Gnostic Wisdom

So Often... So often for the supposed love of God we stop or leave the place where we are loving God to go somewhere else to love God.  This has so many interpretations and situations in which it is applicable. It is just something good to remember now and then. End (2237).

A Distinct Difference There is a difference between to have an experience about and to 'be experiencing'. People have many experiences about things, for example let's say the spiritual soul, but that certainly does not mean that that person is experiencing the spiritual soul. That person may be single and therefore has certainly not incarnated the spiritual soul, and so he or she can not be experiencing the spiritual soul here and now. It is much better ‘to be experiencing’ than to have experiences about. Explains the Crazy Experiences Having an experience about something should never be confused with experiencing. So many people confuse these two things. And so we get the weekly occurrence of people just starting Gnosis or having only been studying Gnosis for a few years saying I had an experience with the human soul and the fire and the Intimate Christ, maybe I am in the initiations. Which...

From Master Samael “JUAN, ES EL VERBO, la Palabra; PABLO, representa la FILOSOFÍA, la GNOSIS, la SABIDURÍA; FELIPE tiene un Evangelio preciosísimo: El de las SALIDAS ASTRALES, el del DESPERTAR DE LA CONCIENCIA, el de los VIAJES EN ESTADO DE JINAS, el de la ALTA MAGIA práctica,” “John, is the verb, the word; Paul, represents philosophy, Gnosis, wisdom; Philip has a precious gospel: that of astral travel, that of the awakening of consciousness, that of travels in the state of Jinas, that of high practical magic,” Conclusion We all have our inner Philip and the above are the aspects of His mission or function within us. Working on distrust cultivates or strengthens our inner Philip because trust and faith -   the fruit of working on distrust is the main elements needed to carry out the four aspects of Philip’s mission within us. End (2235).

A Good Check to do! It is very good to from time to time check how big our head is. Because we talk and write about the teachings, this does not mean that we know a lot or are a lot. Because we have learnt a lot means that we were previously ignorant to those things. Does that merit allowing our head to swell? For me it doesn't. As Socrates said, knowing that we don’t know is a better state to be in. And there is always much more for us to know, meaning there is still so much we are ignorant of and so then how in all rationality can we allow our head to swell? End (2234).

Gone Like a Puff of Smoke The three things mentioned above: praise, privileges and positons can be present in our lives, even for a long while but that does not mean to say that they can disappear at the drop of a hat. And in fact they do and can. Be Wise The most intelligent thing to do always when receiving any of the above three things is to not get attached to them. That is to not depend upon them for anything. Do not make them within your psychology a base upon which you think about yourself, value yourself, or feel about yourself, perceive yourself or imagine or see yourself. Do not see yourself through those things. If we do that we are well prepared for when those things stop. Always remembering our inner Being is the best solution, the best preparation, the best means of navigation through life, tests, difficult circumstances and the path, and it is also the most authentic thing and realest thing to do. ...

Introduction Reflecting a little, we come to the conclusion that we do indeed have the four elements within us. They are for certain in our body and their characteristics are in our psychology. Many people yearn to control the elements of nature and humankind certainly tries to do that. However, true to the Gnostic spirit what is of more immediate importance is to learn how to control the elementals within our own nature. That is, learn how to control the elements within our body and within our psychology. While we are learning to do this, a wonderful aid are the four magical formulas that allow a person to command their atomic elementals that constitute the elements in your body and psyche. The ego is the cause of not being able to control our own elements or atomic elementals, however making the elements or atomic elementals passive within us, paralyses the ego. As the ego can only manifest by agitating the atomic elementals of our body to give life to its logic and to ...

Evolution and Involution As Master Samael says these two forces or processes permeate the whole of creation. They are the two axes upon which creation is built upon. These two forces produce a great balance among all things. If we were to remove one, we would have a terrible unbalance. These two forces are a direct expression of duality. Evolutionary is all that is constructive, progressive, increasing, growing and developing. While involution is the exact opposite, it is all that is destructive, decreasing, decaying and atrophying,  Good and Evil are Concepts Master Samael dares to say that good and evil as we know it do not really exist in reality out there in the cosmos. Good and evil are present as concepts within our heads. These concepts of good and evil are also relative. What is good to one person is not good to another. This observation of the relativity of good and evil shows us clearly that good and evil are mental concepts. Master Samael ...

The “I’s” are Islands Each ego or “I” that we have is an island. Being an Island Means The ego being an island means that it does not have connections to any other element. One of the very many elements that each “I” is not connected to are friends. Each ego is also not connected to the work or the path. So Often When a person improves their human circumstances they forget about their old friends. Simply because, one: the new egos are not connected to them and two: the person is now identified with those egos. A person may have been good friends with people in his neighbourhood but when we relocates and gets a well-paying job in the city he forgets his old friends. Our consciousness is not isolated and disconnected from the many things in our life. Our consciousness remembers our friends and feels gratitude towards them. The egos on the other hand feels better than them and looks upon them with the sligh...

Advice This bit of advice comes from my marvellous missionary. Keep it Up there and Don’t Bring it Down Anything that comes from our inner Being, any spiritual skill or ability should stay in our Being and not be brought down into our mind or into matter. Because there is where we make a mistake. When we bring such things from our inner Being down into our mind we think that it is us that knows or can do certain things. When we bring these things down from the Being into matter we then misuse them and tarnish them, using these abilities for materialistic purposes, money, control, power etc. The key is to leave these things of our Being in our Being. Or things from our consciousness in our consciousness and not bring them into our mind. End (2229).

The Typical Process but we Can do Better It goes like this. Something happens and we feel really hurt and disappointed. A day or two later we realise that we don't feel anything of love towards that person. We feel as if the connection that we had has worn away or somehow been cut loose. Hit Back We then start to get hit back. We become very uncooperative, arrogant, sarcastic, ironic, ill-willed towards them. In short we inflict the pain that they caused us.  Pain is Caused Finally we find out that we are causing them pain and that they have become worn down (defeated)  by it all and as soon as our system feels compensated, in that we have inflicted upon them the same amount and quality as the pain that was apparently inflicted upon us, we then inflict a little bit more pain and then having done that little bit extra we start to feel remorse. Remorse and a Spark Through that remorse we then begin to put them into our heart. And then a spark of somethi...

It was Said Master Rabalu said, says my marvellous missionary, that 10% of consciousness is all that is needed in human beings to stop all wars. That 10% means that the majority of human beings need to have 10% of their total essence free and awake. They may have for example 13% of their essence free but as long as 10% (3% of free essence is asleep) of their essence is awake that requirement is met. We are Humanity We are not at all separate from humanity. We are humanity and so we must get that 10% of our own essence free and awakened. Then we can stop wars in our home, in our life and with others who are around us. In other words no more wars in our world. Get 10% First Before Trying to Save the World! As far as the greater planet is concerned, us having 10% of our essence free and awake means we have done the maximum that we can do to stop wars. For me there is no point in trying to stop wars if we don't even have 10% of our essence free and awake! Master Sam...

Practicing Well then Worse We make efforts at practicing mental silence and slowly our capacity to create silence appears and then we get to enjoy moments and short periods of silence and the relaxation, joy and contentment that comes with it. Then it gradually starts to get worse again, where the mind seems more active than before we see thoughts about way back in the past and about things that are more egocially intense and heavy. We then naturally think that we are not doing well or that we are doing something wrong and we think this does not work and we give up! Big mistake, a lack of esoteric education and culture is at work in such an attitude. Deeper Levels are Louder and Nastier The deeper levels of our mind are more active and contain things are that more intensely egoic and are of a heavier nature. The deeper we go into our mind the more we make contact with the past. So the deeper we go the worse it is g...

Truth is You Can’t Make Someone Love You You can’t control another’s heart and don’t even think that you can because as soon as you do you are going to set up for a long path of suffering. Mostly when we desire someone’s love it is because we do not have them in properly in our heart. They just don’t quite fit in very well. There just feels to be something missing or something just doesn’t quite feel so comfortable (70% good but 30% hmmmm don’t know, what is that feeling?). The Key This one single observation is the key to it all. The key is to not make extra efforts to please the other person and submit yourself thinking that will make you more trustworthy and lovable but to make efforts to reconcile that person into your own heart. As soon as you can make that fit comfortably into your own heart with those gaps covered and with that strange uncomfortable feeling virtually gone then we can sigh an ‘Ah!’ of peace. This may take lots of psychological work and inquiry b...

Mistress Litelantes on Food Waste It has been said that Mistress Litelantes told someone that if you want to face hunger in life throw away food. It is really alarming how much we can end up throwing good food away, in our own home, not to mention the amount that supermarkets all over the world throw away. Hence the various movements such as “Food Rescue” that are popping up now, trying to prevent the huge wastage of food. The Key The key to not having to throw away food is to shop very intelligently. To buy only what you know you will eat, based on previous experience. It is a domino effect or a chain of cause and effect. The more we buy, the more food ends up being stored and as time passes one gets busy and forgets about it or does not have time to cook it and so it sits there and when you want to eat it, it is old and tasteless and so into the bin it goes. Crows, Seagulls and River Rats Thankfully there are...

No Base = Pain When there is loss in our life, having our bases or our major investments in our own Being or at least in something that will never leave us such as our essence, our work, our own consciousness we can avoid so much emotional pain. The key is how to do that. Well it is done over time and certainly it takes time and is achieved by degrees. Where do we start?  Well here is a way. Self-Remembering Self-remembering or better said remembering the Being is the start. Remembering our own Being is more than being in the moment or being alert. It is to find ourselves in our own Being. The depth of this increases as one awakens more and progresses on the initiatic path. First we must understand that we are an essence and that our essence comes from a Spirit or a Divine Being, a Monad, a spark of the great flame, which is God. When we practice self-remembering we can make our mind quiet to see oursel...