Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

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).

There is a principle in the world of psychic energies that when someone attacks knowingly or unknowingly a person who is stronger energetically, the energy of the attack bounces back clashing against the one who issued the attack. That is why so often people who become negative and attack their spiritual master with gossip, judgement, slander and criticism in the end, become so negative that they wind up being very disappointed and upset and leave their spiritual studies. This happens everywhere and all the time. It's good to know that just even scientifically energetically, that this is what is going to happen to us if we send negative waves to anyone who is more advanced than us. The negativity we issue will rebound and we will end up more negative. End (5916).

If there be a method to change our inner states, with that method we will control our life. It is always the wrong inner states that spin the events of our life out of balance. If we can change our inner states to the right ones we will benefit from the better side of the events. In the end if we can control our inner states we will be able to control our life. There are methods and methods. Conscious breathing is the first method that we use to influence our inner world.  It is the first method because it begins from the outside.  Conscious breathing can definitely change our inner states which gives us access to our inner world which then helps us to approach the outer world from the centre of the inner world, and that is where we can control ourselves from within the events of our life. End (5915).

Being a cat! When we ask what's so and so doing? We get the reply: 'being a pain, being a jerk, being silly, being lazy" etc. The best complement is being him or herself. Cats when we observe them can teach us something about being. They are really being themselves a cat. Not trying to be anything else, and not doing anything that a cat doesn't do. We are so different we be and do all these things that we are not. In fact, esoterically speaking we are not really humans and much more often than not, do things that are not really fully human, in the spiritual sense that is. Our maximum job for this life is to be what we are, be a human and that implies tremendous transformations and knowledge of our true nature. What stops us the most from being, is the feeling that we have to be and do more. Look at the cat, it does not have that problem at all! End (5914).

To be like a lemon. Sometimes we need to be. But never all the time. Our essence is not a lemon... Who do we really know is like a lemon? Not many right and who really wants to be a lemon. So why do we really have to be a lemon. When needed yes but not as a second all the time nature.  What is it to be a lemon? To make people cringe (like when we bite a lemon) in interactions and not have much to do with us except in small doses. When we are upset we are all like lemons. That is the unconscious lemon. The best is the conscious lemon that we use selectively when we consciously have to be. The thing is that it is much better to be a lemon internally in front of our own silly or overexcited unbalanced states. That is the why we use the lemon to bring unbalance or overexcitement into some kind of order that is better for us to make wise decisions. To be a lemon before our greedy and lustful states is interesting... End (5910).

With the following key you will be able to understand lust, and the how and why of the abyss of lust. Lust is sexuality without love. The most accurate and synthetic definition I have come across. Without love there is a void, and if there is a void, something must always fill it. So what comes to fill that void? Force fills that void.  The reason why force comes to fill that void is becasue of desire.  When the desire of sexuality can not be fulfilled by what is normal and just - love, force is used to bypass love. We can see this clearly as lust is always about using some kind of force to skip over love. Sexual assault shows this clearly. Typically a man can not get by ordinary means a lady to like him and  because of accumulated desire he uses force to seduce or coerce her to like him. The use of fantasy, is another example. Fantasy forces the brain to entertain something that is not reality and make the sexual energy and organs to obey stimulation that has a false ori...

We need nourishment to work all day in the garden. This nourishment supplies the energy for mostly our motor centre to do the work. This nourishment is physical food and drink. To do spiritual work we need food of a more subtle or spiritual nature. Which we can find in prana.  We can energise ourselves with the spiritual food of prana from outside of ourselves and from within ourselves. Prana yama blends the pranic energy from outside with the pranic energy from inside to spiritually nourish ourselves so that we can carry out spiritual work during the day. To not nourish ourselves with subtle energy is to deprive ourselves of the ability to do spiritual work. The subtle energy we energise ourselves with, with prana yama makes it easier for us to observe ourselves, know ourselves, separate from our mind and to not get tied down by pessimism and laziness. End (5912).

This is the first time I've written a post like this one. Because of starting a mission in South Africa remote work for a company or entity outside of South Africa is the only way that we can presently sustain the mission over there. If you happen to need or know of anyone who may need the services of a technical writer (or otherwise) or anything that you think I could be of assistance with, please feel free to get in touch. I will be very happy to hear from you. In many ways, in this world it is who you know that gets things moving... email: mareneptunus@gmail.com End (5911).

If we can't see internally very well we shouldn't ask the Divine Mother to show us anything. Maybe our inner knowing and sense of understanding is better, so then we should ask our Divine Mother to help us to know and understand the answer to our questions. End (5910).

It's really good to see how these values of hope, faith and love actually keep us alive, and keep us going. It's these values that we have to use in life to get us through all the challenges. The value of hope keeps us alive. Because we really don't know if we are going to wake up tomorrow morning, yet we make plans as if we will.  It is really hope that is behind us making the plans for tomorrow. Because we all hope that we will wake up tomorrow morning. It's that hope that keeps us going, it is what gives our continuing vision of our life. We do so much today for that continued vision of our life. Just imagine what happens if we lose hope for our life... Imagine if we didn't have hope to wake up tomorrow. How would that affect us right now? What would we do right now? End (5909).

Cleaning our inner space regularly is wonderful. It is worthwhile doing, as it clears the space allowing us clearer vision and space to more easily observe ourselves. It also gives us more psychological energy. It orders our inner space and makes what is truly of priority much more apparent t us. It also feels great. It is also psychological hygiene that prevents psychological festering of ideas. The procedure is simple.  Invoke the Divine Mother and ask her sincerely to clean the inner space with here fire.  Chant the mantra 'S' seeing, hear and feeling with your imagination your entire inner space filled with cleaning, healing and energising fire. See below: Your inner space is your psychological space and beyond. Just focusing on our psychological space is plenty good enough. End (5908).

The logic of the abyss is the logic of destruction. In other words, the logic of breaking things down so much to become irreparable that a whole new beginning is needed. This we know, though we may not know that the logic of the abyss has the same goal as the logic of the light. They are very different processes with different results, but in essence the hold the same intention. Master Samael said that the Divine Mother is with us liberating us in the light and She is also with us liberating us through the abyss. Either way, the Divine Mother wants our liberation. It is the way that the logic of abyss does things that the results are very different to that of the light.  Liberation in the light is with consciousness and liberation through the abyss is without consciousness. After the liberation through the abyss is processed so consciousness has to be developed, because the process was not done voluntarily and consciously. The goal of the logic of the abyss is liberation. It is to ...

The most important thing is to know always how to be in our heavens. In other words in more and more in higher states of consciousness. Which is possible by always making the effort to lift upwards within ourselves and look towards the light within us. This is especially important when in difficult situations and we feel that we are sliding downwards. This has to become our refuge during those times. A refuge that we can trust in time after time. When we trust in the refuge of staying in the higher states of consciousness within oursleves we will deal with the difficulty in the best possible way and we will be able to weather the storm and wait for things to look up once again after the storm has passed. There are situations we all do well in, and there are some that we don't. We do well in those situations because our life experience has taught us to stay higher within ourselves and we just need to apply the same learnings to stay up higher within ourselves in these other situatio...

Definition Here are some notes about the topic of alignment. Alignment is relative. We are aligned in relation to a goal or purpose. We can only ever talk about alignment in relation to something. As soon as we have a goal or a purpose we can speak about alignment - not before. Just to further explain what a misalignment is, let's look at an example. Suppose we have a person whose goal it is to be a politician. What does misalignment with that goal look like?  The answer to that question depends on the person, but if the person does not like people, is an introvert, does not like public speaking, is scared of crowds, does not like travelling or meetings, is a bad liar, then those dislikes can be considered misalignments with that goal of being a politician. Alignment is harmony, power, focus, efficiency and our natural values in action. We are all happy when we are aligned. We are clear and we are in movement towards our goal. When we are not aligned with a goal or purpose we all t...

If a situation is very difficult and there seems to be no way to move or change it for the better, and it is stuck in being heavily problematic, there is one thing to do, which is to make supreme efforts to bring the light, and above all HOLD the light. It is not too hard to bring the light. The teachings have given us most of it. We always easily and natually know the better thing to be doing. The real thing that makes all the difference is HOLDING the light. To hold the light means to hold in place within us the advice from our consciousness. What comes naturally when we are holding the light is to call upon the light both inside and outside of ourselves to help us. End (5905).

Any and every temple no matter what denomination it belongs to and what name it goes by, offers us refuge.  Each temple invites us to take refuge within. As soon as we walk in to any temple it like the outside world with all its busyness and concerns falls away. As we observe and walk into the temple we are invited to replicate the same effect an go within to take refuge within our inner temple. Our inner temple is just like the outer one. As we enter within we leave the outside noise and enter into our inner silence. There are even places in nature that are like temples that as soon as we enter we are invited to take refuge within.  This is how we know we are in a temple of nature. We are drawn within to replicate the effect of the temple which is to invite us to take refuge within. A special space in the desert looked over by foreboding invisible guardians, a mysterious forest clearing, a mystical cave with deep rumbling echoes, a quiet stretch of beach that sings the songs ...

Search within ourselves to see if there is something within us is not aligned with the work, the path and the Being. Search for anything, no matter if it is small, large, embarassing or shameful. No one is going to know or needs to know. Anything that looks like it is not going to help us advance is useful. If we need inspiration, ask ourselves: "what do we want?". List our answers and see if they are going to help us to advance in the work, the path or the Being. Take what we have selected into meditation. Search for the value we are missing. Our misalignments show us what we need. Our desire of wanting something or to be something in common life is showing what we need to be inwardly. See how to develop that quality in the work on ourselves. How can we be that in our work? Finally, work in dissolving all that hinders us from being that quality in our work. End (5902).

Introduction This is a question that many people ask at one point in their life. Sometimes we all feel at a loss about how to love. Here is a simple formula that we can apply to loving anything. Formula Step 1 Get to know ourselves in this area. Sit down quietly and explore what it means for us to love that 'thing'. Be specific. Step 2 Explore once again what it is inside of us that stops us, resists or makes it difficult for us to love that 'thing' as we saw in step 1. Step 3 Work on dissolving what stops us from loving as we felt in step 1. Step 4 Love in action and continue purifying word and action. Parting Comment Love is the same for all things. We can love all things, this is the way to live, what changes is the way we love each thing. This is at the discretion of our consciousness... End (5901).

This is the general process here of change. 'A' times 4, the four "A's". First acknowledge there is a change that can be made, then accept the change, take steps to change and change in actions and finally integrate the change into our way of being. Steps 3 and 4 happen quickly. As soon as the steps to change are being taken the action to change happens and with some subsequent changes the change begins to integrate all fairly naturally and quickly. This is because the foundation for change have previously occurred. Step 1 can take time and it can not. Many people are able to see quickly with their intellect that a change would make things better for them and others. Step 2 - accepting, is the one that take sso long. Years we can be talking. The reason why is that Step 2 requires the consciousness to process, and there are layers and layers of deepening acceptance before real steps to action can be taken. Our work always come in in working on step 2 and narrowing ...

One terrific thing about being connected to a Gnostic lineage of masters who have arrived at the self-realisation and even the perfection of it, is that the experience and power of the lineage can correct us, support us, help us and work to amend where the Divine Law permits, the errors we make. Especially when we teach the doctrine and techings of the lineage. It is not an excuse to make msitakes it is rather knowledge inspiring understanding of the power of the lineage we belong to and how the lineage supports us in the unseen background of our lives. End (5899).

Relating to Change Learning how to change is one of the most important things to do in life. Why, because life always calls upon us to change. Very few things in life can or stay the same.  The better we relate to change the better it is for us. The most important thing in life is to know how to change and to actually change. The more and the better we know how to change the better we will feel in life. The better we will adapt and face the challenges of life. Often it is not easy, maybe that is one of the reasons why we are all here, is to learn how to change. If life never stays still and always flows, we can infer that at the essence of life is change. Life is a series of never ending challenges and problems.  It has to be that way doesn't it? If life were static it would be too mechanical and it would be more like death than life. It can't be that we come to life and expect to never change. Even if we don't want to change we are changing every instant.  There are even...

It's a curious thing that this happens, same house, different people years apart, similar events. It seems that some places can become so energised to the point of being imprinted with a certain pattern, that is powerful enough to draw people to it, to experience what has already been experienced there before. We know some land sites and buildings because of what happened there in the past, attract similar events in the present. These sites or places can even be called karmic as those sites and places are where karma plays out. Court rooms, night clubs, certain sports areans, family homes, hospitals, certain streets and highways can be regarded as karmically magnetised as often the karmic debts of people are cnacelled or started at these sites and places. End (5898).