Gnosis Wisdom

This is a very old post that was left unfinished in draft. I'm decluttering and so I thought it is best to post it. There really does exist ties or links between souls. We all know this at some level within our consciousness. We basically feel this... We also know that there are different types of ties or links. Really if we survey the Gnostic doctrine we find many different types of links. The links that really interest us in Gnosis are the links of an esoteric nature. That is the links that were made through esoteric work and these links carry esoteric values, that is values of the soul. These are strong and endure the test of time.  There are also links that are made in life and through the events of life.  The general way of working of all these links is that 'like' links to 'like'. Soul to soul, heart to heart, ego to ego, personality to personality.  The links of soul to soul are not that of the mutual attraction generated by the senses in the physical world. ...

This is more true than not.  This truth is a call to attention. That the smallest task is how we will do the greater more important tasks.  Working to master and perfect the smallest task and the values implicit in the tasks is how we start to correct the bigger and more important tasks that we often get wrong.  We can't think that doing poorly in the small and doing well in the big is the way forward. The small and big are connected and doing well in the small connects to doing well in the big. Every task that we do is important - we can't dismiss the importance of anything that we do.  End (4705).

I respectfully think that gratitude is a quality of our consciousness. I think from experience that when we are truly grateful it is our consciousness expressing it. In general if our consciousness manifests something then it comes from our Inner Being. Gratitude ultimately has its roots in our Inner Being... When our essence is active it has in its feelings the joy to be alive! In that joy is gratitude. Master Samael said that the feeling of the essence is not far off from the feeling of our Being. Perhaps in the roots of gratitude is the expression from our Inner Being to the Absolute - the Cosmic Father-Mother for Being present in It and from the Absolute for all the things that the Monads do for It and do in It's name. Then essence is grateful to It's Being for having unfolded It. Gratitude is a great chain of love that links us back to the Absolute! The below graphic shows us how focusing on the value of gratitude changes our lives. It is very simple yet so effective. Grat...

We all know that the Real Being of each one of us has a ray. Many past posts have discussed the relevance of this ray to our nature and the way we work on ourselves. The polarities are so interesting that we can end up being the opposite of our ray. Previous posts discussed how we can due to our sleeping consciousness end up displaying characteristics that are far skewed from that of our ray. The are many ways in which we relate incorrectly to the ray of own Being. Often the poor ways of relating are very visible. Usually if we are very skewed in relation to our ray, it is an inner urgency for us to correct that in our three brains. For example we could relate poorly to our ray in just one brain but well in the other centres. For example, a ray of wisdom person could be really unintelligent for some reason which they would have to find out. Sometimes it could just be the incapacity to bring that wisdom into manifestation in actions. It could be the same with other rays, for example a p...

Question for Post: Lunar Influence Notes - (3954) Could you please explain what is this creation of a 'psychological infinite'? What are the various infinites? Master Samael states that each infinite has its own 13 Aeons. He says that after the creation of a psychological infinite, one can either enter into the Absolute or create the necessary internal conditions to pass into the next infinite. He also says that those Beings who follow the path of Cosmocreators on the Direct Path pass from infinite to infinite, i.e. from firmament to firmament. Is this the Path of John? Or is it related to the Path of John where one moves up the cosmic hierarchy (from angels to archangels to potencies to dominions to virtues to thrones to cherubim to seraphim)? Answer: It is basically where one cystallises in their psychology the laws and principles of the infinite so that states of consciousness that are aware of the infinite can expand to the infinite, which is beyond the scale of  the galaxy...

A series of posts about this subject. With each post treating one point at a time. One may think that such a post let alone a series of posts on this subject should not be written. However as we all know this topic is a reality.  People after showing much promise do abandon their spiritual studies. Perhaps if they had some advice available to them at the time they could have kept their ‘promise’ going. The first point to make here is that all of us at some point or another have at least thought of abandoning the spiritual work and walking fully back into life. It is something in reality that does happen and it is something that we will face at some point.  It does not matter at which point, the beginning, the middle or end but what really matters is that we look sincerely at it and find the truth about it. If we find the truth, I mean the real truth of it we will know what to do next. I'm not going to suggest anybody to stay or leave what I would really advise people is to sin...

So interesting seeing the body like this - as a factory. It would be equally as interesting to see a chart of the centres in the human machine as a factory. One day I hope some Gnostic will draw one up. This topic of influences is usually included in the human machine lecture.  Here are the influences: In Gnosis we have access to influences B and C. Rare is it to be under influence C. Influence C are all the spiritual masters helping us to awaken. End (4704).

It is said that gold is malleable. Meaning it can be shaped and it can flex and bend when pressure is applied. Which for some applications is ideal. However iron is not very malleable and is rigid and does not easily bend or flex under pressure and so some application this is exactly what is needed. We are like that too. For some occasions in life and the work we need to be like gold and like iron. What we can't be is gold all the time and iron all the time. We need to know when we need to be gold and when to be iron. What's interesting is there is a Golden age of worship, peace and harmony, and the iron age - of machinery, industry and military. Obviously the presence of these metals makes these qualities and activities in humanity possible. The above gives us a clue. When it comes to matters of the spirit and the esoteric work where others are involved and a higher cause is at work all around us then to be gold is best. When lower values are on the offense then being like iro...

It is worth knowing our particular sleep cycle durations. This is so that we can wake ourselves up while we are in the REM state. This is so that we can experience lucid dreams and the waking up in the astral. When we are in the REM state we are dreaming as vividly as we can be. Then to wake up in this state, we increase our chances of being able to go consciously back to the dream we woke up out of, or into a new lucid dream that we can influence depending on what we focus on. Typically one whole cycle through all four states takes 90 minutes. So what you do is note down when you go to sleep and work out a wake up time right in the middle of the last state which is the REM state.  Fine tune with experience and jot down your results and experiences. The below diagram is very interesting too. With Koalas sleeping the most and human beings, elephants and horses the least. With cats balanced half and half and they forgot the kangaroos. End (4684).

This post is more for individual reference than for a wider audience. Though it addresses an interesting point in the practice of the Gnostic Studies. If we have some health problems such as high cholesterol, which is common in life, it means something is not quite right in the way we are living. Just studying Gnosis does not make us exempt from cause and effect. Cause and effect works for everyone who uses it wisely or unwisely. We may not like to devote time to the health of our body because we need the time to work on ourselves. However, there are many windows during the day in which we do nothing in favour of the work on ourselves. So why not use those windows with no harm done to our work. Having a healthy body is in favour of the work on ourselves. Our body is the physical temple of the soul and our whole Being with all its parts.  In many occasions it is our egos that contribute to having an unhealthy body. To have a healthy body (i.e. lower cholesterol and everything else) ...

Everywhere Ill-will is something of which there is a lot of in the world, even in many communities. It is really a world wide characteristic. We know from the Gnostic teachings that every human being carries it inside. It is a common experience that a while after joining and getting more involved with a community we inevitably find ill-will. We are disappointed at first but then we think - why should I be disappointed? Ill-will after all is everywhere and myself and this community are also humanity, and so to find ill-will is to be expected. No big deal we have all experience ill-will and to a degree we are use to it. Even those who are involved in studies of the spirit are humanity just like you and me, and ill-will will also appear at some point. Perhaps to a lesser degree and in more refined or subtler guises. Knowing that humanity has ill-will this discovery will not surprise us. This does surprise some people, mainly because we think that ill-will shouldn't exist in groups of ...

Blindness We were taught that the karma for hatred is blindness. I always wondered why. One day when I was observing myself, I discovered that when the thoughts and feelings of ill-will are present we really use our eyes intensely .  It seems very difficult to have ill-will without seeing. Just imagine being blind, it would be so hard to have ill-will. We would not to be able to see what the other person looks like, what facial expressions they are displaying, what they are doing, how they are doing things, how they are walking, what mistakes they are making etc.  Even being blind we can't really seriously hurt someone. If we tried we would probably hurt ourselves in the process.  When we have ill-will or some degree of hatred we can not see the truth of the person, nor can we see the bigger picture. With ill-will present we can not see one good point about the person. The truth is everyone has their good points even if the number is small there are still good points. Wit...

From the teachings of Buddha they are: 1.) The existence of suffering. 2.) The origin of suffering. 3.) The cessation of suffering. 4.) The path for the cessation of suffering. The above four points are really helpful to read or re-read when we are suffering. They give much hope as they confirm that suffering can be made to end and that there is a path or a way to end it. Master Samael teaches that the four noble truths are: 1.) The First Truth is to acquire absolute consciousness of pain and bitterness.  2.) The Second tremendous Truth is that this pain is a child of fornication, and that whosoever spills the semen (reaches orgasm) is a fornicator.  3.) The Third Truth is that we have an "I" that must be decapitated and dissolved in order to incarnate the Verb, the Christ.  4.) The Fourth Truth is that only with the Arcanum A.Z.F. can we decapitate and dissolve the Prince of this World.  These truths expressed by Master Samael are the practical complement to the Bud...

Emotions are the control lever within us. They have the power to switch us from one internal state which is appropriate to a state that is not.  The emotions often determine that what we do goes up or down within and outside of us. Every practice and activity we do has the right emotion. The emotional centre has a greater reserve of energy and therefore will power than the intellectual centre. We can work better if we use the emotional centre. The center of gravity of the essence is the emotion centre. See how powerful our emotions are: Lust for example is the wrong excitation of the emotional centre about the sexual energy sexual energy. The Alchemy has the appropriate emotional state that if a practitioner finds it, he or she will practice successfully or much better in the true sense in which Alchemy is to be practiced. Find the right emotional state and we can do wonders in our everyday life. End (4703).

We want others especially those who have harmed us in someone way to realise the impact of their actions. Often this is very slow in coming or just does not happen. They think that they have done nothing wrong or that it wasn't that bad and 'get over it already' is what we need to do.  The reality is they will realise the impact of their actions, when they do at some point in the future. We don't have much say in the whole piece. Obviously we really try (99% of the time egocially) to make them realise the harmful impact of their actions. Often this is where things get worse. Meanwhile the reality is they will realise the impact of their actions when they do. Another reality is that we think like that too when we have harmed others in some way... Another reality is that we believe that the other person realising the impact of what they have done is the solution to the whole situation. But of course it is not. So the whole pain of the situation is in us wanting them to re...

Nature is there as it is flowing according to the Laws it has been created with and is sustained by. Though life is something else altogether.  Life we are taught in Gnosis is something we must conquer, be on top of and not be submitted by. What is meant by life is not nature but rather the system and way of life that human beings have created. Understand it this way. Imagine nature without human beings. Then see human beings appearing and fast forward the clock to 50 years and then see what has happened. We will see travel ways, transport, houses, activities, food, the emergence of culture, language, beliefs, ideology etc. etc. That is precisely what in Gnosis we call LIFE.  That is where identity, personality and it's values comes from. Not from nature but from the systems other human beings create and in Gnosis we call 'life'. It is precisely this 'life' that we must work to become more and more free from and not submitted by. End (4520).  

In every situation the values that we need for that situation always always automatically come to us. Every situation calls the values within us.  We don't have to worry about where the values are in us - they come to us.  For whatever situation we are in the values to correctly deal with it comes to us. We always usually know at some place within us the right values to use. We unfortunately have the mind and personality that interfere. They stop the values coming or deflect them. The values that come to us are in the essence. They come either free or conditioned. Where they are conditioned they are polarised to the opposite.  For example, where we need patience, love, trust, awareness and activity, the egos of greed or gluttony, or ambition won't appear but usually a mixture of patience, love, trust, awareness and activity and their opposites such as annoyance, selfishness, resentment, fear, negligence and laziness.  So being aware in the moment we can notice the "I...

We are taught the flow of life descends into creation. It comes from very high up - actually from a region beyond creation: AIN SOPH AUR.  The flow of life from this very high region is actually manifest in our lives... It is present in the reality that surrounds us. When we look around us and inside of us living this day we can see it. It is in the things that have happened today and in the things that will happen later because of today. The flow of life contains also the will of our Being and the will of the Divine Law.  We always would like to know the will of our Being. We can get a very good indication of it by acknowledging the flow of life today - right now in the circumstances we are living in. Our Being is our realty and it is in the flow of the day. The inner urgencies that we all feel to do with the psychological and esoteric work is also the flow of life for us. To recognise and acknowledge the flow of life is to follow the order of our Inner Being. The ideas flow ...

Important!  Missing the basic knowledge of  attention we do, we know and are little. For the love of our life and the lives of others we can no longer live a life of 'little'... Each of the below points used consciously with intensity, will produce inner revelation and will enhance any practice and any activity we do and participate in. Points to Enhance Practice It is very good to know what our attention is. The better we know what it is the more and better we can use it. Attention is the flow of life. It carries the vital currents of life, that nourishes, solves problems and heals.  Attention nourishes and used wisely can solve any problem. Attention is will. Attention is our power. Attention is ours. When our attention is ours we are. Where our attention is our consciousness is.  Consciousness follows attention and attention calls consciousness, and consciousness causes insight and revelation. The power in sustained attention accumulates to produce a breakthrough ...

Summary • Introduction that this talk is about the Practice of the Alchemy • Axioms and Principles. Never spill the hermetic glass. Only one Hermetic Vase.  • Practical Proceedings. 1.) Transmutation. 2.) Death of the "I". 3.)Awakening of Kundalini. • Practical Notes such as: how the day is lived determines the success of the practice. Practice once every 24 hours. Practiced at night. • The formation of the Cherubhim. • Ethical conduct in the three brains through the work of the dissolution of the "I". • The magnetic Pause • Three Tantras: Black, Grey and White. "Transmutation is a biological insurrection and a psychological revolution."  From the practice of the Alchemy, all the granular parts of ourselves seen below receive the transmuted creative energy to renew and rejuvenate themselves.   Links The following links are the posts on this blog that are related to this topic: "Transcendental Sexology Part Three" which has to do with the practice...

We know that each ego has an hypnotic grip which it uses to hook our attention away from our essence and common sense. It is the power to fascinate our consciousness and keep us identified with it. Which is usually its desires, projections, promises and logic. It is usually one or two powerful thoughts or beliefs.  When we look at all these powerful thoughts and beliefs we find that they have fear in common. The common fear is that without this ego I couldn't manage, life would be incomplete or boring, or not livable, I can't live without it, I will be harmed, I will lose control, I will live in a cage, I will lose my freedom, I will lose my happiness etc. etc. When we work on any ego all of these fears are proven false! Conclusion: we can help ourselves by not believing in the fear element that the hypnotic power of any ego presents to us. End (4682).

Summary • Explain what Supra-sexuality is. Sexuality with love at the service of the spirit. • Types of Sexual Energy. Raw mercury, mercury and mercury plus sulfur. We need mercury. • Colours of the Waters. How the waters are purified. Black, to white to yellow to red.  • Sublimation. Spiritualising the sexual act. • Alchemy. The art of alchemy. Acronym definition and a brief description of the symbols and stages. We should as Gnostics at least be in the learning zone! Links The following links are to posts in this blog which are related to the study of the talk topic: "Transcendental Sexology Part Two". Types of Sexual Energy Mercury - (479) Mercury and Sulphur - (510) 4 of 7 - Transmutation and the Nervous System - (2851) Transmutation The Intelligence in Sexual Transmutation (122) Transmutation – Why & How Transmutation is Multi-Dimensional - (3339) Colours of the Waters Why the Colours of the Alchemy? – (1144) Colours of the Waters - (827) The Four Colours of Alchemy ...

Every now and then as a real help sent to us, we get sent photos of people from any walk of life behaving really well or really badly. These photos are to help us in our psychological work. They are sent to give us a conscious chock! If they are a photo of someone acting really well - they show us what to do in the situations where we are finding coping difficult. If the photos are of bad behavior it is to shock us - letting us know that if we keep going we will go to that extent.  The solution to honour both forms of helps is to work in psychological death. Die in that defect! I once expressed anger while driving, then a week later behind me while driving (using the rear-vision mirror) I saw a man in the same situation as I was in when I got angry. He was getting agitated but was visibly making efforts to remain calm and he did - he drive normally for the time that I could see. A week later I witnessed a man dressed in office attire yelling with angry sarcasm for way too long at a...

We can not think black and white to understand things in esotericism. Especially when it comes to people and their actions within esotericism.  After a few years we come to the conclusion that we need a flexible mind and a flexible way of thinking.  For a while things are a mixture and some things can look both right and wrong at the same time and yet be overall right. Then there are things that look right but are wrong and vice versa.  We have to reserve an area of our thinking to accept the exceptions. Black and white thinking doesn't help because certainly the exceptions do exist - because a superior law washes away an inferior one and we often do not know the past or the future. It is also of great help to remain open to possibilities outside of the black and white box.  Also to leave things outside of the black and white box float them into the air of not knowing and even into the 'knowing one day' or the 'who knows zones' zones. End (5001).

We do what our identity does. We all obey this order of things. We get done during the day what our identity would get done during the day. The right identity for a Gnostic person to assume is that of an essence. If we deeply assume this we will see others a s an essence and we will take life and act in life as an essence does.  We have to find the identity that is truer for us according to the work that we need to do. If we really need to awaken more, then we have to adopt/assume the identity of our consciousness. If we need to liberate ourselves more, then we need to assume the identity of a soul that wants to liberate itself from the conditionings and karma that enslaves it. We have to drum it into ourselves often during the day. I am a consciousness, I am a consciousness, I am a consciousness and that means...I am watching my attention, I am not getting identified with anything else. Being my consciousness is my goal for the day! etc. etc. Remembering this is self-remembering a...

Summary  • Presentation about Moons as being previous planets of the solar system. Lunar chain of Blavatsky. • Presentation about how greatly the Moon has featured in myth, in culture, in literature etc.  • Prsentation of Moon's origin. The Moon as our grandmother. The Moon had life. Older than the Earth. • Presentation that the Earth is the reincarnation of the Moon. The Vital body of the Moon has been transplanted to the Earth. The Earth has inherited the Moon's karma. • Presentation that the Earth-Moon is larger than usual. Life here on Earth is so dependent on the Moon. • Presentation about how the Moon's influence on the planet Earth is very strong.  • List of Lunar Influence examples. • Explain how we actually have with the pluralised "I" a lunar natured psychology. • List lunar psychological characteristics that human beings exhibit. • Presentation of the remedy - creation of the psychological moon. • Explain our true nature is solar - the essence is solar....

Of course it is our greed and pride that is harming the Earth. The waters are more polluted, more animals are being driven into extinction and temperatures are rising. What can we do as seekers of the awakening and the path?  We have to continue with work to awaken and dissolve our psychological conditionings "I's". Because when we do that, we become living energetic assets to the Earth. In the sense that we become high potent transmitters of nourishing energy to the Earth. We also increase the consciousness and Fohat (spiritual fire) of the Earth - healing and enhancing it.  Physically we should also why not, participate sensibly in the many schemes that there are to reduce pollution and harm done to the environment.  We should certainly not leave our esoteric work and go to save the planet. Doing that would mean to deprive the Earth of a fully functioning awakened living cell that fully nourishes the Earth to its upmost capacity. Our transmutation and efforts to awaken ...

True and interesting - worth studying to better understand our  own personality. End (4288).

Here is a real good example of how one of the main columns of personality: culture, works in time and space.   It's neither right or wrong. It is purely relative. It is purely the result of time and space. Time being history and the current time and space being global location. Things are different in the West to Qatar. Just different not right or wrong or better or worse.  We may judge saying how backward, restrictive, impractical etc. and others may say how decadent and degenerated and void of values is the West... There are as many procs and cons for each culture that seems to balance each other out... Time and space in the end is the determining factor not the mind of any one of us...    At the end of the day, we have to put all judgments aside and understand that if we are in Qatar we have to respect their culture and values. To not respect those things is to fall into a negative aspect of pride which could be very costly... What is also interesting the onl...

Summary • Define the terms karma and dharma. • Present karma as a cosmic law present everywhere, especially in our lives. • Explain karma. Scientifically as a law. Give many examples.   • Explain dharma scientifically as merit. Give many examples. • Present and explain the different types of karma. • Present practical examples to better understand karma. • Present how to utilise this law to understand our life and its circumstances. • Present how to utilise the law of karma to improve our human and spiritual life. Links Here are some links to posts in this blog that are relevant to the lecture topic of karma and dharma. The information in these posts describe in more detail each of the summary points given above. Karma Introduction to Karma - (724) Karma Cause and Effect Notes - (3906) Types of Karma Some of the Many Types of Karma - (684) Working with Karma Right Attitude Towards Karma - (4060) This is Pure Gold: Karma is All About Values! The Secret of How and Why we Pay our...