gnosis – Page 2 – Inner Mysteries

The Work of the Magi

WE HAVE TO CONSECRATE THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF OUR BEING.

WE NEED TO SOLIDIFY AND FIX OUR EARTH WHICH IS OUR MINDS AND BODY THROUGH VARIOUS DISCIPLINES AND DEVOTIONS LABORS ETC LIFE’S A SCHOOL !!

Our body and our mind is the earth that we need to balance and put to good practical use and make strong healthy. Through routines and exercise as well as a prominent soul connection to one’s vocation. Sacrificing the efforts and labors to the great Spirit.

Our soul can walk upon the waters of life as long as we balance our emotions! Our emotions and our relationships with one another other represents our water , our imagination and dreams, are receptive in nature. We can balance our water element and calm the waters and triumph through various methods that evoke the water elementals to assist us in mastering this element.

The Alchemical Lab of the Body

The body is made in a way that if utilized correctly it will naturally ward of illness and mental issues such as the dappening drag feeling we all have. Essentially the human body is a perfect combination of the elements. It is pillar of salt endowed with spirit fire. When the spirit fire is weakened through rapid exhaustion of the energy force, then the physical body becomes weakened, first mentally then physically. If we learn to retain the outgoing impulse and shut down the five sense periodically through mediation we can recharge the body. The body is a battery. Notice that we are electromagnetic beings but we are all wearing rubber shoes. We know that rubber does not conduct electricity therefore we are walking around without being grounded. Here we have three imbalances,

1. We are always seeking and following the outgoing current of the senses. The energy seeks to leave through the 5 senses hence when we watch an emotional movie we may feel tired, or of we are paying attention to a lecture we may become tired, or after physical exertion we become tired. The energy seeks an exit.

2. We are not grounded we are always whare insulated shoes removing our connection to the negative polarity hence causing inflammation within the body.

3. We are not centered in our being. Instead we are identified with our mind and bodies. If we find our center we can identify with the aspect of our self that is unmanifested. By correcting these three aspects we can keep the fire burning within us and the body will naturally become a beacon of health.

Questions One Should Ask One’s Self

1.Have I become athiestic in nature? If so why?

2.Do I meditate on the Supreme being with form or without form?

3. Is the prime creator personal or impersonal or above both?

4. Do I want to taste the fruit or be the fruit?

5. If there is an absolute truth, do I live up to its existemce and relevence in my day to day activities?

6. What existence is possible without the body and mind? Have I personally experienced life and existence beyomd the physical and mental spheres if only for a glimpse?

7. Am I able to wake up consciously while dreaming and have full cognizance in that realm?

8. Does God take personal interest in people and there lifes and aspirations?

9.What lessons can be learned from witnessing the cycle of life in the animal kingdom and the brutal nature of eating other entities to continue life?

10. Am I perfect in all ways or are there imperfections and evil inlcinations laying deep within my own heart?

These are the questions that are important to ask in this age of forgetfulness.

The Truth About Death

In the ancient schools and philosophies it was known that physical embodiment was a death to the soul. The physical body and being entombed in the cross of matter is as much death as the eternal soul can experience. Welcome to the land of the living dead! Do you remember all of those skeleton stories and scary skeleton decorations for halloween? Well it turns out the joke is on us. We are figuratively but ominously literally dead

The truth is, the home of the soul is eternal and splendid and unlimited. We have form there but we are formless and mutable. In the eternal realm we do not have to sit and wait for the bus, we never stub our toes or have to do laborious work. These things are for the land of the dead aka the living human life experience.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn explains this in his book The Lost Keys of the Scriptures that the ancient philosophers and writers of the dramas of the ancient holy books knew it was common knowledge that the word death meant physical incarnation and life ment the life hereafter in the realm of the spirit.

This means that when we became cognizant of life here, when we had our first I Am experience was the day we died and entered the tomb or the realm of the living dead which is why we have skeleton bodies. We are mortal here and have to live by certain limiting laws. This is coming from the perspective and inner knowing that we are eternal and there is no such thing as death such as complete termination of existence, hence only a transition of body form. We should all sit in amazement in awaiting the day we resurrect or leave this realm,our final day here will be our transition into the realm of the living souls.

Here in this realm, the tomb of the soul is the body. This body that was once a tomb for the soul or a cross for the spirit then become a womb for the new resurrected life here after. We have to follow the eternal principles of Birth Death and Sacrifice. This is carried out in our lives as we all have had someone sacrifice themselves for us by taking car of us and we have had to take care of others or sacrifice our desires for other people’s benefits. This is all a form of sacrifice. Here we are also taught about death. As a child we may learn about it through pet or an animal at the side of the road laying motionless. We are born here and know very well about cemeteries and morgues and that everybody dies. Here is the tomb of the soul we are the walking selphters for the inner soul. We need to give birth and become born again to the true life qualities. We need to put to death undesirable conscious elements within our own souls here and now. This is the only realm in existence that the soul can make improvements, and learn certain important lessons to take with it on its life’s journey. It is important to know the soul had to die to manifest here in a womb. This womb we are born is our physical mothers womb. When we were born in the heavenly 7th dimension we had a spiritual womb that produced us. The physical body that is produced here ia a tomb for the soul and the cross we have to bare. If we labor and put to death the inner inhumane elements then we bring to the life the qualities of the soul.

Abide in the Essence and Stop Suffering

The essence is the the true self that connects into the physical material realm. The essence is innocent and is the spiritual seed or spark that descends from the causal realm. The essence is what notices when we get distracted.
The essence is what we can hold to to annihilate thoughts.
If we pay attention and get wrapped up in every little thought every little desire there will be no end to it. The essence is bottled up in what are called egos. Ouspensky the great mystic taught that the essence it trapped in egos which are multiplistic aspects of the physical creature that works mechanically. The egos are created through identification of the body and its programmed desires. The goal of man is to overcome these mechanical programs and unlock full control of the physical body and mind. Remember , you’re not the body or the mind, You’re the essence that uses the mind which controls the body.

We need to ascend to the the third level of consciousness and become what is called an airhead. This state of consciousness is above past and present thinking it simply exist in bliss. This is where the essence resides. IN the grreek esoteric school sman was separated into 4 states of consciousness. earth, water, air and fire.

We need not fret for yesterday or tomorrow for tomorrow will be taken care of when it is today. Abide in the essence and be free. The essence is outside of the three modes of consciousness. We are in waking state, then we go to the dream state, and finally the dreamless unconscious states. These are the three modes of consciousness. The essence, or the witness is the weather or observer. Once we identify with the witness that sustains our being we are no longer distracted or attracted to the material modes of nature.

We can effortlessly abide in the essence by practicing self remembering. We do this by watching our thoughts, feeling and reactions throughout the day in the waking state while remembering we are spirit and not the body. The waking state is the only state we can use the intellect to make decisions. Once we go to sleep we go to the the dream realm which is a reflection of the waking state. Usually we do not have full conscious discrimination in the dream world until we have fully awakened consciousness in the waking state. Every day when we wake up we can abide in the essence as long as possible. While we are doing our morning routine,going to work, or at home after work we can abide in the essence and watch ourselves. We have to watch the mechanical nature of the material realm. The body and mind do things but we the witness does not do anything.

Indian saints have said we are not the doer. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says that the soul or essence is not slain when the body is slain therefore the witness is always protected. In fact, the part of you that is you is not embodied, it is unmanifested and appears to be in the body. We are essentially bluetoothed wirelessly connected otot the body. When the essence projects into the body it feels the sense of I AM and starts going about activities. Sometimes our activities are of goodness, kind, non pleasure seeking but simply bestowing and receiving in goodness. We have our passionate mode that is full of desires, sensation seeking, passionate and full of emotions such as anger or pride this is rajas or our passionate mode. Finally we have tamas which is our ignorant state, of wrath, laziness, lethargic, daydreaming unaware mode of consciousness. The essence that is us and is the basis of our witness is not perturbed by the 3 modes of nature, waking, dreaming, and sleeping, but is simply aware and watching the happenings. The major problem in life is to identify with the body. We are the spirit souls, fractals of the prime creator. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita I am the witness. Krishna is the witness within us, our being is sustained by the supreme being which watched over all creation.

Conscious Will: Mysteries of the Pentagram

Conscious will is what we have at our center of our being. If the body is represented by earth, emotions by water, mind by air, impulse by fire, then will power would be of the 5th element the spirit. The spirit is able to dominate the 4 inferior elements. If we are weak in will then we are thrown around by the 4 elements. By getting over inflamed with fire and anger, we become melancholy and emotionally unstable when our water element is out of balance. We become unable to concentrate and utilize thought if our wind element is out of balance. We need to purify the elements and bring them under our conscious will.This is the symbol of the upright pentagram. We as human beings have conscious will and are able to go against our impulses. This is the true meaning of being a Jew. Someone who does not act in animal impulses but transmutes them. An Israelite is one who is working with will power and started the process transmuting the animal nature. Living an upright life is what the pentagram is trying to teach us.

The 4 elements are are guarded and prices by the elementals. The elementals are the gnomes, the sylphs, the slamaders, and the undines. These are the 4 elements. Gnomes rule over the earth and the plants and minerals. Thesy take care of our physical self in regards to our nervous system. They help us maintain our physicality and help distribute minerals within the body. They are in charge of taking care of plants and producing fruit. The magician or alchemist wants to be in a dominate position to the gnomes.The gnomes are neither good nor bad but innocent creatures of the elemental kingdom. They are hard workers and symbolize labor, work, and charity. When we become lazy and slothful the Gnomes polarize against us and then things to not go well practically in our life. We forget to put gas in the car, we are late for work, we are unsteady with our practice. When we start to do our duties and take care of the physical aspects of life consciously the Gnomes are pleased and help us, things go well, we arrive early and new opportunities arise for us. We will be talking extensively about the the 3 other elementals and how they apply to us in upcoming articles.

Mysteries of Adam and Eve

Our souls are made in the same way our bodies are made down here from our physical parents. Our soul parents which are differentiated from the divine monad into two separate duads love and wisdom. Wisdom being the father masculine principle and love being the mother nurturing principle. These two soul parents come together as Krishna and Radha, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Shiva and Shakti to create individual monads which then also split into two. We are the children of the light. Our souls split from our parent spirits into Adam and Eves, we are all Adam and Eves and each Adam has a part of Eve inside him and every Eve has a part of Adam inside her. We are all seeking our other half here in the incarnation realm of matter. Once we find and merge we can voyage back up the ladder to the supernal realms with our divine counterpart.

Using analogy and as above so below we can see that the cerebral spinal fluid that comes down from the calastrum and is differentiated by the pineal gland and pituitary gland which in occult anatomy refer to Joseph and Mary create the oil the Christos which is separated into these dual channels. Just like our Monad descends and is split into two male and female the fluid that falls from the cerebrum to be lifted backup is differentiated and recombined in the same way our souls are reunited with their other half.

The alchemical marriage of the Sun and Moon happens outside in the celestials heavens such as when an eclipse takes place,inside our body on chemical level and also in our souls when we finally find our other half and under go the alchemical transfiguration which occurs when the two sold merge into the fire of the creator.

When we meet our other half and conenct sexualy we initate the marriage of Canann the lungs and breath mix with the sexual fluids and the partners begin magnetizing each other. If we follow the teachings of Jesus when he said to keep our lamps full of oil as well as when he said he who seed remaineth in him cannot sin. This is referring to the sexual energy and the conservation of that energy by practicing the Great Arcanum. This is when the Christ turns water into wine, the sexual energy or water is filled with the sexual energy by being chaste and upright, Jesus said to fill them with water. Once filled it is poured at the wedding and is miraculously turned into wine.This is referring to us when our energy is purified and made into a fluid that purifies the blood and regenerates the nervous system hence the good wine. The Taoist and ancient tantriks new that the sexual energy that accumulates at the bottom of the spine if retained and transmuted becomes chi the energetic force and then goes through more subtle transformation into Shin or Ojas which mean spiritual energy. We can transmute the crude dense matter of our sexual energy into the wine of the spirit by finding our Eve or Adam and returning to the higher states of consciousness through Practicing chastity while being with our partner. Please read the article Raising Kundalini.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. When we fall in love with our Eve or Adam and we practice sexual alchemy we reunite what was separated in the beginning. Our whole lives we feel as if something is missing or that there is a void that needs to be filled. This void is the separation of our other half the feminine or masculine other half that is separated when the soul descends to retrieve a divine ego into the material realm.

Initiation: Realizing You are Not the Body

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quote: You are not the body. You are the immensity and...

The main goal of initiation is to come to the knowledge that you are not the body. This is realized in in the trial and lessons as well as experiences throughout our life. If we are consciously working with ourselves we can ascend the ladder of initiation more quickly and come to the illumination of the beings within the body.

In ancient times the initiation rituals consisted of inducing a near death experience to the initiate and the bringing them back to life through various means. This is how they were able to gain the knowledge that the I AM, the individuality continues when the body dies.

When we are unconscious or ourselves we live our lives as if we were the body in and of itself. We may feel that we are automatic, we do not have much control of our thinking patterns and reactions. In the beginning the consciousness is very much asleep to its divine origins. At around age four the ego starts manifesting and completely making its home in the human body. We begin crystalizing our ego in our adolescence and from there on up it is up to us to come to the realization that we are in a body not the body it self.

I remember when I was seventeen years old I woke up in the night and became very frightened with the feeling that I was not my body but something or someone trapped inside of a body. This realization was terrifying as if before I identified solely with the body but by feeling my self and coming to realization of I Am Consciousness separate from the body and mind a feeling of entrapment took place. From this point on I came to more experiential knowledge of being separate from the body.

The first stage of initiation is simply hearing and intellectual understanding that we are souls inside of a body. After a while of mediation and dedicated austerities, we begin to get a more distant feel of the spot where the I am appears and the body itself. We begin to feel that the body is enveloped within ourselves, that the body is actual inside of the Soul.

Practice sitting with the sense of I Am, take no thought and simply feel the feeling of being itself. Try to come to the feeling that you re not the mind that the mind is a computer that’s the true self or soul is connected to and once departs is no longer bound by the mind itself.

This world is produced by the Minds, we are not the Minds but the beings with minds. The mind is the machine the soul uses to express itself in a limited way. Once we begin to Identify with who we are which is the being we will see the body as a vehicle. Life will no longer be the same, you will be merged with the inner witness which is always safe.

The soul cannot be harmed in this creation or even by Almighty God. Therefore, Ch 2 of Gita says the Soul cannot be cut or wet or dried or burnt by elements. The Soul is part of eternal Truth it has its nature.It is the mind and body (gross or subtle) that is of elements and haste elemental nature and affected by them. Once we come to this knowledge of self we will no longer have fear, even when the body is in severe pain we will be safe within our being and know that the conscious continues eternally. You will come to a sense of looking in from somewhere else rather than being trapped in the body.

Mysteries of Gemini

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As the consciousness illuminates the subconscious mind, tendencies, and aggregates of the psyche are recognized as they are. By self remembering and making ourselves conscious by holding fast to the sense of I Am, we are able to better comprehend our mechanical nature. We can learn to take back control of the mind and body and become less reactive. Krishna says the soul is above mind and intelligence, our soul must rule over our mind and intellect. Instead of being the effect of our surroundings we can become the cause of phenomena relating to our personal lives! By comprehending our inner reasoning for doing things and acting out in a particular manner we can become more tolerant and understanding of those around us. Self reflection is a process corresponding to the influence of Gemini the twins.

Gemini represents the split of the the monad into male and female as well as the dual aspects of the consciousness, the witness and the witnessed, Gemini also relates to the conscious mind’s relationship with the subconscious mind. Our consciousness is mirrored onto itself. The conscious mind is the male suspect and the subconscious mind is the female receptive aspect, both are products and under control of the superconscious mind or over soul. Normally we experience life as the one who experiences, or the subject. Self observation breaks the illusion and we realize and understand that we are the witness the observer of that which experiences. Once the two are seperated a deeper comprehension is reached and we understand that we are both, the observer and the observed, and we can live life consciously living in both states. We begin to watch ourselves from an objective standpoint, here in which the I AM presence begins to crystallize and we become less reactive to our emotions, or outer phenomena which normally would have an effect on our moods and actions. We begin to step outside of the subjective reasoning and find objective reality. Or that which is and find that I Am That is forever and was.