Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

This is really hard - we can learn even from a stone and we are a human being.  How can a stone much more inferior than a human being teach a human being? Don't know but it really can! We need to be so open - no pride and learn from anyone. We have to put aside concepts of older, more years working, smarter, more advanced, more spiritual etc. etc. The hardest part is to learn about ourselves from others or through others. Without pride we can learn so much... End (4328).

The mind can be so fuzzy, so forgetful, so hazy and vexed and confused all the time... We can't stay in this state for too long. Nearly everything in life depends on being clear and attentive to the events of our life in the moment. When we have much to work on we have to work on the spot and change quickly. So we need a clear mind to access our consciousness and change quickly. To clear that hazy mind a strong almost super effort of will plus heart can be helpful... End (4326).

It is easy to love something that is perfect.  The test of love for all of us is to love something that is not perfect that has many flaws. Yet within it and deep within it is something that is perfect.  So appears the paradox, to love others is to love the imperfect and the perfect at the same time. End (4325).

Gnosis gives us so many keys that we can apply to help us. We just forget them. Revising what we have learnt is so useful. That is why it is always good to read the books and update our knowledge of how we can apply the keys. What we forget most are the esoteric keys. How the invocations, the Divine Law, the Divine Medicine and magical formulas to combat negativity etc. etc. End (4324).

Often we rise up to correct an injustice or a perceived injustice and then in doing so we commit other injustices. Which sometimes are much worse than the original perceived injustice. End (4323).

Above all the pendulum is emotional. It swings based on emotion. It is pushed based on emotion.  Why because the emotions are so changeable by nature. They are open to sway based on conditions. They are the more influenceable than any other of the three brains.  The emotions are also the most powerful influencers to our action. Emotional is also more difficult to control and maintain firm. The intellect is easier that way. End (4322).  

If absolute everyone would feel and see the same thing. But they don't it seems. But isn't balance universal? Is this correct: what is balance of one is not balance for another? Physically no! A skinny person can stand balanced shoulder width apart but a really tall heavy man can't. He needs to adopt another stands.  Isn't what works and is stable, maintainable and useful: balanced? Even if another person can not do that, that is something else work better. Is there a balance for each person? If there is a balance is it right to impose one's person's sense of balance onto another? Isn't balance universal or is it relative? End (4321).

Karmic links work to keep two or more parties related somehow. The karmic link serves to join the two or more parties so that they affect each other according to the karma. Which can mean to help each other or hit each other making each other suffer. When the karma has been paid and there is invisible balance, the link dissolves and the two or more parties can just drift apart or continue. If they continue this time it is on a much higher octave, as the karmic ill-will element is absent. Karmic links are an instrument of karma and are indestructible - only if the karma has been paid can they change.  End (4321).

Introduction If in a gymnasium, learn the lessons and establish them quickly to dissolve the gymnasium and move to the next. Learn and Establish Eat in moderation meaning explicitly avoid eating excessively. Principal action involved: detach from seeing good morsels of food go to waste when one has already eaten sufficiently. Control anger, do not allow oneself to express bursts of angry discontent or frustration. They are very contagious that mostly always escalates situations. A small disagreement with an angry outburst ends in near divorce. Without the angry outburst that is all it remains: a disagreement about a small issue or event of life. Self-compassion. Dissolve the many tactics of wanting to affect others favourably by signs of being hurt etc., wanting caring attention. Don't stay in 'hit down low' mode or useless 'poor me' mode, get up and fight: speak, think, organise and level the scales and go from there: work things out.  Responsibility. Take it in al...

The third factor is not about selfishness or convenience.  The spirit of the third factor is sacrifice. Because in sacrifice is heart and love. In sacrifice is the payment, is the force that moves. In convenience there is no love nor heart nor any force that moves. Every man and his dog in this life does what is convenient for them physically. What is convenient for the Being in us is not what is always convenient for us physically. Was it physically convenient for Jesus to have himself nailed to the cross? Which he did really for us by the will of His Father. The convenient person is also very materialistic. Because they do not see the invisible accumulation of the result of sacrifice. The Instinctive animal nature of the feminine is against sacrifice. Because as mother which is part of the femininize instinct she has to do what is physically convenient to save energies and resources for her offspring. However the woman working has to be aware of this strong influence from their i...

A low level of Being is not strong.  We think a low level of Being is to be strong and a high level is weak. A low level of being sees a high level as so weak. But it is totally the opposite.  A low of Being fights and gets upset and gets depressed and is controlled by desires left right and centre. Who then is the weak one? The low level of Being can't see inside and so judges all based on the external.  The low level of Being wants the higher level to come down and be just like it to feel happy. As soon as the high level descends and swears the low level is intimately happy and at peace. End (5235).

A post on some notes to do with forcing the will of others. Notes We do this without knowing most of the time… We do it always in the name of something we feel is superior. We have to take note here that 'superior' is totally relative. It is not Absolute. The Absolute would be to consult the Being of the person to see if what we are imposing is right - but we don't do that. We feel justified in doing it. We think we are doing a good thing. Who are we doing a good thing by actually? It is often ourselves - by our mental patterns - but we don't see that. If we force someone using spiritual logic yet if what they are doing is not causing anyone nor themselves harm we are in fact in the wrong! We are breaking a Law. We are disrespecting the will of a human being which can go as far as disrespecting the Divine Will of a Monad.  The awakened masters don't force the will of anyone. They suggest, inform, explain but leave the decision in your hands. It is our right to follo...

Who knows why really, this post just offers some ideas as to why. It does not have to be this way, that men advance quicker. It is only the observations of couples on the path, that show this. The common sense thing is without taking into account karma is that whoever works most and better advances quicker. Men have a great opportunity to work. Women provide men with intense psychological gymnasiums and if the man takes that to really die in himself, it is clear that the he will advance. But he may not work and the gymnasium only makes his egos stronger and so he does not advance. But if he takes advantage he can really advance his mystical death forward in leaps. Men also provide women of course with intense psychological gymnasiums, also if they take full advantage they will fly also. Perhaps because their time is taken up with many other necessary chores and tasks which don't allow them to work as deeply and for as long as they need or want. Both man and woman of course can work...

Don't make your values to atrophy nor exaggerate your values. Bring them into balance instead.  If we lack value we need to give the constant and intentional plus to balance it. If we have exaggerated a value we need to give the intelligent minus to balance it. Whatever we do, don't allow what it is that we have of those values to be lost. Then we logically fall into disfavour with our Being and the Law. Why disfavour? Because the values are of the Being and the values allow us to live in peace with the cosmic law. They are elements of the Law. They are needed to fulfill the Law. End (4315).

The banishments taught by Master Samael: KLIM KRISHNAYA etc. Belilin Belilin, Belilin, CAPUT MORTUM IMPERET TIBI DOMINUS etc. and Te Vigos Cosilim all work to keep the ego of another person and our own egos even under control when things are escalating.  End (4318).

That is the best time to go inside and find solace. Gathering strength and wisdom to deal with the problems and issues at hand. We may lose the sense to work in the office or see friends or just be happy because we don't find joy and ease outside in our life - then that is when we have to go inside.  The common thing is that we don't go inside when this happens... We fatally forget that...  We have to pray to our Being. Trust in our Being. Confide in our Being and see all the reasons for why we find things too difficult and why we suffer. We must ask for wisdom and intelligence to best solve the problems and difficulties that are at hand. End (4314).

We come to the conclusion that for our own benefit, for the well-being of our own interior and in the name of experiencing a quality of thought and emotion that are edifying and dignifying for our own essence - we have to transform the resentment we have.  Resentment comes from the memory of some offence taken.  Transform the offence into a positive then resentment inside of us disappears. End (4313).

Why should we try to wake up in the astral? Because it is a part of our life, and when we die it will be where our life unfolds. If we try and try to wake up there but nothing seems to change. We have to wake up here. All efforts to wake up here. Here is more important! When we live in the astral after as we have tried and tried to wake up here we will try and try to wake up there too. End (4312).

I would bow down to any couple who is in Gnosis and is working in the three factors (or even just two factors). Why? Because it is really not easy.  Even if a couple is divorced now or separated I would still bow down to them. Any couple working in the three factors deals with powerful forces that are not easy to manage and require great values of the heart to do so.  There within the couple really powerful forces move and to handle those forces the couple and each one individually has to be very strong in their centres, in their essence and in their work. Really for a couple to hold it together working in the three factors there has to be love. Love for each other, love for the work and love for the Being. Otherwise there is no chance and really this love is what is remarkable, so honourable and noble and deserves bowing down to. End (4982).

We can overcome our karma. If we are not physically stopped by working on ourselves and we have a healthy body and mind we must know that we can work and pay our karma. We have to first of all try hard to not be scared and to take responsibility for our karma even if it seems to be crazy to us that we are stuck in this position. Every first chamber lecture is an area where we need to wake up in. Karma and Dharma is a lecture of first chamber. An aspect of being awake to karma is to know what debts we have yet to pay and to know when they are coming to us to be paid... Mostly we find ourselves in the middle of a karmic debt. From there is where we usually start working. It doesn't really matter from where we start. It is often the case that to overcome karma we need to establish certain values. We often created the karmic debt with the opposite of the values that we need to develop. Not developing these values means to delay payment of our karma and accrue more karma. If we lose val...

We may love a value like trustworthiness, communication, kindness, flexibility, discipline etc. and there  are many people in the world that have these values, yet we don't know all these people nor do we form a relationship with them...  The fact is though that we relate to people. We actually marry a person... Not a value... We relate to values in different people and we relate better when certain values are present and active. We also do marry a person based on the values that they have and share with us. Of course if those common values are not present then relating becomes difficult. Yet we marry a person - the whole package... not just a set of values but yet the values are what make the relationship work. The values that an essence has manifests through the person. We need a person to relate to those values and to express those values. So we can't marry any value without a person and we can't marry a person without values either. So values and the person are tied tog...

In the depiction of the Typhon Baphomet by Eliphas Levi, the figure of the Typhon Baphomet can be seen using a kind of blanket draped over it legs and lap. As always each symbol has several interpretations.  One interpretation is that the blanket represents the hidden. Under the blanket is the mystery, the sexual center (what kind of sexual organ would the Typhon have?) and the inferior part of the Typhon Baphomet (the legs). Indicating the subconscious and the sexual force. Meaning that the Typhon creatively functions with the subconscious and the sexual force. That is why the Alchemy opens up so powerfully the subconscious. It is really a tremendous force to work with and it even may be too powerful for the psychological work capabilities of the two people who practice it. End (4304).

We need conscious shocks. The work is all about conscious shocks. Conscious shocks are about ascending, improving our level of consciousness. Not the opposite. We awaken and expand our consciousness based on conscious shocks. With every conscious or more conscious experience there is a kind of a shock. When we realise something we receive a shock. When a concept or belief is broken it was often after we received a shock or were shocked by something. Am electric shock is when we receive a bolt of energy that is absorbed by our body. Sometimes the energy of the shock is too great for the body to absorb and instead permanent damage even fatal harm is done to the body. Shocks are I repeat the way our consciousness awakens and the way we advanced in expanding our consciousness. Contrast is a shock. Questions also supply a shock. We need shocks to snap us out of the mechanical state and they allow us to be more conscious or alert or more intensely aware. A health scare is a shock. We realise...