One of the best things we can give to our Being is the death of our pride. Imagine offering our real efforts of sacrificing our pride to our Inner Being.
They are huge efforts and they count for a lot.
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One of the best things we can give to our Being is the death of our pride. Imagine offering our real efforts of sacrificing our pride to our Inner Being.
They are huge efforts and they count for a lot.
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To lose control of ourselves falling into anger or fear, then trying to control can' t be said to be true control.
That is the way of normal control. We try to control because of fear. We try to control things so that what we are afraid of does not happen.
The real control, is being in control of ourselves no matter what the circumstances are.
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Anything we do in the name of the Being, though it be costly, difficult or unfair in the moment, will always be worth it. Compensation will always come.
Compensation will always come from the same people or ciurcumstances that were unfair. If compesation does not come from the same people or circumstances, compensation will come internally.
The Being always compensates. The Being does not punish. The Being educates us by transactions and compensation, teaches m.m.m.
The Inner Being does not pay what is done in love, with the opposite. The Being always compensates with in the like value.
This we need to meditate on and put deep into our consciousness so that it comes to the surface of our mind when we are in the heat of the moment and about to react.
When we feel that we have responded with a value and others did not reply with the like value, rest assured compensation will come. No need to feel the sting of unfariness.
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Listening is not really of the intellectual centre. It is really of the emotional centre.
When we listen with the intellectual centre we tire easily, we often disagree and protest, and get lost in thought. Consequently, we stop listening.
Listening with the emotional centre can only make us open and receptive. It creates the right attitude to listen and it also allows empathy to appear. When there is some empathy, there is some good will and when there is good will, understanding is not far away.
The consciousness most manifests through the emotional centre. So using the emotional centre calls forth the consciousness the most.
The thing is to experiment and get the experience.
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When we are sick our instinctive ability to leave the body becomes more active than normal. We find that we drift in and out of the body a lot easier that normal.
The connection between the physical and the astral becomes looser than normal. We instinctively want to leave the body to give the body a chance to heal, and for us to receive some relief from the aches and pains.
We often only know about the instinctive ability to return to the body when astral projecting, for example when we escape a scary dream by instinctively returning to our physical body. Yet we can also instinctively astral project as well. When the body is sick we learn about this.
The conclusion here is that our instinctive centre knows about astral projection and it knows both how to leave and how to return.
When we are sick unusual thoughts come to us in the way of memory. These thoughts are to make us aware of what made us sick. They are not thoughts from the intelltectual centre only, they come from the body as they have a very visceral feeling to them. It is like the body is reporting to us what we touched or ate, that made us unwell. At the same time it is telling us to avoid those things in the future.
Negative thinking especially negative projections are almost as bad as the illness itself. They combine together to be something much worse that the illness itself.
The best situation when we are sick is to have no thoughts or very little. To be aware that we are sick, feel the body ache and be thinking very little is the best that we can do.
When the negative thoughts appear, it is so important to let those thoughts go and not entertain them.
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Our body has intelligence and consciousness. Our organs have intelligence and consciousness. It has to be that way becasue they are alive and they contain atoms and every atom is a triad of matter, energy and consciousness. Conventional science does not recognise the consciousness in each organ as yet.
The atomic consciousness of our immune system has a really positive attitude, one of "let's go and face this invading force and we will restore harmony".
There’s no negativity like: “not a again, fed up of that, tired of that etc. etc.”. It’s all positive confidence.
The consciousness of a virus has the attitude to create a disturbance.
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When we lack something we compensate for it in our personality.
For example, if we are poor we try to show outwardly that we are not poor.
We make it important (a value) to present well, with expensive clothing and accessories, even with an expensive car, that one would have others think we are not lacking, which in turn makes us to feel that we don't lack.
In general, the many values that we have in our personality are there because of compensating for lacking something.
The other thing is that we work like crazy, and sacrifice like crazy for those values (ways of compensating), which at the end of the day boil down to be 'a feeling about oursleves'.
A remedy to all of this is to feel as our essence. Be our essence.
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One essence sincerely yearning for light has tremendous power. This power can move people and circumstances to it, to receive the light it yearns for.
We never know how one essence sincerely yearning can bring people to it from very far away.
One essence sincerely working on him or herself has the tremendous power to affect others near and far away from him or her.
This power at first is invisble to human eyes, yet it works through space and time modifying and creating casues, which then cascades into human events, which is what we see.
This power reveals itself to us through many small and large synchronicities.
The result of all of this is that the sincere yearning of the essence is really something that taps into the power to create circumstances.
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If we were to take any human profession or occupation, and we are to look into the mastery and perfection of it, we would see that psychology plays a very important part.
If we were to look into mastering and perfecting psycholgy we would see that the esoteric or spiritual plays a very important part.
It is like the Absolute gives us a chance at inner discovery and the work of inner realisation through the occupation of our human life. We all just need to receive the knowledge that there exists a path of development leading towards the deep realisation of our Inner Being/self.
In other words, a path can be paved through our human life, working to make it a perfect work of art for the purposes of furthering a transcendental aim of self-realisation.
Leaving out the purpose of self-realisation makes the work perfecting our life empty.
The work of mastering and perfecting an occupation would lead into the psychological work. This is because every occupation engages several universal qualities of the soul/psyche.
If we were to go deeper into the psychological work, with the intention of mastering and perfecting it, we would find the esoteric and the onotlogical principles, laws and values that animate our psychology.
Each occupation relies on certain perennial and Divine values of our Inner Being that are expressed by our soul or psyche.
In ancient times, each person had a vocation, and through that vocation they would both learn new Divine qualities of their soul and give expression to the qualities that are already in their Inner Being.
Our downfall is that we don't strive for mastery and perfection of our given occupation. If we were, we would find the psychological work. When we don't strive for mastery or prefection we stagnate and run astray, often into the opposite of the values needing to be mastered and polished.
By perfection it is understood in the way of ethics and values. Perfection in the technical details is important but not as important as the perfection of the inner values. Perfection in the physical technical details depends a lot on the senses which are not perfect.
The classic teaching of the fourth was that the aspirtant would start by mastering their motor, instinctive and sexual brain, then progress to master the emotional, then the intellectual. Meaning that they would start off by mastering their physical life first of all, which for us in this day and age is to master our given occupation or human tasks of our daily life.
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When we have forgotten our esoteric work and we remember it.
The moment we remember, is the best and only time to work, if we want to retain the continuity of our work.
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In practice, in the begining, it is more important to focus on changing than being perfect.
Perfection is a later stage after we have changed.
So often, when we are trying to be perfect we are not dying or changing in ourselves. We are imitating or pushing ourselves towards an appearance of perfect. To change is much more important.
To be perfect is very difficult and attemtping to be perfect is very stressful.
We none the less, carry the compulsion to be perfect in our minds and emotions all the time.
This causes us much stress and frustration.
This mental compulsion of being perfect is often the cause of anger and hurt self-love.
It is very relieving to understand we are not perfect and there is much to correct, and much of what needs correction will be pointed out to us by others.
It is also very stress relieving to understand that we can’t always get something to be perfect.
Master Samael said that the human being was far from perfect but the one who is perfect is the Inner Being.
So we can then leave perfection to our Inner Being and focus on changing while doing our best at all things and releasing oursleves from the compulsion of perfection.
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It seems like, from so long ago, people have known about their guardian angel.
Master Samael confirmed that we all have one as a part of our Being.
Like all the parts of our Being, the guardian angel has a function. The function is to keep us safe and far away from danger.
If we are ever in a dangerous situation, or worried for our safety, we shouldn't forget our Guardian angel.
The trust we have in our Being we can extend to our Guardian Angel to feel more relaxed and secure.
There is a story, where a person asked Master Samael, what would happen if he were to be attacked. His reply was that his guardian angel would disintegrate the attacker at once.
Wow! How powerful is the guardian angel!
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