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CONCRETE DIDACTICS FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE EGO
Only by understanding each defect separately, only by studying it, observing it directly, not only in the intellectual realm but also at all subconscious levels of the Mind, does each defect disappear; we die moment by moment. Only in this way will we achieve the disintegration of the SELF.
The important thing is to crystallize the Soul within us. What is meant by SOUL? By Soul is meant that set of bodies, attributes, powers, virtues, qualities, etc., that underlie the BEING. The Gospels say: "In patience you will possess your Souls." Today, we do not possess our Souls; rather, the Soul possesses us. We are a heavy burden for that which is called the Soul, a truly overwhelming load.
To possess the Soul is a yearning; to be master of our own Souls is formidable; even more, the physical body itself must be transformed into the Soul. Whoever possesses their Soul has extraordinary powers. Those who have achieved Soul Crystallization have, for that reason, become entirely different beings. This is written as testimony in the Sacred Books of all the Religions of the world. But we know well that if WATER DOES NOT BOIL AT ONE HUNDRED DEGREES, what needs to crystallize does not crystallize, what needs to disintegrate does not disintegrate; so in any case, the water needs to boil at one hundred degrees. Obviously, if we do not go through great emotional crises, we cannot achieve Soul Crystallization either.
For the radical dissolution of any inhuman Psychic Aggregate, it is inevitably necessary to go through very serious emotional crises. I have known people capable of going through such crises. I recall the case of a certain Gnostic sister, who went through dreadful tribulations, through horrible moral crises upon remembering grave errors from her past lives. People like that, with that tremendous capacity for remorse, people so capable of going through such profound emotional crises, can obviously crystallize the Soul.
What interests us is precisely that: the crystallization of all the soul's principles within ourselves, HERE AND NOW.
. It's worth mentioning, for your information, that in Tibet these elements are called Psychic Aggregates. In reality, these Aggregates are the very egos that personify our errors. There will finally be an instant when the procession will end,
. We will say that each Psychic Aggregate is like a person within us. There is no doubt that these Aggregates possess the three centers: the Intellectual, the Emotional, and the Motor-Instinctive-Sexual; that is to say, each SELF or Aggregate, which is the same thing, is a complete person. Each SELF, each Aggregate, has its own individual criteria, its ideas, its concepts, its desires, and performs certain actions. Each Aggregate comes to enjoy a certain degree of autonomy.
Looking at the matter from this angle, and studying it thoroughly, we will arrive at the logical and inevitable conclusion that many people inhabit our person. The most serious thing is that all of these people quarrel among themselves, they fight for supremacy, each one wants to be the master, the lord. What would our inner house resemble? I would say a horrifying mansion where there were many servants and each one felt like a lord. Clearly, viewed in light of these arguments, such a house appears appalling and unusual. The curious thing about the case is precisely the concepts that each of the men in the house forms. One says: "I'm going to eat, I'm hungry." A second one enters the fray and says: "To hell with food, I'm going to read the newspaper." Further on, a third one emerges, also in conflict, and irrevocably says: "What food or reading, I'm going to my friend so-and-so's house." He utters these words, all incongruous. The human personality, driven by this inner impulse, then abandons the dwelling to go out there, through those streets.
If we could see ourselves in full, just as we are before a mirror, I can assure you that we would go completely mad. We are all full of horrifying contradictions. This is disastrous for everyone; we do not have a true, real existence. At birth, we are all beautiful because we possess a percentage, 3%, of free Consciousness, as I stated in my work entitled "Treatise on Revolutionary Psychology." The remaining 97% is trapped within the multiplicity of the Ego. That free element permeates the fertilized egg and emerges into existence, re-incorporated. Thus, the newborn child possesses precisely that: 3% of free Consciousness, not enmeshed within any Ego. The percentage of Essence manifest in the child is SELF-AWARE.
How would a newborn see adults—their parents, siblings, relatives? In the same way you would see a drug addict. But notice how the adults even feel they have the authority to educate the child; they believe they can educate them. The child, in turn, feels completely wronged, a victim of those who want to teach them. He sees them from his own perspective; he is awake, he perceives the Psychic Aggregates of his relatives, of his siblings, and he also visualizes his own Aggregates entering and leaving the room, circling the cradle. Sometimes the visions are so frightening that the child cannot help but cry in terror. Then the parents do not understand these occurrences of the infant. Sometimes they go to the doctor; in the worst cases, they seek out some ill-omened spiritualist or medium who manages to "fix" the matter.
That is the unusual state in which sleeping Humanity lives. In any case, the poor infant is a victim of all these follies of the adults. He, with patience, has no choice but to endure the whip of the executioners: that is the stark reality of the facts. Later, when the human personality is truly formed, all those inhuman Psychic Aggregates that belong to him begin to enter the infant's body. Then changes are noticeable in the creature; it becomes annoying, jealous, irate, etc., etc., etc., and so many other things. It's lamentable, isn't it? But in the end, the child has become an adult.
Things changed; it's no longer the playful, self-aware child of yesteryear. Now it's the barroom scoundrel, the businessman, the lustful one, the jealous man, etc., and in short, it has become what the child looked upon with horror. It's clear that the creature was horrified upon seeing the adult. Now the child has become an adult, and the worst part is that its Conscience has fallen asleep. It is no longer capable of looking upon itself with horror.
In truth, each of the Psychic Aggregates that arises within us has certain commitments. We could say without It is no exaggeration to say that the thief, for example, carries within himself a den of thieves, each of them with multiple commitments on different days, at different times, and in different places. That the unrepentant fornicator carries within him, to top it all off, a brothel. The murderer obviously carries in his psyche a club of assassins. Well, each of these, deep down, carries their commitments: the merchant carries within him a marketplace.
But how is our own destiny woven and nonwoven? Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Nicoll, and others have said much about such aspects of the Law of Recurrence; but we, in the field of research, have gone further, we know the living mechanics of the Law of Recurrence in depth. This is very important.
A subject X, for example, in a past existence, was, let's say, an adulterer and had left his wife for another woman. It is clear that upon rebirth, he carries within his psyche the Self of Adultery, the same self that committed the crime. This self cannot express itself in the early years of childhood; it is impossible. If the event occurred at the age of 30, for example, the Self of Adultery will undoubtedly wait in the depths of the psyche, within the realm of the subhuman, in the subjective spheres, until the well-known age of 30 arrives. When that age arrives, that Self will resurface with great force, seizing control of the Intellect, the Emotional Center, the Instinctive-Motor and Sexual aspects of the being, to go in search of the lady of his dreams. Beforehand, he will have made telepathic contact with the Ego of that lady. They may even have arranged to meet somewhere in the city, perhaps in a park or at a party. The reunion is obviously to follow. But what's interesting is seeing how that Ego can pull the Intellect, move the Emotional and Motor centers of the machine, and take the machine precisely to the place where it has to meet the lady of its dreams. Inevitably, the same process will take place within it, and the scene will repeat itself exactly as it happened.
Let's suppose that a gentleman, XX, in a bar, got into a fight in a past life with another person, another man, for some reason or another. Do you think that because the physical body ceases to exist, that "I" will disappear? No, it will simply continue in the Unknown Dimension. But when the Ego is reborn, when it returns, when it takes on a new body, the moment will come when it can become active; it will wait for the age at which the event occurred in the past life. If it happened at twenty-five, he will wait the customary twenty-five years and remain in the depths of the psyche in the meantime, and when the time comes, he will obviously seize control of the machine's centers to repeat the feat. Beforehand, he will have made telepathic contact with the other subject, ZZ, and they will have arranged to meet, possibly in another bar. There, upon seeing each other, they will recognize each other, wound each other with words, and the act will be repeated.
You see how, beneath our conscious awareness and our reasoning capacity, various compromises are made. This is how the Law of Recurrence works; this is the mechanics of that Law. Clearly, viewed in this way, we do not truly have what we could call total freedom, free will. We have very little margin of free will, very little margin of freedom. In reality, we are truly caught up in the mechanics of the Law of Recurrence, and this is regrettable. If a man doesn't work on his own life, that man is miserably wasting his time. How can we free ourselves from the Law of Recurrence? By working on our own lives. Undoubtedly, our own lives are composed of comedies, dramas, and tragedies. Comedies are for comedians, dramas for ordinary people, and tragedies for the wicked. In the mysteries of old, no tragic figure was accepted; it was known that such a person would be punished by the Gods, and obviously, the Guardian would reject him with the point of the Sword.
Do we need to dissolve the Egos? That's logical; these are the actors in comedies, dramas, and tragedies. Could there be a comedy without comedians? Could there be a drama without actors? Do you think that any tragedy could unfold on any stage in the world without tragic figures, without actors? Obviously not, right? So, if we want to change our own lives, what must we do?
There is no other option but to dissolve the actors of comedies, dramas, and tragedies. And who are these actors? Where do they live? Why?
I tell you truly that these actors are of time. In reality, each of these actors comes from ancient ages. If we say that the I is a book of many volumes, we are asserting a great truth. If we affirm that the Ego comes from many yesterdays, it is true. Then the Ego is time, the selves personify time, they are our own defects, our own errors contained in the clock of time, they are the dust of the centuries at the very bottom of our psyche.
When one knows the precise method for dissolving these undesirable elements that we carry within, one achieves extraordinary progress. It becomes indispensable, urgent, and cannot be postponed to know the method precisely. Only in this way is the disintegration of these undesirable elements within possible.
On one occasion, a child was born in Atlantis. He grew up in a delightful home where only harmony, wisdom, wealth, perfection, and love reigned. The moment arrived when that man, through various techniques and disciplines of the mind, achieved Self-Discovery. Then, with horror, he realized that he carried abominable elements within him; he understood that he needed a special gymnasium, a psychological gymnasium. Clearly, in that environment of perfection, no such gymnasium existed.
He had no choice but to leave his parents' house and settle in the suburbs of some Atlantean city. He created for himself the psychological gymnasium, a gymnasium that allowed him the Self-Discovery of his own defects. Of course, he disintegrated the Psychic Aggregates and freed himself.
Truly, my esteemed brothers, the worst adversities offer us the best opportunities..
When one wants to know oneself, it is in these gymnasiums of pain that the defects one carries hidden inevitably surface. A defect discovered in such situations must be worked on deeply at all levels of the mind. When one has truly understood such and such a psychic error, one is certainly ready for disintegration. You can appeal to God the Mother, to Stella Maris, the Virgin of the Sea, to that living and philosophical fire that lies dormant in all organic and inorganic matter: Kundalini is what they call it in Hindustan. If you appeal to this type of energy, if you concentrate your heart, mind, and deepest feelings on it, you will be assisted. I am certain that this fiery power can reduce the Psychic Aggregate in question to ashes, to cosmic dust.
Now, it is important to know that the serpentine ring power that develops in the body of the Gnostic Ascetic multiplies its power in the Forge of the Cyclopes. Then, only the proper concentration on Devi Kundalini is necessary; she is the Sacred Cobra of the ancient mysteries, and she can truly annihilate, pulverize, and reduce to ashes very quickly any inhuman Psychic Aggregate that we have previously understood. In any case, my esteemed brothers, first and foremost we need to discover the psychological defect we are going to reduce to dust; such defect could not be discovered if we did not use the sense of psychological self-observation.
Any adverse situation offers us rich opportunities. Unfortunately, people want to flee from adverse situations; they complain.
Instead of giving thanks for such brilliant opportunities, this psychological exercise proves extremely difficult. But the more challenging the exercise, the better for SELF-DISCOVERY.
Let's suppose we had to go through a delicate situation: suddenly finding our wife talking very quietly, very quietly, in some corner of the house with another man. Not pleasant at all, that encounter, truly, but magnificent for Self-Discovery. Possibly, during the event, not only jealousy arose, but also anger, admonitions to the wife, perhaps spite; a part of our self-esteem might have felt hurt, offended. In short, what to do?
Very calmly, at night, lying on our back in bed, with our body relaxed, eyes closed, breathing rhythmically, we must reconstruct the scene exactly as it happened. By visualizing, we will gather psychological data, finding the ego of jealousy as the primary cause, followed by that of tremendous anger, and then that of mortally wounded self-love. Having discovered these three that have come into play, we must now dissolve them. Once understood, there is no other option but to reduce them to ashes. We will begin working immediately in any case. Of course, at such times no one feels like working; they are offended. The only thing that would help them is a good bath and using copious amounts of soap, to see if that makes it all go away.
But if, despite everything, they manage to have enough autonomy to work, so much the better; that is the right course of action. Invoke Kundalini Shakti, begging her first to eliminate that disgusting monster of jealousy, then, after having worked thoroughly on jealousy, beg her to destroy the monster of anger, and finally, the monster of self-love.
Certainly, people love themselves too much; this ego of self-love is deeply rooted in everyone. If we receive two pats on the shoulder, we smile delightfully, but if a humiliating word is uttered, we become serious and terrible. This self-love "I" must be annihilated; it is the third element upon which the full power of Divine Shakti must be charged. What follows in the subsequent days and hours is the same Work, until all three "colleagues" in this fatal scene are annihilated.
Obviously, it is in practical life that we must draw the material for the dissolution of the Ego. People have a tendency to escape from practical life; they want to dissolve the Ego by fleeing from it, which is manifestly absurd.
I remember when I was engaged in the Work of Ego dissolution, that on one occasion, one of my sons made an absurd mistake: he ran over another person, a construction worker, with his car. It certainly cost me a certain sum, about 2,000 $ for the injured man and another 2,000 $ to prevent that poor young man from going to jail.
But the matter doesn't end there. The truth is that when I went to settle the debt, that son, instead of being grateful, protested rather vehemently. He didn't agree with me giving those 2,000 $ to that poor, unfortunate worker. But it seemed fair to me to give them to him, so I did. The protest included words that, if not grotesque, were certainly ungrateful. I didn't feel anger because I had resolved it. I did, however, feel a certain pain in my heart.
I immediately turned to meditation to understand the nature of this pain I had felt in my heart, and I was able to clearly verify the stark reality of a wounded sense of self-love. Since my sense of psychological self-observation is well-developed, it wasn't difficult for me to directly perceive this self. Using the sexual electricity, worked on him for a few days, and finally he gradually shrank until he took the form of a child. And he continued to shrink until he became cosmic dust.
That is how it is done, my esteemed brothers. But where did I get the material to work with? It was a concrete, clear, and definitive fact, but people tend to flee from the practical facts of life. And that is absurd, completely ABSURD. On some other occasion (and I like to cite examples lived with purposes of collective guidance), I am very affected, with a certain irritability, by words from that son which, by the way, were not kind. I always maintained control over my mind and never exploded, never tore my clothes. Truly, this was a triumph, but there is no doubt that deep inside, some unpleasant reactions continued to occur.
When I explored with the Sense of Psychological Self-Observation, to my great astonishment I discovered a burly, robust, rather chubby self, hairy as a bear, walking down the corridor of my old manor house. "Ah, how well you were hiding, you wretch," I said to him. "Now I'm really going to give you a taste of your own medicine; you can't get away with this anymore." Conclusion: I appealed to Devi Kundalini Shakti. As I worked on him, that monster lost its volume; it shrank in a didactic way, and as it shrank, it also became more beautiful. Thus, it appeared like a very beautiful child. Until one day the Divine Mother Kundalini gave him a taste of his own medicine, beheaded him. Afterward, he was reduced to dust; nothing remained of him. But I dedicated myself wholeheartedly to finishing him off, working day and night, at all hours and every moment, until he ceased to exist.
The Sense of Psychological Self-Observation is developing and will continue to develop in each of you as you use it. Don't forget that a sense that is not used atrophies. A day will come when the Sense of Self-Observation in you will have developed to such an extent that you will be able to perceive these Psychic Aggregates; even more, you will be able to realize the result of the Work on these aggregates.
In the name of truth, I must tell you that just as there is a Moon in the firmament, so too, my dear brothers and sisters, within us exists a Psychological Moon. Just as the moon shining in the sky has two faces, the visible and the invisible, so too within us the Psychological Moon has two aspects: the one visible to the naked eye through the Sense of Psychological Self-Observation, and the one that is not visible to the naked eye: hidden, unknown, incognito. However, the latter becomes visible when the Psychological Sense has been developed to its fullest extent. I believe, then, that you are beginning to understand all these things.
Now you must direct your full force against the Psychic Aggregates of the visible part of your Psychological Moon. Much later, you will have to direct yourselves against the undesirable elements of the Black Moon, those that are not visible to the naked eye. Many saints managed to annihilate the Psychic Aggregates of the visible part of their Psychological Moon, yet they never knew anything about the undesirable elements of the other side of their Moon. And although they immersed themselves in Nirvana, in Maha Para-Nirvana, they had to return later, to continue their Work with the hidden side of their Psychological Moon.
In any case, whether it is the merely visible aspect of the Psychological Moon or the hidden one, we must find the elements for the Work in the concrete facts of practical life. So don't run away from yourself, don't try to escape from real life; you must be more practical if you truly want to disintegrate the Ego. As you do so, as the Psychic Aggregate is pulverized, the Essence contained within it will be emancipated. That is the path to crystallizing within us what is called the Soul.
You will have to go through great moral crises. This isn't a matter of mere intellect, no. It's not simple demagoguery, empty rhetoric, ambiguous talk, no. I repeat what I've already said, even if it sounds tiresome: if water doesn't boil at 100 degrees, what needs to be cooked won't cook, what needs to be disintegrated won't disintegrate. So, if we don't go through terrible emotional crises, those egos won't disintegrate. When I saw that ego of self-love, so hidden in the folds of my deepest psyche, I felt great pain; I had to go through great emotional crises. I suffered a lot, yes, a lot. And I truly regretted it. Then I managed to have Devi Kundalini Shakti pulverize that undesirable element. When I discovered that there was a very wicked demon out there, filled with anger and dating back to ancient times, I suffered terribly. I went through horrible emotional crises, felt ashamed of myself, and managed to have Kundalini Shakti pulverize that abominable psychic element. So, without Escape; you will find the undesirable elements in the realm of practical life.
All you need is to be alert and vigilant like a lookout in times of war.
We are speaking, yes, we are speaking, but perhaps, what words am I saying? So we must be alert with our words. We have emotion, yes, we do. What kind of emotion? Perhaps we are moved by a some music when we hear that songs of . What kind of emotions do we have? Are they good? Are they bad? Are they high emotions or simply lower ones??
So, in the events of practical life, we must discover the lower emotions. These accuse, they indicate, emotionally lower selves that must be disintegrated. If we don't eradicate, if we don't draw out the lower emotions with the knife of self-criticism, it won't be possible for the Higher Emotional Center, so necessary precisely for receiving the messages that come from the higher worlds, to develop within us. So it is in life where we must discover ourselves; we have to be vigilant about our own words, our own thoughts, our own ideas.
That the mind suddenly arrives at a lustful thought, a morbid scene—do you think it arrived just like that? What does this indicate? There is no doubt that behind that nefarious cinema of the mind, behind that procession of morbid forms, some lustful ego is at work. If there are lustful egos and they seize those reels we store in the brain—pictures of memories and passionate forms—then the cinema projects those reels onto the screen of understanding. If one identifies with those morbid scenes, one also strengthens the egos. So if, in one of those moments, we are assailed by thoughts of that kind, it becomes essential to invoke the Divine Kundalini Shakti so that, with her extraordinary, fiery power, she may reduce such an ego to dust.
If we do not proceed in this way, if instead we identify with it, if scenes of lust enchant us, then instead of being dissolved, such an ego will be extraordinarily fortified. Each of us has our Consciousness bottled up among all those characters in the various dramas, scenes, and comedies of life. Each of us has our Consciousness bottled up among the egos. Let us reduce the egos to dust, and Consciousness will be free. A free Consciousness is an enlightened Consciousness; it is a Consciousness that can see, hear, and feel the great realities of the higher worlds; it is an omniscient and divine Consciousness. The day you have completely annihilated the EGO, the last thing you will have to annihilate is what? The germs of the EGO. With the EGO dead, the germs remain, and they are terribly malignant. These germs must also be disintegrated, reduced to ashes.
We need to take possession of ourselves if we want to be Kings and Priests of Nature according to the Order of Melchizedek. And we cannot take possession of ourselves as long as Consciousness remains embedded among the various undesirable elements of the Psyche.
Consciousness that has taken possession of itself is a free Consciousness; a Consciousness that has taken possession of itself is admitted into the Order of Melchizedek; it is an enlightened, perfect Consciousness. That is what we need.
The day you have taken, let's say, enlightened Consciousness, the day you have truly become free, on that day you will also have crystallized what is called Soul, and you will be all Soul. Even your physical bodies will become Soul, imbued with cosmic attributes and powers, powers that divinize.
I have taught you today, therefore, a practical Didactic through a definitive Dialectic. And at this very moment, we are going to enter into Meditation. But first, it is necessary to know what we are going to work on; otherwise, what we are going to do would be meaningless. Since you are people who strive for self-discovery, it is obvious that you will be working on one or another psychological error. Is there anyone among you who still doesn't know what you are going to work on? Is it possible that there is a brother or sister here in this group who is not yet aware of this?
Are you engaged in disintegrating some defect? If so, I would like to know which one. Which one?
V.M. - Which one are you working on?
- - I was trying to work in meditation on lust, anger, fear, and then one gets confused.
V.M. - But which one are you working on, specifically? I see that you are a judicious man and, therefore, you must have already specified your work.
- - I have wanted to work on lust.
V.M. - Lust is fundamental and is worked on throughout life, for therein lies original sin, the root of all defects. But it must always be worked on in conjunction with some other.
Let anger be worked on, but lust continues; let envy be worked on, but lust continues; let pride be worked on, but lust continues. That is fundamental.
- - In other words, in meditation. To do everything you remember about the I?
V.M. - About that is remembered sounds incoherent, vague, imprecise, odorless, tasteless, insubstantial, colorless. Let's think precisely about which defect you've just discovered in practice. If you're alert and vigilant like a lookout in wartime, you must have discovered some I.
Which one have you just discovered? What situation have you found yourself in recently? Did you utter any angry words? Did you have any lustful impulses? What was the last one you discovered? In what situation? Was it at home, in a bar? What happened to you while you were sleeping?
- - Anger.
V.M. - A fit of anger. I like that you're honest, you know? That's good. Well, that's what one has to do, live alert and vigilant like a lookout in wartime. Where did the anger go? What was the moment? Can you visualize the instant you felt anger? Can you do it? Can you visualize, remember how it happened?
Well, now we're going to work on that. We're going to start with concrete, clear, and definitive facts; we're going to be one hundred percent practical. Reconstruct, visualize that scene of anger, and that's what you're going to work on now in meditation.
Q: Master, it happens that when one discovers an I that is attacking them, for example, anger, and one begs their Divine Mother to help them eliminate it...
V.M.: What situation did you start from? When did that happen? On what street, at what house number? I want facts.
A: It happened precisely yesterday, when in a fit of anger, well, I wanted to go and hear your lecture. That longing I have was hurt because my wife didn't want to go, so I got angry, but at that very moment I begged my Divine Mother. And I accused him, but I don't know if I accomplished anything.
V.M. - Let's be more practical. You were angry with your poor wife, but do you already know why you were angry?
- - Because she wouldn't let me go to the conference.
V.M. - So there was anger; she wouldn't let you go to the conference. What was hurt in you at that moment?
- - Pride.
V.M. - So there are two defects: one, anger, and the other, pride. You are going to work on those two aspects of yourself now, specifically, practically.
The request you made at that moment was fine, but it was a bit superficial. Have you reflected on that? Have you reconstructed the scene? How many hours did you spend in bed with your body relaxed, becoming aware of what happened? Could you tell me exactly? Because it's very superficial, and we need to go deeper. The water that runs murky is shallow water; we need deep water. Wells, let's say, shallow ones by the roadside, dry up in the sunlight and become swamps, full of decay. But the deep waters where fish live and there is life are different. We need to be deeper. How many hours did you spend in meditation reconstructing the scene?
Q: I would like to know about the Main Psychological Trait.
V.M.: Yes, the Main Psychological Trait is fundamental, because when you know it, you work on it, and then the disintegration of the ego becomes easier. But I'm going to tell you a great truth: before exploring ourselves to discover the Main Psychological Trait, we must have worked quite a bit, at least five years; because it's not so easy to discover our Main Psychological Trait.
In truth, one has false concepts about one's own personality. One sees oneself through fantasy, always thinking about oneself incorrectly. Rather, others may sometimes see one in a better light, but one has false concepts about oneself. One cannot discover one's Principal Psychological Trait until a good percentage of inhuman Psychic Aggregates have been eliminated. Therefore, if one wants to know the Principal Psychological Trait, one should work on it for at least five years.
After about five years, we can afford to use the retrospective system to apply it both to our current life and to our past lives. Then we will see with great astonishment that we repeatedly commit the same error. We will discover a key error that in every existence has always committed the worst mistakes, and that is always specified by a particular transgression and has been the axis of all our previous existences.
But obviously, to practice this retrospective exercise with any clarity, many egos must first be eliminated. I could in no way believe that one could discover the Fundamental Psychological Trait without intelligently using the retrospective system. To truly use it with clarity, we also need to be sincere. When Consciousness is too entangled among the selves, there is no clarity. Then, the retrospective exercise under those conditions is incipient, if not fantastical or mistaken. That, then, is my concept.
Q: This morning I felt a certain reaction, and then another reaction that stems from a different self. In Meditation, should I dedicate myself to both or only to one?
V.M.: Well, in Meditation you should dedicate yourself to one, the first. Later you dedicate yourself to the other. Now, for the purposes of Work, dedicate yourself to the first.
Q: Doesn't that ego that was left out of Meditation get fatter?
V.M.: You leave it for another event, but if you don't want it to get fatter, don't feed it anymore and you'll see that it becomes thinner.
Q: Master, you have taught us order in our work. But during the day, many egos manifest themselves, which is perhaps why we have misunderstood the search for a Psychological Trait. How can we understand this, and what should we work on?
V.M.: There must be order in our work, of course there is. And I agree. But when night falls, with your body relaxed, you will practice your retrospective exercise on your current existence or past existences, at least on the day. Then you will visualize, reconstruct the events of the day. Once reconstructed, numbered, and properly classified, proceed to do the work. First, an event to which you can dedicate 15 or 20 minutes, another event to which you can dedicate half an hour, another event 5 minutes. It all depends on the severity of the events. And thus, already ordered, you can work on them calmly and in order at night.
Q: And to eliminate them?
V.M. - Also in order, because in every task concerning a particular event, the factors of discovery, judgment, and execution come into play. You apply these three stages to each element. Discovery: you discovered it. Understanding: when you understood it. And elimination, with the help of the Divine Mother Kundalini.
That's how it's done, because if you're going to work on them one by one, think about how things are going to get. They're going to get very complicated, because I'm telling you, or rather, I'm going to repeat to you, that phrase from Virgil, the Poet of Mantua, in his divine Aeneid: "Even if we had a hundred tongues to speak with and a palate of steel, we would not be able to fully enumerate our faults."
So, if you were to set out to work on one fault for two months, another fault for another two months, and if there are thousands, when are you going to eliminate them all? Furthermore, one fault is associated with another, and that one is associated with another. A single defect rarely appears alone; one defect is almost always associated with another. That's how it is.
that they must be worked on in an orderly fashion, but properly classified. Daily, until success is achieved.
Q: You speak to us about the disorder of the house. Master G. speaks about the disorder of the house and about an inner Steward, and about some Egos that like work and some Egos that don't like work. To form a Permanent Center of Gravity, how could we understand this?
V.M.: Well, frankly, this business of a "Steward" so often cited by Nicoll, and by G., and by Ouspensky, seems like nonsense to me. It has no value whatsoever. For my part, never, or rather, this one inside who dissolved the Ego, sincerely, never used that "Steward" system. One day a friend who owned a pants factory in El Salvador told me, "Master, if I disintegrate the useful Self that makes pants in my factory, then who will continue making pants? Will my factory fail?" "Don't worry," I told him, "my good friend, if you disintegrate that Self, a part of the Being corresponding to all kinds of arts will take over the work of making pants. And it will do it better than you." My friend was satisfied and continued in his role.
Good egos do good deeds, but they don't know how to do good deeds. They do good when they shouldn't. They give alms to a drug addict user so he can buy more drugs, they give alms to a drunkard so he can keep getting drunk, and things like that. The good egos don't know how to do good.
Ultimately, we have to fight against good and against evil. Frankly, in the final analysis, we will have to go beyond good and evil and wield the Sword of Cosmic Justice. After all, what do we call good? Let us become aware of what we call good. Good is everything that is in its place. Evil is what is out of place.
For example: fire is good, but what if it burned the curtains or roasted you alive? How would you feel? Would you like to feel like you were turned into burning torches? I see you wouldn't, would you?
Now water: in that glass it's fine; it's still useful in the kitchen for washing dishes. But what about water flooding all the rooms? That would be bad, wouldn't it?
A virtue, however holy, if it is out of place, becomes bad. Would you, as Gnostic Instructors, like to give the Teachings in some bar? You, as Gnostic Instructors, would you go to a brothel? Would you like it? I think not. And if you do like it, well, I don't recommend it, because that would be bad, absurd.
So, good is what's in its place and bad is what's out of place. So, in the end, the words are poorly labeled, out of use. We could rather say right and wrong. So, the important thing in life is, let's say, to dissolve the EGOS, whether good or bad, it doesn't matter.
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