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The Gnostic Anthropology Magazine ~ Issue 1GNOSISUniversal Philosophy

Gnostic Instituteof AnthropologyART SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY MYSTICISM


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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 PersonalityBy V.M. Samael Aun Weor

A certain man was born in 1900, livedsixty-five years, then died; where was he

before 1900, and where will he be after

1965?

Conventional science does not knowanything 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 anydead man.

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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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, thepsychological 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 repetitionof 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 beenvery 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 onthe 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 ofprofound 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 theseladies 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 andage, 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 wifeabout 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 newultramodern 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 inventionof 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 ofadultery, 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 theyinsult 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 andwith 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 sweetnessand 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 ofthe 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 theGnostic 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 hispsychological 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 expenseof 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 cultivationof 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 lettersthrough playing, so that studying becomes

attractive, delightful, and happy for them.

A fundamental education teaches that the

three aspects of the human personality-

known as thought, movement, and action-

must 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 ofthe 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 theEssence, and others mistake the ego or I

for the Essence.Thus, many are the pseudo-

esoteric 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 pseudo-

esotericists, since they are convinced thatthe 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 andnothing 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 educatorscompletely 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 Educationby Samael Aun Weor.


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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.

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.

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

flourished 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", finished

some 20 years later. Claiming first 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

Jesus and the EssenesBy a Gnostic Instructor

A-U-SH-YE

A fragment of parchemnet fromthe Dead Sea Scrolls


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are two, similarly detailed, by the Jewish

philosopher Philo (fl. 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. BkVIII), 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 (fl. 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 reflect Essene beliefs.

The ruins ofQumran on the Dead Sea in Israel.

The Essenes conformed to the most rigid

rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the

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 sensualpleasures, 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 sacrifice, abstained from swearing,


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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 mystifies 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 crucified 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 crucifixion,

and that he was alive. Accordingly

they believed that he was the Messiah,

concerning whom the Prophets have

recounted wonders

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

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.

...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 Christified 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

infinite 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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Let us start our discussion that wecould denominate Intuition. First of

all, we must begin from the foundation:

the human being. Where did we come

from? Where are we going? What isthe 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 ismarvelous. It has about 15,000 x a

million neurons that are in the service

of the child, and it cost him nothing.

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 differentiationbetween 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 thesedistinct scholastic institutions grant unto

it. But truly no educational institute

can give to a child, youth, or teenager

The Organisation ofthe PsycheLecture by Samael Aun Weor


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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; forhim, 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 childhas 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 fromschool 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 radicaltransformation in any way within

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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

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 isa Psychological Man is very difficult.

We do not need to work upon

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 disagreewith 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 undeferablethat 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, thenwe 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 asumptuous banquet and we identify

ourselves a great deal with the food,


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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 aresocieties, 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, neithera 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 toachieve 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

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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 Self-

observation? The discovery of our

different types of psychological

defects. But, they must be discoveredin 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 attemptto 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 likethis, 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 luxuryof breaking and disintegrating it,

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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 whatis 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 factand 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 determinedorganizations of a pseudo-

esoteric, 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 toachieve 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 forillumination 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 theconsciousness: 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 bepaid. 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 Manmust 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 willcreate 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 theintellectual 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 ofthe usefulness of the sensual mind;

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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 thisother 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 youwere coming from the right lane and

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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 andof 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 peaceand 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 thatnight 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 toidentify 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 becausewe 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

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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.

Now then, if we truly do not learn toleave aside the mechanical antipathies,

if we are always full of evil will towards

our fellow man, with which energies

will we create the fourth psychological

body, the Body of Conscious Will.

There is a need to create all of these

superior vehicles if we truly wantto create the Psychological Man

within ourselves, or to give form to

it or to build it within ourselves.

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 howto 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 psychebecome 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 theBeing by means of the same energies.

A true Man is one that has received

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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 dedicatingthemselves 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 welooking 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 thepsyche, 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 pseudo-

esoteric and pseudo-occult schools

which are around. Analysis invites us

to go much deeper in this matter.

What is Intuition? It is the faculty ofinterpretation. 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 definitionis correct, yet she did not understand.

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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

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 somebodyhas achieved the construction of the

superior existential bodies of the

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 theMesocosmos 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 haveseven 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 veryrelated with our parents since they

originated us; likewise from ourselves,


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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 notignore 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 ignoresomething 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 afact, 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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MeditationFrom the writings of Samael Aun Weor

Excerpt from the Revolution of theDialectic, MO - CHAO

The Chinese word Mo means silent

or serene; Chao means to reflect or

to observe. Mo-Chao, therefore, can be

translated as serene reflection or serene

observation. The difficult, 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

superficial intellectual level or in a few

subconscious departments, is not sufficient

because the Essence continues bottled up

within the submerged, infra-conscious and

unconscious dualism.

A blank mind is something too superficial,

empty and intellectual. We need serene

reflection 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 reflection have much moreprofound 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; itdesignates a situation which is beyond

worldly noise. Likewise, the meaning of

reflection 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 reflexive objective

Consciousness, always enlightened in its

own experience.

Therefore, serene, in this context, is the

serenity of non-thinking and reflection

means intense and clear consciousness.

Serene reflection is clear consciousness in

the tranquility of non-thinking. When perfect

serenity reigns, one achieves true, profoundenlightenment.

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 confusethe 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 withobserving...


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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.

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...

Excerpt from Runic Magic, MEDITATION

Intellectual information is not a living

experience. Erudition is not experimentation.

Essays, tests, demonstrations, which areexclusively three-dimensional, are not uni-

total, 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, hypothesisdo not signify verification, 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

refined. Mental substances exist in

the mineral, plant, animal and humankingdoms.

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 sooneror 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 onPalm 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 affirmation or negation,

of belief or doubt. The Truth must be

directly experienced while in absence ofthe 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 theawakening 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-onvay-ohr) was born in Colombia during the

middle of a earthquake on March 6th 1917,he disincarnate on the Christmas of 1977 onDecember 24th, in Mexico City, where hespent most of his life. He was a prolific writer,philosopher, esoteric scientist, anthropologistand teacher of the Gnostic Esoteric Mysteries.Samael Aun Weor worked tirelessly forhumanity, and made it his lifes purpose toinvestigate and unveil the mysteries of thecosmos and human nature.

Samael Aun Weor, together with hiswife Litelantes founded the first GnosticAnthropological school in the early 1950swith the sole aim of bringing to humanity thewisdom of Gnosis and the keys to attainingself-knowledge.

Samael Aun Weor wrote over sixty books andgave hundreds of lectures on the Gnostic pathto self-knowledge. He renounced personal

income from the sale of his books and thegiving of lectures. However with the help of asmall but dedicated group of students he wasable to accomplish a grandiose work leaving tohumanity a masterpiece of esoteric writings.

The wisdom contained in his books is notderived via the usual methods of scholarlyand historical research, neither are they basedon theory or intellectual speculation. Samael

Aun Weor acquired his knowledge frommetaphysical dimensions of reality and naturewhich are hidden to most people - but visibleto those who choose to work on themselvesto prepare and develop spiritual means ofperception.

His writings include topics on; occult scienceand medicine, meditation, Aztec and Mayancultures, Esoteric Buddhism and Christianity,mythology, psychology, sexology, alchemy,

kabbalah, the future and past epochs ofhumanity and an unveiling of the worldsmystery teachings.

Though his accomplishments are certainlyimpressive by any standard, they are merely

the pale material reflection of the work heaccomplished internally and spiritually. Yet,in spite of his wisdom and generosity towardshumanity, he always said:

Do not follow me, I am just a signpost,reach your own self-realisation.

Today there are Gnostic groups and schoolsworldwide, founded on the principles of

universal charity and wisdom. These Gnosticgroups study art, science, meditation,anthropology, philosophy and the religions ofthe world.

The origin of the stream of Gnosis runs fromthe Ancient Mystery Schools and now thisstream flows again throughout the world. Itis the mission and purpose of contemporaryGnosticism to explain, educate and unveilthese ageless systems of wisdom that are so

vital for our culture and the enrichment ofhumanity.

V.M. Samael Aun Weor V.M. Litelantes


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The Gnostic Institute of Anthropology - Magazine

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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