Gnosis Wisdom

A good definition of dignity is that it is something that enhances the essence and therefore the Being in a person. Dignity is very intimately linked to balance and the inner Law. Within each human being there is their own inner Law. To uphold this law and keep to this law is to have dignity or to act with dignity.  If we don't obey or follow the wisdom or dictates or guidance of this inner law we end up transacting against our dignity and losing it or lowering it. The inner law of each person is authored by the Being of each person and it is there as an expression of the Being's divine condition (hierarchy, experience, condition as a divinity) and level of consciousness. The inner law is accessed and perceived using our level of being. The higher our level of being the more we can perceive it.  For example: to act below one's level of Being or one's standing as a human being always means to lose one's dignity. Pride relates to dignity by managing dignity outside of...

One of the properties of the sexual centre is magnetism. It is very magnetic and the sexual energy is very electric. It is a magnetic centre which produces a certain kind of gravity that attracts influences, qualities and it even attracts events and people.   That magnetic power can be cultivated... Gnosis teaches that it is cultivated through retaining and transmuting the sexual energy.  This is so because when a person transmutes, the transmuted energy circulates through our body through the many circuits. This flow of energy creates a magnetic field. No flow of energy no magnetic field. Furthermore, this magnetism stays with the person and is constantly recharged with their transmutation. The raw sexual energy has a magnetic power that emanates and is received by the physical-vital, and the transmuted sexual energy has a magnetic power that impresses more the higher centres such as the heart and the spiritual. There are many kinds of attraction. There is the sexual att...

The way we think about serving others is that it is somewhat degrading. Well, the thing that it is degrading to is our pride. With some separation from pride we can treat this topic. All human work is a kind of service. All vocations are a service in one way or the other. Everyone's jobs serves a purpose and at the bottom of it, it is about providing some service to someone. Serving others seems mostly unfair! That is really what we don't like about it!  But is it so unfair? Seeing that the Cosmic Christ is at the service of human beings, the masters and angels are there to serve human beings is it then really unfair? Is the Cosmic Christ a Being that co-operates with what is unfair? Or is it perhaps a part of life, a value that the movement of life is based upon, in order to maintain life and enrich life? There must be more to it than it being unfair. The way of pride is to have others serve us while we forget about others, especially about the possibility of serving others. P...

No doubt our own life is a living book of wisdom. If we meditate on the events of our life and even the small details we can learn many things. Our own life is a divine flow in motion. Nature expressing itself. It is even a divine Being, though conditioned and limited, expressing Itself physically. If only we think deeply about the things that happen in our day, we can learn a few things. If only we meditate on the things that happen in our day. Our life is a huge book of wisdom. If we can concentrate and look deeply into the things of our life we can read from that huge book. I'm trying to do that and the effort makes a difference. It helps one to go inside and to look for depth and it also helps to give one more of an esoteric inner life. It is a way to train ourselves to learn how to extract wisdom, learning and insight. End (4099).  

Lets see, there are some points always to reflect on when it comes to cultivating humility.  Pride is so worth us working on. As most likely our fall was due to it. Meaning it has marked our whole experience of life from that moment back then to now. Classically the falls are sexual, but before that there was pride. A pride that deemed ourselves 'more' than the Being in us. That our desires etc. are 'more' than the Being in us.  Pride does that all the time, it sacrifices the good, the right, the correct for itself. That is it sacrifices those good things for our own personal interests, face (save face), position, standing etc.    Cultivating means to work two things in parallel. Dying in pride and living out humility. Within pride is the majesty, dignity and sense of balance of the Being. So then if we exercise these values we will be cultivating humility.  Doing a study for ourselves of these values really helps to be able to apply them, and above all to know ...

We don't like humility because of the concepts we have about it.  Let's see our concepts then. It's an interesting exercise to review all of our concepts. This post in some way is a very short review of some common concepts.  The proof is that hardly anyone has read this post, typically posts on lust get 40 to 50 reads while these humility posts have gotten a third of that over the same time. We see it as being submitted or having to submit to something that we don't like or want. When we like something there is no feeling of submission. There is no feeling of having to be humble. When we don't like something then we feel the pain of having to be submitted. In this case the wise thing to do is to look deep into what we are submitted to and find goodness in it or value in it so as to like it more and more. If we can't then it is karma and we just have to pay it, that's all. It will end. Or just change it.  It seems that we are never going to be able to come o...

We get identified with others and we adopt a certain subtle identity with them and to do with them. We do this with every group of people we are a part of. The more we like that group of people or the more attached we are the stronger identity we create. We only really notice that we do this when we are with two opposites groups. Like when we are with our work colleagues at a work party and we then go to Gnosis class straight afterwards. At class we feel really odd, we feel that we shouldn't be at Gnosis and that we should be the engineer, the teacher, the analyst, the manager and not the Gnostic in class. This is all due to identification and the subsequent clash of identities. When two groups are similar we don't feel such a clash or when we deeply identify with both groups going from one to another we don't feel this clash either. That is when we are naturally able to make a quick transition we are fine. But identification is not the best thing, to be self-remembering is...

I don't really have an answer to this question. I am only reflecting about it. How can we help our Being? I think that there are things that we can do that help and then there are things that not doing them helps as well. To accrue more karma will not help our Being. Karma is a delay, an obstacle, a problem to be solved and paid for which will only restrict our Being. To increase our consciousness will help our Being. To be more awake. To free more essence, to cultivate more values will help our Being. As there is more space and facility for It to act in us. To conduct ourselves in an upright manner in life will help our Being. To acquire capital and merit will help our Being. To make the events of life more complicated and difficult won't help our Being as there is extra things that It has to solve and untie or undo. To strengthen our egos won't help our Being. To lower our level of Being won't help our Being either.  To draw closer to our Being will help. To be more u...

Humility is the most beautiful thing. It confers inner beauty.  The will to be humble is the beauty of Tiphereth. The so called coveted inner beauty appears more and more, the more humility we have. The outside beauty counts for very little compared to inner beauty. In fact when the inner beauty of humility is lacking one has no other resort than to compensate with vanity concentrated on the exterior. Whether it be of the intellect, the body or anything else. With humility we are closer to our human soul, as its maximum virtue is humility. The human soul is Tiphereth. When we have humility we can see the presence of humility and consequently the beauty in others. How beautiful it is to see and deal with a humble person. How difficult it is to deal with a proud and arrogant person: all their coarse words, rough tones, sharp looks, reprimands, demands, tension, belittling etc. Humility opens doors. A humble person is one that can be trusted and so opportunities are given. A humble pe...

Introduction What I am going to do in this post is to write what comes to me about what humility is. I'm not going to follow any order, just what surfaces. Of course it is only for reflection, to sift through if you like, and think about or not what seems worthwhile.  Humility Humility is a conscious state, it is know and understand in reality our place in the cosmos. Once we know our real place, humility is to think, feel and act in accordance with that.  If we do not have pride in our human machine we are humble. Humility presents the facts but does not exaggerate nor underrate them. To be humble is to not be more or less than what we are in our place. It is also to be in our place and not below or above it.  What is our place? So many things. But it is what we are as an essence, as a human being, it is not something cultural, but yet our place varies from scenario to scenario from scene to scene from environment to environment and from activity to activity. At work for...

Absolutely no doubt we need humility for the path, even more than many other values.  Of course we need trust, hope and faith and the many other values such as patience, persistence, tenacity, yearning etc. However, humility especially in the begining is one that seems to be constantly needed in an all encompassing way, and it is also that which pays very handsomely by opening many doors for us.  Of course if we don't have transmutation as a value we are going nowhere on the path even if we are very humble. Anyway a real humility at some point would take us to transmutation. As we would recognise that we must handover within us the way we use our sexual energy to our inner Being, taking it from the hands of egoical interests that upon examination appear selfish, mistaken, mechanical - habitual, superficial etc. etc. offering it up to a higher principle of ourselves, which is what humility is most often about. More about that in later posts. The main two values we really need a...

A true thing is that most of the time we have our consciousness in our mind. Very rarely are we in a state that we have our consciousness out of our mind. When the above happens that is pure freedom, magic, light and so many things that we just don’t ordinarily experience. We can have our consciousness activated but still have it in the mind. That's heaps better than when our consciousness is asleep but it still logically implies some kind of conditioning imposed on our consciousness by our mind. Anyway what I wanted to post about is something a lot simpler.  There are some bothersome pesky states where our mind gets so active, for example when we think people are looking at us maybe judging us and we become self-conscious or awkward or restless, or when we get worried about what others are thinking about our gestures and facial expressions when we are talking to them, or we can't forget about ourselves and be natural around others, like when a photo is being taken etc. etc. we...

This was a post I wrote some time ago but didn't publish. It remained almost finished in the drafts section for all this time. As I'm now trying to declutter it's worth publishing just to get it out of the draft section. Loneliness is an internal psychological state.  It is a state of lacking, a state where a certain void is felt. It is an inferior state that as it grows it begins to eat a way at our sense of purpose in life. Things seem to lose their meaning or significance and things in our life seem less worthwhile than they did before.  Loneliness causes us to abandon things that would otherwise keep us company. A cause that we are fighting for keeps us company and feeling lonely is not to notice that the work for this cause keeps us company. Some masters travel and spend a lot of time alone in the physical world. They are full of their Being and being full they have their inner company. They have their Being. They are fully connected and so they are not lonely. Through...

This week I received this question from a lady right before I was about to give a talk. "Is Gnosis homophobic?" was the question she blurted out. Way off track from what I was going to talk about, but well I said to myself I'm up for the challenge to answer that one. I said no, because here in Gnosis we approach sexuality esoterically and scientifically, not morally. I said that Gnosis says the two forces represented by man and woman are the ones that can engender a type of creation that has reality on its own side. As Gnosis is interested in an inner creation, those two forces are needed to be worked with. Two men or two women are not able by the laws put in place by the cosmos to engender an inner creation such as what a man and woman together can engender. That's all.  I said the moral question of it, whether it is morally right or morally wrong, we don't get involved in. If we don't see something wrong or right then why would we be scared of it or scandali...

When we are worried about what people think about us, it is a sign that our pride is alive. That statement which comes from Master Samael is a bit puzzling at first I found. Putting aside my confusion, it means that pride is the one that worries about what others think of us, so if we work on pride we will worry less and less about what others think of us. That's the key - work on pride.  This affects so many of us and so many of us don't have this key - to work on pride.  The real issue of this, is what we do in our mind with the thought that 'others are thinking negatively about us', or 'will think negatively about us'. If we just have the thought and forgot it there would be no problem inside of us. But that does not happen we have problems. We are never worried about people thinking positively about us. This does not cause problems for us. We may infer in our mind that if others think negatively about us, then we are less than valid. We are wrong, we may thi...

A necessary skill in life is to know how to separate things. Especially when it comes to people. We have to apply separation all the time really. If we don't separate we can fail at whatever it is. I think even being able to separate is a sign of maturity - a sign that a person has much experience in life and in the workings of human nature. For example, with co-workers we have to separate their beliefs from ours and see them as a co-worker, as a professional with many learned and useful skills. Separate from our mind what they believe in and how they worship etc. and relate to the professional side of them without our feelings or appreciation for them being affected. We mainly have to separate things when we have a problem. Say I have a problem with someone's beliefs then when I deal with that person I have to separate from that so that my thoughts about them are kept positive or at least neutral. We need to apply separation when we make a psychological error of seeing one asp...

Introduction This post is a short list of some very important keys relating to the centres of the human machine. If we live by these keys we can be sure to enjoy life and live it much more consciously. Once again these are not my keys, they are keys that Gnosis gives to us. I'm just presenting them and trying to apply them in my limited capacity. One - Align the Centres Our centres are in constant conflict. Mind and emotion often disagree. Often the disagreement between centres produces contradictions, which is unpleasant. Inner battles and contradictions only bring unhappiness. The key to be happy is to bring all of our centres into agreement. We are the weakest when our centres are in disagreement. Our health suffers dearly in such a state. We are the strongest when our centres are aligned, that is all in agreement. Two - A Bit from Each Centre Seeing or taking life with just one centre is never correct. The more complete and truest appreciation of any event of life comes from se...

Introduction Here are some notes for the human machine lecture. Notes Our body is an instrument. When we really think about it, it is a marvelous instrument. It is a temple. It is a house. It is a synthesis of the principles and laws of the cosmos. It is a mini universe. Even though so much is yet to know about it, it still remains at large a mystery. Giving us some validation that it indeed is the depository of some vast almost infinite amount of knowledge. Gnosis is interested in the development of the essence. Not so in much developing the body. It is paramount though to keep the body healthy and functioning well at all times. For the work on ourselves we need a healthy mind and body. Sometimes before we can really do any kind of spiritual work it is important to get healthy physically and mentally first before anything else. What interests us the most are the centres of the body. Because they are the bridges that link our body to our psychology.  Gnosis is interested in the dev...

Our common condition as human beings here on the Earth is that our mind makes the experience of our life really hard.  Our mind projects so many scary things... things that worry us, things that make us frown... When our mind looks into the future it tends only to see difficulties, and those difficulties make us feel unwell. We feel nervous, anxious and the 'impossible' type of feeling comes over us. We think we won't be able to deal with it or it will so be hard. The thing is, we really feel and believe that the future will be so difficult...  We are advised to forget about the future and live day to day, and so we do that for a while, handling each day as it comes.  Seeing that we can handle each as day, we start to believe that our mind is the one that is not quite right. We have made it through each day so far, and we are fine, despite what our mind has been telling us.  We start to believe that our mind's projections are the ones that are causing us the trouble,...

Master Samael says when we think we are going bad we are actually going well and when we think we are going well we are in reality not going well. Obviously when we are getting to really know ourselves we are likely to come across some disappointment. Hence we may think that we are not doing too well. However, the principle still applies that the more we know ourselves the better we are developing...  The more we know ourselves the greater the potential there is to change, to repent, to improve, to fix, to correct etc. etc. Not knowing ourselves closes of these possibilities. When we look at ourselves in the mirror of retrospection, it is really good to take ourselves close to our Divine Mother. This is so that the Divine Mother helps us to see what is important and helps us to see correctly in the right light of things.  With retrospection, we can see our actions, we can also see what was behind them, and we can also see their significance and their consequence. In that mirro...

What matters most with this topic is to rescue the values of our essence from their conditioning. To do that we have to know their conditioning. Knowing their conditioning means to know how that conditioning functions.  It is also very good to know what happened within us that has caused this conditioning to function this way. This information will make our understanding complete. However, just knowing how the conditioning functions is enough to be able to do some real serious work on it.   Here are the basic steps: 1.) Accept the teaching that the ego is a value of our essence that is conditioned and that conditioning has a purpose, a reason for being, and it seeks a prize, a result, a reward etc. We understand that reward as compensation. 2.) Know the conditioning by lots of careful observation. 3.) From knowing the conditioning find the value, that is conditioned. 4.) See the duality and relativity conditioning of the value. See how it is conditioned to compensate exte...

How do the values function? Either naturally or freely or in a conditioned way. The conditioned way in which they function is via the conditioning of relativity and duality. The values function in a conditioned way because of the occult need for compensation. Due to the conditioning of duality, the values flip to the opposite, that is to the defect, and the defect often functions by compensating externally. Due to the conditioning of relativity the value gets tied to a particular reference point. Then the duality conditioning flips the value to the defect and the defect works according to that reference point. Example: to have love for our Being and our essence is the right thing, it is a value. However, we have that love conditioned in relativity and duality. We love ourselves as a person more than our Being. That is we love more the external side of ourselves than the internal. Then we love ourselves through others. That is others become our reference points to love ourselves. Where ...

This post is about the value of an essence as remedy to an ego or negative state of consciousness. We are the consciousness or intelligence that uses the values of the essence to remedy a negative state produced by an ego. We are both the values of the essence and the consciousness that uses those values. This is important to know this. Because knowing this we can use consciously the values of our essence. Each of the values above, maybe not all of them, as some I think from the Gnostic point of view don't seem to be values of the essence but anyway, those values if used wisely can displace many negative states. We have all of those values and more in our free essence already. So we have access to them. We increase our access to them when we study each virtue and we know through such a study what negative state they are expert in displacing. Subsequent posts will give a list of negative states and their remedy value. End (4084).

Are we the values of our essence or that intelligence or consciousness that uses those values. In each value there are so many other values. For example, in humility there is trust, there is respect, there is patience, there is serenity, there is balance, there is love etc. The one is in all and the all is in one... All the values of the essence are in one particle of essence and one value is in all the values. There are particles of our essence that are defined to express a value. However, those particles contain many other values in a lesser way of course. Many particles of justice, dignity, and majesty are conditioned by pride. Because they are conditioned, we don't how to process the value of justice within us. Because those values that should process justice within us and allow us to act and speak fairly are conditioned, bottled up inaccessible to us. Yet the free particles of essence do contain justice and because of that we can even having such a huge pride we can learn abou...

Each essence is a vast ensemble of values. By values I mean qualities, virtues, attributes, abilities etc.  There are so many values. Some of which we know, some which are so common, some of which are very uncommon and some of which we have no idea of... What's really good to do one day, is a kind of inner inventory of what we have and what we lack. In doing this we are looking at our values.  What we value is what is important to us and it is what strive to manifest in life and also protect. Our values are our principles, they are almost a person's inner and personal set of laws. Each of us have our different degree and quantity of values. The values that we all have form a distributed spectrum that as a sum is complete. Thank goodness for the distributed spectrum of values, because as all of us lack one or another value we can always find someone who has that value and can teach us that value.  Each value is found by its opposite. If we lack a value it is because we hav...

Going to focus this week in presenting a series of posts to do with the values in our essence. Seeing this theme as practically as possible from the psychological and esoteric work point of view. End (4081).

We were reading a transcription of a informal talk that Master Samael gave.  In that talk he says that the most important thing for spiritual development is: TO KNOW YOURSELF! There we have it. We really have to get to know ourselves as well and as deeply as possible.  He basically says that everything hinges on how well we know ourselves. This is result of psychological and ontological work. How well we truly know ourselves is connected to our true level of the Being. Know ourselves better to raise our level of Being. End (3941).

Conscious relaxation is something very useful. Breathing plays a most important role in relaxing consciously. Belly breathing does wonders or long slow deep breaths which activate the parasympathetic nervous system. When we relax consciously we can see that there are so many reactions that we produce that are just not necessary. We also see that there are ways of thinking, feeling and acting that we don't need and we can change. Conscious relaxation is something physical and psychological. A relaxation of teh physical body as well as a relaxation of our mind and emotion. To be in a conscious inert relaxed state before any harsh impression helps us immensely. It helps us in being able to observe the psychological process that unfolds through to our centres. The relaxation also gives us something of a handle over our centres, as in we can control our centres, delaying the time it takes for them to become agitated and taken over by the ego especially if the ego manifests strongly and ...

First we shouldn't deceive ourselves and think we are not in our abyss often or that we don't dip into our abyss during the day and night. We certainly do, no matter what initiations you have.  No matter how we have gotten there it is best just to get out and return to the light. Just get out. Mental activity, associations, conversations etc. all can get us into our abyss. When we honestly feel that the light is much better than the abyss no matter what got us there, and when we don't find comfort being in the abyss we are ready to honestly try and climb out of it.   End (4080).