Introduction - Common View
The common view we have of renunciation is that we have to
leave all that we have and all that we love. When we hear the word renunciation
images of ourselves leaving our home for the streets or for a third world
country come to mind, plus, how could I forget, a certain feeling of terror.
Well, the good news is that this is only one aspect of
renunciation and there are many other aspects that quite frankly are more
important and practical in relation to the work of mystical death.
This post is about the role and use of renunciation in the
work of mystical death.
Renunciation in the Work of Mystical Death
I will expand more on this point later in this post, however
to give you an idea, renunciation in the work of mystical death is really the
action of giving up the results of what the ego provides us with. It is a stage
of the mystical death that is very close to the elimination of the ego. When we
no longer have interest in what the ego brings to us that ego has no function
in our life and there is no reason to keep it alive in us. This actually is a
very advanced stage in the work of the ego and only can happen on a real and
sustainable basis when we the consciousness has understood that what the ego
brings is no longer needed and that the benefits of being without that ego are
far greater than having it.
Comprehension First
What we need above all in the work of mystical death is
conscious comprehension. Without it whatever effort we make towards mystical
death sooner or later fails. For example, we probably have all experienced the
following, we attend our Gnostic meeting and a practice on the death of the ego
is being led by our instructor. We recognise that we have to die in an ego
though we either feel that we don’t want to or either it is so hard to give it
up for one or another reason, and when our instructor gets to the stage of
asking the Divine Mother to eliminate it and asks that the group chant the
mantra KRIM, after the first KRIM the same ego we were meant to be working on
is already planning its next manifestation.
Another common experience is that after working on the ego
in a meditation style practice we given a few minutes just easily manifest the
same ego that we just worked on. The reason behind all if this is that there is
a lack of comprehension.
When we lack comprehension, true comprehension of eh
consciousness that is we feel that we don’t want to eliminate the ego, because
deeper down we feel that we need it and we can’t live without it.
Comprehension is the marvellous key that we need to open the
doors of progress in the dissolution of the many “I’s”. With comprehension we
can renounce to the benefits of the ego and see truly that we don’t them or
that we have them within our Being already. Comprehension gives us the magic
key, the magic phrase or sentence of comprehension that helps or gives us the
reason to press ahead in the dissolution of the ego.
Magic Phrase of Renunciation
With renunciation we guarantee our success. This is something
that I learnt actually while preparing a practice to give at a retreat on the Stations
of the Cross. I for some reason felt attracted to the tenth station of the
cross is where: “Jesus is stripped of his garments”.
Apparently in that station Jesus is being humiliated,
mocked, ridiculed and has completely surrendered his will. However, from the
esoteric point of view He is in complete control, the Christic force is fully
active sacrificing itself to fulfil the will of the Father. By completing this
act of renunciation Jesus (the Christ) secured his triumph as he fulfilled the
law of the path that states that every exaltation, is preceded by a
humiliation. By the voluntary act of being humiliated (renouncing his rights)
he was later exalted by rising from the dead.
In conclusion, what I learnt from the tenth station of the
cross that renunciation is your guarantee of success. It also gives the reason
as to why we have to dissolve or give up the ego. Because doing that we will
find success in the path and happiness will come to us.
When the ‘I’ fights terribly against us we have to say to it
“my renunciation of what you bring to me is my guarantee of success”. We
certainly know that this is true. If we have renounced the benefits that those
three factors: money, power and sex bring to us everyone knows that the person
will be spiritually successful.
When Are We Ready to Renounce?
The first indications that we are ready to renounce occur
when our consciousness has comprehended that there is at least one benefit to
be had by renouncing to that one ‘I’. As soon as we consciously see and feel
one benefit to dissolving that ‘I’ a door opens up before us. That door is the
door of option. Before this door opened up to us we had no option all that we
could do was the will of the ‘I’ but now we have a choice to make, do the will
of the ‘I’ or stop and not do the will of the ‘I’ and collect the benefit that
we know and understand exists for us.
If we once the door of option opens for us, what we must do
continually strengthen the understanding of the benefit and use it to
counteract the ‘I’ until the hypnotic grip that that ‘I’ has on us is broken.
Then the fight is over and renunciation and elimination can take place and the
ego is dead.
Renunciation Beyond Mystical Death
So far we have explained how useful renunciation is in the
process of mystical death. However, we would like to present the message that
the renunciation does not stop once we are mystically dead or dead in the ego.
From our understanding of the Gnostic teachings it appears
that renounicnation exists from this very moment until the moment where we are
about the enter the Absolute. There Master Samael says that the Gods have to
renounce to the right of existing before they can enter the Absoluter Abstract
Space. So renunciation is an action, actually we can qualify it as an act of
sacrifice, that needed for one’s whole path from this moment now to the end and
even while we (we that is fused with the Being) are inside the Absolute there
are levels and levels within the Absolute implying that even while the Being
(we fused with the Being) are inside the Absolute renunciation is needed to
move to the next level.
Even the Cosmocrators have to renounce to their role in
creation of being regents of a planet, and even the regents of a solar system
or of a galaxy have to renounce their role to move to a higher level of
development.
Conclusion
Work on deeply comprehending the benefits that the
dissolving an ‘I’ will bring to you and discover the payoff that the ‘I’ brings
to you and work on comprehending the truth of whether that is really needed or
not and be sure that it does not already exist within you. When you have
comprehension of these two mentioned factors (benefits of dissolution and the
“I’s” payoff) renunciation comes next and it will be processed naturally and
easily by your consciousness.
P.S – Another Way – Painful & Difficult
There is of course another way, which is much more painful
for the ‘I’. And that is to renounce without much comprehension and use will to
enforce the decision. The ‘I’ will struggle tremendously, and to quash it, we
have to work and suffer quite intensely (depends on the size and strength of
the ‘I’).
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