Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

A Gnostic prayer book in your hands is a real treasure. Bless the people who put it together. Just to open it and pray the prayers brings lots of solace from the interior Divinity and the Beings of compassion that are close by to help us. End (4195).  

When we are troubled or are finding things whatever they may be - difficult. We are given the advice to pray a lot to our Monad. This really does help a lot. It really does help and it works. It shows us that we are not alone. Our Monad is close by and is not indifferent to us. It also shows us that the supply of many of life's solutions are in the Monad and our supply of force and wisdom comes from there - our Monad. Ask non-stop. End (4193).

Mental silence is a refuge outside of the confusion and conflict in our mind. In mental silence things become clear. The dust can settle. In mental silence is where we can think the best. It is where we can think profoundly, by contacting our  inner mind.  Through the inner mind we make contact with the deeper parts of ourselves that hold our truth and a more correct perspective of the circumstances we are living. Mental silence is one way we can give our consciousness an opportunity to be active and help us. End (4194).

I find that the best attitude for mental silence is like one of wishing to receive a gift. The gift of mental silence. Wishing in full openness.  The attitude of wishing to conquer the mind may not help as much. I think each one to experiment and experience what works best. End (4173).

Too common an experience for all of us.  Something I have been trying that has helped a lot today has been to let go of the thoughts. But with the special key of not judging any thought...  DON'T JUDGE ANY THOUGHT! As soon as we judge a thought we enter into a mental fight about it or with it. Especially when fear appers we see it as negative and we want fear out of our mind, so we fight and our mind gets more and more active and we feel worse off. It is special and amazing to just see the thoughts without any judgement of good or bad and then watch them leave. Please don't be afraid of the thoughts I tell myself - that's important also! That's how we can get the mind to be more quiet - by giving it peace. That's a start of how we can give peace to our mind not entering into war with it! End (4192).

Here are just some notes that I have been going over and are working wioth. I have not mastered them but are working with them.  The real control is self-control. We can try hard to control others and circumstances but things always tend to slip out of our control. There's always something that slips out of our control. Controlling others does not make others feel happy. We control others because we lack control of over our own emotions. Controlling is mainly done out of fear, self-importance, pride etc. To be controlling of others or circumstances is at one point going to casue us suffering. Self-control is certainly a big value or virtue. A value that has to be worked on to acquire. Self-control starts with knowing that we are responsible for what we feel and think. Self-control is both of the body, what happens inside the body and of our psychology or mind.  We can not ignore our mind or our psychology if we want self-control. We can control our mind by cultivating the capa...

This post is about the contrast between life and the path in people and in relationships. Normally in life we relate life to life. But when we start our esoteric studies we add a new dimension to our lives. This new dimension is the path. It takes a while to add this new dimension and a bit more time to embrace it. Before or even while we are in the process of adding this new dimension to our life we normally don't see the path in people we tend to see life in people. Then when it comes to relationships we tend to see the potential for life in another person but not so much their potential for the path. Of course this is so normal because we are in life. We may see that another person does not have certain qualities in life and we feel disappointed. We feel disappointed because our centre of gravity is life for now. When we begin to change our centre of gravity to the path the qualities another person has in the path and for the path become more important and more valuable to us. W...

Two men, yet the same two men. Locked in a bitter sad combat. One a templar knight, shiny chain mail and armour wearing the white and red templar ensignia and the other dressed in neat modern fashion with dark colours. One a spiritual warrior, a man of the path and the other the common man of life. The common man of life subduing with force the knight, how sad the knight looked, how sad the situation was, how sad the knight was that his direction, his will was not respected by the modern man and how sad it was that the superior values were being defeated.  Each time that the modern man won he pressed a dagger into the chest of the knight producing blood. Indeed when the superior values withn a person are sacrificed for inferior values the essence hurts in the heart (dagger wound) and suffers (flowing of blood).  Just why didn't the knight equipped with armour and trained for combat stand up and push the modern man aside? The knight is the path, the essence, the values of the p...

This is a practical key that really works. If you are having trouble with another person. See first of all that person as being an essence that has a Monad.  To not see this I emphasis is a fatal mistake! It is where our problems and weaknesses all begin. When we see the other person as an essence we shift to an essence level where we can relate to that essence. I want to say that the way we relate to the essence is through values. WE RELATE TO THE ESSENCE WITH VALUES OF THE ESSENCE! Then we can act with these values to benefit the essence. Without fear that we are doing the wrong thing. We are then in the right position through prayer to converse to the Monad of the other person asking for help to control Its vehicle so to co-operate with the path which will only enhance Its essence. We are not in the right position when we are in the ego to ask the Monad of the other person for co-operation because that would be unjust and I respectfully think that the help of the other's Monad w...

Pride can ask for something and when it does not get it, it attacks and fights.  Dignity on the other hand asks, waits, respects and perhpas clarifies. It does not attack or fight or diminsh others. We can get use to using pride to get all that we want. Therein lies the point of study. Pride fights and in the fight respect and dignity are often thrown away. Such a way of doing things is not in line I firmnly believe with the Being and the conduct of one on the path.   If dignity has to act against the wishes of others, it does so in a way that maintains dignity both inside and outside. The dignity of the Being is what we all wish to find. Before we arrive at it we must establish dignity in our human life. That is within us here and now in our physical life. In our thoughts, feelings and actions.  End (4186).

Control over something is about being able to manage what happens in our own system. By system I mean what happens in the way of reaction in our mind-body when we receive some impressions or sensations. It doesn't really have much to do with what is happening on the outside. We have control when our way of managing is stronger than what our mind-body reacts with. Once we have control then the trust appears in us and bit by bit our consciousness enters to take over. Why? Because we learn to trust our method of controlling the mind-body reaction and so trust builds and then within the space of trust appears more and more our consciousness. End (4185).

Just a reminder to ourselves that sometimes we need to apply a super effort to push something to happen. It seems afterwards, that without making the super effort we wouldn't have not gotten the result we had been trying to get for so long. Super efforts we can come to the conclusion, are necessary. If we are not getting somewhere try a super effort. If it doesn't work at least then we know that the answer lies in something else. End (4187).  

Introduction - Practical Approach This post is a collection of points that I have learnt, are learning and are re-learning. They are all very practical as they have been learnt practically. Real The time comes to decide to consider the path as real or not. When we decide it is real for us, this is the begining of getting serious. All unfolds from this point.  If the path is real Master Samael is real, the Gnostic teachings are real and those who are on the path and have finished the path are real. Our path too can become a reality. Work and Path We need to know this to not get confused. There is the path and then there is the work. There are systems and schools of the work and of the path. THEY ARE DIFFERENT!  Schools of the path adhere to, and schools of the work use as a compliment. Because schools of the path will give you both the work and the path, while schools of the work will only give you the work. But because the path is lacking in these schools, the work that they g...

This post comes from something I am currently working on. I have not by any stretch mastered it but I am trying to go towards that point. I have observed this from a long time ago that certain people are very strong and seem to always come out on top in any kind of discussion or argument. I always wanted to know why. One day not too long ago it dawned on me, that such a person is one that takes a higher degree of responsibilty in their written or spoken word. Plus they could have other qualities present and active in them but never mind about that. That's not the topic of this post. I feel that to know that we are responsible for our word produces a change in us, and is actually very powerful because it calls us to be conscious of our word yes as expected but that's not really the important thing that it calls us to be conscious of. I feel it calls us to be conscious of our psychological processes of which the word is the end result. To be responsible for our word has to mean s...

Many people have to and have had to make many tough decisions. Right now as you read this, someone somewhere is agonising over a tough decision.  The path has many tough decisions... Even a life without the path, now and then requires some tough decisions. Every moment we are taught is a cross where we have a choice between the path and life. If we chose the path, we are doing right by our Being and our own Being will support us. There are many activities which are life and those which are of the path. If we chose the path we are not making a mistake. Life and the path are in people and in activities. Sometimes then we have to chose people or activities. What do we want? If we want the path we have to chose appropiately. There is the logic of the path and the logic of life. Often the logic of the path is so illogical for life. However people on the path will understand the logic of the path operating in others. If not there could be some difficulties. We need the logic of the path ...

I'm going to post here what I have experienced and what I have been taught. I will let you know which is which. I was taught that the origin of hatred is pride. It all starts with pride. It goes like this: hurt pride or hurt self-love to resentment to organised resentment to hatred. My experience is that this is true. My experience is that hurt pride can also lead to many other negative states that come from other egos such as self-importance or self-compassion even fear. I want to add that from my experience pride produces different lacks within us. Then we feel strongly usually similar to like a need, to fill these lacks. We usually automatically feel we need that lack filled by someone else... Doing this, that is filling the lack through someone else, is from my experience like selling ourselves cheap. We buy the cheap product instead of working to get a true good quality long lasting product. We get that good quality thing going for us when we work on the pride that got hurt. W...

The following post is about teh contrast between the path and life. That is really the contrast between the vertical (the path) and the horizontal (life). This post comes mostly from my expereince nad reflection from my experience. There are also some statements put in that have come from others. The path and life have differing perspectives on things. To be expected right? Of course. Why? Because both have different ends and natures. This is logical.  What is right for the path is wrong for life and what is wrong for life is right for the path. What matters for life doesn't matter for the path. What matters for the path does not matter for life. Furthermore when trying to marry life and the path, one hits a brick wall. Why? Because both life and the path see things differently. Why do they see things differently? Because they embody different values. Different values means different priorities which translates to investing our time and energies into different activities.  It ...

Just some notes here that I have been going over lately to help myself. They may also be helpful to you... Most of it is my experience and the rest is what I have been taught. By gymnasium I mean a psychological gymnasium. There are two gymnasiums in the world: physical and psychological. Both in essence have the same goal. Which is to provide a scenario where we can train ourselves to make ourselves: stronger, quicker, fitter, more skilful, more aware, less identified, wiser, more attentive, stronger in self-remembering, more essence and less personality, more tolerant, etc. etc. the list goes on and on.  A gymnasium is a set of circumstances, that are difficult and challenging for us to master. Key words are difficult and challenging for us, because they may not be difficult for others. The key is 'for us', as the gymnasium is very particular, even for each person who may be involved in the gymnasium's events and circumstances.  Master Samael says that the difficult circu...

I understand now more than ever, that any real value that anyone has, is really real when it helps them in the circumstances that are 'against' them. I think that any value that we really possess shines in us when our own egos, people and circumstances are against us. We can take any value and see the above point. We can take respect as an example.   It can often be that we may respect someone, but then later we don't respect them or we lose respect for them. What happens with us in such cases? It could be that the person was behaving in a way that we liked and the person did all that we expected of them. But then they did something that we didn't agree with and the respect started to go or went. Examples like this show us that we didn't really possess respect unconditionally or outside of relativity. We only had respect as a result of our conditions being met. So we had respect relatively or conditionally. To possess something conditionally or relatively is not rea...