Gnostic Wisdom

To please others is a lot of good intention but later leads us onto a path in which negative consequences for us await. End (4341).

Introduction This post is a collection of some notes from a talk given a few nights ago about the hypnotic grip of the ego. The notes are practical in nature and are presented with the intention to be of some help.  Typical Scenario A man looks at the casino from across the street. He knows he has a 'gambling problem" and has experienced much misfortune because of it and has the conviction that he is not going to step a foot into the place.  Yet his attention gets hooked onto the building, the front door and the little bit that he can see going on inside. He continues to look and then he sees some people celebrating, some sitting at the edge of their seat, some leisurely walking around. Then his memory fires and he remembers the good times and good feelings he has had and then he begins to forget his convictions and he takes a few steps towards the casino. Then he stops and remembers again. Then he says: "just for a few minutes and then I'll go home". Then that...

Sacrifice is an art. I have found that it is very hard to sacrifice if we are not aware of the lower and higher values involved. If we are really aware of what we can rise to in making a sacrifice, it makes the sacrifice a lot easier. It can be a test of faith when we are in a situation where we have to sacrifice but we don't know quite what we are sacrificing for. In any case not knowing what we are sacrificing for is an unconscious sacrifice and this often leads to resentment building up within us. It is also very helpful to fully know the inferior values we are leaving behind when make that sacrifice. To be tired of those lower values, know them inside and out and know that they are not taking us anywhere useful to our spiritual or even human development it makes a sacrifice a little easier to do.  End (4342).

There are a class of mistakes that we only feel their effect in time. There are other mistakes that we feel their effect straight away. The class of mistakes where their effect are felt in time are the mistakes that when we make them nothing special happens, everything in fact seems totally ok and even good. But in time the effects begin to appear and their gravity is learnt. We often don't know which actions or mistakes belong to this class beforehand, but only much  later after we have made them.  Everything has its time and these class of mistakes are such that they allow time for corrective action to be taken avoid their effects being felt later on.  This class of mistakes are usually those where a small decision was made but internally a process was began that unfolded and took momentum when no corrective action was taken. End (4343).

"I am She that is the Nature mother of all things, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the divine powers, Queen of all that are in hell, the principal of them that dwell in Heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the Gods and Goddesses. At my will the planets of the sky, the wholesome winds of seas and lamentable silences of hell are disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world, in diverse manners, in variable customs and by many names." Address of the Goddess, Apuleius, the Golden Ass. "In the begining there was ISIS, Oldest of the Old. She was the Goddess from whom all becoming arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two lands of Egypt. Mistress of shelter. Mistress of Heaven. Mistress of the House of Life. Mistress of the word of God." Thebes, Egypt, 16,000 years ago. End (4338).

We are taught in Gnosis that the consciousness can awaken in evil and for evil.  We are more or left to decipher for ourselves what that really means. I only offer a little bit of insight nothing more than that because I don't know more than that.   After one does evil for a while, obviously one becomes very intelligent and knowledgeable in relation to it. One knows how to do evil well, so well that it goes unnoticed. After that one eventually begins to see into the psychology behind evil and becomes very perceptive and knowledgeable about the psychology involved. Later one becomes awake to the egoic psychology and with that comes the ability to perceive directly so easily the evil in the ego in others and know what their egos will do in evil.   As light perceives darkness but darkness does not perceive the light the consciousness awakened in evil won't perceive the essence or the good that the essence can do. If the consciousness awakened for the light serves a...

So particular and individual are the tests of each person... The test of justice can be short or long in duration. Most often it is processed by members of the Gnostic community or school. We ourselves in the time before prepare the circumstances of the test - all unknowing or sometimes knowing that one day things will be have to be scrutinized. The elements of justice which are that of being scrutinized, analyzed, put on trial, judged, evaluated, questioned, forced, laid bare, made transparent, punished, made to pay debts, rights restricted... are all present.  To pass the test of justice one has to co-operate with justice however that needs to be done in the particular nature of the circumstances. Sometimes that means to not protest against the punishments, judgements, criticism, scrutiny etc. In other words allow justice to act upon ourselves to correct what is unjust. Sometimes that means to fight and make what is wrong or unjust right and just. In other words allow justice to ...

It is said: "Before the Gods punish men, they confuse them". As many of the tests contain a karmic nature that of darkness and confusion in the candidate is present.  Before and during a test or trial the confusion and darkness is present. End (4340).

Introduction This post is a digitisation of some hand written notes that I have on the topic of immortality and mortality that I prepared once for a talk. All of these notes come from Master Samael's works. Disclaimer and truth: I don't know anything really about the topic in the sense of really knowing from experience. Notes Comes into effect in relation to the physical world. The spirit, the soul are immortal.   Was first known physically in Lemuria. There it was first granted and also lost.  Immortality is relative. It is mostly spoken about by Master Samael as longevity of the life of the physical body. The ego is not immortal. To make the ego immortal is absurd. In Atlantis they certainly tired to arrive at immortality and they did achieve something. Master Samael says that a certain Queen Jezabel managed to extend her physical life through numerous transplants of the endocrine glands from various youths whose bodies were sacrificed to her quest for immortality. Foun...

Often times when we pray we get obstacles, difficulties and problems. Things seem to get worse. Why? Because through those obstacles, difficulties and problems is the help from God. God's help is not only one sided - i.e. the good side, magically solving everything for us, it is also making things worse and helping us to solve, repair and surmount the circumstances that have gotten worse. Here are some examples: When we pray for strength we get difficulties that we can only go through them by being strong. When we pray for wisdom we get problems that we can only solve by being wise. When we pray for success we get opportunities to work hard for and in. When we pray for courage we get obstacles that we can only surpass by holding courageously and resolutely to our values. When we pray for love we get people coming to us with problems to help them to solve. When we pray for favours we get situations where we can only make them work by giving and being flexible. We often don't get...

Gratitude We all have many debts against the Holy Spirit. We know those debts are the ones that are not pardoned. They must be paid. We may not feel the effect of those debts now but at some point we will. Even master Samael had to pay it, he was not pardoned for the all consciousness and merit that he had. For 8 years his Alchemy was stopped. That is also when he said that he died the most in himself. Therefore paid the most.  The debts against the Holy Spirit are not always paid as Master Samael paid them, but with illnesses that we are taught are not a 'common cold'. To have found someone who will help us transmute and pay those debts no matter if we are the man or the woman, is a blessing. Because we know well that very few men or women out there are really interested in transmuting and can't help us with this. We know karma is paid with the opposite action to the action that created the karma. So we need to transmute. Love Love for the Alchemy and the transmutation. Lo...

Just some basic notes to do with education. To educate others to learn a value we need to have something of that value alive in us. We are not there to change anyone. Because we respect their destiny which is their karma and the will of their Being in action. If a person really wants to change and ask directly for that help and shows openness it means their karma nd the will of their Being are in agreement and so we can help intelligently as described below. We can't really fully educate others. What we do is to plant a seed in others and with our knowledge, understanding, values and conduct we water and fertilise that seed so that it can grow. The seed grows by their learning and learning produces changes. End (4330).

I'm sure we have felt this many times. This is because when we are in the centre the knowledge is with us.  When we leave the centre the leave he knowledge, we leave Gnosis behind. We all have to leave the centre, we can't stay there but we should not leave the knowledge in our mind and heart. We let the knowledge escape and when Gnosis or the knowledge leaves us our problems come back and everything is so difficult to understand again. The thing is to not leave the knowledge or allow the knowledge to leave us no matter where we are.  Why do we experience problems at home? Because we leave Gnosis behind at the centre and we don't bring it home with us. We bring the knowledge nor the practice of it home. End (4331).

Of course women are very strong. No doubt about it. The feminine force in the cosmos is very strong, as strong as the masculine. They are equally as strong in their respective spheres. A version of the strong feminine is by nature strong enough to adapt, accept what life throws her way and make the most out of it drawing upon her own resourcefulness, energy and intelligence to grow and make things grow.  We hear in pseudo-esoteric circles about the wounded feminine, the wounded masculine, the weak masculine, the strong feminine, the out of balance masculine, the toxic masculine  etc. etc.  There is of course some truth in what it is said, but when you go to seriously work on yourself in relation to the 'wounded masculine' or 'wounded feminine' you find egos, past conditioning and karma, and 'wounded masculine' and 'wounded feminine' start to fade away and the real issues emerge. Behind all of the 'woundedness' is a lack of humility and trust. The...

Others may be doing something wrong and that bothers us. Yes we can work on it and yes as a result we stop being bothered by what they do. And yes they keep doing the wrong thing.  That is the way psychological work often pans out. We have done our work. They need to do theirs when they do it.  To not die in ourselves because the other person has to stop doing the wrong thing first equates to never working on ourselves.  We die in ourselves and dissolve what we had an issue with, then the other person may change also but may not. Either are fine - neither matter to us once we are dead. We are not a police man or woman, that is not our job to police others! Our job is to work on ourselves and die in ourselves. End (4326).