DIDACTIC OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE
To justify or condemn is not to understand. Those who wish to overcome their flaws must neither justify nor condemn them. It is urgent to UNDERSTAND our errors.
PROLOGUE
Those who once frequented the temples of the Ancient Initiatic Mysteries to be secretly instructed on the eternal principles of Universal Wisdom had to pass through different stages before achieving Adeptship.
Purification, Initiation, and Perfection were the necessary steps for those who wished to cross the threshold of Resurrection.
Then, as now, it is essential that before embarking on the Path, one must have the necessary preparation to face the difficulties and overcome the weaknesses that will inevitably arise along the way.
Anyone who approaches these Gnostic Studies with the pretext of conquering great powers, of awakening to the unknown immediately, is doomed to failure.
Before beginning the Path, we must rid ourselves of all burdens that are useless and superfluous, of something as terrible and heavy as our own subjectivism. We must purify our minds by eliminating our psychological plurality, our defects. How? By dying to ourselves from moment to moment.
But to achieve success in this endeavor, we must possess the knowledge of the appropriate Body of Doctrine to be able to fully engage in the Work with the first factor of the Revolution of Consciousness: dying.
Only with death does the new come. The topics included in this book will show us the unique way to achieve this purification, allowing us to one day possess the true Universal Wisdom of all Perfection, provided we put into practice, from this very moment, the knowledge offered by the work of Samael Aun Weor, which offers us this "Didactic of Self-Knowledge."
To do this, we must face the reality of the facts with a fresh mind, free from the obstacles of materialistic skepticism, which originates in the lie of those who have an excessively high opinion of themselves.
The stark reality is that events may be repeating themselves again and again, but what we must change is our attitude toward such circumstances.
We need to change our attitude toward existence, but one cannot change
one's attitude toward life without eliminating those harmful elements that one carries in one's psyche; that is, we need to know ourselves deeply. If we know ourselves, we discover our errors, and if we discover them, we eliminate them, and if we eliminate them, we awaken, and if we awaken, we come to know that which is not of time, that which is Truth.
Certainly, there is a harmful element within us that is an obstacle to the acquisition of true happiness: the false personality. The Being is happy, immensely blissful, when one eliminates the false personality.
Obviously, we need to bring about a change within ourselves. For this purpose, we must continue studying this Compendium, this "Didactic of Self-Knowledge": putting into practice what the V.M. Samael Aun Weor pointed out to us in his works "Treatise on Revolutionary Psychology" and "The Great Rebellion." Even then, he told us:
"Thus, if we truly want a radical change, the first thing we must understand is that each of us is at a certain Level of Being." What is our Level of Being? It would not be possible to move to another level if we ignore the state in which we find ourselves.
Certainly, inner work on oneself refers emphatically to the various psychological states of Consciousness. Within our Psychological Country, each person has their companions, their egos; these will lead them to where they must lead them according to their psychological characteristics.
If we truly want to change, we urgently and without delay need to radically modify these mistaken states of consciousness.
Transforming mechanical reactions is possible through logical confrontation and intimate self-reflection. One can change the nature of the unpleasant events that happen to us when one is inwardly purified.
Those who never correct their absurd psychological states, believing themselves to be very strong, become victims of circumstances. One can change inwardly when one truly manages to modify their reactions to the various events that befall them daily.
It is evident that those who have no interest in observing themselves also do not wish to work toward achieving a true radical transformation. The true knowledge that can truly bring about a fundamental inner change within us is based on direct self-observation.
Observation is a means to modify the mechanical conditions of the world.
Inner self-observation is a means to change inwardly.
But the process of change, of dissolution, must be methodical, didactic, and even dialectical; otherwise, we would find ourselves disoriented. We need to become self-aware of our own thoughts, our own feelings, and the effects that others produce in us.
Obviously, the work of disintegrating the elements of the false personality is often very difficult. Impatience in these studies harms those who are beginning them. If they want to make serious progress, they must become serious. A serious person who has not acquired patience is inconceivable. Jesus Christ said, "In patience you will possess your souls."
What do you mean by transformation? To become different creatures. The most serious thing is that if one identifies with the false personality, if one lives in it, one fails.
The disintegration of certain errors within us is not merely an intellectual matter. Sometimes it requires going through great emotional crises; it requires supreme repentance, and pain.
To achieve Self-Transformation, to attain it, continuity of purpose is indispensable. When a Permanent Center of Consciousness has not been established within us, there is a lack of continuity of purpose. But when a Magnetic Center has been established at the core of the Essence, then there is continuity. Normally, the Magnetic Center of our own existence is located in the false personality.
The personality itself is Pure Energy, but when the mechanical egos come to use that Energy, it becomes the false personality. But if we disintegrate such Psychic Aggregates, it is no longer false; it is an instrument for working.
Personality must be balanced with Essence; otherwise, there is imbalance.
If there is no balance between Being and Knowing, there can be no perfect understanding.
When Being is greater than Knowing, we find a "stupid saint."
When Knowing is greater than Being, there is an "intellectual rascal."
One establishes the balance between Being and Knowing through Meditation, through the Intimate Dialectic of Being, through the Dialectic of Consciousness.
Proper self-observation is an indispensable premise for delving into Psychological Death. Only through Death will we attain a new Life. Giving rise to a new life is a process of Creation, and all creation is sexual, as was the force that brought us into this world. Only conscious sexual energy will make the Great Change within us possible. With Sex, our Work, our intimate transformation, concludes.
Similarly, this Compendium concludes with a chapter dedicated to the study of Sexology, since it is necessary to know how to use the energies that flow within the human organism.
The Aquarian ascetic seeks Sex because he considers Sex to be that marvelous power that can radically transform him. We need to make a Revolution of Consciousness, to make a radical transformation. Within each of us, there exist extraordinary powers that lie dormant, latent, and we need to awaken them. activite them, awaken them.
We must rekindle the flame of the Spirit with the power of Love. Unfortunately, people don't understand what we are saying because they are asleep.
As a result of so much work, a different creature finally emerges, terribly divine, deep within each of us. That is why it has been said that through Death, transformation begins.
When one establishes this Gnostic Teaching of the "Didactic of Self-Knowledge" in their mind and heart, dear reader, they understand the need to sacrifice many things, the need to fight for many causes...
We will start next with the Transformation of Impressions.
Blessings in the Holy Name of Adonai
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