crossed the line, stuff this, roll in it, get worse who cares!". To think like that is not all that good, would you in all fairness agree? For example, we get irrationally angry and feeling that we crossed the line, we go for more, pure anger with momentum gaining, illogical an...

We are always wondering about what is the will of our Being. Here is something from Master Samael taken from the book" "Tarot and Kabbalah". V.M Samael Aun Weor, "Tarot and Kabbalah" Then the question is what is wrong, what is right? Looks like it is left to our common sense and discernment to work it out.  We can know that the right thought, feeling and deed would not lead to something wrong. So if we take our deed or idea (right or wrong we don't know yet) and see the thinking and feeling behind it, we can know if it is wrong or right. Or get a better idea about it. End (3872).

Introduction We often find ourselves fascinated with things. We hear that fascination is a stage in the process of the sleep of the consciousness, so for our work of awakening it is worth a study.  The more we know and understand about fascination the better equipped we are to shake it off. Fascination Anatomy We can be fascinated with something positive or negative. Even there is a positive and a negative type of fascination. Sometimes only experiencing something makes us to lose the fascination. Sometimes we don't need to experience anything, we just need to work on a particular ego. Sometimes we just need to study and sometimes as our maturity develops we stop being fascinated. Positive Type The positive type of fascination is one that contains an element of yearning in it and it is one that inspires us to learn and acquire knowledge. Being positive, it is a fascination about things of a positive nature such as: spiritual, esoteric things, things of nature, scientific things, ph...

Question  "Could it be that the Being sometimes teaches us with a fall? Or perhaps puts us in a situation where a very disgraceful fall is inevitable at our individual level of Being, i.e. when we are too weak? I am not talking about nocturnal pollutions. I am talking about voluntary acts of sin where we know that what we are doing is wrong, yet we are not strong enough to do the right thing. And afterwards, our inflated sense of ambition and mystical pride is absolutely crushed and we helplessly drown in shame and bitterness from within?" Answer I have heard that we are submitted to tests that were designed for us to fail. The purpose of us failing is for us to become more aware of our weaknesses, to destroy complacency, to have our pride reduced to reality and for us to work harder. That's a tricky point, whether it is our Being that puts us in that position or we actually do that. If the Being does it, it would have to be for a beneficial result, seen immediately or se...

Thoughts arise left, right and centre. Some are quite bothersome. Some neutral and some positive. Some that disturb us, some that make us cringe, some that make us anxious, some that anger us, some that hurt, some that calm us, some that make us smile, some that make us look forward to things etc. etc. the list can go on. Knowing, knowing and knowing helps.  To get a bit behind the thought, to know a bit more where it comes from, and a bit more what makes it feel uncomfortable is what is important. That knowledge is what changes and saves the day. That has to be the only focus! To get that knowledge we have to be calmer, quieter and more alert, but a relaxed alert. If we can't see what's behind or in the thought we need more calm, more quiet. that's our hindrance or blind spot, not enough calm. Thinking about it, analyzing it does not help a great deal here. That's more mental noise, which does not allow us to see. We need to perceive, to catch the meaning of the though...

One thing that concerns me is how I am in my head. I mean what is the nature of what is in our head? What are the nature of our thoughts? How are our thoughts? Are they kind, are they good-willed, are they peaceful and intelligent? Are they alive and vibrant rather than dark and morbid? I like to be vigilant over that aspect of the thoughts. Especially when we are asking for help from our interior Divinity and other Divinities external to us. Who would want to help a person who has a war in his head, or a pub, or a night club, or a harem or a boxing match or a mud slinging contest or a political debate or a depressing opera? No one right? Or at least it would make you to think twice. We think the interior Divinity and the external Divinities will help us no matter what. That maybe true, but we don't have to make it so hard for them. The cleaner and clearer we are the more they can help us and the more effectively and efficiently to boot.   For me it is one of the nicest things that...

From experience it is best to stay in our business. Which means to stay where we are, inside of ourselves, don't leave there to think about what another is thinking or feeling, or why they said or did that etc. That is really their business - not ours.   That is self-remembering after all...When we stay where we are, we are in our power, in our reality. In our reality is relaxation and clarity. Outside our reality is stress. In our reality we better deal with whatever is before us. When we try to get inside the head of another, or their heart or their experiences: human or esoteric we just end up suffering. Like 100% of the time. What we do when we leave ourselves is we persist and persist in trying to work them out, trying to know them more why they did that or said that etc., but the difficulty continues, nothing changes within us, nothing gets better. So something must be wrong in doing this. If we suffer or experience difficulty the general rule is something is not right p...

We can do that at times: see a person as an ego. But there is a mistake in our way of thinking. Such a way of thinking actually does not do us any good inside of ourselves.  A person may have that ego but they are not that ego. Pretty basic truth, but we often find ourselves making that mistake. Especially when we are scared of a person we think of them as only being an ugly ego of anger.  The thought we have about a person is not the person. The photo on the fridge of a person is not the person either. A person is not the Negative or positive flavour that is evoked in us when we think of them either. A person is a whole complete living tree of life, an alive real spark of the Absolute, just as real a person as we are.   We have to learn to relate to people as a reality not to relate to only our concept of them.  End (3865).

Its really good to remember the Intimate Christ we all have inside of ourselves (somewhere). When the ego or the mind are a real pain He's the one to call for help.  Incarnated or not, He is somewhere within us and at least out of mercy or by virtue of merits He helps us. End (3864).

There is a fine art in meditation which person who meditates has to get just right. It is to combine relaxation and alertness to the right tincture. Just ever so to the right amount. If something bothers you and you want to know and understand it, then meditate. Allow it to appear, see the thought of it or feel the emotion of it and sit with it. Perceive with your relaxed and calm alertness what for real it has to tell you. Seeing for real what that emotion has to present you with is much better than narrating anything about it to ourselves or theorising something about it.  This is the real which is what transforms us. Need a short break from the love posts. Back with more tomorrow. End (3863).

How do we use our love? To just feel love is not enough we have to know how to use it. We have to love that is for sure, but we have to know how to use love. That is very important, if we don't know how to love we ruin love. Love and wisdom are the best pair. Love is the loving force and wisdom is the knowledge and understanding of how to use love. They need each other and together they are the power. I think that we would agree that a good use of love is one that benefits both people and takes them to a higher place within themselves. A love that when used, dignifies both, purifies both, increases love in both, helps both to understand each other and themselves is a wise use of love. The moment, timing in love is a factor worth knowing about. Usually people rush together and crash over the edge of the cliff and then they can't stand the sight of each other after that. That wasn't such a good use of love. What about taking time, allowing the love to be cultivated so to grow...

The other two types of love, the sensual and the emotional are ones which we don't have to learn at all. Human beings know all about that already. It is programmed into our instinctive centres.  We see at certain times children acting by their instincts, taking on sexual like positions in their interactions with other children, they do this without ever having being taught because it is part of the animal nature that we have inherited from nature. The sensual love is that of an animal nature concerned mainly only with the instincts.  There are movies and novels that try to teach us love, but I prefer honestly to be educated by the esoteric teachings, the initiatic science and by the work. I think a serious person would not pay much attention to what society says and what the romance novels and movies say. We human beings don't know much about conscious love. That is one of our biggest tasks - to learn conscious love and to learn how to love consciously.   In our esse...

If I were to ask m.m.m about love, he would say: Ah just die! The best use for love at our stage is to use it to inspire more death within us and to look inside of what we have of love to purify it with the work of psychological death.   In the next few days, I'll present a post on the various uses of love. End (3859).

Here are some realities about the way love works. Love is fed with love.  We can forget that. Thinking rancour, melancholy and resentment cause love to come to us and are reason to grow the love of the other towards us. Not really... We think that our love is not important, that the love of another towards us is what is important but that is so wrong. Our love is most important, as it is what calls love to us. Love is fed with love. Love calls love and when there is love, love will always find us. Love is a magnet for love. We think that we can live with our resentment, grudges, rancour etc. quite well and that they don't hurt us, they are even entertaining to us and provide good conversation topics.  Love feels great and is what is healthy and life giving, but with resentment and rancour there we can't call love into our system. We can't fully call health and vitality to us. Love is in the three Brains. Love is an action. Who loves more the husband who fixes the plumbing a...

The love that a genuine Gnostic feels has to have some sort of description doesn't it? How accurate the description is, is another matter, but the point is the love a Gnostic has some kind of a sentiment, has some kind of: nature, expression, philosophy, guiding direction and characteristics etc.  No way am I going to do a good job here, but I am just going to write something about it. Universal and disinterested are two good words. With disinterested being the more important and practically useful word. No doubt to have a love that is of these two words, implies a lot of psychological death. The Gnostic would be very wise and watchful over his or her love, always making sure it is well directed and is serving the work, the Being, the path, the Great Cause (spiritual benefit of others). A love that is universal and wide, that loves the stars, the oceans, the sky, the plants, the galaxies, the vast infinite, human beings, the earth, animals great and small, and above all, the Being ...

Good Advice This is really good advice here for the whole length of our life. Don't stop loving! Why? Because love is the only thing really that inspires you and fills you with the force of life. What else is there that does that, that is not love?  Not much else right? Love is in the Being and the Being is love. To stop loving is something that goes against our very own Being.  Love is a huge benefactor, it is the one that has really bestowed all the things that we have upon us. Even the difficult, hard and rough things have been because of some kind of love - intending that we return to love again, but conscious love. Love must be allowed to flow and glow like the sun, continually giving and receiving, continually reinvigorating our life. as our heart beats non-stop, it must also love non-stop. Renewing our inner life. Hide Your Love if Worried Don't Kill it! Of course there will always be people and circumstances that will like to take advantage of your love, and so this is...

Chores and Complaints There are a number of chores that we do each day, and there are a number of complaints that we give voice to each day. Those complaints are I don't have enough time, have to do this and that, he/she wants that I do that, always a rush etc. How about those chores become our practice. Our time to recharge, our time to be conscious, our time to relax the mind, our time to observe and above all our time to triumph and advance microscopically (it all adds up) in awakening more, and in dying more. Fussy Cat While feeding the fussy cat early morning still in pajamas, calming the mind, breathing deeply, making feeding the cat your first morning practice - savouring the day, thanking the Being for the day, going over esoteric work resolutions, opening the can of cat food, observing the thoughts looking for awareness while spooning out the chopped tuna with gourmet veggies, focusing the awareness banging the spoon on the bowl. Calm again watching the cat snub the food (...

There are ways of loving. True isn't it? The most important way for us to know. Is our way. We get very very concerned with the way others love, or don't love but still the most important way to be concerned about is OUR WAY! What is important in our way of loving is the nature of our love. The best love is the one that is pure. But often if we are honest we will find impure elements in our love. For best results these elements have to be filtered out. There is something divine in every love, because love is divine and comes from the Divine but it is mixed with things needing purifying. This is being realistic right? And it is these impure elements that do the damage. Often as long as we love we think that is it, we have made it. No more to be seen. We don't inquire into the nature of that love. But to be conscious and get to conscious love we really should do that! Makes sense doesn't it? One common pitfall here is that when love takes hold of a person the heart takes ...

What is love? Too hard to define it. It is so many things. I'm not going to try to give another definition of it. I'm going to rather focus on how we commonly see love and from there draw some light for improvement. Lets speak about love from the esoteric teachings point of view. Love is something cosmic. It is something that is all around and comes to us from the heights. Love comes from the spheres of supra-consciousness. From where the Being of each one of us dwells. The Divine Mother it is said is the 'root, bud, trunk of love". Love comes from the Absolute. Of all the planets the one which emanates the most and highest quality of love is the Sun. Love is an energy which is diffused into the whole of nature and some of those particles of love are within human beings in certain parts of their body more than in other parts.  We have major difficulty in perceiving this love streaming from its source from way way up there somewhere. We only see its manifestations here ...

So typically we human beings only really love ourselves. We have like a small circle in which our love works right? And in that small circle there is only really ourselves. So we have to expand it, a bit at a time to include others or other things into that circle. We have to love something that is not us. Even if that be a cat, a bird, a dog, a mouse, a crow, a lizard, the oceans, a lake, flowers, a fish, a something.  When we start to love that something or someone, we care for it/them, we look out for it/them, care for its/their welfare, etc. Doing that allows us to feel a kind of love and can even give us one day a glimpse  of a higher type of love. Anyway, to be happy, we have to love and to love we need to expand our circle of love to include someone or something else.  To love something or someone else we have to move, we have go to it or them. We want to be happy, we want to love so it makes sense (coherent) that we should fulfill our own wish to love. Now here th...