Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

A short list of the fears human beings experience ("I's" of fear). Quite interesting each fear that we can have is also a deep kind of fascination. It is often how fear shows us that there is something that we need to learn more about and develop consciousness of and develop a value hidden in that area of relating to that in which we fear. There is always a reason behind each fear, hiding waiting for us to find... End (5142).

Introduction This post presents some notes about working on the principal psychological profile in the three brains. Notes The P.P.P is the "I" that we don't notice. Until we know it, it remains elusive and we suspect other "I's" to take the title. This is because it is so natural, it has become such an integral part of ourselves and we have come to use it for nearly everything in our life and furthermore, we like it (not all of it though), think it is us, and depend upon it.  We have become deeply identified with it and we have based much of our identity and self-image upon it.  We don't see it even though it is in action all the time, and it is the one behind our sufferings and most of our life's recurrences and circumstances that are both negative and positive. We can be certain though that it is behind or participates to some degree with all of our negative circumstances. It is to be found through a big picture inspection of our lives and also in...

We think we are not self-obsessed but we all are. We all while we are asleep have a degree of it. We can see it easily in others but not in ourselves. The less self-obsessed we are the closer we are to awakening. When we are self-obsessed we take ourselves very seriously and when we are criticised we react angrily and feel very upset. The less self-obsessed we are the less we react and the more we can appreciate the the truth or part truth of the criticism. The key of self-obsession is the belief that we are something that we are not and the deep fascination with the 'something that we are not'. Self-obsession is made of two errors, first the false belief and second the fascination with the what we falsely believe in. For example to believe we are honest and awake and then to be fascinated with honest and awake instead of being honest and awake - the essence - the consciousness. End (5121).

When we consider ourselves we become weak... Too weak to do our work... To progress in awakening we realise that we have to consider ourselves less . However, we have to know how to consider ourselves less. It does not mean to forget our Inner Being, or forget that we are an essence and that we have work to do. No! It does not mean to forget to eat or sleep or shower. No! It means to forget about our desires, our vested interests, what others think and feel towards us, our personality, our sufferings, how we have been wronged, how we have not been understood, or not taken care of, our hardships, complaints and protests.... Basically to not feed all of our psychological grievances. Considering ourselves in that way always turns into negativity which stops our progress. We can never transforms ourselves when we are stuck in negativity! It means to consider ourselves less so that we can help other more and consider the Inner Being in us much more and give more to it with our work. End (51...

We abuse the powerful knowledge Gnosis has given us when we feel superior for having it, and when we don't help ourselves and others with it.  To help ourselves means to become better human beings, ones that don't make themselves and others suffer.  End (5119).

Introduction This post is a series of notes for a presentation on the working practically with virtues. Notes Each virtue does something and gives us something. Each virtue has a cause and effect. Love gives warmth and joy, wisdom - illumination, faith - strength and truth - freedom. According to what we yearn for (effect) we choose the virtue (cause) to produce it. If we need to heal ourselves or others or a particular situation, the effect is healing or repair and the cause of that is the right virtue. Conclusion to this point is that each virtue or value is causative or causal in nature. The word and the sexual energy are also causative or causal. Telling us, that to enhance the causal power of any virtue, our use of the word and our sexual energy must align with the virtue and not go against it. Each virtue uses the word. The use of the word that affirms the virtue is the use that we need. Each virtue requires creative energy to act. Consciously moving and investing our sexual ener...

From a conversation with a fellow Gnostic brother I leant about this teaching which comes from another spiritual teacher and writer: Ken Wilber The teaching says that God for the human being has three faces:  1.) God in me. 2.) God in you. 3.) God everywhere. How true is that. God is in those three areas. Our relationship to God is really threefold. It is about being able to see God in those three areas to have a complete relationship to God. It is quite profound. It is really saying that if we can't see God in any of those three areas we are not relating well to God.  We may be able to see God in nature, in the stars, in the heavens but not in ourselves and in others then something is unbalanced and this will certainly have profound ramifications in our psychology, in our ways of thinking and in our attitudes and concepts. The same if we can only see God in ourselves and in no one else or in no other part of creation. We would become terribly proud - a mythomaniac I dare say....

Gnosis is really different to so many other ways or schools. There is no hand-holding. We are tasked to be strong, face our reality, take responsibility for it and gather the strength and wisdom to change it.  The help is in being given the teachings and the keys to do it and the rest is up to us to fight along side and with the help of others to understand the teachings clearly and work out how best to apply them. The paradox is, that when we are in the struggle and fight of applying the work is when the most help comes. When we are waiting or wanting that our hand be held, is precisely when no help comes, even enmity can come as a message to tell us that that is the wrong attitude. End (5116).

A person may not see the invisible because that person has the eyes of life to see with. The hidden forces use life to manifest. We don't see the law but the result only. Sometimes people can only see the negative and not the positive. The invisible is the work.  It is difficult to evaluate the invisible. We need the appropriate faculties to do it. We tend to like to evaluate the esoteric work of others which is invisible from outside. This is fraught with difficulty and error if we do not have discernment, the  There are times when the invisible becomes visible. The field in which this happens is the field of psychology. The internal path is invisible but our psychology is visible. We can see that a person is angry, jealous, proud but we can't see their esoteric status. Awakening is the only way to make the invisible visible. We tend to try and judge the invisible by patterns and concepts. The Monad is about the consciousness and the essence is about psychology. Stagnation is...

The tunnel with a light at the end that many see during near death experiences could well be the passageway to the pineal gland, from where the essence leaves the physical body from. The pineal gland is said to be the set of the soul. That is the main entrance for the essence into the body. The physical body is like a castle with many entrances and windows. Many say that the senses are the windows of the soul and it is also said that the pineal gland and the muladhara chakra are the entrances.  End (5115).

As Master Samael says the Father embodies wisdom and the Mother Love and the HUman Soul will. The Father just as wisdom seems to be so indifferent and aloof, yet his is how wisdom makes Him. While the Mother is so close and overbearing, yet this how love makes her.  What is best is father-mother, wisdom and love working together complementing each other. The result is the son - true force or another word for it is conscious will. True force is loving and wise force. Force that is motivated by love and directed by wisdom. Love gives force the why and wisdom gives force the how. Both love and wisdom combine to know when.  Both Father and mother have force and their force is in the son and the son being conscious will goes to rescue or help the essence out of its various predicaments in life. The best of both is in the son. That is why the human soul is so adored. One of the roles of force in creation is to rescue and lift out of predicament, especially in difficult situation. Th...

The Word Notes - Esoteric Sphere Logos From the Glossary of www.glorain.org: --- to --- --- “Greek λόγος, from λέγω lego "I say," means Verb or Word. The unifying principle. The Logos is the manifested deity of every nation and people; the outward expression or the effect of the cause which is ever concealed. (Speech is the "logos" of thought). The Logos has three aspects, known universally as the Trinity, Trikaya, or Trimurti. These are related to the three primary forces behind all forms of creation. Note the three logoi here: "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with Theos, and the Logos was Theos. He was with Theos in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1 "...the Logos, the fundamental intelligent principle of nature." - Samael Aun Weor,...

What would hard-core training to awaken look like? Well it wouldn't look like anything that we are imagining or thinking it to be. We would not find it pleasant. To awaken is to more often than not scrape and breakaway the false that we are dearly holding onto. Starting by putting our attention on the very small details of ourselves in all environments and and during all tasks is the start. It builds he necessary power of attention and discovery to work with the more subtle which are the thoughts and emotions. A tricky or dangerous physical environment would require us to become very alert so as to not get hurt.  To awaken we are put into psychological environments that are very tricky, complicated, spiky and sensitive This is to help us to awaken. As soon as we fall asleep, whack! TIme to wake up and be alert!  End (5112).

I wonder does our Inner Being punish us if we are doing something wrong? Something that is not humanly or morally wrong but something that perhaps is not in agreement with the principles or will of the Being? There is a teaching from m.m.m that says that the Inner Being does not punish or chastise but educates instead. Perhaps this education seems like a punishment. Perhaps difficulties are the only way the Inner Being has to get through to us...  Sometimes you just wonder, it is karma, is it the egos or is it the secret resistance of nature that provokes all one difficulty or lesson after the other... Well one has to ask and ask and wake up to what in truth it is.  End (5111).

Introduction Here below is a list of the parts of the Being as presented in the Gnostic teachings.  We know though, that this list is more like a template. In reality, a Divine Being may have unfolded Itself differently and there may be many more unfolded parts than those on the list.  Also for certain, the parts of a Divine Being will have their own particular names, which will be different those on the list. Their functions though will be very similar if not the same.  Nonetheless, this is our template and our way of starting to connect the diverse parts of our Inner Being. Parts of the Being List 1. Ancient of the Days 2. Intimate Christ 3. Holy Spirit 4. Atman or Chesed 5. Spiritual Soul or Geburah 6. Human Soul or Tiphereth 7. The Twelve Apostles 8. Two Extraordinary figures: Luke and Marc 9. The Twenty Four Elders 10. The Five Helpers 11. The Four Sants 12. Interior Anubis 13. Guardian of the Threshold 14. Sandalphon and Metraton 15. Elemental INtercessor 16. Interi...

Each day is a precious opportunity to do something for our Inner Being. If we make a point of doing something in our day we will do it. If we make a point of awakening to something and dying to something in our day we will also do it. Make it a point for each day and we will create a line of work and that line will create a destiny. End (5109).

The work on ourselves really should extend everywhere within us and within our life. There should not be a person or areas that we for some reason don't bring the work into. We can really make this mistake. However when we realise it and bring and apply the work, things are much better for it. End (5108).

What really makes a 'work' a 'work' is a constant line of work. To produce in our lives a constant line of work no matter what it is for, is a grand achievement. So common is the case that us human beings are so inconsistent and sporadic and consequently get nowhere. It is really the means by which we develop in any way.  If we set up for ourselves as the most important thing a line of work, working on ourselves everyday in the same way. That is doing the same practice but on different subjects. For example meditations on the death of the ego but on different "I's". With that line of working we can know and say that we are really working and going to get somewhere. End (5107).

Love Affair with Our Concepts = Upset There is really so much self-love to do with our concepts and ways of thinking and feeling about things. There is also so much self-love about our ways of doing things. What keeps us attached to our own concepts about things is a kind of a love affair with them and ourselves. We must love our Being and ourselves as an essence of a  Divine Monad but to love our concepts that are not Divine in nature and could well be erroneous or are just as good as the concepts of others, does not make much sense. Yet we are truly in love with our concepts... The proof is that we get upset and angry and fight over our concepts when they are challenged, and furthermore we feel that things should all go in accordance with our concepts so that our concepts are 'pleased'. Wrong concept little buddy - big green is not always equal to big orange. Conclusion The conclusion is to work to detach ourselves from our very own concepts. This is freedom and so useful in ...

Introduction This post is a collection of notes about the ray of force.  My hope is that while reading it, a certain atmosphere will be formed allowing you in your particular way to make a connection to the ray of force. Then through that connection you may be able to find something you are looking for... Having said that the best connection to the ray of Force is truly the teachings of Master Samael. His ray - the ray of Force is alive in all his books and lectures. Cosmic Sense One of the eternal properties of God, is God being almighty! God can not be God, if God is not almighty, right?  Just like God can not be God, if God is not all knowing. All-knowing, all-seeing, almighty, all-present, all-being are the properties that only God (the Absolute) can have.   Classically, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-being, all-present and almighty are attributed to God and no one or anything else. Might or strength coming directly from the almighty property of God is one of the p...

Introduction This post presents some of the points that we can utilise to discover and know more about the hidden side of our psychology. Notes The moon in esoteric psychological terms, is our egoic psychology. So the egos of the visible side of the moon are the egos that we know and can see. Others can see them as well. The egos of the hidden side are the egos which we do not see. Others may see some of these hidden egos, yet there will definitely be egos that neither we, nor them see. Amongst the hidden side of our egoic psychology, there could be facets of the egos that we do know that we have and do see. We just do not know and see those particular facets. They remain hidden. For example, we know that we have lust, however in our hidden side there are facets of lust that we don't know that we have. Our principal, psychological profile mostly lies in the hidden side.  Egos and facets of egos remain in our hidden side simply because they are not acceptable to our view of ourselve...

The Guardian of the Threshold test is really a test of humility. To be humble is to have a clear vision of our reality. Those who are proud have a very unclear vision and of their psychological reality and true capacities. To be ready and open to see and accept our reality is what is required to pass the guardian of the Threshold test. It is also the basic foundation upon which any work on ourselves begins. If we do not ever have the capacity to see ourselves as we are and accept our reality as ugly as we will find it, we will never ever work on ourselves. The Guardian of the Threshold is a part of our very own Being that reflects our true psychological reality. Only a true part of ourselves can do that for us. Those who fail the Guardian of the Threshold test stop the work on themselves and soon find the work is something goes against them and soon they become bitter and go against the work, Gnosis and the people who go to Gnosis. End (5105).

There is an ego which I'll describe in this post, but to start with I think a good name for it is the 'preacher ego'.  What is the preacher ego? It is a branch of pride that more than just teaches. It makes what one is teaching to more than it is, and it personalises what one is teaching. The preacher ego annoys others with the same ego and controls those with a tendency to feel inferior. We can easily identify with the preacher ego when teaching Gnosis. Because it is a doctrine that goes right to the cause of things and it is revolutionary and powerful and if applied will radically change a person and their life. When we make out subtly or overtly that Gnosis is better than anything else for all people and our way of doing things and our view of God is the best we are in the preacher ego.  Master Samael never spoke or taught in that way. To have the preacher ego we have to have been preaching. End (5106).

Why we overthink, why we feel lost, why we are confused, why time flies, why we feel we are not getting anywhere, why we feel that we are chasing ourselves into the future... It is only because of the wrong use of our intellect - our mind, with all its many many thoughts, that we feel lost. In fact we become lost in and amongst the hundreds and hundreds of different and contradictory thoughts.  We need to see our central light and quieten down all those thoughts find our way again. We need to pay much more attention to our actual selves in each moment and all the above problems disappear.  With the practice of sustained attention on ourselves in each moment we find our real selves and from there all the questions are answered and all the issues we are facing are put into perspective. End (5104).

The Word or Verb is a cosmic value. It is present in all spheres through creation and beyond creation. It is easier to relate to the Word as a cosmic value after having studied it in the psychological and human spheres. If we examine human life, we will see that the Word is an integral part of life. Life as we know it would quickly disassemble if the Word ceased to exist. We see that the word is very important and very powerful in human life. The same applies to our psychology. Without the word, we would not be able to think as we do. Thoughts are words and images. In many ways the language we speak and consequently think with, has a psychology which plays a significant role in forming or conditioning our own psychology.  For example, in English there is only one word for love. In Spanish there are several words for the different kinds of love. Meaning those who speak Spanish know because of their language about the different degrees and classes of love, which opens up different wa...

Notes Part 1 These are notes taken during a class. We must not intellectualise the virtues but give them immediate action. The more essence we have the more virtues can be crystallised into it and the more virtue can be expressed. To have more essence we need to free more essence through mystical death. All the virtues are expressed in accordance to the 'level of being' of a person. A person has a minimum of each virtue. With the work on ourselves that is expanded upon. Each of us have to develop certain virtues in each life that we have. Circumstances to develop those needed virtues will repeat and repeat until we develop them. The virtues are also sent to us from our Inner Being to be manifested here in the physical.  A characteristic of the awakened consciousness is love. A characteristic of the ego is selfishness. The virtues extend from Monad to Monad. The defects go from ego to ego, they are very limited. The essence of love is others. The opposite of love is selfishness....