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[gnosismacedonia]

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto (the tree of) life, and few there be that find it.” - Matthew 7: 13, 14

[gnosismacedonia]

Work in the water, with the fish!

Madonna of Mercy with Kneeling Friars, 1424, Fra Angelico

Medium: parchment,tempera

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

I want to learn more about gnosticism and samael aeon woer but I've heard it's just a lot of sex and tantra stuff, can you help me out?

It’s true that the sexual aspects of his teaching are very popular. However, there is so much more to study beyond that. I really recommend the book Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: https://gnosticteachings.org/books-by-samael-aun-weor/treatise-of-revolutionary-psychology.html

[madamlaydebug]

Use Aloe to Alleviate Suffering:

There is so much suffering and confusion in the world: viruses, turmoil, fighting, disasters... It is our responsibility to help those who suffer, but often we do not know how. Here is an easy way to help: by using an aloe plant.

One of the primary benefits of genuine spiritual work is that one accumulates energy that can be used to help others. Sexual purity harnesses solar power of tremendous voltage that can be directed by compassion and intelligence. One such method is by commanding the elementals of plants. This is a vast science, for each of the millions of plants has its own unique properties and abilities. One of the most useful is the aloe.

"The aloe is a plant of great esoteric powers. The elementals of this plant resemble newborn children. These elemental children are true “Adamites” filled with innocent beauty... We can utilize these elementals for any type of work of white magic, by means of its elemental magic..." —Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

Here is how you can use an aloe plant to help people who are suffering, no matter where they are. Firstly, this practice only works if you are practicing scientific chastity (brahmacharya). Those who do not conserve their sexual energy do not have the solar force necessary for this practice. Secondly, you will need an aloe plant. Bless the plant by placing your left hand over your solar plexus, and raise your right hand with the first three fingers extended and the last two closed, then make the sign of the cross over the plant, saying, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," then draw a circle around the cross while saying, "and in the name of the Holy Tetragrammaton."

Then concentrate on imagining what you want the plant to do: visualize the suffering people you want to help, and imagine the plant aiding them. Pray to your Innermost to perform this work in accordance with divine will and the law of karma, and prevent you from performing any work of black magic. Ask your Innermost to order the elemental of the aloe to alleviate the suffering you are imagining. This can be as simple as helping to calm their mind or stimulate positive emotions. Meanwhile, either aloud or mentally, chant the mantra M extended as "mmmmmm," with your mouth closed, at least three times. The elemental will immediately obey... These orders must be given to the elemental daily, for as many days as you wish to do it.

To see the effects of this work, you must meditate daily and watch your dreams closely.

We hope that you will dedicate some time and energy each day towards helping someone who is suffering intensely in these moments. You can make an enormous difference, even if it is invisible to the physical senses.

May all beings be happy!

https://gnosticteachings.org/about-us/news/magic-to-alleviate-suffering.html

[gnosismacedonia]

Amen!

All your inner disorder is due to the dislocation of your powers, the mind and the heart each going their own way. You must unite the mind with the heart: then the tumult of your thoughts will cease, and you will acquire a rudder to guide the ship of your soul, a lever with which to put all your inner world in movement. How can this union be achieved? Make it your habit to pray these words with the mind in the heart: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me.” And this prayer, when you have learnt to use it properly, or rather, when it becomes grafted to the heart, will lead you to the end which you desire: it will unite your mind with your heart, it will quell the turbulence of your thoughts, and it will give you power to govern the movements of your soul.

St. Theophan the Recluse

[lisablack000]

In every speck of life, it is the union between the positive and negative poles that is responsible for creation. At the same time, union between the positive and negative poles (in Sahaja Maithuna) is also responsible for (internal creation) enlightenment, and the experience which takes place at the time of union is a glimpse of the higher experience.

- Satyananda

https://gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2803-sahaja-maithuna.html

[cleverlittlespider]

Perseus and Medusa

When Perseus was grown up Polydectes sent him to attempt the conquest of Medusa, a terrible monster who had laid waste the country. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory [long hair is a symbol of chastity: sexual purity; see also Samson] but as she dared to vie in beauty with Minerva [Athena, whose chief attendant is a serpent], the goddess deprived her of her charms [her virtue was lost due to her pride] and changed her beautiful ringlets into hissing serpents [the inverted serpent that opposes Athena; see Judaism: The Two Serpents].

She became a cruel monster of so frightful an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men and animals which had chanced to catch a glimpse of her and had been petrified with the sight [upon seeing her tenebrous beauty, they become identified with desire, which gives birth to the ego, a heavy and rigid mental formation that traps the consciousness inside. This is the Brute Stone].

Perseus, favoured by Minerva [his Divine Mother Kundalini, the upright serpent] and Mercury [Hermes, the sexual energy], the former of whom lent him her shield [meditation] and the latter his winged shoes [Sexual Alchemy; the shoes we need to walk the path], approached Medusa while she slept [taking advantage of her mechanical nature] and taking care not to look directly at her [with the risk of becoming identified with desire], but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield [of the stabilized and clarified consciousness through profound stillness of the mind] which he bore [due to many patient years of practice], he cut off her head [the ego, the "I"] and gave it to Minerva [Athena].

Quoted from Bullfinch's Mythology

https://gnosticteachings.org/courses/alphabet-of-kabbalah/11-kaf

[thehermetichermit]

A Lesson In Mem מַ (Path 23)

Of what do you see as a sacrifice within your life at this very moment? Can you describe why it is a sacrifice to you and why it is that way? Do you have Knowledge of what a true sacrifice to God is? Does one truly need the blood and flesh of a young Ram to offer to God as a sacrifice for a deed done or are we missing what this very action is meant to represent? Maybe it is time to look into the Work of Man to see that The Great Work requires only a sacrifice of something else that this Ram instills in our Spiritual Path and lives. What does it show itself to you as? Why is the power in it so needed that you must relinquish it out of free will in order for it to become the powerful Lesson that it is in not only your Mind but in your very Heart as well?

And here we stand at the very point of seeing that what is required of us is only that simple.

sac·ri·fice ˈsakrəˌfīs/Submit noun 1. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. "they offer sacrifices to the spirits" synonyms: ritual slaughter, offering, oblation, immolation "the sacrifice of animals" an animal, person, or object offered in a sacrifice. synonyms: (votive) offering, burnt offering, gift, oblation "the calf was a sacrifice" an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. "we must all be prepared to make sacrifices" synonyms: surrender, giving up, abandonment, renunciation, forfeiture, relinquishment, resignation, abdication "joining a federation may result in the sacrifice of sovereignty" verb 1. offer or kill as a religious sacrifice. "the goat was sacrificed at the shrine" synonyms: offer up, immolate, slaughter "two goats were sacrificed" give up (something important or valued) for the sake of other considerations. "working hard doesn't mean sacrificing your social life" synonyms: give up, abandon, surrender, forgo, renounce, forfeit, relinquish, resign, abdicate; betray "he sacrificed his principles"

Where in this mess of words does it say anything of giving up freely by your own heart? We are taught by The Work of Man that a sacrifice is about surrendering under non free will. To relinquish under protest and duress. And yet in the same sense an offering to God as in what? A Goat/Ram..... Why then for a Sin Offering? Think of not the goat as an animal but what it's symbolism is, Let us remember the Astrological Sign of Aries and see what both positive and negative traits come to pass and see why the ram (אַיִל) is seen as a sacrifice worthy of God, but is sadly the embellishment of the Work of Man to escape punishment for His/Her Ego (Scapegoat). Maybe it is now time to see how often we use a scapegoat for our own Ego's and it is time to infact not relinquish with a heavy heart and prideful mind, but out of Love, Honor and Respect so we can move forwards within ourselves and remove this roadblock to God so we no longer need a "scapegoat" and finally be the אַיִל Ram of God without the animal Ego we have trapped within us still.

https://gnosticteachings.org/…/prece…/3762-pact-of-fire.html

[art-of-the-initiate]

The one who awakens Consciousness can travel in his internal bodies outside the physical body, with full conscious will, and study his own "Book of Destiny". In the Temple of Anubis, and his Forty-two Judges, the Initiate can study his own book. Anubis is the supreme ruler of Karma. The Temple of Anubis is found in the Molecular World, called the Astral World by many people. The Initiates can directly negotiate with Anubis. We can pay every Karmic debt with good deeds, but we have to negotiate with Anubis. The "Law of Karma", the Law of the Cosmic Balance, is not a blind law; one can also ask for credit from the Lords of Karma, but every credit must be paid with good deeds and if not paid, then the Law collects with pain. SOURCE: Excerpt from The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology written by Samael Aun Weor, via GnosticTeachings.org https://www.instagram.com/p/B23JLDSlnKG/?igshid=1oe0np0x5mw10

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

Gnosis and the Path

Learn more at gnosticteachings.org

[madamlaydebug]

THE FOUR PILLARS OF GNOSIS

1.PHILOSOPHY - The word philosophy is from the Greek philo, love + soph, wisdom.

Philosophy asks the big questions: Who am I? Where did I come from and where am I going? What is my purpose?

Philosophy moves away from relativistic thinking where we only know in relation to what we already know, and into the realm of possibility.

Sophia is often represented in ancient scriptures as an innocent soul that has fallen into duality and confusion but yearns to return to a state of unity in the divine light. Philosophy at its highest potential yearns to investigate into the unknown to discover the light of wisdom and understanding,

2.SCIENCE - A scientific approach involves verification, investigation, methodology. Scientific knowledge must be true and demonstrable, also complete in and of itself.

Scientific knowledge should be objective and not based upon incomplete facts. Science that is separated from a work with the consciousness, from an internal work, will always be subject to the lowest aspects of human nature.

The amazing discovery of subatomic particles was used for one of the most destructive weapons in human history. Science based on a higher intelligence is balanced and humane. In ancient times science was never separate from religion, objective understanding of nature was another aspect of understanding our relationship with the Divine.

“Science itself is contained within all the Cosmos; science exists even when the study of sciences does not exist.” -Samael Aun Weor,

3. MYSTICISM AND RELIGION - Knowing the Inner Being, through the perfume of prayer, meditation and love. Mysticism truly connected to God is simplicity itself, clear, perfect and humble. The term mystic is from the Greek mystikos, the mystery of God, of life, of our own minds. Mystical experience, which is the revelation of the prophets, eventually becomes religion.

The word religion is from the Greek religare to re-unite, or return, to God. All true religions contain different levels and depths of teachings, some appropriate for those just wishing to lead a good life and follow a faith, and some appropriate for those yearning with all their heart to know God directly. Mystical experience is the sweetness and the light that guides the soul back to its divine origin.

“Religion is Magic sanctioned by authority. The Wise understand what true religion is- the eternal necessity that is. For debased souls, religion is a yoke imposed by the vagaries of fear and follies of hope. For exalted souls, religion is a force, springing from an intensified love of God and humanity.” -Eliphas Levi

4. ART - The pillar that expresses Philosophy, Science and Mysticism through music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, literature, theater etc.

Art strikes sublime emotional states that inspire us along the path, and the creation of art becomes a gospel that can guide future generations of seekers.

gnosticteachings.org

[chicagognosis]

“The Pentagram expresses the dominion of the Spirit over the elements of Nature. We can command the elemental creatures which inhabit the regions of fire, air, water, and earth with this magical sign.” —Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony https://gnosticteachings.org/books-by-samael-aun-weor/the-perfect-matrimony/956-the-five-pointed-star.html

[lisablack000]

The tantric practitioners from secret Tibet and sacred India practice the positive sexual Yoga ; this is to connect the lingam-yoni without the ejaculation of the ens seminis.

The tantric gurus of Tibet and Hindustan are very strict. Before the male and female yogi couple has the right to practice the tantric sadhana (which is a very special sexual position for sexual connection among tantric practitioners), they first must become experts in the exercises of Laya-Kriya.

Frankly, we cannot and must not deny that the Kama Kalpa teaches many tantric sadhanas; however, here we only cite the one in which the male is seated in Padmasana (in the style of a Buddha, simply with his legs crossed in the Asian way) and practices sexual union with his female yogi [see illustration above]. Thus, the female yogini initiate has to sit on top of the legs of her male yogi, and skillfully cross her legs in such a way that the trunk of her male yogi is enveloped by them.

An interchange of caresses between the man and the woman is previously required in order to perform the sexual connection of the lingam-yoni during this tantric sadhana, thus the woman finally absorbs the phallus.

This tantric connubial practice demands an absolute quietude and mental silence in order to avoid the tenebrous intervention of the pluralized “I.”

Strong electromagnetic currents exuberantly flow in those instants of supreme voluptuousness; thus the couple enters into ecstasy or samadhi.

- Samael Aun Weor, The Narrow Way

https://gnosticteachings.org/faqs/sex/1675-what-is-tantra.html

[hermitmeetsfool-blog]

"About the soul, did you attain its crystallization? If I said that you do not have an immortal soul, I would be lying. Obviously, I am aware that each of you has an immortal soul, nonetheless you do not have access to it... One could have a beautiful diamond kept in a security box. Possibly, one could enjoy thinking that one has that diamond, but if this jewel were stolen, indeed, one could not access it; one would know that one has that jewel, but could not ignore that indeed one does not possess it. Often times somebody receives a good inheritance, and knows that he or she has it, but it is one thing to have it and another to access it. Where is your soul? Your soul travels through the Milky Way [the macrocosmos], it moves throughout this galaxy, nevertheless, you do not possess it. You know that you have it, but it is one thing to know that you have it and another is to access it. However, how can one access the soul? One attained it by means of disintegrating of the psychic aggregates in a definitive form, because the soul and the aggregates are incompatible, are like oil and water: they cannot be mixed. Therefore, if we do not attain the disintegration of the psychic aggregates, living personification of our psychological defects, we lose the soul. Christ said: “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” —Matthew 16: 26 Is it possible to lose our soul? Yes, it is possible; the one who enters in the infernal worlds loses the soul, that is obvious (it is sad to lose such a treasure). Is there a method to avoid losing the soul? Yes, there is: by crystallizing the soul in oneself, here and now. When one disintegrates the psychic aggregate of lust — better said, all the aggregates of then, the soul, of the soul known as Chastity, crystallizes in the Essence that we carry within." - Samael Aun Weor 'The Need to Crystallize the Soul' (gnosticteachings.org) (at Soul) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwkhlHpHlDI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=heig5oqs6v3w

[beyondenigmablog]

The Ancient of Days dwells in the world of Kether. The chief of that world is the angel Metatron. This angel was the prophet Enoch. With the help of this angel we can enter into the world of Kether. The disciple who wants to penetrate into Kether will beg to the angel Metatron during his states of profound Meditation and he will be helped.   Samael Aun Weor    https://gnosticteachings.org/courses/twenty-two-arcana-of-tarot/320-arcanum-1-the-magician.html #tarot #gnosis