Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Introduction This post is some notes about aligning the three brains.  The practice of aligning the three brains is a great teaching, that makes a big difference in the quality of living consciously and of being present. Notes The practice of aligning the three brains from moment to moment, is a practice of the fourth man. When we align the three brains in any given moment, we give ourselves the chance to awaken. The three brains can be aligned voluntarily and this can only be done by our consciousness. Our three brains can also be aligned unconsciously. This occurs when the ego is in the human machine. The ego becomes so strong in a person when the three brains are aligned with it.  Any person with their three brians aligned is very strong - because they are unified. The consciousness can align the three brains. To align the three brains, is the first step to being fully 'ourselves' as possible. When we align the three brains, we activate the Law of Three. The Law of Three is...

It is really amazing to see how exactly the same we are from one life to the next. We are so much the same that all the dramas and problems we are facing in this life right now, that seem so unique, important and 'special' we went through them in previous lives. To see our past lives is an awakening and consciously shocking experience for anyone. One thing that we can see is the reason why we have the karmic debts that we have. To our horror it could be that still in this life we are doing things that are perpetuating those karmic debts. It is exactly like Master Samael says, that it is not the people, circumstances or situations, environment, work place of this life that are the cause of our dramas and problems, it is the same "I's" that we have that we carry with us from life to life.  End (4977).

The Intimate Christ brings justice within us and to our Father within. I have asked myself many times how can He bring justice when He allows others to trample Him? How can we bring justice when the Christic force "turns the other cheek", faces with pleasure the unpleasant manifestations of our fellow man and is persecuted and hit for doing good to others? He may not do justice among men but certainly within a person and for the Father that dwells within in secret, He certainly does. By facing the unpleasant manifestations of our fellowmen with pleasure He honours and glorifies the Father within. He causes the karmic debts to be washed away and builds ever stronger the values and virtues of the Father within us, so that these values and virtues are made so firm that they triumph over all external and inner adversity - thus bringing justice to the Father. The justice of the Intimate Christ is internal and it is by the very nature of Its work that It brings justice to the Fathe...

Meditate from the outside in... is a good start. Follow the foundations of Gnosis which say to always look within. After relaxing body and mind, some what we have heard and read about the Christ comes to mind. The beautiful words of Master Samael about the Cosmic Christ, which read something to the effect of: 'The Cosmic Christ never abandons those who try and suceed, those who try and fail and those who never try', the many scenes from the life of Jesus as found in the Bible, the image of Master Samael taking the form of the cross exclaimimg: "Long live the Christ!" while giving his lecture about the Revolutionary Christ, the Compassion of Avalokiteshvara in OM MANI PADME HUM, the invocations done in the name of the Christ, the Alchemical significance of Christmas and even some of the words and scenes as harsh and confusing as they are, such as the procession of the cross, the three nails, the crucifixion, the tears and lamentations of Mary, the resurrection... How t...

Introduction The following notes were taken during a class given by m.m.m.  Notes The Being finds Its ultimate reality in the principle of unity.  Ascending we unify and in falling we disperse and become multiple. Integration and unity is a Christic principle. Every self-realised Monad is a coherent, integrated and unified structure. When a Monad passes well beyond the possibility of falling, that Monad can create a path or a system of teachings and practices to traverse the way back from creation to the Absolute. The Christic force within us is in charge of sacrifice and service. When the Intimate comes close to us it is often to inspire us to sacrifice and service. Often service and sacrifice means some kind of pain and suffering.  We have to learn to not associate our Intimate Christ with pain and suffering.  The Third Logos - the Holy Ghost polarises itself into masculine and feminine - that is into the two sides of sexuality. The result of the union of the two u...

Absolute Vomits As master Samael tells us, this cosmic day was brought about by the Monads in the Absolute, who en masse wanted to be someone, or something more than what they were. This desire master Samael said was enough for the Absolute to vomit those Monads, and thus the need for a new cosmic day was born. Where did that desire to be someone or something more come from? It came from previous cosmic days - from the so-called 'sins of the soul'.  Sins of the Soul The 'sins of the soul' are certain imperfections that reside within the soul (essence). Note, soul is specifically mentioned and not spirit or Being. These imperfections were taken on by the soul through its various experiences of life in previous cosmic days. What happened in the previous cosmic day is that the Monads achieved the self-realisation with these 'sins of the soul' remaining within their interior. For some reason these imperfections were not purged from the soul... perhaps because their ...

Our cosmic ray is our vocation in the cosmos. If we were to study it profoundly and work at it so as to perfect it, we would be taken on a journey of  discovering and developing all the other virtues that are.  A cosmic ray is our viewing portal into the source of all the rays. For us down here with the ego alive, what we have to do is to die in the egos we have, so that nothing  hinders us from being close to our ray and stops us from expressing it in a way free of conditioning (ego). With the ego well and alive what we have is a very conditioned way of expressing our ray. When conditioned by duality (opposites) we express the opposite of our ray. If we know our ray and we want to accelerate our mystical death we can try to express our ray as correctly as possible, then die in all the egos behind the errors that we make trying to do this. If we for example we want to express our ray, which is the ray of the Law, in the most perfect way, our endeavour to do so, will take ...

Introduction I found the following story in the book: "A Million Thoughts" by Om Swami. I find it really interesting, he really hits the nail on the head about how we can really miss the essence of the work on ourselves and waste our time miserably complaining about what isn't right.  When the essence of the work and the path is to die and liberate ourselves... Excerpt "A seeker approached a master to learn meditation from him. “There’s one condition,” the master said. “You are allowed to speak only four words every time you cross a milestone on the path.” “I can do that.” “Each milestone may take six years.” The seeker swallowed and confirmed that the master indeed said six years and not six weeks or months. “Yes, six years.” He agreed to follow the instructions and began his meditation in the monastery. At the first chance of speaking after six long years, the first four words he uttered in front of his master were, “Bed is too hard.” The master said nothing. Anoth...

Humility we all kind of know and assume is the antidote to pride. It is! Justice is also another antidote to pride. This is because humility is justice. Humility and justice both excel at giving the correct proportion to everything. I always define humility for myself and others, as being able to know our place. Humility will see when we are wrong. That is it will know our place which is that we have made a mistake and are in error. The worst thing about pride is to defend something in us that is wrong such as a wrong attitude or a wrong stands before an event.  To be proud nearly always leads us into injustice because we leave our place (lose humility) and speak out of turn or do things not pertaining to our place. If we are always in our place and are just in relation to everything above and below, pride in us dies. End (4967).

When we work on pride we can create a degree false humility. Which underneath is pride. We know that it is pride because by being 'less' we are actually being 'more'. Obviously we sustain this being less to be more because there is some kind of benefit in it for us. After a while we notice that this benefit comes at a cost of the respect for our own selves. When we have this pride where being 'less means more' we will feel that to act in the middle normal way is difficult to do. This is becasue it won't result in the cuidos that this pride feeds on.  End (4966).  

Master Samael writes that a sure sign of progress in our psychological and spiritual work is to not feel better or more important than anyone else.  To hear ourselves say or imply that means alarm bells. We are not going really very well.  Whenever I heard someone say or imply that out loud even if I didn’t want it to happen, they were involved in some kind of failure… It always happens that we are proud before a fall… End (4965).

Look within! A dichotomy appears at some point. To look within and find the truth within or talk our way over it… It’s hard for pride within us to accept something’s wrong and that we need to look within.  Even if it is easier for our pride, to talk over an apparent defect or contradiction, this will still only bring more humiliation and therefore fear. End (4962).

We can take this attitude at times in certain situations, yet for some of us, this could be an attitude that is  present a bit too often. Where does this attitude come from? I would like to say that it comes from a spiritual, ethical or moral fall. It is an attitude that more often than not appears when things are faltering ... It is really an attitude from the "I" of self-compassion. Let's see why. The "I" of self-compassion feels compassion for ourselves. However, the compassion it feels misses an important component.  The important component that is missing is the inner force to rise up and fight for a change in our internal state that will put us onto a course towards a positive outcome.   The missing component - the inner force to rise up - is a key part of the true compassion that the Buddha spoke so highly of.  True compassion means to impart this force of 'rising up', to others and to ourselves. So when we have that attitude of: 'just let it ...

I think this happens to everyone. We practice and we get some kind of results - a good start but a long way to go yet. We keep trying and we notice that something is not quite working out. There's some kind of block or obstacle that is difficult to surpass.  We observe that difficulty and we get a feeling for what is the matter but we can't articulate it. We look for help but nowhere do we find any advice to help and no one really knows or gets what we are talking about. Then one day we stumble upon something and its just one parpargraph or two that explains it all for us and with that new bit of information or advice we begin to shift that block. This post is more for my records than anything else, though it may be interesting for you as well. This paragraph has really helped me with concentration. It has made a really big difference. "Your Forces and How to Use Them - Christain D. Larson, Chapter 11 ". End (4960).

Introduction There is a lot of esoteric meaning behind the veil. The word veil reminds us of the "bridal veil", the "veil of the mysteries" and the "veil of Isis".  The veil is something that we see in esotericism that pertains to the Divine Feminine. In terms of the bridal veil it is something that belongs to the mysteries of sex.  It is a symbol of the Divine Mother, with emphasis on Divine. In general terms it signifies that the woman wearing it is emulating the Divine Mother. From very ancient times where the wedding ceremony was a pact to enter into and live the mysteries of sex, the bride would wear a veil to signify Her virtue. That She is like the Divine Mother" "whose veil no mortal has lifted...".  The archaic teachings tell us that the veil of the Divine Mother (Isis) is lifted by those who are worthy to receive Her mysteries which are the mysteries of nature and creation.   The Bride wearing her veil signifies in terms of the mys...

We have to learn how to solve problems, and while a problem is being solved we have to learn how to compartmentalise them. By that I mean to give them a time and a space to solve them and not let them permeate all the areas of our life. Our troubles begin when we allow an unsolved problem to become a worry that then invades every moment of our life. When that happens we begin to get 'dragged down'... If being 'dragged down' persists, we become depressed as the feelings of hopelessness set in, or either we become increasingly frustrated and angry, which is no good for others, and no good for our health. If we can, as Gnosis says, forget our problems so as to solve them, we are going to be pretty ok. Gnosis says to forget problems is the way, in the sense of our mind forgetting them and not thinking anymore about them. This is because thinking about them does not help to solve them.  Gnosis says that while we have forgotten a problem our consciousness can reveal to us a s...

What this Arcanum Tells Us This arcanum refers to the Cosmic Mother - that is to say, to the Eternal Universal Divine Feminine Principle. Arcanum 3 on the other hand refers to the individual Divine Mother, which is the Divine Eternal Feminine Principle of our particular cosmos, or from the point of view of the Absolute - the divine eternal feminine principle of the Microcosmos. Master Samael describes the symbols of this card very well. Though all that I would like to say is that the symbols present in this arcanum reveal a lot about the qualities of the Divine Eternal Feminine. Here below I have listed the symbols which highlight the qualities of the Divine Feminine. Seated Priestess:   The receptive and passive nature of the Divine feminine. Contrasted with the standing active nature of the magician of Arcanum number 1. Open Book:   The quality of wisdom, which is a feminine quality. Wisdom itself is inert, it is not about doing, it is about knowing. It must be combined with...

Relaxing the three brains is very critical to align the three brains within every event of our life. Using the breath to relax our three brains is highly effective! Long out breaths truly relax the instinctive and emotional centres. When these two centers are relaxed relaxing the others is easy. With our three brains aligned we can truly concentrate and be an aligned unity with what we are doing in any given moment. To get the best and give the best, we have to pray, meditate, listen, work and speak etc. with all of our brains - that is with our three brains. Have a look at this diagram below for information about how our breath can help. End (4957).

It happens at some point in our life that we resent a particular person for being in a certain position... Of course there will be innumerable reasons why we resent them. But they don't really matter! Those reasons are not there to be listened to by anyone. They are really the nonsense of our mind locked in time and space that are there to be overcome and dissolved. Outside of time and space there are no reasons worthy of holding onto resentment. Reasons of: unfair, right, wrong, ego, personality... all crumble when seen outside of time and space. Try it for yourself, see the reasons outside of this time and space... We just really need to bring our forgiveness, and forgive the person for being there above us or by the side or underneath or wherever. End (4956).

Choice by Karmic Programming When we are karmically programmed we feel strongly compelled and drawn to follow a certain decision. Even when there is a part of us that knows that there are other options which may be better... When we take the side of what we are irresistibly compelled to, we feel convinced that we are the one making that decision with full freedom of choice.  We only really know that we decided based upon karmic programming until much after the decision has been taken.  It is usually upon reflection of the series of cause and effect that we come to know that it was programmed to be that way, and we just had to take that decision. The other way we know that we were karmically programmed is when because of that decision we end up suffering. The clue is that we never made that decision to suffer yet precisely because of that decision we fell into a very karmic spate of difficult circumstances with all its sufferings. Being karmically programmed to make a decision ...

The answer is by means of pure mirror like reflection. Sexuality is a true super value that contains many other values within it. All those values work intelligently together to create the overall value of sexuality. All the various deviations of infra-sexuality, are the inverted expressions of those values that make up the super value of sexuality.  Those values after being inverted, branch off and typically through amplification become a kind of lifestyle of genre on their own.  Later on, in a subsequent post I will give examples. End (4952).

The first thing in the universal order of things to awaken to, is our darkness.  Awakening to our darkness, brings light into our darkness, converting darkness into light. Awakening is light shone onto our reality.  To awaken to our own darkness first, as our number one priority creates as much light as we can as quickly as we can. End (4951).

What's the remedy to resentment? The answer is forgiveness. What's the remedy to hatred? The answer is love, but a love that has its start in forgiveness.  Sometimes we can forget about the existence of forgiveness... Well we have to tell ourselves sometimes that it does exist and it is needed... What is the biggest problem we face with forgiveness? It is that we feel we can't forgive... Someone once said that we CAN forgive. We don't really have the right to not forgive! There's nothing that we can't forgive another person for. Because we have done the same or worse if we can remember... At the core of resentment is a belief. We must search to find that belief. It is a belief of having been wronged or hurt. All of our resentment stems from that belief. If we can just find that belief we are on our way to changing things within us. Our capacity to not forgive has to alarm us. To feel our cold heart is very alarming, especially while we are a student of spiritual...