Gnostic Wisdom

Here are links to posts with notes about the rays of: death, life and love. Ray of Death Ray of Life Ray of Love End (5051).

Why is Anubis depicted as having a jackal as his head mask? We know that the real Anubis seen in the superior worlds may not wear a mask. We know that the ancient Egyptians depicted the Gods as wearing masks of certain animals based upon symbols that represented certain archetypes related to the function and nature of the Gods. The jackal is an animal that the ancient Egyptians observed as one that would frequently visit the cemeteries and places of the dead. Anubis it is said, was the God of the underworld, the God that the recently deceased would first face in the new journey without their physical body- hence the jackal head. The hawk is the most far seeing of birds, it is swift, it is a bird of command and prey and holds much respect, making it fitting for Osiris the all-seeing God of the skies. End (5047).

It seems like there are certain living energies that move through the collective consciousness of human beings.  It seems like these energies are universal and have their origin far above the minds of human beings.  The Holy Grail is one such archetype. This is what Master Samael says about it. "For sure, the Knights of the Middle Ages looked for that Chalice, from which the Christ drank in the Last Supper (symbol of the Yoni), however they never found it, this is obvious. But as a memory of those times, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the fight against the Moors, the Cup remained in the Olympics (the Cup  that is given to the winners in the Olympic Games, has the origin of that Cup). Do not forget that it represents the Yoni, that is, the female sexual organ. So, in the realm of the Suprasexual, the Chalice and the Spear are sacred..." The archetype carries a certain life, which is what gives it, its perennial presence through the ages. If something has life, always im...

The sport of freediving is certainly not the normal quite interesting as it is very psychological. To participate in it no doubt one has to have a lot of control over one's mind and psychology. “Freediving is a sport of self-discipline and self-awareness, where you learn to push your limits and unlock your true potential.” – Herbert Nitsch Alessia Zecchini - who is considered the current greatest women's freediver - and one who has held and broken numerous world records is quoted as saying the following: " We learn a lot about ourselves when we hold our breath ." - Alessia Zecchini. " Freediving is about inward power, discipline, and control. If you’ve overcome the fear of death and the risks inherent in the sport, you’ve truly conquered yourself .” – Natalia Molchanova. Anyway for us who will never perhaps go on a freedive, we can understand the virtues of the psychology of a freediver by setting a point to hold our breath by.  For example hold our breath for a...

If we were to transform impressions all the time, that is at every moment we receive an impression needing transforming, we would change at a rapid pace. We would nourish tremendously our consciousness and our Inner Being. Our Inner Being is nourished from our transformation of impressions. The love that we make from transforming an impression nourishes our Inner Being. To transform impressions exercises the virtues, and in exercising teh virtues they are strengthened and brought more and more into our psyche and therefore into our life here in the physical world. In a single act of transforming an impression there is a shopping trolley full of values being put to work. One is sacrifice, one is consciousness, another is gratitude, humility, trust, patience, and of course love, faith and hope.    Transforming impressions crystallises the values in our psyche. To such an extent that after transforming so many impressions we develop a new structure within our psche that naturally...

Introduction Here is a post on the ray of love. It is a collection of notes organised into categories similar to previous posts. Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485-1486) Venus - The Goddess of Love and Beauty arriving on land, born of the sea. In the Cosmic Sense So much has gone wrong on the Earth because of human beings not knowing how to love - or rather forgetting how to love.  The ray of love is needed to keep creation harmoniously together and orientated towards the Common Cosmic Father.  From love, is derived all the values that are needed in creation. All these values are related to love and contain love. Love is mostly all that we need. Love always presents the solution, it is the simplest solution, the most immediate and if there is conscious love all around, it is understood as the best. It is our minds and our lack of love that really complicate things and make things close to impossible. It is the role of the Angels of Love to teach humanity once again abou...

Really hearing this... means to stay quiet and meditate, and meditate again and again, comprehend and comprehend. Then dissolve and dissolve... End (5046).

We can along the way develop such negative concepts of others. These negative concepts come to act as very narrow filters that twist and change anything we see or hear about others, into the same negativity expressed in the concept. Sometimes these filters serve as karmic elements that because of karma, another person can not be seen in a normal or neutral light. If we see a person negatively we will act towards them negatively. No matter what is said about a person these filters take whatever that is said the wrong way and in a negative sense. There is no way that whatever is said will be taken in a neutral, normal or correct (balanced) way. These filters start off as concepts. These concepts and filters take a long time to change. They can however be changed with the intervention of others that are well respected. Of course an intense and deliberate work can also change them but that is often the last thing that is thought about. End (5044).

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master — Pravin Lal This sometimes can be true when we don't share our knowledge or wisdom with others.   It can be pride that withholds knowledge and it can also be ill-will. End (5045).

We must make our start developing these virtues first through prayer. As said earlier the best place of all the places to deposit these three virtues is in our Real Being. Pray and pray sending love to your Inner Being, hoping in the power of your Being and believing in your Inner Being. Only a love that is strong can help us to face the ego in us. A weak love and a weak faith is no good, the ego easily steps over a weak love and faith.  We need to make these virtues strong. We start with prayer and applying them in action when the difficulties come to us. End (5042).

Karma comes to us from inside and outside at approximately close to the same time.  Karma comes to us as waves from inside and outside. The waves of karma first appear from inside. When they the waves are welling up from the inside they seem to appear like out of nowhere and from outside even. The intermediate mind often likes the concept of synchronicity that the timing of the karmic wave is in sync with some external event. The truth is if we did not have that karm nor that ego there would be no synchronicity. The forces of karma inside and outside activate with intensity the exact painful egos that have a painful history within them.  Serenity is often the first casualty. Then the casualties of hope, faith and love follow. Serenity is the virtue most important to not let fall. The virtues behind it can be intelligently used to cause it not to fall. Hope, faith and love can cause it not to fall.  When the forces of karma come close to us, the confusion begins and when t...

There is a streak in some egos that are about: "fed-up", "can't handle more", "no-more", "don't want anymore of this"...  There is this tendency to want to terminate things...leave our job and find a new one, pull out of a group, quit some activity, cut off a friendship, leave a relationship etc. etc. All of those feelings come from having our 'nose being rubbed in' what we have done to others in the past. That is, the things we did to them that was against their will. What happens when we really understand the hurt we have caused others: we say to ourselves: "I'll never do that again". Which is the opposite of those feelings in the first sentence of this post. The curious thing when we hear the "I" in us saying the above words, there is this feeling of past pain and pain projected into the future... We know that this feeling can only be the "I" as the consciousness does not identify with the past...

Often we don't form a full and correct view of an event or a time spent with others - such as a day or an afternoon. We only remember certain parts and based on these parts we come to a conclusion about the event. Often it is an upset ego that remembers and the ego only remembers what concerns it. We can't allow ourselves to go with the ego's view or judgement of the event. We have to go with the view of consciousness, which is the neutral and correct view. The consciousness is NUETRAL. To do that, we must review the whole event - seeing all its parts and then come to a conclusion. We can be assured that we will reach a different conclusion to that of the upset ego. End (5039).

We spend so many of our days not getting anywhere certain...  The truth of it, which sooner or later dawns upon us, is that we somehow get out of the day what we have defined it for. If we have not defined it for anything then we don't get much out of it. Our different egos, recurrences and karma always have some will to do something in our day but the result of all three of those forces working on our day, is an "all over the place" kind of a day. To consciously set our day to do something, and be clear about it inside of ourselves, leads us into a mode to work towards what we are wanting. When we are working towards something we don't want to do, know or see anything else. We arrive at focus which equals flowing. End (5038).

What does real work on ourselves feel like? To be really working means to be focussed on moving the development of something within us forward. That focus gives us a certain feeling of working on something. We don't have to worry about results. When we are working we will get that feeling and that feeling is there to tell us that results will come when we are ready. Inner development could be the work towards the dissolution of an "I" or work in awakening or developing a faculty or acquiring some inner knowledge... There are really many things. To be really working is to have a mission that we work on several times during the day. Whenever we have some spare minutes and intently during the time that we make for it. This is a good feeling to achieve within us and to live out from. It strengthens the three virtues of hope, faith and love. It is actually these three virtues in action. End (4911).

What stops us from truly dying in ourselves is not being ready to pay the price for it. The price is most always some kind of discomfort of varying degrees. The more comprehension we have the easier it is to pay this price. Often when the pain of having an ego is so great we are ready to pay the price because to continue having that ego is paying a higher price than the price to dissolve it. Because we decide to die in ourselves we are faced with undoing that which we have come to like or enjoy or depend upon.  That is uncomfortable, finding new internal alternatives or depending more on ourselves from inside or making more effort is the tough and uncomfortable part... That is the price waiting for us all to pay.  We have to prepare ourselves to pay the price, then we ready pay it and receive what we are paying for - which is our essence free with the new virtues it brings. End (5037).

At any given moment we can tell which part of our brain is active. Just place our attention on our brain to sense which side is active. Then take note of what we are doing with our attention and thoughts and we will build up our self-knowledge of what each side of our brain is used for. The different virtues use different areas of our brain. This we can observe to find out as well. End (5035).

We have to really work through the flavour of each "I". There is so much there for us to learn. It reveals all the information that we need.  Experiences that we have later on in dreams or in meditation (visions) confirm what is revealed by the flavour of the "I". We need attention and concentration to draw out the obtuse flavour of the "I" into the light where our consciousness can apprehend it. Trust what you gleam from the flavour of the "I". It is correct! Each "I" has a distinct psychological quality. Which is really the particular psychological feeling that is set up by the thoughts and emotions of the 'I" when it is active in our human machine. When the ego takes control of the human machine there appears the unique flavour of that "I". IT is if it is saying: "Here I am in control now, and this is what I am all about". The flavour of the "I" is the essence trapped in the "I" talkin...

Each karmic instrument has the role of amending things that are out of balance or out of order. A karmic instrument is sent by the law of balance to put things back to balance or to set up a new balance in line with the current order of things. A karmic instrument, if amending things in the wrong way accrues karma, that is undeniable. However the proviso applies, that for the karmic instrument to accrue karma the karmic instrument must know better, or know about the psychological work. Karmic instruments such as animals or very young children don't accrue karma because they do not know better or are not doing the psychological work. In the very beginning we don't like the action of the karmic instrument and we develop a negative attitude towards it. Later, when we awaken a little to what the role of the karmic instrument is, we see the benefits of the action of the karmic instrument to our esoteric and psychological work. Then our attitude changes. End (5030).

Self-remembering above all is about holding purpose. It is about remembering our purpose for each day of our life in the work. Remembering every hour, slowly increasing to every 45 minutes to every half hour and so on. Forgetting our purpose we forget ourselves. All work begins on ourselves when we remember our purpose. If we forget our purpose we forget to work on ourselves aslo. All consciousness and voluntarily action starts with and depends upon remembering our purpose. Forming a purpose is also an act of self-remembering. Constantly remembering your purpose with emotion creates and strengthens will. End (5033).

Having hope, faith and love does not prevent difficulties from coming to us. They help us to overcome difficulties when they come our way. There is a difference. To believe that having hope, faith and love is to prevent difficulties from coming to us is a false belief.  Difficulties have to come to us, and they will come to us, because it is only through them that we can strengthen these three ontological values.  If we strengthen these values we are strengthening our connection to our Inner Being and we are also strengthening our Inner Being. Let's observe what happens when we succumb to a difficulty, what are the essential things that happen to us? We lose hope, we lose faith and we lose love. We end up thinking that the project will not work out, we don't believe in the project anymore and we polarise against it and start to 'hate' the project. So in any hard time that we go through, the answer Gnosis would tell us, is to keep a good grip on the these three virtues o...

The values of hope, faith and love are ontological or theological. Meaning they allow us to manifest the Being. These values put us into direct contact with the Being. They concern our Inner Being. Not all the values reach the ontological sphere. The teachings tell us this.  If we ever want to get in touch with our Inner Being we can through these values. These three values are the shield for our Being to stand the trial of matter. These values defend the Spirit in the crossing with matter. These three values are the foundations of our psyche. Indeed if we take anyone of them away our psyche will fall into disarray.  These are dynamic forces within us which we primarlily use to overcome difficulties.  It is not because we have faith that the difficulties will not come, they will come, but it is because we have faith we will get through the difficulties. It is also true that difficulties are sent to us to make these values stronger in us. End (5031).

Before our consciousness is awakened enough and or able to accesses our third eye, we perceive our inner worlds or psychological country through feeling. That is through our felt-sense. For example, when there is something wrong with our heart, kidneys or stomach we feel that there is something wrong. We feel pain, tightness or swelling. We don't all of a sudden see what is wrong. We only feel. We feel the different movements within our body. We directly feel our stomach turning, our digestion working, our heart beating, our lungs breathing, our bladder filling up. We don't directly see any of these things. The same thing applies to our psychology. We don't see directly our psychology we feel it directly. We feel so many different pangs, pains, so much tightness and constriction, butterflies and many different strange flavours of feelings. Those feelings are precious to us as they are telling us what is wrong. We just need to know how with our attention to decipher them. Th...

Little Story Introduction A little story showing how the conditioning of life works. It shows how powerful the conditioning of life is, what aim it has and how it works on us.  From the beginning we saw things innocently with the essence, then later something changed that innocent vision to 'see' something else. The long and tiring experience of that 'something else' sparked an awakening to recover the innocent view but with a difference. This difference being consciousness.   Flying Metal Pen When we first get on a plane, it is exciting. We are in the moment! We are excited to travel, explore and enjoy our new destination.  At the same time there is a sense of awe about how such a big 'metal pen with wings' filled with so many people and their luggage is going to take off and maintain itself in the air for so long and travel at such a high speed. It all of a sudden seems so precarious a situation… It is so novel, it is not our everyday experience and it is so i...

When we are feeling pain and we speak, write or act to directly to inadvertently bring more pain, what is the reason, what is the purpose, what is the gain, what is the payback? In those special moments when we ask ourselves, we find that there is no gain or payback but to feel more pain and the sense of being more in a hole, drawing pity upon ourselves!  What is the point then to feel more pain? None! We are doing the absurd. It only makes sense then to liberate ourselves from suffering! Pain can win and it has many times in history, but we have to be different and not let it win. If it wins it only brings more pain and cements pain as a constant life after life companion. End (5028).

Following on from the previous post, the realization that there is a conditioned part of our essence that wants pain is a very very important realization. We think how ridiculous, that there is a part of ourselves conditioned to want pain. We think that we don't want pain, that we are just angry, hurt or upset from what others have done to us.  Though with a bit of analysis we will see that really there is something within us that is interested in pain.  To break that illusion that there is not an "I" in us that wants pain, we need to do some analysis. With analysis or via a conscious discovery we can break that illusion. This discovery that there is an "I" within us that wants pain, helps us to make steps to let go of pain especially when this "I" of pain is there, because we understand now that its aim of feeling pain is senseless, that there is no other objective to it than to feel pain. Just like pressing on a wound that is healing to feel pain wit...

When we are struggling with our work, the worst thing that we can do is to drop contact with others who are working on themselves. Other people are such a wonderful help: visibly, tangibly and also very importantly - invisibly. Often the invisible help that we receive when talking to others is the biggest help. We can never underestimate how important the connection to others is. Just talking to others when we are very low, especially even when we are not wanting or expecting to be helped, we are helped remarkably.  We drop contact with others often because of inner negativity. We know that others are a great help and we know that we are cutting off our lifeline but because the "I" of negative self-compassion wrongly loves pain and wants to feel pain, we cut connection with others knowing that by doing that we will bring ourselves more pain and a kind of pain to others too.    The realization that there is something in us that just loves pain, is such an important realiza...

We can't reverse engineer ourselves to discover the ray of our Being. It doesn't quite work out so well, it seems to open up the possibilities even more so, and create more confusion. It only comes as insight or as a revelation of your consciousness. This discovery is not the result of your mind. It is however made to make sense or further explained, understood and expanded upon by the mind. But just not discovered by the mind. What I mean by reverse engineer is that you take all your tendencies, nature and ways of thinking and feeling etc. and then try and match them to a particular ray. Head ache! The ray inside you speaks to you revealing itself to itself which is also you. End (5025).

If something feels so overwhelmingly fascinating, powerful, important or painful, we have to analyze it! Analysis is to break things down into smaller parts.  Analysis is a tool of disassembly or in other words death or dissolution.  When something appears to us to be a lot greater than it is really is, and other people also verify that it is nothing so overwhelmingly special, bad or good, then what we need is dissolution or death.  Death reduces and breaks illusions.  Break the thing down into its components and see that each component is nothing so fascinating or overwhelming. It is what it is. This definitely helps! If this doesn't help, repeat it and repeat it until the consciousness grabs hold of it and 'sees'. End (5020).

We may want to keep something someone gave us for as long as we can. We know in the back of mind that things happen in life beyond our control and we can't keep those special things forever...  Then we think we can keep our memory of it and them for longer. Then we think know that we will even lose our memory as we get older. Then in despair we know we can only ever keep ourselves. That is we can only ever keep our essence and our consciousness that is with it, in it and working through it. This very moment is all we have - right now and if in this moment our attention is with our essence and we are being the essence we 'have' ourselves. The more we practice this the more we will be able to keep ourselves and survive beyond the sleep of time and space. End (5024).

I think that at some point or another in the past we have had some kind of encounter with that which we could call 'black magic'. Master Samael in his book the "The Three Mountains" said that we all carry the "Castle of Klingsor" inside of us, and we have to sooner or later elimimate it from our interior. When we are doing the work on ourselves and we are trying to understand some strangely strong feelings within us, some snap of a finger quick memory flashes appear. Which make us to understand something about ourselves, which is that at some point in the past we have known what 'black magic' is. Frankly most of the people studying Gnosis in this life, don't have any experience or knowledge of it, but in the past that is something that we all can't vouch for. It also can be thought that thanks to that past experience that in this life the people studying Gnosis are not interested in such matters. It is basically the egos in us that have the l...

Statement Notes taken during an online class. Notes Ultimately everything is internal. All our physical ailments ultimately have their cause deep within us. The cause of the cause is the consciousness. Either awakened or asleep consciousness. Etiology is the study of causes. The actions of the essence affect all the parts of the Being. The essence is really the author of the dharma and karma. Why does the essence have all this power, when the Being is the supreme power? A mystery! The essence controls the physical body via the five senses. There are certain determining factors which we need to become aware of, if we truly wish to author our life differently to the direction in which it is currently following. Note that the essence comes from the causal world. It is really a mini human soul. That is why when the essence grows she becomes the human soul.   The essence develops itself into the category of soul.  The centre of gravity of life is Atman and the centre of gravit...

One thing that I find really puts pressure on our sleeping state of consciousness is the constant effort to awaken. Our sleeping system can handle sporadic efforts or a few efforts during the day but a continuous effort throughout the whole day and night is something that it doesn't like. This continuous effort is also something that effectively shifts our sleeping state into a more awake one. After-all the awakened consciousness is something more or less continuous with fluctuations of  course in intensity. To do a practice of death or awakening every hour at least during the day, makes a person to feel the power of continuity towards awakening and the establishing of a permanent centre of consciousness. End (5021).