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Mission The Gnostic Institute of Anthropology seeks to advance public understanding and realisation of human potential for spiritual and practical living by means of the study of the teachings of Samael Aun Weor, to be accomplished by: Promoting and assisting in the dissemination of said teachings to members of the general public throughout the world. Establishing, organising and holding classes, lectures, courses, schools, seminars and study groups for the exploration of such teachings. Publishing and associating in the publication of papers, periodicals, pamphlets, books, tape recordings and recordings of all other kinds promulgating said teachings. Providing facilities for the study of comparative religion, philosophy, esoteric science and art to the general public throughout the world. What is Gnosis Gnosis is Greek for knowledge. Gnosis refers to experiential knowledge, rather than intellectual or conceptual knowledge. The venerable science of Gnosis is the universal and essential knowing that arises from the experience of objective reality, universally experienced by all those who fully awaken and develop their consciousness. The science or path to arrive at knowing that reality for oneself, in ones own experience, is also called Gnosis, because it leads to the acquisition of ones own Gnosis of fundamental truth. Gnosis is a very natural expression of the awakened consciousness, a perennial and universal philosophy. - Samael Aun Weor

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The Human Personality

By V.M. Samael Aun Weor
Each day is a wave of time, each month is another wave of time, each year is also another wave of time; consequently, all of the waves linked together as a chain make up the great wave of life. So, time is circular, and the life of the human personality is a closed curve. The human personality is born in its time, develops in its time, and dies in its time: it can never exist beyond its time. This issue about time is a problem that has been studied by many sages. Undoubtedly, time is the fourth dimension. So, Euclids geometry is only applicable to the tridimensional world, given that the world has seven dimensions and the fourth dimension is time. The human mind conceives that eternity is the prolongation of time as a straight line; nothing can be more mistaken than this concept, because eternity is the fifth dimension. Thus, each moment of existence occurs within time, and is repeated eternally. Death and life are two extremes that cyclically unite. Death concludes a mans cycle of life in order to begin another; that is, his time concludes in order to begin another. Thus, death is intimately
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A certain man was born in 1900, lived

sixty-five years, then died; where was he before 1900, and where will he be after 1965? Conventional science does not know anything about this, and generally does not know how to approach any of the questions of life and death. We can axiomatically affirm that the man died because his time has concluded, and that a potential tomorrow does not exist for the personality of any dead man.

associated with the eternal return. This means that we have to return after our death, we have to come back to this world in order to repeat the same drama of our existence. However, if the human personality terminates with death, then who or what returns? It is necessary to clarify once and for all that it is the ego which continues after death; yes, the I returns, the psychological I comes back to this valley of tears. It is necessary for our readers to not mistake the Law of Return for the theory of reincarnation taught by modern Theosophy. The Theosophical theory of reincarnation had its origins in the doctrine of Krishna, which is a Hindu religion of a Vedic type, yet, his doctrine was regrettably modified, adulterated by reformers. In the authentic, original doctrine taught by Krishna, only the heroes, the guides, those who already possess sacred individuality reincarnate. Yes, the pluralized I returns, comes back, nevertheless, this is not reincarnation. Therefore, the crowds, the multitudes return, but this process is not reincarnation. This concept about the returning of things and phenomena, this idea of the eternal

repetition, is not so ancient: we can find it in the Pythagorean wisdom, as well as in the ancient cosmogony of the Hindus with the eternal return of the days and nights of Brahma, the incessant repetition of Kalpas, etc. The Hindu doctrine is invariably associated in an intimate manner to the Pythagorean wisdom and to the Law of Eternal Return and Recurrence. The Doctrine of Eternal Return and of the wheel of successive lives has also been very wisely taught by Gautama Buddha, but his followers greatly adulterated his teaching. Naturally, a new human personality has to be created in every return; so, every new human personality is fashioned during the first seven years of childhood. Thus, the family environment, the life in the street and at the school, adds to the human personality its unique, characteristic tinge, and the example of adults is decisive in the formation of the infants personality. Yes, the infant personality in formation learns more from example, than from precept. Unfortunately, the mistaken way of life, the degenerated customs of adults, serve as absurd examples that give to the personality of the child that peculiar, skeptical, and perverse tinge of the era in which we live. In these modern times, adultery has become more common than fried-onions and fried-potatoes, and as is logical

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consequently results in Dantesque scenes inside homes. Thus, in this day and age, many children filled with pain and resentment, have to endure the lashes and beatings of their stepfather or stepmother. It is obvious that in this manner the forming personality of an infant develops within a frame of pain, rancor, and hate. There exists a vulgar saying, Other peoples children smell awful everywhere. Naturally, there are also exceptions, but these can be counted on the fingers of one hand with one finger still left over. The disputes between the father and mother caused by jealousy, the crying and laments of the afflicted mother or of the oppressed, ruined, and desperate husband, leave a permanent mark of profound pain and melancholy on the childs personality, and will not be forgotten during his entire life. In elegant houses when the maids go to a beauty salon or put on make-up, they are very badly mistreated by the proud ladies, because the pride of these ladies is mortally wounded. A child who sees all these infamous scenes-whether supporting the interests of his proud and haughty mother, or those of the wretched, vain, and humiliated maid-feels profoundly hurt, thus the outcome is often catastrophic for the childs for the childs forming personality.

Since the invention of television, the unity of the family has been lost. In other times, when the husband arrived home from work, he was welcomed by his wife with much happiness; yet, in this day and age, the woman no longer welcomes her husband at the door because she is busy watching television. Yes, within modern homes, the father, mother, and children look like zombies before the television screen. Now the husband cannot talk with his wife about any of the problems of the day, about work etc., because she looks like a somnambulist watching yesterdays movie, or the Dantesque scenes of Al Capone, or the latest fashionable dance of this modern age, etc. Children who grow up in these new ultramodern homes think only of cannons, pistols, and toy machine guns, in order to imitate and re-live in their own way all the Dantesque scenes of crime, just as they have seen them on the television screen. It is a shame that the marvelous invention of television is used with destructive purposes. If humanity would use this invention in a dignifying manner-for the study of natural sciences, or to teach the true royal art of Mother Nature, or to give sublime teachings to the people-then this invention would be a blessing for humanity, and it could be intelligently used in order to cultivate the human personality.

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To nourish the personality of a child with arrhythmic, inharmonious, vulgar music is by all means an absurdity. Likewise, it is stupid to nourish the personality of children with stories of thieves and policemen, with scenes of vice and prostitution, dramas of adultery, pornography. The outcome of such a procedure can be seen within the rebels without a cause, or the juvenile murderers, etc. It is regrettable that mothers whip their children, that they beat them, that they insult them with cruel and indecent words. The outcome of such a conduct is resentment, hate, the loss of love, etc. We have been able to practically verify that those children who grew up amidst beatings, lashes, and screams became vulgar people filled with loutishness and with a lack of every sense of respect and veneration. It is essential to comprehend the necessity of establishing a true equilibrium within homes. It is indispensable to know that sweetness and severity must be mutually balanced on the two pans of the scale of justice. The father represents severity. The mother represents sweetness. The father personifies wisdom. The mother symbolizes love._ Wisdom and love, severity and sweetness, are mutually balanced on the two pans of the cosmic scale.

Parents must mutually balance each other for the good of their home. It is essential, it is necessary, for all parents to comprehend the necessity of sowing the eternal values of the spirit within their childs brain. It is lamentable that modern children no longer possess the sense of veneration; they lost it due to the stories of cowboys, robbers against police, the television, movies, etc.; all of this has perverted the minds of children. The revolutionary psychology of the Gnostic movements, in a clear and precise manner, makes an in-depth difference between the ego and the essence. Only the beauty of the essence manifests through the child during the first three or four years of life. Then, the child is tender, sweet, and beautiful in all his psychological aspects. However, when the ego begins to control the tender personality of the child, then all the beauty of the Essence begins to disappear and the characteristic psychological defects of every human being bloom in its place. We must distinguish between the ego and the Essence in much the same way as we distinguish between the personality and the Essence. Understand: the human being is born with an Essence but not with a personality; thus, it is necessary to create the personality. Nevertheless, the personality

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and the Essence must be developed in a harmonious and balanced manner. We have been able to verify in practice that when the personality is developed in an exaggerated manner at the expense of the Essence, then the outcome is a swindler. The observation and the experience of many years have allowed us to comprehend that when the Essence is somehow developed without attending in the least to the harmonious cultivation of the personality, then the outcome is a mystic without intellect, without personality-of noble heart, but inadaptable and incapable. The harmonious development of personality and Essence bresults in brilliant men and women. In the Essence, we have everything that is innate; the personality contains everything that is borrowed. That is, the Essence contains all our innate qualities, and in the personality we have the example of our elders, what we have learned at home, at school, and in the streets. It is essential for children to receive nourishment for their Essence and nourishment for their personality. The Essence is nourished with tenderness, limitless affection, love, music, flowers, beauty, harmony, etc. The personality must be nourished with the good examples of our elders, with wise teaching at school, etc.

It is indispensable that children enter into primary school at the age of seven years, after having passed through kindergarten. Children must learn their first letters through playing, so that studying becomes attractive, delightful, and happy for them. A fundamental education teaches that the three aspects of the human personalityknown as thought, movement, and actionmust be cared for in a very special manner from kindergarten (garden for children); thus, this is how the personality of the child develops in an harmonious and balanced manner. This issue of the formation and development of the of a childs personality, is a very serious responsibility for parents and schoolteachers, since the quality of the human personality depends exclusively on the type of psychological material with which it was created and nourished. There is a lot of confusion among the students of psychology regarding personality, the Essence and the ego; some mistake the personality for the Essence, and others mistake the ego or I for the Essence.Thus, many are the pseudoesoteric or pseudo-occultist schools that have the impersonal life as a goal of their studies. It is necessary to clarify for them that the personality is not what we have to dissolve. It is essential to know that we need to disintegrate the ego, the myself, and reduce it to cosmic dust, and that the
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personality is merely a vehicle of action, a vehicle that was necessary to create, to fabricate. In this world exist the various Caligula, Attila, Hitler, etc., types of personalities, yet any type of personality (as perverse as it might be) can be radically altered when the ego or I is totally dissolved. This issue about the dissolution of the ego or I confuses and annoys the pseudoesotericists, since they are convinced that the ego is divine; yes, they think that the ego or I is the Being, the divine Monad, etc. Yet, it is necessary, it is essential, it is unpostponable, to comprehend that the ego or I is anything but divine. The ego is the Satan of the Bible: a bunch of memories, desires, passions, hates, resentments, concupiscence, adulteries, and inheritance of family, race, nations, etc. Many are those who affirm in a stupid manner that within us exist a superior or divine I and an inferior I. Listen: superior or inferior are always two sections of the same thing. Thus, the superior I and the inferior I are two sections of the same ego. The divine Being, the Monad, the Innermost, has nothing to do with any form of I.

The Being is the Being, and that is all; thus, The reason for the existence of the Being, is the same Being. The personality in itself is only a vehicle and nothing else; therefore, either the ego or the Being can manifest through the personality: everything depends on us. Therefore, it is urgent to dissolve the ego, so that only the psychological Essence of our true Being can manifests itself through our personality. It is indispensable that educators completely understand the necessity of harmoniously cultivating the three aspects of the human personality. A perfect equilibrium between personality and Essence, a harmonious development of thought, emotion, and movement, and a revolutionary ethics constitute the basis of a fundamental education.

Excerpted from Fundamental Education by Samael Aun Weor.

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Jesus and the Essenes

By a Gnostic Instructor
A fragment of parchemnet from the Dead Sea Scrolls

Yeshua Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene. The word Jesus is actually a incorrect translation of a Greek mis-translation. The Emperor Constatine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. The Hebrew translation for Yeshua is "Salvation" while the name Jesus has no intrinsic translation in English whatsoever.

As with all things Essene however, there is always the exoteric and the esoteric philosophy and function. That is, those ideas and teachings suitable to be imparted to the public, and those designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone. The Essenes Jesus or Yeshua belonged to the Essenes who were a Judaic religious group that ourished from the 2nd century BC, to the 1st century AD. Many scholars of separate, but related groups, that had in common mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs were referred to as the Essenes. The main source of information about the life and belief of the Essenes is the detailed account contained in a work of the 1st century Jewish historiographer. Flavius Josephus entitled "The Jewish War" written about 73-75 AD and his shorter description in his "Antiquities of the Jews", nished some 20 years later. Claiming rst hand knowledge, he refers to them by the name Essenoi and lists them as the followers of one of the three sects in Jewish Philosophy", alongside the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The only other known contemporary accounts about the Essenes

A-U-SH-YE
Yeshua written in Hebrew

Yeshua written in Aramaic

Yeshua written in Arabic wich later became Isa in the Qur'an

Todays tradition of pronouncing the completely hellenized name as Jesus has indeed obscured His true name, Yeshua, and has shifted its perceived meaning much like most of the original teachings.

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are two, similarly detailed, by the Jewish philosopher Philo (. c. 20 CE - c. 54 CE; Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit XII.75-87, and the excerpt from his Hypothetica 11.1-18 preserved by Eusebius, Praep. Evang. Bk VIII), who, however, admits to not being quite certain of the Greek form of their name that he recalls as Essaioi, the brief reference to them by the Roman equestrian Pliny the Elder (. 23 CE - 79 CE; Natural History, Bk 5.73). Pliny, also a geographer and explorer, located them in the desert near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls, were found in caves at Qumran in 1947 by Bedouin sshepherds. The scrolls are widely believed to be the work of Essenes or to reect Essene beliefs.

highest degree of holiness. They lived solely by the work of their hands and in a state of communion, devoted their time to study and devotion and to the practise of benevolence, and refrained as far as feasible from sensual pleasures, in order to be initiated into the highest mysteries of heaven and cause the expected Messianic time to come. The strangest reports were spread about this mysterious cast of Jews. Pliny (l.c.), speaking of the Essene community in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea, calls it the marvel of the world, and describes it as a race continuing its existence for thousands of centuries without either wives and children, or money for support, and with only the palm-trees for companions in its retreat from the storms of the world. Philo, who calls the Essenes the holy ones, says in one place (as quoted by Eusebius, Prparatio Evangelica, viii. 11) that ten thousand of them had been initiated by Moses into the mysteries of the sect, which, consisting of men of advanced years having neither wives nor children, practise the virtues of love and holiness.They Inhabit many cities and villages of Judea, living in a commune as tillers of the soil or as mechanics according to common rules of simplicity and abstinence. In another passage (Quod Omnis Probus Liber, 12 et seq.) he speaks of only four thousand Essenes, who lived as farmers and artisans apart from the cities and in a perfect state of communion, and who condemned slavery, avoided sacrice, abstained from swearing,

The ruins of Qumran on the Dead Sea in Israel.

The Essenes conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the

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strove for holiness, and were particularly scrupulous regarding the Sabbath, a day was devoted to the reading and allegorical interpretation of the Law. Josephus describes them partly as a philosophical school like the Pythagoreans, and mysties the reader by representing them as a kind of monastic order with semi-pagan rites. In AD93, the Jewish historian Josephus published his work "Antiquities of the Jews". Containes two passages about Jesus, one of which reads: "At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucied and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders

rituals used by the Apostles. These were the rituals of the Christians who met in the catacombs of Rome during the epoch of the Caesar Nero. These are the rituals of the Essenes, a humble caste of great Initiates among whom was counted Jesus Christ. These are the primitive rituals of the ancient Christians... ...The philosophy of Sexual Alchemy has its beginning in the School of the Essenes, in the School of Alexandria, in the teachings of Pythagoras, in the Mysteries of Egypt, Troy, Rome, Carthage, Eleusis, in the wisdom of the Aztec, the Maya etc... - Excerpts from The Perfect Matriomony. ...The Maithuna was known as part of the Templar Mysteries, within the Mysteries of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chibcha, Zapotec Araucanian, Toltec, within the Mysteries of Eleusis, the Mysteries of Rome, of Mithras, Carthage, Tyre, within the Celtic Mysteries, Phoenician, Egyptian, Druidic, and all of the primitive Christian sects such as the Essenes who had their convent on the banks of the Dead Sea, and one of whose most exalted members was Jesus, the Divine Rabbi of Galilee... - Excerpt from Tarot and Kabbalah.

Some excerpts from the writings of Samael Aun Weor about Jesus and the Essenes: ...The Primitive Holy Gnostic Christian Church, to which we have the privilege of belonging, conserves in secret the primitive

...All the drama of the life, Passion and Death of Jesus is as ancient as the world. This drama comes from the ancient archaic religions of the past and is known in every corner of the world. This drama is applicable to Jesus, and in general to all

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those who traverse the Path of the Razors Edge. That drama is not the personal life of one man. That drama is the esoteric life of all those who follow the Secret Path. That drama can be applied to Jesus, just as to any other Christied Initiate. Actually, the drama of the life, Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus is a cosmic drama that existed before the existence of the world. That drama is known in all worlds of innite space... Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier and a Hebrew woman. The Great Hierophant was of medium stature and with fair skin, lightly tanned by the rays of the Sun. The Great Master had black hair and a beard of the same color. His eyes were like two ineffable nights. The word Nazarene comes from Nazar, meaning man with a straight nose. Jesus did not have the curved, Jewish type of nose. The Great Master had a straight nose. This is typical of the white European race. Jesus was only Jewish on the side of the Hebrew Maria, but on his fathers side he was of the white Celtic race. His father was a Roman soldier. The priestess wife of the Master Jesus was also of white race and had great esoteric powers, as was demonstrated as she traveled with the Nazarene through the countries of the Mediterranean in the lands of Europe... - Excerpts from The Perfect Matriomony.

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The Organisation of the Psyche

Lecture by Samael Aun Weor

The Sensual Mind While the child is growing, his sensual mind is opening little by little. This sensual mind in itself and by itself gives the child information through external sensorial perceptions and it is precisely with the information granted through such perceptions that the sensual mind always elaborates the contents of its concepts; because of this, our present mind can never know anything about reality. Its reasoning processes are subjective; they move within a vicious circle: the circle of external sensorial perceptions; this is obvious. Now you will comprehend for yourselves, maybe a little more clearly, what subjective reasoning is in itself, but a complete differentiation between subjective reasoning and objective reasoning must be made. It is obvious that the child has to go through all the educational processes: kindergarten, elementary, high school, and university. The subjective reasoning is nourished with all the data that these distinct scholastic institutions grant unto it. But truly no educational institute can give to a child, youth, or teenager
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could denominate Intuition. First of all, we must begin from the foundation: the human being. Where did we come from? Where are we going? What is the reason for our existence? What do we exist for? Why do we exist? Behold, we have here a lot of questions that we must clarify and resolve. A child is born, and as a fact he receives a physical body in a gratuitous form; this is obvious. This physical body is marvelous. It has about 15,000 x a million neurons that are in the service of the child, and it cost him nothing.

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existing data about that which is not of time, about that which is Reality. Truly, the speculations of subjective reasoning always arrive at intellectualism, at the absurd field of utopianism or, in the best cases, towards simple opinions of a subjective type, but never to the experience of the truth, never to experience that which is not from time. On the other hand, objective reasoning, that disgracefully does not receive any instruction because there is no school that teaches it, remains abandoned. Undoubtedly, objective reasoning processes obviously conduct us towards exact and perfect postulates. The child is always subjectively educated from place to place; for him, no form of superior instruction exists. All data, all scholastic matters, all family matters, etc. that the senses grant to the subjective mind of the teenager, are merely empirical and subjective, and this is pitiful. Towards the beginning, the child has still not lost the capacity of astonishment. Obviously the child looks in wonder on any phenomena: a beautiful toy awakens in him this astonishment, and with this toy the child plays. This capacity of wonder disappears as the child grows, as his sensual mind receives data from school and collage. Finally, the instant in which the child becomes

a youth arrives and complete loss of this capacity of astonishment. Unfortunately, the data that one receives in collages, schools, and educational centers only serves to nourish the sensual mind, and nothing else. In this way, with these educational systems of schools, academies, and universities, the only thing that we can really achieve is to make for ourselves an artificial personality. To give an account of this, in reality, truly, the knowledge that is studied in Humanities will never serve to form the Psychological Human Being. In the name of truth, we have to say clearly that the topics that are currently studied in educational institutes do not have any real relationship with the distinct parts of our Being. Therefore, these topics serve only to: First: Falsify the knowledge of the five cylinders of the organic machine. Second: Take the capacity of astonishment away from us. Third: Develop the sensual mind. Fourth: Form a false personality within us. Therefore, it should be clearly understood that the sensual mind cannot produce any radical transformation in any way within ourselves. It is very convenient

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to understand that the sensual mind can never take us from the autonomism and mechanicity, in which we find the people of all the world, even if they appear to be people of a very cultured mind. It is one thing to be an animalistic human being, an intellectual animal, while it is certainly quite another thing to be a true Psychological Man. Naturally, when I use the word Man, I also mean Woman. But this must be clearly understood. The Psychological Man and Woman

ourselves in order to form a physical body, but it is very obvious that we need to work upon ourselves in order to form a Psychological Man. As a matter of fact, in order to create a Psychological Man, who is a true Man in the most complete sense of the word, we need to organize the psyche which is disorganized. The Master Gurdjieff said that the organic machine does not have a psychology. I have to strongly disagree with him on this matter. A psychology really exists within any organic machine that we mistakenly call man. The fact is that this machine is very disorganized. If it is true that we want to create the true Man, who is the Psychological Man, then it is urgent, unpostponable, and undeferable that we organize this psychology within the intellectual animal. Let us then see the difference between the intellectual animal, mistakenly called Man, and the true and authentic Psychological Man. If we want to create such a Man within, then we need to work upon ourselves. Nonetheless, there is a struggle within us because the sensual mind is the clear enemy of the superior mind. The sensual mind is identified with any circumstance; for example, if suddenly we find ourselves at a sumptuous banquet and we identify ourselves a great deal with the food,

We were born with a marvelous physical body, but really we truly need to make something more. To form a physical body is not difficult, because we inherit it, but to form is a Psychological Man is very difficult. We do not need to work upon

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we will convert ourselves into gluttons; or if we get identified with the wine, we end up drunk. If we see a person of the opposite sex in front of us who is fascinating and interesting, we will become very identified with that person and end up fornicating, or simply, we are changed into adulterers. To create the Psychological Man in these circumstances, in this way, is not possible. If in some way we have to start the work of creating the Psychological Man, this will come from real, true work on ourselves, without ever getting identified with any circumstance, while observing ourselves from instant to instant, from moment to moment. There are some people who are mistaken about the path. There are societies, schools, orders, lodges, religions, sects, which pretend to organize the human psyche by means of certain golden maxims. Some communities pretend to achieve something that they call purifications or sanctity by means of such maxims. It is urgent that we analyze all of this. It is obvious that any type of ethical or religious maxim can never serve as a pattern for the distinct events of life. For example, a maxim that is structured with superior logic, like the logic of Ouspensky, will never truly create a new cosmos, neither a new nature. To strictly subordinate ourselves to a maxim with the purpose

of organizing our psyche would be absurd. Obviously this would signify the conversion of ourselves into slaves. Therefore, it is convenient that we should reflect upon many ethical catalogs and moral codes that are held as golden maxims. Moreover, there is a lot that needs to be analyzed before entering into the work of the organization of the psyche. For example, a demonstrative annunciation, even if very wise and perfect, could still be unquestionably false, or even worse, intentionally false. Accordingly, in order to anticipate a transformation within ourselves, we have to become a little more individualistic. I am not saying to become selfish: this must be understood. We must learn to think better, in a more independent and perfect way, other than through many sacred sayings, through many golden maxims, and as already mentioned, through aphorisms that all the world considers perfect. These maxims will never serve as patterns of measurement in order to achieve the authentic transformation and in order to achieve the organization of the psyche within ourselves. The fact of the matter is to organize the interior psyche, and we have to leave behind all subjective rationalism in order to get to the root of the matter. To confront our own errors as they are without justifying them does not

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mean that we must flee from them. Do not intend to excuse them. There is a need to become more serious in the analysis. We must be more judicious, more comprehensive. If we truly do not search for evasiveness, then we can work on ourselves in order to achieve the organization of the Psychological Man and stop being intellectual animals, as we are at this very moment. Psychological Self-observation is basic. Truly, to observe ourselves from instant to instant, from second to second, is necessary. What is the purpose of Selfobservation? The discovery of our different types of psychological defects. But, they must be discovered in the field of action, by directly and judiciously observing them, without evasion, without justification, without any type of escape. Once a defect has been discovered, then, and only then, can we comprehend it, and when we attempt to comprehend it, we must, I repeat, be severe with ourselves. Many, when

they attempt to comprehend an error, they justify it or evade it, or try to hide it from themselves. This is absurd. There are some little Gnostic brothers and sisters who, when discovering this or that defect in themselves, begin with their mind, as we will say, their theoretical mind, to make up speculations. This is very grave because - as I already said and I repeat again in this moment - speculations of the merely subjective mind forcibly dump themselves into the field of utopianism; this is obvious. Therefore, if an error is what we want to understand, then mere subjective speculations must be eliminated, and in order for them to be eliminated, it is necessary to have been directly observing the error. Only like this, through the means of correct observation, is it possible to correct the tendency towards speculation. Once we have integrally comprehended any psychological defect in all of the levels of the mind, then one can have the luxury of breaking and disintegrating it, reducing it to ashes, to cosmic dust.

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Nevertheless, we must never forget that the mind by itself cannot radically alter any defect at all. The mind by itself can label any defect with different names, pass defects from one level to the other, to hide them from itself or to hide them from other defects, but it can never disintegrate a defect. Many times I have taught here that we need a power superior to the mind, a power that can truly reduce to ashes any defect of a psychological type. Fortunately, this power exists in the depth of our psyche. I am clearly referring to Stella Maris, the Virgin of the Sea, a variation of our own Being. She is a derivative of our Being. If we concentrate ourselves on this variant force that exists within our psyche, that force that some civilizations denominated as Isis, others Tonantzin, others Diana, etc., then we will be assisted and the defect in question can be reduced to cosmic dust. Once any psychological aggregate, the vivid personification of this or that error, has been disintegrated, something is liberated:this is what is called Essence. It is clear that within any of those bottles which are known as psychic aggregates, some Essence or animated consciousness exists, bottled up. So when breaking this or that error, the percentage of Essence which has been placed or embottled there is liberated.

Each time a percentage of Buddhic Essence is liberated, the percentage of Consciousness increases as a fact. Likewise, while we are breaking these psychic aggregates, the percentage of awakened consciousness will multiply, and when the totality of the psychic aggregates is reduced to ashes, likewise the consciousness will awaken in its totality.

If we just break fifty percent of the inhuman undesirable elements, then obviously we will possess fifty percent of objective, awakened consciousness. But if we attain the destruction of a hundred percent of our undesirable elements, we will attain -as a fact and for our own right - one hundred

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percent Objective consciousness. Thus, based on incessant multiplications, our consciousness will shine each time more and more; this is obvious. To attain absolute awakening is what we want, and this is possible if we march on the correct path. If we do the contrary, then to attain this will be impossible. This is clear. In any case, in the same way that we are diminishing the undesirable psychic elements that we carry in our interior, distinct siddhis or luminous faculties will bloom within our psyche, and when the Buddhist Annihilation has been achieved, truly then we will achieve the most absolute Illumination. This word Buddhist Annihilation bothers very much other determined organizations of a pseudoesoteric, pseudo-occult type. For us, instead of this word sickening us, it really pleases us, because to attain one hundred percent consciousness is what we long for. There are many that would like to achieve illumination; there are many that feel themselves to be bitter, who suffer within darkness, who suffer through the bitter circumstances of life. Illumination is something that we long for, but illumination has to have a reason to be; the reason for illumination to be is the Dharmadatu. This word of Sanskrit origin sounds

very strange to the ears of the people present here. Dharmadatu comes from the root word Dharma. The Three Factors

Someone can disintegrate the undesirable psychic elements that we carry in our interior, but nevertheless, based on this alone, one cannot achieve radical illumination, because something else enters into the game here: the Third Factor for the revolution of the consciousness: Sacrifice for Humanity. If we do not sacrifice ourselves for humanity, to attain absolute illumination will not be possible, because I repeat, the reason for illumination is the Dharmadatu. It is obvious that if we disintegrate the ego we will receive our payment. It

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is true, really true, that if we create the superior, existential bodies of the Being, we will be paid. We cannot deny that if we sacrifice ourselves for our fellow men we will be paid. All of this is undoubtable. Therefore in order to achieve absolute illumination, we need to work with the three factors for the revolution of the consciousness: TO BE BORN; meaning the creation of the existential, superior vehicles of the Being; TO DIE; meaning the disintegration of the ego in its entirety; and the SACRIFICE FOR HUMANITY. Behold the three factors for the revolution of the consciousness. Anyway, as I was telling you, we need to know how to work upon ourselves. We need to organize the Psychological Man within each one of us. First of all, before we achieve the absolute illumination, the Psychological Man must be born in us, and he is born in us when the psyche is organized. There is a need to organize the psyche within ourselves here and now. Energy & the Creation of the Superior Bodies If we work correctly, we will organize the psyche. For example,

if we do not waste the energies of the emotional center, if we do not waste the energies of the mind, or the energies of the motor/instinctive/sexual brain, then it is obvious that we will create or we will build, give form, to the second psychological body with the savings of such energies in ourselves: this is the body of emotions, denominated Eidolon.

Undoubtedly, if we liberate ourselves from the sensual mind, then in reality we will achieve the savings of the intellectual energies. With such energies we can nourish the third psychological body or individual mind. When I pronounce myself against the sensual mind, I want the brothers and sisters to clearly understand that I am not putting aside my recognition of the usefulness of the sensual mind; we need to live in perfect equilibrium

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whilst knowing how to drive the superior mind. If one does not know how to drive the sensual mind, then one forgets that there is a need to pay the rent, there exists a need to eat in order to exist, one forgets there is a need to get dressed and not wander on the streets completely negligent, not accomplishing his duties in life. Therefore, the sensual mind is necessary, but there is a need to know how to intelligently drive it with equilibrium, meaning: the superior mind and the sensual mind must be equilibrated in life.

for the sensual mind to function in a equilibrated form in order for one to accomplish his duties of life. Identification The struggle between the superior mind and the sensual mind is frightful. Let us remember the Christ when he was fasting in the wilderness. A demon was presented in front of him and told him, All of the kingdoms of the world will be granted unto thee, if thou kneel and worship before me. In other words, it is the sensual mind tempting him. The superior mind answers, saying, Satan, Satan, it is written you must obey and worship the Lord your God. Jesus never let the sensual mind dominate him, but the meaning of this is not that the sensual mind is useless, it just happens that there is a need to have it under control. It must march in perfect equilibrium with the superior mind. When striving for the organization of the Psychological Man, obviously a frightful struggle will happen between the two minds, between the superior, which is the psychological one, and the sensual one. The sensual mind does not want to be involved in anything related with the superior mind. The sensual mind enjoys when it is identified with a scene of lust or when it is identified with a painful event of the street, or when it is identified with a

Some people only preoccupy themselves with the sensual mind. For example, certain hermits that live in the caverns of the Himalayas forget that they have a sensual mind. To simply disregard this mind just like that is absurd. There is a need

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glass of wine, etc. and the psychological mind is violently against it. I am going to illustrate this with an example I was traveling in a car; someone else was driving that car. We were driving in the left lane of the street, and in the right lane a lady was driving another vehicle; suddenly she changed direction intent on going to a supermarket which was on the left side of the street. It is obvious that driving in the right lane she should have turned in a more correct way in order to go to the supermarket. If the supermarket was on the right side, then she would have turned right with no problem. Absolutely not caring a bit about this situation, this lady then turned left: this of course ended up with her crashing into the car that we were riding in. The damages for her car were not so grave, they were minimal. But here comes the interesting part of the story: the car in which my insignificant person was riding was being driven by someone who recognized that this was not his fault, and truly it was not his fault, he was not guilty of crashing into this other vehicle that suddenly appeared in front of him. Naturally, he presented his allegation to the lady in question. But this lady was insisting that she was right. Of course this was manifestly absurd; any traffic officer would have disqualified her claims immediately. Nevertheless, she insisted on calling the insurance company in order to arrange

the problem. After a couple of hours, the insurance company did not arrive, and this lady insisted that she should receive payment of 300 pesos, that was more or less the cost for the repair of her vehicle that she herself destroyed. The occupants of the car that I was in and the driver were definitely angry in a very big way, and even if any of them could have paid her, they were not in any position to do it. Such was the anger that they were having. I decided, on my part, not to identify with this circumstance, because our psychological discipline, our psychological judo, teaches us that in such cases one must not identify. It is obvious that I remained serene in accordance with our psychological judo. However, time was passing by, two hours, and possibly many more. We waited because the insurance agent was not showing up. At the end, this lady - very respectably - approached me, because she saw that I was the only one that was serene: the rest of the occupants were all very vociferous. She said, Sir, if you would give me at least 300 pesos then we could be finished with this discussion, since I am wasting my time - actually, all of us are wasting our time. But if you observe the positions of the two cars, you will see that you were coming from the right lane and if you wanted to turn left, you should

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have been in the left lane; however, you intended to enter the supermarket from the right lane when the left was already occupied. It is not possible to try to enter in this way. Any traffic officer would disqualify you. But sir, what are we doing by wasting our time, since the insurance agent is not coming. O.K., take your 300 pesos and leave in holy peace, there is no problem anymore. Go on your way. It is obvious that there was a general protest from the others; they were very indignant not only against this lady, but also against me. Such was the state in which they were, and they could not do anything but protest. They were absolutely identified with the event and of course they judged me as a fool, etc., etc, etc. and other sorts of names. Of course, one of the occupants directly approached the ladies with the purpose of insulting them because there were many, the one that was driving and her acquaintances. I approached and said to this lady Go ahead, leave in holy peace and do not pay attention to their insults. Well, this woman left very happy and from afar gave me a last salutation, and then the car was lost on the streets of the city. We could have kept waiting for three, four, six hours, even the whole afternoon, and quite possibly until that night we could have waited until the insurance agent finally arrived in order to get to some foolish arrangement.

Really, there was not a grave problem. The damages of her car were minimal; although the occupants of the other car had money, they were in no way prepared to pay her. They were so identified with the scene that obviously they didnt have any desire, as is said, to twist their arm. I certainly saved them from a great deal of problems and obnoxious details. Possibly I even saved them from going to court; I averted for them fifty thousand foolish deeds, bitter deeds, and arguments. But they were so identified with this event that they didnt realize the good that I did for them. This is how people are. Therefore, my dear friends, in reality, truly, you must understand that to identify oneself with circumstances always brings problems. It is absurd to identify oneself with circumstances, completely absurd, because the energies are wasted. With which energies will we organize the Astral Body if we allow ourselves to be driven by explosions of anger, explosions of frightful rage, and those irritations that do not have a reason for being? And all of this because we identify with circumstances. With which forces can one give oneself the luxury of creating an individual mind, if truly one squanders the intellectual energies wasting them on foolishness, like the event that I have been talking about? The creation of the second body invites us to save the emotional energies, and
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the creation of a third body (which can be called the intellectual body or individual mind) makes us comprehend the necessity to save our mental energy.

We know well that someone who possesses the physical body, a second body of an emotional/psychological type, a third body of an individual mental type, and finally a fourth body of a conscious volitive type, can give himself the luxury of receiving the animated principles in order to convert oneself into a Man; this is undoubtable. But truly, if one squanders his motor, vital, emotional, mental, and volitive energies by identifying himself with all the circumstances of life, then it is obvious that he will never organize the psychological bodies. They are indispensable in order for the Man to appear within each one of them. Therefore, when I am speaking of the organization of the psyche, it must be understood that we must know how to handle and utilize these energies. We should not to identify ourselves, nor forget ourselves, in order not to waste our energies foolishly. When one forgets the self, then one identifies oneself, and when one is identified, then one cannot give form to the psyche: one cannot make the psyche become intelligently structured within itself because one squanders the energies foolishly. To understand this is urgent, my dear brothers and sisters. Therefore, a true Man or Woman is one that has saved his energies and that has built the superior existential bodies of the Being by means of the same energies. A true Man is one that has received his animated and spiritual principles; a
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perfect Man is one that has disintegrated all of the psychic inhuman elements. A real Man is the one who has formed the interior Man inside himself instead of those undesirable elements (ego). Therefore, what counts is the interior Man. This interior Man receives his payment; the Great Law pays him, because this interior Man is awakened and because he has disintegrated the ego. This is the real, true Man who sacrifices himself for his fellowmen. Obviously, this is how he attains illumination. So to create the Man is a beginning; it is what is fundamental, and it is achieved by organizing the psyche. But many preoccupy themselves exclusively with the development of powers or inferior siddhis instead of dedicating themselves towards organizing their own intimate psyche, and this is really absurd. Where are we going to start? With the organization of the psyche? Or the development of inferior powers? What is it that we want? We have to be judicious in the analysis, judicious in our longings. If it is powers that we looking for, we are just wasting our time miserably. I believe that what is fundamental is the organization of our inferior psyche, this is basic. If you understand this in yourselves and work on yourselves, then you will be able to give form to the psyche, then the real Man, the true Man will be born within you.

Intuition You must understand this. Instead of searching for inferior siddhis or inferior powers as we said, it is better to give form to the psyche. A transcendental power exists that is born within any human being that truly has worked upon himself. I want in an emphatic form to refer to Intuition, and I mention this so that you will stop coveting powers. But what is this faculty? It has been said to us that this faculty is related to the pineal gland; I do not deny this. But what is important is to explain what its functions are. How are we going to define Intuition? It is a direct perception of the truth without the depressing process of options. Well, this is a good definition, but Ive found it very incipient. This definition is used by all of the little pseudoesoteric and pseudo-occult schools which are around. Analysis invites us to go much deeper in this matter. What is Intuition? It is the faculty of interpretation. Possibly Hegal with his dialectic tried to define it based on the Chinese philosophy of the yellow race. A Chinese Empress did not understand this matter of Intuition very well. A wise man explained unto her that it was the faculty of Interpretation. This definition is correct, yet she did not understand. Then the wise man brought her a lit

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candle and placed it in the center of the hall, and around it he placed ten mirrors as well. It is clear that the flame of that candle was reflected in one mirror; this flame was in turn projecting a flame onto another mirror, and this other mirror was projecting it onto another, and this one to another. Thus they noticed that these ten mirrors

Being, if he is really a true Man in the most transcendental sense of the word, then the faculty of Interpretation will be a fact within him. Let us take into account that one is contained within the cosmos. I said that one is part of the whole. Much exists within the microcosmic man, nevertheless the totality of oneself is nothing but one part of the whole. We already know for example, that within the Ayocosmos, meaning the Infinite, the Macrocosmos is contained. Within the Macrocosmos, the Milky Way, the Deuterocosmos, the solar system is contained. Within the Deuterocosmos, the cosmic sun is contained, and within this cosmic sun, the cosmos Earth, the Mesocosmos, is contained. Likewise within the Mesocosmos is the Microcosmos man contained, and within the Microcosmos man is contained the life of the infinitely small, the Tritocosmos. Within one cosmos, there is another cosmos, and within this cosmos, there is another one, and in totality we have seven cosmos, and these are contained one within another. Therefore, within ourselves there is an inferior cosmos (it is clear that it is the Tritocosmos) and a superior cosmos (and it is now clear that it is the Mesocosmos). We are between a superior cosmos and an inferior cosmos. We are also very related with our parents since they originated us; likewise from ourselves,

were mutually projecting the light one to another. A marvelous play of lights was formed, a play with interpretation. Then the Empress understood. Behold the faculty of Intuition. If somebody has achieved the Buddhist Annihilation, if somebody has achieved the construction of the superior existential bodies of the

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our children and grandchildren come. All of us are interpreting each other mutually. Undoubtedly, my dear friends, existence in any way, that is to say, its birth, its development, its death, remains reflecting itself as well within the true Man that has attained the Buddhist Annihilation. Therefore this Man can say, I know the history of this planet. The whole Mahamanvantara can reflect itself in the fingernail of an authentic Man and it would be reflected with such exactitude that this Buddha would not ignore anything. Everything that could happen within an entire nation could reflect itself in the psyche of a Man or Woman that has passed through the Buddhist Annihilation: it would reflect itself with such exactitude, with such precision, with such detail, that this one would not ignore even the most insignificant event. Therefore deduce for yourselves and infer into what I have said about what Intuition is: the faculty of Interpretation. If we achieve the reflection of the history of this Galaxy within ourselves, can we ignore something related with it? Of course not. The galaxy with all of its processes can be reflected within our psyche so naturally, my dear brothers and sisters, just as the candle in the example that I gave you, related with the ten mirrors that served to illustrate the story of the Empress. If all circumstances can be reflected upon within the psyche of a Buddha of Contemplation, because this one no longer

has any inhuman psychic aggregates to disintegrate, then this one achieves, as a fact, through the means of Intuition, what we would define as consciousness. To attain Illumination is possible, but do not forget, my dear friends, that Illumination has its laws. The reason for Illumination is the Dharmadatu, in other words: Dharma. not ignore even the most insignificant event. Therefore deduce for yourselves and infer into what I have said about what Intuition is: the faculty of Interpretation. If we achieve the reflection of the history of this Galaxy within ourselves, can we ignore something related with it? Of course not. The galaxy with all of its processes can be reflected within our psyche so naturally, my dear brothers and sisters, just as the candle in the example that I gave you, related with the ten mirrors that served to illustrate the story of the Empress. If all circumstances can be reflected upon within the psyche of a Buddha of Contemplation, because this one no longer has any inhuman psychic aggregates to disintegrate, then this one achieves, as a fact, through the means of Intuition, what we would define as consciousness. To attain Illumination is possible, but do not forget, my dear friends, that Illumination has its laws. The reason for Illumination is the Dharmadatu, in other words: Dharma.
- Samael Aun Weor

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Meditation
From the writings of Samael Aun Weor Excerpt from the Revolution of the Dialectic, MO - CHAO The Chinese word Mo means silent or serene; Chao means to reect or to observe. Mo-Chao, therefore, can be translated as serene reection or serene observation. The difcult, laborious, arduous and painful thing is to achieve absolute mental silence in all the levels of the subconscious. To reach stillness and silence in the mere supercial intellectual level or in a few subconscious departments, is not sufcient because the Essence continues bottled up within the submerged, infra-conscious and unconscious dualism. A blank mind is something too supercial, empty and intellectual. We need serene reection if we truly want to achieve the absolute stillness and silence of the mind. However, it is clear to comprehend that in pure Gnosticism, the terms serenity and reection have much more profound meanings and hence should be comprehended within their special connotations. The feeling of serene transcends that which is normally understood by calm or tranquility; it implies a superlative state which is beyond reasoning, desires, contradictions and words; it designates a situation which is beyond worldly noise. Likewise, the meaning of reection is beyond what is understood

as contemplation of a problem or idea. Here it does not imply mental activity or contemplative thinking, but rather a kind of clear and reexive objective Consciousness, always enlightened in its own experience. Therefore, serene, in this context, is the serenity of non-thinking and reection means intense and clear consciousness. Serene reection is clear consciousness in the tranquility of non-thinking. When perfect serenity reigns, one achieves true, profound enlightenment.

Excerpt from Revolutionary Psychology, OBSERVATION OF ONESELF Internal self-observation is a practical means to achieve a radical transformation. To know and to observe are different. Many confuse the observation of oneself with knowing. For example, even though we know that we are seated in a living room, this, however, does not signify that we are observing the chair. We know that at a given moment we are in a negative state, perhaps with a problem, worried about this or that matter, or in a state of distress or uncertainty, etc. This, however, does not mean that we are observing the negative state. Do you feel antipathy towards someone? Do you dislike a certain person? Why? You may say that you know that person... Please observe that person; to know is not the same as to observe! Do not confuse knowing with observing...

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But, unquestionably, in order to see all of this, we need attention intentionally directed towards the interior of our own selves. This is not a passive attention. Indeed, dynamic attention proceeds from the side of the observer, while thoughts and emotions belong to the side, which is observed. All of this causes us to comprehend that knowing is something completely passive and mechanical, in evident contrast with the observation of the self which is a conscious act... The observation of oneself, which is one hundred percent active, is a way to change oneself. However, knowing, which is passive, is not a way to change oneself. Indeed, knowing is not an act of attention. Yet, the attention directed into oneself, towards what is happening in our interior, is something positive, active... For instance, we may feel antipathy towards a person, just because we feel like it and many times for no particular reason. If we observe ourselves in such a moment we will notice the multitude of thoughts that accumulate in our mind. We will also notice the group of voices that speak and scream in a disorderly manner and that say many things within our mind, as well as the unpleasant emotions that surge in our interior and the unpleasant taste that all this leaves in our psyche, etc. Obviously, in such a state we also realize that internally we are badly mistreating the person for whom we feel antipathy towards.

Excerpt from Runic Magic, MEDITATION Intellectual information is not a living experience. Erudition is not experimentation. Essays, tests, demonstrations, which are exclusively three-dimensional, are not unitotal, nor integral. A faculty superior to the mind has to exist which must be independent from the intellect, capable of granting us knowledge and direct experience of any phenomena. Opinions, concepts, theories, hypothesis do not signify verication, experimentation and complete consciousness of this or that phenomena. Only when we liberate ourselves from the mind can we have the living experience of the Truth, of that which is the Reality, or of that which is found behind any phenomena in a potential state. Mind exists in everything. The seven cosmos, the world, the moons, the suns are nothing
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else but crystallized and condensed mental substances. The mind is also matter, although more rened. Mental substances exist in the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms. The unique existing difference between the intellectual animal and the irrational beast is what is called intellect. The human biped gave intellectual form to the mind. The world is nothing else but a mental illusory form which inevitably will be dissolved at the end of the Great Cosmic Day. Myself your body, my friends, your things, my family, etc., are (in their depth) what the Hindustani name Maya (illusion), vain mental forms that sooner or later must be reduced to cosmic dust. My affections, my most beloved beings that surround me, etc., are simple forms of the cosmic mind. They do not have real existence. To ride on the donkey (the mind) in order to enter into the heavenly Jerusalem on Palm Sunday is urgent. Disgracefully, nowadays, the donkey rides on us, the miserable mortals of the mud of the earth. No one can know the Truth while being a slave to the mind. That which is Reality is not a matter of suppositions but of direct experience.

Jesus, the Great Kabir said, Know the Truth, and this will set you free. However, I tell you that truth is not a matter of afrmation or negation, of belief or doubt. The Truth must be directly experienced while in absence of the I beyond the mind. Whosoever liberates the self from the intellect can experience, can vividly verify, can feel an element which radically transforms. When we liberate ourselves from the mind, then this mind is converted into a ductile, elastic and useful vehicle with which we express ourselves in this conscious world. Superior logic invites us to think that liberating, emancipating ourselves from the mind, releasing ourselves from all mechanism is equivalent in fact to the awakening of the consciousness, to the termination of automatism. That which is beyond the mind is Brahma, the uncreated eternal space, that which has no name, the Reality...

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About Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor, (pronounced sam-ayel a-on vay-ohr) was born in Colombia during the middle of a earthquake on March 6th 1917, he disincarnate on the Christmas of 1977 on December 24th, in Mexico City, where he spent most of his life. He was a prolic writer, philosopher, esoteric scientist, anthropologist and teacher of the Gnostic Esoteric Mysteries. Samael Aun Weor worked tirelessly for humanity, and made it his lifes purpose to investigate and unveil the mysteries of the cosmos and human nature. Samael Aun Weor, together with his wife Litelantes founded the rst Gnostic Anthropological school in the early 1950s with the sole aim of bringing to humanity the wisdom of Gnosis and the keys to attaining self-knowledge. Samael Aun Weor wrote over sixty books and gave hundreds of lectures on the Gnostic path to self-knowledge. He renounced personal income from the sale of his books and the giving of lectures. However with the help of a small but dedicated group of students he was able to accomplish a grandiose work leaving to humanity a masterpiece of esoteric writings. The wisdom contained in his books is not derived via the usual methods of scholarly and historical research, neither are they based on theory or intellectual speculation. Samael Aun Weor acquired his knowledge from metaphysical dimensions of reality and nature which are hidden to most people - but visible to those who choose to work on themselves to prepare and develop spiritual means of perception. His writings include topics on; occult science and medicine, meditation, Aztec and Mayan cultures, Esoteric Buddhism and Christianity, mythology, psychology, sexology, alchemy, kabbalah, the future and past epochs of humanity and an unveiling of the worlds mystery teachings. Though his accomplishments are certainly impressive by any standard, they are merely the pale material reection of the work he accomplished internally and spiritually. Yet, in spite of his wisdom and generosity towards humanity, he always said: Do not follow me, I am just a signpost, reach your own self-realisation. Today there are Gnostic groups and schools worldwide, founded on the principles of universal charity and wisdom. These Gnostic groups study art, science, meditation, anthropology, philosophy and the religions of the world. The origin of the stream of Gnosis runs from the Ancient Mystery Schools and now this stream ows again throughout the world. It is the mission and purpose of contemporary Gnosticism to explain, educate and unveil these ageless systems of wisdom that are so vital for our culture and the enrichment of humanity.

V.M. Samael Aun Weor

V.M. Litelantes

Lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - Buddha

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