VI
THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIND
It is necessary to deeply understand all the processes of the Mind, all the reactions, that psychological MORE that accumulates, etc. Only in this way does the burning flame of INTELLIGENCE spring forth within us naturally and spontaneously.
Well, my beloved ones, we have been studying the different aspects related to the Mind; next, we will continue delving into the practical realm of Love, into interesting facts that consist of the elimination of Psychic Aggregates. It is indeed quite difficult, however, that is not all; there is something else that we need to be mindful of. I want to refer emphatically to THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIND. For the world of the senses, there are representations, such as the objects that surround us, etc., but there are also the Representations of the Mind.
In the Mind, there are many representations that we must take into account: let us suppose that we have in mind the representation of a friend whom we esteem. Someone very important speaks against this friend, and all sorts of rumors, slander, etc., arise. We listen to all this gossip. Then the image we have of our friend, the representation, is indeed altered. We no longer see in him the kind person we previously saw, full of harmony, etc., but rather this image takes on in our understanding the form that others have given us; possibly that of a bandit, a thief, a false friend, etc., etc. At night, we may dream of this friend. We will no longer dream of harmony; we see him attacking us, we see us attacking him, we dream that he wields a weapon against us, etc. The image of the friend is completely altered: a representation that has been distorted. It may be the case that those who spoke against our friend judged him wrongly, slandered him consciously or unconsciously, etc., but the representation in the mind remains altered. This is extremely serious because this representation effectively becomes a demon that hinders our esoteric progress; it is a demon that crosses our path, a demon that obstructs profound inner development. Therein lies the grave error: listening to gossip, slander, murmuring, hearsay, etc.
Obviously, thousands of representations exist within our minds that can be altered if we participate in negative conversations, if we listen to slander, if we pay attention to hearsay, etc. For all these reasons and more, it is not advisable to listen to people's negative words; this is serious and, fundamentally, a mistake. Just as not only do Psychic Aggregates, living representations of our psychological defects, constitute a burden we carry within us, we must also never forget the issue of the representation of the understanding.
Walkers of the Path, by listening to negative conversations, by being in groups where only negative phrases are heard, often distort many representations of understanding, and these, in the World of the Mind, become veritable demons that form an obstacle or a series of insurmountable obstacles to the AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS..
Obviously, the most appropriate thing for our negative representations is to appeal to the SERPENTINE POWER, to invoke DEVI KUNDALINI SHAKTI so that she may destroy such negative representations. Undoubtedly, we should not have such representations, negative or positive, in our minds. The mind should create certain serene attitudes at the disposal of the BEING, but for this, the human personality would need to become passive. A passive personality is a receptive personality: it receives messages that come from the higher parts of the Being.
Undoubtedly, such messages pass through the Higher Centers of the Self before entering the Mind. Therein lies the advantage of having a passive personality. Unfortunately, this type of personality is controlled by very heavy elements or very difficult Aggregates. related to the world of 96 laws; that is, the region of Tartarus.
People's personalities are active because they are controlled by aggregates of hatred, pride, envy, and dreadful lust. If we manage to eliminate such heavy psychological elements from our psyche, our human personality becomes easy, and the mind becomes receptive to the messages that descend from the highest parts of the Self through the Higher Centers of our psyche.
Now you are beginning to understand, my dear friends, the need to eliminate these inherently heavy elements. With Devi Kundalini Shakti, that is, the fiery serpent of our magical powers, we can indeed eliminate these heavy elements. It is a triumph, because in this way we can receive the direct message that comes from the highest parts of the Self. That is why I tell you that we must work on ourselves.
We must create a receptive Mind, a Mind that never projects, that always receives instead of projecting. Obviously, it wouldn't have the misuse of accepting positive or negative representations from the various depths of understanding; such a Mind would only bring the messages that come from the highest part of our Being.
As long as we continue to feed the various representations of understanding, it will never be a generous Mind, a progressive Mind. In reality, it is truly conditioned by time and pain. Analyzing this way, we will see that we must not only eliminate undesirable Psychic Aggregates, but that we have a very difficult problem with the issue of REPRESENTATIONS.
The problem I see as difficult for inner enlightenment is that we carry so many representations, in addition to the inhuman Psychic Aggregates. If we carefully study the life of dreams, we will find in them so many vague and incoherent things, various subjective and imprecise aspects, so many absurd things, people, events that have no reality. The mere fact that they are incoherent should invite us to reflect.
As a Gnostic, one must have clear concepts and lucid ideas, radical illumination without vagueness, without subjectivism of any kind. Unfortunately, the representations we carry within us and the various aggregates condition consciousness in such a way that they keep it within the unpleasant path of the subconscious and even the infra-conscious and unconscious. I invite you to reflect, I invite you to understand these indispensable things.
In the Eastern world, they speak very succinctly. For example, Zen or Chan Buddhism only says that one must reach the stillness of the mind, the silence of the mind, in order to achieve the irruption of the illuminating emptiness. We are told that true happiness lies in Satori. One must achieve stillness of mind—inwardly, outwardly, and at the center. We are told that the mind must become like an absolutely still wall.
So cases are in meditation
Whether I say it takes only a few minutes, or in the best-case scenario, an hour or several hours, afterward the mind returns to its usual agitated state. One emerges from that state of bliss to face the world, of joyful, ready to fight. Of course, the ego intervenes, to pull it out of that state, to make it disappear...
If we want to be something more than what can be achieved in a Zen or Chan meditation hall, we must also have an awakening of the mind, a mind receptive to the infinite that come from above, from the heavens of Urania, an enlightened mind. Would this be possible if we allowed psychic aggregates to continue existing in our psyche? Would this be possible if we listened to gossip to alter the representations we carry in our understanding? Would this be possible, I ask myself, and I share this with you as I think aloud, if we continued to prioritize positive or negative representations...?
H.P. Blavatsky has a phrase in "The Voice of the Silence" that I liked. She says: "Before the golden flame can burn with serene light, the lamp must be well cared for, sheltered from all winds, the Earthly thoughts must fall dead at the Temple gate"... That phrase by H. P. Blavatsky in her marvelous work entitled "The Voice of the Silence" is portentous, it is marvelous.
Only in this way, I say, would it be possible for the Mind to truly remain still and silent in, and out, and at its center, not for a while or within a Meditation Room, but continuously... When one studies the different folds of the Mind, one also comes to understand that the stillness and total silence of the understanding are not possible as long as the Mind is occupied by Psychic Aggregates and Representations.
One might object by saying that there are praiseworthy, clear, magnificent representations. That is supposedly acceptable, but that is not it.
We, totality, must be the BEING. Why do we have to have things in our minds that are not of BEING? I don't see why we have to carry intruders in our minds. I have understood that only BEING should be in the Mind, that the Mind must become a temple where BEING and nothing but BEING officiates—that is all. But as long as that Temple is filled with extraneous elements, things, games, giant displays, representations, additions, it can be said that a deep sleep exists in Consciousness; it is unconsciousness... "Man is known by his dreams," said Plato in his book. The day we stop dreaming, then the "cockroaches" we carry in our brains will turn to fire.
May all those absurd incoherencies cease to exist, may all those morbid, vague, imprecise, insipid, insubstantial, odorless states have no existence whatsoever. Blessed is the day we no longer dream, the day we stop dreaming. When a man stops dreaming, he has triumphed. As long as dreams exist in the Mind, as long as one goes into Psychological Space to project imprecise, absurd dreams, this indicates that we are on the wrong track, this indicates that we have a mind full of garbage, of junk. As I was saying, the truly enlightened one has no dreams; dreams are for the asleep. The truly enlightened one lives in the higher worlds outside the physical body in a state of heightened wakefulness, never dreaming. The truly enlightened one, after the death of the physical body, is awake in Psychological Space. Therefore, reflect on the need to reach the stillness of the silence of the Mind.
What will we say here about the Three Foods?
I already explained how we nourish ourselves, what the first food is. I don't intend to refer to any of that. We also spoke about the second food, which is breath, more important than that which goes to the stomach. But there is a third food that I told you about, which is that of IMPRESSIONS.
No one can live without impressions for even a minute. You are listening to me here; and a series of impressions are reaching your minds. You see a human figure dressed in a Sacred Garment of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Grail. This comes through impressions, or by means of impressions; all of this is an impression for You.
Unfortunately, human beings are negative. What would you say, for example, now that we are in this room, if we opened the door here for some thieves to enter? Would it seem right to you to open the door for those people to enter? What would happen? However, we do the same with impressions; we open the doors to all the negative impressions of the world.
These penetrate our psyche and wreak havoc there, transforming into psychic aggregates and developing the negative emotional center within us, and ultimately, filling us with mud. Is that right? Is it right that a person, for example, who is full of negative impressions emanating from the negative emotional center, has a place among us, that we open the doors to all the negative impressions of that person?
If we don't know how to select impressions, much less close them. We have to learn to open and close the doors of our psyche to the Impressions: open the doors to noble impressions, close them to negative and absurd ones, because negative impressions cause harm, develop the Negative Emotional Center within us, and damage us.
See what one does in a crowd: I assure you that none of you, for example, He'd dare go out into the street and throw stones, wouldn't he? However, in a group, someone might join in: a large public demonstration erupts, enraged against the government. The crowds throw stones, and you end up throwing stones too, even if afterward you say to yourself: Why did I throw them? Why did I do that?
. In groups, human beings behave very differently; they do things they would never do alone. Why is that? It's due to the negative impressions they've been exposed to. Then these put him in a bad mood, and he ends up doing things he would never do alone. That's why it's necessary for us to learn to be cultured citizens.
When one opens the door to negative impressions, one not only disrupts the order of the Emotional Center, which is in the heart, but also turns it negative. If one opens the door, for example, to the negative emotion of a person who comes filled with anger because someone has hurt them, then one ends up allied with that person, against the person who caused the harm, and ends up full of anger and taking part in the matter.
Let's suppose one opens the door to the negative impressions of a drunk at a party and ends up accepting a drink from the drunk, and then two, three, ten. And in the end, is drunk too. Let's suppose one opens the door to the negative impressions of a person of normal sex; one ends up fornicating with all kinds of people. Let's suppose we open the doors to the negative impressions of a drug addict; we end up taking drugs. Conclusion: FAILURE.
This is how human beings infect each other through negative impressions. Drunks infect drunks, thieves turn other thieves into thieves, great murderers infect others, drug addicts infect others; in short, drug addicts multiply, murderers multiply, thieves multiply. Why? Because we always make the mistake of opening the doors to negative impressions, and that's not right.
Let's be selective about our emotions. If someone brings us positive emotions of light, harmony, beauty, wisdom, love, poetry, perfection, let's open the doors of our hearts to them. But we shouldn't open the doors of our hearts to those who bring us negative impressions of hatred, violence, jealousy, drugs, alcohol, fornication, or adultery. Let's close them, let's close the doors to negative impressions. When one reflects on all this, one can perfectly well change, make one's life something better.
We see the representation of a great friend who has always served us, kind, charitable, wonderful. Suddenly, someone, agitated, full of negative impressions, comes along with so many problems. We open the doors to those negative impressions; they are murmuring, saying that our friend is a thief, a bandit, a bank robber, forty thousand things. All those negative impressions enter our mind. Such a distorted representation becomes a true DEMON that hinders the Work on oneself. For all this and many other reasons, you will see that this business of cleaning the Temple of the Mind is quite difficult, but not impossible.
We need to have a clear mind, a clean Temple, without impurities, without abominations of any kind. But one must know how to live; it is necessary to know how to live. In practical life, unfortunately, people don't know how to live; everyone blames others for their suffering and bitterness. And the only one truly at fault is ourselves.
Let's say that suddenly a man finds his wife with another man, a difficult case, especially if he finds her in the act of adultery. There's no doubt that, confused by the pain, he pulls out his gun and shoots her right there. Why does he do that? He would justify himself to the authorities by saying that he found her in her own bed of adultery. That's madness, complete madness, because if a man doesn't have the ego of jealousy within him, if that man doesn't have the ego of attachments or jealousy, there's no one to suffer. He simply turns his back and withdraws, he goes away, he lives his own world beyond, each one is who they are, he feels free from that lightning bolt because she replaced it, removed it. If he has no jealousy, or self-love of ego there is no pain.
Let's suppose that an insulter insults us. Because of a vile insulter, we suffer horribly and answer the insult with insult. But if there's no one here who finds out, who protests? Let's say that the 10-word insult was meant to wound his self-love, but if the ego of self-love doesn't exist, who suffers. Secondly, we don't have that self-loving "I," the one with self-esteem. Who would suffer?
Often, someone suffers because they see a friend with a beautiful house and a lovely wife. That's called ENVY, right? But if they don't have the "I" of envy, why would they suffer? On the contrary, they would be happy to see their friend doing well. So, others can't cause us pain; we cause pain to ourselves. That's the harsh reality of life.
Disintegrating the EGO ends the pain.
The root of pain is in the Ego, and when the Ego ends, only beauty remains within us. That beauty transforms into what is called LOVE and happiness. Then, when the Mind reaches those heights, it is still, silent; it is no longer a Mind that projects, no longer a Mind that takes offense, no longer a Mind that reacts to nothing. It receives the messages that come from above, from the higher parts of Being; it is a Mind full of fulfillment. I repeat: it is not only the Psychic Aggregates that must be eliminated. It is clear that the Representations of the Mind, both negative and positive, must also be eliminated. We need to cleanse the Mind of all the garbage; we need the lamp to burn within the Temple of the Mind; we need the golden flame to burn with serene light within the Temple's realm. When the Mind is still, when the Mind is silent, the new arises.
We say that this path is very beautiful, but what do we do with worries, what do we do with the suffering caused by others? It is impossible to achieve a still, silent Mind when we live in a world full of problems and difficulties; it is absurd.
By disintegrating the inhuman Aggregates that we carry within us, the problems and difficulties end. Therefore, what we need, today more than ever, is to abandon mental laziness and work very hard on ourselves..
Archangel Samael Aun Weor: Planetary Logos of Mars.
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