Ray of Life Notes - (4949)

Introduction

This post lists some points in note form about the ray of life. Included are general notes that apply to all rays.

Notes

There are human beings that belong to this ray. No doubt we all know a bit about this ray, as we all have and live life and no doubt we can all benefit from the forces and wisdom of this ray.

General

Each ray has a function in creation. 

Within 'the function' are many smaller functions. These smaller functions represent a branch of a ray.

The functions of each ray is fulfilled by Divine intelligence - that is by the Monads of human beings and Divine Beings who don't have physical vehicles.

Each ray works with other rays. 

The other rays that a given ray works with reveal more about its function. This is a point worthy to reflect upon.

That fact that many rays work together shows us the connectedness of all rays to make up the whole. It also shows the different affinities that exist in creation and amongst human beings.

There does exist the affinity among human beings based on the ray of their Inner Being.

Each ray seeks and uses the consciousness.

Each ray in creation is found to have a positive and a negative side.

The negative side is the inverse polarity of the positive side. For example, wisdom and ignorance, force and weakness, justice and injustice, objective and subjective art, etc.

Each ray can be used to serve matter or the spirit.

Each ray must be sublimated and balanced inside each person.

Each ray is a distribution of the qualities of the Absolute put into action in creation.

Each ray differs from others by containing more of certain values or qualities than others.

All the rays have within them the other rays.

We must make the ray of our Inner Being into an avenue of service for humanity.

Each ray seeks and uses the consciousness.

The consciousness is what each ray has in common. No ray can function without the consciousness.

As above so below. As there are cosmic functions these functions are reflected in human life in the different professions that are necessary to solve the various problems of life and creation.

When we study each ray profoundly we almost find a reflection of the cosmos. Each ray comes from the Absolute and through each ray we get a glance into the vastness of the Absolute. 

Particular

The ray of life pertains to the Moon. Meaning it has a strong relation to life on Earth.

It is like it is the first ray as all the other rays begin to work once the ray of life has fulfilled its function which is primarily to bring the essence to life in creation.

Once we have life we need medicine to heal, the law to rule, science to learn and discover, art to express and politics to order and direct and force to protect. 

The ray of life has as a general function is to bring the spirit into creation in other words to bring the spirit to life. 

The essence enters the baby at the moment the baby is born and inhales for the first time. The angel of life assist in making this entrance and connection possible.

The angels of life connect the silver chord of the body to the essence and assist in making the heart beat and the brain to light up - thus breathing the life that the new essence brings into the body of the new born baby. 

Also the ray of life is to guide the essence or spirit in life. Perhaps the guru devas which guide and watch over the evolution of all the essences in the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms belong to a branch of the ray of life. 

Associated with conception, birth, incarnation, return, recurrence and living. It is related to death, as death is its twin sister. It is also related to destiny, the processes of gestation and accumulation in life. 

The main function of the angels of life is to connect the essence to a new physical body. Meaning they specialise in connecting the silver cord, the cord of life and prana to the essence and physical body. 

Some keywords for the ray of life are: vitality, vital body, aura, prana, silver chord, flow of life, attention, consciousness, water, fire, creation, ray of creation, creative energy, sex and sexuality, conception, development etc.

Positive Side: the positive tendencies of this ray are the search for the awe and transcendental side of life, love of nature, respect for life, profound joy for new life - birth, perception of the mysteries of life, natural inherit knowledge of knowing and understanding what life is about. 

Negative Side: the negative tendencies of this ray are: selfishness, superficialities of life, mechanical life, vain enjoyment of life, several new beginnings, unstable, constant movement etc.

Pertains to beginning and to maintaining. To healing, to the word and to the creative energy. To music and to joy.

It makes sense too that the ray of life is related to the ray of Kundalini. The kundalini brings spiritual life once again to the person. The kundalini is an aspect of the Divine Mother and the Divine Mother is one who gives life.

The Kundalini creates the bodies - in other words it is the element that creates our inner cosmos - that is our inner life.  

The ray of life is related to life and life is consciousness and energy in constant flow. As a strong point those who belong to the ray of life will always seek energy and consciousness and have a natural understanding of each.

Works with death, medicine, law, wisdom to name a few... Please take your liberty of reflection to add more.

The regent of this ray is the Divine Being classically known as archangel Gabriel.

Sublimated within us, this ray reveals to us the conscious and intelligent way to live. The art of living is this ray sublimated.

To seek the vertical in life is the conscious expression of this ray, and it is also the point of balance of this ray in relation to the Being within us. To reiterate, when this ray is used to develop the vertical line of life within a person it finds its balance within the person in relation to the Inner Being.

This ray has great potential to be of service to the awakening and development of the consciousness. As what is life if we are not aware of it.

A ray that expresses the solutions to the problems of life. A ray that is in general naturally optimistic and positive.

A ray that profoundly loves creation, nature and the life of all creatures. A ray that of course respects life and yearns to know the mysteries of life.

A ray that works well with death as its main function is to work through the course of life to be prepared for the most sublime and transcendental moment of life - which is death.

A ray that also works well with astrology, as astrology is very much the study of life. 

It makes sense that those of this ray would have an affinity with the workings of the Zodiac and astrology. As master Samael said, in ancient Egypt by the study of the stars the vocation of a newborn child could be told. There is a direct relationship between the stars and life and it follows that those of this ray would innately appreciate the value of the stars.

What is most important in life: is meaning, identity, values and points of reference. Without these life can't really be lived. Depending on what meaning, what identity, values and reference points we chose is how we are going to live life.

Some of the mysteries of life are the different stages of life expressed so beautifully the metallic planets of alchemy. 

So the ray of life has a lot to do with the above four important points and it makes sense that the people of the ray of life would naturally know the importance of these points and would search for the deeper side of them or either the opposite - be opposed and select the most superficial or strangest versions of these points.

End (4949).

Third Solution is Win-Win - (4950)

The spirit of the third solution is win-win. 

It is not I win and you lose or you win and I lose.

We need the third solution when we are faced with two needed elements. 

That is, when those two elements are for example a part of the work or a part of our life.

A third solution - that is the one in which both parties benefit and co-operate towards a positive state of being and outcome, can be permanent or it can be temporary for it to later be renovated or surpassed or no longer needed.

End (4950).

When we are in our Abyss we Only Talk about Ourselves - (4969)

Just a little check point. When we are in our own abyss we don't stop talking about ourselves.

Hearing this we can snap out of it and leave our abyss for a while.

End (4969).

The Masters are Not Perfect, Neither are We... - (4968)

Sometimes we think that the masters are perfect. I remember Master Samael saying that the one who is perfect is the Real Being. The physical vehicle is far from that.

Whoever you talk to about a master will give their account of their good and bad points.

After all they are human beings that had the ego and met many people while they still had the ego alive.

We shouldn't fanatically defend them nor should we get disappointed nor attack them. They had their egos just as we have and we are certainly not saints.

"Every saint had a past and every sinner has a future." Oscar Wilde once wrote. 

Nothing is ever perfect, no human being, no organization, no computer no association no government, no policy, no law nor no rule...is fully perfect.

End (4968).

Each Group has Abundance and Lack and What that Means - (4948)

Every Gnostic group has an abundance of some value and at the same time a lack of some value... 

For the value that is abundant, it is to be valued, assimilated and made as conscious as possible.

For the value that is lacking, it is up to each individual in the group to 'develop' that value for themselves  through one's own efforts, thereby making that value as conscious as possible.

For example, in one group there may be light in abundance but little consistency in following a plan of of applying the light, in the next group there maybe a lack of light but a good level of discipline. 

In the end with the values that are abundant and those that are lacking we have to do the same work - make those values as conscious as possible within us.

It maybe designed by a higher intelligence that way, that certain values are abundant and certain values are lacking...

This is because there are values in our particular case that we must generate and make conscious, and there are some which can we assimilate and make conscious that way. 

If you are a student what are those two types of values? If you are a teacher what are those two types of values in the group you teach to?

End (4948).

When Instinct Comes to Solve - (4947)

Introduction

This post is a little bit about the instinctive centre and the conditions in which it is most active.

Known Already

We know that the centres of our human machine work as follows: Intellect (thinking) then Emotion (feeling) then Movement (acting, speaking etc.). Where is the instinctive centre in this flow?

An Observable Function

Here below is an explanation of where the instinctive centre comes into the flow mentioned above.

When we have a difficult situation to solve and after numerous attempts and many efforts of the intellect, emotion and action, there is still no solution or overall improvement, the instinctive centre then comes to help.

The point of this post is that one of the instinctive centre's functions is to come to the aid of the other centres when they can not relieve or solve a certain situation that is ill affecting our state of well-being.

The instinctive centre gives the other centres a certain amount of time before it appears. Interesting to see how the centres co-operate via a certain natural order and timing.

It is also interesting to note that the solution of the instinctive centre ends indecision, procrastination and vagueness. It is always very definite in nature.

A common example is that one may feel nervous and if the efforts of the intellect, emotion and action can not displace the nervous state in a certain time frame, the instinctive centre begins to do it, by either running, fidgeting, excessive talking, toilet, vomiting, in other words by overwhelmingly activating some of the instinctive functions of the body.

Activities such as drinking alcohol excessively, taking drugs, indulging in sexual activity for reasons other than transmutation are solutions to stressful circumstances that come from the heavy instinctive side of the egos of alcohol, drugs (partying) and lust.

Often violence appears as an instinctive solution to a severe injustice that ill-affects ourselves and others when that injustice has persisted beyond all attempts to peacefully solve it.

Three Modes of Instinctive Action

Going back to the example above, the instinctive centre solves the increasing and sustained unease in the human machine by resorting to roughly the methods given below.

1.) Taking us out of the stressful circumstances. 

2.) Making us to fight or protest, complain, argue to remove the elements that are creating the stress.

3.) Shutting us down, by provoking intense spells of drowsiness or fainting. 

4.) Trying all of the above in roughly the order given above.

5.) Something very uniquely intelligent, which could range from a very intelligent (astute) reason which serves one of the above methods, such as a very good excuse to leave the event. It could also be something uniquely intelligently positive, that is a new solution that is good for all involved.

In the last method the instinctive centre employs the help of the other centres - mostly the intellect to think up a crafty excuse, and in the best case the consciousness listens to the urgent message of the instinctive centre and produces a win-win situation for all involved.

Let's remember that the most intelligent of all the centres is the instinctive centre.

Summary

In summary, one of the many functions of the instinctive centre is solve persistent stressful situations when the efforts of the other centres fail. The way the instinctive centre solves stressful situations is via these three basic ways:

1.) Flight or Fight

2.) Shutting Down

3.) Instinctive Intelligence 

Sometimes these ways permanently solve the situation other times they are only temporary relievers of stress.

 

End (4947).

Apocalypse is for the Ego not the Consciousness - (4946)

As you do with each retreat, you talk to other people studying Gnosis and you learn from them. Really each person who has studied Gnosis for some time, has valuable conscious experience with the teachings to share...

While talking to someone, the topic of the 'end of times' came up and among the many impactful reflections that this someone shared, the following statement stood out:

"the apocalypse is for the ego not the consciousness"

We are very worried about the end of times or the external apocalypse. We don't know that we also live an internal apocalypse when we work on ourselves...

If we understand and come to terms with our own internal apocalypse the external end of times will be much easier to cope with.

Anyway, the point was that the apocalypses both internal and external is really for the ego. It is a process to break down the ego, its creations and structures, both in the world and inside of ourselves.

The apocalypse is for the consciousness to live on in greater freedom and expression.

So really it is the ego outside and inside that is worried about the apocalypse, the consciousness inside of us is not so concerned, it may well be very understanding of and appreciative of it...

End (4946).

Things are Not Linear & Why we Give Up - (4945)

Things in the work and in the path are not linear. Meaning progress does not follow an upward sloping line.

Things are more like a spiral with many zig-zags along the way.

Time is round and karma is also round. 

To be a bit cryptic: we wash and wash, repeating the same washing, cleaning more and more with each cycle...

One of the reasons why we give up in small or big ways is because we believe our progress and the progress of things is linear. 

When it seems that we are going backwards or are revisiting a previous problem or a previously experienced negative state we think we are going nowhere...

We then get disheartened and give up, but according to the spiral, we may well be closer to the progress we were hoping for than it seems.

In conclusion, don't give up because our apparent progress is not obeying some thought up straight line.

End (4945).

Esoteric Class Notes - (4944)

Introduction

This post presents notes taken during a class given by m.m.m.

Notes

Lion of the Law

The lion has been chosen as a symbol of the Divine Law because the lion best represents the following four qualities:  

1.) Power

2.) Force

3.) Sacrifice

4.) Nobility

5.) Valor

Order of the Knights of the Christ

The Order of the Knights of the Christ have seven foundations. 

12.) Love

2.) Balance

3.) Faith

4.) Justice

5.) Freedom

6.) Peace

7.) Unity

The masters that belong to this order care for the upholding of these seven foundational values. 

These seven values are the values of the Cosmic Christ in the planet.

That is why this order comprises masters of the Law, of Love, of Force, of Command, of Life etc.

The main role of the Divine Law is to establish balance and unity within each individual. 

The government of Atman and the Social Christ is where a people are governed or a society is to function based on the values of Atman and the Christ, which are the seven values mentioned above.

Substance in the Blood

There is a substance in the blood that the ego creates within us. The ego creates it in all the bodies up to the causal and it affects the heart and the nervous system. It disappears gradually as we dissolve the ego.

As the blood is related to the flow of life within us, the presence of this substance affects our flow of life.

Flow of Attention

The flow of attention has three directions:

1.) Outward (external circumstances)

2.) Being (inwards and upwards)

3.) Abyss (inwards and downwards)

To be awakened we must keep our flow of attention directed towards the Being.

When we fall asleep our flow of attention is caught in flowing outwardly and inwardly towards our abyss.

When we direct our attention towards our abyss we lose light and consciousness.

The key is to always keep our attention focused inside of ourselves directed towards our Inner Being.

The best way to do self-remembering is do it being awakened. When we know that we are the essence of our Being we are really starting self-remembering. This is the true beginning of self-remembering.

The Heart

The heart is the receptacle of our thoughts and the nature of our thoughts. If the thoughts have a positive nature our heart relaxes. If the nature of our thoughts are negative the heart will feel and react negatively.

We are responsible for the health of our heart. Our brain releases elements which affect our heart, especially the left ventricle. If we want a healthy heart we need to stop becomming identified with negative thoughts and impressions.

When the heart receives negative thoughts and elements from the brain the heart responds defending itself in an effort to mitigate these negative effects. After a long time the heart becomes tired and ill. It is the consciousness in the cells of the heart and in the atom of our Being that work to defend our precious heart from such negative effects. 

Awaken the emotional center to consciousness, for the consciousness.

As we advance on the path we become aware of how much consciousness we have free.

Our organs have memory, however karmic memory. Our eyes for example have karmic memory. We become blind due to karmic memory. This is because our organs remember our karma. The karmic memory that we have affects our organs. This memory works by remembering the ill conditions of the past and recreates the same ill conditons in this current life.

All the senses and organs are connected to the consciousness. As we awaken the consciousness our senses and organs become healthier.

When we stop seeing correctly we are under the karmic memory of our eyes, esoterically speaking. Karmically speaking our eyes are used to miscontrue reality and to judge wrongly. 

The problem today is that the consciousness obeys the senses where it should be that the senses command and correct the senses, the mind and the centres.

To awaken is to see the truth of the events and to correct the misperceptions that could arise inside of us.

The most difficult memory to deal with are the emotional and the instinctive memory. Because they are very difficult to control. 

The atom Nous contains the consciousness of Kether. It helps in the awakening of intuition.

End (4944).

Alchemy is a Universal Principle - (4943)

The interesting point below arose during a recently held retreat.

Alchemy is a universal principle that should be taught to all, even those who may not have the possibility of putting it into practice.

We often feel a bit reluctant to upset students who are elderly and single for example, with the teaching of the Alchemy, as we think that it may really upset them because it is so important and they are not in an immediate position to apply it.

As was mentioned in the retreat it is correct to teach the Alchemy no matter what, as one, we never know - a person's life circumstances can change very quickly, and secondly, it is a universal teaching that is for the consciousness, and if received by the consciousness, it will stay in the consciousness and from there become active when it can be applied, or either it will seek the conditions needed for it to be applied in the next life.

In short, it is a teaching to be assimilated by the consciousness and the consciousness is outside of time, space and life circumstances...

End (4943).

Relaxing the Three Brains - (4942)

To relax fully we need to relax the five centres. 

Relaxation is not total if we have left out a centre.

Our relaxation practices and therefore concentration practices fail, because we do not relax each centre.

To concentrate we need that all five centres be relaxed. 

To align the centres we need to relax them first. 

To go through centre by centre, relaxing each centre is something profound. 

Relaxing the instinctive centre means to have the breathing relaxed, the impulses relaxed, the senses relaxed, the various twitches and itches and internal bodily processes in a calm down. As well as the various body related appetites such as hunger, rest, movement etc.

Relaxing the centre means to be still and in an upright or logically aligned posture.

Relaxing the sexual centre means to have the sexual centre passive and in a resting state.

Relaxing the emotional centre means to have the centre vibrating pleasantly with that subtle joyful emotion being felt, which is the default natural feeling or vibration of the emotional centre that arises by itself and is not about anything human but is just about being alive. This state comes about by letting go of all emotions that arise - positive or negative alike.

Relaxing the intellectual centre means to not be elaborating any thought but to be letting go of thoughts as they arise. So that the brain comes to a state of not thinking or thinking very slowly and sporadically.

End (4942).

Aligning the Three Brains - (4941)

Amazing!

To align the three brains with whatever we are doing is an amazing feeling of wholeness!

Then we can hit anything that we do in life with our full power.

The reason why so much of what we do in life and in esotericism does not give fruit or is insipient or  is ineffective, is because we don't align our three brains.

If we align our three brains with whatever we are doing we are conscious and whole!

We have to allow ourselves the chance that the centres give their contribution to every event of life!

Aligning our centres is an action of awakening. Unity is awakening.

The centres are our five powers.

The epicentre of the consciousness is the five centres. 

We awaken in the five centres.

Practice:

Introduce whatever it is that we are doing into our five centres.

Make each centre to do what we are doing. For example, if we are walking make all the centres to do their part of the walking. Make the intellectual centre to register that we are walking, make the emotional centre to feel the joy of walking, make the instinctive centre to walk with balance, make the sexual centre to give its energy and connection to walking.

We will feel a wholeness and a solidity if we align all of our centres with what we are doing.

Prayer is best done when all of our centres are praying.

Aligning the five centres is concentration. We can't concentrate if we don't align our five centres with what we are going to concentrate on. 

End (4941).

On Retreat - Posts Suspended - (4940)

A note to let you know that there will not be any posts for 10 days. 

Posts will resume from November 20th onwards.

Thank you for reading.

End (4940).

Notes on Personality Ways of Thinking - (4937)

Introduction

It is really difficult to know how our personality thinks. We can only really know how the personality thinks when we come up against something that is not the personality.

We can only really study the personality way of thinking in confrontation or contrast with the work way of thinking.

Take this post as a kind of calibration session. Where we can calibrate our ideas against the work or what the teachings say.

Notes

A good way to present this, is to bring an issue and present the personality's way of thinking and the work's way of thinking about the same issue. 

Issue:             Vision of Life

Personality:   Various different visions taking various forms all based on matter, society and personal                           ideas.

Work:            No particular form to the vision - only the inner action of doing the work.

Issue:            Identity

Personality:   That of a person, a human being in and of society with all the rights to the norms.

Work:            That of an essence in a human body with knowledge of the human and the spiritual.

Issue:            Problems

Personality:   Worry, do something, decide, fix it, solve it, organise it, run, 

Work:            Forget and put it in the hands of the Inner Being and the Divine Law.

Issue:            Conflict

Personality:   React, fight with forceful means, borderline ethics, etc. 

Work:            Silence, turn to the Divine Law, refuge in the principles and values of the soul, refuge in                          Inner Being.

Issue:            Justice

Personality:   Take justice in one's hands, apply justice, create injustice, protest, complain, 

Work:            Trust in the principle of justice, trust in the Divine Law. Leave justice to the Gods. Seek                           inside for the why and the how to proceed.

Issue:            Service

Personality:   When convenient or to receive a return.

Work:             To serve unreservedly, openness, declared worker of the Great Cause.

Issue:            Guru

Personality:   Unheard of, and acceptable as long as advice benefits personal convenience and                                      commitment is light. Full explanations to be forthcoming.

Work:            Respect and open consideration for the path. Readiness to obey for the Being and path                              and the values in question: loyalty, humility, respect and love.

Issue:            Obedience

Personality:   Only if it makes sense and does not upset my sense of self.

Work:             Recognition of benefit to the work and path.

Issue:            Authority

Personality:  Tendency to disregard and eqaulise.

Work:            Respect and cooperation with.

Issue:            Spirituality

Personality:    Great tendency to mould to suit the likes and dislikes of the personality.

Work:            Accepted as it and work upon oneself to be match its principles.

Issue:            Gnostic People

Personality:   Some that attract and some that repel. Like and dislike.

Work:            Respected and valued and are essences like mine and have a lot to teach and those our                              work can also help

Issue:            Gnostic Association

Personality:  Good socially, good for human support and when we need help. 

Work:           Part of he work and the Great Cause of the Father.

Issue:            Gnostic School

Personality:   Good to learn what personality is interested in. Regularity does not give freedom. 

Work:           Part of the work and the Great Cause of the Father. Necessary place to calibrate ourselves                       and strengthen and advance our inner work. 

Issue:            Gnostic Instructor

Personality: Like or dislike the personal outer specifics.

Work:           Respect, acceptance, listening, appreciation and openness to learn from. Seen as a great                           aid to one's personal work.

Issue:            Love

Personality:   Great according to personal interests and criteria.

Work:            No definition of - formless and shapeless and all that enhances the work, the essence and                       the Inner Being.

Issue:            Path

Personality:  Seen and take and changed as per the likes of the personality. Not respected, nor accepted.

Work:           Taken as it, greatly respected and yearned for.

Issue:            Secrets, Secrecy and Silence

Personality:  Disliked, unfair and incorrect.

Work:           Understood and seen as necessary so as to not profane and to create.

Issue:            Gnostic Activities 

Personality:   Often not internally present for. Very boring.

Work:           Participated in with concentration and will.

Issue:            Progress

Personality:   According to plan and mental schemes and schedules. 

Work:            Focus on the work and leave that to the consciousness and the Inner Being. Know our                              part and leave that to the facts.

Issue:            Behaviour of Others

Personality:  Judges based on what we have in our personality. Like, dislike, accept and reject. React and correct.

Work:         Comprehends and observes our own reactions. Uses the behaviour of others to work on ourselves for self-discovery and for the dissolution of our own own defects.  

Issue:            Essence of Others

Personality: Vagueness and not too important, only a second's thought.

Work:          All about the active essence and its development,. All is done for that aim.

Issue:            Sickness

Personality: 

Work:

Issue:            Learning

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Karma

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Reward

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Gnostic Retreats

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Judgement 

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Pain

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Success and Failure

Personality:

Work:

Issue:            Dreams

Personality:

Work:

Conclusion

What is of value here is to establish a pattern by which we can identify the personality's way of thinking.

Why does this interest us. Only so that we can pacify it. Because in the work going with the personality brings us error and complications, in other words a high possibility of karma.

Here below are some conclusions that we can draw. 

The way of thinking of the personality is to subject what we see before us to our personal criteria which is made up of our egos and our experiences in life.

The criteria of the work and essence is that there is no reference to personal criteria but reference to principles. That is to the essence of things, the spirit of things, the nature of the thing in itself. The truth of it, the real of it, the inner value of the activity, action or expression.

There are perceptions and ways of thinking that are:

1.) Pure personality perception

2.) Mixed essence and personality

3.) Pure essence

We should at least be able to recognise the pure personality and have the capacity to chose to go beyond it to find the second or third way of thinking.

Personality focuses on the personal, as its names suggests. 

The work focuses on the overriding principles just as does the sun. Note how the light of the sun covers the whole solar system. When focused it is devastating.

The smart and refined personality justifies itself with arguments that come from the work.

Personality does not see the essence in others nor is it capable of loving. The essence loves 'what is'. From that stand point it always wins. For the personality there is the statement: 'always have to win', because loss is not impossible to live with. The truth is the personality can not dictate life and so it will and does lose, which equals suffering.

When we are in rigid mode we are in the personality. When we reject the work and do not see anything else but our side as correct we are not in the work.

End (4937).

Really Understand the Ego or Anything when we Try to do the Opposite - (4940)

We only really come to understand any ego or the personality when we try to do the opposite of it. Before making that real effort we don't know anything. Yet we can talk and talk about it and even convince people that we really know a lot from walking the talk.

End (4940).

Inner Deletion of the Wish/Desire List - (4705)

We all carry around a desire list. It is commonly called the 'wish list'. Many online stores allow shoppers to tag items to make up a wish list.

Despite the online shopping wish lists, we carry around within us our own particular wish list. 

This list can be quite long and we even can dedicate our lives, using up most of our days trying to fulfill this wish list.

What is in our wish list? Material things, experiences, conversations, reading, learning, finding things out, checking things out, doing this and that right?

In short what I want to say that such a list can be very distracting

It can distract us from living the life our Inner Being wants to lead and live through us.

Always a simple life is a happy life, and our particular wish lists make our lives complicated.

To have a short wish list is bliss, simplicity and happiness plus freedom.

Each item on that list ties us down to spending certain amounts of time searching, reading, inquiring, planning and saving...

To delete items off this list is the way to organize it and deal with it rather than go about fulfilling it.

End (4705).

Gnostic Doctrine is a Real Power - (4938)

The Gnostic doctrine is truly a psychological and esoteric power. 

Like anything else it can be used for good or for bad. It, in itself is something neutral.

How can it be used for bad?

Just how religion has been used for evil.

In the sense of humiliating and condemning others. 

In the sense of destroying the reputation, image, status and by later consequence possibly even the well-being of another person.

In the sense of controlling others... 

In the sense of convincing and influencing others...

In the sense of justifying errors and dubious personal stand points...

And many more ways new and old...

The correct use of the gnostic doctrine is for eh liberation of one's own essence and the essence of others.

There is no liberation of the essence without the undoing of what conditions it and causes it to slumber.

End (4938).

Notes on Working on Inner Judgment to Help Ourselves in Mystical Death - (4936)

Introduction

This post presents some points to work with when working on the mental habit of judging.

Working on this habit helps extraordinarily in our work of mystical death.

In life, we must judge, we have to come to our conclusions and statements about things, however there is the way of 'not judging' as an aid to accelerate our mystical death and awakening and this is what this post is all about.

Ultimately in life we can change judging for discernment... 

Notes

We feel strong when we judge yet later we find that we are actually weak...

Always scared of those who judge as what we judge harshly we later fall into in the same way of things.

Every judgment we make is a real opportunity of self-discovery.

Judge others more often to know ourselves…

Stop judging others if we don't turn that around and examine ourselves, because we will make our own life and the lives of others bitter.

Create the firm habit of after judging others to do what we critise them for not doing. If we do We will advance quicker. For example, I see want to judge someone as sceptical, selfish and materialistic because they never pray, say nothing and then go and pray straight away.

Do not judge so as not to suffer. As soon as we judge we fall into good and evil. We will always then see evil as something wrong and we unavoidably suffer.

Anger uses judgment. Pride also uses judgment - mostly to attack and humiliate.

A person who judges is certainly not a relaxed and open person. Also not an 'easy-going' person.

A person who judges has a very active mind. Also a great tendency to fight with others in their mind. To spend vast amounts of time working through arguments and coming up with arguments to defeat others. So to put others in their place. An expert in building a defense case and also an expert in interrogation and prosecution.

In reality everyone judges, so to expect no one to judge is not to be in touch with reality. To expect Gnostics to not judge is not a reality. To expect that is to be outside of reality.

The reality is we have to use judgement to learn.

Self-judgement is the remedy!

Our judgments have tremendous force they can make us physically sick! 

We need to judge! Why do we need it is the question? It can relieve our pride. It can defend ourselves. It can get us what we want!

It defends our inner system. It can justify ourselves make us exempt of blame by judging others. 

Judging others does not make us not guilty.

Not judging is a sign of a considerable maturity of the essence.

We feel superior when we judge - supports our psychological structure. It does not undo it! But judging ourselves in the light of the work does.

We use it to get control and maintain control.

We judge others a lot when we don't trust.

Judging is a real value, it is discernment, the judges of he Law judge so it is a real force! It is not a mistake it is a real power just wisdom, love life and like death are in the universe. It is just how we use it. But we use it putting it at the service of the ego and to support our egoical structure. If it is used for the consciousness it is very powerful.

It is so powerful that it precedes justice and nothing can stop justice!

The next step to judging is condemnation or sentencing.

Master Samael says that we have to try our egos in a tribunal. That is judge our own egos and not the egos of others.

Judging is subconscious, it is an expression of the subconscious.

The subconscious is the opposite of ourselves. It is everything we are not. When we judge we are that. We think we are not that when we judge. We can only know a defect to pass commentary or judgement on it.

Subconscious is due to the conditioning of duality. It is the unknown which is the opposite of ourselves.

Judging is there to determine if an error was made and how grave the error is.

We judge because of imbalance. 

We judge others and ourselves because we are out of balance otherwise there would be no need or tendency to judge others.

It is so interesting judge the initiates and the masters. Our make out that they will be delated in their progress or that they will stagnate or even fail. However, they don't. Meaning our judgments were not correct. The Divine Law and the Divinity did and does not agree with them. 

It is our essence before the Divine Law that is judged not our egos.

If we really want to get into proper judging then we have to know the correct parameters. One is to know others from the inside to be able to understand them fully. For that we need to have the same impressions, personality, etc.

There are some other parameters as well.. Which I will mention soon...

End (4936).

Secret Terror - (4934)

I believe we all know or have known or will know this strange yet powerful feeling that Master Samael called: 'secret terror'.

The experience of 'secret terror' is very powerful!

To feel it once or twice is impactful on its own and is something not to forget. To feel it constantly or regularly is distressing and life changing, but beyond that it serves a purpose...

It is a 'means' that the Monad and the Divine Law use to impel the essence to seek the light and to work  seriously for the light.

It is a relentless restlessness...

We do not know what is going on in our higher spiritual dimensions...

We do not know how much time we have left...

We do not know what our Inner Being has committed before the Law...

What we know is the feeling of 'secret terror', we know its strange and powerful impulse, and we know when it worsens... 

When we are wasting time or are straying from the objective, it increases in intensity! 

In some way blessed are those who experience it regularly because they will have no choice but to obey and follow it to its objective.

Those who are touched by it are different. In them is the thirst for their Inner Being and Its realization.

End (4934).

Love through the Three Minds - (4935)

Here is a post about how love works through the three minds. Basically through the inner mind we can love.

Through the inner mind we can truly love. This is because through the inner mind we can make contact with the true living principle of love that comes from our consciousness.

Remember that the inner mind is the only mind that has contact with the consciousness.

Having contact with the consciousness through the inner mind we can know how to love.

The sensorial mind on the other hand has no contact with the living principles of the consciousness and because of that, it only can focus on what comes through the senses. 

All that we can gain from focusing on the senses is interpreting the impressions that are received through the senses.

The sensorial mind can only thinks about or interprets the impressions that are received. 

Receiving is the main focus when it comes to the sensorial mind. We may say this is not true, because we also give. Yes we do, however, so often, when the sensual mind gives, it gives so as to receive something back in return. To not receive anything in return equates to an insult for the sensorial mind.

Further more the sensorial mind contains many sensory based concepts about what love is. The sensorial mind works with these concepts, that is, it uses them to classify, label, judge, compare, analyse the impressions it receives from the events before it. 

Trying to love from the sensorial mind equates to too much suffering...

For there to be the 'positive' feelings of love as felt from sensorial mind, there has to be a continuous flow of impressions that match the concepts contained in the sensorial mind. Love through the sensorial mind can not exist without the positive determination of the machinery of the sensorial mind.

The intermediate mind believes about love. Love should be this and that way, if you love me, you do something this and that way or you do this and that...

"You don't love me" is the common belief coming and going (coming more often then going) in the intermediate mind, yet there are so many signs that this is not fully true. The beliefs of the intermediate mind keep us trapped all the time. Only the inner mind is free of beliefs, and it knows directly in seconds what is going on, what is true and what is false...

Inner mind is independent it just gives and lives out its principles, and it seeks to love what is, just as we in reality find things. It is about changing something to then be able to love...

The couple itself as a unit, loves when there is an exchange of love that is given and accepted. 

However a loving individual, that is one who loves through the inner mind is capable to love when love is not returned...

End (4935).

In a Drama Don't Identify with Anything you Feel - (4933)

For best results in all senses, to not identify with anything that we feel in a drama is the one thing you can truly trust to help you more than anything else.

To be radically determined to let go of anything that you feel, yet being considerate to others, will not fail you but benefit you many times over. 

Don't believe me try it!

End (4933).

Has to Be Radical and Maximum Intensity - (4931)

At some points nothing else pays but radical efforts.

Utmost adherence to the rigour of the task at certain times is the only thhing that works for us. 

We know when we are in one of those stages when nothing else works.

For example to awaken we must utilise every moment to master our attention.

End (4931).

Don't Fight Because of Pride - (4930)

That's the worst thing that we can do.

Instead:

• Fight for the good. 

• Fight for our Being. 

• Fight for the dissolution of our defects. 

• Take up the fight of our essence for inner justice to restore our Being as sovereign ruler over His cosmos - (our interior).

With these fights we will conquer all of our other fights.

End (4930).

Class Notes: Five Centres - (4933)

Put Gnosis into your intellectual centre. Later put Gnosis into our three brains.

We need to conquer the centres. We do it by putting the work into the centres. 

We need to install the six internal laws into our centres so that the centres process themselves according to those laws.

Gnosis aims at integration with the oneness and this is done by conquering the centres.

The ontological reality of our motor centre is to act ontologically. That is, to act with the Being, by virtue of the Being. 

To act we need a point of reference. For the ontological reality the point of reference is the Being.

Master Samael was an ontological man. He only acted by reference to his Being. The Being impregnated him completely. Impregnated his centres completely.

We conquer the ontological reality by conquering the ontological reality of our centres. By thinking ontologically, feeling ontologically and acting ontologically.

For our Being, it is very important to conquer the ontological reality or part of the emotional centre. When we do conquer we love our Being.

We need to put the Being in our centres. We start for sure by not having the Being in our centres.

We indeed do have the four realities in the centres. They are four spheres in which the centres can process themselves.

We lose interest in our Being and Gnosis simply by the Being and Gnosis leaving our centres.

End (4933).

Class Notes: The Path - (4932)

Event

This post is a collection of notes taken from an online class (m.m.m, Friday, 3/11/2023).

Notes

The path is inside of ourselves.

The path is you. The path is you fighting with your sleeping consciousness and awakening it.

Even if you are told that you can not do the path there is so much inside of ourselves to do. Doing all of those things we will do the path...

The path is in some ways a concept - what is real is the states of consciousness that need to be refined and elevated more and more towards the Inner Being.

The path is you, the path is your Being, the path is you working for and towards your Monad.  

Bring your Being to your daily life.

"Make this moment spirit!". 

The path is our life. The path is our life lived in the Being. Our life lived wisely. 

The path has highs and lows, humiliations and exaltations...

We relate to ourselves correctly by being the soul that we are. 

The path organises your work and progress towards the light of your Inner Being.

The goal of the path is always to dissolve the inferior and unite with the fluorescence of the superior.

Don't run along the path as we can stagnate...

We need to knock at the door of each stage of the path, so that that door is opened for us.

The path starts by meeting our Being. The Guardian of the Threshold is actually a part of the Being, it is the first step in seeing and accepting our reality. 

The goal of the path is to unite us - the essence, with our ultimate reality.

The path is our life undivided, uncompartmentalized.

Walk the path with strength and joy and tread firmly so that others can see the path.

The path is shown physically through the initiates.

When we arrive at the path we later say to ourselves: "What does my path matter if others can not get it as well!".

The path watches keenly over those who walk it. Protecting and preventing those who are on it from making unnecessary errors.

End (4932).

Chronotype - (4905)

If there is sound there is rhythm. Rhythm organises sound. The cosmos is full of sound and therefore rhythm.

There are rhythms in our body and in our psycho-physiological system.

Many forces pass through our constitution during a 24 hour period. Each force has a sound and therefore a rhythm. The rhythm in our constitution will be different for each individual. 

We are after all a particular medium through which the forces of the cosmos play their beat.

The modern Chronotype (Bear, Wolf, Dolphin etc.) it seems is an attempt to shed light on this phenomena.

The modern Chronotype if you google it, may give rise to some insight as to why we have a tendency to perform better at some tasks at certain times of the day and not at other times.

End (4905).

Learning to Let Go of Small Details - (4902)

Amazingly it is the small details that many a dispute has been about.

To enter the realm of details often means a spiral downwards into difficulty.

To discuss over ethical principles is more useful and helpful to the consciousness of all parties involved. 

The small details dip greatly into the world of relativity and subjectivity.

Even though the small details maybe objective the discussion around them is never-ending.

The small details consume much time. The small details are complicated. 

The small details require much attention which turns into identification.

The above is because the "I's" in our psychology feed off the small details. 

The psychological "I's" in us depend on the small details. They process themselves based on the small details.

All of the above indicates to us that there is much of our psychology trapped or invested in the small details of life.

To awaken does not mean to depend on the small details. 

To awaken does not mean to need the small details to be correct.

Often the small details sort themselves out. Trust is needed.

Often in contrast with the grand scheme of things it is shameful to see what insignificant details we give our time, energy and consciousness to...

The awaken means to know how and when to overlook the small details and to know when to pay attention to them.

In general, it is to overlook the small details of others but pay attention to our own small details. Because in our small details, that is in the details in which do and don't take care of there is much light to be released.

In a relationship to go well we have to learn at some point to let go of the small details of others and reasonably pay attention to our small details that affects others. 

In many ways to let go of the small details is freedom for our consciousness to not be constantly identified.

If our consciousness is free we the whole person feel free and great!

End (4902).

Slow Down Time with Self-Remembering - (4929)

When we are identified time flies. 

Stopping, focusing inwardly we find our essence. Then as essence remembering ourselves in our Being we slow down time. We win time back. We organise our time. 

To live a productive day in all the senses we have to start the day this way and repeat this short practice several times during the day.

Repeat as many times as necessary is key!

End (4929).

There is the Occult Karma we Need to Pay - (4927)

We can have a pretty comfortable life and in fact it seems as though many Gnostic people do. Financially they are good, their health is good and their work-life circumstances are favourable.

Inside of them it may be a different story, having the ego alive, however the point I want to get at here is that eventhough it may seem that we do not have too much karma there is still a whole unknown area of karma that we don't remotely suspect we have.

That occult karma has still has to be paid. Just doing life and Gnosis does not pay it, we need more a more active payment method. Otherwise called the third factor and the three factors in general.

Just some of the hidden sides of karma that we have are Katancy and the many intimate karmic debts that we have between essence and Being...

End (4927).

Here to Die not to be Right, Rewarded, Recognized, Praised, Understood and Justified - (4926)

We are really here to die in ourselves. 

That is what is needed of us before our Inner Being.

To be right about everything is not really the goal, it is to get our essence free.

It is too consuming to be right about most things, let alone everything.

In fact to be right about most things could be a sign of strong self-hypnosis. 

The hypnosis that being right is the most important thing. When to be right does not equal to be correct and fair.

I write this for myself, as we all carry this inside but in different ways. Some present to others and some present it only to themselves. 

Either way both produce clashes aplenty in life with others.

End (4926).