Mind

“THE ALL is MIND; THE UNIVERSE is MENTAL”

– The Kybalion

The Kybalion states that there is Seven Hermetic Principles or Seven Laws of Cosmic Alchemy. The three Initiates state that in the early days, there was a compilation of certain Basic Hermetic Doctrines, passed on from teacher to student, which was known as “The Kybalion.”

This teaching, however is known to many to whom it has descended, from mouth to ear, on and on throughout the centuries. It was merely a collection of maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were non-understandable to outsiders, but which were readily understood by students, after the axioms, maxims, and precepts has been explained and exemplified by the Hermetic Initiates to their Neophytes.

These teachings really constituted the basic principles of “The Art of Hermetic Alchemy,” which, contrary to the general belief, dealt in the mastery of mental forces, rather Material Elements – the Transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into others, instead of the changing of one kind of metal into another.

The legends of the “Philosopher’s Stone” which would turn base metal into Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily understood by all students of true Hermeticism.

What is “MIND“? Most people associate their physical brain with “MIND“. Even though the brain is used to think, the source of all knowledge is in the “MIND“. Everything begins and ends in the mind, The GREAT MIND, the Source Of All.

SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES or SEVEN LAWS of COSMIC ALCHEMY

(1) Principle of Mentalism the Three Initiates states that this principle embodies the truth that “All is Mind.” It explains that The All (which is the Substantial Reality underlying all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of “The Material Universe”; the “Phenomena of Life”; “Matter”; Energy”; and, in short, all that is apparent to our material senses) is SPIRIT, which in itself is UNKNOWABLE and UNDEFINABLE, but which may be considered and thought of as AN UNIVERAL, INFINITE, LIVING MIND.

It also explains that all the phenomenal world or universe is simply a Mental Creation of THE ALL, subject to the Laws of Created Things, and that the universe, as a whole, and in its part or units, has its existence in the Mind of THE ALL, in which the Mind we “live and move and have our being.”

This Principle, by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a large portion of the public attention, and which, without such explanation, are non-understandable and defy scientific treatment.

An understanding of this great Hermetic Principle of Mentalism enables the individual to readily grasp the laws of the Mental Universe, and to apply the same to his well-being and advancement.

The Hermetic Student is enabled to apply intelligently the great Mental Laws, instead of using them in a haphazard manner. With the Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and enter the same freely and intelligently.

This Principle explains the true nature of “Energy,” “Power,” and “Matter,” and why and how all these are subordinate to the Mastery of Mind. One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: “He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery.”

And these words are as true today as at the time they were first written. Without this Master-Key, Mastery is impossible, and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of The Temple.

“Mind may be transmuted from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration” – The Kybalion.

(2) Principe of Correspondence the Three Initiates states that this principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.

The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: “As above, so below; as below, so above.” And the grasping of this principle gives one the means of solving many a dark paradox, and hidden secret of Nature.

There are planes beyond our knowing, but when we apply the Principle of Correspondence to them we are able to understand much that would otherwise be unknowable to us.

This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe – it is an Universal Law.

The ancient Hermetists considered this Principle as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry aside the obstacles which hid from view the Unknown. Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the goddess might be caught.

Just as a knowledge of the Principles of Geometry enables man to measure distant suns and their movements, while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of the Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the Known to the Unknown.

(3) Principle of Vibration this Principle not only is a Cosmic Law of Alchemy but it is also a Universal Law of Existence.

The Three Initiates states that this Principle embodies the truth that “everything is in motion”; “everything vibrates”; “nothing is at rest”; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify.

And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt. This Principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, result largely from varying rates of Vibration.

THE ALL, which is Pure Spirit, down to the grossest form of Matter, all is in vibration – the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale. The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest – just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless.

And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration.

From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule, to worlds and universes, everything is in vibratory motion. This is also true on the planes of energy and force (which are but varying degrees of vibration); and also on the mental planes (whose states depend upon vibrations); and even on to the spiritual planes.

An understanding of this Principle, with the appropriate formulas, enables Hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations as well as those of others.

The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways. “He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the sceptre of power,” says one of the old writers.

“To change your mood or mental state – change your vibration” – The Kybalion

(4) Principle of Polarity The Three Initiates states that this Principle embodies the truth that “everything is dual”; “everything has two poles”; “everything has its pair of opposites,” all of which were old Hermetic axioms.

It explains the old paradoxes, that have perplexed so many, which have been stated as follows: “Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree”; “opposites are the same, differing only in degree”; “the pairs of opposites may be reconciled”; “extremes meet”; “everything is and isn’t, at the same time”; “all truths are but half truths”; “every truth is half−false”; “there are two sides to everything,” etc.

It explains that in everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that “opposites” are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them.

To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although “opposites,” are really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where “heat” terminates and “cold” begins!

There is no such thing as “absolute heat” or “absolute cold” the two terms “heat” and “cold” simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, and that ‘same thing” which manifests as “heat’ and ‘cold” is merely a form, variety, and rate of Vibration.

So “heat” and “cold” are simply the “two poles’ of that which we call “Heat” and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity.

The same Principle manifests in the case of “Light and Darkness,” which are the same thing, the difference consisting of varying degrees between the two poles of the phenomena.

Where does “darkness” leave off, and “light” begin? What is the difference between “Large and Small”? Between “Hard and Soft”? Between “Black and White”? Between “Sharp and Dull”?

Between “Noise and Quiet”? Between “High and Low”? Between “Positive and Negative”? The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it.

The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane. Let us take a radical and extreme example−that of “Love and Hate,” two mental states apparently totally different.

And yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms “Like or Dislike,” which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we “like” or “dislike” or “neither.”

And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you will see if you will but think a moment. And, more than this (and considered of more importance by the Hermetists), it is possible to change the vibrations of Hate to the vibrations of Love, in one’s own mind, and in the minds of others.

Many of you, who read these lines, have had personal experiences of the involuntary rapid transition from Love to Hate, and the reverse, in your own case and that of others.

And you will therefore realize the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of the Will, by means of the Hermetic formulas. “Good and Evil” are but the poles of the same thing, and the Hermetist understands the art of transmuting Evil into Good, by means of an application of the Principle of Polarity.

In short, the “Art of Polarization becomes a phase of “Mental Alchemy” known and practiced by the ancient and modern Hermetic Masters. An understanding of the Principle will enable one to change his own Polarity, as well as that of others, if he will devote the time and study necessary to master the art.

“To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity” – The Kybalion

(5) Principle of Rhythm The Three Initiates states that this Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and from; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum−like movement; a tide−like ebb and flow; a high−tide and low−tide; between the two poles which exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago.

There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter.

This law is manifest in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man (and it is with this latter that the Hermetists find the understanding of the Principle most important).

The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods.

They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle.

They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole.

All individuals who have attained any degree of Self−Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.

This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy.

“Remember, always, however, that you do not really destroy the Principle of Rhythm, for that is indestructible. You simply overcome one law by counter-balancing it with another, and thus maintain an equilibrium – Three Initiates

(6) Principle of Cause and Effect this Principle not only is a Cosmic Law of Alchemy but it is also a Universal Law of Existence.

The Three Initiates states that this Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an Effect from every Cause. It explains that: “Everything Happens according to Law”; that nothing ever “merely happens”; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating− the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.

The Hermetists understand the art and methods of rising above the ordinary plane of Cause and Effect, to a certain degree, and by mentally rising to a higher plane they become Causers instead of Effects.

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life.

But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.

They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment. They USE the Principle instead of being its tools.

The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane. In this statement there is condensed a wealth of Hermetic knowledge−let him read who can.

“Nothing escapes the Principle of Cause and Effect, but there are many Planes of Causation, and one may use the laws of the higher to overcome the laws of the lower” – The Kybalion

(7) Principle of Gender this Principle not only is a Cosmic Law of Alchemy but it is also a Universal Law of Existence. The Three Initiates states that this Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work.

This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes. On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same.

No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men.

The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her.

Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle. If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re−generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle.

It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life. We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender.

Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature’s principles.

If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base. 

“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes” – The Kybalion

MENTAL TRANSMUTATION

Is a form of mental alchemy as we will soon see below. Mental alchemy along with emotional alchemy, energy alchemy, and especially sexual alchemy are all critically important when embracing The Serpents Way.

The mind must be transformed and still. This mental stillness must be practiced both in and out of mediation. As Gabriyell Sarom stated in The Art of Occultism, people all over the world seem to have become slaves to their minds.

Their actions do not come for a position of clarity, but instead, they come from the whirlwind of emotions, desires, and confused thoughts. The mind is governed by desire and it needs to be brought under control. The initiate applying The Serpents Way has to become the master of his/her mind.

The Three Initiates state that beneath the material chemistry, astronomy and psychology (that is, the psychology in its phase of “brain action”) the ancients possessed a knowledge of transcendental astronomy, called astrology; of transcendental chemistry, called alchemy; of transcendental psychology, called mystic psychology.

They possessed the Inner Knowledge as well as the Outer Knowledge, the latter alone being possessed by modern scientists. Among the many secret branches of knowledge possessed by the Hermetists, was that of Transmutation, which known as Mental forms the subject matter of this lesson.

“Transmutation” is a term usually employed to designate the ancient art of the transmutation of metals particularly of the base metals into gold.

The word “Transmute” means “to change from one nature, form, or substance, into another to transform” (Webster). And accordingly, “Mental Transmutation” means the art of changing and transforming mental states, forms, and conditions, into others. So you may see that Mental Transmutation is the “Art of Mental Chemistry,” if you like the term a form of practical Mystic Psychology.

But this means far more than appears on the surface. Transmutation, Alchemy, or Chemistry on the Mental Plane is important enough in its effects, to be sure, and if the art stopped there it would still be one of the most important branches of study known to man. But this is only the beginning.

Let us see why! The first of the Seven Hermetic Principles is the Principle of Mentalism, the axiom of which is “THE ALL is Mind; the Universe is Mental,” which means that the Underlying Reality of the Universe is Mind; and the Universe itself is Mental that is, “existing in the Mind of THE ALL.”

We shall consider this Principle in succeeding lessons, but let us see the effect of the principle if it be assumed to be true. If the Universe is Mental in its nature, then Mental Transmutation must be the art of CHANGING THE CONDITIONS OF THE UNIVERSE, along the lines of Matter, Force and mind.

So you see, therefore, that Mental Transmutation is really the “Magic” of which the ancient writers had so much to say in their mystical works, and about which they gave so few practical instructions. If All be Mental, then the art which enables one to transmute mental conditions must render the Master the controller of material conditions as well as those ordinally called “mental.”

As a matter of fact, none but advanced Mental Alchemists have been able to attain the degree of power necessary to control the grosser physical conditions, such as the control of the elements of Nature; the production or cessation of tempests; the production and cessation of earthquakes and other great physical phenomena.

But that such men have existed, and do exist today, is a matter of earnest belief to all advanced occultists of all schools. That the Masters exist, and have these powers, the best teachers assure their students, having had experiences which justify them in such belief and statements.

These Masters do not make public exhibitions of their powers, but seek seclusion from the crowds of men, in order to better along the Path of Attainment.

We mention their existence, at this point, merely to call your attention to the fact that their power is entirely Mental, and operates along the lines of the higher Mental Transmutation, under the Hermetic Principle of Mentalism.

“The Universe is Mental” The Kybalion. But students and Hermetists of lesser degree than Masters the Initiates and Teachers are able to freely work along the Mental Plane, in Mental Transmutation. In fact all that we call “psychic phenomena,”; “mental influence”; “mental science”; “new−thought phenomena,” etc., operates along the same general lines, for there is but one principle involved, no matter by what name the phenomena be called.

The student and practitioner of Mental Transmutation works among the Mental Plane, transmuting mental conditions, states, etc., into others, according to various formulas, more or less efficacious.

The various “treatments,” “affirmations,” “denials” etc., of the schools of mental science are but formulas, often quite imperfect and unscientific, of The Hermetic Art. The majority of modern practitioners are quite ignorant compared to the ancient masters, for they lack the fundamental knowledge upon which the work is based.

Not only may the mental states, etc., of one’s self be changed or transmuted by Hermetic Methods; but also the states of others may be, and are, constantly transmuted in the same way, usually unconsciously, but often consciously by some understanding of the laws and principles, in cases where the people affected are not informed of the principles of self−protection.

And more than this, as many students and practitioners of modern mental science know, every material condition depending upon the minds of other people may be changed or transmuted in accordance with the earnest desire, will, and “treatments” of person desiring changed conditions of life.

The public are so generally informed regarding these things at present, that we do not deem it necessary to mention the same at length, our purpose at this point being merely to show the Hermetic Principle and Art underlying all of these various forms of practice, good and evil, for the force can be used in opposite directions according to the Hermetic Principles of Polarity.

We shall state the basic principles of Mental Transmutation, that all who read may grasp the Underlying Principles, and thus possess the Master−Key that will unlock the many doors of the Principle of Polarity.

These teachings really constituted the basic principles of “The Art of Hermetic Alchemy,” which obviously dealt with the mastery of Mental Forces, rather than Material Elements – the transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into others. Mastering the mind is a critical piece to awaken the Kundalini.

We will cover many different meditation techniques that we have learned and practiced over the last couple of years in our blog articles. Meditating and calming the mind is one of the foundations while on the path of The Serpent’s Way..

“Mental Transmutation” means the art of changing and transforming mental states, forms, and conditions, into others. So you may see that Mental Transmutation is the “Art of Mental Chemistry,” if you like the term a form of practical Mystic Psychology. – Three Initiates

LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Manly P. Hall stated in Lectures on Ancient Philosophy that in the secret teachings it is written that mind itself is the Savior-God. Mind is the martyr of the ages, the eternal and universal Prometheus sacrificed upon the alter of human necessity. Mind is the willing sufferer upon the tree. Mind must destroy itself that which is greater than mind may endure.

According to the Mysteries, there comes that time in the quest of consciousness when man discovers the mind to be the slayer of the Real. Then as he sloughs off his evil nature, he must slough off his mind that his consciousness may be disintangled from the infinite complex of the mental web.

The mind is incapable of ascending to the state of consciousness. The mind can never completely annihilate the sense of separateness, for it depends upon comparison for its function and differentiation for its very existence.

Consequently, though the mind is ever the link between consciousness and unconsciousness, it too must be ultimately sacrificed in order that the Great Work be accomplished.

By the death of the mind, consciousness is released to complete perfection, but woe unto him who slays the mind without that understanding which must be given out of the Mysteries.

The mind must not die until its own work has been completed and its function has reached the highest possible degree of perfection. As the mind increases in power and rationality, it grows gradually to realize that there is something beyond thought.

The mind is capable of realizing this power but is never able actually to contact it. There is a supermental state which is synonymous to a certain extent with the causal sphere. The Buddhist sees consciousness as a universal sea.

Consciousness is therefore something that is moved only by a divine ebb and flow, by a realization of itself. This universal, all-penetrating sea is the true substance of everything, for consciousness (or Self) was before the beginning and consciousness (or Self) is after the end.

Beginning and end are illusions, but Self is eternal. Consciousness is therefore union with Self. Consciousness knows no separateness. As long as me and thee exist, consciousness is not perfected.

Life and death, good and evil, light and shadow—these are the illusions of mind. But in consciousness diversity is totally annihilated and all things are one in reality and in essence.

The bond of brotherhood is proved by the mind to be good, but the realization of brotherhood is not consciousness. The bond of friendship is demonstrated by the intellect to be necessary, but friendship is less than consciousness.

There is no consciousness until the “I” in each is one and indivisible from the “I” in All. Until we are everything that we in our ignorance believe surrounds us, there is no complete consciousness.

We may study the star intellectually, but  we have never attained consciousness until we are the star, the stone, the heavens, and the earth. When our consciousness is perfect we extend from the heights of height to the depths of depth; we permeate the whole nature of existence; we are in everything, we are through everything, we are the whole nature of everything.

The difference between intellect and consciousness is therefore the difference between a mental concept of an object and an actual mingling of our consciousness with the consciousness of the object itself. This latter state is realization.

The intellectual concept, however, must to a certain degree precede the consciousness. As the mind is higher than the body, and the body must ultimately accept the thinking organism as its master, so consciousness is higher than mind, and the mind must ultimately give way to it.

The mind is a bridge connecting consciousness and unconsciousness, but having crossed the bridge, it is left behind, its usefulness past. As a bridge, however, the mind is a vital necessity, and he who depreciates it is as false as he who permits himself to become the servant of its whims.

The Buddhist priest entering into Nirvana, and the Brahman bridging the chasm between mortal consciousness and samadhi, both cast aside mind as a snare and a delusion; yet without it the very principles upon which they work would be incomprehensible to them.

The Eastern mind, endeavoring to annihilate the unreal and mingle itself with the Real, depends first upon the intellect to reveal the processes of illumination and the reasonableness of their abstract conceptions.

The Western schools of philosophy differ from the Eastern in that they teach the perfection of the mind before its rejection, whereas the Eastern schools are prone to regard the mind as a hindrance, to be discarded at the very beginning of spiritual growth.

Thus the Eastern mystic with his own nature slays the mind, while the Western philosopher, by elevating the mind to a realization of its own insufficiency, causes the intellect voluntarily to offer itself as a willing sacrifice upon the altar of spirit.

“To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders – Lao-Tzu

The highest expression of matter is mind, which occupies the middle distance between activity on the one hand and inertia on the other. The mind of man is hypothetically considered to consist of two parts: the lower mind, which is linked to the demiurgic sphere of Jupiter, and the higher mind, which ascends toward and is akin to the substance of the divine power of Kronos.

These two phases of mind are the mortal and immortal minds of Eastern philosophy. Mortal mind is hopelessly involved in the illusions of sense and substance, but immortal or divine mind transcending these unrealities is one with truth and light.

Here we have a definite key to several misunderstood concepts as now promulgated through the doctrines of Christian Science. Since intelligence is the highest manifestation of matter, it is logically the lowest manifestation of consciousness, or spirit, and Jupiter (or the personal “I”) is enshrined in the substances of mortal mind where he controls his world through what man is pleased to term intellect.

The Jupiterian intellect, however, is that which sees outward or toward the illusions of manifested existence, whereas the higher or spiritual mind (which is latent in most individuals) is that superior faculty which is capable of thinking inward or toward the profundities of Self; in other words, is capable of facing toward and gazing upon the substance of Reality.

Thus the mind may be likened to the two-faced Roman god Janus. With one face this god gazes outward upon the world and with the other inward toward the sanctuary in which it is enshrined. The two-faced mind is an excellent subject for meditation.

The objective or mortal mind continually emphasizes to the individual the paramount importance of physical phenomena; the subjective, or immortal mind, if given opportunity for expression, combats this material instinct by intensifying the regard for that which transcends the limitations of the physical perceptions.

DISPERSED MIND AND INTEGRAL MIND

In his book The Revolution of The Dialectic, Samael Aun Weor stated, In Mental Dynamics, it is urgent to know how and why the mind functions. We can make of the mind a useful instrument only by resolving that how and why.

Intellectual liberty is only possible on the basis of understanding, comprehension, and knowledge of the different functions of the mind.

Only by knowing the diverse mechanisms of the mind is how we liberate ourselves from it. This is how we make of the mind a useful instrument.

If indeed we want to control our own mind in an integral manner, it is unpostponable to know ourselves.

Hippocrates, the great physician, was one of the classical masters of the mind. The human mind is conditioned.

Willpower without chains is only possible by dissolving the ego. The mind must become an obedient mechanism to the human being. Maturity begins when we accept the reality that the human mind is conditioned.

It is possible to achieve the liberation of the mind if we discover the intelligence which it possesses. We need an integral mind instead of a dispersed mind.

“None but ourselves can free our minds” – Bob Marley

THE REVOLUTION OF MEDITATION

The technique of meditation states Weor, permits us to arrive at the heights of illumination and the revolution of the dialectic.

We must distinguish between a mind that is still and a mind that is stilled by force.

When the mind is stilled by force, it is really not still. It is gagged by violence and in the deeper levels of understanding there exists an entire tempest.

When the mind is violently silenced, it is really not in silence. Deep within, it clamours, it shouts, it is in despair.

It is necessary to put an end to the modifications of the thinking system during meditation. When the thinking system remains under our control, illumination comes to us spontaneously.

Mental control permits us to destroy the shackles created by the mind. To achieve the stillness and silence of the mind, it is necessary to know how to live from instant to instant, to know how to take advantage of each moment, to not live the moment in doses.

Master Ummom said to his disciples, “If you walk, walk; if you sit, sit; but do not vacillate.”

To commence with the study of the technique of meditation is to enter into the antechamber of the divine peace that surpasses all knowledge.

The most elevated form of thinking is non-thinking. When one achieves the stillness and silence of the mind, the “I” with all its passions, dens, appetites, fears, affections, etc. becomes absent.

It is only in the absence of the “I,” in the absence of the mind, that the Buddhadatu can awaken to unite with the Inner Self and take us to ecstasy.

The stillness and silence of the mind has a single objective: to liberate the Essence from the mind, so that when fused with the Monad or Inner Self, it (the Essence) can experience that which we call the truth.

During ecstasy and in the absence of the “I,” the Essence can live freely experiencing the truth within the World of the Mist of Fire.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhadatu is liberated from the mind, and the ecstasy arrives.

The Essence is always bottled up in the battle of the opposites, but when the battling ends and the silence is absolute, then the bottle is broken into pieces and the Essence remains free.

When we practice meditation, our mind is assaulted by many memories, desires, passions, preoccupations, etc.

We must avoid the conflict between attention and distraction. A conflict exists between attention and distraction when we combat those assailants of the mind. The “I” is the projector of such mental assailants. Where there is conflict, stillness and silence cannot exist.

We must nullify the projector through self-observation and comprehension. Examine each image, each memory, and each thought that comes to the mind. Remember that every thought has two poles: positive and negative.

Two aspects of the same thing are entering and leaving. The dining room and the washroom, tall and short, pleasant and unpleasant, etc. are always two poles of the same thing.

Examine the two poles of each mental form that comes to the mind. Remember that only through the study of these polarities can one arrive at a synthesis.

Every mental form can be eliminated through its synthesis. Example: the memory of a fiancée assaults us. Is she beautiful? Let us think that beauty is the opposite of ugliness and that if in her youth she is beautiful, in her old age she will be ugly. The synthesis: it is not worthwhile to think about her; she is an illusion, a flower that will inevitably wither.

In India, this self-observation and study of our psyche is properly called pratyahara.

Bird-like thoughts should pass through the space of our own mind in a successive parade, but without leaving any trace behind.

The infinite procession of thoughts projected by the “I” is exhausted in the end, and then the mind remains still and in silence.

A great Self-realized Master said: “Only when the projector, in other words, the “I,” is completely absent, will the silence (which is not a product of the mind) then befall. This silence is inexhaustible; it is not of time, and it is immeasurable. It is only then, when THAT which is, arrives.”

This whole technique is summarized in two principles:

1. Profound reflection
2. Tremendous serenity

This technique of meditation with its non-thinking puts to work the most central part of the mind, the one that produces the ecstasy.

Remember that the central part of the mind is that which is called Buddhadatu, the Essence, the consciousness.

When the Buddhadatu awakens we remain illuminated. We need to awaken the Buddhadatu, the consciousness.

We can practice meditation seated in the Western or Oriental style.

It is advisable to practice with the eyes closed to avoid the distractions of the exterior world.

It is also convenient to relax the body carefully, thus avoiding any tension in the muscles.

The Buddhadatu, the Essence, is the psychic material, the inner Buddhist principle, the spiritual material or raw matter which will eventually give shape to the Soul.

The Buddhadatu is the best that we have within and awakens with profound inner meditation.

Indeed, the Buddhadatu is the only element that the wretched intellectual animal possesses in order to arrive at the experience of that which we call the truth.

The only thing that the intellectual animal can do (being unable to incarnate the Being due to the fact that he still does not possess the superior existential bodies) is to practice meditation, to self-awaken the Buddhadatu and to know the truth.

“Be conscious of yourself as consciousness alone, watch all the thoughts come and go. Come to the conclusion, by direct experience, that you are really consciousness itself, not its ephemeral contents” – Annamalai Swami

THE DOMINION OF THE MIND

Samel Aun Weor further states that it is clear that at each moment we have to become more and more independent from the mind. The mind is certainly a dungeon, a prison where all of us are prisoners.

We need to evade that prison if indeed we want to know what liberty is; to know that liberty which does not belong to time, that liberty which is not of the mind.

First of all, we must consider the mind as something that is not of the Being. Unfortunately, people who are quite identified with their mind, say, “I am thinking,” thus, they feel as if they are the mind itself.

For as long as we are in the prison of the intellect, we will never be capable of experiencing true liberty.

The mind, in itself, is a very painful prison. No one has ever been happy with the mind. Up to now, we have never known of a human being who is happy with the mind.

The mind makes all creatures unhappy, the mind makes them miserable. The happiest moments that we have all had in life have always been in the absence of the mind.

These have been moments that lasted for an instant, but indeed these were moments which we will not be able to forget in our lifetime. In such a moment, we have known what happiness is, despite that such a moment has only lasted for a second.

Therefore, the mind does not know what happiness is; it is a prison! We need to learn how to dominate the mind; not other peoples’ minds, but one’s own mind, if we want to become independent of it.

We must converse with the mind while in meditation; if a doubt crosses the mind, we must then perform a dissection on that doubt.

When a doubt has been properly studied, when a dissection has been performed on it, then it does not leave any trace whatsoever in our memory, it disappears.

However, when a doubt persists, when we want to incessantly combat it, then a conflict is formed. Every doubt is an obstacle for meditation.

It is not by rejecting doubts that we are going to eliminate them, but on the contrary, it is by performing a dissection on them in order to see that which is real, that which is concealed within them.

Any doubt which persists in the mind becomes an obstacle for meditation. Therefore, we must analyze it, disjoin it, and reduce such doubt to dust.

This is not performed by fighting the doubt, but by opening it up with the scalpel of self-criticism, by carrying out a rigorous and implacable dissection on it.

It is only in this manner that we will come to discover what was within that doubt which was not important, and to discover what was real and what was unreal within such doubt.

Therefore, doubts sometimes serve in order to clarify concepts. When one eliminates a doubt through rigorous analysis, when one performs a dissection on it, one discovers a truth.

Thus, from such a truth, something more profound comes, more knowledge, more wisdom.

Wisdom is elaborated based on direct experimentation, on our own experimentation; it is elaborated based on profound meditation.

Weor states, we need to converse with the mind because many times when we want the mind to be still, when we want the mind to be in silence, it persists in its stubbornness, in its useless chattering, in the struggle of the antitheses.

Therefore it is necessary to interrogate the mind. Speak to the mind as follows, “Well mind, what is it that you want? Well, answer me!” Then, if the meditation is profound, a representation can emerge within us. Thus, within that representation, within that figure, within that image, is the answer.

We must then converse with the mind and make it see the reality of things, until we make it realize that its answer is erroneous; to make it realize that its preoccupations are useless and the reason why such preoccupations are useless.

Thus, in the end, the mind remains still, in silence. However, if we notice that illumination does not emerge yet, that the chaotic state, the incoherent confusion with its struggle and incessant chattering still persists within us, then we have to call the mind to order once again; we have to again interrogate it, “What is it that you want? What are you looking for? Why do you not leave me in peace?”

One needs to speak clearly and converse with the mind as if it was a strange individual. Certainly, the mind is a strange individual, because it is not of the Being. Therefore, we must treat the mind like a strange subject, we must recriminate it; we must scold it.

The students of advanced Zen are used to the practice of Judo. However, their psychological Judo has not been comprehended by the tourists who arrive in Japan.

To see for instance the monks practicing Judo, struggling with one another, it would appear to be a mere physical exercise, but it is not. In fact, when they are practicing Judo they are hardly noticing the physical body.

Certainly, their struggle is directed towards the domination of their own mind. Thus, the Judo in which they are engaged in is against each of their own minds.

Therefore, the psychological Judo has as objective that is to subdue the mind, to treat the mind scientifically, technically, with the objective of subduing it.

Let us look at the psychological aspect of Judo; the psychological Judo which the revolution of the dialectic teaches. One needs to dominate the mind; the mind has to obey; we need to recriminate it firmly in order for it to obey.

How is it possible that while we are in the practice of meditation, in those instants within which we seek stillness and silence, the mind imposes itself and does not want to be still?

We need to know why it does not want to be still. Then, we need to interrogate it, to recriminate it, to whip it, to make it obey, since the mind is a stubborn, clumsy donkey which we have to dominate.

Krishnamurti has not taught this, neither has Zen nor Ch’an taught it. This discipline that I am teaching belongs to the Second Jewel of the Yellow Dragon, to the Second Jewel of Wisdom.

Within the First Jewel we can include Zen, but Zen has not explained the Second Jewel, even when the prolegomena of it is within its psychological Judo.

The Second Jewel implies the discipline of the mind, dominating, whipping, scolding it. The mind is an unbearable donkey that we need to tame!

Therefore, we need to count on several factors during meditation if we wish to attain the stillness and silence of the mind.

We need to study the disorder because it is only in this manner that we can establish order. We must know what in us is attentive and what in us is inattentive.

Always when we enter meditation our mind is divided into two parts: the part which pays attention, the attentive part, and the inattentive part. It is not on the attentive part that we must focus our attention on, but rather, it is precisely on that which is inattentive within us.

When we are able to comprehend in depth what is inattentive within us and study the procedures so that the inattentive becomes attentive, we will have achieved the stillness and silence of the mind.

But we have to be judicious in meditation; we have to judge ourselves, to know what is inattentive in us. We need to become conscious of that which exists as inattentive within us.

When I state that we must dominate the mind, understand that the one who has to dominate the mind is the Essence, the consciousness.

By awakening consciousness we have more power over the mind and thereby we become conscious of what is unconscious in us.

It is urgent and unpostponable to dominate the mind, to converse with it, to recriminate it, to whip it with the whip of willpower and make it obey. This didactic belongs to the Second Jewel of the Yellow Dragon.

First of all, if we truly wish to take the most advantage of the Second Jewel, then we must not become identified with the mind, because if we feel ourselves being the mind, if for instance we say, “I am reasoning! I am thinking,” then we are affirming an absurdity and we are not in agreement with the Doctrine of the Yellow Dragon because the Being does not need to think, because the Being does not need to reason. The one who reasons is the mind.

The Being is the Being and the reason for the Being to be, is to be the Being itself. The Being is what is, what has always been and what shall always be. The Being is the life which throbs in each atom just as it throbs in each Sun.

The one who thinks is not the Being; the one who reasons is not the Being. We do not have the entire Being incarnated, but we have a part of the Being incarnated.

This part is the Essence or Buddhadatu, that part of Soul which exists within us, that is the spiritual, the psychic material. It is necessary for this living Essence to impose itself on the mind.

The one who analyzes within us are the “I’s,” because the “I’s” are but mere forms of the mind, mental forms that we must disintegrate and reduce to cosmic dust.

Let us study something very special in these moments. There could be a case of someone that dissolves the “I’s,” eliminates them. It could also be the case that that someone (besides having dissolved the “I’s”) fabricates a Mental Body.

Obviously this person will acquire intellectual individuality. Nonetheless, this person has to liberate himself even from this very same Mental Body, because the Mental Body itself (no matter how perfect it might be) also rationalizes, also thinks.

But the most elevated form of thinking is non-thinking. Therefore, as long as one thinks, one is not in the most elevated form of thinking.

The Being does not need to think. He is what has always been and what will always be. Therefore, in synthesis, we must subdue the mind and interrogate it.

During meditation, Weor states, there are two parts, that which is attentive and that which is inattentive. We need to become conscious of that which is inattentive in us.

Upon becoming conscious, we can evidence that the inattentive has many factors: like doubt, there are many doubts; many are the doubts which exist in the human mind. Where do those doubts come from?

We see for instance atheism, materialism, and mysticism. If we tear them apart we see then that there are many forms of skepticism, many forms of atheism, and many forms of materialism.

There are persons who say that they are materialistic atheists, yet they fear spells, witchcraft. They respect nature; they know how to see God within nature but in their own way.

Nevertheless, when one talks to them about spiritual or religious matters, they declare themselves materialistic atheists. Thus, their atheism is formulated in a very incipient way.

Another type of materialism and atheism exists. This is the incredulous, skeptical, Marxist-Leninist type. Something is yearned for within the very bottom of this type of materialistic atheist.

Indeed, this type of atheist simply wants to disappear, to not exist, to annihilate himself integrally. He does not want to know anything about the divine Monad, he hates it.

Obviously, upon proceeding in this manner, he will disintegrate as he wishes, this is his choice. Therefore, he will cease to exist; he will descend into the infernal worlds, towards the center of gravity of the planet. Since his choice is to self-destruct he will perish.

Nonetheless, in the end, he will continue because the Essence will be liberated. The Essence will return to new evolutions and will proceed through new devolutions.

This Essence, through different cycles of manifestations, will return and will fall again and again into the same skepticism and materialism: In the long run the outcome of this conduct will appear.

When? It will be on the day when all the doors will definitely close for him, when the three thousand cycles will become completed.

Then, that Essence will be reabsorbed within its Monad and the latter will sequentially enter into the spiritual, universal bosom of life. Nonetheless, this will be a Monad without mastery.

So what is it that this type of Essence really wants? What does it search for in its atheism? What is its longing? Its longing is to reject mastery.

Thus, rejection of mastery is what it wants within the very bottom of all of this. Therefore, it does not acquire mastery. This type of Essence does not develop its spiritual values and finally ends up just as a divine spark but without mastery.

The forms of skepticism are varied. There are people who call themselves Catholic, Apostolic, and Romanic. Nevertheless, in their expositions they are crudely materialistic and atheists.

Despite this, they go to Mass every Sunday, they take the Holy Communion, and confess their sins. Therefore, this is another kind of skepticism.

If we analyze all forms of skepticism and materialism that have been, are, and will be, we discover that a sole skepticism does not exist, that a sole materialism does not exist.

The reality is that millions of forms of skepticism and materialism exist. They are millions simply because all of them are mental, they are things of the mind. In other words, skepticism and materialism are from the mind and are not from the Being.

When someone has gone beyond the mind, he has made himself conscious of the truth, which is not of time. Obviously, this person cannot be a materialist or an atheist.

Whosoever has at sometime listened to the Verb, he is then beyond time, beyond the mind.

Atheism is of the mind, and belongs to the mind that is like a fan. All the forms of materialism and atheism are so many and so varied that they resemble a great fan. That which is Real is what is beyond the mind.

The atheist and materialist are ignorant. They have never listened to the Verb. They have never known the Divine Word because they have never entered into the current of sound.

Therefore, within the mind is where atheism and materialism are gestated. These are forms of the mind, illusory forms which have no reality. What is truly Real is what does not belong to the mind. That which indeed is Real is what is beyond the mind.

To become independent of the mind is important in order to know “That” which is Real, not to know it intellectually, but rather to really and truly experience it.

Thus, we can see different forms of skepticism, incredulity, doubt, etc., by paying attention to what is inattentive within us. Then when we see any type of doubt, we have to tear it to pieces, to submit it to a dissection in order to see what it truly wants.

Once we have totally torn it into pieces, that doubt then disappears without leaving any mark in the mind, without leaving even the most insignificant trace in the memory.

When we observe what is inattentive in us, we also see the struggle of the antitheses within the mind. It is at this point that we have to tear apart those antitheses in order to see what truth they hold.

One must also perform a dissection of the memories, the emotions, the desires, and the preoccupations which one ignores, which one does not know where from or why they come.

When within our meditation we judiciously see that the necessity of calling the mind to attention is emerging (that is a critical point where one has become weary of the mind, that the mind does not want to obey in any manner) then there is no choice but to recriminate it, to speak to it forcefully, to deal with it face to face, as we would do with a strange and inopportune subject.

One has to lash it with the whip of willpower, recriminate it with harsh words until one makes the mind obey. One must converse many times with the mind so that it will understand. If it does not understand, then one has to severely call it to order.

To not identify with the mind is indispensable. One has to whip the mind, subjugate it, dominate it. If the mind continues to be violent, then we must again whip it. Thus, in this manner we come out from within the mind and reach the truth. Certainly, the truth is that which is not of time.

When we succeed to reach that which is not of time, we can then experience an element that radically transforms.

Thus, a certain transforming element that is not of time exists; that element can only be experienced, I repeat, when we come out of the mind.

One must struggle intensely until one succeeds to come out of the mind in order to achieve the intimate Self-realization of the Being.

Hence, while we are bottled up in the mind, what can we know about the truth? Perhaps we know what other people say about the truth. But what do we know?

The important thing is not what other people say, but what we experience through ourselves. Our problem is how to get out of the mind. For this goal, in order to emancipate ourselves, we need a science, a wisdom. This science, this wisdom, is found within Gnosis.

When we think that the mind is quiet, when we believe that it is in silence, nonetheless, no divine experience comes to us it is because the mind is not quiet nor silent. Deep down, the mind continues struggling. Deep down the mind is chattering.

Then we have to confront it, to converse with it, recriminate it through meditation and ask it what is it that it wants. To tell the mind for instance, “Mind, why are you not quiet? Why do you not leave me alone?”

Then, the mind will give some kind of answer and we will respond to it with another explanation. This is in order to convince it; however, if the mind does not want to be convinced, then there will be no other remedy but to subjugate it by means of recrimination and the whip of willpower.

In meditation, the dominion of the mind goes beyond the struggle of the opposites. In this manner, for example, when a thought of hatred or an evil memory assault us, then one has to try to comprehend it, try to see its antithesis which is love.

Thus, if there is love, why is hatred there? What is the purpose of that hatred?

For example, if the memory of a lustful act surges forth then one has to pass through the mind the sacred chalice and the sacred lance. One has to say: “Why do I have to profane the sacred with my morbid thoughts?”

If the memory of a tall person surges forth, one must then see him short and this would be correct, since the key is in the synthesis.

Therefore, to know how to always find the synthesis is beneficial, because from the thesis one has to pass on to the antithesis. Yet, the truth is not found in the antithesis or in the thesis because discussion exists in front of the thesis and the antithesis.

Affirmation, negation, discussion, and solution is what is really wanted. Affirmation of a bad thought, negation of the same through the comprehension of its opposite; discussion, one has to discuss what it is which is real within one and within the other until one arrives at wisdom.

Thus, leaving the mind quiet and in silence. This is how one must practice. All of this is part of the conscious practices related with the observation of that which is inattentive.

Nevertheless, if we simply say: it is just the memory of a tall person and we put a short person in front of it, and we finish there then this is not right.

What is right would be to say: tall and short are nothing but two aspects of the same thing, however what matters is not what is tall or what is short, but what is the truth that is hidden behind all of this, because tall and short are just two illusory phenomena of the mind. Thus, this is the way in order to arrive at the synthesis and the solution.

What is inattentive in oneself is that which is formed by the subconsciousness, by that which is incoherent, by all the amount of memories that emerge from within the mind which are the memories of the past that assault one now and again, by the debris of the memory, etc.

The elements which constitute the subconsciousness must neither be accepted nor rejected. We must simply become conscious of that which is inattentive within us. Thus, in this manner that which is inattentive becomes attentive in a natural and spontaneous way. This is how the inattentive becomes attentive.

One has to make of daily life a continuous meditation. Meditation is not only that action of quieting the mind when we are at home or in the sanctuary. Meditation also encompasses the thread of daily living so that life instantaneously becomes a constant meditation.

The mind in itself is the ego. Therefore, it is urgent to destroy the ego. The outcome of its destruction is a mental substance with which the human Mental Body can be fabricated. However, this Mental Body will still be mind.

Therefore, what is important is to liberate oneself from the mind. Thus, when one becomes free of it, one must learn how to function in the World of Pure Spirit without mind. One must know how to live in that current of sound that is beyond the mind and is not of time.

Ignorance is that which exists within the mind. Real wisdom is not within the mind, it is beyond the mind. The mind is ignorant, this is reason why it falls and falls into so many grave errors.

How foolish are those who make mentalistic propaganda, those who promise mental powers, those who teach others how to dominate other persons’ minds, etc.

The mind has not made anyone happy. True happiness is very much beyond the mind. One cannot come to know happiness until one has become independent of the mind.

Dreams belong to the unconsciousness. When one awakens consciousness, one leaves behind dreams. Dreams are nothing but projections of the mind.

What is important in us is to awaken our consciousness in order to stop dreaming, in order to stop thinking. This process of thinking is cosmic matter, it is of the mind.

Even the Astral Body itself is nothing but the crystallization of the mental matter and the physical world is also condensed mind. Therefore, the mind is matter and it is very gross, whether it exists in a physical state or in that state called Astral or Manasic, as the Hindus state.

In any case, the mind is gross and material whether in the Astral Plane or in the physical plane.

Thus, the mind is physical or metaphysical matter; it is always matter. Therefore, the mind cannot make us happy. To know authentic happiness, true wisdom, we must get out from within the mind and live in the world of the Being. This is what is important.

We do not deny the creative power of the mind. It is clear that all that exists is condensed mind. But what do we have to gain with this? Has the mind perhaps given us happiness? We can do marvels with the mind; create for ourselves many things in life.

The great inventions are condensed mind. However, these types of creations have not made us happy.

What we need is to become independent, to come out of that dungeon of matter, because the mind is matter. We have to come out of matter, live in the role of spirits, as beings, as happy creatures beyond matter. Matter does not make anyone happy. Matter is always gross even when it assumes beautiful forms.

If we search for authentic happiness, we will not find it in the matter but in the spirit. Therefore, we need to free ourselves of the mind, because true happiness comes to us when we come out of the dungeon of the mind.

Again, we do not deny that the mind can be the creator of many things, of inventions, of marvels and of prodigious things. However, do any of those things give us happiness? Who is the happy one among us?

Consequently, if the mind has not given us happiness, we have to come out of the mind and find happiness somewhere else. Obviously, we will find it in the World of the Spirit.

Three percent of consciousness and ninety seven percent of subconsciousness exists within us. This is true. Consequently, that which we have of consciousness is what must direct itself to that which we have of unconsciousness or subconsciousness in order to recriminate the unconscious part and to make it see that it has to become conscious.

But it is necessary for the conscious part to recriminate the subconscious part. This task, that is, the conscious part directing itself to the subconscious part, is a very important exercise that can be practiced at dawn. Thus, this is how the unconscious parts become conscious, little by little.

“The mind, a beautiful servant, a dangerous master” – Osho

PROBATIONISM

Weor states that probationism is the science which studies the mental essences which imprison the soul. Probationism is the science of esoteric ordeals.

Probationism is that internal wisdom which permits us to study the prisons of understanding. Probationism is the pure science which permits us to know in depth the errors of individual minds.

The human mind must be liberated from fear and appetites. The human mind must be liberated from the eagerness towards accumulation, liberated from attachments, hatreds, egotism, violence, etc.

The human mind must be liberated from the processes of reasoning which divide the mind within the battle of the antitheses.

A mind which is divided by the depressing process of options cannot serve as an instrument for the Innermost.

We must exchange the process of reasoning for the beauty of comprehension.

The process of conceptual election divides the mind, thus this is how the mind gives birth to erred action and useless effort.

Desire and appetites are obstacles for the mind. Those obstacles lead human beings to exert all kinds of errors which result in Karma.

Fear exerts over the mind the desire for security. The desire for security enslaves willpower, converting it into a prisoner of definitive self-barriers within which all human miseries are hidden.

Fear brings all types of inferiority complexes. Fear of death causes human beings to arm themselves and assassinate one another. The human being who carries a revolver at his waist is a coward; he is a fearful one. The brave one does not carry weapons because he does not fear anyone.

The fear of life, the fear of death, the fear of hunger, the fear of misery, the fear of cold and nakedness, engender all types of inferiority complexes. Fear leads human being towards violence, hatred, exploitation, etc.

The human minds live from one prison to another. Each prison is a school, a religion, an erred concept, a prejudice, a desire, an opinion, etc.

The human mind must learn how to flow seriously, in an integral manner, without the painful process of reasoning which divides the mind with its battle of the antitheses.

The mind must become like a child in order for it to be able to serve as an instrument for the Innermost.

We must always live in the present because life is just an eternal instant.

We must liberate ourselves from all types of preconceptions and desires. We must move only under the impulses of the Innermost. Covetousness, anger, lust, have their den in the mind. Covetousness, anger, lust, lead the souls towards the Avitchi (Hell).

The human being is not the mind. The mind is merely one of the four bodies of sin. When the human being becomes identified with his mind he falls into the abyss.

When our mind assaults us with representations of hatred, fear, anger, cravings, covetousness, lust, etc., let us then talk to it in the following manner, “Mind, remove these things from my insight, I do not accept these from you; I am your master, I am your lord. You must obey me because you are my slave until the end of time!”

Now, we need human beings with Thelema, human beings with willpower, who do not let themselves be enslaved by their mind.

“When our willpower is liberated, then it blends or fuses itself with the universal willpower. Thus, as an outcome of this, when integrated like this, our willpower becomes sovereign. The perfect emancipation of willpower assures the sage absolute dominion over fire, air, water, and earth” – Sameal Aun Weor

UNIVERAL LAWS OF EXISTENCE

There are Universal Laws which govern this whole existence. Applying these laws makes the difference between spiritual, physical, mental, emotional LIFE and DEATH. What are some of these laws?

(1) AS YOU BELIEVE; SO SHALL IT BE. This law always works, everywhere and for everyone. Anything that you believe, good or bad, will happen. It is how it works. Your thoughts get manifested into physicality when enough focus and energy is concentrated.

Let me give you an example. If you believe that you will get cancer or any other disease because your mother or father, has it, then chances of you getting the disease are very high.

The more you focus on something, the more you will bring it into reality. You create your reality by your own thoughts. It applies the same when you focus on positivity.

If you think and believe enough that you can learn to play an instrument, become an artist, build a business, write a book or anything else, then you will bring that vibration into reality. All Universal Laws are 100% accurate.

The Universe will respond to any vibration/frequency that you put out/emit, and the Universe will respond to you with the same frequency. You reap what you sow.

When you plant a seed you would tend to it and make sure it has adequate water, soil, air, and sun. By nurturing the seed with love, and are determined and disciplined in your journey, you are ensuring that the road to your enlightenment has just begun.

Your mind is the beginning and the end of all your suffering. Open your mind to the vastness of infinite knowledge.

“By refusing knowledge, you automatically refuse wisdom, as wisdom cannot be had without applying knowledge” – S.K.

(2) WHATEVER YOUR CREATE YOU EXPERIENCE. You create by your thoughts, words, and actions. Anything you believe to be true or untrue you create it if you hold the thought long enough to be manifested in the material world.

If you are not clear minded, you will create many unpleasant situations in your life. And as a result, you will start blaming things or people.

Pretty much all of us at one point or another throughout our lives blame others or things for when things don’t happen the way we like them to. Why is that?

That is because we don’t (now we do) innerstand/understand the Laws of the Universe. How can you blame someone for what happens to you? You created it.

Well, you could say that you are a nice person, and your partner is being mean or disrespectful to you for months or years. Here, I will tell you how it is not her/his fault.

It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. This is the universal law; you can’t escape it. The first, second or the third time that your partner was being disrespectful to you what did you do?

Did you do something about it? If not, that you created your unpleasant situation, and if you talked about it with him, then how come you were/are still with him?

It is again because of you not knowing and innerstanding the Universal Law. You create both pleasant and unpleasant situations in your life by following the law (good situation) or by neglecting the Law (unpleasant).

The universe will not stop throwing punches at you until you learn how to apply the knowledge in life. The Universe and everything in it is always in constant motion.

Your destiny is not written by someone. You write your destiny with every action that you take. Those times where people beLIEved that their destiny is written by someone external, are done. We are in the Age of Knowing (Aquarius) now.

“You create your own future. Oversee your life. To be in charge you must have a clear mind. You cannot apply the Universal Laws with a disturbed mind and heart. The only best, most effective way to be in contact (not physically) with the real you (your higher self/your true self), is through solitude. Meditation is the best cure.”

(3) LAW OF ACTION (CAUSE and EFFECT) You create or manifest through thinking, believing, acting, and speaking. When you balance these four actions, you become a true creator.

Lacking one of these will affect one or the other three. Just as if you are not healthy mentally, it will affect you physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Anything you say or do will have a reaction that will affect people and/or things.

Be careful with everything you do or say. Your tongue does not have any bones, but it can break bones. Which means that the word you speak is very powerful. It can destroy or build happiness.

Anything you think will result in action sooner or later. Your thoughts are the Alchemist’s soup. Are you going to put the right ingredients and the amount of the ingredients where flowers are sprouted or are you going to ignore the seeds to the point that the flowers will not get a chance to grow?

For every action there is an equal reaction. Everything you think, say or do will surely come back to you. You cannot escape the universal laws. They work perfectly at all times, everywhere.

“Better to be a warrior in the garden, than a gardener in the battlefield”

(4) LAW OF ATTRACTION: Like vibrations attract like vibrations. Vibrations can be of a high frequency (Love, Empathy, Compassion, Gratitude etc) or LOW (Hate, Jealousy, Envy, Deception etc). Love attracts Love, Hate attracts Hate, Fear attracts Fear and so on.

From my experience and doing a social experiment I gather that most people are searching for their OTHER HALF (partner). First, there is no such thing as “the other half”.

Unless we are talking about the twin flame on the soul/energetic level. You are already WHOLE. The term other half has been created by those that don’t have your best interest in mind.

By those that don’t want you discovering your true potential. And so, by searching for their supposed “other half”, many women or men end up lonely, depressed or with a person that is of a different vibrational frequency which brings them an unhealthy and a depressing relationship.

This kind of attraction is a result of not knowing and innerstanding the Laws mentioned previously. When you innerstand that you are everyone else and everyone else is you, then you’ll think twice before you talk bad/gossip about other people.

One way or another you get punished or rewarded based on your behavior. Unleash the potential of your MIND. Reap the benefits of your powers and talents. You and only you are the only responsible person about your happiness.

The remedy is in the same place as the poison, in the MIND. The mind is the root of the tree of your life. Your thoughts are the leaves. Fix the roots before being distracted by the leaves and the branches.

The Universe is your servant. The sooner you realize this the sooner you’ll discover the richness of your mind.

“When you know your power, when you know that your thoughts and actions are the pathway to success or failure, then you should be very careful of what you think, say or do. “

(5) LAW OF CONSEQUENCES: Every action is a choice. There cannot be a random action because an action needs the initiation of the thought first before manifesting into an action.

For every action (cause) there is an equal reaction whether the reaction is visible/ instantaneous or not. The reaction (effect) will happen anyway. Every single action that you take throughout your daily life shapes your future.

Your existence is a reaction (result/effect) of your parents. Doesn’t this mean that your actions will result in consequences not only for you but also for others? Your actions are all results of your thinking.

Are all your thoughts yours? To answer that you need to pay attention to your circle. Or a cage. What people are you hanging around with?

People that impose their mindset/ideologies on you, or people that empower you and let you be free, let you express yourself freely without the need to satisfy their expectations?

Distance is your solution to figure out your circle and realize if it is actually a circle or a cage. Remember that if your friends, family etc., are pushing you in a corner, or being disrespectful etc., it is still your fault for having initiated first an action or an inaction as a result of not innerstanding how the law works.

People will take as much as you let them. Letting=Action, taking (they are taking what you give) = reaction which means CONSEQUENCES. Nobody can push you into a corner unless you allow them to.

Blaming others for your problems is a lazy excuse for not being powerful enough to say “NO”. When you say “NO” you are letting others know that you are exercising your free will.

The best gift given to humanity is free will. Without free will, we wouldn’t be any different than actual robots or a piece of brick.

“Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law” – The Kybalion

(6) LAW OF COMPENSATION: What you give to others, will be given to you. Not only about visual/physical materialistic things/objects, but also unseen/immaterial ones such as: Love, Hate, Deception, Anger, Grudge, Grief etc. As the saying goes: “What goes around comes around” or “You reap what you sow”.

You may ask yourself, “Based on this Law, if someone hates me, why would I hate them back when I don’t have hatred in my heart?” In this case the other person will hate himself because you are not falling for the negative side (not innerstanding how it works) of the law of Consequences.

But that person surely will either hate himself and/or get hated by someone else. Since you didn’t satisfy his low vibration subconscious or conscious request, he will investigate finding someone else to hate and spread his poison and he will definitely find someone of his level of vibration.

The same applies if someone gives you positiveness and you reject it, assuming you think that person is being fake. You will know if someone is fake/not truthful only when your intuition is high, when your gut feeling is not tainted by the mind.

Many people judge someone based on the gossip they heard about that person, and that will automatically put intuition in the back seat. A person with low or no intuition is a lost soul.

The law of compensation will work on your advantage when you know and practice the law of cause and effect and as you believe, so shall it be. Money and everything else is energy. For anything that you put energy into, you will be compensated, either with money or peace of mind and an open heart.

(7) LAW OF HARMONY: All laws in the Universe have and will always affect each other. They are all in harmony with each other. If you are not in harmony with someone or a group of people, the Laws are still in harmony with each other.

The laws cannot have purpose unless you give them purpose through actions. The Laws exist and function through your actions or inactions. Have you noticed when two people that are all about complaining, gossip, lying get along with each other?

That’s because they are in harmony together by practicing (unknowingly) the Law of Consequences and they will have unpleasant consequences which will infringe also the law of Cause and Effect.

They put in effect also the law of AS YOU BELIEVE, SO SHALL IT BE (again out of ignorance) and they will pay for it. The so-called harmony between those two people is temporary or long term, and disharmony and destruction of their life will eventually commence.

I’m using the word harmony for the sake of the LAW. As far as those two people being in harmony, that is an illusion, as just the fact itself that they gossip, hate, and lie about others, it grows cancer/poison within their heart because they don’t innerstand the Law of DON’T DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE DONE UNTO YOU.

Someone that knows you, will use your weakness against you so be careful. Practice these laws and those that will be of a lower vibration than you will weed themselves out. Your mind and your heart must be in an harmonious/coherence state, otherwise the balance is infringed/hijacked/tampered with.

“If you throw a rock into a pond you disturb the harmony of the pond, you are the cause, the effect is the splash and the ripples that flow out and back until harmony is restored. Similarly, your disharmonious actions flow out into the Universe and back upon you, lifetime after lifetime, until eventually your own harmony is restored”

(8) LAW OF LOVE: The Law of Love is the fabric of the Cosmos and the glue that holds everything together. The Law of Love allows ALL life forms and ALL things to exist in harmony, in ALL of creation.

It is LOVE that keeps us together and we have a purpose for living. Throughout many generations there were people that were vibrating in pure love as to keep us going and not being destroyed as a species.

But they were a small number of beings compare to millions of us. We were heading toward the destruction of our species. Luckily, we are on a different timeline now, as more and more people are vibrating in LOVE frequency.

It is contagious (in a good way). More people are making a difference by spreading knowledge, innerstanding and compassion/love. Love yourself, Love all species, Love one another, Love unconditionally and you will only be REWARDED.

“Love in the context of Infinite Love is the balance of all. Infinite ‘Love’ is also Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Knowing, Infinite Everything. Thus, it is and it isn’t; it is everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing. It is All Possibility in perfect balance.” – David Icke

(9) LAW OF GENDER: The law of gender is about balancing the Yin and Yang, the masculine and feminine energies, balancing of the positive and the negative. The creative force of the Universe is the balance of these opposites.

These laws apply on an individual but also on a collective level. An example on a collective level, if you and thousands of other people are scared that a specific event doesn’t happen, then by the same Law principles that event will happen or not, depending how strong the collective belief is.

The Universe always balances itself out. If humanity destroys nature, and doesn’t care about one another, then Earth will get rid of a chunk of humanity or all, depending on the severity.

Earth will get rid of humanity or part of it in the form of earthquakes, Tsunamis, Viruses (not man-made). The Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes etc are the built-up pressure that the Earth releases as a result of humanity not taking care of it.

Both men and women have masculine and feminine energies. One cannot do without the other. There is a female and a male counter part in everything. If you do not balance these energies, you will contribute even further in the destruction of our way of life.

A society with feminine men is guaranteed to collapse, the same applies for the opposite gender. A society with masculine women would not last at all. Men are the masters of the physical world, men build with their hands/strength.

Women are the masters of the spiritual world, they manifest beings from the spiritual world onto the physical one. Both men and women equally need each other.

“It will be found that Gender is in constant operation and manifestation in the field of inorganic matter, and in the field of Energy or Force” -The Kybalion

(10) LAW OF ONE: If you think because you look different than someone else, that makes you different, you are greatly mistaken. Your outside appearance is just a thin coat of paint covering the true YOU.

We are all ONE. We are all one energy. We are all part of the ONE MIND, we are all from the same SOURCE. We are all part of the Infinite Mind/Prime Creator. Separateness is just an illusion.

But it is real (to you) when you believe an illusion. If you don’t live your life according to these laws, you become selfish and you separate from your real self. You separate from your potential.

Your potential and abilities get buried deep within when you don’t know why you do the things that you do. You may have an idea of why you do the things that you do, but it is an illusion and a cheap way to live your life separated from other people.

Unite first yourself with your real self and then when you innerstand and are aligned with the real YOU, then you will automatically be united with everyone else of every species. Unless you live in ONENESS, you will continue to poison the rest of the species.

A computer cannot function with just 1s or 0s. Both are needed. The same applies to the Universe. Man’s phallus is shaped like 1, female’s vagina is shaped like 0. Both are needed to keep the ONENESS in perpetual balance with the Creation.

“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?” – Rumi

(11) LAW OF VIBRATION: There are high vibrations, but there are also low vibrations and many other variations in between. High vibrations consume low vibrations.

Love and compassion can consume fear, anger, revenge, hate, judgement etc. When you have a hateful, negative mindset it will consume you, it will consume Love.

Technically it cannot consume what isn’t available. It is how it is translated when you let yourself be consumed by the illusions called attachments/desires/distractions.

These will suppress the love that is within you, and when that happens you become lost and to balance it out the Universe will send you someone to undo what you did to yourself.

That someone could be a new friend, a new partner, a new co-workers or even a stranger you meet on the street. It takes a single sentence by someone to change your life.

Everything is a vibration. If that someone’s sentence toward you is of a genuine loving high vibrational intention, it will enter you and crack open the heart that was closed by the enemies (hate, unhappiness, greed, deceit, ungratefulness, ignorance etc.) and it will ignite the sparkle again.

When you are at the bottom (destroyed), you can only go up (rise again from the ashes). So, that sparkle will turn into a fire and can never again be put out.

By learning and living life according to these Universal laws you can only live-in peace, freedom, and prosperity. Until you innerstand and practice daily these Universal laws, you will be a slave, the Universe’s slave, meaning your own slave since you are the one that caused the Universe throw at you all the suffering.

It is time that you cause the Universe to reward you instead punishing you. Your vibration is a magnet, you will attract the same or similar vibrations that you release/emit out.

“From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule, to worlds and universes, everything is in vibratory motion” – The Kybalion

Even the early Buddhists Relativists (Vaibhashika) and Traditionalists (Sauntratika) schools accepted that gross phenomena like mountains, houses and so forth, exist only as imputation.

According to them, what we perceive, speak or do-both mind and mental functions-are fictional truths: whatever is established by the application of gross labels is considered to be fictional and illusionary .

But they also believe that there are basic particles that are not just nominal imputation but have actual substantial existence-that are ultimately real. An instant of consciousness, for example, is deemed to be a discrete indivisible entity, and therefore an ultimate truth.

Do not think that form can exist without the mind. Do not think that mind can exist without form. Accept neither both nor neither, said the Buddha, and that is elaborated in the Abhidharma.

All the phenomena of samsara and nirvana that arise as undeceiving appearances of interdependent causes and conditions are thus relatively real. In absolute reality, both subjective and objective aspects are inherently emptiness, which cannot be established, and which cannot be confirmed or elaborated as existence, nonexistence, both or neither.

People suffer because they are controlled by emotions and thought. But if you can control your emotions and your thoughts, than you create the life you desire, that of peace, freedom and prosperity.

If a person has committed a wrongdoing and asked for forgiveness, but gets angry every time their transgressions are raised, they should try to control their anger.

Anger reduces cognitive capacity, which makes it very likely for a person to say or do things that may hurt or harm others. The wrongdoer should concentrate on making sure that they do not offend people further when they are under the influence of anger.

Being attached to things or people is the root of all suffering. Being attached create havoc in your mind.

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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