Gnosis Wisdom

We as a person in our centres like in our emotional centre for example, don't want to meditate or look inside or practice and sometimes it is the mind that just doesn't co-operate with our intention to practice by quietening down or allowing us to focus our consciousness. So when faced with this situation inside of ourselves we can do something else that we have yet to do like things around the house or use another approach - diplomacy and negotiation. Just as professional negotiators appease and solve very tense and difficult situations we inside of ourselves can do the some with our mind for example. Let it run a little, just watching it wonder off and slowly reign it in to quieten down. Same thing with the conflictive or opposing emotions, do something like a practice or activity we feel like doing and then slowly once we feel better slowly redirect the emotions towards meditating and or practicing and go ahead with our practice. It may sound childish, however there are so m...

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This post is a collection of short notes from I believe lecture or hand out prepared by Master Samael titled: "The Mistaken Functioning of the Human Machine". Intellectual Centre Mistaken Functioning - Intellectualism With the intellect we create intellectualism. We receive knowledge and convert that knowledge into intellectualism. To stop doing that we need to meditate deeply on that piece of knowledge so to understand it. When we understand any piece of knowledge we balance it into our human machine, that is we act upon it or apply it. How is Intellectualism Created? What happens Master Samael says is that knowledge gets trapped into the different "I's" that we have in the intellect. That knowledge then takes on a wrong course. Which has two branches: more intellectualism feeding pride and intolerance and misuse - that is using that knowledge to harm or disadvantage others.  Intellectualism and Illuminated Intellection "Intellectualism is the opposite pol...

It is so wonderful to go to the Sun, to be there mediating early in the morning waiting for its rising. When it is risen, there is so much solace shining down.  The SUN is our Greatest Father, the source of our life, our governor and the central point of intelligence of our Solar System.  It has witnessed the folly of human beings since the beginning, it has seen where we have gone astray and where and when we have done well. It has all seen all the solutions to all the problems and so Our Beloved Sun King may you help us by guiding us to the solution to the problems and difficulties that we face in our human and spiritual life.  May you help us to be complete your experiment of forming part of solar men. It is certainly our deepest wish. Sunset at different times of the year: End (4396).

I read recently from a very well known contemporary Gnostic author that when a woman develops the mind and forgets the heart. That imbalance between head and heart eventually begins to take away from the natural feminine qualities gifted to her by the Cosmos. By cosmos I would even say by the Divine Cosmic Mother.  When the above happens, women lose touch with the feminine qualities and instincts and dislike anything motherly. This may happen for a long period of time or just for a while depending for how long the heart goes ignored and undeveloped for.  This could also, why not, happen to a man. In this case the overuse of the intellect would lead the man to become out of touch with his natural masculine qualities, also gifted to him by the cosmos. End (4397).

In this post I am going to give some clarification about these two terms which cause a lot of confusion here in the English speaking world and often due to that confusion, we don't work effectively on ourselves in these areas. Which is really not a helpful thing. Self-Respect This term is very clear and is not held in confusion. It is either the case of knowing or not knowing what it means. In both English and Spanish the meaning of this word coincide. In both life and in the work the meaning of this term agree one with another. Only that the work gives it a spiritual dimension. Self-Love Lots of confusion. Like self-respect it contains a 'self' and a virtue in this case - 'love'. So logically it has to be about a virtue directed towards oneself. Which is all fine. The question is which 'self'? If we see 'self' as really what self is - the Real Being in us, then self-love is love to the Being in us. But if we see 'self' as the false self the ...

There are true horrors in war. No one can deny that or even justify that. As all is dual there are also true acts of love in war. True acts of kindness that stand out to be remembered through out all of time. It is a real paradox that why the conditions of war make those acts of love to be true acts of love...  In what other way could it not be love than to respond to the call of another in distress putting all of us on the line against every fear, selfish interest and instinct of survival. Only war provides the maximum of conditions to prove the deepest love, loyalty... In so many ways love is proven in the times of war. In so many ways such as: not going to war, as giving your life for that of another, as risking your life for that of another, foregoing food rations for a week for others, in risking your life to find medicine for others, for being tortured to ensure the well-being of your companions and the success of a mission... There is the God of War. In contemplation it is c...

We can't bring our abyss expecting to get light from others... Bringing our anger or frustration to others is our abyss.  If we bring and give others our light, the light inside them will respond and naturally shine to illuminate some of the darkness that they have within, and come to understand what there is to be understood. When we bring our abyss, for example our anger, self-compassion, negativity, resentment, fear etc. we only cause the darkness in others to appear. We either provoke the same to appear in them (anger, self-compassion, fear etc.) and they become identified and so then all that they can do is defend, counterattack, feel bad and the last thing they really do is listen. Or if they do listen by chance, their fear listens and does the correct thing, but in doing so fear gets stronger and because fear is an ego it can be displaced to do the opposite and the problems continue... End (4393).

We can't find balance until we find it within ourselves first. When we decide or chose then we can resolve and come to a balance within ourselves.  Once we have chosen our centre point to balance around we can balance our external environment. Then when we have balance within we naturally have the force and intelligence to go through any difficulties or problems that we have to go through to establish the balance. The balance also changes from moment to moment, depending on what the moment brings. However the overall balance will remain the same. The real balance is like 60-40, 65-35 or sometimes 70-30. But not 50-50 as this only provides unbalance and lots of conflicts and great swings of the pendulum over the very small details of life. End (4392).

The real control is the control over our own reaction inside of ourselves when things happen in an event. No doubt to control things means to control people. We can't control any event or outcome of an event without controlling people. We control others physically or psychologically. However, more psychologically. We often control out of fear. Because we don't want something to happen we control people to not do or say certain things often make happen what we don't want to happen.  Maybe out of ill will we control people. So that someone whom we dislike does not receive a certain benefit. When we are confident about being able to control the our own inner psychological reactions we don't need to control people and the event. Anything can happen and we know that we will be able to control and transform what erupts inside of ourselves, then we are really free of controlling. To be free of controlling means dying in all those things that within us have to have things happe...

Important to know that two abysses don't make a heaven. If one is angry don't get angry thinking our anger will solve or improve the situation... When one abyss appears, stop, time out and just walk away is more beneficial to the situation and to each member than continuing to talk or listen... If in the abyss, time is all key. Too long and all becomes impossible... Once in the abyss notice and make ones way out. How one goes out is not as important as one getting out. In the abyss, all is confusion, non-understanding, attack, blame, error, wrong, unsurmountable difficulty, pessimism even extreme pessimism... End (4390).  

When two parties are in resistance - that is resisting the other or resisting reality the situation becomes impossible. When just one party drops the resistance the situation becomes workable. When there is n resistance in both parties life flows easily and effortlessly. Ease with reality overcomes resistance.  Resistance does not overcome ease or acceptance of reality... Bringing resistance to overcome resistance does not overcome resistance. Bringing ease with reality to  face resistance does overcome resistance... In summary, resistance constructs resistance and acceptance of reality brings down resistance. End (4391).

In general the condition of the physical bodies of many Gnostic students is not all that good. Understandably so because to care for the physical body requires a lot of time and effort that takes away from the time and effort that as Gnostic student we need to put into practicing and working psychologically and esoterically. To get a physical body in top shape is almost a full time job and we just don't have anywhere near that time, and frankly the desire to spend time doing that either, as it does not free us from our suffering and karma.  None the less to ignore the physical body is not correct as it is one of the three very important relationships that we have (body, environment and consciousness) and it is the physical temple of our inner Being. Well the intelligent way for a Gnostic student to look after the physical body is to join the looking after the body with the psychological work. Which would mean being strict with the egos that harm the health of the body.  Which ...

We really need something like an inner castle... There is a law called: "The Law of Interior Spaces". An inner castle is my way of saying that we need some inner space that is has been put aside, is always there and remains free.  To work on ourselves we need to some free space within ourselves no matter what is going on. When that free space collapses inside of ourselves we can't do too much but become very identified and lose some or all control of our work and often ourselves or our life for a while. We have to create it and then guard it just like a castle with its moat. We need some area of peace within us to do some work. In that area of peace we can keep outside of our abyss and be able to see things with some kind of sanity or normality.  As soon as you decide to go inside in the difficult moments you have access to it. Just staying there is hard bit. What helps us to stay there is the emotion of hope.  Trust in how the castle works helps us to go there too. Trust...

Introduction This post is a collection of notes on the subject of bread and wine which is an ancient subject much older than Christianity. Notes The bread and wine are one representation of the balance between spirit and matter. Via magical formula the spirit contained in matter is released, but does not escape from matter. It remains loosley with the matter it has been relased from so that it can act freely and function freely. The Spirit in this case, are the Christic atoms.     There is a uniting and collective aspect to the bread and wine. It unites and shows us that the spirit of the released Christic atoms is unity. Almost never is the bread and wine given to one person. The Christic atoms link us all to the fight for the same cause. There is such a beautiful teaching that says "when love is present He is present". Lust within a person destroys the values of the bread and wine. When a person takes the bread and wine they receive Christc atoms in their throat. The on...

Lust is not just lusting after some one of the opposite sex. It is any kind of wrong use or relationship to the sexual energy. We understand that the right use of the sexual energy is to serve the Spirit in us.  Any kind of wrong use could be avoiding the sexual energy, being scared of it, disliking it etc. etc. Which is also lust. In relativity there are many relationships that are worse than others. In general the uses or relationships that are not comprehended and instead are somehow suppressed end up taking on other degrees of  complexity that they originally were not at all about.  End (4386).

We need space to do everything we need to do. Both physical and psychological space. Also actually esoteric space. Even to practice Alchemy we need space. Of course for anyone the most important space is psychological space. Esoteric space is also important as it ultimately allows one to practice or not. Back to psychological space. If one has created a space within one's psychology to practice Alchemy one can practice. This space is like a refuge or a fortress. A space that we can go to within ourselves so that we align with the principles of Alchemy and we can bring our centres into alignment with the practice. When we don't have this space we can't reliably practice Alchemy. We become a victim of circumstance, both outside and inside of ourselves. To have this space means that it is created within us. There is like a steady and solid structure made within us where we go to and it does not disappear if the physical or emotional conditions are not present. It still exists ...

Individuality once again is when we have created a space of free essence within ourselves and we can go to it any time and operate, decide, think and speak from there. This is the true order within us and sets up order outside of ourselves also. We learn after much pain what the true order is within us and outside of ourselves. We can with good intentions disrupt this order believing we are doing a good thing for others and ourselves and later on suffer for it. We need our will to be an individual... To be an individual we need to rescue our will. We need to be able to exercise it reasonably with balance and consideration. If we can't exercise it we don't have it. We can exercise it at total random and subject to any whim if we like but we will notice that soon it will become trapped again or restricted because of the karma we get. If the exercising of our will affects others we can intelligently work with others. Co-operation and good-will goes a long way. When exercising our ...

Introduction This post comes from a study that we are currently doing with one of our groups. This post presents just some of the main lessons that each circle of the abyss offers to teach our consciousness. Lessons There is a lot of learning to be had in studying the abyss. This is because of the relationship between light and darkness. Consciousness is light and the abyss is darkness. Darkness can be converted into light. Therefore by studying our abyss we can convert what we have of darkness into the light of our consciousness. The main understanding about the abyss is that it is an inversion of the light. It is light inverted into darkness. So if we just see the opposite of the darkness we get the light. The abyss when we study it we see that it is an inversion of the tree of life. The different circles of the abyss contain the inversion of the Divine attributes seen in the Tree of Life. The Devil is God inverted. 1st Circle Here we learn about definition. That there is greater val...

Like the light the darkness has its shades. The abyss has its levels and each level has a predominate kind of darkness.  Invert the abyss and get the light. The highest virtues in the light have their opposite in teh deepest levels of the abyss. The abyss is the opposite of the light. Duality. True profound lessons about the light are to be found with the abyss. The abyss contains all the lessons about how human beings go astray from the light. How human beings stray and distance themselves from their Inner Being. The abyss contains the wrong ways of relating to human beings, nature and God. The abyss shows lessons about how the extreme ways lead to distance from our Inner Being. The abyss gives us lessons about how not to relate to Divine Laws and principles. The abyss shows us every imbalance that there is in the human sphere of life. End (4383).

It can so happen that in a life we secure certain experiences for us to pass through in the next. We may even be doing this - this life. What we are we anchoring now in this life to experience in the next life? We may not want to be doing this in the way of suffering and the work on ourselves will ensure that we don't. End (4379).

The top part of this topic is sacred individuality. There are really a few different types of individuality. There are always degrees and degrees of everything. Things are worked out in octaves and octaves. Very few things are like a switch where one day there is nothing and the next day it is all there. There are some things though that are like that but not always. There is always usually some kind of process behind every thing that we develop in the work on ourselves. So we need to start now working on our sacred individuality. At our level we can certainly do something towards it. We can say that sacred individuality is achieved totally when there are no "I's". Sacred individuality begins to be achieved in the esoteric sense when we have fabricated the psychological moon. A significant level of development of the sacred individuality is when we have fabricated the golden embryo. In the normal sense of life we are individuals when we think and decide for ourselves and ...

Introduction This post is a collection of short notes all to do with the topic of Esoteric Vestments. Notes Related to the temples, the inner Being, the consciousness, the essence... Respresents merit, a degree of consciousness, a certain fabrication or result, a degree of realisation... For example the white vestment represents chastity and chastity is a state of liberation from lust and a degree of crystallization of transmutation in the physical and internal bodies. The same thing with the purple vestment or tunic which is for those who have finished the great work, signifying liberation from karma and the myself (ego).  The yellow vestment or tunic of the Buddha represents a degree of liberation from the mind.  A body is nothing more than a vestment. A vestment is something decorates the essence. Therefore that which decorates the essence has to match the quality and qualities of the essence that it decorates. Each internal body represents a degree of realization and there...

That's one thing that happens when we study esotericism: we are exposed to the chakras for example, and we learn from this source that a certain set of colours corresponds to the chakras then another source says that a slightly different set of colours corresponds to the chakras. Then we find the same thing with the elements - different colours for each element, then we find the same thing with the astrological star signs and then the same thing with the archangels then when we find different sources saying that different organs correspond to the different planets and it goes on and on... So in the end we are left confused and we don't know which system of correspondences to follow or invest in... Well the solution is to just chose one that resonates the most or makes the most sense to you and use it to connect to what the colours help us to connect to. After all the point of it is always to connect to the planets, the elements, the star signs, the organs, the chakras etc. etc....