Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

A few different ways to be in self-remembering, well many ways.  Each to their own way.  One common denominator is that the mind is not thinking.  With self-remembering or remembering the Being we can reach our centre, touch our consciousness, see clearly outside the ego, mind and personality and make the consciousness brighter. A nano-particle bit more awake, and it all accumulates, nano particle by nano particle. End (3957).

We know this - "don't compare yourself to anyone". But we forget.  This is us reminding ourselves right now: "don't compare your path to that of anyone else", "don't compare your work to that of anyone else", "don't compare your circumstances to that of anyone else", "don't compare your karma/dharma to that of anyone else", "don't compare your abilities to that of anyone else" etc. When we compare we become miserable. When we compare we stop living our life, we stop fully living our reality. We become a bit cut off from it. When we compare we create a new point of view which we adopt as our point of view. But this new point of view is based on another person (usually more advanced, fortunate, smarter etc.), which happens to be false for us.  This new point of view is really a point of view that is about saying to ourselves all the time 'we should', 'we should be like this' and it never r...

This post is just a very impartial look at arguments. Some reflections that's all. Are they a bad thing or a good thing? It mostly depends on how we see the results. There are some that really damage a relationship. Then there are some that improve the relationship. There are some that are unnecessary and some that just had to be, and couldn’t be avoided and then there are some that really could have been avoided. Some that really hurt and some that irritate and some that don't hurt.  They usually have a good result when the truth comes out, the truth about one’s position, the truth about 'why' or the truth about 'what' or the truth about 'how' etc. There are some that you just have to go through and weather the storm, take the heat so that the peace returns.  What to do? Speak, not speak, be balanced - see both sides, or hold firm, say whatever or state the facts only, be honest or be diplomatic, take control or listen or both. Take charge or stay passi...

Here are some links to posts which provide some notes helpful for the lunar influence talk. All of the links have been taken from this blog site:  http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/ Introductory Points http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-two-ways-to-study-moon-46.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2013/09/clarification-about-word-moon.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2013/09/moon-in-myth.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2013/09/origin-of-words-moon-and-luna.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2013/12/origin-of-moon.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2015/08/basic-properties-of-moon-48.html Influence Points http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2016/01/impact-of-moon-on-earth-56.html http://moonmystery.blogspot.com/2014/09/lunar-influence-emergency-rooms.html to be finished soon... End (3954).

Good and evil intermingle. Making it hard at times to separate them. So much of us human beings are a mixture of good and evil. Everywhere in life it seems there is that mixture, both the good and the bad all mixed into one. How to separate them. Well it is not that easy at times and takes work. Basically it is about knowing the point where one ends and the other begins. Using the knowledge of this point we can keep them separate. Evil adheres to good to draw strength from it, to become more evil and more rebellious against good. Then good sticks to evil to feed on it, to make itself stronger to defend itself from evil.  Evil rebels against good and good gets horrified with evil and fortifies itself in defense against evil. It is the Law that good has the right to do this with evil - that is to feed on it. Just like a plant feeds on the nutrients in the soil but the soil does not feed off the plant. The laws of creation have not given the soil this right. The Laws of creation are a...

Once again it is difficult to talk about love because at some point: now, sooner or later or later on, someone, somewhere is going to find that you are a hypocrite - that is, one is all talk and no real substance. I think the Sun has something interesting to say about love. Here goes… The sun provides us with light, warmth and life among so many other things. No doubt these three things just mentioned are a part of love. So the Sun sends His planets which includes us His love. The Sun clearly loves the most. No one can love more than the Sun. That’s clear! The Sun draws love from deep inside Himself, from His spiritual part within the Ain Soph Aur – the Sacred Absolute Sun and emanates it out into the Solar System. He has love and gives love and in giving He receives. He receives from the planets. But if he didn’t give freely in the first place He would not receive anything. That is His Law. People, us, are lacking – meaning we are cold. We are all cold. If we are cold we lack warmth. ...

Our life is linked to our Sun, which is called Ors. If there were no sun there would be no life for us here on Earth. Our realization is also linked to our Sun.  The solar man is His creation and His harvest. The solar man is the human being with the human soul with the solar bodies, Gnosis says. Isn’t it true that the closest physical thing we have to God is the Sun. The Sun has interest in those who are working to become solar human beings, Master Samael says. That is His hidden interest behind creation. I imagine that the Sun being the centre and governor of the solar system sees and knows everything about His own system. We are part of His system. We are one of His cells. Can’t we converse with the central sun asking for orientation and guidance for our life and realization? End (3951).

Still posting what I didn't get time to say. The relativity of evil is what is at the basis of many disagreements between people... One believes a thing to be ok but the other believes it to be bad.  The struggle to understand one another ensues… complicates, heightens and breaks down. When both agree on what is bad then the disagreement ends. Exactly the same with love. Often people do not agree on what is love. When the version of love that each person has coincides with the other’s version then there is peace. When we can not see any good in what we see as evil, we rebel and become totally defiant and disagreeable. All the time – this is totally natural. No human being can go with what they believe is evil or unjust. What one can learn from this, is that the relativity of evil and the relativity of love will always create differences.  When there are differences it is intelligent to act in such a way to blend the differences into a common understanding – which is the third ...

Each day is a vessel that we can put something into. We can put work into the day. The emptier the vessel the better. We are part of the day. If we prepare ourselves emptying ourselves, we can put something into the day. Whether it be to work on an ego or to be more aware – more awake, the emptier we are to other things, the more fruitful our day will be.  End (3949).

The character Kundry is very unusual, and has a mysterious role in Wagner's opera: Parsifal. As master Samael explains, Kundry represents the archetype of the feminine. That mysterious yet extraordinarily powerful force that can raise a man to the heights of realisation or sink him into the abyss of failure.  Kundry in the opera takes on a few different opposing roles, one where she is the temptress that seduced the king of the Holy Grail: King Amfortas giving Klingsor the opportunity to steal the Lance of Longinus and wound his side. She then helps the wounded king searching for balms to heal the wound in his side, then she is again the temptress that tries to seduce Parsifal the young knight who tries to redeem the lost lance. When Parsifal is victorious destroying the castle of Klingsor Kundry changes roles to become a servant of the holy grail and the knights of the order of the holy grail. These are all aspects of the powerful feminine force that is varied and has many differe...

The virtue and defect are linked. One can not be seen without the other. They are both a circle actually, just as the yin-yang symbols depicts. If we exaggerate the virtue we end up in some kind of unintended 'bad' that could lead us to do the opposite of what we always intended to do.  For example a parent gives and gives in way too much to a child, making the child spoilt and obnoxious. Eventually the parent will get angry with the child and treat the child harshly, which is what the parent in the beginning never wanted to do. If we diminish a defect we end up automatically without even thinking about it, being closer and closer to the virtue. For example, if we make efforts to be less and less angry we start becoming calm, serene, quiet etc. all the opposite of anger and closer and closer to the virtue of sweetness, understanding, serenity etc. Also there is another strange thing. If we exaggerate the defect, taking it to the point of losing control, we eventually, if we don...

The retreat is gone for another year. Today a week ago we were all into our second day. Tomorrow - back to normal, business as usual, not quite enough time to fully recover from all the efforts of the retreat, but it will have to do.  The next few posts will be a few things that I wanted to speak about but didn't get the time to. End (3946).  

This post like the other ones is a container, holding the notes I plan to use for a talk in the retreat. Notes Long Introduction Love is a fundamental value of the Being in each one of us. Love is very difficult to define. Values such as trust, patience, tolerance, hope, humility are much easier to define and their definition is much more readily agreed upon. It is difficult to speak about love because everyone has their concepts of what it is for them. Each concept clashes. It is almost like speaking about what is good and what is evil. No one ever can agree. It is often these clashes in what is love which cause the greatest conflicts between people. We can't love others according to how we think love should be, but rather find out how others like to be loved and love them that way and balance it out. Much evil to another has been done because of love and even the great evils have been done with love and for love.  How many times has great love turned into be a terrible hatred wit...

Here is a link to a post on this blog that contain notes about the topic of the Sun. Sun Talk Notes Post End (3944).

Just a note to let you know posting will go on pause for a week starting from tomorrow. I'll be attending our annual big retreat. This year because of the COVID circumstances it will be local only, which is something new, we have never run a local retreat for such a duration before.  A new experience it will be, maybe to bring some new things to learn about and work on or work with. End (3943).  

A bit rough to hear right? Something within us hardens and recoils, not wanting us to hear more about it, right? However, with pain later on we realise that it is true, and we say to ourselves: "just why didn't I know that ten years ago, things would be different now". Always the goal of conscious love is to enhance the essence, to give a boost to the essence so that it can stand on its own two feet and walk confidently more and more knowingly towards its Monad. The way this is done always varies and is open to what is needed and most effective given our condition or state of consciousness and capacity of understanding. To pamper a person is to do a disservice to their essence. They become dependent on that treatment. Some egos really take a lot of force in the background, the pampered person stops working on themselves and only lives for the other person, lives to receive the pampering and defines and validates themselves through the pampering. They forget their essence ...

This is a place holder post. I plan to add content to it as I develop the topic. I'll be delivering a talk on this topic in an upcoming retreat. Question of Evil This question often baffles so many people. However, Gnosis explains it rather clearly. I think that it is worth while solving this issue in front of one's own consciousness.  First of all, very few of us will agree on what is evil. We don't have an absolute sense of what is evil. We just have a relative sense of what is good. A very good definition of good and evil comes from Master Samael, where he says that good is what is convenient in a given moment and evil is what is inconvenient in a given moment. The above statement frees the consciousness somewhat as it allows us to place our point of reference in  something else that is outside of time and space and is different to those of social norms, customs, values of the personality, sentimentality etc. Also what is good is what is in place in a given moment and wh...

With practical purity we can get the most out of our sexual energy. We experience its fuller potency as a bridge to higher states of inner spiritual frequency, where there is more consciousness and light. With purity and transmutation we get light. With less purity and transmutation we get heat and vitality. Without purity in transmutation we get desire, which inevitably brings us close to darkness.   By practical purity I mean a crystal clear mind, transparent imagination and clear focus of mind and heart on the essence or inner Being. End (3940).

Love as an energy has a divine origin and is a divine energy. Sexual energy also has a divine origin and descends to us from high above. The sexual energy as it moves through the human being takes on what the human being has within. Inevitably the sexual energy descending and moving through the human being loses its divine qualities, and becomes a powerful force at the disposal of the instincts and the accumulated mental forms of instinctually driven pleasure. Sexuality however, is different to the sexual energy it does not have love in it. It is commonly the instincts that rule it, mostly the impulses to procreate etc. Love has to be infused into it - hence what Gnosis teaches: "sexuality with love" is the way back to the Being in us. People often look for love through sexuality but that is the wrong order of things. This is because it does not really exist in sexuality but arises from other sources in the human being. People feel sexuality, that is their sexual attractions ...

Nearly all of the tantra that is out there and available to people to learn about in workshops and retreats and things like that is grey . Grey means people retain the sexual energy but then at other times lose it. White means to never lose the sexual energy and the energy is transmuted for the purpose of union with God, with the Being  Black means the constant loss of the seminal entity for any reason, whether it be pleasure or magical/esoteric. Black or white tantra may start out as grey. However, keeping things at grey will turn black, or the results will be the same but less intense. As we know in all areas of life, sitting on the fence leads to 'no-where'. Of course there are degrees and degrees of grey. There are some tones of grey that approach black and then there are some that approach white. The tantra that is popular everywhere is grey, in the sense that people decide to transmute the sexual energy and retain it or transmute it and lose it. There isn't consistan...

This conundrum often appears. I mean in the sense of what to do, what is the right thing to do... I have noticed it is particular common to hear people talking about the need for a special environment of good will, of safety, of non-judgment etc. where a person can talk about their problems, their difficulties while feeling totally psychologically safe, in the sense that they won't be ridiculed, judged or reprimanded but rather listened to.  Of course such an environment feels fine, is helpful and is conducive to solving issues. It is also very easy to open up and explain exactly what is the matter, exactly what really troubles one inside. I'm sure this is possible in many kinds of relationships from the intimate type to friends and to family even. Definitely, just joking, it will always be possible when you pay a therapist or someone like that. I'm also sure that in many relationships this is not present as well, commonly with parents it's not. The thing is what to do ...

One of the three types of love Gnosis teaches about. First is sensorial love, second is emotional love and third is conscious love. Conscious love is the most revered, the most respected and the most difficult. There exist three types of marriages. Karmic, dharmic and cosmic or in other words: consciousness to consciousness. The love that is difficult to describe. The love most often not liked or not seen as love. Love so elastic and flexible that one can not pin it down to be properly defined. A love that always seeks the benefit of the essence and the Being in oneself and in others, but goes about it in no fixed way, given over to the urgency and opening presented in the moment. A love that is most visible in its results. In actions and in facts. It is a love that often is only recognized and appreciated afterwards. Sometimes years afterwards. The way to get the result most beneficial for the essence could be painful. Sometimes though it is not. Because a beautiful value of the essen...

It is better to mindfully fully experience an emotion then ignore it or block it or be overcome by it. As soon as we mindfully feel all of an emotion, we are straight away beginning to overcome it. When we mindfully feel it we can start to really see it and understand it. We want to be consciousness yet these emotions surface and we run away from them and hide or feel pained by them, we are not helping ourselves to be conscious. We can't be conscious that way. To be sitting quietly waiting in a state of relaxed alertness for what will surface is one way to be conscious. Then to try and try to put our consciousness to work observing them, mindfully feeling them and comprehending them, lessens the identification and releases the consciousness and opens new doors of feeling within us. End (3935).

One day if one feels like that - demoralised before having to give a talk, just show up, stand up and give the talk.  Change the topic if you can, but if not deliver the talk in the function as a transmitter of the teachings, and then and when its over, go and fix yourself up. End (3933).

One thing is always true, guaranteed, and that is if we have our consciousness at the top, we can be sure that is always the best for us and others. Whatever consciousness we have, we have to try and put it at the top above everything else inside of ourselves for it to guide us through and govern our inner processes and resulting actions in the situations we find ourselves in. We just have to try our best for as long as we can. Clarity will appear, it is always the best resort - our consciousness. End (3929).

Repentance is a door. A door to higher states of consciousness and levels of Being and to paying debts owed redeeming the soul. Our repentance, our remorse is something that opens that door. That door can always be opened no matter what we have done.  Karma is always what closes the other doors except the door of repentance. Karma is any block, any obstacle, any imbalance, any pain, any suffering... Master Samael says that there is more joy in the white lodge when a repentant sinner enters than when 10 000 righteous enter.  To deal with karma the first step is that of repentance. Before repentance there is recognition and acceptance of responsibility for our karmic debts. We can't always see where our debts come from, but we can see and feel the effects of the debt. Just like we receive a fine in the mail and we can't remember how we got it, but we still have to pay it. There is a three step process to pay karmic debts when appealing before the Divine Law. 1. Repentance 2. Neg...

This post is just a container post, holding the notes I plan to use in a talk about the Sun I'll be giving at the retreat. Notes The words from Master Samael that speak about how the Sun is doing an experiment, wanting to reap a harvest of solar men are the impetus for this talk. Those words come from a lecture he gave titled the "The Harvest of the Sun". This talk is an explosion of points, esoteric in nature related to the Sun, hoping to shed light on that one point mentioned above from Master Samael. The point that Master Samael mentions, implies the Sun is responsible for the creation of: the human race so as to reap a harvest of solar human beings. In a large way that statement also implies that the Sun is the guide of a human being's realisation and the goal of realisation is the solar nature. The origin of the Earth is in the Sun. Master Samael says that the Earth is a piece of the Sun. All the minerals and elements we have on the Earth come from the Sun and ar...

There are many people in our life that we know need help of one kind or another. Some are really dire, life threatening and some less so.  To light a candle on a small altar and pray for those people at various some times during the day is a mini sacrifice - but it is something that can help them and who are we to deny them of something that could help when they are really in need. End (3928).

There are many so called abysses or hells. A certain job could be one, a sickness could be one, an addiction another, an violent and abusive relationship another and then there is the real abyss or hell. We have the abyss inside of us in our subconscious and infra-conscious and in the bowels of the Earth. There are many regions in both of these abysses. What links us to each of these regions are our egos. Each ego represents a section of the abyss and is a mini abyss in itself. When we are submerged in an ego we are in that section of the abyss, with its very strange and weirdly oppressive flavour. We experience life as if we are in living a subterranean world looking out.  One day we become clear that we descend into that abyss by entertaining those egos that link us there.  One day we decide to radically break free from that abyss.  We decide this because we are fed up of living in that abyss. We feel we can't contiunue on like that and we know in our bones that we can'...