Gnosis Wisdom

Master Samael spoke about the laconic action of the Being. Where the Being initiates an action for no result. There is no physical result but psychologically there is the result of any given value being exercised.  The action taken is for the love of the value itself for the sake of keeping alive and strengthening the value. At some point in the life of keeping a value alive there will be laconic action. For example, to pay a lot of money and take time off work to travel far away somewhere and spend the time in prayer and contemplation on the Inner Being while not asking for anything or focusing on anything, is laconic action that gives nothing physically except a big financial expense, yet it strengthens the Being Itself. It expresses Itself. In the laconic action is where we find the Being Itself and it is where we also find being. End (5161).

Era An era is different to an age, such as the four ages: golden age, silver age, bronze age and iron age. An era is when the Earth for a certain period of time, comes to receive the cosmic vibrations of a particular constellation, which in turn has a determined influence over the Earth and its population.  During an era, the cosmic vibrations received from one constellation, predominates over the vibrations received from other constellations. Start There are varied start dates. However the Gnostic teachings say that February 4th, 1962 between 2 and 3pm (Mexico time) is when the new Era of Aquarius began. Mexico is the magnetic centre of the Era of Aquarius. Specifically the pyramids of the sun and the moon at Teotihuacan. The energy of the new era is being channelled by that magnetic centre of the Earth located in Mexico where the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon are. There was a planetary conflagration in which the planets of our solar system aligned more or less in one line befo...

If we love ourselves as a soul we love others. Because to not love others is diminish the love that is in our essence, which is to not love our essence... To love ourselves as a person is to end up not loving you...  The real self-love is the love for our essence and ourselves as essence. From that love, comes the love for the work on ourselves and from that comes all the other noble virtues and qualities. End (5162).

The powers of life and death function in the alchemical process, just as they function in the many fields of life. It is true that anyone who practices Alchemy learns about the forces of the cosmos in all the centres. When the couple transmute the powers of life are present, charging both with the energies of life. To wield the power to create and to bring some new and internal to life.    When both concentrate on the Divine Mother for the dissolution of the "I" then both wield the power of death. That is the power to dissolve or undo so as to give new life. Both life and death are powers, and both give to one another and empower the essence with certain capacities. The powers of life brings us the energy and strength of life and the powers of death bring us the freedom and light we have within.  Both powers empower us in a complete way. We musn't forget that death is a power too and that it also empowers us with the sublime, just as life does. In other words, we should n...

Two Ways This post gives two ways to find the light inside of ourselves. First Way Dedicate ourselves to periods of intense observation of what arises inside of ourselves.  See what arises adn look deeply seeing what is behind it. Seeing what is it really. Discover the new, know ourselves better. From practice, it is better to dedicate five intense minutes then stop and carry on with our day's tasks. A little later on do another five minutes. Doing this is better than trying the whole day but not really doing it intensely.  The end goal of course is to observe intensely the whole day intensely. But we have to start off doing it right and build up the right way of doing it. Not doing it wrongly and continue doing it wrongly getting frustrated in the process. For intense observation we need a good amount of alert attention. Which we all have. Our attention must be fine tuned, sharp and alert to catch the wispy thoughts and feelings. Second Way The other avenue is to interact ext...

To live a good day in our esoteric work is not about doing spectacular things in the external world. Nor is it really about getting our 'to do' list all done... A day well spent is one where we looked as deep as we could. That is, in whatever came to us we looked as deep as we could into it, to extract as much light as we could from it. Everything that unfolds inside of us either triggered from inside or outside offers us a chance to extract light. If we keep our day simple, doing externally what is needed but push inwardly to look deeply into the thoughts and emotions that arise we live a good day. We can live even better days when we try to be better today than we were yesterday. See the post 5159 about some ways to extract light from our day. End (5160).

This post takes a short look at freedom. We first think that freedom is to do whatever we want whenever we want.  It's good to try that and then realise that yes we can do whatever we do whenever we want but there are consequences to reckon with. You then realise that we are subjected to laws and breaking those laws puts us into a situation where some of our freedom is taken away.  So then doing whatever you want and whenever is not really freedom if its end in having our freedom taken away.  We then come to learn that a realer freedom that does not result in our freedom being taken away is to do what we want and when we want within an order. A combination of the: two freedom and order is the real liberty. Liberalism is a liberty gone wrong, a liberty that forgets about an order of things. Plus we also know that freedom is realer when there is freedom inside of ourselves. To have the internal freedom to not do what we want and to do what we want is a higher degree of free...

When we identify as much as we can with our essence, our awareness, our light, our soul we feel that there are parts of ourselves that are stuck in a nature that is not ours.  We need to rescue ourselves from that nature is what we urgently feel. When we feel some identification with the body and mind, we don't feel the above feeling. Because our body is whole and there is no part of it stuck or given over to something that is not it's nature. The same with the mind, it's job is to think and that is what it does - it just thinks and nothing stops it from thinking. Each ego that we have is us - the essence , but stuck in another nature. A nature that is unbecoming of our true essential nature, an inferior nature, in many ways an animal nature. When identified as essence and we ourselves are the essence, we really then feel the urgency to get ourselves back. Because we know that there are parts of ourselves that are stuck and not accessible to the rest of our essence right no...

As soon as we speak too much we lose our power. The power 'to do' and 'to be'. It best to speak consciously. To speak with purpose and clear direction. Not for the sake of it. To not speak for the sake of it we need to learn to find comfort in silence. Relax in the silence and not feel the 'awkward silence'. To understand that to be silent has a purpose. Which is to assess, process and understand and to begin to create. We all know consciously or subconsciously that silence is a power and we use it wrongly keep silent so to hurt or inconvenience others because we feel we have been hurt. We forget to use silence correctly. To be silent is also a part of the word and it's use comes down to retaining inner power and to processing what has been said to formulate what next to say. End (5155).

Each layer of ourselves has to be educated and that's why we find ourselves teaching ourselves or learning the same lesson over and over again. Because each layer has to be taught the same lesson. Albeit slightly more deeply each time. The different layers are the different centres, the bodies and the level of our mind. End (5154).

Notes We all need energy. Psychological and esoteric work takes energy. That is energy of a special kind not just any energy. The energy that most fuels psychological and esoteric work is the Sexual Hydrogen Si-12. Spiritual realizations, experiences, insight and transformation all takes energy. If we have no energy to do this we can not make any of these things happen inside of ourselves. This topic is about how to produce an energetic transformation inside of ourselves. Our body is a factory that in its processes of transformation selects the best of what is available, and furthermore it works to transform that into a precious final product.  The best final product of the best selection of the body's energies is the sexual energy that when transmuted becomes Sexual Hydrogen Si-12. Sexual Hydrogen is the seminal entity and it is the end result of the transformation of what we eat, breathe, think, feel and do. The body produces it automatically without our intervention and everyon...

There is this very old trick of the ego, that when the mind sees that the Gnostic teaching is all about facing oneself to transform one's psychology, and there are no special techniques or magical remedies other than knowing and facing yourself, the egos rebel.  One trick that they use is to provoke all sorts of problems and fights within the group to draw out the ego in the students and teacher, so that they can end up saying: "Gnosis is no different, it is the same as all the rest, lots of ego and nobody does what they say.". Then the egos and the mind feel satisfied and justified in leaving... That's more a big scale version of the negative relief valve, but we have this negative relief valve operating within us in so many smaller scales to do with individual people, events and activities. As soon as our egos feel some kind of challenge, perhaps the challenge to feel positively, generous or kind or something we are not easily capable of, we judge negatively and bas...

The general practice to develop our capacity to hold images in our mind is this: Look at an object for some minutes. Concentrate on it and study it, don't allow thoughts to distract you. Then close your eyes and simply see the object you have been focussing on. See it almost without effort. When it disappears bring it back. When you no longer can bring it back open your eyes and study it again. Repeat this over and over again until the time in which you can see the object and hold it in a relaxed yet stable way in your mind's eye increases.  Time yourself and take note of how your time increases day by day or week by week. I'll write a post soon about how to see something in your mind's eye. The images we chose can help us in our spiritual work and lead us deeper into ourselves and connect to some esoteric and mystical type of experiences and visions. If we concentrate on: a symbol seen in a dream, or a scene from a dream that was enigmatic or esoteric in quality, a rea...

It is such an important skill to be teach ourselves to hold an imagined image in our mind stable unsteady for 5 minutes. This will improve your memory, advance your concentration and sharpen your attention. It will also help you immensely in your esoteric practices. Especially, when it comes to meditation on a scene from your day, holding awareness when going to sleep to unfold into the astral, chanting mantras and gaining insight when concentrating on a feeling that an "I" produces in our emotional centre.   I really recommend acquiring that ability as soon as possible. It may take a few weeks, with it being difficult at the beginning but you will advance quickly.  End (5150).

There is the lecture topic: "Imagination and Fantasy". Always during that lecture someone asks: is visualising the same as imagination. The answer is not really. Visualising is seeing in our mind's eye things that are physically real and or events that have happened. Where as imagination is seeing things in our mind's eye that we create or receive anew and are unknown. That is why visualisation is used all the time for the things of life (sport, manifesting money, therapy etc.) but when it comes to the esoteric and to the new, imagination is what is used.  Which is why in Gnosis there is the talk "Imagination and Fantasy" and not Visualisation and Fantasy. The new, creative comprehension, revelation comes to us through imagination not visualisation. However, we may start with visualisation to open imagination. End (5149).

We should not underestimate relaxation. If one is truly relaxed it is very difficult to become negative or to manifest any psychological "I" such as anger, lust or resentment. Relaxation serves as the base for concentration. The psychological "I", personality and mind bring tension to the body. If we relax the body we will relax the mind. This happens via the body-mind feedback loop. If we can't focus or we are not having much success in our day at being conscious or observant of ourselves, then we need to start by relaxing well first of all. When we consciously relax we are strengthening our essence and also nourishing it. This is because when we are relaxed prana can flow and being relaxed the ego has been displaced and the prana can then flow to our essence and nourish it. To relax the three brains is also to align them and bring into circulation the prana for us to be conscious. End (5148).

A great feedback loop exists between body and mind.  The body follows the mind and the mind takes from how the body is going. If the body is going well the mind takes confidence. If the body is not going well the mind takes worry. So if we relax the body on purpose the mind will follow.  If we regulate and harmonise our breath to a calm rhythm we will regulate our mind to a calmness and a kind of organisation from which we can focus. End (5147).

"I" of Self-Love: To love ourselves through others. Remedy: Send waves of conscious love to the Inner Being that is also ourselves as essence. "I" of Self-Importance : To depend on importance given to us through others. Remedy: Make the Inner Being the most important of all, to ourselves.  Perseus Slaying Medusa "I" of Self-Compassion: Desire for commiseration (not compassion) from others and ourselves.  Remedy: Give our essence the real conscious compassion which is acceptance, patience and the strength to get up and correct our faults moving towards transformation. "I" of Self-Consideration: Desire for consideration and concession from others and ourselves. Remedy: To consider others and our Inner Being more than ourselves. Take joy in doing that. End (5146).

Our essence needs food as well. Especially the right kind of food.  We feed our essence by activating it and as soon as it is activated it begins to attract cosmic nourishment, and absorb the nourishment we are constantly receiving through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the impressions we receive and other energies that enter into us from outside and inside.  We are always receiving nourishment but it is too often taken by the mind, ego and personality, however as soon as the essence is active it can nourish itself with those energies instead. When we pray, meditate, vocalise, study the teachings, talk about the teachings, reflect deeply, remember our inner Being, practice mindfulness etc. we are nourishing our essence.  End (5145).

We have heard in Gnosis about lunar psychology, solar psychology, karmic psychology, human psychology, esoteric psychology, ontological psychology, psychology of the virtues, psychology of the defects...  and I'm sure more will also appear. It seems whenever there is a principle there is a psychology. It seems the way that these perennial principles express inside of us here in the physical world, is through our psychology. Therefore as masculine and feminine are the two primordial cosmic principles of the cosmos, there must be a feminine and masculine psychology. I am studying these two psychologies and as more is learnt more posts will follow. For the purpose of this post, which is to set the scene for what is to come, it good to say that there exists a masculine and feminine psychology that follows the Cosmic archetype and there also exists a masculine and feminine psychology that follows a broken or unbalanced polarised version of this Divine or Cosmic archetype. Further to thi...

Awakening is all about being our true self which is all about embracing our true identity - which is the essence. To the essence and truly take up the identity of our essence we need to shed the false identities we have put on. Many times during the day we put on several false identities. We need to shed those false identities very often to awaken. In the strictest sense we would be aware every moment of our identity and shed the false every moment we need to. We are an essence and an essence is not our job, not our mind, not our thoughts, not our role, not our religion, not our country, not our age, not our marital status, not our body... The above are all labels. We are not a label!  All of those above things change in time and depend upon other elements which we are not. Our job and role depends on others and a company, if we are married and we are a husband or a wife, it is because of the another person. We were none of these things when we were born and we will be none of thos...

When we look at ourselves let's see the tree of life where we are the essence that is linked to Tipereth and Tiphereth is linked to Geburah and Chesed (consciousness and Spirit), who in turn are linked to the Logos - the Three Primary Forces of Creation. Let's see that we are a soul linked to Divinity. Let's forgot about seeing our family tree and the org chart at work and all the other trees in society. Changing these images will change the way we see ourselves. End (5143).

In each moment that we remember see ourselves as a soul. "I am the soul of a Divinity!". We say. When we see ourselves see ourselves as consciousness which is light, and which contains knowledge and will. Seeing ourselves as soul, see how a soul thinks, we see how a soul feels and do as a soul does. End (5142).

A huge part of our awakening is seeing ourselves as the essence, as a soul as consciousness. Here is a little something that will help. When we think of ourselves, there are usually images that subtly appear in the background of our mind. These images tie us to our human personality identity which is what we want to change from. These images are our house, our clothes, our body, our job, our family etc. This time when you think of yourself see in your mind's eye: light. Consciousness is light, that illuminates, knows, expands, understands, radiates and gives... End (5141).

We have really two memories, impression memory and fact memory.  When we live out of impression memory we really get stuck in the ego. The ego lives in impression memory. Fact memory is the memory of the facts, what happened, what time it was, what day it was, what was said, what was completed etc. etc. Impression memory is the memory of our own self-generation impressions about the event or what was said. Impression memory is very subjective and is often erroneous because the element of perception in us is not most of the time is not the objective, that is not the consciousness which is objective or impartial. When we ive out of fact memory we can know ourselves as we are and we can get things correct in relation to reality. When we need to be serious about things and get results in our job for example, we switch into fact memory and we leave behind impression memory. Because we know impression memory is not really helpful, nor is it efficient. In relationships we usually use impr...

To weaken a value of one's own essence even if it seems fair, serves in the greater picture an inferior justice. When we chose a justice superior to another we receive a reward that matures internally in time. When we chose an inferior justice over a superior one, in time we receive an accumulation of negative backlash to deal with. For example, if a person has a value and sacrifices it to be more compatible to another, that person will in time incur a debt to one's own Inner Being which will manifest in certain difficulties in life. If a person has a value and they keep it and even though the act of keeping it causes much misunderstanding, the Inner Being of the person will reciprocate and reward the person both internally and externally through the different circumstances of life. To lose a value is to drop a level of Being and to fall under different qualities and circumstances of life with less options for spiritual development.   End (5139).

We say enough when we are not doing what we have 'signed up' to do. When our daily routine does not support or allow what we signed up to do, we have to make an effort and this means to sacrifice something of ourselves.  There is no other way and we usually know that there is no other way because we have spent a long time in the same routine not doing what we 'signed up' to do. End (5137).

We may not like conflict but there is one thing about it that keeps us turning back to it over and over again. It is the certainty of it. We know how the conflict will develop, play out and end. It's something that we have seen many times before. The mind and some egos get very accustomed to it and even comfortable with it. However, that of peace is scary as it really implies mystical death and changes. Everything has a price, the price of peace may well be having to deal with uncertainty. Yet it is peace! End (5140).

If Chokmah and Binah are also in our brain knowing the qualities of both right and left brain will help us to know a bit more about Chokmah and Binah.  It's not too hard to see. We can see how Binah is rigour (left brain white and black characteristics) and how because of that rigour the attempts against the Holy Spirit or sexual energy are not pardoned. We can see how flexible Chokmah is, how forgiving by the way the right brain works.  End (5136).

The book of Genesis introduced the teaching of the Garden of Eden and the two trees living within it. One tree has the name: The Tree of Life and the other has the name The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil. Sometimes the second tree has been referred to as: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The two trees are said to share the same roots. The two trees were said to both bear fruit. However, it was only from one tree that Adam and Eve could freely eat from. This was the Tree of Life. It was prohibited to consume the fruit of the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil. However, to savour the aroma of the fruit of the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil was permitted. In esoteric terms Gnosis teaches that the: The tree of life is the Kabbalah and the The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil is Alchemy. In simple terms, 'The Tree of Life' is the Divine Being within us and 'The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil' is the work with sexuality. That is using sexual...

Our interior Anubis is the one within us that issues forth into our interior our particular balance setting. Our interior Anubis is also the part of the Being that emphasises one universal principle over another for a given time our life. Putting the different egos that we have in our interior aside for a moment, our particular balance setting is the where ont he scale we find balance - that is fulfillment and happiness. It may at this point of our life, that balance for us is to give to a degree beyond the 50-50 measure activating the law of sacrifice..  At another point of our life the 50-50 measure may be the balance setting...  Of course when two or more people are brought together there will be different balance settings. One balance setting is not generally understood by another. With the virtue of respect and esoteric understanding this gap in misunderstanding can be overcome.  It is important to note that we have different balance settings for the different areas ...

Once ill-will sets in, it stays. We can not analyse it away. We need to bring an equal or higher power. Such as good-will, consciousness or spirit. We can do this by reciting with intense good-will: May All Beings be Happy. May All Beings be Joyful. May All Beings be at Peace. Over and over again until the stubborn ill-will shifts. End (5133).

These are notes taken during a class. The manifestation of the Being has three aspects: will, attention and consciousness. This is the key to manifest the will of the Being. Another point has to do with spiritual symbiosis. " The will of the Monad is something special.  The reality of the will is truly something infinite that we can't fully define. Describing the teachings about the will damages the true perception of what will is. It is best understood through feeling.  Will is the mystery of the inner impelling force of a Divine Monad. The mind is ill-will. The mind will never know what the will of the Divine Bieng really is. Attention is the key. It is a power that may we all cultivate. The intelligence of God is in our physical body. Everything begins with attention. Will is the impelling force that moves the attention to do something. If there is no attention there is no life. Attention is soemthing really ontological. Attention is the force of life and light that streams...

The more critical we are of others the more we limit ourselves. The more in fact we unknowingly criticise ourselves.  A very critical of others person, will have great difficulty to speak in front of others, because their own critical nature will project an overwhelming amount of criticism from others onto themselves that they will feel too ashamed and embarrased to speak or perform in front of others.   The less we criticise others the more we abilities and space we open up for ourselves. The more forgiving we are, the open we can be and the less self-limiting we will be with ourselves. End (5131).