Three Factors
The essential point of the Gnostic teachings is the
revolution of consciousness. That essentially means a huge change in our
knowledge, understanding, perceptions and ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
The three keys to apply to arrive at such a revolution are
what is known in Gnosis as the “Three Factors”.
The three factors consist of three separate keys which for
best results should be applied together in a balanced and equal way. This is
because they are all intimately related.
The three factors are: death
(first factor), birth (second
factor) and sacrifice for humanity
(third factor).
Mystical Death and the First Factor
Mystical Death is the entire first factor. Truthfully speaking,
only really through mystical death do we change and transform ourselves into
something different.
As Master Samael says so many times in his works “that only
by death can the new arrive” or in other words “the seed must die for the tree
to be born”. So we need to die mystically or psychologically if we want in
truth a real transformation.
We in fact learn much more through dying then through birth,
Master Samael says. Death frees us and teaches us so many truths, that is
because death is really the process of realising the truth about ourselves and
the cosmos. By knowing the truth we die (psychologically, mystically) and we are
as Jesus the Christ said set free( “the truth will set you free.”).
First Factor Pays the Most
Of all the three factors that one that pays the most is the
first factor that is mystical death. This is because we remove the causes of
our errors, or in other words the causes that have led us to create karma. The more
we die mystically the more also we benefit ourselves and others. There is also
great merit involved in dying mystically, it is not easy and requires great
sacrifice and conscious efforts much more so than those involved in the second
and third factors.
We can also as a side issue, always find the first factor,
that is death, in the other two factors. To work in the second factor we need
death and to work in the third factor we also need death as well.
Third Factor Helps the First Factor
The work of the third factor, which is among many things,
the work of giving others spiritual help and light. When we give to others we
will receive what we give back, and this help if we teach others true Gnosis (that
is transformation through mystical death and transmutation) we receive our
payment in a form that helps us to advance in our ,mystical death.
First Factor Helps the Second Factor
The more we die in pride and lust the better we are able to
transmute and the cleaner and more refined our transmuted sexual energy is.
This pure energy goes to make the kundalini awaken and ascend, and also to heal
us and is much more potent when used in the death of the ego.
Summary
We hope here that we have got the point across that mystical
death is very important, that is the key to change and it is the only thing
that gives us anything that we can take with us to the next life. All other
efforts perish in time. It is really the best thing that we can do for ourselves
and others in life, and for ourselves before the Great Divine Law.
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