Gnostic Wisdom

Start from the Bottom (Mineral Life) When an essence is emanated from the Absolute for the first time, it begins it's journey into creation through the mental, astral, etheric rounds (see talk on the seven rounds and seven races) into the physical, where it then begins its physical life starting from the mineral kingdom. It then transmigrates through the plant, animal and finally into the human kingdom. Indigenous Tribes Such essences entering the human kingdom for the first time are born amongst the indigenous cultures of the world. That is amongst the various tribes of the world living what we would call a primitive life. A life that is close to nature, close to the Mother (Earth) and the learning that takes place is all about mother nature and how to live with mother nature. Just as new born children we stay close to our mother and all of our learning is in the beginning is through our mother. We can see that the learning about life begins as a new essence starts with the very f...

We give up chocolate for a week then we relapse, and in the relapse we eat in one or two sittings, all that we missed out on during the previous week. It is like the swing of the pendulum and so very naturally mathematically exact. This doesn't apply just to stopping eating chocolate but mental and emotional habits as well, especially the egos that are behind these habits. For example, instead of chocolates it could be criticism or judgement, or annoyances. The way we work with the pendulum starts by knowing it and knowing that the pendulum swing effect is what will happen if we provoke it.  We provoke the pendulum by not understanding what we are doing and just mechanically stopping a habit, for example. The pendulum swing effect is avoided by approaching stopping a habit by first being armed with good reasons that are deeply significant to us. Secondly, work to stop the pendulum gradually by coming to the centre slowly and smoothly. The pendulum is defeated gradually through crea...

Consciously working on Transvaluation is difficult. Transvaluation usually happens by itself as we work on ourselves and understand in a deeper way the teachings. Transvaluation means to transfer our centre of gravity from life to the work.  Before transvaluation, life, its pursuits and concerns were valued as top priority, after transvaluation the work on ourselves and the development of our inner life and Being are valued as top priority. Even though transvaluation is difficult there are methods of consciously working on transvaluation which are not as difficult and produce very good results.  There comes a time when we know we need a deeper level of transvaluation to go forward, and so we find ourselves having to consciously face working on transvaluation. This is when methods of transvaluation become very relevant and important. Choosing the right method actually can make all the difference. We truly want a method that we can pick up and work with at our level, that produc...