Gnostic Wisdom

Some interesting maps of anger being expressed in the world. End (5379).

Descent into the Abyss and its Connections When a person works seriously on a defect, for certain periods of time they end up being deeply submerged into that defects states of consciousness. This is so to really know and comprehend it.  A part of that submersion is a descent into one's own abyss. While in one's own abyss connections are made to the abyss of nature where that defect is dominant. That connection to the abyss of nature allows a person to see that defect in operation all over the world in nature and humanity. Hence the world of that defect opens up. It turns out that the defect in our own abyss is the same as it is in humanity. What we have inside is reflected outside.  The order is to descend into our own abyss to know and understand and then automatically comes recognition and comprehension of the same defect in the world. There is really so much anger in this world. So much of it is commonplace, so normal and accepted, even revered, and some of it is widesprea...

Here are some notes regarding the practice of the Alchemy as taught in Gnosis. Here are some other complimentary notes: • Arousal, movement, channelling, transmutation and sublimation of the sexual energy are the key stages to work with and through. • Prayer sublimates a to fix the transmuted sexual energy into the higher dimensions and parts of ourselves.  • Prayer converts mechanical imagination into conscious imagination. • Prayer and the remembering of the Inner Being whiten the waters. Transforming the black waters to white, and the white waters to yellow. • Lust is misdirected erotic fire. Also known as the arsenified sulphur. We all have an erotic fire. The erotic fire that is free, that is outside of memory and psychological conditioning (ego, mind and personality) is what must be used for the practice.  End (4043).

The critical moment is where we decide to throw away common sense, the work, the essence and what is good and right, to the painful, ridiculous and destructive... This is the most important moment that we must prepare for in our daily work. Prepare ourselves to triumph in that critical moment. Rehearse within ourselves before if necessary.  Work intensely with our Divine Mother to not give dust in that critical moment. If the critical moment passes without us having thrown away the precious pearl then all else that comes will be easy. Hold onto the precious pearl firmly. End (4259).

Mystical pride is a little scary how it can close the path off for a person. To the point where the person themselves will close the door to the path they so yearn for. To feel that we know it all already, and that we shouldn't have to wait to receive the advanced teachings that we yearn for. To feel that we are ready now and we should be in the advanced classes already because of what we know from other studies, that are not Gnosis, is mystical pride.  It would be so simple... Apply what has been taught and exercise patience which is everything in every place of life and requires deep self-knowledge, would be all that is required to overcome the first layer of mystical pride and get what one yearns for... Many newcomers to Gnosis face this obstacle in some way or another. It seems the more knowledge or data rather, the newcomer has the more difficult it is. To think that the age old tradition of neophyte, chela, apprentice, initiate, master, guru and so on, no longer applies for t...

The more we escape from dying in our defects we are faced with, the harder it will be to face and escape from them later on. The same task is easier earlier on, but gets much harder later on. If we leave something for too long, the accumulated backlog can be too much to work through and so another avenue opens up which can be in many ways very disappointing. Steirischer Bodensee, Austria End (4257).

Psychological balance rules so much of our lives. We are always engaged in some sort of psychological balance seeking activity. When something no matter how small or big happens to us, our psychological balance is affected.  When we are unable to immediately return to balance within ourselves, we strongly tend to quickly go outside of ourselves to seek that psychological balance. For example, we may receive criticism which surpasses our concept of what is constructive, and so we feel unfairly treated and inwardly we are out of balance. Unable to balance that inner imbalance, we return fire, until we see the criticising party is somewhat diminished and sorry for their words. As soon as this is happens we feel inwardly balanced again. That is how we roll, all day and every day. How to find balance within without having to go outside, is a really good question, and is one that in order to die in certain egos such as pride and anger we need to answer. Suppressing our outside movements ...

Reviewing Invocations There are many concepts to review within us regarding the many invocations that we as Gnostics make. Points Here they are in point form: ★The Beings we invoke don't always come. They send another instead or they may wait. Our invocation may not reach them. ★The Beings we invoke can't always help as we are not ready, lack merit, have made an unjust petition or are not willing... ★Sometimes the Beings we invoke can't help us directly but engage others (people) and other Beings to help us instead. ★The Beings we invoke help us. Sometimes it is quick and sometimes it takes time. ★Some Beings respond better to the words we use to invoke and ask. ★Some Beings only come when invoked in the name of the Christ. ★The Beings we invoke may test us before helping us. That is testing to see how much we want what we are asking for and to see what our values are and where they lie. ★Sometimes the Beings we invoke have certain prerequisites to be fulfilled before helpi...

There comes a moment when we see that it is not really the other person. It is the ego within us that causes our problems.  The problem we think comes from the other person provoking our ego causing the problem, is not really the case. It is really our deficiency in being able to face and intelligently relate to very real aspects of ourselves.  Such as: the past, fairness, expression of will, uncertainty, freedom, affection, rejection, difficulty, correction, forgiveness, concepts, ideas, feelings, intellect, mental patterns, sense of right and wrong, the word etc. Other people are there to make the way we relate to the values at the heart of the issues we face with them, more conscious, and aligned with reality, which includes the reality of the Inner Being as well as the physical and psychological realities. End (4178).

Introduction We have to know how best to relate to memory, which means to know when we have to liberate ourselves from it and when we have to use it to our advantage. To liberate ourselves from 'something', we have to know that 'something' really well.  Just like the prisoner who wants to escape his or her prison, the more intricately they know about the prison and the way its managed, the more possible it will be to escape.  The work with memory is to not erase memory, it is to work on the effects of memory within ourselves.  Memory is such a tremendous part of the way we work. Try to imagine how we would function without memory... All of our thinking is based on memory. As are our concepts and perceptions. The Cosmos, the Gods and nature have memory. As master Samael says when the great Cosmic Night comes, creation withdraws in the AIN SOPH AUR, and what remains of creation, is only memory, that which the Divine Beings remember.  Memory in the best way allows conti...

This infographic explains so well the while Anglo-Saxon personality of the countries listed in the post title. This is a really good description of the typical mask we are given to wear to live in those countries. The work gives us the option to not have to wear that mask. End (4175).

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Just something interesting to browse over and pick up a detail or two to make our use of the word more conscious.  End (4174).

Introduction We all do our identity. Whatever our identity is, we do.  If we are a doctor we see and help patients who are unwell. If someone takes on their identity to be the essence (essence-identity) what would they do? Essence Does As Identity Is Some of the things the essence-identity does: 🌞Holds the cosmic perspective of itself as a citizen of the cosmos. Knows its future as a cosmic citizen which is far beyond the future of the human, which is no future but the grave. 🌞Remembers the Divine Father-Mother, never forgets its Divine origin. 🌞Works for the priorities of the Father-Mother. Which are inner development of itself through mystical death and awakening. 🌞The will of the Father-Mother. 🌞Works for other essences. 🌞Lives out the values and principles of the Father-Mother inside if itself. 🌞Transforms the many impressions of the events of daily life to extract wisdom and learning for itself and the Inner Divine Father-Mother together.  🌞Transmutes the raw ener...

Whenever we take responsibility we diminish negative emotional states. If we feel: deceived, angry, cheated, hurt, scared, anxious, stupid, incapable etc. Taking responsibility for our part in us feeling this way helps.  Sometimes it completely transforms our interior state into one of  action: 'getting done what we need to do", and sometimes it only partly transforms our interior state. In any case it helps!  End (4155).

The very best weapon before problems and difficulties is good-will.  "Let's do it!", "Let's get this fixed!", "Let's see how we can help!", "We'll solve it!", "Every problem has a solution."', "There's no problem too great for the consciousness!", "Let's learn something new here, let's see what we can do!". To face the issue with enthusiasm, positivity and some kindness is the best thing for ourselves. It is also opens all of our inner resources to help solve the problem. While negative states shut them down. It is also beneficial for others. But so much more for ourselves. Because it generates the best inner state for us to face and go through the situation. Developing this attitude helps us to push away self-compassion, laziness, pessimism and the general fear of problems and difficulties, whether they be small or large. End (4134).

Practical mysticism consists in making our Inner Being our centre of gravity. This is our entry into the ontological world. All the works of mysticism we can say, are the works of making our Inner Being the centre of gravity.  This takes much grit, yet it was (in Lemuria millions of years ago) and should be the most natural thing. To make our Inner Being our centre of gravity, we will gradually end up making our Inner Being our central reference point by which we run our inner and outer lives. The better the relationship with the Inner Being becomes, the more it will be a centre of gravity. So much so that it will become the one reference point for our life. The key is to make our relationship with the Inner Being great! The works of practical mysticism are also about investing the values of faith, love, hope and trust in the Inner Being. As these are the four columns upon which all deep and rich relationships are founded. Practical mysticism is essentially about cultivating a rich...

Whenever we get identified with an ego (an "I") what we end up doing is making a transaction. A pretty bad transaction... We spend some of our inner values and dharma to get 'something'. Most often that 'something' is worth a lot less... We identify with anger spending the serenity, patience and trust of our Inner Being for a few assuring  or apologetic words from another human being - and who knows if they really mean it...  We trade the life blood of our Inner Being for something that often has no or little life and is a bit or fully illusory.  So often it is like what Jack Sparrow did in the Pirates of the Caribbean when we sold the magic compass given to him by Tia Dalma - a Goddess of the Sea, for a mere mediocre bottle of rum.  That compass was so magic that he just had to feel in his heart what we wanted and the compass would guide him to where he would find it. The values of our Inner Bing are the magic compass... End (4036).

Introduction There are so many people that are strong and have made themselves strong which is good, especially if that strength is the conscious or awakened strength. There is also an unconscious strength which is the strength of the ego, based in ill-will. The power of will is always strong. Good will and ill-will are both strong...  The unconscious or egoical strength, creates a lot of imbalance within a person with serious consequences inside and outside. The unconscious use of strength unaware of the better or conscious use of strength and so creates problems for others, with the end result being that nobody really likes the person. There may be just a few people that can tolerate the person, but in small doses only. In life, the strong go places, yet only a few in society like them. Life beats down hard on the weak, yet society tends to favour and like the weak...  The best is to be neither of these two: strong or weak, but something different, that is someone who is inw...

When we have a karmic debt there is always a karmic instrument, which is what the karma uses to teach us, correct us and extract payment from us to bring us back to balance. Karmic instruments are usually other people. But not always... Karmic instruments usually don't know or accept that they are acting as a karmic instrument. They usually think they are doing the right thing or a good. A karmic instrument is usually asleep to what they are doing...  Anyone who reprimands you, corrects you harshly, pulls you up on things, makes your life difficult in some way, sends you long criticizing messages, talks negatively to others about you, treats you will ill-will, is a karmic instrument. They do not have to be in our immediate family they can be outside of our family in our circle of friends or work colleagues. Of course if someone is a karmic instrument for us, we are also one for them. According to who has the greater debt, there will always be a tendency to one person being more of ...

This is the typical journey that we take to find conscious balance in relation to something in life. The key points are the after experiencing both sides we can learn the synthesis which comes from the experience of both sides and we come to see what balance is.  Balance is always the wise or conscious combination of the two opposites. Which can also be summarised as the conscious application of a certain perennial value of our Inner Being, and also of the cosmos.  The conclusion of finding balance, is that balance creates merit or dharma. End (3932).

There are parts of our Being related to the Great Law. That is there are parts of our Being related to processing and paying our karmic debts and there are parts of our Being related to accruing and using our dharma. The part of the Being called Kaom or 'our inner police man" is the one who reports our actions for processing and judgement with the Divine Law. Our inner Anubis is related to how our karma is administered and it is also related to our determination of and feeling of justice in our life. The point of this post is to say that sometimes it is one of these parts of our Being that makes us do things that will unfold a series of events for us to pay some of our karmic debts. For reasons that escape us, we do things that we usually wouldn't do and because we didn't do those small things, we end up having to deal with some kind of inconvenience.  For example, the one night we didn't lock the car, someone rifles through the car taking our favourite 'cool...

In the morning before starting your day: 1. Love Love you Inner Being.  (To bring warm, life and light and to ignite the connection of exchange and collaboration with the Inner Being) 2. Trust Trust in your Inner Being. (To bring you relaxation and that beautiful comfortable feeling.) 3. Hope Hope for you and your Inner Being. (To bring you direction towards a bright future.) 4. Faith Have faith in your Inner Being. (To bring you inner strength.) Send the emmanations of these four powers to yourself and Inner BEing together as one. If we are feeling 'normal' you will feel joy. If you were feeling unwell you will feel better. End (3626).

To hurt others in our mind or with our words and actions (direct or indirect) to somehow test love is not love. Somehow in our strangely polarised psychology there is something that harms so to evoke what it is of love we have. It is a natural mechanism that love appears when there is harm. One of the functions of love is to repair and heal and so harming makes this function to appear if there is any love... We get like this because we have gone so far away from love, we have forgotten what it really is and further we have forgotten the full positive and edifying way of love. The clear and universally understood way that is not twisted. After a while of doing this, harming in many different ways becomes the main tendency in the way we behave towards love.  We have to eliminate this twisted way of accessing love. End (3616).

Dissolving lustful mental forms is the key.  While we are dissolving mental forms controlling these mental forms is the key. Do not allow these mental forms to enter the mind much less allow them to appear.   One will see that when mental forms appear in the mind while transmuting, mental, emotional and sexual energy flows into those mental forms. One then begins to lose control over the inner flow of the sexual energy. Then the practice may have to be stopped.  Transmuting without these forms allows one naturality and natural control over the inner and upward flow of the sexual energy. Therefore allowing one to transmute the sexual energy. By lustful mental forms it is meant sexual images that attract emotion. If an image appears do your best to let it go. If an image persists do not allow emotion to flow into it. That is when a significant amount of energy will then be deviated from our transmutation.  One of the roles of energy within us is to give life. When...

Training in any area slowly causes channels of energy to be opened so that energy can flow to the parts of our system that fulfill the function we are training for. For example, to be able to swim a mile in the ocean is not possible at the beginning, but with training it becomes possible. The energy we have in the beginning is that same as the energy we have after training, the major difference is that energy has been made available.  The process of training slowly directs energy to the task and slowly makes a channel for energy to flow.  As training continues the mind also sees that the task is possible and other forces of our system which were not initially available become available. Some of these forces are conscious faith and trust.  We always have more or less the same amount of energy available it is just that our system does not have the channels open to direct the energy required. Of course there is also that of building up the the strength and fitness in the mus...

In degrees without fail:  We feel a relief when the ego definitely leaves our human machine. We then often feel a small amount of repentance. Why Because, a micro contrast occurs within us. We remember the negative state of when the ego was in our human machine and we contrast against what we are now feeling and we feel that the negative state was in error. It is also good to remember these moments of micro-repentance as they are good lessons to our consciousness for when we may next get identified with the same ego. Conclusion Do what is necessary to make the ego leave the human machine. Then we can get the better or best of ourselves. Not before then. We help ourselves a lot by displacing the ego from our human machine a priority. End (3466).

The consciousness that we are aspiring to, is the cosmic and ontological consciousness. We already have human consciousness functioning. Human consciousness is influenced and conditioned by the factors shown in the diagram: human life (society and its values), nature, matter, personality, mind and ego.  When we work on ourselves and when we work on awakening our consciousness we are waking up cosmic consciousness and a little of the ontological consciousness. The more we wake up cosmic consciousness the more we wake up ontological consciousness. Cosmic consciousness is the awareness of the consciousness, other dimensions, other beings, cosmic laws, cosmic moments, and greater purposes and visions of being and existence etc. While ontological consciousness is the awareness of the Being and all that is within the Bieng as a unity and as a sacred individuality connected to the cosmos. End (3463).

A.L.L.A Remember A.L.L.A: appease, listen, lead and act when in difficult situations with upset people. This is a teaching that comes from m.m.m. It is very helpful. This is especially useful when we are working on the "I" of anger, and we need to educate our free essence to deal with conflictive situations in a different way, rather than with the way of anger that causes situations to explode. Appease It is important to do something first of all to calm the situation down. Ask all concerned to be calm and  invite everyone to give calm talking and listening a chance to peacefully come to a solution. This could require being quieter, being calm, speakly softer and using kinder words.  There are many ways to appease situations, and for each person and situation there are particular ways. Here we have to draw on our knowledge of the person or people involved. A method that calms down one person may not work to calm down another. If we have knowledge then we must use it. Listen H...

Each ego for sure has a hypnotic grip. The most difficult part of working on any "I" is overcoming its hypnotic grip. The hypnotic grip is the power an "I" has to make the free essence (us) to identify with it. The hypnotic grip is what converts our pre-ego will that says: " I don't want that ego or I will not do that" into us wanting to do that and doing it. It makes us think, feel and do the things we don't want to. The hypnotic grip has certain patterns or characteristics that can be identified, and when we identify them we can better work to overcome the hypnotic grip.  Here are some of those characteristics: Duality is the major characteristic. It is the power of thought. Specifically in the power of the not thought. The ego always wants to be the "I am", and what moves it towards the "I am" is the not thought. The feeling of not hypnotises the free essence, and then the ego takes over to be the "I am". We can fo...

A really beautiful process that works. Give it a try. This comes from m.m.m. Attention Transfer your attention to your mind and become aware of it. Sustain serene attention to become more and more aware of it what it is doing. Once we know, we know what we can do. In this case, 'to do' is to move on to organise. Organization Organise the thoughts. Create priorities, discard the unnecessary and irrelevant. Create an action plan for the mind to work to after the practice. Relaxation Let go of the thoughts. Relax the mind, practice no thinking. Be very patient, allow the thoughts to come and continue to let them go, serenely and patiently. Silence Gaps in thoughts will appear. Keep letting go, allowing the gaps to widen. Relax and relax the mind, no thinking, breathing and relaxing deeper and deeper into the ensuing silence of the mind. End (3442).

Introduction Here below is the process by which we generally acquire a value. Steps Steps Explained 1. Something happens in life, there is an event and there are impressions, together they contribute to a fraction of our essence becoming conditioned. This conditioning strengthens in time creating a psychological "I".  2. When a psychological "I" is created there is always a value of our essence that has become corrupted, and the result is that a value of our essence is polarised, to function by duality externally instead of internally.  3. This external polarisation of a value makes us to suffer and a make many mistakes making ourselves and others suffer and so we accrue more karma. 4. To ease our suffering we demand or seek that value externally which causes suffering and that brings emptiness and bitterness to us. 5. We, out of pain begin to read and study and look for answers. We find the psychological work and we begin to observe and study as well as do anything...

We at first think gluttony has all to do with eating and drinking excess food. It does but that is only the surface... Then we later see that it is also about taking advantage of as many opportunities 'to have' as possible. If those opportunities are free or easy to come by, gluttony finds itself revealing in paradise. However, the deeper aspect of gluttony is about consuming, absorbing, condensing and sliding downwards.  The opposite of gluttony is to absorb, transform and lift up. Gluttony is not a force that transcends or lifts one up to higher levels. It is actually the factor within us that keep us eating the impressions of any ego and making that heavier and stronger.  The factor of gluttony feeds any ego. As any ego in us gets stronger and heavier our overall level of the Being and consciousness slides down. This is really why it is a deadly sin. A significant step in dissolving the physical surface level of gluttony is to transcend the psychology of food. Which results...