Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

Stages of Death We die first in our actions and words. Then in the feelings, followed by the thoughts as shown below. Stages of Liberation We liberate ourselves from our conditionings and limitations first within our intellectual center. That is we change our way of thinking to one free of that limitation or conditioning. Then our way of feeling changes, and finally we change in action. A change in actions means liberation from that conditioning or limitation. The process is as shown below. Note, the intellect is primarily analysis to produce a change. Emotion is primarily comprehension of the analysis for change and the motor centre represents the digestion of the change into actuality. End (5242).

That's the formula to keep an ego alive and that's the reason why we keep any ego alive: good physical results and a  good psychological payback. It gets results here in the material physical world and it makes us to feel good, even if it be temporarily.  When any of the those two above benefits stop, we have been graced with the chance to work on eliminating it. End (5241).

Often we see an angry person as strong, domineering and difficult. However, looking behind that facade we find that they are scared or hurt.  When there is strong pride it is often too difficult to appear vulnerable and say the truth to others that "I am scared or feel hurt".  It is better for pride to be angry and spiteful and demand to have things go our way. Because pride will manage to save face and keep the fear or hurt disguised.  Because we use anger we are blinded from trusting in the kindness of others which is what we need to do instead of resorting to anger and disguising our fear or hurt. There is always a reason for pride to disguise fear or hurt. Maybe the past... An angry person is usually always a person hurting. We can only feel that in others when we allow ourselves to look behind their anger. The paradox is that to see the fear behind their anger we have to overcome our own fear of their anger. The other paradox is that being truthful and vulnerable is ...

There will be some a jumps in the consecutive series of post numbers. This is just to sort out the 127 duplicates that there are. End (5231).

Pay attention to what you do because that is really what you are and what you believe in. We believe we are what we think we are. What we think we are is not what we really are and it takes us a long time to see that we are only what we do not what we think we are. The truth is every human being does what they believe. What we believe comes from our identity. The truth is often that we don't know what we believe but it is there in front of us, it is not in what we think but in what we do. End (5230).

To make sure we use our consciousness in the day a bit more than we did yesterday or more than we usually do. Give yourself a job for the day that only your consciousness can do! Such as: ➕ Only positive thoughts about something like: a person, a situation or say the past or future. ⛔ Only reality - nothing of fantasy. ➕ Only consciously spoken words. ➕ Attention on the task.  ➕ Remembering the Being ➕ Your identity as the soul of the Being If we chose one of the above or any other task and make that our day's job we definitely will use our consciousness. End (5229).

This is the order in which the "I's" is dissolved.  We start with the very visible "I's" that are called the bad "I's". Meaning the "I's" that more often than not have negative results for ourselves and others. Such as anger, pride, laziness, greed, lust, gluttony, jealousy, envy and so on.  Next are the good "I's" which try to do the good but often don't produce a good result for both ourselves and others, even they often produce a good result or anyone. They are worked on after the heavy visible egos are worked because they require more consciousness to work on. End (5228).

Here are the five steps that are followed when working in the elimination of any "I". Following posts will expand upon the process within each step. End (4991).

Sex is a causal power. No doubt about it. It originates and causes life and is the cause for life. It also forms a chain of cause and effect. We know the law of cause and effect forms a great chain linking past, present and future through space.  We know an effect becomes a cause of another effect and the resulting effect becomes the cause for something else and the chain continues... A father has a son, and the son has a son and becomes a father. Forging a great chain of fathers and sons. The cause of any event links back to sex. Because the sexual act was what gave life to the human beings that were involved in the event that changed history for good or bad. Sexual thinking is far wider and above thinking about the sexual act and its technicalities. It is about seeing the interplay of two opposite polarities (sexuality) in every moment of life and in every event. Seeing how the two polarities meet to form an origin of a cause which unfolds effects that becomes causes that generat...

It is really scary how we throw and lock ourselves into our own abyss while we are alive.  We throw ourselves down when we reject and dislike and we lock ourselves there when we believe we are right and justified in resenting and hating. It's even worse when we die, we gravitate down into nature's abyss while we continue to believe we are right and justified in our resentment and hatred. The strangest thing, is that in the very depths of the abyss there is a part of ourselves that knows we are wrong and it is only because we decide not to listen to that part, that we continue to stay there no matter how bad (filthy and miserable) it is. When we listen to that part and embrace it, letting go of who is right or wrong or what is fair or unfair, we start to rise to the surface.  The first people we meet up there are those who we believed hurt us... They were they hoping and waiting that we would make it. End (5225).

Conscious love starts when there is no help from our personality or any of our egos in what can be considered an act of love. When there is no interest in what we are going to love from our personality and our egos, then we have the opportunity to feel the degree of conscious love we have. We also have the opportunity, if we wish, to develop and enrich our degree of conscious love. Conscious love will be present when there is the central reason that aligns with enhancing the essence and the work of the essence. For example, we may wish to help someone. But we find inside of us, no interest or attraction from our personality or any of our egos to help them. However, for the good of the essence and for the work of that person, we decide to help them. That is one example of millions, of conscious love in action. End (5223).

The following diagram expands on the Post 5219 that presented the overall steps to take our word from the hands of the ego. This post presented the small steps within the overall steps presented in Post 5219. This post presents all the steps. As always feel free to download this image and do as you please with it. Get in touch if you would like the Visio file. End (5222).

The tone of words spoken among human beings always has the most weight . We believe the tone more than the words themselves. It's amazing how we unconsciously pay more attention to the tone. This is because we somehow subconsciously pick up that the tone is the aspect that really reflects the psychological state of the person speaking. We know that the psychological state is what determines what the person does. The correct use of the word is to make the tone to match the meaning of the words used. If the tone does not match, people will subconsciously believe the tone. Which in turn creates a lot of confusion, as the tone and meaning can be opposite. End (5221).

Essence Learns in the Kingdoms   As the essence evolves through the kingdoms: mineral. plant and animal it learns many lessons through time about the different values needed for human life.  These lessons also serve as a basis upon which the essence when it reaches the state of human being can attempt the self-realization of the Monad.  Animal Kingdom When the essence is in the animal kingdom, it is learning about the different values of the essence. Each animal species offers the essence many opportunities to learn the different values.  We can observe that each animal has it's major strengths and very particular characteristics. For example as a lion the essence learns courage, dominion, nobility, from a sloth one learns patience, from a fox one learns cunning and survival and so on. If we observe the animal species we can make out for ourselves what the essence would learn from spending several lives in this species. The Guru Devas One of the role of the guru...

The Work on the Word These are the steps to work on taking our word from the hands of the ego (conditioned consciousness) and placing it into the hands of our Inner Being.  The steps to rescue the word can be followed for any "I", as they all have a use of the word. Please note, the work of rescuing the word is done for each "I" and the work of purifying and perfecting is done overall or in general. End (5219).

First Process Post This post marks the beginning of a series of posts that will present many of the processes that a person will come across in their study of Gnosis. They are practical in nature and can be 100% worked with. They are verifiable and true. Human Machine The first process is the order by which the centres of the human machine always function, and the second process is the order by which we all learn something according to the centres of the human machine. Order of Centres Learning End (5218).

No, but we often think that we are, or that reciprocity doesn't apply in a given situation. Life is the ever constant flow of give and take. To not give means to be dead. Death is a need for the person that does not want to give. Because all of life all the time is about giving and taking.  By giving we become more conscious. The awakened person gives to creation in the best way like no other being on the planet can give. To be unconscious and not want to give means death. The Sun the King of Reciprocation We may think people should always give or always just receive. But that is not according to the law of reciprocity. All people, all creatures must participate in giving and receiving. We may think that contacts or connections should just give when we ask or just receive when we want to give. This may work for a while but the time will come to reciprocate and either a friendship we will become responsible to will have to be created, where there will be give and take, or each party...

Notes This post presents some notes for the talk: "Psychic Development". Introduction We are in creation to really develop our psyche. That is to convert all the light and energy that we receive through impressions (external and internal), into consciousness. Impressions always crystallize into something. If we work upon them they crystallise into light. If we don't they crystallise into darkness or in other words - mechanical and dense psychological creations. Psychic development is to know that all that comes to us is somehow connected to us, and it is for us to use what comes to develop ourselves. Nothing comes to us, that is into our life, for no reason. What is our life? It is a sum of impressions, perceptions, sensations, concepts and beliefs. What is really real for us is our inner life, that is our thoughts and feelings. We truly live more in our interior world than in the exterior. The human being is a creation that has the introduction of interior space. We are ...

It is said that each being in its nature, within each kingdom must become radioactive before being able to pass onto the next kingdom. The minerals, plants and animals do it by the force of evolutionary laws, however human beings do not do it. We can see this the easiest with the minerals. Where an essence will move into radioactive mineral life as a preparation for entry into the transition species between the mineral and plant kingdoms. Human beings are stuck on the runway. It is not meant in view of the cosmic picture for human beings to become stuck and not progress into the other kingdoms of nature, such as the kingdoms of the soul and the spirit, and beyond that; the kingdom of the Logos and the Absolute. Human beings do not progress by law because human beings have individual consciousness and so they must take their progress according to their own volition and with their own consciousness. This though does not mean that human beings don't receive help. They do, they really ...

Contemplating that possibility of being an invisible passerby - we find a direct encounter with our own psychological death. To find something that can help along our psychological death today, is something worthy of bringing to our attention. What would it mean for me to an invisible passerby in my workplace, at home, in the Gnostic group, walking and driving on the streets etc.? Something wriggles in discomfort inside of us, and from within our mind comes the protest of "that's wrong, that's not very useful - to be invisible!". Self-importance, vanity and competitive pride wriggle in discomfort within us... We are not going to be invisible, as in no one can see and find us anymore, and so they will go and report us to the police as missing. No, not like that - but egoically invisible. In the sense of not leaving a mark and stain behind us. To pass through events and circumstances with creating a disturbance, a wash and a wake for others and ourselves to deal with. N...

Truly in small and large ways every day offers us chances to be different to what we always are. The question is to ourselves: "Did we take advantage of it?".  If no it is not too late... End (5214).

Degeneration  Degeneration essentially means to initiate a process of decline or atrophy. Master Samael explained that the fall or degeneration of the Lemurians began when they decided to perform the sexual act outside of the temples and outside of the rhythms directed by the cosmos.  From what Master Samael says we can infer that degeneration in relation to the sexual energy is a use of the sexual energy that extends outside of some order or limit. The two real legitimate uses of the sexual energy are to procreate and build our interior universe. This takes a long time to accept, but truly makes a lot of sense once accepted. The joy of the sexual act which is legitimate Master Samael explains is it seems from his teachings a side issue. Yet it is real. Sexual Energy Sexual energy is like water and fire. It is very powerful like fire and water. It can do great good or be very destructive.  The best way to use fire and water is to give it a useful purpose and the right cha...

We wake up in the morning by virtue of some special factor that we don't fully know - that is really a mystery to us. Each day is a mystery. If we just do a retrospection exercise with attention to detail we will find so many instances in which we were not in control, so many instances we didn’t fully understand what was happening and what was going on inside of ourselves... There is always something in each day that is outside of the plan of the routine. Something almost unexpected...  Why is that? It is a part of the mystery of each day. It's the day's way of telling us: "see each day is a mystery". In the unexpected is where the day holds its mystery. Each day our job is to unravel and peer a little more deeply and wider into the mystery of ourselves and why it is that we are here. Why are the people in our lives in our lives? And why the circumstances even against our own will and liking are present in our life? This is a mystery that we must uncover. Where do...

We must know! Review our day with detailed scrutiny and it will appear. The most difficult or hardest of days will reveal the most. End (5266).

Because of its power .  There are other reasons but this is the main one.  If evil were useless and incapable of anything then really what would human beings be so attracted to? Observe how no person doing evil feels weak. End (5212).

We have been taught that what really makes us awaken and die in ourselves is being different to what we are. If we are lazy and negligent all the time then be diligent and give closer attention and care to all things. If we are proud and angry all the time then be sweet and co-operative.  If we are a quiet, scared recluse then be open and happy in the company of others. If we are selfish and stingy then spend time and money with and on others. If we are bossy and controlling then be kind, flexible and respectful of others. The list goes on… We just have to in truth be the opposite of what we are.  But first we have to find and admit to ourselves what we are. We may not at first know how to be the opposite of what we are. But we have to work it out, and we will certainly work it out when we really try. I understand now more and more that if we don't make these big opposite turn around changes in our way of being we are stopping our awakening and mystical death. End (5211).

The way to die really in our day is to impose very strictly a task upon ourselves. Something like not have one negative thought about somebody. Something serious and meaningful and of a transcendental nature. That will really make us to work on ourselves. We will be alert and working to not think negatively. If not we don't, we really don't do too much at all during our day. Much less if we don't sit down and really do an esoteric practice or carry an esoteric action. End (5210).

Now and then some humility is good for us. To feel emptiness is good now and then because it makes us to realise that we are here because of our Monad, our Father-Mother. Humility to thank them for the day, for being alive and being healthy, for being in the work and being sound of mind to be able to work on ourselves today, for both them and us together. To seek moments of connection during the day to express gratitude to the Monad is meaningful, beautiful, nourishes the soul and fills the inner emptiness. End (5208).

It is in the nature of will to expand. It can expand internally or externally. When it expands externally, it must expand into other human beings. Where others will do its will. There are many ways that this can be done. It is usually done over time if the ways of forceful or less forceful convincing don't work. One way that we should be aware of and try not to use, is to forcefully use the work and it's principles to make another person to correct or change themselves for the sake of our will. It is true that others including ourselves need to change. It is not correct though to use the will forcefully to make another to change against their will. If they are willing that is all ok but if not, that is an error. For the person made to change, they can use that force of the other's will as a driving introspective force to see with their consciousness any error that they may be making. As soon as the consciousness sees the whole issue is transcended. We are not often aware th...

It is truly difficult to eliminate controlling others. Even reacting at others who get angry is controlling others. To be dead to controlling others means to not react to any of their negative manifestations. We often react as a protest, with the desire to change the way they are treating us. It is not easy dying to subtle ways we control others. In general, no desire for the good things, such as for fairness or correctness, and no desire for vested interests, equals not controlling others. End (5207).

I think we all may have suffered from information overload at one time or another. These are what we typically experience: The remedy is the same as losing weight. Eat less and move more. So take in less info and practice more (look inside more). End (5205).

That typical situation of being in a bad mood and another person carries us through the day with their good attitude, energy and internal state... To be carried that way through the day is not really good of us. We should be able to do better, at least to carry ourselves. But we don't, we tend hang off the positive energy of others. What about our Inner Being? Are we carrying it or is it carrying us? We really have to conclude that our Inner Being is mostly carrying us.  When we take responsibility for dissolving the egos we created and work on them, take care of our own essence and take a certain sovereignty over our internal states we are lightening the burden on our Inner Being.  There are many ways we end up being carried. Neglecting to take care of our own happiness and inner education, we are really wanting to be carried by others and that is often a load that they can't always carry. It seems that the way of things is that we are helped to stand up and walk and then onc...

We need to focus more on 'being'. Gnosis can become a bit too much about information. There is so much clear information in the Gnostic doctrine that makes it so easy to lean on and forget about 'being'. 'Being' is the real work, is what saves us. Being different to what we are right now. Being the values of the Being. End (5203).

It happens from time to time that some 'students' are not really students but people who have been sent by an organization, or by their own to gather information.  They stay for a while, note down as much as they can, keep a relative appearance of interest and then leave as soon as they have all the information they need. They are easy to detect owing to that invisible psychic barrier that they project of not wanting to get too involved, especially not personally or with genuine emotion. In fact, the curiosity of the ego is like that. It stays to hear as much as is needed to get a basic understanding, and leaves as soon as it understands that Gnosis is not going to serve its interests. End (5202).

Regeneration Regeneration I think must be understood in the way of generating something that was lost or damaged.  Regenerating therefore means to heal that which has been damaged and restore that which has been lost. Regeneration is also the act of creating anew. Where the new may be better than the original in many ways. The pertinent questions here are: What in us has been lost or damaged? What does the creative energy heal within our spiritual life? What does the creative energy restore within our spiritual life? We in many ways find ourselves fragmented psychologically, disconnected spiritually and weak in vitality. Sexual Energy Attracts, Unifies, Creates = Healing The sexual energy attracts, unifies, creates and heals. It can unify the fragmentation into a whole and restore the broken connections.  The means of regeneration is transmutation. Nothing of regeneration can be done if one does not transmute the sexual energy. The sexual energy when transmuted has the power t...

Introduction to the Introduction This post is a collection of notes to do with introducing this talk topic. The details of this topic won't be covered in this post. Master Samael does an excellent job of covering the details in his books. Notes Now days there are so many paths. Which one is the right one?  It is also difficult these days for people to accept that there is only one path. To address this confusion and resistance it is good to make reference to the dry and wet paths or the direct and spiral paths.  The shortest path between two points is a straight line and there is only one straight line that joins those two points. This is the direct path.  There are an infinite number of curved lines that can join those two dots.   Therefore there are thousands of paths to walk along to get between two points.  The way of the warrior, the way of the artist, the shamans' way, the path of the psychic, the path of the nature wonderer, the way of the healer, th...

When we give others space and use our words and actions to uphold their dignity then we are respecting ourselves. To say things and do things that lower the rights and dignity of others that will cause others to react against us is not repsectful to ourselves. This is becasue it will to cause others to shout at us, insult us, ignore us and glare at us. These things do happen and we shouldn;t be afraid of them, but bringing them upon ourselves is a different thing. It is simply due to being ignorant of the value of respect. End (5198).  

These two attentions are different. Attention with the mind tires the brain. and reduces the flow of life into steps, where it is inevitable that the narration of the mind begins to take over. With the awareness of steps comes a certain tediousness and the feeling of the flow of life leaving us behind. With the attention of mind very little of what's behind events comes to us... Attention with the essence brings the power of presence, in other words brings a certain depth and continuity of flow  Attention with the essence doesn't tire or strain and opens doorways into perceiving what is behind events and the thoughts and feelings that appear within us. It allows us also to flow with the flow of life, which is a pleasant feeling. Conclusion, make the essence bring attention to outer and inner life. End (5197).