Gnostic Esoteric Study & Work Aids

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 ...