How Karma Rules Mystical Death

Introduction

We commonly think that the process of mystical death progresses according to how deep our comprehension is, and due to our comprehension, how much essence the Divine Mother is able to free in us. This idea we know is correct because we have all experienced it to be this way, however there are some exceptions. These exceptions are special cases because lying behind them are certain karmic debts, and as you will read later on in this article they can not be worked upon in the usual way they require in fact a different procedure.

Symptoms

These exception egos mentioned above, are known to us when we put a lot of effort into our practices of mystical death and we feel we have acquired a large knowledge and deep comprehension of that ego and yet we don’t experience any progress in its dissolution. In fact we still find it very difficult to separate it from our psyche, it may take us by surprise and no matter how hard we try at times to get it out of our human machine it stays there until it seems it decides to go. Honestly, we really suffer with these egos. They quite often humiliate us, where everyone is happy and enjoying an events we are suffering indescribably with this ego and in many cases we can’t function normally as everyone else does. Even those who are not working on themselves seem to function much better in the events where we are overcome by that ego. There are really terrible moments of suffering in which we think that we are never going to be able dissolve that ego and we will have it forever. In short when we are experiencing any of these tell-tale symptoms we are dealing with a karmic ego.

The Why of these Symptoms

The reason why we experience the symptoms described above is because we say, there is or are karmic debts behind that ego, which cause us to suffer and prevent us from advancing in its elimination. In fact we won’t be able to advance in its elimination until we pay those debts.

Actually, from the experience of many, working on egos that have a karmic debt attached to them is difficult and painful. People usually suffer when working to eliminate those egos. Actually many people spend years fighting with the ego, to only after much suffering be really able to comprehend it deeply and then by the grace of the Law and the work of the Divine Mother see it gradually die within them.

Karmic Egos

Generally speaking a karmic ego is one, which being identified with, lead us to make serious mistakes for which we accrued karmic debts. In other words, with these egos we harmed others and or ourselves creating a debt that we to balance or compensate.

There are several egos that we all carry within and that in the past being hypnotised by these ego we created karmic debts. Those egos are typically anger, pride and lust. There could quite easily though be other egos that have karmic debts behind them such as the egos of selfishness, laziness, theft, greed, adultery, etc.

There is also something curious here, that often these karmic egos actually become karmic instruments, that is instruments that the karma or the law uses to make us to suffer, and one definite karmic instrument is fear or anxiety. When we experience an intense, uncontrollable fear for no real reason, we are paying karma. Fear and karma are intimately linked, we hope to expand upon this in a future article.

We may work hard on a karmic ego and weaken it, though because it has the support of the law behind it that ego regains its strength. Often these karmic egos are detrimental to our health they us suffer physically, vitally, emotionally, mentally, morally etc. in nearly it seems all the ways.

Three Classes of Egos

Karmically speaking we can classify all of our egos into three classes, that is egos that are karmically neutral, negative and positive.

There are egos in us that are neutral that is when we identify with them and allow them to act they don’t create karmic debts. An example would be an ego of driving or playing chess or knitting etc.

There is another class of egos often called the “good egos” that sometimes do good things for others and therefore don’t create karmic debts, however most of the time, because those egos have conditioned consciousness inside them they don’t really know how to do good in the right moment and so identified with them we make many mistakes. They though are not as bad as the class of egos commonly called the “bad egos” that really do create karma for us.

Finally, there is the class of egos that do evil, that is that harm others and ourselves. These egos are essentially the source of all our karma. Our Principle Psychological Profile also known as the P.P.P is the ego responsible for our fall so logically it is a karmic ego and behind it are enormous karmic debts.

In summary the bad egos are the karmic ones and the good egos could also be karmic as well as they have been the cause of many mistakes. There is a saying that says “the path to hell is paved with good intentions”. Many of the good intentions that we have come from the good egos, and unfortunately if we lack the consciousness to drive or direct those good intentions to productive result we end up making many mistakes small and large.

Karmic Egos and Karmic Debt

Because with the karmic egos we have created karmic debts the administrators of the law of karma (masters and judges of the cosmic law) have to find a way to make us to balance, compensate or pay those karmic debts, and it turns out that the main way of paying those karmic debts is by suffering in the work of the separation, comprehension and elimination of that ego.

We have to suffer what those egos have given to others. Meaning we have to have that ego produce pain in us to the same degree that it has produced in another. That is why somehow magically our capacity to separate, comprehend and eliminate is blocked or rendered ineffective, because if we could say easily separate that ego from us we wouldn’t suffer and the pain that we have caused others would never be felt.

So for that reason our capacity to progress in the elimination of these karmic egos is controlled by the law, we can only really progress when the karmic debts have been cleared, and we pay those karmic debts with pain or suffering.

The good thing to know is that there is a limit to the pain or suffering we can experience from the ego and it is controlled by the law, meaning that it can be negotiated or modified. This brings an added esoteric dimension to the work on the ego. Really the work with the karmic egos is esoteric they can not only be treated psychologically.

Working on the Karmic Egos

As alluded to in the previous section, the karmic egos must be worked upon differently, by adding an extra esoteric dimension to that work, which is the work with the cosmic law, which essentially is to negotiate the payment of the karmic debt. There are three phases involved in this work, the first is repentance, the second is negotiation and the third is pardon.

Repentance, Negotiation and Pardon

The first stage repentance must be the first stage, it is essentially the preparation for this work with the cosmic law. Through our comprehension of the ego we have to know that it is wrong, that its action only leads to pain and we fully accept the responsibility for the harm we have caused. Here we have to show that we are sincerely sorry for that the actions of that ego and for having created that ego. If we feel this we are ready to work with the law as it is obvious and clear to all that we want to eliminate it and pay the debt we have incurred.

The second stage is to make several petitions to the law asking them to give us wisdom, strength and vitality in order to be able to dissolve this ego. We can even make an agreement with the law where we may pay the karmic debt in instalments.

The third stage rests on the side of the law where after having paid the karmic debt behind that ego we are pardoned and the way to eliminate that ego is laid clear for us.

Mystical Death in the Three Mountains

The aim of this article is to provide an understanding of the process of mystical death undertaken by the initiate in the path of the three mountains.

Misconceptions

In our study of Gnosis, we typically think that the person who makes it to the top or end of the first is very much dead and the person who makes it to the top or the very end of the second mountain is completely dead. We may even for a while think, that our process of mystical death depends entirely on our own efforts and is a process that takes place independent of the path. However, when we have the very rare opportunity (one that we must sincerely be grateful for) to observe one well advanced in the process of mystical death, we see that our concepts of the way the process of mystical death advances is not exactly the same way that it happens in reality.

Mystical Death is Processed by the Path

Mystical death is processed on the path, it is a part of the path. The path didactically takes the initiate through an ever deepening process of mystical death that culminates with the complete death of the ‘myself’ or all the egos or psychic aggregates.

Mystical Death in the First Mountain

There is the death that takes place in the first mountain and there is the death that takes place in the second mountain. The first mountain has been called the mountain of birth, it can also be called the mountain of definition. From these synthetic names of the first and second mountains we can see that the major emphasis of the work in the first mountain is birth or definition. The first mountain is about defining and establishing one’s position in relation to: one’s self-realization, one’s intimate Christ and one’s inner Being. In the first mountain the bodies are created, the human soul is incarnated and through the process of the initiations one learns in a relative degree how to control the physical and vital bodies (movement, action), the astral body (emotions, feelings), the mental body (the mind) and the causal body (the will) all culminating in the submission of one’s will to the father.

There is death in the first mountain and there is death in every initiation, just as master Samael said, in every initiation something dies and something is born. However, at the end of the first mountain the person is still very much alive in relation to both faces of the psychological moon, that it is the visible and invisible face of the psychological moon. There most likely would have been some death of the aggregates of the invisible face of the psychological moon, however a large part of it will remain intact. The visible face will have definitely been extensively touched by the process of mystical death, however it is also possible that some egos of the visible side of the psychological moon may well remain with the initiate/master well into the labours of Hercules in the second mountain.

Mystical Death is Important in the First Mountain

We must stress that the most important thing in the work or in the path is mystical death. Even if the mystical death is not the major or predominating factor of the first mountain it must be applied at every point of the path so as not to fail. Mystical death is perhaps most needed when one is a ‘man’ in the esoteric sense of the word. That is when one has the power of the bodies and feels that he/she can act independently on their own despite the will of the Being. That is where the danger lies, so mystical death is needed to radically reduce the personal egotistical will so to be able to do and obey the will of the father.

Mystical Death in the Second Mountain

In the second mountain, there are nine plus seven plus eight, totalling twenty four stages of death. These stages are the nine labours of Hercules, the 7 terraces of Purgatory and the 8 individual years of Job. During the nine labours of Hercules many egos die, mainly those egos of the invisible or hidden side of the psychological moon. Some of the egos of the visible side of the psychological moon may die as well or be weakened to the point of being very close to death.

In the labours of the seven terraces of purgatory where the seeds of the egos are fried, even then these egos continue to exist during the labours of the eight years of Job. For example in the labours of purgatory the seeds of pride are fried and then pride continues to exist in the physical body and has to be worked upon and dissolved in the eight years of Job. Actually in the first year of Job is where all the egos of the physical body are dissolved.

We even know that for only reasons the Being of the individual knows the order in which the egos of the bodies are worked can vary from the classical order, which is physical, vital, astral, mental, causual, Buddhic and Atmic. For example the egos of the astral body could be worked upon in the first year and the other egos of the other bodies in later years.

Death in the Third Mountain

In the case of Master Samael, he had finished here the second mountain and was completely dead, he did not have one ego alive in his interior. So when we passed onto the work of the third mountain he was completely dead. However, everyone’s path is different. It can well be the case that at the end of the second mountain the Being (Intimate Christ) of the master or person resurrects and the person or master may not be 100% dead in the ego yet. Though the person will be very close to being so. At the culmination of the third mountain the master or person will be completely dead. This can only be that way to be able to incarnate Kether, the Elder of the Days.

When is the Best Time to Die?

Any Moment

The truth is that we can use any moment to die in ourselves.

We really should not limit ourselves to a special time of the day to die. Why not? Because, there are so many moments in our day for example that offer us precious opportunities to die, and by the time that special moment that we use to die comes, we will have forgotten the precious details of that manifestation.

The key to dying at any moment is action! We have to decide in the moment to take the necessary action to die, which often is the action of doing the opposite of the ego. In the case of thoughts and concepts we still have to take action in the form of begging the Divine Mother to disintegrate that concept or way of thinking.

Practices of Death

We can of course set aside a time of the day, an hour say in the morning or at night to do practices of mystical death. And most certainly these practices really help us to die.

The more of these we do the better and in fact sometimes when we can’t die in the moment the more of these practices that we do the better we prepare ourselves to die in the critical moments.

Psychological Gymnasium

Each of us when we begin the work of death we find ourselves in difficult situations, and that if we take these circumstances to work on ourselves, they are converted into what we in Gnosis call a psychological gymnasium.

A psychological gymnasium is the best time for us to die. When we are in the middle of one, we to make the maximum advantage of it, to really give our best to die. Why? Because it may not be repeated.

Difficult Moments

We all don’t like difficult moments and we often reject mystical death in these moments, but it is often the solution or it provides the way to the solution and above all, it makes the situation or the difficult moment so much easier and better if we die mystically or psychologically.

At Night

At night at the end of the day is a very good time for us to die. There we can contemplate all that we have done during the day and we can work on transforming the impressions during the day and work on the egotistical manifestations of the day.

Conclusion

Work in mystical death at any moment in which the ego appears, and if you feel that you can’t use the time at night or any period of time to yourself to die in that ego thus preparing your alertness and resolution to die in that ego in the precise moment of life in which it appears.

Death is a Process of Liberation & Simplification

A Teaching

There is a marvellous teaching from an excellent friend that says: “life is the process of acquiring and gaining, death is the process of liberation.”

Death = Liberation

Death in any form, whether it be physical or psychological (mystical), is freedom and liberation. When we are young and middle aged and even old aged we are still in the process of acquiring new possessions, experience knowledge etc, so then we are still following the process of life. When we start to cut back, give up, release and stop the gaining and acquiring process we are in line with the currents of death.

Are We Dying? (Psychologically)

One way to know if we are dying is to see whether we are cutting things back instead of increasing, building and also complicating. If we are simplifying our life we are dying psychologically.

Simplification and Liberation

Simplification and liberation are very closely related. To die psychologically we have to cut away the activities that the ego gets involved in, cut away the interests of the egos, its thoughts and its feelings.

Our lives are complicated and the reason why we can’t get things done or can’t concentrate on one thing is because we have too many desires coming from too many egos within us. The more we cut away or drop or let go of these desires the simpler our life will be, the easier we will be able to die psychologically, because we will have more focus, energy and time, and also it will be easier to do the things in life that we need to do.

It will also be easier for us to live more consciously, that is with more awareness and love. Why love, because consciousness and love are very close and attention from the consciousness leads to the emergence of love. IF we truly put our attention on the environment we are in we will see the others in it and if we pay more attention we will see the help they need and naturally by movement of the consciousness we will help them. Compassion and love will arise and move us.

Conclusion - Make Your Life Simple

The conclusion of this post is to make your life simple, reduce it down to the essential things and work on those things with concentration, awareness and love. This will bring peace, it is the greed or ambition that we have to get so many things done that really makes our life complicated, stressful and it passes us by so quickly.

This also follows the principle of death which is simplification and liberation. So we align ourselves with the current of mystical death and it will in turn help us in our processes of ,mystical death which is realise the essential in us or cut everything away until the essential, the Being, shines in us!

Death is the First Factor for the Revolution of Consciousness

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.

Step 5 - A Didactic for the Dissolution of Lust

Elimination with the Divine Mother

This is the final step, and this step should really be done at the end of each practice for the reason being that when we ask the Divine Mother to hit the ego, she does and she can hit it powerfully enough that some sparks of the essence are freed. Even though we feel we have not understood the ego we should ask the Divine Mother to dissolve or hit the ego with her lance.

Of course though, the practice of elimination is extraordinarily effective when we have comprehended the ego and based on that comprehension renounced to the ego and are very happy for it to die, in fact when we feel that we need to have that ego dead then the practice of elimination gives the best results.

Preparation

The preparation for elimination is detachment from that ego or separation from the ego that you want to eliminate. One has to be able to take it from us put it down and have it put into the fire. If we find ourselves loving the ego and hitting it at the same time, this is not a very good situation, it essentially means standing still because we don’t give enough to the ego to get want it wants and we don’t work enough on ourselves because we don’t have enough time and energy to seriously practice.

To really eliminate we need to two prior things and they are understanding and renunciation.

Action

We die in two ways by asking the Divine Mother to eliminate the ego and this can be done in a practice or at work or at home or in fact at every moment. The other way is to not feed that ego and we do that by not identifying with that ego when it receives an impression and is triggered into manifestation.

Mantra and Imagination

An excellent mantra to eliminate the ego is the mantram KRIM. The way we should do it is to ask the divine Mother to eliminate the “I” then imagine how that “I” manifests in with its thoughts, emotions and actions and imagine those manifestations burning in our three brains, see and feel that the ego gets weaker. Do it with great effort and faith in the Divine Mother, know that her power is real, that she loves you and she wants to help you by eliminating the ego.

Die

We will die guaranteed when we want to and we make sincere efforts to do so, the trick and important step is to know how to maintain ourselves dead. That is we can not go back into the ego and we have to transform the impressions using our new understanding. We must arrive at death and maintain ourselves dead.

Conclusion

So here ends the five steps of a didactic to eliminate the egos of lust. May you apply these steps and get results we really from the bottom of our hearts hope that these steps will help you and we appreciate your comments and feedback. Feel free to leave a comment or to email us using the address: marianeptunus@gmail.com.

Step 4 - A Didactic for the Dissolution of Lust

Transmute, Work and Trust

Introduction

In the previous three steps we basically discussed the importance of finding the paybacks lust gives us and replacing those paybacks with transmutation. This step is really all about the action of transmuting, and transmuting in such a way that allows you to find satisfaction in transmutation and therefore replace whatever lust can give.

The tricky point here is to know how to transmsute, that is to transmute in such a way that the lacking or missing feelings (can also be produced by lust) are filled with the transmutation rather than by lust. One has to know to transmute, it makes a big difference when you know.

Transmute - When

Whenever we feel the sexual energy accumulating, bubbling and even becoming active (due to some thought, impression, sensation etc.) we have to transmute. Even we don’t feel the sexual energy doing anything physically, and for example we are elaborating or rather we are letting the ego elaborate lustful thoughts we should stop and transmute. When we transmute we fill the lacking that lust is acting upon.

Lust always appears when we are lacking, it appears, especially in the case of lustful fantasies when there is no possibility in that moment of getting what it wants. So lust manifests as a compensaton for what it doesn’t have.

The point here to conclude, is that in the face of lust we must always transmute. Create this habit because it will serve you so well in your path. If you are serious about your future on the path then create this habit!

Transmute - How

There are basically three types of transmutation, one is the transmutation that deals with the physical or biological sexual impulses, this is a mechanical type of transmutation that only really requires the intervention of the motor and intellectual centres. Then there is a second one, that deals with the psychological desire and then there is a third one that offers the fruit of one’s transmutation to one’s Being or channels the liberated energy (energy liberated by the transmutation) into an esoteric practice to achieve some end.

The first transmutation is easy, there are many practices to do that, though the best one and the one used most frequently by Gnostic students is the practice with the mantra HAM-SAH. The way it is practiced is by inhaling deeply and mentally vocalising the mantram HAM, hold your breath and then imagine sparks of blue light and fire flying up the subtle channels in your spinal column and entering into your brain. Then breath out and at the time vocalise the mantram SAH out loud.

Physical

The more intense the mantra is done the better are the results, that is the more one transmutes. Though be careful not to faint by doing it too intensely. I have heard many people say that after such a practice with the mantram HAM-SAH they have found that their chakras rotate and that they are left with so much energy that when they go to sleep they easily wake up in the astral.

Psychological

The second type of transmutation is the transmutation that is done psychologically and it may be accompanied with the physical transmutation. It is essentially to use the transmutation, that is its logic and it founding principle to transform impressions that would otherwise go to lust and to transform the manifestations of lust.

This is how it works, as we have said before every expression of lust is due to their being a lack. Lust is primarily an expression of desire for something that we don’t have. So with the transmutation we recognise that we fill the gap or lack with energy and with the bliss or happiness of transmuting the energy moved by desire to our brain, heart and ultimately our Being. So lust in us desires to have sex with someone of the opposite sex and then with the transmutation we take those sensations and energy behind them and transform them into energy and direct that energy to the Being inside of us and in a sense we ‘make love to a Being’ and we interact energetically and sexually with our Being. Therefore thanks to the transmutation which was able to transmute that desire into energy we become complete loving the Being.

What is interesting in desire is that the sensations we feel when we have desire are the ones that we want to experience, our mind creates them in us. So in a way we already have what we are wanting. What we want or what lust wants is to experience itself, to experience the sensations that are invoked in the body.

Sex is about unity and about becoming complete and behind that sexual desire is that yearning or desire, we think that we can fulfil it by marrying etc., but in the end we will be without a wife or husband and we are born without one and in the end we have to become complete Beings with the sexual energy running inside of us in a closed circuit totally autonomous.

Esoteric

The esoteric transmutation is called sublimation, and it is really offering or transmuting the transmuted energy to the Being. Prayer is the best way to do that, anyway the sublimation is an act of prayer in itself, when we pray we are sending a flow of energy to the Being which is what we do in the transmutation.

Constant Conscious Effort

Transmutation is not easy because it should really be something conscious, and to get the most benefit out of it, it should be done consciously. It requires a ‘knowing what you are doing’ type of effort.

For example if we transmute with the understanding that we are doing it to counteract lust and complete ourselves, to offer our sacrifice and energy to the Being and to increase our consciousness we are transmuting consciously and we are making a conscious effort that will pay us back handsomely.

Just transmuting mechanically will help for a while in the beginning but later when the egos of lust get stronger you will find it boring and unsatisfactory. But conscious practices of transmutation don’t become boring and do not leave you dissatisfied and disappointment. We have to continually shock our transmutation to a higher octave, avoiding ourselves from falling into mechanicity and the result of mechanicity is stagnation and the result of stagnation is failure.

Trust in the Being

This is another aspect that is important because when we lack it we inevitable fall into lust. Why? Because we use lust as an instrument to find a wife or husband sensations etc. by ourselves without any consideration for the Being.

Trust in the Work

Lust is usually a tremendously huge ego in people and we very often think that we can’t dissolve it, and further more we think by trying to dissolve it we are going to experience a very bitter and boring life. But that is not true, as it dies we will become happier and happier and freer and freer and instead of missing out on something we are actually gaining something and that is more and more happiness.

If we keep working, keep applying these steps to our honest utmost best ability the ego or egos of lust will die, in this work we have to trust. Trust that it will die and happiness, authentic happiness, long lasting happiness will come to you. That is the guarantee of all the Masters who have done this before us.

Conclusion

To summarise this step, we would say the following few words. Transmutation is your solution, so every time you feel lust transmute. Do it and see the difference that it makes. Know what transmutation is doing for you and then you won’t regret having transmuted instead having fallen into lust. Transmuting transforms the physical sensations, impulses and urges and knowing what transmutation is soothes the psychological regret that is produced by the ego of lust, and transmuting brings you merit and closer to your Being.