Gnostic Wisdom

Introduction This post is a reflection on the psychology in and behind debts. Kinds of Debts We have several kinds of debts I find upon reflection. I'm sure you will have seen that too. We have debts with nature, debts with people and debts with ourselves. It is similar to the types of pain. There is the pain that we cause nature, pain that we cause others and pain that we cause to ourselves. The debts that we have with nature, people and ourselves can be further classified into being either: physical, psychological and esoteric. Physical debts with people is something quite broad, and can include debts in the fields of money, services, favours, objects, trades, barters, recommendations, etc.   Debts whether they are physical, psychological or esoteric are real and have their weight. Definition Debts are justice or balance restored in potential. However while a debt is running unpaid it is injustice riding on good will with the promise that the debt one day soon will be cancel...

There is no memory in the Being but comprehension instead. Don't be scared of the gymnasium. Our gymnasiums have been programmed already because through them the Being in us will acquire what It lacks in quality. There are many gymnasiums after this one which will seem impossible or ones where we think that we won't survive. There is always ever present that element of 'no time' in our work. Sometimes it is more present and some times it is less present. In any case when there is 'no time' we need to work fast - change quickly. We are tied to our Guru for future times and missions. Seek to please the Spirit in us. Not any ego or any person or group. Be strong in matter and strong in the Spirit. Be strong in matter by being first strong in the spirit. Bring one's force to complement one's wisdom. One's wisdom needs force to make it manifest. The wisdom of a person or of a Monad wants to be useful by manifesting through actions.  Dignity begins here in...

Here are some teachings from m.m.m: "The Being has not memory but only comprehension. The Being does not punish but corrects and educates". We should not be afraid of the gymnasiums that the path, our work and our own Inner Being presents to us. Becasue they have been already programmed for us to triumph in. There is no time for the work... Because the work is always now! A big mistake is to think we have time. Because of this we work less or little.  There are cases becasue they have started the work of the three factors late in life - they 'don't have time'. If we do something with dignity which is in favour of our essence and the work upon ourselves we won't make a mess of it and get things wrong, the Being will support us.  Know that it is more importnat always to please the Spirit no matter what our fear tells us. Being strong in the Spirit we can be strong in matter. Not the other way around though. If we are strong in our Spirit we can be happy as the w...

Life does not see the apth but the path sees life. The path knows life and can conquer life but life can not conquer the path.  The position of the path before life is one of strength due to the wisdom or intelligence of the path. Also due to the strength of spirit that one acquires on the path.   Strong in the spirit and strong in matter is what we strive for. The values of the path are stronger than the values of life because they are of the eternal and connect directly to the supreme source of life.  To be strong in the doctrine of the path helps us when facing life. Know that when we chose the path we chose to please the enternal in us. The immortal in us - our Inner Being.  Remembering the Being helps us to embrace the path and its values and so makes us strong and wise before life. Any humilation that we suffer on the path where it seems life suubmits us will result in a later exaltation where life yields to us and rewards us. This is because on the path t...

When anyone walks on the path they leave their footprints for others to see. Those footprints are their decisions and actions on their path and the path. When we take a step on the path it is worth it for the love of others to take that step with firmness so that a clear imprint is left in the ground. This means taking any decision or step on the path with certainity, decisiveness, trust, faith and conviction. When we take steps on the path this way, we help others by leaving a clear footprint for them to see and go by and even use as a reference.  We also help ourself as taking a step this way is a more conscious step and shows our inner Being our intensity of decision, firmness and yearning. In return our Inner Being will give back the same definite quality of help to us. End (4368).

It is a mask that we put on before life. The mask is made up of the following things: culture, religion, the trends of the times, the mindset of the times, family values, our past, our particular tastes, particular words (slang), nationalty, environment, inheritance, hobbies, habits, manners, fashion, habits, demenour, cars, housing, lifestyle, facebook account, instagram account etc.   Personality is all what is to be shown and the things of the personality are things that are visible. There is fantasy in the mask of personality. Becasue one does not really know one's true nature as and from the essence. Comparison contributes to building the mask of personality. Comparison is behind envy which further builds the personality.  The personality is made through imitation and it is also made to imitiate. When we lack the things of the personality that others have in their personality envy then is used to create the desire and drive to acquire those things and perhaps even mo...

The enthusiasm for esotericism goes to the essences who are around us and affects them. It makes the other essences to become enthusiastic about the esoteric work also. It has the power to convert cold to warm and warm to hot in whatever aspect of esotericism. This is what a good teacher of esotericism does. Master Samael did this in so many instances and for so many people. End (4371).  

Introduction If we approach this topic from a psychological analysis point of view we can get a lot of light about the subject. Life - Horizontal Line There are views on what life is. Everyone has some view on what life is. In fact there are many points of view from which life can be seen. Life can be seen from a philosophical point of view, from a biological point of view, from a hedonistic point of view, from a practical point of view etc.  It is in fact very difficult to define what life is. Perhaps the best definition is the sum of all the different views, concepts, ideas and beliefs that people have about life. So we really have to be flexible and open... Life though, definitely has three realities: a physical reality, a psychological reality and an esoteric reality. We are a biological cellular entity - meaning we are made up of cells on a biological level, we are a social entity, we are a psychological entity and we are also an esoteric entity. The horizontal line of life is...

Details are a part of our life. We can't escape them and in fact whether we know it or not we actually relate to the details of life. So in conclusion, use the details of life when they pertain to us to awaken and to work on ourselves.  When the details pertain to the way others treat us then our job is to transcend them. For us there is much work in awakening and mystical death that can be taken from observing and comprehending the small details of our actions... End (4366).

The Being in every person is all about the unknown. The depths of its values and the ways of Its values are unknown to us human beings as Master Samael says from instant to instant. So the Being in everyone cultivates the unknown. That is, it expresses the unknown by bringing the unknown in the way of wisdom, teachings, light, inspiration... Our role is to feel uncomfortable with the unknown. We feel very comfortable with the known. The mind and ego do the opposite always bring and cultivate the known, moving from the known to the known incessantly. End (4365).

Just some reflections on details. Getting to the details in an argument complicates and make things much worse. If we want to go to the details we better know what we are talking about. There is detailed knowledge... Awakening is about awakening to the details of ourselves and finding awe in the details of life, nature, the cosmos and ourselves... If we focus on the details we can increase our awareness. Attention to detail it is commonly called - is a high value in the work place. Mystical death is about dying in the details... In any case we need the details. Getting to the details in a contract makes things all the much clearer and with all to be delivered as expected - no gaps. The details are tedious... The details slow everything down and introduce more rules... The small details are good to be overlooked. Dwelling on them can gnaw away at the good... Yet the ego lives in the small details... Behind a small detail there is a whole world of psychology... Ignoring the details of ot...

Conversations are civil, reasonable and fair until they approach the abyss...  Once the conversation has descended into the abyss then no resolution or solution can be won and anything regrettable can happen... There is always a sign to the consciousness that a conversation is approaching an argument (abyss). This happens when at least one of the participants is descending into his or her own abyss. Then without fail the wisest thing to do is to stop talking... End (4363).

Done in the small and big details of our life. Giving things the right proportion leads to balance. Leads to the right results. Is relative to our reference points and helps in our efforts to awaken our consciousness. A first point of call is to work the small details where our personality exaggerates things. That is give things the right proportion. The right replies and responses inside and outside to comments people make in conversation for example. In every relationships there are things that are not given the right proportion. Somethings are given too much and other things too less. A person trying to awaken will give a lot to his or her consciousness and a lot less to the different "I's". End (4362).

The first and last impression that we receive are the most important ones for our psyche.  The last impression is important for the human psyche because us human beings tend to live in the last "I". If the last time we see someone and the impression was negative we tend to remember that person and think about that person in a negative light according to the particular negative quality of the impression. We human beings don't quite get over the effects that the first and last impression have inside of ourselves...  If for example, the first impression of someone made us to think of them as let's say arrogant. We will tend to always see them and regard them as arrogant and it will take some time of experience with them to change that impression - if indeed that impression is not true - that is, the person is not really arrogant. End (4361).

Ego 1. Pluralised, has a beginning and an end, not our true nature, a mechanical answer to life.     2. Past and future. 3. Conditioned mostly by duality and reativity. 4. Centred mostly in the mind. 5. Mechanical and cyclical. 6. Subject to so many laws: 96, 192, 276 etc. 7. Based on 'the more'.  8. Reactive. 9. Trapped in either good or bad. The bad egos and good egos.  10. Rigid and lunar in nature. 11. Obeys it's own conditioned will. Does not have it's own will. 12. Based on memory and lives in time and space. 13. Belongs to time and personifies the defects. 14. Aligns and connects to the abyss/inferno. 15. Fragments of the psychic material - inverts the values of the Inner Being. Essence 1. Is one, has no beginning or end, is our true nature, is a conscious answer to life,   2. Here and now. 3. Free of any conditioning - beyond mechanical and recurrence and return. 4. Centered in the heart. 5. Conscious and spontaneous and to the correct proporti...

Tritocosmos does not belong to the third dimension. It can not be seen from within the third dimension. No telescope or drilling/tunneling machine will see it or reach it. Whereas the Microcosmos,  Macrocosmos, Duetrocosmos, Mesocosmos, and Ayocosmos can all be seen from within the third dimension. There are mind you always doors between dimensions and there exist in this three dimensional world doors through which one can enter the fourth dimension and from there enter the superior or inferior dimensions of the planet. The Tritocosmos pertains to the fourth dimension, but the inferior side of it. The fourth dimension is time.  It is real and does exist within us and also outside of us. Within the Tritocosmos there is the process of regression in time. It is also related to memory. Within the Tritocosmos is where is the essence processes its involution. That is its backwards evolution.  To ascend we need to descend. The Tritocosmos is the workshop of the Cosmos the place ...

What really makes these places heavy? It is as I perceive it, the psychological dimension of the people who are present at any given moment, plus that of what has happened there in the past. As we well know such places are not only used to eat, drink or dance. They are used mostly for other purposes which are very egocial in nature. Even though cafe's are used for other purposes (meeting, talking, relaxing, working, 'zoning out', reading, observing, etc.) than to drink coffee, they are not so heavy because those other purposes are not so heavily egocial in nature in comparison to pubs, clubs and some restaurants. This other use pertains to the 'subconscious'. The subconscious by nature is not light. Places that are used to just buy something - step in and step out, and that something is for example food and drink, those places are not so heavy. Because the psychological dimension is neutral - just taking care of a natural life maintaining physical need. In the esote...

Foundations The personality has two types of foundations. They are physical and psychological foundations. The physical foundations are all things like: where we live, what car we drive, how we dress, what we eat, where we work, what we live in: house, boat, car, van, apartment, tent etc. Basically all that is tangible and physical makes up the physical foundation of our personality, even such things as the people in our immediate and extended family, also our pets if we have any. The psychological foundations are the attachments to the ways of thining and feeling that come from our culture, our customs (country, religion, family), our traditions and our education... The following types of factors influence the formation of our personality considerably. 1.) Paratype - influences from our environment. 2.) Genotype - influences of family, includes our genes etc. 3.) Phenotype - influences from physical characterisitics Time and Space Time and Space are the two major conditioners of the p...

Master Samael started to dissolve his solar personaluity of a Master on the 27th of January and finished dissolving it on the 27th of July 1977. In 1968 Master Samael dissolved his human personlaity: Victor Manuel Gomez. MAster Samael disagreed with Gurdjieff in this matter of the personality. Master Samael considered that a personality was not needed. That the Being of a person does not need an intermediatry between itself and Its physical vehicle. While Gurdjieff said that an intermediatry was needed.  Master Samael's way was to dissolve any kind of personlaity that he had so that his Being - Samael (Logos of Mars) could manifest directly through him - the person - the physical vehicle of his Inner Being  - Samael.  Here below are the four scenarios that have to do with the personality: 1.) Personaltiy and ego (abnormal human being - karmic instrument - demon) 2.) Personality, ego and essence (normal human being). 3.) Personality and essence (e.g. Master Samael and his ...

Friends of faith are friends of the path. Which is different to the many other types of friends that we all can have in life. People on the path need friends of faith and to be a friend of faith to someone is to help their path and even really make their path easier and therefore possible in a shorter time frame. Friends of faith are friends that are formed when we walk the path.  They are friends that believe in the path and believe in our path. It is really to do things with people who don't believe in our path or even in us as a person. Master Samael said that he only had friends of faith. That is friends that believed in his path. With such friends he could work and with such friends he could help and also be helped.  Master Samael did many internal investigatons with friends of faith. The book "Yes there is Hell, Devil and Karma" was written based on the investigatons in the Astral that he did with friends of faith. Becasue friends of faith have been formed on the pa...

Best to forget about who is more right or more wrong. Or even who is right and wrong and focus more intensely on what is right and what is wrong relative to our chosen reference points. There is much pride invested in who is right and who is wrong... Pride spends much time proving others wrong or being in disbelief and shock that oneself is wrong... We all have something right and wrong in us and because we have so much wrong in us with the ego alive, it is useless, hopeless to expect to be right all the time. No one person is wrong all the time either...  To let life flow better it is best to forget all together who is right and wrong but focus on what is right from the point of view of the work, path and the Being...And go from there... End (4354).

Pride is a huge impediment for us when it comes to change. Because of pride we believe we don't need to change and then with hat belief we are not at all open to see inside ourselves that there is something that needs changing.  We are just so automatically blind. Without us even suspecting it we are blind. Then the only way that our interior Divinity can get us to see is to send us pain. Pain that repeats and repeats until we decide to look past that impediment.  Pain is always what is used to cause pride to step aside in inside of us. If we have pride we can not expect otherwise that pain will come our way at one point or another.  End (4353).

To be a servant in King's robes is difficult but it is the task of each one of us.  The thing that happens often is that we identify with the robes of royalty and we stop serving, and we expect, demand, criticize, smirk, disregard etc. instead... When we take on a title or position without the interior work to support it - we become sooner or later a beggar in King's robes. Because we make so many mistakes in that position due to lacking the death of the ego and lacking in consciousness that the karma we get, converts into a beggar dressed in royal regalia. The robes of a king is symbolic for many things such as: titles, positions, wealth, degrees, initiations, experience, suffering, pain etc. etc. As a person develops the path of their inner Being, their inner Being recuperates Its dignity and some of this actually transfers the person but more than this, the person feels the dignity of their Being restoring and so the challenge is to still be a servant of what is above, while...

There is cause and effect inside and outside of ourselves. Always going to the cause of things is the best. Gives the best... The cause and effect chain inside and outside of ourselves is very long and vast. Going behind an effect we find a cause, going behind that cause we find the effect of another cause. Thoughts are causes for feelings. Will or desire is the cause for thoughts. The cause behind desires are a lack in our Being or consciousnesses. Even the karma we have.  The karma we have has a cause... End (4351).

Any choice that we make, is best made when we make it knowingly. Knowing what we are foregoing and knowing what we are going to gain and why. When we chose this way - all through knowing, we have knowledge. This knowledge is something that we can always turn back to later down the track, if we chose wrongly. And if there is still time and we can choose again. End (4350).

Everything in life is like dominos. One thing effects another and so on. Effects become causes and those causes produce effects and those effects become new causes and so it goes, on an on producing a large network of links.  Those links are the links of cause and effect that link a number of people over a span of time and space. It has been said that the causal world - the world of natural causes is a world or vast networks where the links of cause and effect can be seen precisely linking millions of human beings over vast spaces and expanses of time.  We can see this long chain of cause and effect in our life... We may see it actually many times over, maybe every day... Obviously if it leads to unpleasant or disagreeable circumstances we would one day want to change this for the better. Even perhaps break this chain... To break this chain we have to examine the chain and see where it all starts. We can break this chain by not allowing it to start, or by stopping the chain wh...

When get identified with some egos that are heavy in nature such as self-compassion we really lose control of our mind and remebering things and thinking straight becomes difficult. The moral to this story is that if our memory is bad it could be that we are spending too much time being identified or preoccupied with one or another heavy ego.  So if we want to improve our memeory what helps a lot is to spend less time in our own abyss and more time not being identified. Practicing self-remembering as often and as well as we can, helps a great deal with this. In our own abyss and in the abyss of anture, things don't make sense, things don't gel and we even don't know who we are and we can't work out who we are even. We lose so much contact with ourselves, and that includes our body - especially our brain and heart. End (4348).

I once understood clearly that self-wallowing or self-commiseration is a compensation for something that we failed in. After we fail the processes of self-wallowing or self-commiseration begin. Those processes are there to try and give us something, a kind of philosophical self-attention that makes up for us having failed in some task or enterprise or attempt. We may be called silly, irresponsible, inadequate etc. etc. which is ok - it all depends on how we take it. If we take it with identification of the self-commiserating and self-wallowing "I's" we end up taking on the identity that "I'm inadequate", I am useless", "I am a failure" I am not good enough" etc. etc. All of which are not true. We are not a global failure because we breathe, walk, eat and are alive. A global failure would fail at breathing... The right attitude is not to identify with these 'failure' identities but to stand up and fight for getting better and impro...

The way to get free from relativity, is to go to something that is absolute. This situation happens so often, we are given less than another person and immediately we feel hurt. We feel hurt usually because we feel we deserve more. Or we have some sense of order or of right or wrong that says that receiving less is wrong. At the bottom of it all, these feelings were triggered because of relativity. Because in comparison we received less. If we received more we would be happy right?  So it is a question of transcending relativity. Transcending the the relative less. I say relative less because compared to someone else we received more but less to another person. To get out of feeling hurt because of receiving less is what we have to do. (By the way, it is always about receiving.) We must put our thinking or consciousness or focus or attention outside of the less and see the greater picture where many other factors contribute and are at work such as the past and the future and also m...

Tricky they are. They manifest in the opposite way - imposing a kind of superiority either passively or actively. All in all an inferiority complex is like a wound that makes a person to feel pangs of psychological pain and also makes the life of the one who is regarded as superior affects difficult. Often undeservedly so - setting the one with an inferiority complex into a vicious cycle of pain and karma - pain and karma and with each run of the cycle it gets harder to accept and work on.  A person with an inferiority complex can either compensate for feeling superior by actively putting down the person they feel inferior to using criticism on anything that they can 'sink their teeth' into.  One key is to accept that we have still things to learn and genuinely befriend the one who is superior so that they can teach and help us and that a good relationship can be formed where we care for them and they care for us thus removing differences. End (4347).

Master Samael said that a friend is considered an esoteric degree. In other words to be a friend to someone is to have won an esoteric degree. Of course it can't be a friend that we see now and then or only sometimes and they have little involvement in our life. There are actually few friends of that type in the world but there really do exist friends in life that even though none of the friends are studying esotericism they are friends that have earnt and deserved this inner or esoteric degree. It is said that a wife or a husband could be a friend first before being married and then keeps being a friend after being married. A friend is someone who is recognised as such internally, that is amongst the Beings, Monads and Divinities of the inner worlds - such as I suspose the Divine Law, the white Lodge as some of the help that they send to us comes through our friends.  Such a friend has many qualities that are worth expanding upon I feel. Master Samael called such friends - friends...

This is a real worthy exercise to do. It truly has benefits. What makes this exercise difficult to do is that we lose sight of these benefits.  At certain times we feel that it is worthy or justified to enter our abyss so that we can react, to for example give a person what they are asking for. We may do this and in fact we do it and have done it a lot already... If we don't go into our own abyss and find the egos of resentment or anger or self-love we can stay outside of the abyss and chose to align with with different states of consciousness and psychologies. Like the psychology of co-operation, good will, magnanimity, equanimity etc.   If we stick to these higher states of consciousness we we give cause for our inner Being to support us. Showing loyalty to these higher states of consciousness is to be loyal to our inner Divinity. To not allow ourselves to feel resentment and to feel equanimity instead makes our essence a little brighter and allows a bit more of the pre...

It is the first test on the path. The path begins after passing this test. To fail this test means a delay in one's spiritual progress.  Once one is prepared one can ask to be presented with this test once again. I have heard that this test can be presented to an aspirant up to three times. I am not sure what happens after failing this test three times.  It has also been said that those people who fail this test end up polarising themselves against the esoteric teachings taught in Gnostic schools and also against the people who teach at these schools. Some become enemies and some don't quite go that far.  Here below is the text of an old handout that I came across recently. " The Guardian of the Threshold What is needed to pass this test. The ability to stand up to the ego. The ego maybe stronger than us but yet we have to stand up to it, face it and confront it. We have to show that we can throw ourselves into the fight against the ego and not retreat before it. That of ...