Who are we? Where do we come from, where are we going? What is the purpose of our existence? Why do we exist, why are we existing? The poor “mechanical animal” knows nothing about these important questions and this is painful.

Obviously, all of THIS IS MECHANICITY IS 100% LUNAR… You see the force that the Moon has: She produces the high and low tides, the Waxing Moon makes the sap of plants to rise to the top of the tree, and during the Waning Moon, the sap tends towards the roots. The Moon (whether it’s New, Waxing, Full, or Waning) influences us in a definitive way.

If you cut the wood during the Waxing Moon, you have one outcome and during the Waning moon, you have another result. The Ancients planted during the Waning Moon, and knew that the wood would be better, better fruits, etc. During the Waxing Moon everything tends to grow up, to ascend…

So, my dear brothers, Lunar Mechanicity is completely demonstrate-able; the Moon is like a weight that moves the whole Mechanism of Nature. We carry this Moon in our interior, this Mechanical PSYCHOLOGICAL MOON, and obviously this has a decided influence on our psyche… It’s time to comprehend all these things…”

Unquestionably, the Sun is higher than the Moon in the scale of worlds, and the Galaxy in which we live, is undoubtedly higher than the Sun, than the Moon, than the Earth.

But, again: Just as there is a visible and tangible Physical Universe, a radiant Material Universe, that the whole world can see, then, just the same, that there is a PSYCHOLOGICAL UNIVERSE within us; which means that within us we must create (in a similar form) our Psychological Universe.”

…To create oneself, such is the sublime vocation of man…”

We have a MECHANICAL CENTER and this is the basis of the mechanical energies of the Moon within ourselves. There is a need to create a CONSCIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL MOON; we must create a CONSCIOUS CENTER OF GRAVITY, instead of a Mechanical Center of Gravity.

If we intentionally create a Psychological type of Moon, a Conscious Psychological Moon, obviously we create, in fact, a Permanent Center of Gravity.”

Elaborating on this subject, we can say that: In order to create a Conscious Center of Gravity, a THIRD FORCE is necessary; and this Third Force is none other than the GNOSTIC CHRISTIC-ESOTERIC WORK.

Through this Third Force we make or create the Conscious Center of Gravity.”

KETHER: The Crown, upper part of the head
CHOCHMAH: Right side of the brain
BINAH: Left side of the brain

CHESED: In the right arm
GEBURAH: In the left arm
TIPHERETH: In the heart.

NETZACH: In the right leg.
HOD: In the left leg.
JESOD: In the sexual organs.

MALKUTH: In the feet.”

The first is the “LOGOIC TRIANGLE”;
the second you could call the “ETHICAL TRIANGLE”;
and the third is called the “MAGIC TRIANGLE”.”

The Second Triangle is Ethical; Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth.

The Third Triangle is Magical; Netzach, Hod and Jesod.

Malkuth, the Physical World, is a fallen Sephiroth.”

The center of gravity of the intellectual center is in the brain; the center of gravity of the emotional center is in the solar plexus and the heart; the centers of gravity of the moving and instinctive centers are in the spinal cord.”

‘Buffer’ is a term which requires special explanation. Buffers on railway cars are [like a sort of a bumper]. They are the devices which lessen the shock when carriages or trucks strike one another. If there were no buffers the shock of one carriage against another would be very unpleasant and dangerous. Buffers soften the results of these shocks and render them unnoticeable and imperceptible.

Exactly the same appliances are to be found within ourselves. They are created, not by nature but involuntarily by ourselves. The cause of their appearance is the existence in us of many contradictions; contradictions of opinions, feelings, sympathies, words, and actions.

If a person throughout the whole of their life were to feel all the contradictions that are within them then they could not live and act as calmly as we live and act now. They would have constant friction, constant unrest.

We fail to see how contradictory and hostile the different “I’s” of our personality are to one another.

If a person were to feel all these contradictions then they would feel what they really are. They would feel that they are crazy. It is not pleasant for us to feel that we are crazy. Moreover, a thought such as this deprives us of self-confidence, weakens our energy, deprives us of ‘self-respect’, etc.

Somehow or other a person must overcome this thought or banish it. We must either destroy the contradictions or cease to see and to feel them. Without working on ourselves, we cannot destroy contradictions. But if ‘buffers’ are created in us, we can cease to feel the contradictions and we will not feel the impact from the clash of contradictory views, contradictory emotions, contradictory words.

‘Buffers’ are created slowly and gradually. Very many ‘buffers’ are created artificially through ‘education’. Others are created under the hypnotic influence of our surrounding life. We are surrounded by people who live, speak, think, and feel by means of ‘buffers’. Imitating these people in their opinions, actions, and words, we involuntarily create similar ‘buffers’ in ourselves.

‘Buffers’ make our mechanical life easier. It is very hard to live without ‘buffers’. But they keep us from the possibility of inner development because ‘buffers’ are made to lessen shocks and it is only shocks that can lead us out of the state in which we live, that is, awaken us.

‘Buffers’ lull a person to sleep, they give them the agreeable and peaceful sensation that all will be well, that no contradictions exist and that we can sleep in peace. ‘Buffers’ are appliances by means of -which a person can always be in the right. ‘Buffers’ help us to not feel our conscience.

In ordinary life the concept ‘conscience’ is taken too simply (as if we had a conscience). Actually the concept ‘conscience’ in the sphere of the emotions is equivalent to the concept ‘consciousness’ in the sphere of the intellect.”

Consciousness is a state in which a person knows all at once everything that they know in general and in which they can see how little they do know and how many contradictions there are in what they know.

Conscience is a state in which a person feels all at once everything that they in general feel, or can feel.

And as everyone has within themselves thousands of contradictory feelings which vary from a deeply hidden realization of our own nothingness and fears of all kinds to the most stupid kind of self-conceit, self-confidence, self-satisfaction, and self-praise, then to feel all this together would not only be painful but literally unbearable.

If a person whose entire inner world is composed of contradictions were suddenly to feel all these contradictions simultaneously within themselves, if they were to feel all at once that they love everything they hate and hate everything they love; that they lie when they tell the truth and that they tell the truth when they lie; and if they could feel the shame and horror of it all, then this would be the state which is called ‘conscience’.

Without a lot of Psychological Work, we cannot live in that state; we must either destroy the contradictions or destroy conscience.

And we cannot destroy conscience, but if we cannot destroy it we can put it to sleep, that is, we can separate by impenetrable barriers one feeling of self from another: never seeing them together, never feeling their incompatibility, never experiencing the absurdity of one existing alongside another. But this state of conscience is very rare.”

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

For this it is necessary to destroy ‘buffers’, that is, to go out to meet all those inner sufferings which are connected with the sensations of contradictions.

Moreover the destruction of ‘buffers’ in itself requires very long work and we must agree to this work realizing that the result of our work will be every possible discomfort and suffering from the awakening of our conscience.”

Morality is always and everywhere an artificial phenomenon. Morality consists of various ‘taboos’, that is, restrictions, and various demands, sometimes sensible in their basis and sometimes having lost all meaning or never even having had any meaning, and having been created on a false basis, from the soil of superstition and false fears.

Morality consists of ‘buffers’. And since ‘buffers’ are of various kinds, and as the conditions of life in different countries and in different ages or among different classes of society vary considerably, so the morality created by them is also very dissimilar and contradictory.

A morality common to all does not exist. It is even impossible to say that there exists any general idea of morality, for instance, in America. It is sometimes said that there is a general morality for Christians, a ‘Christian morality’.

But first of all the idea of ‘Christian morality’ itself admits of very many different interpretations and many different crimes have been justified by ‘Christian morality’. And in the second place modern Christianity has very little in common with ‘Christian morality’, no matter how we understand this morality.”

What is necessary is conscience. Gnosis does not teach some false morality made of buffers. What it teaches is how to find conscience.

People are not pleased when they hear this. They say that we have no love. Simply because we do not encourage weakness and hypocrisy but, on the contrary, take off all masks.”

A human being with ‘buffers’ may be very moral. And ‘buffers’ can be very different, that is, two very moral people may consider each other very immoral. As a rule, we can say that the more ‘moral’ a person is, the more ‘immoral’ they think other moral people are.

The idea of morality is connected with the idea of good and evil conduct. But the idea of good and evil is always different for different people. The concept of good and evil is always subjective in Human Being №1, Human Being №2, and Human Being №3, and is connected only with a given moment or a given situation.

A subjective person can have no real concept of good and evil. For a subjective person, evil is everything that is opposed to their desires or interests, or to their concept of good.

One may say that evil does not exist at all for subjective people, what exists are only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as they understand it. But everybody understands it in a different way.

Consequently people drown, fight, and kill one another in the interests of good. The reason is again just the same: the human being’s ignorance and the deep sleep in which we live. This is so obvious that it even seems strange that people have never thought of it before.

However, the fact remains that they fail to understand this and everyone considers their good as the only good and all the rest as evil. It is naïve and useless to hope that people will ever understand this and that they will evolve a general and identical idea of good.”

If a human being understands that they are asleep and if they wish to awaken, then everything that helps them to awaken will be good and everything that hinders them from awakening, everything that prolongs their sleep, will be evil.

But this is so only for those who want to awaken, that is, for those who understand that they are asleep.

Those who do not understand that they are asleep and those who can have no wish to awaken, cannot have an authentic understanding of good and evil.

And as the overwhelming majority of people do not realize and will never realize that they are asleep, neither objective good nor objective evil can actually exist for them.”

Different types of energies that evolve, devolve, and that are in an incessant transformation exist within every human being. Therefore, to justify a specific type of energy and to condemn another is to not comprehend. Thus, what is vital is to comprehend.

Among humanity, the experience of the truth has been very rare due to the concrete fact that their minds are bottled up within the opposites, “good and evil”.

The revolutionary psychology of all Gnostic movements is based on the study of the different types of energies that operate within the human organism and within nature. The Gnostic movement has a revolutionary ethics that has nothing to do with the morality of reactionary people bottled up in the good and evil of their subjective reasoning.

Evolving (or evolution), devolving (or involution), and neutral forces exist within the psycho-physiological laboratory of the human organism; these forces must be studied and profoundly comprehended.

The term “good” hinders the comprehension of the evolving energies (due to justification), as does the term “evil” for the devolving forces (due to condemnation). To justify or condemn does not signify comprehension. Those who want to put an end to their defects must neither justify nor condemn them. It is essential to comprehend our errors.

To comprehend anger in all the levels of the mind is fundamental, so that serenity and sweetness are born within us.

To comprehend the infinite shades of covetousness is indispensable, so that philanthropy and altruism are born within us.

To comprehend lust in all of the levels of the mind is vital in order for true Chastity to be born within us.

To comprehend envy in all the areas of the mind is enough in order for the sense of cooperation and the joy for other’s well-being & progress to be born within us.

The comprehension of pride in all of its shades and degrees is the basis for the exotic flower of humility to be born within us in a natural and simple manner.

To comprehend that element of inertia called laziness —not only in its grotesque forms but also in its more subtle forms— is indispensable so that the sense of activity can be born within us.

To comprehend the diverse forms of gluttony and greediness is equivalent to the termination of all of the vices from the instinctual center, namely, banquets, drinking sprees, hunting, carnivorousness, fear of death, desires to perpetuate the “I”, fear of being annihilated, etc.

Nevertheless, teachers of schools, colleges, and universities advise their students to improve themselves, as if the “I” could become better; they advise them to acquire specific virtues, as if the “I” could attain virtues, etc. It is essential to comprehend that the “I” can never improve, the “I” can never be better; consequently, the one who covets virtues strengthens their “I”.”

For instance: water is good in its place, but if the water is out of place, if it floods the house, then it would cause damage; it would be bad and harmful.

Likewise, fire in the kitchen, when in its place, besides being useful, is good. Yet, the fire out of its place, burning the furniture of the living room, would be bad and harmful.

Thus, any virtue, no matter how holy it might be, is good in its place; yet, it is bad and harmful out of its place. We can harm others with our virtues. Therefore, it is indispensable to place virtues in their corresponding place.

What would you say about a priest who preaches the Word of the Lord inside a brothel?

What would you say about a meek and tolerant male who blesses a gang of assailants attempting to rape his wife and daughters?

What would you say about that type of tolerance taken to such an extreme?

What would you say about the charitable attitude of a man who, instead of taking food home, shares his money among beggars who have a vice?

What would be your opinion of a helpful man who, in a given moment, lends a dagger to a murderer?

Remember, dear reader, that crime also hides within the rhythm of poetry. There is much virtue in the perverse one and as much evil in the virtuous one. Even though it may appear incredible, crime also hides in the very perfume of prayer.

Crime disguises itself as a saint. It uses the best virtues; it presents itself as a martyr and even officiates in the sacred temples…”