Gnosis Wisdom

We sometimes think discipline is not freedom and the two are not related. That's not fully correct. To follow a discipline requires freedom and delivers you freedom. Freedom and dicipline are seeminlgy opposites but they are deeply related. So related in fact, that one can not exist without the other. They form something like a living paradox, like a living ying yang symbol. If we are following a discipline, think of the freedom it exercises to follow it and the freedom it gives. As the desire for freedom is the one of the greatest motivating factors for all human beings, this feeling of freedom will maintain us in that discipline. To follow a discipline we have to be free. We must free up time, space, inner space, mental excuses, justifications, desires and break dependencies and focus on ourselves. To follow a discipline is for those who are free! That is why so many don't follow one and give up so easily because they are not free enough inside and out to take it up and keep ...

Truly in this creation the most realistic thing is that we are all learning and we are all a work in progress. It's truly helpful to see ourselves that way. There are truly very few absolutes...or finalised works. Even there are seven stones, where one is a more polished version of the other... each stone is a work in progress.  With this point of view or new attitude we were not or are not fully right or wrong. We were and are learning! We will always be learning! This does not mean that we don't correct our errors. We do, that is what learning is. It also does not mean that we don't say we got it wrong and we made a msitake. We can acknowledge and express that we made mistakes, it menas that we do not identify with being wrong or right. We instead adopt the 'state of learning openess' as a way of being rather than being wrong or right as a way of being. We truly suffer when we identify with being wrong or right. We think the goal is to be right, but not really it ...

After some observation of ourselves and others, a certain characteristic which really does seem to be  brought to life and sustained  by an "I", starts to come clear. A bit like how, the wind blowing the sands of teh desert over time reveals what was hidden underneath the surface. Human beings tend to like collecting a certain thing. It could be pens, books, computers, coins, guns, knives, cards, figurines, clothes etc. Really one or two items in the collection is all that's needed. In fact most of the time it's only one or two of the items out of ten in the collection that gets used. There's always a reason to get another item to add to the collection. The reasons never seem to stop coming... The reasons are good in principle, but in reality never quite work out. For example, we get a version of the item that is good for night-time use, but it turns out we never use that item at night, but then the 'just incase...' reason appears. It is very difficult to ...

The cause of someone being critical or very judgemental is a lack of transformation of impressions. The more we can transform impressions the less we criticise. The judgement which causes criticism comes after the impressions have been received. When we know the benefit of transforming impressions over judging and criticism we definitely change. We become different.  The core of this change is to appreciate the joy of being free from the pull within ourselves to judge. There is a kind of ill tainted pleasure to judge. That pleasure as most pleasure does, stagnates us, and a stale flavour/taste develops within us. We can flush this stale taste out of ourselves with good will. Though before we can use the currents of good will and well wishing and hoping to we need to be able to pull ourselves away from judgement. To not judge leads to transcendence. End (5852).

Here are some notes about extracting the best from events. Maybe a 'bad' instructor is the best one. Because a 'bad' instuctor gives us a lot of work to do with our consciousness.  There will be some impressions to transform, some gaps to fill, to questions to ask, some confusion to work through and some knoweldge to assimilate. Our consciousness is the one that can extract the best from what the event has to offer. If we don't use our consciousness in an event or even after the event we simply won't be able to extract any wisdom or learning from the event. We will just repeat to ourselves what our mind classified. Which always boils down to a 'good' or 'bad' event and we left with the impression we got, which is usually an untransformed impression. Extraction is about doing some work with our consciousness. It doesn't come by itself. Our conscious and willing effort to extract something makes us attending the event worthwhile. End (5851).

There is something special about the lone caroller (person singing or playing Christmas carols). Even in the most classically un-Christmas place in say outback Australia. The carols sung alone amidst the quiet background of stores closing and people heading home reminds us of that special silence that is mystical. Like the "silent night, holy night..." which is that awaiting and hope that that happens in that inner silence. Waiting and hoping that our Intimate Christ will come one day to us to help us... End (5853).

There are beautiful teachings about how trust helps us to remedy so many issues and dissolve many egos. Not too much has been spoken about love in this way. What egos and issues can love help us to solve. The common answer would be all of them, yet we can be more specific. Loving ourselves consciously, that is voluntarily giving ourselves love, where we lack it, helps us greatly to dissolve many egos. Many egos actually are lacks of love, or gaps in consciously loving ourselves. Egos such as anger, lust, resentment, self-love, self-compassion, laziness as the ones that specifically can be dissolved by applying conscious love to ourselves. The way to apply conscious love to oursleves must be done correctly. It is done right by applying love internally to ourselves. That is through a kind of prayer/self-talk and filling our inner space with that love. The love we apply internally does manifest physically. The way it manifests is mostly in the way of not reacting in a way that is detrimne...

This is a modus operandi of what we could call evil, that is evil hides behind virtue.  I have noticed within myself many times and at large in others, that evil - which we could call falsehood, ill-intent, foulplay etc. until discovered, all have the face of some kind of virtue. The worst evil I have done, has always been this way - hiding behind some virtue... It is often what happens with that expression: "the path to hell is paved with good intentions".  At the begining, that is all one sees - virtues. Later on the falsness or ill-intent show up.  In others we may see this, but not is not our concern or for us to care about. At the most see it and protect ourselves from it. What is greatly our concern is this happening inside of ourselves. This is the main and greatest self-deception that we fall under: doing something evil (inconvenient for ourselves and others) hiding it behind a good reason or apparent virtue. End (5850).

After walking like glass it is to listen like glass. This is more difficult. The same principles apply though. A see-through self-image and presence while being like teflon with what we hear and are told. The key is to not allow anything that we hear hook onto our interior.  This is really hard, though just doing it will help us to see very clearly what vested interests we have, how intensley what we hear and are told want to bight the bait so to speak. End (5849).

In many ways, the processes we pass through are to teach us to put the remembering of the Being before and above our life circumstances. There are many triumphs we are called to participate in, in the work on ourselves. The work on ourselves is really to produce a series of victories where the remembering of the Being within us triumphs over different events and circumstances. All this takes time and has its process and is done area by area. Sometimes it is done globally across all the areas of our life. When we forget the Inner Being we often become desperate and our hope, faith and trust decreases causing us to become pessimistic and heavy. A big and definite are of life is finances and our relationship to money and all the circumstances that branch out from it. After a long or short process, depending on the individual, something new and beautifully different can emerge in a person in relation to money and life circumstances. Many people, forget the Inner Being when seeing that thei...

When trying ot be conscious when walking or being amongst people, a really great exercise is to be like glass, transparent and almost invisible. That is, to be psychologically like teflon where things don't stick.  This is not easy... There are many things in our psyche that want to be seen. That is why it is such a good exercise of knowing ourselvs and being conscious. In the magical sense it would be much more possible to be physically like glass if we are psychologically like glass. A good key to be psychologically like glass is to walk around with no self-image. That is with no projection of our self within ourselves. That's the main part of teh exercise.  Some other points to work on while doing the exercise are the following: To let go of any incomming impressions, to be pure in our gaze - that is no subconscious interest in what or who we see in front of us and let go of all that we see. To not allow anything to hook our attention or any ego to pop up. To move without l...

There is really two aspects to the will of our Being. Those two aspects are the always mentioned masculine and feminine or active and passive. Which we always have to combine and balance to create and march forward. If we are unbalanced in anything we are missing something vision of the full picture and later on in time we will most likely fall into a degree of imbalance which could us to stumble. We must know these aspects of the will of the our Being. Becasue once we knbow them we can combine them intelligently for the best results. The two parts are the passive and the active expressions which can be summarised as no-reaction and aligned action. The passive is to not react, to instead 'be'. The will of the Being is alwys to be Itself. It can't be otherwise... The will of the Being is 'to be'. So in life's situations the passive will of the Being is 'to be'. That is to act and process our responses with the values or qualities of the Inner Being. The p...

The more special or chosen we feel ourselves to be, the more injustice we will do in our reactions to defend ourselves. The greater the pride the greater the injustice that will follow. End (5846).

Too late we can make a judgement, for example: "that man is grumpy.". Certainly he for a few seconds or so was grumpy. What he said and the way he said it can be qualitifed as grumpy.  The mistake often is that we then attribute 'grumpy' to the whole person. Which is not true. He may have a wife and children, so he is a husband and a father, not a 'grumpy man', in reality he is many things, and for sure he wouldn't be grumpy every moment of his life  When judgements are made, we can't unmake them, but what we can do is to bring our consciousness to put things into persepctive and to look within, using the judgement as a mirror to better know ourselves. End (5844).

We think we have some quality and one group of others may think we don't, while another group may say we have a lot of it. In the end we have a relative degree of it.  We are not full and perfect in any quality and further more everyone will see that quality in us differently. Some will see it as inferior, and some as superior and some won't even see it... When we see that we are all relative, things losen up and our mind about ourselves and others opens. Becomming more flexible and understanding. What is always the case, is that when we are immersed in relativity we natually look to find an absolute. Which in this context means to look inside of ourselves to find the Absolute about ourselves which is found in our Inner Being. Well, even then Master Samael says we will find relativity there too, but at least it is much closer to the Absolute.  End (5843).

Psychological Atmosphere The dharmic or karmic environment of a country really helps us to learn different qualities.  Each country has a certain psychological environment, which is largely determined by the dhamric/karmic character of the country. Within that psychological environment are many opportunities to develop qualities which maybe new for us. That is why we often have to remove ourselves from different environments and enter new ones to develop certain qualities. We actually all do these often in life through different scenarios and circumstances, through different people and events. Different Countries As far as countries go, living in a different country allows us to see better the psychological environment of the new country and better understand the psychological atmosphere of the old country. In South Africa, the psychological atmosphere is such that one can learn much about balance through several different areas and levels.  Some of those areas are: equality o...

Interestingly money is really energy. As soon as we see it that way many things can change within us and within our life. Money is energy and energy can also be seen as merit. How do we all earn what we call money? By working, and what is working? It is really the use of our attention, energy, time and knowledge. Our knowledge is the result of having used our time, attention and time. It all comes back to energy. As soon as we see money as energy we see that money will then obey the same laws as energy. These laws are: energy can not be lost, energy can be transformed into other forms of energy, energy and matter are interchangebable and energy can be both stored and exchanged. If we think a little, we will see that is exactly what can be done with money. We can save money, spend it and convert it to so many things.  The thing we are all worried about though is losing money. But money can not really be lost because it is energy and energy is never lost. It may look as though it has...

When we meditate is when teh masters come to visit us and stay withus for a while. The more we can mediate teh more they will come and help us. This makes sense, because when we meditate, we are the most open and receptive to their help, which mostly comes in the way of radiations from their presence, that enter us, and internally heal us. End (5842).

To protect the joy we have in our life is really more important than we think. We only really realise how important it is when we lose it.  The common expreience we all go through when we lose it, is that our life become bitter and we start to lose meaning and purpose. We all have certain things that bring us joy, whatever they may be. These things we have to know and keep.  The thing we can do with joy, is to keep it or to transform it or sublimate it if we find that a sublimated version of joy will serve our spiritual development more. The main thing is that we have to have joy in our life, in at least one area of our life.  Of course the more areas of our life have joy in them the better. This is a secret to maintian ourselves in Gnosis. Bring joy for some aspect of Gnosis and protect it, expand it and enjoy it. We can't ever allow the study of Gnosis to become bitter. It becomes just too hard to sustain.  In summary, know your joy, your happy place, protect it, s...

The start to walk into the unknown believe it or not is to walk into the possibility of us being mistaken. That is holding mistaken beliefs, concepts and points of view. If we take any situation no matter how small, and we decide to look into possibility of us being mistaken, that is us walking into the unknown. We are 'righ't about everything, this we know but we don't know that we are wrong. End (5839).

An ideal enforced absolutely, in a relative and imperfect world breaks balance. Because it is impossible to secure an ideal perfectly in the physical world. An ideal can be secured perfectly in a perfect world. For example, mathematical laws hold perfectly true in the abstract world of mathematics, however in the physical world new variables and constants creep into the equation. Whenever there is an imabalance there is compensation. Perfectionism comes from some kind of inferiority.  It is hard to find but it is there... End (5836).

When we look back at some 'big' mistakes we have made and there is repentance in our heart the memory of that mistake creates consciousness that brings love. That love carries us forward towards more conscious action. The magic ingredient to turn our worst past misakes and actions into love is repentance. Repentance has been taught to be a Christic factor.  It just goes to show us how the Christic factor is marvellous in its single ability to make darkness work for the light in a way that is extraordinary, and this would not be possible if there was no darkness there previously, to be transformed into light. Is light just light no matter where or how it comes about? Or is the light that has been trasnformed from darkness different and have something special to it? Who knows... The paradox is that greater love is born from previous hurt transformed... To love deeply there has to be injury? End (5835).

It is a lack of our good will to express annoyance at another person because of the sounds they make when they eat or drink.  Here are some observations about this situation: We don't get annoyed at the sounds we make when we eat or drink.  We tend to get more annoyed when others are eating and drinking and we are not. We tend to get annoyed when others eat and drink quickly most especially when they are enjoying what they are eating and drinking. We tend not to get annoyed when we have eaten and we have prepared the food the other person is eating and enjoying.  These observations aid us to understand that the annoyance we feel is actually in a big part from the factor of selfishness in our psychology.  It seems that when selfishness is pleased somehow we are ok, but when it itsn't we get annoyed. The remedy here, is to feel happy that the other person is enjoying nourishing their body howevere they chose to. Selfishness gets disturbed at others enjoying nourishing ...

A person's atmosphere is interesting, it holds lots of information about the person. It is there is plain site for anyone to read. The useful thing is to be able to read it. A person's atmosphere holds information about the person's level of being, what they have been thinking and feeling about as well as their immediate internal state. A person's atmosphere is usually filled with the end result vibrational quality of what they have just been doing. Someone just coming from a musical concert will have that in their atmosphere, someone just coming from the hospital will have that in their atmosphere and so on and so on. A person's atmosphere is what we can perceive if we look carefully at a person. From within a person's atmosphere we can see the person's presence of cogniscience and perceive the particular flavour of their psychology.  It is a special kind of looking that is not physical but it is of a psychological and or conscious type. It is a type of per...

Work with your element to get you started. To start with familairity and affintity if available often leads to a easier and also a good start. Each element has much to offer. We all have our affinities with the elements. The Earth element is very helpful for meditation. As all the elements are. It is the earth element that may teach us the most to start with. Being present is mostly related to being grounded, that is to the Earth. It is difficult to focus in meditation if we are not grounded. When we are not grounded we are too easily overcome by the air element in our thoughts and the tendencey to float around amongst the winds of thought. Establishing and maintianing a practice of presence or meditiation is very much related to the Earth element. To learn more and draw more from any element we need to become one of the features of that element. For exmaple to draw from the Earth element become a mountain. To draw from the water element become a lake. To draw from the air element beco...

By its very nature the sexual energy is abundance. The sexual energy is creative power and it is the primordial base energy of all creation. This means that it partakes in everything and is the centre of everything. Master Samael also says that the sexual centre is a centre of gravitation, meaning that many things will have the tendencey to gravitate around it. This tells us that it is magnetic, that it attracts and creates. A couple working in the Alchemy firstly conserve their sexual energy, and secondly they fecundate it, giving it creative power. These two actions increase the potency and magnetic power of their sexual energy. The blending of their two energies in the practice of the Alchemy causes a creative multiplication that attracts and opens new possibilities and opportunities.   A couple or an indiviudal working alchemically or hermetically with their energies can only bring abundance to their lives. The sexual energy that is potent seriously attracts abundance. Lik...

It's different to remember the Being through our head than through our heart. Through the head we experience a spike of consciousness that says: "what am I doing here?" "Who am I?". Questions arise that are deep and probing and can make one feel very uneasy for a while. Through the heart we experience the flash of renewed consciousness as a joy that says: "I am here in the world!". "I am present!". It is affirming and it makes one feel grateful, responsible and embracing of our life and our Being here in the world. We may feel courageous, expansive and loving. The most intelligent way is to combine both head and heart together to receive the benefits of both centres which combining together produce something new.  End (5832).

Not Will Power Excuses, evasions and justifications are the opposites of will power. The above things stop will power from developing. If we work seriously on eliminating them we will strenghten our will power. Evading responsibility is the biggest act of evasion. Responsibility and consistency are also will power, as is discipline and persistence. Will power is used 'to be' and 'to conquer'. What is not and what does not lead to conquering oursleves is not will power. Ill-Will The element of reinforcing ill-will is justification. Ill-will needs the ego to manifest. Good will needs the consciousness to express. The awakened will uses the free consciousness. If we have good-will it will draw the consciousness closer and closer. When we align our centres with a virtue we are engaging a high part of our being that mulpties benefits for others. Ill-will also multiplies the benefits for the egos.   Clairvoyance is best used by not destroying people's ideas but helping an...

Anger blinds and also produces memory loss. Anger has the function of defending, protecting and correcting. Anger is related a loss of vision. When we get angry our ability to visualise disappears. Because of a lack of vision, that is usually not being able to see what others are saying, we get angry.  Often also not being able to see our own truths in a pressurised environment we can get angry.  When we can't see a truth, or see the real reason for something, or see a defect we have or an error we are making, we get angry. When we can't see the solution, a way out or a better way to do something we get angry. When we can't see an alternative to our desire or that letting go is better we get angry.  To stop being angry we need clear, wide and deep vision. Getting angry ruins this vision and cultivating this vision weakens anger. End (5829).

Every quality has its order. If we get the order right we express that value freely and beautifully in such a way that it helps both ourselves and others.  If we get that order wrong it either disadvantages others and later ourselves or vice versa.  The order is the right application and often this is what confuses us and takes us so long to work out. For example, happiness is not about being happy with what we want but being happy with what we already have. Trust is not about trusting others but much more about trusting ourselves. So that when we trust ourselves we can trust others even if they do not inspire trust. Becasue we trust we can handle whatever happens. Order is defined as the place where we centre our attention, that is the point where we place most of our attention on. Love is about loving consciously ourselves first to give to others of the love we have.  Giving is about giving to ourselves until our cup is overflowing and then giving of the overflow to oth...

When we ourselves are unbalanced, or we are in a situation that is unbalanced, to keep ourselves or that situation going, a tremendous amount of effort is required. That effort very quickly becomes unsustainable To sustain an imbalance, which is something that lacks true order, enormous effort is required. Crime is a very good example oif this. Crime is very costly and requires great effort to commit and to recover from. Crime we all know is imbalance and is against the order of things. When things fall down it is a call to balance or a re-balance. It is easy to become a saint or a sinner. It is much more difficult to become and stay balanced. Because neither the saint or sinner work with consciousness. The consciosuness balances. It is the agent of balance. The general pattern of the saint and sinner is that they are respectively good or bad in a certain area and the sub-areas relating to that area. Each saint and sinner are the same in that they are mixture of good and bad. Neither i...

Our life is the place to create dharma and karma. Dharma and karma for us and our Monad together. Our life here in the physical is the place for us to manage our dharma and pay our karma. To do something expecting a specific return does work to bring us dharma.  To give 20AUD to get 20AUD does not really work to bring us dharma or pay our karma. Because we are not working with the law consciously. We are working with the law mechanically with the expectation of greed ('having'). To work consciously with a law to bring dharma, means to work with that law using the values of faith, love, hope and trust. Without these values we are working mechanically and dharma is not going to appear. The law will still work mechanically, we will get 20AUD at some point but we won't get that multiplication which is dharma nor that freedom which is the payment of karma.  Principally we need faith and love to work consciously with these laws. We work with a law based on conscious faith where w...

Accumulation of dharma and karma also applies to relationships. That is the secret why many relationships work and others do not. When a relationship works there is dharma or merit. When a relationship is problematic there are debts. Putting values to work in any relationship creates merit or dharma. Merit or dharma makes things to work smoothly. Even if the ego is well and alive in both people. Debts can also be accrued, by not using values in the face of the many different events and scenarios, relationships encounter.  The very first time two people meet there is no karma or dharma, this the most nuetral point. Merit or debt can be created from there onwards. When there is merit or debt, it is clear that two people have meet and interacted before. When co-operation is required and there is merit, it is easy to bring co-operation, and values are used multiplying the merit. When values are deficient, to bring co-operation and make things work as they apparently should, coercion ar...

One of the worst kinds of anger is the anger that is unkown, and is disproportionately strong.  This kind of anger is that way for a purpose. It is there for us to receive a shock and investigate. This kind of anger alway hides something about ourselves, it tells us that there is something that we are not facing nor accepting about ourselves.  It says there is something that needs correcting. It says you are believing the oppsitie of what it is trying to show you. It says take notice, accept, correct and gain the strength in your essence that this anger manifests with.  End (5823).

The best way to face resistance is to always notice it as early as possible, that is, notice that what we are thinking and feeling is resistance. Recognise it as resistance, accept it as resistance, find out what the resistance is exactly to and find out reasons why. Then find something useful in accepting the resistance, sit in the resistance, be happy and dissolve it.  Working on seriously on resistance we won't get the accumualtion of resistance which manifests silently, unexpectedly and mysteriously in an unknown and hiddden way where we get sick and all sorts of obstacles suddenly fall in front of us. End (5822).

It is something really helpful to do a kind of psychological and spiritual check-in with the students that come to the classes. The check-in allows the teacher to see where the students are at and from which internal state they are attending with. For a particular group somewhere, we are finding that people are generally unwell, overwhelmed, semi-lost, suppressing, unbalanced, tired and a little broken etc. - basically needing healing. The classes of Gnosis about the classical topics of the four ways, sexual hydrogen, the seven rounds and seven races, involution and evolution - all those kind of things, help a little, but they are not as helpful as they could be, because the students are not in the right space to receive these teachings, which is totally normal when one is suffering in some way. Sometimes these topics add a bit of extra weight to their already suffering minds of people.  So Gnosis as knowledge focussed directly to heal our inner life, presenting practical tools is ...

Forgetting the about the base chakra and not aligning with it, that is not being present and connected to your reality means that it will be difficult to focus. We tend to only be interested in the upper chakras and what they can tell us, though if we are ignoring the base we can not focus and provide the balance, stability and energy that they need to function. If our heart chakra is blocked and not working properly or very inactive (stone heart) we are simply not aligned and it will be very difficult to access the chakras above the heart, and the information and energy that they transform and bring to us won't arrive. In summary, if we ignore the base chakra (Muladhara) we can't focus and balance ourselves. If we ignore the heart chakra we are simply not aligned with our Inner Being, the higher centres and knowledge are  blocked. We ignore the base chakra by not grounding ourselves, and being fully present. We ignore the heart chakra by not opening it and allowing it to be sp...

The volume at which we speak is a legitimate characteristic of the word. The volume we chose to speak with conveys information. The function of the word is to convery information and the word does this through content or vocabulary and through its three characteristics of tone, rhythm and volume. Volume has to do with empahasis. High volume equals high empahsis and a lowered volume equals a lesser emphasis. An opposite unappropiate use of volume usually goes hand in hand with sarcasm. Just like the tone it can be the volume used that makes all the difference to the interepateion of what is being said.  The main interpretation of the tone and volume of the word has to do with perceiving the intention of the speaker. It is often the perceioved intention that is objected to rather than the actual words spoken. The volume at which we speak, if we investigate can reveal to us something about our psychology. For example, there are people who are capable of a decent speaking volume but ch...

A key universal to all life is to find a centre of gravity, that is a centre of priority about which life revolves. Having a centre gives us a reference upon which to order, organise, priortize and balance our life by. A balanced life is a happy life. Having a centre also gives us purpose, meaning, and a reference upon which to make the difficult decisions in life by. The key is that our chosen centre of gravity is something we love. That is the key to happiness. Life for everyone is miserable when our centre of gravity is something imposed upon us and it is something that we don't love. End (5819).

Mechanical Norm There is a certain shift that can take place within us when we think deeply about what it is to heal. This is what I found when I began to reflect. When first examining our ideas about healing we may see that we what we think and feel are things that are a little vague and weak. I don't want to say for sure, but often the feeling of weakness related to healing comes from disbelief.  When someone knows something or believes strongly in something, they are immediately and automatically strong. It makes sense why we don't belive so much in healing, because overall we tend to hear more about the cases where healing didn't work out, and so in time we become skeptical in relation to healing. When we think about our health it is like by the grace of God we are healthy and we are not sure why we feel ok and are apparently healthy. It's like we are lucky, and those whom we know that are sick, have been unfortunately struck by a stroke of bad luck, for who knows w...

Notes Death is a cosmic intelligent force that is truly needed for the maintenance of order and balance in the cosmos. It has a very transcendental aspect to it.  It is far more than loss and sorrow... Essentially the teachings of life and death invite us to see death more and differtent to loss and sorrow. With Death we learnt eh essence of life. Death is needed to teach wehat is most imnportnat aboput life. Death takes us to new life in a new and transcendental way.  Death takes us intward to enter higher internal dimensions. Death brings ever and ever closer an ending and naturally when an ending is close we enter into a evaluation of what is close coming to an end. Death is the result of life. It summarises life. Death produces the summary and the end result. Death has its own particular special nature, qualities and charactistics. Just as life and birth do. Death speaks to us about an ending but there is no ending, there is with the process of death - a new beginning....

Simple but surprisingly true. If our eating changes there is something to look at in our emotions. If our sleep changes there is also something to check with our emotions. If we what we usually enjoy ceases to make us happy then there is something defintely affecting us. Eating, sleeping and enjoyment are definite and clear indicators that our psychological state is now affecting our whole life, not just one area but now the whole.  End (5816).

We truly burden and worry ourselves sick about how much we are or are not working on ourselves. That worry carried constantly becomes very detrimental to our mental and emotional health.  We can take that tension out of our lives if we just natually dirrect our presence and voluntary effort into being our consciousness. Being our consciousness we will exercise our consciousness (awaken), we will behave correctly (no karma) and we will also die in ourselves. Plus a very important thing - our worries and guilt will stop and we will consciosuly enjoy and get the most out of our life! End (5814).

We don't like or dislike things in themselves, that is how the thing really is in itself.  We don't like or dislike the experience of the thing. The experience of the reality of thing is above liking and disliking. What we like and dislike is our own idea of the thing. We don't even like or dislike another person's idea of the thing. What we like or dislike is our own idea about their idea. The real experience of the thing is different to the idea and the ideas of others. The idea traps us while the experience frees us. It's worth reviewing our ideas and seeking the experience of them and holding off on judgement and opinions until we experience. End (5813).

Life is simple if we endevour to answer to the question of the moment. A lot simpler and kinder than we think. To stick to the question of the moment is enlivening and relieving at the same time. To do this simple thing is not easy. We find that we need to train for it. We always anticipate more because we have been conditioned to feel that we fall short of the mark and so the ego always looks for more to avoid that from happening. Life does not really require more. All that life requires is that the question of the moment be answered. More ends up falling into the 'not good enough' basket. In the effort to deliver what is sufficeintly good we go over board and produce what's not required and the 'not good enough' feeling appears. When the question of the moment is seen fully the question of future consequences can be gauged accurately. Seeing the future accurately we can solve problems before they exist. End (5812).

A beautiful way to see people, is to see them as an essence just like us that needs love. An essence, as all essences are, worthy of love and whose life and well-being is transformed with love.  This is the first part. The second part is to feel the happiness within ourselves to give our love so that the other can feel loved. This can be applied for anyone. I find this the best way to see people and a better way to live. There may be hundreds of reason why can disagree with the above. Some people are not worthy of love, some people take advantage, some people will take and never give anything... Some people don't need love but correction adn ti goes on.  All these things may be true observations of people, yet there are many ways to give love... End (5811).

I think one of the most important memories to have is that of dying. Even better is that of remembering life after death while waiting for a new body. At the moment is a summary of our life. Where the most essential valuation of our life just lived is perceived. So to remember this is to know the essence of the life we just lived. It is like to read the concluding findings of a report. From these memories we can form a different view of death. A truer and more exact view. These memories reveal information that break our concepts, that generally make us sit uneasy with death. If we change the way we see and relate to death our life right now will also change. Our own life is very conditioned by the way we see death. These memories tell us that death is not as bad as we think. That coming back here is worse to face our unpaid karma and the same egos as before. It's very much like an going in for a operation. We are 'put under' then we wake up to discover if luck is on our sid...

When we through some revelation of our consciousness know what it is that we need to do in this life there is a profound shift within.  This may come late in life... But better whenever it comes than never. When you know you are at peace and you are set free. That is set free from confusion, guessing and supposition. All you have to do is to achieve it. It is all your own responsibility. In taking up that responsibility is where your power is. It is your task adn your task alone. No one will share in it with you and no one will tell you to start and no one will care or know if you are doing itshare it with you. You have one thing, one task in sight. All else that is not about that task orders itself to lower priority. Everything makes sense, you will know why such and such a thing is and was so important. Your life is about that task. No more wondering just doing and doing with purpose, love and conviction of knowing. What others say and how they judge does not matter anymore. It o...

When we suppress emotions we end up affecting our heart. Before we affect our heart we affect our heart chakra. There are all manner of ailments due to suppressing emotions. High cholestrol, high blood pressure are one of them. The way our heart chakra is affected by suppressing emotions is that it gets compressed. The result of compression is that our heart contracts. A contracted heart is one that is harder - that is on the way to becomming stone-like. A contracted heart is also a painful heart. A painful heart is a very reactive and volatile heart.   It takes a contracted heart a long time to return back to normal after a small incident. Whereas before our heart contracted, we would return to normal very quickly.  A human's beings natural capacity to expand in openess and positivity reduces greatly when our heart chakra is conrtracted. A contracted heart chakra affects the head. Where our head narrows and a certain forgetful numbness sets in where possibilities become ...

Near or close misses teach us a lot. It's like we go right to the edge and get to look down below. There we can see the danger and what's expecting us if we are to go over. It's all about timing. To be able to stop in time. This is the second level of learning. The first level is our consciousness alone, the second level is the edge and the third level is over the edge.  Maybe we have to go over the edge a few times to benefit from the learning of the edge. Maybe we have to go to the edge several times to be able to benefit from the consciousness alone. The learning from the edge goes like this: we back away and we come back to ourselves and our life and we appreciate much more what it is that we have and nearly gave away... We also learn at a deeper level how much more complete or convenient the line was that we were following before we met the edge. We may also have discovered the folly of the illusion or false values and beliefs that took us to the edge... The third typw...

We think (because of the past) that the negative outlook regarding future projects is the more real one, the more reaslistic and down to earth one. While the positive outlook is silly, new agey and airy fairy. Due to karmic memory we tend to think eveyrthing will be difficult and will go wornog or not go right so easily. However, this is very conditioned and mechanical as thinking positively and maintaining positivity while acting in alignment towards the success of the project is a conscious action that engages conscious will together with various conscious values of the soul.   End (5806).

It seems that countries for where people are more based in their motor centre crime is greater than countries where the people are more based in their intellectual centre. The main reason for this could be that people who have their centre of gravity in the motor centre act without giving serious thought to their actions. The main thought process to engage before acting is about seeing the consequences.  There are the instincts then there should be right thought then there should be action.  End (5805).

Master Samael says everyone's death is their crown. Every birthday is a birthday because the year has come to an end. In other words the year has died. So each birthday is a celebration of a death as well as a birth into a new year. It's good to train ourselves to see birth and death together always. Our suffering begins when we separate the two and only see one alone. Just like we should always see good and evil together in the same instant. Seeing both gives some transcendence and nuetrality. End (5804).

Judging is quite a karmic activity. Essentially for ourselves. I say this because so often it happens that when we judge others we end up in the same position as them and acting just the same. This is exactly the pattern of karm. It is as if the Law of Karma is saying don't judge leave that up to 'me'. It is even worse when we verbally judge others. We end up being the same with an extra bit of humiliation on top due to the inconvenience we caused them. Meditiaton teaches us not to judge mentally. While we are judging mentally we can't bring any stillness. Not judging teaches us to not align the judging of ourselves with the judgements of others. For example, someone may say that what we are doing is a waste of time and we feel upset. Why we feel upset is because we then go and align the judgment of ourselves with their judgement.  When we are in control of the way we judge ourselves we are getting free from others and our egos. We increase our power to not get identifi...

Intellectual Dimension When we see others intellectually, that is from the intellectual dimension, we tend to see them as being logical or illogical expressions, that is, logical or illogical words and actions. It sounds very cold and machine like, but that is how things tend to be and it is inline with the nature of the intellectual centre. When seeing only logic, it is unavoidable to see people in duality. That is, as either right or wrong, making sense or not making sense, logical or illogical.  As others do not often use their intellectual centre to speak and do, seeing others intellectually often produces an intellectual kind of frustration that eventually leads to a kind of irritation, because of finding it difficult not being able to understand people and their decisions. The common question is why would someone be illogical? Impossible to understand right from that point of view where everything is logic. We are often stuck in the intellectual way of seeing others and relat...

The three types of word are: 1.) the spoken word 2.) the written word 3.) the silent word It is not only important to know about the three types of word but when to use each type of word. Some things are better spoken about then written about, and for some other things it is better to write than speak. Some things it is best to keep quiet about and not speak or write... The one thing that it is not applicable to use one kind of word all the time. This leads us to great imbalance. Just as if we were to use one centre all the time we would be end up being a menace and very unbalanced and very difficult to relate to. All the daily experiences of life are training experiments for us to know about the power of each type of word and to learn which type of word is best suited for which situation. The silent word also includes the word spoken in our mind that people mostly do not hear. Sometimes people perceive our internal word through our atmosphere/mood which is a direct result from what we...

Order Related to Balance It is always critical! To have balance we need order. The right order will always set up balance. Imbalance most often comes from the wrong order to start with. The wrong order can only be sustained before balance is broken for a brief window in all cases, until the right order must come in. We all bank too heavily on that small window... There are businesses and people that make a living out of that small window. The wrong order will create imbalance. Imbalance creates inequality and injustice. Inequality and injustice then create suffering. A vicious cycle then begins... which takes a long time to rise up out of. Order and the Mind In popular terms mindset is an order in our mind. The right mindset is the right order. Balance starts in the mind, therefore the right or wrong order begins in the mind. When we are more awake we get this order and therefore balance right. When we are operating from our sleeping consciousness, identified with something other than ...

It may be absurd to submit our will to someone. Especially if it is not for any kind of payment or superior cause.  We may submit our personal will for love and we may submit our personal will to keep our job and get paid. What about submitting our pride? When speaking of pride, it is difficult to submit to anyone. There seems to be an exception. Pride may allow us to submit to someone, only if that makes us, in some kind of way superior. Normally, it is difficult to submit to another person even when there is reward and or a superior cause. Imagine now, when pride is involved it is almost impossible. To work effectively on pride, at some point we have to work up the power within us to submit it. A way that gives us this pwoer is to find a true superior cause. This superior cause must have the following two properties. It must not be personal, meaning it must be above the realm of what is personal and it must have power (noble and divine is best).  This cause could be lov...

Here are some basic tips about listening. They are simple, so simple, we don't ever follow them, yet they make such a huge difference and they really make us to listen consciously as Gnosis teaches us to. One tip to keep the mind quiet while listening is not to judge. Judging makes us to stop listening and makes our thinking go heavy. Another tip when listening is to just place attention on what is being said and don't think about what we are going to say next or what our answer will be. When listening, try to create a space of equality and respect, where all involved do not feel intimidated or disresepcted. This will create an openess where all involved can bring their differences without anyone becoming defensive. Ask questions instead of interjecting with opinions or interpetations. This helps us to make sure we are hearing correctly. Run past the speaker what we have understood. This lets the speaker know we are understanding and the speaker is communicating their ideas cle...

The consciousness works in paradox. When we work with a paradox we are also activating and allowing our consciousness to work. Only a flexible and intelligent awareness (consciousness) can oversee a paradox. The mind always falls confused before a paradox, because it can not entertain two oppopsites at once. Many people are a paradox and that is why with our mind we just can not understand them. We need our consciousness to understand people. A paradox is the opposites in operation working as a whole towards activating consciousness. A paradox is sexual where the two opposites join forces to produce the law of three, whose result is consciousness.  To listen is a paradox. We need one part of ourselves to be quiet, that is passive, so that the other part that listens can become active. Yet for that part that listens to become active, another part, called will is needed to decide that. For real listening the mind must turn passive i.e. feminine, and the will being active, must ignite...

The goal of being impeccable is a goal for evey day. Almost impossible to achieve but that is not the goal, the gaol is to work intensely at it. This is so important for us to understand. Because in trying to be impeccable we create a 'perfect personality' and just become identified and preoccupied with appearing or acting impeccably. To become identified or create another aspect of our personality is not the goal. The goal is to work intensely to be impeccable with self-observation and self-remembering and apply what we discover from that in action and word. To go closer to an impeccable day we need an impeccable start. The best place always to start with that impeccability is with the strong effort to be impeccable in Self-observation. We will find that we can more readily be impeccable in self-observation than in action and word. We get better in action and word when our self-observation and alertness improves. End (5796).

We ahve heard so many missionaries and even Master Samael himslef living day to day, only having enough money to get through that day and not knowing where the money for tomorrow is going to come from. For sure it's very uncomfortable for our human part and our mind. It's the realm of the unknown. Especially when we are living this way for a mission, where we know if we were in not in a mission it would be all known. To live day to day is to live on the edge. Push ourselves into a zone where the mind is not helpful and we only have one option but to live in the moment and to trust the Inner Being and the White Lodge for whom the mission is assisting. So different to ordinary life where we are there working for ourselves and our family and we have our job doing the same thing everyday. We have some savings and we can project a few years into the future and estimate how much money we will have minus expenses known and unknown. Things are ok and all we need to do is turn the handl...

That is the problem of pride it blocks us from seeing and accepting the truth abut ourselves presented from others. To get into that block and find out why, is the most important thing.  The 'why' could be a fear of some kind. Perhaps the fear of becomming subservient. Having to constantly succumb to the power of the truth. But isn't the truth meant to set us free? It always does set us free! There are three types of freedom. Freedom in silence, freedom in love and freedom in hatred. Subservience leads to freedom in hatred. When the person subservient later explodes. The truth can be used to create resentment or to be used to dissolve the "I". When used to dissolve the "I" it brings freedom in silence and later freedom in love.  Truth is not personal, if one sees a truth others will also see the same truth. We are not acknowledging the person but the impersonal truth that a person can speak. End (5793).

Introduction This post is a list of some of the things we do when we are psychologically unbalanced. It is a good 'to fix' list in our work towards the fourth type of man - the balanced man. Reviewing this list will show us that we can only really be the balanced man through lots of psychological work. 'Unbalanced' to Balanced List The list below presents the unbalance. It is for us to use as a tool to bring what is unbalanced into balance. •We say we like balance, in the sense of presenting both sides, yet we tend to one side only. Mostly the negative side. What we tell others to do we don't or can't do. We give advice we ahve never followed or don't follow. We talk more than we do. We don't tolerate others judging others yet we judge othres and are critical in our own way. Our own way of things is special and is not the norm standard error. There is always soemthing special about our errors making them not 'errors'. We can't see the wrong a...