Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

When we are close to unravelling an "I" there will come a special experience that will reveal a memory or a knowing from where that defect was created and or strengthened.  We will have this experience either physically while reading, talking or visiting someone, some place or either in a dream or while doing an esoteric practice. This experience will reveal the causes behind that ego by showing the circumstances of the past in which it was created.  There will be direct correspondence in the feeling of the ego now in the present day and the circumstances that were the causes of its origin. If there are no correspondences in feeling the experience is simply off. This an important experience that gives us a big relief and marks a definite step towards that "I" being dissolved. The strange thing to understand is that the same circumstances that created that ego may be present in a similar way today or they may not. If they are it make sense as there is a trigger but i...

To express a quality of our soul whatever it is we slowly find out after falling short many times that the better our degree of separation or psychological isolation the better we can express it. The separation or psychological isolation cuts the link of impressions from the other person and the subjective justice call from our own psyche. Our main inner block to expressing a value is the call from our mind: "that it is not fair that we give a beautiful soul value to someone who does not reciprocate". To express a soul quality we must be independent of impressions from others as well as the unfair complaint from inside. The way to find that separation is to see that we are always compensated by our Inner Being for expressing our soul qualities and non-identification with the person - "I am a soul" "I am a soul" "I am a soul" "that is them - I am here a soul". End (5969).  

Often when we go to a building roof top or a high cliff or are walking on a jetty going out to sea there is that strange suggestion that arises in the mind to jump accompanied by strange anxious feelings of falling or sinking into the water. These thoughts and feelings as strange as they are, are semi-conscious instinctive memories and are due to us at some point in our past lives having thrown ourselves or have been pushed or having pushed others. They are semi-conscious in the sense that we feel them instinctively but we don't remember from where they come from. That debt though cancelled physically lives on inside our psyche.  These feelings tell us that there is more work to do to investigate within and comprehend and dissolve what we have found. When we go to these high places or jetties it is like we relive the drama or tragedy in our mind. End (5967).

A monkey and a donkey seem to be the universal symbols of the mind.  Both words have a 'key' in them and they differ by the first letter. Coincidentally the 'm' and the 'd' are the first and last letters of the word 'mind'. The monkey mind is the one jumps all over the place and the donkey mind is the one that is so stubborn that does not want to give up thinking. These two animal symbols give the key to the mind. The mind in its untrained nature is stubbornly distracted. Perhaps with these two symbols we can get a glimpse into the significance of 'm' and 'd' as letters. It seems 'm' covers breadth and is affirmative while 'd' is narrow and negating. End (5966).

We find that we truly need to die (negate the conditioned essence), yet dying and not going forward with the fruits of death (affirming the free essence), which are the qualities, abilities and powers of our soul, is unbalanced.  We need to work in negation towards affirmation. Working with negation gives us the ability to affirm. Affirming without prior negation causes us to trip over and negating only makes us turn bitter and eventually stand still. On the path and everywhere we walk on two legs, and these two legs are negating and affirming. If we get stuck on one leg only, we'll topple over because we become unbalanced. End (5962).

This topic helps us to break at least the following conceptions: 1.) The idea that we are the first wave of humans on this earth. 2.) That we are the only ones in the cosmos. 3.) That our development, science and technology is at the highest level on the earth so far. 4.) That we are at the start of a continuous line of evolutionary development. 5.) That our average lifespan is the longest so far and will end up being the longest. 6.) That our inner development, consciousness and knowledge of ourselves and the cosmos is the most developed so far on the Earth. What is important is not to believe in the details of each of the races but to loosen and consciously open  the way we think about the Earth and humanity. This opening will allow and support new understandings of ourself, humanity and give us a reference to place our own memories and inner knowing that will along the way surface in our work. This lecture opens our consciousness and knocks on the doors of the vaults of our anci...

Energy follows energy via the laws of magnetism, reciprocity and concentration. It does not follow morality, it follows those three laws mentioned above, and of course others. To pray in pain, in the feelings of a martyr and out of morbid sacrifice doesn't bring what we are yearning for but more pain. What we emit we magnetise. If we emit pain we bring pain. Putting our energy into emitting pain by the laws mentioned above brings pain to us. Putting energy and attention into pain brings only more of the like. Energy follows 'like' it does not follow morality in the sense that because we are making ourselves to suffer we are going get help and positive energy. Which is what morality does but the energy of the universe doesn't follow human morality. It follows 'like' for 'like'. If we want happiness show that you want it by making efforts to be happy and help to be happy will come. To awaken and die is to be free of pain yet with wrong attitudes we bring m...

Mostly from evolution. Through the journey our essence undertakes through the three previous kingdoms of nature. Of course also from past lives and from the Inner Being itself and the consciousness, there is much innate wisdom. Each mineral, plant and animal life that we have had has built up in us an understanding of life and creation. It has also taught us certain lessons about the laws and principles of creation. Each life teaches us values that our essence has but needs developing and knowledge about why and how to use it. That's why some people even as humans are 'strong as a bull', 'brave as a lion', 'cunning as a fox' and 'sly as a serpent', 'slippery as a fish' becasue they learnt really 'well' those lessons from their journey through the kingdoms. Even as human beings we are still learning these values. It happens as people in the work we are learning those lessons at fast rate through dissolving the ego. Dissolving the ego i...

So often does what we plan work out. When it does work, it is not always that smooth and everything is as we hoped. Actually, very rarely does what we plan work out so brilliantly for all. There's always a hitch, there's always something that goes wrong. Something changes and things get messed up and it all gets difficult and tricky to fix, and above all it's hard work. When we are not expecting something and we haven't planned for it, what happens and especially how it happens is amazingly intelligent, plus works out perfectly and so smoothly. This lesson of life - tells us to wait, let go of the mind and trust more in the Universe to bring what we would like to happen. End (5960).

If we want to grow more inwardly, and be able to keep relatively stable in difficult times, we like trees, need deep roots. Deep roots are a deep understanding of the teachings and a strong practice of them. Especially the fundamentals.  Strong in the practical fundamentals helps us more than anything. End (5959).

An eternal disappointment in listeners is when they hear spiritual teachers or practitioners speak of love and unity, and then later on in decisions, attitudes and behaviours the love and unity previously spoken of is not there. This happens all the time not really because of there being a lack of love and unity, it is just that in this world it is difficult to apply fully and often it is there but misperceived or expectations are unrealistic. It is out of reality to expect full and perfect unity and love. The full love and unity is only close to being perfect within ourselves between ourselves and our inner parts. Love and unity can not be expressed perfectly physically all the time, it will always be seen as one sided or incomplete or imperfect due to relativity, different points of view, karma and the presence of so many opposing factors that have to be balanced.  Sometimes even it is not there and the teacher or practitioner has indeed contradictions within him or her and what ...

Priorities constantly shift in applying Gnosis. Over the years we have seen the priority shift numerous times. A recent shift has been to priorities the awakening and the application of soul values to accelerate the liberation of the conditioned essence. When the Gnostic movement first begun the priority was Alchemy, later it shifted to mystical death and we all know why.  In terms of teaching Gnosis now days, given that students have such short attention spans, the intelligent order is to focus impactfully on the essentials while we have their attention. What really are the essentials and what would a new priority be? What makes most sense is to focus the teachings on liberating the essence as a priority.  Previously teachings were focused on how the essence is trapped. Now days that tends to be received as depressing information and does not serve much purpose to students other than making the class atmosphere overly serious and heavy. It is more beneficial to all to focus o...

When we find ourselves in a state where we need to establish some kind of order in a our physical life. We need to first establish an inner order.  We can establish an outer order but if there is not an inner order to support we will find ourselves lost and in disarray again - out of order. One of the best tools to establish an inner order is inner silence. When seriously providing the conditions for inner silence to appear within us and maintaining it, the magical ordering power of silence can begin to work.  Inner silence brings internal energies into harmony by giving us visibility of what truly and deeply priority for us. This is because inner silence allows the truer and deeper reference point within us to surface. Silence gives space for the reference point that is deeper and more aligned with our Inner Being to come into view. With the truer and deeper reference point clearly in view we can establish order. Order is to give to the chosen reference point priority. With o...

Introduction We could say that the three types of sexuality are the law of three in the sense of the very classical, three dimensions of a planet which are the:  1.) Infra-dimensions 2.) Physical dimension 3.) Superior dimensions. Note, these are also the same as the three regions of a physical space, a building for example: the basement, ground floor and the upper floors. Which really comes from the three stages of everything which is beginning, peak and end. The three types of sexuality are: infra, normal and supra which correspond directly to these three dimensions of a planet. This is because human sexuality is intimately linked to the planet. Universality of Sexuality Sexuality has a very real reality and it is a true force of the cosmos. So much already has been written about how everything is essentially sexual in nature and how everything through hundreds of derivations comes from sexuality. The base values of sexuality are expressed in these three classes of sexuality. The...

The normal use of a person's inner strength of detachment is to wipe people off that wrong or hurt us or to attack them knowing that because we are strong in detachment, they are not going to hurt us and we are not going to feel anything when we attack them. There is a better use of our inner strength of detachment and it is to use it that strength to detach from ourselves so as to rise above ourselves. This is the more transcendental use of inner strength that liberates because it does not create karma and it causes us to rise in our level of the Being. That is to detach from what it is inside of us that is enraged, hurt, humiliated or bothered etc. This inner strength allows forgiveness and does not need to run away, dismiss or wipe people off. End (5955).

Believing in ourselves is something that we all do before we truly start something. We often don't start something becasue we don't believe in it or that we can do it. To believe we can do something is really the biggest milestone. Once we believe that we can do something, results are not too far away. There is no doubt about it, we are going to make head way towards whatever it is that we believe we can do. For all the great things that human beings have done, there was a point where they believed that they could do it and so they did. No one achieves something believing all the way that they can't do it. We may start out not believing that we can, but there is a point that we start to believe. Often that point is when conscious faith turns on. It is the point that through our persistence or struggles we catch a glimmer of light and this glimmer turns into a knowing that our hope is real. Truly a large part of the battle is won when we believe that we can do something. Thi...

The most important thing are the works and efforts that lead to changing our interior nature. That is, efforts that change our inner processes, specifically the way we think and feel. Powers may not do that. But there are powers within us that do change our inner processes. The great qualities of Being do that.  The faculties are there to serve those qualities of Being. Not to transact against them. If there was ever a choice to be made, the wisest choice is to invest our time and energy into changing our interior processes. End (5953).

In our own world is there someone wiser than our own devil?  Just imagine what psychological knowledge our own devil has to have. The sum total of the wisdom from of all our life's experiences from the beginning of creation.  The Sun up in the sky is another one who is supremely wise, as it has witnessed all the errors, problems, solutions, triumphs, failures and sufferings that human beings have passed through since the beginning of creation. The devil is so old and because of that he is so wise. He has seen so much of our folly. He knows it all... Seeing folly over time means to have seen what lead to it and the consequences it had. The total of that witnessing of our folly comprises knowledge. The wisdom of the devil comes from this knowledge, and the way his wisdom is expressed is in the way of helping us to see and undo our folly. The devil being the shadow of our inner Being knows what it is that we lack. As our lacking is the shadow of our Being. From fire comes much kn...

Our complement is what we lack. So to look face to face at our own complement is to see directly in the mirror what it is that we are lacking. What we have is us, and what we lack is also us.  Knowing what we have is knowing ourselves and knowing what we lack is also knowing ourselves. We all tend to not like too much what we lack. Seeing what we lack is also not much fun. What we lack is what we are weak at and what we are weak at means lots of effort, patience, discomfort and so on... That is the reason why we have many problems with our complement, because we don't like seeing or hearing or facing up to what we actually lack. We also often don't know what we lack so there is denial in operation. Denial brings sufferings. We are a lot happier when we interact with someone who is like us, because what we lack does not come up and there is little to no discomfort. However interacting with someone that we like, even though it is easier does not show us what we lack and does not ...

It is a lot easier to find ourselves working more on ourselves during the day when we are a person-soul. It is natural part of being a person-soul to work on ourselves frequently during the day. When we adopt the identity of a 'just physical person', we work happily physically in our job the whole day and even night sometimes, and forget all about our inner work. We find that being just a person we don't have time or even enough mental space to remember to work on ourselves. Because the 'just a physical person' identity does not include in its structure the inner work on ourselves. There is no background support for the work on ourselves. The reason why our day in the work fails is because of choosing the wrong identity for the day. Whereas as in the background of the person-soul identity, there is much support for the work on ourselves. Adopting the identity as a person-soul we work on ourselves and also work physically in our job. We produce both physical merit, p...

The warrior in his or her depth is spiritual. This is because a true warrior is one that fights for a cause much greater than him or herself. It is really the cause that gives the warrior his or her purpose and the purpose gives the warrior his or her strength. The depth and truth of the purpose gives the warrior the sublime willingness and fulfillment to die for it. The willingness and openness to die for the cause makes the warrior fearless. Every true warrior has the common quality of fearlessness. The greatest weapon of the warrior is the heart-felt remembrance of the cause that he or she is fighting for. The forces of Mars are the energies to fight as well as the intelligence to fight effectively. If the warrior is true in his or her depths, is just and loves the cause for which they are fighting, it can only be that the forces of Mars will be by their side. The ethical triangle within each of one us is the constitution of the spiritual warrior.  The human soul fights down he...

There is the wonderful yoga exercise for brain enhancement which is a combination of physical exercise, breathing and transmutation. This combination feeds the brain with a lot of energy. There are studies that have proven that it does enhance the brain's power. Most of the studies have been with students that after practicing super brain yoga have significantly improved their performance. The basic super brain yoga exercise is to cross your right arm over your left lightly grasping your opposite ear lobes and performing squats. Breathing in when squatting down and breathing out when rising up. Repeated 14 to 21 squats per day. Another form of super brain yoga is Alchemy, which is really more powerful, because it involves the use of two energies plus their magic combination which is entirely creative in nature. The energies that are circulated in Alchemy saturate the cells the of the body, starting with the brain first of all. The energy of Alchemy, the mercury (transmuted sexual e...

People usually when asleep express the opposite of their ingenious cosmic ray. This is because when asleep we polarise to the opposite, because duality is the main conditioning that cause our consciousness to sleep. When we are asleep observe our own lives and look for the main character issue and then see the opposite and you will find out something interesting about your own cosmic ray. The best thing to learn the qualities of the a certain ray is to be around a person who belongs to that tray. Depending on their level of consciousness, we will have to learn about the qualities of their ray either in the light or in the opposite. That is what the qualities are or what the qualities are not. The qualities will be visible in the small details and also more importantly globally in their life. A person influences others the most with the ray and affects others negatively the most with the qualities of their ray. End (5947).

What is worse to bring to bring only something for yourself to eat and drink at a gathering or to bring nothing and eat and drink what others have brought? Both are not quite right. Though one is worse in relativity than the other. The one that brings food and drink only for himself is the worse one. Because it is a conscious and deliberate decision and action to not participate in sharing, caring or helping others. It is sometimes means to not participate with others during meal times. The other one who brings nothing at least connects to others, creates a debt to later cancel with others. While the other one does not create any link or debt to cancel later on. Even in such cases there is more room for it to not be so deliberate. These people are more open to do the correct thing. While the other one is closed and isolating. The interesting observation that can be made over the time is that people who are selfish and only ever bring for themselves don't persist for too long in the...

We can have the wrong idea about strength. We think it is always something that it is not. We try to be strong but it seems to make us feel weaker. Why because we have the wrong idea of what strength is. From the esoteric point of view to be strong is to be integral, aligned, and in all essence it is to be what we are, that is to be our Being, which in common terms means to be ourselves at the deepest level of authenticity. We think we have to be strong to be successful at whatever it is we need to make work.  We can make something work and be strong by knowing what we our strengths are and who we are.  When we know and accept those two areas of ourselves, who we are and what our strengths are the thing to do is to use those strengths to do what it is that we need to do to make it work. We just need to adapt our strengths to getting things done from a different angle. There is always an angle a way in which we can make our strengths work in the given situation to benefit our n...

The sexual energy has magnetic properties. It is worth clarifying and saying that these magnetic properties are universal in nature, and function within a very vast scope, reaching far outside of ourselves. As we know, magnetism is the power to attract. Universal magnetism attracts all things. It is a principle that works to bring 'like' to closer 'like', and it also keeps the two polarities (opposites) relating to each other. For example, love attracts love, force brings force, wealth attracts wealth and so on and so on. The knowledge that keeps the two polarities relating well to each other is the in-depth knowledge of magnetism. Back to the sexual energy, it has a great magnetic power. Meaning if we work with the sexual energy, causing it to circulate through our system we will be able to be make use of its magnetism. Just imagine a child forming in its mother's womb. All the energies and substances have to be brought together to create the child. Just imagine, t...

For our internal qualities to develop we need the external supports to fall through. We actually do learn and develop many qualities (to some degree) having external supports. Having external supports until the appointed time is all ok. The appointed time is set by our flow of life.  Our Inner Being is the one emanates our flow of life. The events and their sequence comes from inside of us. Holding onto external supports beyond the appointed time becomes a hinderance and delays our progress.  When external supports fall it is always the time to first of all recognise this, then look to give ourselves the same value that the external supports gives but this time to give it to ourselves from inside.  The final step is to develop the giving to ourselves in all its aspects. Make it strong and vibrant and give it to others. When we give to others, it is most important to show them how to give it to themselves. If not, we don't complete the karmic learning cycle. We become an e...

More and more it is this way these days that people are not really ready to take responsibility for the things that are wrong in their life, even the things that are wrong with their health. It is a huge block for the inner work. But what can we do about it? Not much with others but we can see it in ourselves. When we see it in ourselves it is just as hard sometimes to take responsibility.  What we can do to help ourselves take responsibility?  The only first thing to do is to accept that we find it hard to take responsibility. If we can do that we have made a huge start that leads us to a path to be able to take responsibility.  End (5942).

In the absence of love, force always appears. Why not other qualities? That is a good question. The observation is that it is usually force that comes to do the job love would normally do. When we want to help a person and usually the love we have comes to show us how. If love is slow to appear, force will appear to help instead.   Using force we make a mess unless love comes quickly to the rescue. Often love comes along late after we have made a mess. Then if pride is not too big, usually feeling sorry at making a mess brings love, and we work things out with love and force.  The truth is that force and love must work hand in hand to help a person. Not love alone and not force alone. Together! Combining love and force together guided by truth gives rise to another virtue called wisdom. End (5941).

Our karma tricks us! It has to. We don't really want to pay it. Our subconscious knows that we have karma and we know that paying it won't be pleasant. So our subconscious naturally does all that it can to keep us far away from the people and scenarios that would make us encounter our past debts. To overcome the avoiding power of our subconscious our own karma tricks us by enticing another part of our subconscious that is just as powerful. That is why so often we feel divided. We feel so drawn but at the same time so very wary. As soon as our own karma begins to trick us using another powerful subconscious element, the will that is conditioned in us is available to be compromised by our karma, and that will works driving us closer and closer to the people and circumstances to get involved and stay involved until we encounter our karmic debts.  This can also work for our dharmic payouts as well. But there is less trickery involved. A very different force other than our condition...

Sometimes there are no human guarantees, like a physical humanly signed contract to assure income for a mission or to simply to live our life. There are only psychological and esoteric guarantees. We can't let ourselves forget that the esoteric and psychological rule the physical. The psychological guarantees are faith in that hard work, resourcefulness, tenacity and perseverance will be the cause for bring what we need. The esoteric guarantee is that if we are just and fair, the Divine Law will support us, and if we work in the name of the Being, the Divine Being through Divine Providence will provide for us. In the end that is what we have to live by, psychological and esoteric provision and guarantees. The strange thing about this is that the most flimsy guarantees are the human ones but we depend on them the most. The real solid guarantees are the psychological and esoteric and we don't trust them. A shift has to take place within us at some point... End (5939).

Our energy field is also sometimes called our information field. Meaning if we can read it we can know certain things about the qualities of the being emitting that field. Everyone of us of course has our own energy field. This energy field can't lie. As it radiates what we are and the results of what we are thinking, feeling and are doing or have done. Our mind can create lies but our energy field does not. Our physical senses are not able to perceive the energy fields but our other senses can. If we can learn to read to some degree or detail our energy field we can know a fair bit about ourselves that our own mind can not distort. If we can read our energy field we can also be able to read others. Therefore detect some of their truth of others and the events that unfold before us or are about to unfold. For example when something is true it has an energy field if something is not true it does not have an energy field. This is an easier way to know true or false. Just perceiving t...

Introduction I always wondered about why all of us can't be heroes. I use to think that the heroes are the ones who complete marvellous feats risking their lives while demonstrating superhuman abilities.  But it seems that this is not the only way and that this is really a small part of what a hero is. The majority of heroes go unseen and their actions are invisible.  Instead of there being only a few heroes we are all really called to be heroes, and we can all be heroes in the sense that we are called to be, which is to be a hero in our own microcosmos! It is often the difficult times that tend to bring that out the hero in people. A hero always appears in times of need and when we are internally poor and the land of the Being within us is overrun by the unjust and the disorderly (karma and "I's"), a hero is needed and the call is made.  By the Law of Emanation everyone emanates a real and authentic life outward from the heart of the Absolute. This happens for absolu...

The really interesting thing is that balance is not the full truth. It is more the truth, it is stable in the truth and based in the truth, yet it is the wise combination of the two opposites which are truth and falsehood. In a balanced reply there is truth yet there is not the full truth, there is an element of omission or flexibility. A balanced response is the response required for the situation at hand, discerned by the alert consciousness. Balance comes into a rendition of the facts by not revealing the detail of every second. Yet what is revealed is fully true. More lies that truth can never create balance or stability in nearly all situations, yet in some extreme situations the lie stabilises by keeping us alive. The same applies to love... End (5937).

Dark psychology as used popularly can be understood as the psychology of the subconscious. Justifications exemplify the psychology of the subconscious really well. The general modus operandi of the subconscious is the iceberg model. Where an acceptable visible layer is present while underneath there is the unacceptable reality. The visible layer looks fair and nice while the invisible is dark and ugly.  The subconscious psychology works to present and while keeping the invisible hidden and undetected. The subconscious psychology uses many tools such as lies, excuses, justifications and anger to prevent the larger and invisible side from being seen. The invisible side holds the real reasons for everything and it is larger in size and stronger than the visible surface. There are some things that are difficult to justify. The default of the ego and subconscious is to try. When the justification is not accepted or is forcibly proven to be based on lies it is common that we get angry. T...

A key to help in our practices is to be serious when doing them and to work diligently during them. Many of our practices go no where because we are not serious about them and we slack off during the practice. The guarantee is if we work seriously and diligently during the practice we give the practice a chance to work for us. We develop with giving seriousness and diligence. Even just giving those qualities will help us to progress, and these qualities are transferrable everywhere in life above and below. "The only 'bad' practice is the one we didn't do." End (5933).

Waiting to be fully prepared, fully studied up, full of love and 'positive vibes' before we get to work on something or start something new, means that we will never start or never work on that project. We will never be fully prepared or fully knowledgeable or feel full perfect good feelings. We will never practice Alchemy if we are waiting to be fully in love and feeling fine with our partner. We may feel not so great but still practice. We practice for our Inner Being above human feeling side of ourselves. We are not perfect Gods and to think that we are that is harmful. This way of thinking in all practicality leads us to stagnation and disappointment Practice means progress. The statement "Practice makes perfect" is something that is well intended but it is not fully real. Because there will always be some kind of flaw and it is too much pressure and un realistic to think and expect ourselves to be perfect. We are the rough instrument - perfection is left to our S...

There is a lot of mention about the violet flame in many spiritual and esoteric books. Then there is a bit of mention about UV light and the superior worlds, leaving us who studying Gnosis scratching our head a little. What if we were to say that the Divine Mother being an electronic force is related to the violet flame and UV light. The Divine Mother is all the light of nature but in her aspect of Kundalini and Mother Death with the power to disassemble so as to free light, She is the ultra violet.  Physically we know that ultra violet light is the one that burns and disintegrates and it is also the one that carries the highest energy. It is the one that burns the most and the deepest into things. Lightning is more white, blue and ultra-violet than any other colour of light. It is a different experience to work with the Divine Mother in light and as light. The word 'die' often brings up some subconscious pain. To see the practice of dissolution as the same as bringing light an...

Without mental clarity it is truly hard to work on ourselves. We need it! When we are all congested and fogged up mentally it is so hard to see and remember our thoughts, let alone work on them. This mental clarity is really a matter of energy hygiene. Keeping our head energetically clean is the key. This cleansing effect comes via accumulation. We start and continue and as we continue the more we feel defogged. Work with transmutation and prana yama and the Divine Mother and the mantra S to clean our mental atmosphere, inner space and aura. Salt baths, cleansing herbal baths and burning incense also help. Doing concentration exercises after at least 15 minutes of mental silence also helps. The most important thing is to avid negative emotions s they cause a lot of unnecessary mental activity and they accumulate a lot of negative energies in our centres and chakras which make our whole system congested and congestion brings haziness. End (5928).

None of us human beings here are gods. We are human beings.  This is so obvious yet we ignorantly treat others as if they are gods. We abuse and treat them harshly expecting them to still be ok, and what's worse we expect them to be fine with us and treat us kindly or the same way they have always treated us. Well that way of thinking is out of order. Human beings are not like gods in that they are able to continue feeling ok after being abused. Even people who are working on themselves are not gods. They are human beings working on themselves. Hence we need to give others solar values and work with our psychology to work within the bounds of their psychology. When it comes to working with the gods, we even need to give them our beautiful values. I don't think a god will help indifferently when there is one one who gives love and the other gives disdain. This is because the gods also work with justice, where love weighs more on the scale than disdain. End (5930).

The study of fantasy converts into self-knowledge. This is because for every fantasy that we have there is a reason for it. The reason is mostly found in compensation. Through studying any fantasy that we have we can find what it is compensating for.  What the fantasy is compensating for tells us directly what we lack and what we need to develop within us. The study of our fantasies are a guide to filling ourselves up with a real value. Fantasy after all is an attempt at filling us up with something.  Compensation works in duality. The fantasy will be the opposite of what we are. A weak person will have fantasies of being powerful and dominant and vice versa. The question to ask is what do my fantasies tell me about myself? End (5931).

When we are going to dissolve something in our psyche don't say anything about it, don't label it talk about it in your mind. Just present the feeling of it as you feel it and work on dissolving it with the Divine Mother. That is where painting what we see comes into it instead of painting what we think. The real thing is what we see and if we are presenting what we think no wonder why our dissolution is not too effective because there is no real target presented. End (5927).

Here are the ideas from the readers: • "There are so many beautiful paintings of the Divine Mother we can use as inspiration to reach the internal purity She embodies." •  "Jesus' death, the eclipse, entombment, earthquake, and union of his spirit with the earth's." •  "Roses blooming on the cross." •  "Our own Being." •  "Liquid water in whatever way one wants: a stream, a flow from a garden hose, rain on puddles, on glass, flowing over rocks; water as the thoughtful living medium of love and memory we exist in and sense everything through." •  "Paintings of Christ from the masters." •  "Recently the image of the Christ from the shroud of Turin has been helpful for me. Thanks." •  "Lovely post. I also enjoy the image of the sun, the Christ, milky way, of course Buddha, DM, kneeling in front of divinity." Lovely suggestions and thank you very much for commenting. Let's do them. End (5923).

When we focus on a project, obstacles are likely to appear. The interesting thing is to see the obstacles that come up from inside. The obstacles come up from inside plentifully. One after the other. Thankfully, as we present them for dissolution the rate at which they come up slows down. What is interesting to see, are the types of obstacles that come up. They start off as very related to the project, and a bit later they still come up but apparently semi-related to the project. But with careful reflection these semi-related obstacles are deeply related. They are just more personal and intimate in nature. The obstacles come up from deeper levels within us, and the deeper the level they appear from the more buried in time they are. Choosing a project and seeing the obstacles one after the after, eventually brings obstacles from our past lives up to the surface for examination. The way to cause them to appear is the dissolution mindset. Which goes like this: see them, understand them, a...

Knowing what we lack is an encounter with ourselves. Some may say it is an encounter with our shadow side. Either way it is to encounter ourselves. Anyhow the point here is that what we lack will only come to our attention via the negative side of things. Often the negative side of things could be a sarcastic comment, criticism, a reprimand, a fine, something not working out etc. etc. All of those things are just helping us to encounter ourselves, that is, to see what we lack. At the end of the day it is all about ourselves and seeing ourselves.   Whatever people say about ourselves is always reminding us of ourselves. The happier we are to meet ourselves and make some adjustments, the less and less of a problem it is. The more we see that we are not perfect and we are working and working on ourselves, the less upset we will be about having to see ourselves and the more we will appreciate it. (If we are forced to see ourselves, that shouldn't really a problem because it is our...

The Divine is that as we give we will receive. If we are not receiving what we need, it has to be that we are not giving. But we usually all say: "But I am giving!". We are giving, it could be though not in every area and especially not in some important areas that for some reason or another really count. Often these areas that we are not giving in are blind spots and they really count more than we think and accept. The best policy is to be giving in all areas and be giving more than receiving. An simple audit of our giving and receiving balance in all areas of our life: spiritual work, health, physical work, home, family, relationships (friends), finances, environment, community, will reveal a lot to us. End (5925).

Rushing is a state that opens us up to many other negative states. Rushing is also something very characteristic of a low level of the Being. I don't want to be judgmental. I so often see people in the city who are mentally unbalanced rushing here there and everywhere yelling this and that. Where are they going in such a hurry? Generally people of a high level of being don't rush.   Anyway getting back to ourselves when we are rushing it is because we have been irresponsible and we are worried, stressed and impatient. Such a combination leads to anger and an angry state leads to brash action. Rushing also alters our nervous system and affects our energy levels and state of energy within our body. Especially our sexual energy. Rushing leads to unwanted accidents at all levels, not just physically... End (5922).

Introduction Master Samael spoke to us about knowing how to die, how to suffer and I think about how to be silent. To know how to die can mean to know the many ways that we can die, and when to apply those ways. A really good way to die is to do practices that displace the whole 'myself'. Meaning to put aside the whole personal identity of myself. A good way to do this is to be awareness, which is to embrace the following qualities: transparent, formless, invisible knowing. This post lists some of the ways that we can die in ourselves by embracing some the qualities of awareness, namely transparency.  If we know some of these ways we can apply them in the many different parts of our day and life. Here is the list and some of the events in which they can be applied. The key of this post is that for each of these situations there are particular attributes of the consciousness for us to embrace, and by being those attributes, we help ourselves to die with precision and to a very d...

Just understanding that our reactions are not right is enough for us to die.  I think we all have inroads into how our reactions work or don't work out for ourselves.  If we focus on elimination that's all we need to start. Don't wait for more to start. End (5921).

Die first in all that we can and then go back to knowledge and comprehension to deepen death The order has to be placed such that death is a priority and use all else to help the process of elimination along. Often we follow the opposite order, and things can take so long and if things take a long time there is always the danger of stalling. It's in the beginning when we are starting that the order of knowledge, comprehension and elimination is helpful but later this order has to be reversed. If we focus on getting past those feelings and eliminating them, we will find this to be helpful. End (5920).

Something that we could lose in nature was something that we were only ever loaning from Mother Earth.  Mother Earth gives us the raw materials and we give those materials a form. We enjoy those materials for a while then as it was only ever a loan we must return them to Mother Earth. Nature works that way with retribution. Mother Nature gives and later takes back. We are given a body and later it is taken back to return to the Earth from where it came.    When we lose something to nature it is wonderful to say thankyou Mother Earth for loaning that object to us and may you take it back into your Earthly body. Then our part is to feel joy that Mother Earth has back what she loaned us. This attitude transmutes the feelings of loss or anger at having lost the object. It has been returned to the rightful owner. It has found its way home. End (5919).

Money is not just a piece of thin coloured plastic it is a representation of a living law. Therefore it is has a reality on three levels: physical, psychological and esoteric. Money can be seen to be energy. In fact when we think about it, it really does all boil down to be energy.  If something is an energy, it naturally will have a particular feeling or quality. The quality of the energy of money is that of joy, happiness, abundance and freedom. That is what people seek from money and that is essentially in many ways what money gives us. We don't have to be degenerated to think that the energy of money is that of joy. If we had a lot of money look at all that we could do to help others. The true energy of money comes from the Sun out of the Cosmic Common Trogoautoegocrat Law, that is the continuous exchange or give and take of all things.  The energy in the cosmos is infinitie and so the energy of money is also infinite. Hence it is related to abundance.  Money is also ...

Really good question. To know it would be great as that is what one can visualize and focus stable attention on and thus receive much internal benefit from.  I don't know the absolute best, and maybe there is not an absolute best, it could vary between stages. I definitely know that a good start is to use the image of the Sun to meditate on. Please do leave in the comments section what you think may be the best image for inner development to meditate on. End (5917).