Consider the following topics if you wish. They are not all of equal importance. Which ones do you feel are more important?
There are THREE factors for consciousness revolution:
Third factor: SACRIFICE FOR HUMANKIND
To make selfless acts of charity that effectively help other people. Here good intentions are useless if the result is in fact a disaster. Action needs to be conscious and conscientious in order to be positive. Good is what is in its place; bad is what is out of place.
Second factor: DEATH
Elimination of the subjective elements of perception within one's psyche. These are the legion of psychic aggregates, or "I"s, that are the living personifications of one's psychological defects.
First factor: BIRTH
Alchemical work with one's Mineral Mercury in order to accrue a Sidereal Body, a Body of Objective Reason, and a Body of Conscious Will, which together constitute the soul's Wedding Dress.
These three factors complement each other. For instance, you may find that your own work in one factor is not progressing without some progress being made also in one other factor, and this in turn may demand some work with yet another of the three factors. Aim to work with the three in a balanced manner.
Alchemy is the science and art of transforming oneself. The procedures for the Great Work of Alchemy have traditionally been encoded in terms of chemical operations.
Thus, for centuries the symbolic language of alchemy has been successful in preserving it from the profane and from profaners. The mysteries of alchemy are sacred.
Alchemists are philosophers in the sense that they love wisdom, but there is nothing insubstantial or speculative about alchemy. Its procedures are physical and psychological, and so are its results.
The psychological work on oneself may be sketched as follows:
... >> self-remembering > self-observation > self-discovery of a defect > understanding of the defect > remorse > recourse to one's own inner Divine Mother > dissolution of the defect > awakening of consciousness >> self-remembering > ...
SELF-REMEMBERING is to be aware of your being in every moment, here and now. As often as you can during the day, relax your body and remember about your being, feel yourself as being, enjoy the plenitude of intensely being aware of yourself, of the being within yourself.
Here is a challenge for you. Check and see whether you are able to stay aware for five minutes, or even for one minute, without becoming inattentive because your mind has wandered off. If you can't, as it is initially the case with most people, you have some work to do to increase your free consciousness.
The SOL key is a natural extension of self-remembering. You can build on the practice of self-remembering by adding a DISCERNMENT element to it. At the same time that you make an effort to be consciously aware of yourself (Subject), and of what you are dealing with (Object), you can also pay attention to the place where you find yourself (Location) in that moment. You want to get into the habit of paying attention to your surroundings, watching out for any unusual element. This discipline during the day will help you at night to realise that you are freely moving in a different dimension while your physical body is fast asleep in bed back home.
Self-remembering is the basis for any other conscious exercise. One could regard MEDITATION as a way of getting into a very heightened state of self-remembering. There is one kind of meditation that gives you self-confidence, emotional stamina, and spiritual strength. You relax the body, close your eyes, let the mind be, and you bask in the feeling of wholeness, of the real you, the majestic presence of the reality of your consciousness. Once you have learned to recognise this, you can develop the pure devotional, mystical disposition you need to in order to get the most from the following practice.
SELF-OBSERVATION is to watch oneself at every instant in the midst of daily life. Whilst remembering yourself, you pay attention to what is going on in your mind and emotions, as well as physical desires and instinctive impulses. Such self-observation is the only way to get to know yourself, and therefore to change yourself and, by extension, your life. The sense of self-observation should develop as you persevere in the effort of actually seeing what is reacting within yourself.
Through self-observation you will discover puzzling contradictions and reactions. These things will not be pleasant, but you need to be honest with yourself and acknowledge to yourself that they are there. You do not want to explain them away with your logical reasoning, or to justify them to yourself. What you want to do is to understand them. You can do this through another kind of meditation.
MEDITATION intended to understand those absurd psychological elements that you have discovered in yourself is conscious self-analysis. This analysis does not consist of thinking; rather, what you do is to become more acutely aware of what you have discovered. Each different "I" that you have discovered has its own peculiar way of thinking, feeling, and acting. Each one needs to be comprehensively understood. If you are conscientious in your reflections and persevere, you will eventually understand each psychological defect in all its depth and ramifications. As you get to realise each one of your errors, you will have an emotional crisis.
DEATH of each undesirable psychological element is possible once it has been fully understood. All you need to do is to turn to your inner being and direct the emotional energy of the crisis into a plea. Your own inner Divine Mother is a part of your being. She has the power to break those undesirable elements and let your consciousness free. Address her simply with all your heart, just as a baby would do to call his mother.
Astral projection is a conventional term for a voluntary out-of-body experience (OBE). In an out-of-body experience you become aware that you are out of your physical body. Unfortunately, however, for most people this is a rare experience, because they are unaware of the fact that they naturally come out of their bodies every time they fall asleep and come back in as they wake up. Going out in astral is a natural process that allows the physical body to rest and recover while the psyche is out.
There are different techniques for astral projection, but such techniques are essentially ways of becoming aware of a natural process that happens anyway and quite inevitably. The various exercises Gnostics can use for astral projection help you to stay conscious as your body goes to sleep.
Very important insights can be gained from being able to stay conscious in the astral dimension. For instance, once you realise that you are not just your physical body, you stop being afraid of death; you are also able to learn a lot about yourself and about how the universe works.
Fear of the unknown and sheer laziness are two things that can prevent you from learning to come consciously out of your body. If this is the case, you will have to do some psychological work on your fear and/or laziness before you can succeed in mastering astral projection, but you do not need to wait for the shock of an accident or an operation to give you an OBE.
Past lives can be remembered by anybody, but there are different methods for this. Gnostics regard hypnosis and suggestion as inferior practices.
In the Gnostic experience the memory of past lives comes back to you very gradually as you make progress with the work on yourself. Insights achieved in this way are deep, solid achievements that leave you no margin for doubt.
Retrospective analysis of your past lives helps you understand your psychological defects as you see how you have been repeating the same mistake over and over again. Past lives memories also make you realise the causes of the fortunate or unfortunate events that may be happening to you now.
Karma cannot be escaped, but you can learn to negotiate it. It is useful to know that what you do to other people, good or harm, whether intentionally or unwittingly, by action or by omission, is what you will receive in the future. Nevertheless, this understanding alone is not always enough to avoid making mistakes.
You need to develop an intuitive sense of good and harm in order not to suffer needlessly. This heightened awareness of right and wrong is something that is within you, and which has nothing to do with what other people may regard as morally right, or as socially acceptable. Such objective conscience grows in yourself as you make progress with your psychological work. Additionally, specific exercises can be used to strengthen the inner conscience.
Furthermore, Gnostics use special meditation techniques to become aware of the karmic causes of a current situation and to negotiate the causes of future circumstances. If you have karmic debts, you can do good, and with this credit you can make a deal to cancel an old debt before it materialises. However, not all kinds of karma are forgivable or negotiable.
Dreams analysis is best made by oneself. It is the person herself that has had the dream, who is in the best position to interpret it. There are objective symbols with a specific universal meaning that Gnostic students can discover.
Nevertheless, not all dreams are symbolic. Many dreams are subjective representations that show the state of the dreamer's psyche. Psychological self-analysis of such representations is an invaluable source of self-knowledge.
Gnostic students learn conscious exercises to recall their dreams. They also learn to discern the particular qualities of the different kinds of dreams they have. Some of your dreams are useful material for your psychological work, others may allow you to pre-empt an unpleasant event, and yet others provide you with guidance for your personal development. Truly prophetic dreams become self-explanatory.
ESP psychic powers are not for trading. You might have some degree of clairvoyance or other ESP (extra-sensory perception) because of esoteric work you might have done in the past. If that is your case, it is probably a good idea to keep it to yourself.
It is easier to develop psychic powers than to make good use of them. Keep away from schools that suggest intrusive exercises such as forcing other people to turn round by staring at them, or trying to control their minds, sometimes after having initially trained to use mental energy to move a sheet of paper or a needle.
Gnostics are not interested in such things as ouija, spiritualistic séances, or mediumistic channelling. A negative clairvoyant cannot even control his visions, or discern their subjective quality. A positive clairvoyant can see according to merit and virtue, and her seeing is objective. The highest kind of psychic faculty is of an intuitional kind.
World dimensions can be referred to in terms of Gnostic aeons, cabbalistic sephirots and klippoths, theosophical "planes", or simply as the various levels of heaven and hell in the different religions. Gnostics discover these higher and lower dimensions within themselves, and then they know them also on the greater world scale.
Existence is regarded by Gnostics as an opportunity to learn and become wiser by gaining mastery. Returning to existence over and over again does make you increasingly experienced. Real wisdom, however, does not come from experience, but requires conscious efforts in the esoteric work for self-mastery.
If no conscious effort is made during existence, life's experiences only serve to build up the person's subjective ego as an ugly aggregation of dense psychological elements that operate as false selves. These psychic aggregates make the person perceive things in distorted ways and behave unconsciously in life. Such a subjective condition of the psyche renders the person increasingly incapable of actualising her real inner potential.
Nevertheless after a number of ineffectual returns to existence, the psychic aggregation that makes up the ego goes through a very slow, nightmarish process of disintegration through the dense dimensions of the world. This process of abysmal disintegration, or second death, takes place as the psyche confronts the horror of its own aggregates. Once the psyche has been reduced to its pure essence of consciousness, it enters another, more experienced cycle of returns to existence as a new opportunity for self-realisation.
Astrology does not hold Gnostics back. Gnostic students learn directly to recognise astrological influences. They become conversant with the actual planetary forces and learn how to use them in practical esoteric work. A Gnostic is a revolutionary who seeks to transcend these and other cosmic forces. Gnostics earn their personal freedom by getting to know the determinants of existence and working their way out of any such limitation.
Alcohol is something abysmal. You know this if you did ever hit bottom before.
Gnosis is about lifting oneself up from the mud, but with alcohol you get stuck in the mud more and more. The long-term effects of alcohol are very insidious, and it does take away one's capacity for regeneration.
Nevertheless, Gnostics go out of their way to avoid fanatic attitudes, and Gnostic students are allowed the freedom to drink alcohol. In fact, even Gnostics who in their private lives avoid alcohol because they remember former times when their existence was wasted because of alcohol might, on occasion, accept a drink or toast in a celebration in order to oblige the local custom.
The tarot is used by Gnostic students in its original Egyptian version. They use the tarot in meditative exercises in order to learn the particulars of the esoteric work, but never for entertainment, or to make money. A Gnostic does not go around telling people their fortunes. Those who tell do not know, whereas those who know do not tell.
Drugs are exactly the opposite of what gnosis is about. Gnostics are not escapists. They are acutely aware of the harsh reality of facts and like to confront it, because they know how to turn an otherwise adverse circumstance into a success.
The infra-dimensional perceptions that drugs might give you are exactly the other end of the spectrum away from mystical experience. All drugs are rejected in genuine Gnosticism, whether they be synthetic or organic, vulgar or exotic, "hard" or "soft".
Somebody who can feel like trying some kind of drug is simply too immature for the Gnostic esoteric work. Gnosis is rebelliousness, but it is an intelligent, artful rebelliousness.
Theosophical teachings provide some of the intellectual background of contemporary Gnosticism. Mme Blavatsky fulfilled the great mission of reintroducing in the sceptical Western milieu such basic concepts as reincarnation, the seven-fold constitution of man, and the previous existence of other humankinds.
She and other initiates of the 19th-20th centuries like Rudolf Steiner conscientiously prepared the ground for the emergence of a Gnostic cultural movement. In fact, the teachings of Krishnamurti would have served as a precursor of contemporary Gnosticism.
Similarly, the teachings from Gurdjieff and his disciples are a long introduction to the psychological work on oneself. That version of the fourth way, however, can be misleading in that it ignores mystical recourse and does not distinguish between the Kundabuffer Organ and the Kundalini Fire.
Sex is crucial. Upright sexual behaviour is fundamental in genuine Gnosticism. Promiscuity, masturbation, and under-age sex are rejected as being detrimental for personal development.
Gnostic students become aware of the importance of having a healthy marital life. They learn not to undermine the blessings of nature, but rather to cultivate its healing powers.
Notionally it is considered that boys normally reach full sexual maturity at the age of 21; girls at 18. A mediocre adult will never know how brilliant he could have been if only he had allowed himself to mature to his full potential.
The Eternal Feminine is ... the eternal feminine.
What does becoming like a child mean? What does it mean to go back to one's first love? Do you know your own individual Divine Mother? Leonardo, for instance, did know his particular inner mother well enough to paint a clairvoyant portrait of her. The painting can still be seen at the Louvre museum:
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Do you think you know what it really means "to lift the veil of Isis, which no mortal has yet raised"?
UFO extraterrestrial people reportedly want to help us, but they have to avoid being captured by our governments. They would not want to end up dissected, or that we use their cosmic craft to export our wars, hatred, and exploitation to every other corner of the universe.
It has been stated that their cosmic ships are able to travel beyond the speed of light by using the fourth dimension. A crew's achieved level of spiritual development is said to determine how far their ship can actually travel.
Some of these elder brothers from the cosmos may possibly come from such environments that their bodies are similar enough to ours to mingle in the crowds. Nevertheless, some others probably do have to go through the process of being born on this planet in order to be in a position to fulfil their humanitarian missions.
Atlantis emerged when the continent Mu of the Lemurians sank shaken by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The Lemurians had existed after the Hyperboreans, who existed after the Polars.
Easter Island is a remainder of the Lemurian continent, which extended across what now are the Pacific and Indic Oceans. Atlantis extended across what now is the Atlantic Ocean, from Eastern Africa to Mexico and New England.
With the submersion of the Atlantean continent, our Race, the Aryan Race, with its diverse colours of skin, succeeded the Atlantean Race, just as the Atlantean Race had succeeded the Lemurian Race, and the Koradi will follow after the Aryan Race. We are the Fifth Race, which is symbolised by the central motive on the Aztec Sun Stone http://www.crystalinks.com/aztecalendarstone.gif (62kb image).
The origin of ape, not man, is found in the cataclysmic times when the planet flips, continents submerge and rise, a Race disappears and a new one emerges. Then the physical laws also change and cross-breeding between species becomes viable. However, the origin of man is not in monkeys; on the contrary, monkeys descend from man.
The peoples of the Lemurian race became degenerate in the late times of the Lemurian continent, and so much so that many of those humans went as far as to interbreed with beasts of nature. One kind of monkeys originated from them.
After the submersion of Atlantis, some of the women who had survived and had been left isolated in deep forests also became degenerate sexually and sought union with beasts of nature. Manifold species of gorillas, orangutans and apes have resulted from this.
The pyramids in Egypt are much older than it is officially accepted, and the pyramids in Mexico are even older. The original pyramids of Teotihuacan were built by the Atlanteans, not by the later Aztecs.
The earlier Maya were descendants of an Atlantean people, who had migrated to America, Africa, India, and (Naga) Tibet. Hence the common physical, cultural and linguistic features both sides of the Atlantic.
The pyramids were originally temples of mysteries, where the initiates could work in harmony with the universe. Caravans of Atlantean pilgrims used to travel to the North of Mexico from as far as Africa http://www.anthroarcheart.org/tblc85.htm (114kb image).