The Collector "I" - (5855)

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 give up one item of the collection, even when we have many more than one and many more than what we need or will possibly use.

The collector "I" unfortunately is strongly selfish. It really does not like to give one, even when the collection is complete, For example, ten limited editions were made completing a set, we collect ten and we ahve a few spare, those few spare die hard, because there's always a reason... they can make a second complete set etc. etc.

Fear and greed control the collector "I". Greed 'to have' and fear to 'not miss out'. 

We can see quite easily the three demons (desire, mind and ill-will) working well in the collector "I".

Business knows about this "I" and how strong it is and appeals a lot to this, with collector's editons, limited editions, special editions and so on and so on.

Money always seems to come out of nowhere to collect just one more, even when there is 'no money'...

The collector "I" makes a person feel kind of accomplished, special, well-equipped but later deceived and a bit empty as those feelings are only fleeting.

End (5855).

Criticality is From Lack of Transformation - (5852)

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).

Extraction of Events - (5851)

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).

The Lone Christmas Caroller - (5853)

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).

Conscious Love for the Self Solves Many Inner Issues - (5837)

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 detrimnetal to ourselves and others.

The more consciosul love we give ourselves the more love we can give to outeres. We can never give what we don't have.

Anger begins when we lose love for ourselves and are angry against ourselves, then we become aggressive at others for 'making us to be angry" at oursleves. That is we get angry because we lost our own love for ourselves. That is we stopped being kind and accepting of ourselves.

A huge key to dissolve anger is to keep that kindness and accepting of ourselves.

The same applies when we are insulted or rejected, that is where our other-dependent self-love would normallly get hurt. 

End (5837).

Evil Hides Behind Virtue - (5850)

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).

Listening Like Glass - (5849)

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).

Remembering the Being Before Money Issues - (5845)

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 their current way of life, even if they are enjoying little comfort, is going to disappear because they no longer have the means (money).

In forgetting the Being we dive into anything that can bring money. We get very identified. The worst is to let go of our morals and values and do things which not correct for our level of Being.

If we are to remember and hold our Inner Being up high and first within us we are going to be all ok. If we lose everything we will be ok, if we keep everything we will be all ok. 

To get to this stage is a process and is a victory of the work within us as well as a victory for trust, faith, love and hope. 

The interesting thing is that when a person is able to do this, money for them stops being such a heavy preoccupation.

End (5845).

Walk Like Glass - (5848)

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 leaving any jolt, mark or impact. 

To pass through without disturbance and not be held in the mind of others and ourselves is the main goal of walking like glass. Yet, it is to still do what we have to.

We maybe physically noticed, yet forgotten quickly as we move through the event.

Good will and an inner smile reaching outwards leaves no indents, no disturbance, no interference, no echoes or trace in the minds of others. 

End (5848).

Two-Foldness of the Will of the Being - (5847)

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 passive aspect honours that we are a temple and that the temple must be filled according to our capacity with the atmosphere, blessings, aroma, qualities and light of the Being Itself.

The other aspect is active which means to act in alignment with forward direction towards the missions and commitiments that our Being has.

For example, if it is the will of our Being to be a missionary, go and do the course, go on a mission.

There are people who only concentrate on the active part and do, but they react very egocially when they are blocked. They forget the passive part of eh Being's will, which is to 'to be'.

There are also people who focus too much on the passive part and don't move forward because they limit themselvces to not acting. 

The balance will always change according to where we are in our line of development. We must not forget that balancing these two parts in always needed and is a conscious and dynamic action.

End (5847).

The More Special the More Injustice - (5846)

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).

Don't Allow Judgment to Become General - (5844)

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 Have a Relative Degree of Everything - (5843)

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).

Dharma and Karma in Countries - (5840)

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 of opportunity, management of resources, intellect and action, charity greed and fear, life priorities, compassion, community, God and survival... Some of those levels are the personal, the family, the social and the national.

All of this is possible in South Africa because of the karma and culture that the country has. 

South Africa is a place where you can open your heart. It in fact, forces you to. This is at first strange, how such a karmic environment can be good for spiritual development, yet it turns out that for some individuals it can be very good. When there are lacks there are opportunities to be filled with true values of the soul. 

Australia, is a very dharmic country in comparison to South Africa. That dharma allows certain qualities, yet hinders others, just as karma does. The dharma in Australia allows one to study spirituality yet the karma in Africa hinders it, because it is so difficult to devote to God when you and your family have no food to eat.

The Dharma in Australia makes everyone ok and independent because of having money to look after themselves through professional services. This in time becomes a kind of selfishness. Because everyone has money, meaning there are less people in need to readily give to and everyone essentially has the means to look after themselves. Hence why many Aussies may not even have spoken to their neighbours for years, all because we are all ok and charity plus community is not a pressing need. We can all look after ourselves. While in Africa due to the abounding poverty and consequent crime, charity and community are needed.

In the end, the atmosphere of Australia does not stimulate us to open our heart. Our heart can in fact stay however it is, because there is not that need for it to open and to reach out for meaningful and deeper connection, because the environment does not demand it, making it a voluntary choice. (It is also true that as soon as we chose something new doors open for many opportunities.)

These are some differences, which are good to know so that we can take advantage of, for our inner growth. Australia offers us the stability, time and finances to create a space to work on ourselves, while Africa offers us opportunities to open our heart, learn a lot about balance in many different levels and work on giving and dissolving fear.

End (5840).

Seeing Money as Energy Causes an Octave of Awakening and Change - (5838)

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 been lost but it will come back to us as money or in a superior quality of worth.

What has happened to us along the way is that we see money as physical units that can be gained or lost and that these physical blocks obey physical finite laws. However money as energy means that money obeys other laws such as reciprocity, that sit above the laws of matter. Money obeys the laws of energy.

Truly how can we see money as physical units because the money we really have is just digits on a bank's computer screen and records, and lots of pieces of paper which really in themselves have no physical value.

The important thing is how understanding this changes and frees our mind, allowing us to give more and step oiur of greed and fear and develop trust in th ehigher laws which govern energy/money.

End (5838).

When we Meditate the Spiritual Beings of the Invisible Visit Us - (5842)

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).

Protect Joy - (5841)

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, sublimate it if you like, never kill it.

End (5841).

Start to Walk into the Unknown - (5839)

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).