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                                                THE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK

Cultivating ability and efficiency without understanding life, without self-knowledge, without a direct perception of the process of the EGO, without a thorough study of our own way of thinking, feeling, desiring, and acting, will only serve to increase our own cruelty, our own selfishness, those psychological factors that produce war, hunger, misery, and pain.

Above all, it is necessary to know the laws of Gnostic Esoteric Work if we truly want a radical and conscious change.

In the name of Truth, we will say that if we are to begin working on ourselves anywhere, it must be in relation to the mind and feelings.

It would be absurd to begin working with the Motor Center, for example,  which, as you already know, is related to the habits, customs, and actions of a particular organ or center; obviously, this would be like starting with absurd fakirism. And speaking of fakirs, in India there are fakirs who, for example, raise one arm high and hold it indefinitely, until it becomes rigid. There are others who remain motionless in one place for 20 or 30 years, becoming veritable statues. And after all, what do these fakirs gain? They develop a little willpower, and that's obvious. We can't think that they're going to create the Body of Conscious Will; that's clear.

No Body can be created outside the Ninth Sphere.( Sexual alchemy, this is sexual transmutation in the Laboratorium Oratorium of the third logos)

If it were possible to create a Body in the absence of the Ninth Sphere, we would have been born from thin air, in a lake, among a rock; we wouldn't be the children of a man and a woman. But we are indeed the children of a man and a woman. Therefore, Creation takes place in the Ninth Sphere; that's obvious.

So, no fakir could create the Body of Conscious Will outside the Ninth Sphere. Those who practice fakirism gain nothing, except that they develop a little willpower. Starting with the Motor Center would be absurd. Even more so, beginning with the Sexual Center without proper information from the Body of Gnostic Doctrine, because someone who starts under those conditions doesn't know what they're doing, lacks a clear understanding of the Work in the Forge of the Cyclopes, and can obviously fall into very serious errors.

Let's remember that first comes the Intellectual Center, second the Emotional Center, third the Motor Center, fourth the Instinctive Center, and fifth the Sexual Center. There is also a sixth, which is the Higher Emotion Center, and a seventh, which is the Higher Mental Center. But if we didn't truly begin with the lower centers of the human machine, we would fall into error.

First and foremost, in these studies, we must begin with the Intellectual and Emotional Centers. We truly need to change our way of thinking; otherwise, we will march down the path of error.

What good would it do, for example, for you to attend these lectures and not change your way of thinking? Here you are given esoteric exercises, you are given doctrinal guidance, but if you don't change your way of thinking, what good is everything you are told here?

You are told that you must dissolve the EGO,  that you must sacrifice yourself for humanity, that you must create the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being; but if you continue thinking as before, with the same mental habits of other times, what good is everything you are hearing here? You are told that you have to disintegrate the EGO, but you continue with your old mental habits, with your outdated ways and systems of thinking, so what good is the information you are being given?

The Holy Scriptures speak very clearly and precisely about the matter of "old wine and new wine"; that no one would put, for example—says Christ—"new wine into old wineskins,".Therefore, new wine requires new wineskins.The Great Kabir Jesus also says that no one would ever think of mending or patching old clothes with pieces of, say, new clothes.wound be absurd for example, to tear a new suit to mend an old one, wouldn't it?

So too, this new Teaching is like new wine; it needs new wineskins. What is this WINESKIN? The Mind. If we don't abandon outdated ways of thinking, if we continue thinking with the habits we had before, we are simply WASTING TIME.

We need to CHANGE our way of thinking. For new wine, new wineskins are needed. Therefore, we need to completely change our way of thinking in order to receive this Teaching: that is the crux of the matter. Because if we receive this Teaching and add it to the old way of thinking we had before, to our old mental habits, we are accomplishing nothing. What we are doing is deceiving ourselves.

To try to hitch the "cart" of Gnostic Teaching to our old "cart," all damaged by time, full of garbage and filth.

First and foremost, we must prepare a vessel to receive the wine of Gnostic Teaching. That vessel is the MIND. Only in this way, with a new, transformed vessel, can we receive the wine of Gnostic Teaching. And that is what I want all the brothers and sisters to understand.

We need to eliminate negative emotions from ourselves, because these negative emotions prevent any fundamental change. It is impossible to transform ourselves if we still harbor negative emotions within us. We must eradicate negative emotions from our hearts, as they are truly harmful in every way. A person who is driven by negative emotions becomes a complete liar, so negative emotions make one a liar. Pay attention to how they lie, make false judgments, and then repent. But it's too late.

Therefore, we must eliminate negative emotions from our nature. Lying is certainly a false connection because it diminishes the Energy of the Father, the life of the Ancient of the Days—that is, our Deep Inner Being, which flows through the inner Cosmic Organization until it reaches the Mind. If we make a false connection, then that Energy can no longer flow. It's like cutting an electrical wire; the electrical energy doesn't reach the light bulb that would illuminate us.

So, as I've already said and I repeat, lying is a false connection. When young, one is filled with negative emotions and becomes a liar. That is the stark reality. If we truly understand all this and begin by changing our way of thinking and feeling, this will soon be reflected in our person.

Once one has changed their way of thinking, feeling, and acting, then they are perfectly ready to begin working on the Mysteries of Sex. We would be making a grave mistake if we allowed people to begin working in the Ninth Sphere without even knowing the Body of Doctrine. That is absurd, because people who haven't changed their way of thinking, who continue with their same habits, people who have the same way of feeling, who are victims of negative emotions, cannot understand these Mysteries of Being without destroying them. So why not insist that they first learn the Science, and then begin working in the Ninth Sphere? Philip Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim  Aureolus Paracelsus are right about this.

Let us begin, then, by changing our way of thinking and feeling. Many receive esoteric teachings, but if they continue thinking as they did before, as they thought 20 years ago, what are they waiting for? We are wasting our time. If people have been given the Teachings so that they can achieve Self-Realization, so that they can change, and if they continue thinking as they did before, they are obviously going very badly.

I know of some people who have been involved in Gnostic teachings for 20 or 30 years. And they still think the way they did 20 or 30 years ago. Very enlightened, yes, they handle the ideas very well, but if you examine all their habits closely, you'll see they're the same as before. I know others who are even very judicious, dutiful, who speak eloquently about love, who handle the Body of Doctrine extraordinarily well, but I've been observing them, and it turns out they act as they did before they were Gnostics. They act as they did years ago, they have the old habits they had when they knew nothing about these studies, they continue with those same old habits. What are these people doing, then? Obviously, they're miserably deceiving themselves; that's clear.

So, we must begin by changing our way of thinking and then our way of feeling, having the new wine, the Gnostic wine, in a new wineskin, not an old one. A decrepit mind, full of old habits, habits from 20 or 30 years ago, is not prepared to receive the wine of Gnosis. Such a mind necessarily needs to undergo a total transformation; otherwise, it is miserably wasting its time.

In the Eastern world, it is not ignored that people are asleep; no one ignores this. But in the Western world, people believe they are awake, and yet they do things they don't want to do. They rush into war, even though they don't want to go to war, but they always go even against their will. Why? Because they are hypnotized. You know that if we order a hypnotized subject, for example, to go and kill someone, they will go and kill them. This is already covered in the Penal Code of every country on Earth. The same thing happens with people from all over the world; they are hypnotized, but they believe they are awake.

If they are told that the time has come to go to war, they go to war; they don't want to go, but they go. Why? Because they're hypnotized. That's extremely serious, utterly brutal. Do we need to break free from this hypnotic dream? That's true, but let's see, how do we break free from this hypnotic dream? If we're content with our mental habits, our reasoning systems, our emotional habits, our acquired habits or customs, whether from heredity or from... The family, then, even if we listen to the Teachings, we are simply wasting our time.

Ask yourselves, why have you come here? What is the purpose of receiving the Teachings? If you are gathered here out of mere curiosity, it would have been better if you hadn't come at all. If you truly feel the desire to change, but remain quite content with your old ways of thinking, you are simply deceiving yourselves.

If you want to hitch the "chariot" of Gnosis to your old codices, corroded by time and rotten to the bone, then you are playing a very foolish game that leads you nowhere. So, let's not deceive ourselves. You want to change, I know; let's begin by changing our way of thinking.

Everyone has their own way of thinking, and everyone believes that their way of thinking is the most correct. In reality, the various ways of thinking, whether individual or collective, are not correct at all, because they are hypnotized. How can a hypnotized person think correctly? But you believe you are thinking correctly. Therein lies your error.

Mental habits are useless. If you truly want to change, here is the new Teaching, here is the wine of Gnosis. But please, bring new wineskins for this wine, not old ones; because new wine bursts old wineskins.

I am interested in clearly explaining the Teaching to my brothers and sisters, but in giving it seriously, and that is why I invite you to change your way of thinking.

Have you ever reflected on what Consciousness is? Could we even compare Consciousness? Yet, there is a little light that moves from one place to another, that much is clear.

We must learn to take advantage of Consciousness where it should be placed. Wherever our Consciousness is, there we will be. You are listening to me right now, but are you sure that each of your Consciences is here? If it is here, I am pleased, but are we sure that it is here? It may be at home, in a bar, it may be in the supermarket, and we may simply be seeing the Personality of this or that brother.

So, wherever Conscience is, there we are. What we must do is learn to take advantage intelligently of where it is placed. If we place our Conscience in a bar, it will be processed by virtue of the bar; if we place it in a brothel, it will be processed there; if we place it in a market, we will have a good market or a bad market. Wherever Conscience is, there we will be.

Conscience is unfortunately bottled up. And a lustful ego may take our Conscience to a brothel; a drunken ego may take it to a bar; a greedy ego will take it away, to some market; a festive ego will take it away to a friend's house, and so on. Do you think it's right not to know how to guide our consciousness?

I understand that it's absurd to take it to places where it shouldn't be, and that's obvious. Unfortunately, I repeat, our consciousness is currently trapped and bottled up within the various inhuman elements we carry inside.

We need to break free from all the undesirable elements within which consciousness is trapped. But tell me, would we do that if we didn't change our way of thinking, if we were perfectly content with our old, outdated, and untimely habits in our minds? Would we even bother to awaken our consciousness? Clearly not.

If we want to change, let's change right now, let's change our mental habits, our way of thinking. When one truly changes, one creates change.

Inner life. When one changes their way of thinking, they can then change completely within. How can one claim to bring about a change in their inner consciousness if they let it be led wherever the egos want? We truly don't know how to use it, and that is truly regrettable.

If we want a fundamental change, we must also learn what this thing called consciousness actually is.

In the Eastern world, we have been told that before the Bodhisattva is born, the Bodhisitta must exist within us. But first of all, what is this thing called a Bodhisattva? Some of you will know, and others will not. H.P. Blavatsky says that once one possesses the causal, mental, astral, and physical bodies, one is a Bodhisattva. The Human Soul, the Causal Soul, clothed in such Bodies, is a Bodhisattva; it is the human Soul, clothed in the Higher Existential Bodies of the Being.

In Mahayana or Mahayani Buddhism, only those who have sacrificed themselves for Humanity through successive Mahamvantaras are recognized as Bodhisattvas. There are two kinds of Bodhisattvas, says Mahayana Buddhism.

First, the Prayetas Buddhas, or rather, the aspiring Prayetas Buddhas. These never sacrifice themselves for Humanity, they never give their lives for their fellow human beings, and clearly, they never embody the Inner Christ. The others are truly the Bodhisattvas, those who have renounced the happiness of Nirvana out of Love for Humanity, those who in different Mahamvantaras have given their blood for humanity. Preferring to live happily in Nirvana, they have renounced any happiness for their fellow human beings on Earth. They are the only ones who can truly embody Christ.

But let's return to this matter of the Bodhisitta. What is a Bodhisitta? Consciousness already awakened, developed, transformed into the Golden Embryo. It is, therefore, the true silver armor that can protect us from the powers of darkness and that gives us Wisdom and Experience. Before the Bodhisattva arises within someone, the Bodhisitta arises; that is, awakened and developed Consciousness. You see, then, how valuable this gift called Consciousness is. It is a pity that humanity has Consciousness trapped within the EGO.

And it is clear that as long as people continue thinking as they do, feeling as they feel, and with their same old, stale habits, they will not be able to awaken Consciousness; it will remain hypnotized. And as a consequence, we will say that the Bodhisitta will never arise. When the Bodhisitta, which is the developed and awakened consciousness, arises within one, within the aspirant, then the Bodhisattva soon appears. Obviously, the Bodhisattva is formed within the psychological climax of the Bodhisitta. The Bodhisitta is magnificent. In truth, my dear brothers and sisters, it is truly magnificent when one genuinely changes one's way of thinking, because then, and only then, will one work to awaken Consciousness.

Then, and only then, will one do the serious work that leads to the birth of the Bodhisattva; before that, it is not possible. We live in a sadly painful world; all of you are filled with pain and suffering. Happiness does not exist in this world; it is not possible. As long as there is ego, there must be pain. As long as we continue with our outdated ways, we cannot be happy. As long as we are victims of negative emotions, any kind of happiness becomes impossible. We truly need to attain Happiness. We could not achieve such an accomplishment if we did not awaken Consciousness. And we would not awaken Consciousness if we continued with our current way of thinking. Therefore, it is necessary that we examine how we are thinking, change this outdated way of thinking, and prepare new wineskins for the new Wine, which is Gnosis, and thus we will truly work.

This world is sustained by the Laws of Cause and Effect, which are the Laws of Karma. They are also called Action and Consequence: such an action, such a consequence. This is a rather complex world, a world of associations, multiple combinations, and ceaseless abysses, a struggle of opposites, and so on. Under these circumstances, happiness is not possible in this world.

Each of us has to pay our karma; we are full of debts. This karma obviously brings us much pain, much bitterness; we are not happy.

Many think that we could achieve happiness through the mechanics of evolution. This is a false concept, because mechanics are mechanical. The Law of Evolution, and also the Law of Involution, constitute the mechanical axis of this machinery called Nature.

There is evolution in the seed that germinates, in the plant that develops and, finally, bears fruit. There is involution in the plant that begins to decline and, finally, becomes a pile of logs. There is Evolution in the child forming in the womb, in the creature that is born, grows, develops, and lives in the sunlight. But there is also Involution in the human being who ages, declines, enters into decrepitude, and finally dies. That is entirely mechanical.

The Law of Karma is also mechanical in a certain sense, viewed in light of the twelve Nidanas. What we need is to liberate ourselves precisely from the Law of Karma; we need to liberate ourselves from this mechanical movement of Nature. We need to become free, and this will not be possible through mechanical Evolution.

Mechanical Evolution operates according to the Laws of Cause and Effect, the Law of Multiple Associations and Combinations, and so on. What is mechanical is mechanical. We need to liberate ourselves from the law of Evolution and also from Involution; we need to take a great leap to fall into the Illuminating Void.

Obviously, then, there is an antithesis between the theory of Relativity preached by Albert Einstein and the Illuminating Void. What is relative is relative; the machine of Relativity operates on the Law of Opposites. In the struggle of antitheses there is pain, and that is not happiness. If we want true Happiness, we must step outside the mechanical law of Relativity.

I was barely 18 years old when I wanted to take the great leap, to go beyond time and demonstrate that which is not of time, that which we could call the experience of Prajna Paramita in its rawest realism. It is worth emphasizing to you that I had to repeat these experiences three times.

In the Illuminating Void, there is no conceptual dualism of any kind; the machinery of Relativity would not function in the Illuminating Void, the Law of Mutual Combinations, of Mechanical Associations, is not possible in the Illuminating Void. All of Einstein's Relativity would be destroyed in the Illuminating Void.

Undoubtedly, the experience of the Illuminating Void is only possible in the state of Samadhi, or as it is also called in Hindustan, Prajna Paramita.

In the Illuminating Void, no forms of any kind exist. One could say that there, one passes beyond the Universe and the Gods. In the Illuminating Void, there could be a correct answer to the question, "If the entire Universe is reduced to Unity, what would Unity be reduced to?"

Such an answer is not possible for the Logical Mind, or at least not for the Mind that functions according to Formal Logic. In the Illuminating Void, such an answer is unnecessary; rather, it admits a powerful reality in itself. "All things are reduced to Unity, and Unity is also reduced to all things." Then one enters that state of Maha-Shamadi, so to speak; one lives in all things devoid of everything, and this, in itself, is already grand, sublime, and ineffable.

The Illuminating Emptiness is only possible through the great leap and on the condition of having passed through total Buddhist Annihilation; otherwise, it would not be possible.

At that time, I had not yet experienced Buddhist Annihilation, and, obviously, as I approached the Great Reality, Consciousness expanded immeasurably. It is clear that in this situation, not having undergone Buddhist Annihilation, I felt unspeakable terror, which is why I returned to my Universe of Einstein's Relativity. I repeat, I experienced the Illuminating Void three times.

There is a transcendental type of Intuition, because in the realm of Intuition, or in the World of Intuitionality, there are different degrees of Intuition. Undoubtedly, the highest degree of Intuition is that of philosophical-religious or philosophical-mystical minds; it is the type of Intuition that corresponds to Prajna Paramita.

This faculty, then, allowed me to pass beyond the World of the Illuminating Void, into the Great Reality.

I want to emphatically affirm to you that this Path of Gnosis leads to the Great Reality; it is beyond the Universe of Relativity—that is, beyond the mechanical laws of Relativity, far beyond the Illuminating Void. Meanwhile, it is necessary for us to undergo a supreme Annihilation so that the Consciousness, transformed into a Bodhisitta, fully awakened, can take the great leap into the Illuminating Void.

I tell you now: we must begin by changing our way of thinking in order to work correctly on ourselves. We cannot conceive of the Awakening of Consciousness, the development of the Bodhisitta, if we do not first change our way of thinking.

It is necessary to know how to Meditate, to understand the Technique of Meditation, the Object of Meditation. What is it that we want through Meditation? No one can have their mind in holy peace with that outdated and untimely thinking they carry. No one can have peace in their heart without first eliminating negative and harmful emotions from themselves.

When a Gnostic Arhat delves into themselves, they begin working on some inhuman element they have discovered through Self-Observation.

Let's suppose they discovered Anger. They then begin to understand the psychic aggregate of Anger with the help of their Divine Mother Kundalini. Once this psychic aggregate is discovered, they can invoke her for assistance. She will then set about disintegrating this aggregate so that Love may take its place.

As all these inhuman psychic aggregates we carry within us disintegrate, Consciousness will awaken.

Much has been said in Gnosis about Sex, but we must first change our way of thinking so that we become more aware of the Teaching. Only in this way will we work successfully in the Fiery Forge of Vulcan.

Archangel Samael. Planetary Logos of Mars