Part 1
The Three Primary Forces and the Work of the Initiate
“Initiates are hated because they sing praises unto the Great Light. Initiates sing praises to the Great Light, even if the Darkness hates them. Pistis Sophia is hated because she loves the Great Light.
Let the Darkness cover the animal ego.
The administrator of the outermost darkness is the prince of this world, the iniquitous one, the Anti-Christ. Whosoever pronounces themselves against the Intimate Christ is the Antichrist.
The false, materialistic science has been created by the mind of the Antichrist. The Antichrist is the Machiavellian mind of the materialistic scientists who perform misleading miracles and prodigies. The evil mind of the dwellers of the Earth is the Antichrist.
The Antichrist’s humanity (which is this present humanity) will perish amidst fire and water. Thus, this is how the Antichrist will lose its power.
The same happens within the Initiate who wishes to return to the Thirteenth Aeon.
The Antichrist succumbs within the Initiate who returns to the Thirteenth Aeon. All the powers and the false light of the Antichrist will succumb within the Initiate.
The Initiate gains the crystallization of the superior forces of Nature and the Cosmos within themselves, replacing the Antichrist and its power. The three superior forces of Nature and the Cosmos are: Holy Affirmation, Holy Negation and Holy Conciliation. Positive, Negative and Neutral forces. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The emanations of the prince of this world are the red demons of Set. The matter or material of the prince of this world must remain without any light in it. The emanations of the prince of this world fall into the inferior chaos.
The lights, or percentages of Essence, which are bottled up within the ego, must be liberated by means of the annihilation of each part of the ego or ‘I’. The Divine Mother Kundalini must purify all light and take it from within each psychic aggregate.”
– From Ch.55 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Pistis Sophia, Mystical Death and the Misterium Magnum
“…Sophia (Wisdom), is a concrete result of a symbiosis of the mixture of Light with Darkness. The descent of the Logos into matter is made dialectically comprehensible by means of the Cosmic Drama.
The immersion of the Spirit into matter is dialectically explainable with the life, passion, death and resurrection of Christ within ourselves. Sophia is the result of the descent of the Logos into the Chaos.”
“Pistis Sophia cannot stand until she passes through the Buddhist Annihilation. The ‘New’ comes only through death. If the germ does not die, then the plant is not born.The fallen Initiate suffers the unspeakable.
The power of the Initiates decrease when they do not possess Mystery, that is to say, when they do not work in the Ninth Sphere (sex).
The “Misterium Magnum ” of the Universe resides in its seed, in its “Iliaster ”, and specifically in its “Limbus Magnum ”. The “Misterium ” of the tree resides in its germ. The “Misterium ” of a human resides in its seed.
Whosoever does not work with the “Misterium Magnum ” fails in the Great Work.
The Initiate who does not have a Hermetic Vessel must attain one in order to work in the Mysteries. Understand that the Hermetic Glass is the feminine Yoni for a man and the masculine Lingam for a woman.
The Mysteries of Lingam-Yoni must be cultivated in secret.
The laws of the number six teach that when an Alchemist does not possess a Hermetic Glass in good condition, then they must search for another one that will be in a perfect state, in order to work in the laboratory.
Nevertheless, not a single Alchemist can successfully use a Hermetic Glass without the will of the Father, who is in secret.
The Misterium Magnum of sex is terribly divine. Many are the learned ignoramuses who do not know the rules and procedures of the Sixth Arcanum.
The Pharisee ‘I’ of the learned ignoramuses who do not know the rules and procedures of the Sixth Arcanum, calumniate and condemn the Alchemist who takes a new Hermetic Glass.
The profane and profaners ignore the Mysteries of the Sixth Arcanum.
Foolish are the Adepts who renounce their laboratory work by obeying the learned ignoramuses.
The Adepts who are bottled up within moral prejudice and ethic codes renounce the use of a Hermetic Glass. Thus, they fail in the Great Work. A destroyed Hermetic Glass does not serve for the laboratory work.
The human matter of Pistis Sophia inevitably languishes because of the lack of light.”
–Paraphrase from Ch. 32 & 55 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
The Work with the Chaos
“In the inferior regions, the Initiate is lamenting and is searching for the Light that they have seen in the heights.
The Guards of the gates of the Aeons want to grant the Initiate the right to pass, but when they see the Initiate very much alive, they realize that the Initiate is not yet prepared.
Sophia is found in the sexual Chaos, in the brute Azoth. We must liberate Sophia from within the darkness of the Chaos. This is possible by transmuting the sacred seed into creative energy.
There exist two Chaos, the one from the Macrocosm and the one from the Microcosm.
The Chaos of the Microcosm is found in our sexual organs. In the Chaos of Creation, the elements and the principles, the Darkness and the Light, are found confused, intermixed, and without the possibility of one reacting over the other.
This is the reason why the Chaos in the figure of the world (which contains in itself the materials of our Hermetic Globe) has been painted by many artists. The Cosmos comes from the Chaos, and the Light from the Darkness.”
“The word Cosmos means ‘order’ and this is something that we should never forget.”
“In no way can the Cosmos and the Light emerge in the Macrocosm or in the Microcosm without the help of Pistis Sophia. However, Sophia wants to ascend up to the Thirteenth Aeon.The subjective reasoning within the intellectual animal is also a type of chaos where disorder reigns. Obviously, the chaotic disorder of subjective reasoning also overtakes Sophia, and totally alters her.
However, it is convenient not to confuse the authentic, venerable Chaos of sex with these types of intellectual and emotional chaos of the tri-cerebral biped, mistakenly called ‘human being’.
Sophia aspires to reach the Thirteenth Aeon. She does not want to be in the Darkness. Sophia waits for the Grace of the Uncreated Light to come and give her help.
Sophia wishes for the Light to turn its face towards her because she is suffering in the Chaos. Sophia wishes for the Light to save her luminous powers. Thus, Sophia must illuminate the Chaos.
…How could we perform the Great Work without Pistis Sophia?”
–Paraphrase from Ch. 32 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
and from Ch 1.03 ‘The K-H’ of Revolution of the Dialectic
The Aggregates of Pride and Vanity
“God abandons the one who marches on the path of perdition. When the son or child falls, then the Father withdraws. When the Father withdraws, then the son or child falls in disgrace.
The one who does not trust in the help of God, but in their material wealth and who has developed the psychic aggregate of vanity, falls into the abyss of perdition.
The psychic aggregate of vanity impedes the correct relation with the superior parts of the Being. Vanity is a relative of pride. Vanity is a charlatan. Pride is silent.
Someone will speak about certain things because of vanity, yet, will keep silent about them because of pride. By dint of pride, any wealthy person could have an antique car in their residence. However, because of vanity, this person would prefer to drive the latest model car.
Hurt vanity causes frightful suffering. However, hurt pride can cause death. When vanity and pride are united, they can perform monstrosities.
Vanity is also accustomed to being disguised with the costume of modesty. A vain painter or writer can appear in public displaying a costume of a beggar. When an artist is hurt in their vanity, then they are apt to fall into terribly painful situations.
A fruit bearing olive tree is like the one who works on themselves and who trusts in the grace of God from all eternity. The Lord knows how to pay well the one who trusts in His holy name.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.54 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Egoic Transactions and Understanding the Law of Karma in Action
“The tenebrous ones pay each other for the their works with black coins. These tenebrous sinners are the red demons of Set, upon whom Karma falls.
It is obvious that the Lion of the Law punishes the red demons of Set without consideration. The days are shortened for the red demons of Set, and others receive their sovereignty. Obviously Karma is terrible and many times the children of the perverse ones often become orphans and their wives often become widows.
The Lion of the Law is implacable and many times the children of the fiendish ones are often carried away and driven forth to beg. They are thrown out of their houses.
The moneylenders sift out the money from the perverse ones and strangers plunder all of their best efforts. No one has mercy for the orphans of perversity and no man takes pity on them. The children of the perverse ones will be exterminated and their name will be blotted out in a single generation.
The sin of the father of these children is before the Lord and the sin of their mother is not blotted out. Thus, Karma is in action.
The children of perdition will always be present with their sins. However, their memory will be rooted out from the Earth.
The perverse sinner never thought of using mercy for his neighbor and had persecuted the poor wretched man. Therefore, Karma will fall upon them.
The perverse one takes no pity on anyone and persecutes the sorry creature in order to slay it. The fiendish love cursing. Therefore, their cursing will fall upon them like a ray of vengeance.
The perverse ones desire no blessing. Therefore, blessings will always stay far from them. The perverse ones always clothe themselves with cursing, as with a vesture. Therefore, the curse shall then enter their bowels as water and as oil in their bones.
This disgrace is to the fiendish ones as a garment in which they shall be wrapped and as a girdle with which they shall ever be girded. This is the fatal work of those who slander Pistis Sophia and who speak unlawfully about the Initiates.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.56 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Part 2
Non-Tranquility, Comprehension and the Scope of the Great Work
“Those perverse ones are obviously within and outside of ourselves. Those who are within are the red demons of Set, living personifications of our psychological defects. The tenebrous ones who are outside of ourselves are those brothers of the tenebrous fraternity.
Obviously, the tenebrous powers fight to the death against the Initiates, trying to take them away from the path that leads to the Final Liberation. Only the Intimate Christ can help us. However, the Interior Lord can do nothing without the serpent.
All of us will be poor, wretched and miserable as long as we do not completely die. The hearts of those who have the ego alive and strong within their interior are in turmoil. Only the tranquil heart can give us true and legitimate happiness.
The purpose of profound interior meditation is to obtain true tranquility. It could not be possible to obtain the peace of the tranquil heart, as long as the psychological factors of non-tranquility exist within ourselves.
We explore the psychological ‘I’ during profound interior meditation. During profound interior meditation we propose only to integrally comprehend the psychological defect discovered in self-observation.
Each self-observed defect must be previously comprehended through meditation, before proceeding with its elimination.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.56 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Tranquility and the Methodology for the Elimination of the Ego
“Prayer and sexual magic are indispensable for the elimination.
We have to pray during the connection of the ‘Lingam-Yoni’, in the Ninth Sphere. In these instances, we will beg the Divine Mother Kundalini to disintegrate and eliminate the psychological aggregate, which we have previously comprehended.
Thus, by eliminating the factors of non-tranquility, we will attain complete tranquility. Only the tranquil heart can reach illumination and omniscience.
When the Boddhisattva reaches illumination, then they prepare themselves for omniscience. It is not possible to reach omniscience unless we previously learn to live between the absolute and the relative, between the mutable and immutable.
Those who have passed beyond the illuminated Void and the relativity of life, experience that which is called Tality. The Tality is the Great Reality of life, free in its movement. Only those who can willfully experience Tality receive the power of Omniscience.
No one can reach Omniscience without having reached the true reality of the tranquil heart.
There is a need to shake out and eliminate the psychic aggregates, like grasshoppers.
The knees of those who have ego tremble and their flesh is altered from lack of oil. How weak they are, those who have egoic consciousness. They tremble with fear.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.56 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
The Grace of the Intimate Christ
“The tenebrous ones mock the fallen Initiates. Only the grace of the Intimate Christ can save the fallen ones. Only the Lord has formed the hands of the fallen ones, and only He can save us.
The great Buddhist Annihilation is urgent, non-delayable, and unpostponable. We must die in all the levels of the mind, and pass beyond the Illuminated Void and the existential relativity of the Universe.
It is urgent to cease to exist within the heresy of separatism or in the joy of the illuminated Void.
It is unpostponable to Self-realize within ourselves that which is called “Tality”. The “Tality” is the Great Reality beyond perversity and holiness.
The saints can never exist within the womb of the “Tality”, which is beyond perversity and holiness. There is nothing in the “Tality” which can be called holy. The Great Reality is the Great Reality, the “Tality”.
The saints and the perverse ones revolve within the great Wheel of Samsara. Therefore, they are very far from the “Tality”. Nevertheless, we must be very careful with the psychic aggregate of self-merits.
The psychic aggregate of self-merits causes us to be newly born in Heaven or on Earth. The psychic aggregate of self-merits removes us far away from the “Tality”. We never obtain real merits, because the one who realizes the entire work truly is the Father.
The first principle of the Gnostic Doctrine is the “Tality” or Great Reality. The Intimate Christ must destroy the psychic aggregate of self-merits within ourselves, in order to take us to the “Tality”.
The Lord raises the fallen ones. Work with the Divine Serpent and the Lord will save you.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.56 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
The Great Work and the Self-Conscious Parts of our own Being
“The Divine Mother Kundalini usually extracts the Essence from within one or another psychic aggregate. When the Essence is extracted, the psychic aggregate converts itself into a corpse of the Chaos.”
“Some aggregates of the Chaos are only Kabbalistic bark. The corpses of the Abyss, which are without Essence, are bark (or cortex). The corpses or matters of the Chaos are slowly disintegrating.”
“These cases are an exception, because normally, the Divine Mother Kundalini slowly disintegrates the psychic aggregates before extracting the Essence.
The Light of Christ is within Sophia and she is within Him.”
“By itself, the Essence within each one of us could never perform all of the Great Work. It is necessary for the Rulers (which means the diverse, Self-Conscious and independent parts of our own Being) to work intensely in the Great Work.Only thus, when all the parts of the Being are working, can we reach the intimate Self-Realization.
The superior part of the Being must intensely help the Initiate, because if He (the superior part of the Being) does not help the Initiate, then the Initiate fails, and if the Initiate fails, then the superior part (or the superior parts) also fail.
The Initiate (Tiphereth) illuminated by Sophia looks towards the Height. He observes from the Chaos, and from the midst of the obscurity he awaits with infinite longing for his pair, for his Walkiria, for his Spiritual Soul (Geburah). However, the Initiate suffers because she has not yet arrived.
The Walkiria, the ‘beautiful Helen’, the Buddhi (Geburah), is like a fine and transparent glass of alabaster through which the Flame of Pragna burns.
To integrate oneself with the Walkiria, to be completely betrothed with the ‘beautiful Helen’, is only possible by means of Resurrection.
Unquestionably, all the Christic principles are found contained within Buddhi. When the Causal Man (Tiphereth) is integrated with Buddhi (Geburah), He becomes resurrected.
Man, the Human Being, in his totality, becomes illuminated with this complete integration. But, how difficult it is to obtain such an integration…
In no way is such integration possible without the previous elimination of the psychic aggregates that we carry within our interior.
The Causal Man is the true Human Being (the K-H or Kosmos Human), and the ‘beautiful Helen’ is His real wife.
The mental and astral bodies, as well as the physical vehicle with its vital base (the vital or etheric body) are only His vestures or robes.
…The Initiate, inebriated by Sophia, searches for Light, yet they receive Darkness. The Initiate wants power, yet what they receive is matter.The Rulers punish the Initiates for their own good. Nevertheless, the Archons also suffer from the effects of Karma.
The Rulers working in the Chaos suffer inexpressibly. They want to ascend and cry.
It is obviously necessary to work in the Chaos in order to have the right to rise towards the Light. Every ascent is preceded by a descent, and every exaltation is preceded by a terrible and frightful humiliation.”
–Paraphrase from Ch. 59 and 32 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Sacrifice for Humanity in order to Incarnate the Christ
“We must make a complete differentiation between the Sravakas and Buddhas Pratyekas on one side, and Boddhisattvas on the other.
The Sravakas and Buddhas Pratyekas only preoccupy themselves with their particular perfection, without caring a bit for this poor suffering humanity. Obviously, the Buddhas Pratyekas and Sravakas can never incarnate Christ.
Only the Boddhisattvas who sacrifice themselves for humanity can incarnate Christ. The sacred title of Boddhisattva is legitimately attained, only by those who have renounced to all Nirvanic happiness for the love of the suffering humanity.
Obviously, before the Boddhisattva is born, the Bodhisitta must be formed within ourselves. Furthermore, it is important to clarify the necessity of disintegrating the ego, the ‘I’, in order for the Bodhisitta to emerge.
The Bodhisitta is formed with the merits of love and supreme sacrifice for our fellowmen.
The Boddhisattva is formed within the environment and psychological atmosphere of the Bodhisitta.
We must not mistake the Bodhisitta with the Boddhisattva.
The Bodhisitta is the awakened and developed superlative Consciousness of the Being. The Bodhisitta emerges in the aspirant who sacrifices himself for his fellowmen; long before the Mercurial bodies have been created.
We could never convert ourselves into Boddhisattvas without the complete work of the Interior Andrew.
Any one can be a Sravaka or a Buddha Pratyeka with their Mercurial bodies, but this is not sufficient in order to be a Boddhisattva. Only those who have sacrificed themselves for the planetary humanities, through distinct Mahamanvantaras, deserve to be called Boddhisattvas.
H. P. Blavatsky conventionally referred to Boddhisattva as those who possess the superior existential bodies of the Being, or better said, Mercurial bodies.
However, in strict Orthodox Buddhism, only those who have the Bodhisitta in themselves and who have renounced all Nirvanic happiness for the love of humanity can qualify themselves as Boddhisattvas.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.55 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Part 3
Our Interior Andrew and the Great Work
“The Cross of Saint Andrew has the form of an ‘X’, which is the extraordinary hieroglyph of the luminous and divergent radiations that emerge from the Creator Logos.
The rose, symbol of the Solar Logos, shines in the center of the Cross of Saint Andrew. The Cross of Saint Andrew symbolizes illumination… revelation, after frightful sacrifices.
The Greek Cross and the Cross of Saint Andrew have the same significance in Hermetic science. It is not irrelevant to remember that the vertical ‘phallus’ within the formal ‘cteis’, forms a Cross. Phallus-uterus, when connected, forms a Cross.
Nevertheless, the Cross as an ‘X’ indicates the complete work in the Great Work.
The Work will have victoriously concluded, if the Rose shines on the Cross of Saint Andrew.
The perverse ones use their tongues in order to discredit the Initiates. With words of hatred, the fiendish ones slander the Adepts who work in the Great Work of the Father. Nevertheless, the Adepts respond to this infamy with love and bless those who damn them.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.55 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Summary and Conclusion
Let’s summarize what we have studied in this course:
The Ray of Creation in Descent
“God” or Divinity creates with the Word or Verb. This is related with the Logos (which means “Word” in Greek).
In the Gnostic Kabbalah, the Logic Triangle (or Triangle of the Logos) is the first manifestation outside of the Ain Soph Aur. It has 3 aspects: Kether, Chokmah, Binah; Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva; Father, Son (Christ), Holy Spirit.
These are also called the Three Primary Forces: Holy Affirming (or Active), Holy Denying (or Passive), and the Holy Reconciling or Conciliating (or Neutral).
Creation is only possible when these 3 forces work together. Often, the third force is not so easy to recognize without observation, since it is not always as ‘material’ or ‘physical’ as the first two. But whenever these forces work together, they always create something.
The Divinity creates with the “Law of Three” and organizes with the “Law of Seven”.
The Law of Seven corresponds to the seven notes of our western musical scale: DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI. After SI, then is another DO, which restarts the notes. For this reason, the Law of Seven and the Law of Octaves are almost the same. However, the Law of Octaves means DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI-DO (eight notes) and also reminds us of the ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ between certain notes.
If these ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ are not ‘filled’ by ‘Shocks’, then the direction of the line of notes (or the particular octave) curves and does not go in a straight line.
This brings us to the 2nd thing that the Law of Octaves refers to: the direction of the line of notes. Of which there are basically 2: Straight Line and Curved line (which reminds us of the Straight Path and the Spiral Path).
Therefore, we need to understand how and when to use ‘Shocks’ in order to continue directing the notes in a particular way.
Shocks are the means by which we can escape the mechanicalness of the Law of Octaves. Normally (naturally) nature is curved and only ‘Accidental Shocks’ happen to ‘fill’ the ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ at the corresponding places where they are necessary. We cannot rely on accidents for self-realization, so we must CREATE ‘Artificial Shocks’ (or ‘Conscious Shocks’).
Shocks allow us to continue our progress in a certain direction, and we must understand: how important they are and the difference between ‘Accidental Shocks’ and ‘Conscious Shocks’.
In Cosmic Octave of the Ray of Creation in Descent, the first ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ is filled by the ‘Will of the Absolute’ (or Our Common Father’s will). The second ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ is filled by ‘Organic Life on Earth’.
As human beings, humanoids, or intellectual animals, we form part of Organic Life on Earth. This means that we are in an ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ in the Cosmic Octave, not in a note.
Our role is to take in ‘influences’ (energies, vibrations, radiations, etc.) from the Worlds above (the ‘Planetary Worlds’ or notes which are above) and transform them so that they can be received in the World below (the Earth itself or the notes which are below).
In terms of nature, our existence is fulfilled if we are a good transformer of energies (that is, if we digest and retransmit those influences from above into ‘food’ for the Earth). Nature does not need us to self-realize, nor does it need us to work on ourselves at all. Nature does not require us to have our Solar Bodies or eliminate our Egos.
All nature needs is its ‘food’ and in the end, when our organism is no longer able to perform its function for nature, we will be swallowed up by the Earth. We could also refer to this as the ‘Wheel of Samsara’, although this also includes the different Kingdoms of Nature (atom, mineral, plant, animal, humanoid), as well as the Laws of Evolution & Involution, etc.
The Philosophical Earth (our Physical Organism) returns to the Physical Earth and that is all, unless we choose to apply ‘Shocks’ to ourselves…
So, if we want to be more than just an organic antenna (absorbing energies and retransmitting them), then we’ll need to study and understand the work that must be done in order for us to get off the Wheel of Samsara.
Before we talk about that, let’s finish up our understanding of the Ray of Creation in Descent.
When ‘matter’ or ‘substance’ is studied in the different Worlds (or notes), we look at it from the point of view of which force is acting through it. This refers to the 3 Primary Forces: either it is a substance that is the conductor of the Active force (called “Carbon”), or a conductor of the Passive force (called “Oxygen”) or a conductor of the Neutral force (called “Nitrogen”).
If we study the substance without considering the force acting through it, then we call it “Hydrogen”. Any substance can be considered a “Hydrogen” at any moment, because this simply means that we are not worried about the force active through it in that moment. Instead, we are more concerned with the type of matter or substance it is.
What are the different types of matter or substance? There are 12 fundamental types of matter (according to Gnosis) and those related to how the substance can be used and which World it is related to.
Substances with smaller numbers (like “Hydrogen 6”) are more refined that substances with larger numbers (like “Hydrogen 48”). A more refined substance means that it can be used in a higher World, whereas a less refined substance is of use in a lower World (or note in the Cosmic Octave).
If one wants to ascent to the Absolute, then one must learn to work with more refined substances and higher Worlds.
As Samael Aun Weor says in Ch.13 of Treatise of Sexual Alchemy:
“…if we wish to create our interior Universe, then we must create as God did when creating the Universe.”
Thus, we must understand the Law of Three, the Law of Seven and the Law of Octaves, as well as the different type of matter or substance and their correspondences, if we want to do the Gnostic Esoteric Work.
The Ray of Creation in Ascent
Now that we understand our position (as an organism in ‘Organic Life on Earth’), let study what must be done in order to get off the Wheel of Samsara. To do so implies paying all the Karma we owe, as well as creating our Solar Vehicles or Bodies and eliminating our Egos.
We are all born as Human Being #1, #2 or #3, that is: either as a #1 Motor-Instinctive person, or as a #2 Emotional person, or as a #3 Intellectual person. This corresponds to our ‘Center of Gravity’, which is a term that emphasizes the things we ‘gravitate to’ and ‘gravitate around’, as well as things that are associated together for a certain reason.
There are lots of different ‘Centers of Gravity’, not just which of the 3 Brains predominates in us. For example, a location geographically, a person in a social network, even Egos can be Centers of Gravity. This is a term that helps us understand why things group together in certain ways based on affinity.
If we want to change what we gravitate to and/or around, then we can do so, but we must realize that this is the beginning of fighting against nature. If we want to change from Human Being #1, #2, or #3, then we have to balance our centers (not letting one predominate) and let Balance become our new Center of Gravity. The Balanced person corresponds to Human Being #4.
Each of the 3 Primary Forces, which make up the Logoic Triangle have their Centers of Gravity as well.
For Kether (the Father), it is in the head (in Kether itself, and associated with the Logoic Triangle itself).
For Chokmah (the Son/Christ) it is in the Heart (in Tiphereth, and associated with the Ethical Triangle – Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth).
And for Binah (the Holy Spirit) it is in the Sexual Organs (in Yesod, and associated with the Magical Triangle – Netzach, Hod, Yesod).
Every Authentic or ‘Real’ Human Being has these three triangles in themselves, and so we should work to develop them within ourselves. The Logoic triangle is related with the Logos and the 3 Primary Forces. The Ethical triangle (or Triangle of the Son) is related with the Causal World or World of Causes.
Samael mentions that the Causal world is the world of Intuition, the world of Mathematics. This implies a relationship between Ethics and Mathematics. Reflect on this because Morals are not Ethics. Morals are like a ‘code’ of conduct that we mechanically adhere to often without knowing why. Ethics are based on calculations, on a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of the universe.
Morality, says Gurdjieff, consists of ‘Buffers’. Buffers are a means by which we can always be ‘in the right’ (that is: never ‘wrong’). Buffers hinder us from feeling ‘Shocks’ related to our behavior, thoughts, feelings, etc., and are therefore a hindrance to awakening the Consciousness.
We must be very careful of trying to convert Gnosis into a set of Rules that are mechanically followed, based on ‘Good’ and ‘Bad/Evil’. Remember that in pure Esotericism, ‘Good’ is everything that is in its place and ‘Bad/Evil’ is everything that is out of its place. If we simply see things as ‘Good’ and ‘Bad/Evil’, then this hinders us from Understanding (from Comprehending) the relationship Causes and Effects.
The Causal World is where Causes begin and the Physical World is where their Effects end. We should strive to Understand which Effects where produced by which Causes. Then we can progress Consciously.
The Magical Triangle is related to the 3 Brains (Netzach = the Mental World, the Mind and/or Superior and Inferior Intellect; Hod = the Astral World, Superior and Inferior Emotions; Yesod = the Etheric/Vital World, Motor-Instinct-Sex).
Gurdjieff tells us that “Magic is Doing”, which he contrasts with “Everything Happens”. ‘Doing’ means not just allowing what the forces of nature, of culture, of the egos, want to happen; it is to struggle against these forces. Therefore it is important to study what these means, not just in our Psychology, but also in the Human Organism itself.
The Human Machine is a 3-story factory that receives different types of ‘foods’ or ‘fuels’. These are physical food, air and impressions.
In a normally functioning person (#1, #2 or #3):
- Food (Hydrogen 768) converts into Hydrogen SI-12;
- Air (Hydrogen 192) converts into Hydrogen MI-48;
- and Impressions (Hydrogen 48) turns into Hydrogen DO-48, it doesn’t get converted into a higher Hydrogen.
This is the normal state of affairs for a person who is not applying ‘Artificial’ or ‘Conscious’ Shocks to themselves. If we choose ‘to Do’ (that is to modify the functioning of our organism by making special effort), then we can change this functioning to increase the production of higher Hydrogens. But in order to understand this we have to study how the machine works normally.
The normal Human Machines often has the ‘Wrong Working’ or ‘Incorrect Functioning’ of the Centers. This is often where our energy goes, and why we do not have energy at the end of the day. Technically, this is when one of the Inferior Centers steals the Sex Center’s fuel.
Each Center has its own “Engine”, that is: a particular speed that it ‘works’ (or processes information) and a specific fuel that it uses in order to function normally. The “Engine” of the ‘Intellectual Center’ is the slowest and also uses the crudest (or least refined) fuel: Hydrogen 48. The Emotional Center is the next fastest, along with the Motor and Instinctive Centers, which use Hydrogen 24 for their fuel. The Sex Center is the fastest and it uses the same fuel that it produces (Hydrogen SI-12) in order to function.
Since the Sex Center is the fastest and uses the most refined fuel, then this means it also has the fastest ‘burning’ fuel (Hydrogen SI-12). If the Sex Center’s fuel is used by other Center (such as the Emotional), then the corresponding “Engine” speeds up beyond its normal speed and this necessarily produces ‘wrong work’ or ‘incorrect functioning’. This is almost always what occurs in a normal person’s Human Machine.
After this type of ‘wrong working’ has occurred, if one tries to use the Sex Center’s “Engine”, then it cannot function properly (that is to say, at its normal speed), because the only fuel available for it to work is a less refined, slower burning, fuel (such as Hydrogen 24 or Hydrogen 48). Therefore, the Sex Center performs poorly and typically the operator of the Human Machine does not understand why. This is also called the ‘Abuse of Sex’ because, either the Sex Center’s fuel is stolen and/or it is forced to try and work with a fuel that doesn’t allow it to function properly.
When any “Engine” uses a fuel that is not its own, then this produces ‘wrong working’. So what does this ‘wrong working’ look like? The most common are: the expression of negative emotions, the misuse of the imagination, and the abuse of the center of movement. Since all of this is only possible through the stealing of the Sex Center’s fuel and using it improperly in another Center, then we could also call this a type of ‘Fornication’.
Often, the results of this ‘wrong working’ do not just remain in the Human Machine (with its corresponding Internal States), but end up causing us problems in the Outside as well. Through our Words and Actions, we create Causes and those have their related Effects.
Sex and the Ray of Creation
[coming soon]