CHAPTER I.
THE LEVEL OF BEING
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What is the purpose of our lives? Why do we live?...
Undoubtedly, the poor "Intellectual Animal," mistakenly called man, not only doesn't know, but doesn't even know that he doesn't know...
The worst part of all is the difficult and strange situation in which we find ourselves: we are ignorant of the secret of all our tragedies, and yet we are convinced that we know everything...
Take a "Rational Mammal," one of those people who boast of being influential in life, to the center of the Sahara Desert, leave him there far from any oasis, and observe everything that happens from an aircraft... The facts will speak for themselves; the "Intellectual Humanoid," although he boasts of being strong and believes himself to be a great man, is in reality appallingly weak...
The "Rational Animal" is one hundred percent foolish wrong; he thinks the best of himself; He believes he can get by wonderfully thanks to kindergarten, etiquette manuals, elementary school, middle school, high school, university, his father's good reputation, etc., etc., etc.
Unfortunately, after so much education and good manners, degrees and money, we know very well that any stomach ache saddens us and that deep down we continue to be unhappy and miserable...
Just read Universal History to know that we are the same barbarians of yesteryear and that instead of improving we have become worse... This 20th century with all its spectacularity, wars, prostitution, worldwide sodomy, sexual degeneration, drugs, alcohol, exorbitant cruelty, extreme perversity, monstrosity, etc., etc., etc., is the mirror in which we must see ourselves.
There is therefore no compelling reason to boast of having reached a higher stage of development... To think that time signifies progress is absurd; unfortunately, the "enlightened ignoramuses" remain trapped in the "Dogma of Evolution"...
In all the dark pages of "Dark History," we always find the same horrific cruelties, ambitions, wars, etc. However, our "Super-civilized" contemporaries are still convinced that war is something secondary, a passing accident that has nothing to do with their much-vaunted "Modern Civilization."
Certainly, what matters is the character of each person; some will be drunkards, others teetotalers, some honest, and others scoundrels; there is all sorts in life...
The mass is the sum of the individuals; what the individual is, the mass is, the Government is, etc. The masses are therefore an extension of the individual; the transformation of the masses, of the people, is impossible if the individual, if each person, does not transform themselves...
No one can deny that different social levels exist; there are churchgoers and brothel people; merchants and farmers, etc., etc., etc. Likewise, different Levels of Being exist.
What we are internally—splendid or petty, generous or stingy, violent or peaceful, chaste or lustful—attracts the various circumstances of life...
A lustful person will always attract scenes, dramas, and even tragedies of lasciviousness in which they will find themselves embroiled... A drunkard will attract drunkards and will always find himself in bars and taverns, that's obvious...
What will the usurer, the selfish person, attract? How many problems, prisons, misfortunes? Yet bitter people, tired of suffering, long to change, to turn the page on their story... Poor souls! They want to change but don't know how; they don't know the procedure; they're stuck in a dead end...
What happened to them yesterday is happening to them today and will happen to them tomorrow; they always repeat the same mistakes and don't learn life's lessons even under harsh circumstances.
Everything repeats itself in their own lives; they say the same things, do the same things, regret the same things... This tedious repetition of dramas, comedies, and tragedies will continue as long as we carry within us the undesirable elements of Anger, Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, etc., etc., etc.
What is our Level of Being? As long as the Level of Being does not change radically, the repetition of all our miseries, scenes, misfortunes, and calamities will continue... All things, all circumstances, that occur outside of us, on the stage of this world, are exclusively a reflection of what we carry within.
We can rightly and solemnly assert that "the external is a reflection of the internal." When one changes internally, and that change is radical, the external world—circumstances, life itself—changes as well.
I've been observing a group of people who invaded someone else's land. Here in Mexico, such people are given the curious name of "PARATROITERS."
They are neighbors, very close to my house, which is why I have been able to study them closely...
Being poor can never be a crime, but the serious issue lies not in that, but in their level of being... They fight among themselves daily, get drunk, insult each other, become murderers of their own unfortunate companions, and certainly live in filthy shacks where hatred reigns instead of love... I have often thought that if any of those individuals were to eliminate from within themselves hatred, anger, lust, drunkenness, slander, cruelty, selfishness, calumny, envy, self-love, pride, etc., etc., etc., they would be liked by other people, and would associate, by the simple Law of Psychological Affinities, with more refined, more spiritual people; These new relationships would be crucial for economic and social change... It would be this system that would allow such a person to abandon the filthy "sewer"... Therefore, if we truly want radical change, the first thing we must understand is that each of us (whether white or black, yellow or brown, ignorant or enlightened, etc.) is at a certain "Level of Being".
is at a particular "Level of Being." What is our Level of Being? Have you ever reflected on that? It wouldn't be possible to move to another level if we ignore the state we are in.
CHAPTER II.
THE WONDERFUL LADDER
We must yearn for true change, to break free from this tedious routine, this merely mechanistic, tiresome life... What we must first understand with complete clarity is that each of us, whether bourgeois or proletarian, well-off or middle class, rich or destitute, is truly at a particular Level of Being...
The Level of Being of the drunkard is different from that of the teetotaler, and that of the prostitute is very different from that of the maiden. What we are saying is irrefutable, undeniable... Upon reaching this part, we lose nothing by imagining a ladder that extends vertically from bottom to top, with countless steps...
Undoubtedly, we find ourselves on some of these steps; steps below, there will be people worse than us; steps above, there will be people better than us...
On this extraordinary Vertical, on this wondrous ladder, it is clear that we can find all the Levels of Being... each person is different, and no one can refute this. ...
Undoubtedly, we are not talking about ugly or beautiful faces, nor is it a matter of age. There are young and old people, elderly people who are about to die, and newborn babies...
The question of time and years; that of being born, growing, developing, marrying, reproducing, aging, and dying, is exclusive to the Horizontal...
In the "Wonderful Ladder," in the Vertical, the concept of time has no place. On the steps of such a ladder, we can only find "Levels of Being"...
People's mechanical hope is useless; they believe that with time things will get better; that's what our grandparents and great-grandparents thought; events have precisely proven the opposite...
The "Level of Being" is what counts, and this is Vertical; we find ourselves on one step, but we can climb to another...
The "Marvelous Ladder" we are speaking of, which refers to the different "Levels of Being," certainly has nothing to do with linear time... A higher "Level of Being" is immediately above us from instant to instant... It is not in any remote horizontal future, but here and now; within ourselves; on the Vertical... is obvious, and anyone can understand, that the two lines—Horizontal and Vertical—meet from moment to moment within our Psychological interior and form a Cross... The personality develops and unfolds on the Horizontal line of Life. It is born and dies within its linear time; it is perishable; there is no tomorrow for the personality of the dead; it is not the Being...
The Levels of Being; the Being itself, is not of time, has nothing to do with the Horizontal Line; It is found within ourselves. Now, in the Vertical... It would be manifestly absurd to seek our own Being outside ourselves... It is worth stating the following as a corollary: Titles, degrees, promotions, etc., in the external physical world, in no way originate authentic exaltation, reevaluation of the Being, passage to a higher step in the "Levels of Being"...
CHAPTER III.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REBELLION
It is worth reminding our readers that there is a mathematical point within ourselves... Undoubtedly, this point is never found in the past, nor in the future... Whoever wants to discover this mysterious point must look for it here and now, within themselves, exactly at this instant, not a second ahead, not a second back...
The two vertical and horizontal beams of the Holy Cross meet at this point... We find ourselves, therefore, from moment to moment, before two paths: the horizontal and the vertical... It is obvious that the horizontal is very "corny," it is the path taken by the people," " everyone who arrives," "all the world"... It is evident that the vertical is different; it is the path of intelligent rebels, of revolutionaries...
When one remembers oneself, when one works on oneself, when one does not identify with all the problems and sorrows of life, one is in fact walking the vertical path...
Certainly, it is never an easy task to eliminate negative emotions; Losing all identification with our own way of life; problems of all kinds, business, debts, bill payments, mortgages, phone, water, electricity, etc., etc., etc. The unemployed, those who for one reason or another have lost their jobs, obviously suffer from a lack of money, and forgetting their situation, not worrying about it, or not identifying with their own problem, is in fact frighteningly difficult.
Those who suffer, those who weep, those who have been victims of some betrayal, of unfair treatment in life, of ingratitude, of slander, or of some fraud, truly they forget about themselves, about their real inner Being; they identify completely with their moral tragedy...
Working on oneself is the fundamental characteristic of the Vertical Path. No one could tread the Path of Great Rebellion if they never worked on themselves...
The work we are referring to is of a psychological nature; it deals with a certain transformation of the present moment in which we find ourselves. We need to learn to live from moment to moment... For example, a person who is desperate because of some emotional, financial, or political problem has obviously forgotten themselves... If such a person stops for a moment, observes the situation, tries to remember themselves, and then strives to understand the meaning of their attitude... If they reflect a little, if they think about that everything passes; that life is illusory, fleeting, and that death reduces all the vanities of the world to ashes... If they understand that their problems.. Deep down, it's nothing more than a "fire of straw," a will-o'-the-wisp that soon goes out. Suddenly, with surprise, they'll see that everything has changed...
Transforming mechanical reactions is possible through logical confrontation and intimate self-reflection... It's evident that people react mechanically to the various circumstances of life... Poor souls! They always tend to become victims. When someone flatters them, they smile; when they are humiliated, they suffer.
They insult if insulted; they wound if wounded; they are never free; their fellow human beings have the power to take them from joy to sadness, from hope to despair. Each of those people who walk the Horizontal Path is like a musical instrument, where each of their fellow human beings plays whatever they please... Whoever learns to transform mechanical relationships, in fact, embarks on the "Vertical Path." This represents a fundamental change in the "Level of Being," an extraordinary result of "Psychological Rebellion."
CHAPTER IV
THE ESSENCE
Hypocrisy and the foolish vanities of a false personality make us clumsy, stale, backward, reactionary people, incapable of seeing the new... Death has many meanings, both positive and negative. Let us consider that magnificent observation of the "Great Kabir Jesus Christ": "Let the dead bury their dead." Many people, although alive, are in fact dead to any possible work on themselves and, therefore, to any inner transformation.
They are people trapped between their dogmas and beliefs; people petrified in the memories of many yesterdays; individuals full of ancestral prejudices; people enslaved by what others will say, appallingly lukewarm, indifferent, sometimes "know-it-alls" convinced they are right because they were told so, etc., etc., etc.
These people refuse to understand that this world is a "Psychological Gymnasium" through which it would be possible to annihilate that secret ugliness we all carry within us. If these poor souls understood the lamentable state they are in, they would tremble with horror. Yet, such people always think the best of themselves; they boast of their virtues, they feel perfect, kind, helpful, noble, charitable, intelligent, dutiful, and so on.
Practical life as a school is formidable, but to take it as an end in itself is manifestly absurd. Those who take life as an end in itself, as it is lived daily, have not understood the need to work on themselves to achieve a "Radical Transformation." Unfortunately, people live mechanically; they have never heard anything about inner work.
Change is necessary, but people don't know how to change; they suffer greatly and don't even know why they suffer. Having money isn't everything. The lives of many wealthy people are often truly tragic... 20 http://samaelgnosis.net Quetzalcoatl Cultural Institute Revolutionary Psychology
CHAPTER VI.
THE LIFE
In the realm of practical life, we always discover astonishing contrasts. Wealthy people with magnificent residences and many friends sometimes suffer terribly... Humble proletarians with pickaxes and shovels, or people of the middle class, often live in complete happiness. Many multimillionaires suffer from sexual impotence, and wealthy matrons bitterly weep over their husbands' infidelity... The rich of the earth seem like vultures in golden cages; these days they cannot live without bodyguards... Statesmen drag chains; they are never free, they go everywhere surrounded by people armed to the teeth... Let us study this situation more closely. We need to know what life is. Everyone is free to have their own opinion...
Whatever they say, nobody really knows anything; life is a problem no one understands... When people want to tell us their life story for free, they cite events, names, dates, etc., and feel satisfaction in telling their stories... These poor people are unaware that their stories are incomplete because events, names, and dates are only the external aspect of the story; the internal aspect is missing... It is urgent to understand "states of consciousness."
Each event corresponds to a specific emotional state. States are internal, and events are external; external events are not everything... By internal states, we mean good or bad dispositions, worries, depression, superstition, fear, suspicion, compassion, self-regard, overestimation of oneself; states of feeling happy, states of joy, etc., etc., etc. Undoubtedly, inner states can correspond exactly to external events, be caused by them, or have no relation to them whatsoever... In any case, states and events are different. Events do not always correspond exactly to related states.
The inner state of a pleasant event may not correspond to the event itself. The inner state of an unpleasant event may not correspond to the same. Events long awaited, when they arrive, we feel that something is missing... Certainly, the corresponding inner state that should combine with the external event is missing... Many times the unexpected event turns out to be the one that has provided us with the best moments...
CHAPTER VII
THE INNER STATE
To combine inner states with external events correctly is to know how to live intelligently...
Any intelligently experienced event requires its corresponding specific inner state...
However, unfortunately, when people examine their lives, they think that life itself is constituted exclusively by external events...
Poor people! They think that if such and such an event hadn't happened to them, their life would have been better... They assume that luck crossed their path and that they missed their chance at happiness...
They lament what they've lost, weep for what they scorned, groan remembering past stumbles and calamities... People don't want to realize that vegetating isn't living and that the capacity to exist consciously depends exclusively on the quality of the Soul's inner states...
It certainly doesn't matter how beautiful the external events of life may be; if we aren't in the appropriate inner state at those moments, even the best events can seem monotonous, tiresome, or simply boring... Someone anxiously awaits a wedding celebration; it's an event, but it could happen that they are so preoccupied at the precise moment of the event that they don't truly enjoy it at all, and that the whole thing becomes as arid and cold as a mere formality... Experience has taught us that not everyone who attends a banquet or a dance truly enjoys themselves... There's always a bored person at the best celebrations and the most delicious treats bring joy to some and tears to others... Very rare are those who know how to confidently combine the external event with the appropriate internal state... It is lamentable that people do not know how to live consciously: they cry when they should laugh and laugh when they should cry... Control is different:
The wise person can be joyful but never filled with mad frenzy; sad but never desperate and dejected... serene in the midst of violence; abstinent in the orgy; chaste amidst lust, etc.
Melancholic and pessimistic people think the worst of life and frankly don't want to live... Every day we see people who are not only unhappy, but also—and what's worse—make life bitter for others... Such people wouldn't change even if they lived from party to party every day; their psychological illness is ingrained within them... such people possess decidedly perverse inner states... Yet these individuals consider themselves righteous, saintly, virtuous, noble, helpful, martyrs, etc., etc., etc.
They are people who think too highly of themselves; people who love themselves too much... Individuals who feel too sorry for themselves and who always look for ways to escape their own responsibilities... Such people are accustomed to base emotions, and it's obvious that for this reason they create subhuman psychological elements daily.
Misfortunes, setbacks, poverty, debt, problems, etc., are the exclusive domain of those who don't know how to live. Anyone can develop a rich intellectual culture, but very few have learned to live righteously. When one tries to separate external events from inner states of consciousness, it concretely demonstrates an inability to live with dignity. Those who learn to consciously combine external events and inner states walk the path to success.
CHAPTER VIII
ERRONEOUS STATES
Undoubtedly, in the rigorous observation of the I-Ego, it is always imperative and essential to make a complete logical distinction between the external events of practical life and the inner states of consciousness.
We urgently need to know where we stand at any given moment, both in relation to the inner state of consciousness and to the specific nature of the external event that is happening to us.
Life itself is a series of events that unfold through time and space...
Someone said: "Life is a chain of martyrdoms that man carries entangled in his soul..."
Everyone is free to think as they wish; I believe that the ephemeral pleasures of a fleeting moment are always followed by disenchantment and bitterness...
Each event has its own special characteristic flavor, and inner states are likewise of different kinds; This is incontrovertible, irrefutable...
Certainly, inner work on oneself refers emphatically to the various psychological states of consciousness...
No one could deny that we carry many errors within us and that mistaken states exist...
If we truly want to change, we urgently and without delay need to radically modify these mistaken states of consciousness...
The complete modification of mistaken states brings about total transformations in the realm of practical life...
When one works seriously on mistaken states, obviously, unpleasant events in life can no longer hurt one so easily...
We are saying something that can only be understood by experiencing it, by truly feeling it in the very realm of events...
Whoever does not work on themselves is always a victim of circumstances; they are like a wretched log adrift in the stormy waters of the ocean...
Events change incessantly in their multiple combinations; they come one after another in waves, they are influences...
Certainly, there are good and bad events; Some events will be better or worse than others... Modifying certain events is possible; altering outcomes, changing situations, etc., is certainly within the realm of possibility.
However, there are factual situations that truly cannot be altered; in these latter cases, they must be consciously accepted, even if some prove very dangerous and even painful... Undoubtedly, pain disappears when we do not identify with the problem that has arisen... We must consider life as a successive series of inner states; An authentic story of our own lives is made up of all these states... By reviewing the entirety of our own existence, we can directly verify for ourselves that many unpleasant situations were made possible by flawed inner states... Alexander the Great, though always temperate by nature, succumbed to the excesses that led to his death out of pride... Francis I died as a result of a sordid and abominable act of adultery, which history still vividly remembers... When Marat was assassinated by a wicked nun, he was dying of pride and envy; he believed himself to be absolutely righteous... The ladies of the Parc des Servants undoubtedly destroyed the vitality of the appalling fornicator known as Louis XV.
Many people die from ambition, anger, or jealousy; psychologists know this very well. As soon as our will is irrevocably confirmed in an absurd tendency, we become candidates for the pantheon or cemetery. Othello, driven by jealousy, became a murderer, and prison is full of sincerely misguided souls.
Archangel Samael
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