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Redemption of the Adamic Man by Manly P. Hall
Man, the banished Adam, seeks to pass from the outer court of the Sanctuary into the sanctum sanctorum, but before him rises a vast creature armed with a flashing sword that, moving slowly but continually, sweeps clear...
Human Nature, Divine Nature, and Artificial Nature
"While he desires to quench his thirst, a different thirst is created. While he drinks he is seized by the vision of his reflected form. He loves a bodiless dream. He thinks that a body, which is only a shadow. He is...
A Day is a Life
Every day is a microcosm of our life. In the morning when we wake up we are born. The day unfolds with all of our various activities and within that we try always to raise our level of being. At the end of the day the...
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Universal Gnosis
Human Nature, Divine Nature, and Artificial Nature
"While he desires to quench his thirst, a different thirst is created. While he drinks he is seized by the vision of...
A Day is a Life
Every day is a microcosm of our life. In the morning when we wake up we are born. The day unfolds with all of our...
Gnosis is Transcendental Knowledge
Image: from The Red Book by Carl JungCreation is Sacred All religious cosmologies start with a nothingness, a void....
Doctrine of the Eye and Doctrine of the Heart
We would like to share this wonderful passage from Samael Aun Weor's book Zodiacal Course. We dedicate this...
Gratitude and Giving Thanks
Gratitude Sunny days, moonlit nights, gratitude for good and bad fortune.-Transcendental Axiom: Arcanum 78 We must...
Gnostic Psychology
Why Pride Misses the Mark
Pride is one of the 7 classical deadly sins. Sin is translated from the Greek hamartia which means "to miss the mark",...
Spiritual Bypass
Spiritual bypass can be defined as using spiritual or religious concepts, dogma, or jargon to attempt to overcome...
Concentration and the Inner Work
Concentration To concentrate means to focus, to eliminate that which is extraneous, to make stronger and more potent....
The Internal Liberation
Tyranny The cruel and unjust use of power haunts human history. Tyranny is the imbalance of the sacred forces of...
Conscious vs Mechanical Revolutions
To revolutionize means to generate a complete rotation, to change the entire orientation of the subject, whether it is...
The Christic Path
Redemption of the Adamic Man by Manly P. Hall
Man, the banished Adam, seeks to pass from the outer court of the Sanctuary into the sanctum sanctorum, but before him...
The Broad and Narrow Way
This interesting picture comes from Germany by way of England in the Victorian era. It depicts the Biblical concept of...
Carrying the Cross
"Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and...
The Gnostic God
For the Gnostic, God can be known and experienced God is the multiple perfect unity. Described in the polytheistic...
Particles in Pain
"Religion, the Buddha, Wisdom, the particles in pain of our Father who is in heaven, and all the information we need...
Divine Mother
Miracles of the Divine Mother
In the early 1960s a series of miracles with the Virgin Mary occured in a tiny village in Spain called San Sebastian...
The Virgin of Carmel by Samael Aun Weor
The following is the entire first chapter of The Book of the Virgin of Carmel by Samael Aun Weor. This extraordinary...
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary prayer, famously the Ave Maria in Latin, is a traditional Catholic prayer with deep roots in the ancient...
Stella Maris: Star of the Sea
"If we want to atomically disintegrate the psychic aggregates which we carry within our interior, then we need a power...
Divine Mother Death
Divine Mother Death is a part of our intimate internal Being. She is a part of the cosmic order of everything. The...
Cosmic Laws
Love Transcends Time
Jesus Christ, when asked what was the greatest commandment of Moses, replied, "'Love the Lord your God with all your...
Why We Circle Back: The Labyrinth and the Law of the Octave
Everything in nature moves in a curved line, which eventually returns back to where it started. Our daily life repeats...
The Mysterious Number Thirteen
There is a mystery around the number 13, this post will explore some of the esoteric meaning behind this number to...
The Seven Cosmos
“The Word fertilizes the waters of chaos in a sexual marriage at the dawn of life. Thus are galaxies and worlds born.”...
Nature’s Living Scripture
All things ebb and flow, the cycles of the moon and Sun, the ocean tides, the rhythms of all our body functions. There...
Kabbalah
The Seed of the Tree of Life
“Behold, a sower went forth to sow.And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside; and the fowls came and devoured...
The Sephiroth
The Sephiroth are the spheres depicted on the Tree of Life. The word Sephirah (plural Sephiroth) literally means...
Kabbalah: Origins
To Receive "The Kabbalah is the science of numbers. The author of the Tarot was the angel Metraton. He is the Lord of...
The Fruits of the Tree of Life
Each sephirah on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a state of consciousness, a jewel, a virtue of our internal Being....
The Map of Creation
The Tree of Life is a map of the higher and lower dimensions of the universe, used in the study of Kabbalah. The Tree...
Eastern Way
Citipati
Citipati is the name of a Tibetan Buddhist deity formed by two skeletons, male and female, with their legs...
The Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths are foundational teachings of the great master Shakyamuni Buddha. "I teach suffering, its...
Taoist Cosmology
"Tao is empty- Its use is never exhausted Bottomless- the origin of all things… Deeply subsistent- I don’t know whose...
The Buddhic-Christic Path
Buddhism is silence. Christianity is the Word. Gnosis is knowledge, insight, direct knowing. This is a universal...
Reflections on Zen Meditation
The Venerable Tradition of Zen Zen is the spiritual progeny of both Buddhism and Taoism. Zen contains the radical...
Alchemy, Love, & Sex
Spiritual Values and Sexuality
What does it mean to have spirituality in harmony with sexuality? Spiritual or religious traditions that require...
Sex and Love
Image: Artist and his Bride by Marc Chagall “It is written with burning coals in the extraordinary book of life that...
To Love
"God as Father is wisdom. God as Mother is love. As Father, God resides within the Eye of Wisdom. The Eye of Wisdom is...
The Esoteric Purpose of Sex
“And I am the strength of the strong, devoid of lust and attachment. O best of the Bharatas, I am sex not contrary to...
Stages of Alchemical Transformation
"First of all, the Stone is black, because the Alchemist must enter the...
Gnostic Schools
The Fourth Way
The Fourth Way is a spiritual path first taught by Gurdjieff and continued in the gnostic teachings of Samael Aun...
On Esoteric Societies
Spiritual Regeneration The study and practice of esotericism and gnosticism has the goal of the spiritual regeneration...
What is a Gnostic Missionary?
In the modern gnostic movement of Samael Aun Weor the teachings are facilitated by individuals known as missionaries....
Fees for Esoteric Teachings
The Axiom that Esoteric Teachings Be Shared Freely It is an important axiom that esoteric teachings be shared freely....
The Three Jewels: Master, Teaching, and Community
"They go to many a refuge, to mountains, forests, parks, trees, and shrines: people threatened with danger. That's not...
Elementals of Nature
Magic of the Artemisia Plant
"This plant must be harvested at 12:00 midday on Good Friday. First, the magician will trace a circle around the...
Elemental Practice with the Peppermint Plant
The elemental, or spiritual intelligence, of the peppermint plant has properties that can help to awaken the...
The Alchemy of Sulphur
The three basic components of alchemical transformation are fire, water, and earth. These components are manifested in...
Elemental Magic of the Pumpkin Gourd
The elemental or plant spirit, of the pumpkin gourd many attributes, associations and powers. Samael Aun Weor in his...
Elemental Magic of the Rose
The rose is the queen of the flowers and possesses a wonderful magic that can heal our hearts from emotional pain....
Greco-Roman Deities
Pandora’s Gift
In Greek mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman, similar to the Judeo-Christian Eve. She was created by the god...
The Muse
Hesiod and the Muse by Gustave Moreau "I will begin with the Muses and Apollo and Zeus. For it is through the...
Phosphorus and Hesperus
The planet Venus accompanies the Sun in a close apparent orbit, showing up just before dawn, and called by the Greeks...
Athena Goddess of Wisdom
"Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves deeds of war, the sack...
The Forge of Vulcan
"Sing, clear-voiced Muse, of Hephaestus famed for inventions. With bright-eyed Athena he taught men glorious crafts...
Old Testament
The Gnostic Eden
Eden "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the...
The Leviathan
In the Depths The leviathan is found in many religions and mythologies as a mysterious creature of the oceans....
Melchizedek: Genie of the Earth
"He is the God who sits in the center, on the navel of the earth and he is the interpreter of religion to all...
The Ark of Noah
Levels of Understanding The story of the ark of Noah from the book of Genesis can be understood on many levels: as a...
The Two Trees in Eden
"And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree...
Zodiac, Astrology, & Sacred Calendar
Eclipses in Gnostic Esoteric Psychology
Eclipse Astronomy A solar eclipse is the astronomical phenomenon in which the Moon is aligned between the Sun and the...
Candlemas, Imbolc, Groundhog Day
Imbolc and the Corners of the YearTraditional cultures saw the natural interplay of light and darkness throughout the...
John the Baptist and Mystical Death and Rebirth
Artwork: The Apparation by Gustave Moreau "In the Summer Solstice the celebration of Saint John the Baptist takes...
The Sun: The Central Point
The Sun by Edvard Munch "At daybreak, when thou arisest on the horizon, When thou shinest as the Aton by day, Thou...
Zodiacal Plants
From Esoteric Medicine and Practical Magic (previously published as Occult Medicine and Practicel Magic) by Samael Aun...
Poetry, Books, & Authors
A Prayer
May all Essences find their own peace. May all Essences know their interconnectedness. May all Essences be able to...
God is Pressure
"Those who have penetrated furthest into the Unseen have given us the symbolic descriptions by means of which we may...
Keeping Quiet
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the...
Virgin of Montserrat
Under the Black Madonna Virgin of the unhewed rock each prayer a star a wish a hope. I take refuge in the heat of...
A Letter to Life
"A person is what his life is. That which continues beyond death is life. This is the meaning of the Book of Life that...
Mantras & Prayers
Prayer for the Irradiation of Love
Cultivating a positive internal state is necessary for the Gnostic path. This means to be as conscious as possible,...
Prayer in the Work
"To pray is to converse with God and certainly one has to learn to converse with the Father, with Brahma." -Samael Aun...
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary prayer, famously the Ave Maria in Latin, is a traditional Catholic prayer with deep roots in the ancient...
The Lord’s Prayer
The Lord's Prayer, taught by Jesus Christ to his disciples, is a beautiful supplication containing profound wisdom,...
O AO Kakof Na Khonsa
"The Divine Mother is not a woman, nor is she an individual. She is in fact an unknown substance. Any form that...