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Fernando García Silva

Discovering, understanding and eliminating the root

cause of suffering and pain
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It is impossible to summarize the magni-
tude of the work of Samael Aun Weor
in a few lines, because the work
developed is beyond the physical facts
that can be described. But we make this
collection as a summary: He wrote
more than 75 books explaining the
essence of Gnostic teaching, from
various angles, based on science, art,
philosophy and religion; contained in the
various cultures that have flourished in
our planet, revealing the key work that
leads man towards Intimate Self-
Realization of Being.
He founded five institutions, provided
hundreds of public lectures, gave
interviews in radio and television. He
gave hundreds of lectures to advanced
groups and wrote thou-sands of letters
(real lectures).
The Samaelian Gnostic message, is
communicated in a surprisingly simple
and direct way.
The Master had the mission to deliver
pure gnosis, in these difficult and tragic
times, and let planted the seed of a new
culture based on understanding, intelli-
gence, conscious love and above all,
“the Truth” without secrets.
The legacy of VM Samael was absolu-
tely spiritual. He was not interested in
money or physical properties. He did not
earn money from his teachings and left
his works in the public domain.
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Fernando Enrique Garcia Silva, was
born in Concepción, on 13 August 1962.
He studied at the Sacred Heart School
and in 1981 he started studying
Architecture and Civil Construction in
the Bío Bío University, graduating in
1987 as Civil Constructor.
His continuous Spiritual and Esoteric
concerns lead him to search in the:
Universal Christian Gnostic Movement
of Chile, the path in which the human
being will re-encounter himself with his
own soul.
In this Gnostic movement Fernando had
different positions until 2001.
Afterwards he studied different thera-
pies of Complementary Medicine such
as Biomagnetism, Chiropractic, Flower
Essences, Osteopathy, among others.
Since 1987 up to now, he has given
hundreds of public lectures on Self-
Awareness in Schools, Auditoriums,
Universities, Colleges, radios, television,
etc. In 2009 he wrote and published his
first book “Self-knowledge” and after
realizing the interest of readers he was
encouraged to write this second edition.
Since 2011 he has been temporarily
living in the Peruvian Amazon Rain-
forest, learning from the Master Plants.
Nowadays he is dedicated to Comple-
mentary medicine, to give Conferences
about Self-knowledge, and also to
Master plants.
Fernando writes and teaches the inner
work for the elimination of the psycho-
logical defects and the awakening of
consciousness and the wise use of
sexual energy.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Discovering, understanding and eliminating the
root cause of suffering and pain.

Fernando García Silva

2017

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SELF-KNOWLEDGE
“Discovering, understanding and eliminating
the root of suffering and pain”.

Original title:
AUTOCONOCIMIENTO
“Descubriendo, comprendiendo y
eliminando la raíz del sufrimiento y del dolor”.

Fernando Enrique García Silva

E-mail: libroautoconocimiento@gmail.com

Permission is granted total or partial reproduction

of this work, by any means or process.
This instruction is of all humanity and should be
urgently disclosed.

Second Edition: February 4, 2017

A 53 years into the Age of Aquarius
Editorial VMS
E-mail: edicionesvms@gmail.com
Santiago - Chile

ISBN: 978-956-8955-02-1

Graphic Art: Javier Hernandez Melo

Translated by Javiera Dinamarca Zurita

Printed in Chile

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 “To our DIVINE MOTHER,
who with love, courage and intelligence,
works anonymously for our liberation”

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 THANKS TO:
I would like to thank to the following beings and energies that have
helped me to do this book:
 To my “Divine Mother” who has consistently fought for my
freedom.
 To my “Inner Father” that has always been present in my life.
 To my “Divine Mother” who has constantly fought for my
liberation.
 To my physical parents: “Carlos and Yuly” for giving me this
void and also for the love and help.
 To Alex for his unconditional help.
 To Paulina for her understanding and affection.
 To our artist Javier: for his patience and love by drawing a lot
of images.
 To Jorge, our editor, for expressing and molding this piece of
work.
 To all my friends and path brothers that have collaborated in
the development of this book.
 To the “Masters” who have taught me since I was a baby.
 To the “Spirits” that have guided me in dreams and waking.
 To the “Master Plants” that through his wise guidance have
accompanied me along the way.
 To my “Big Brothers” by watching us and assist us in times of
imminent danger.
 To the life for giving me so many opportunities for growth
and learning; the Universe for its immensity; to everything for
everything.

As samelian in particular, I want to thank my dear “Master Samael Aun

Weor” for unveil the Universal Gnosticism, for writing so many pieces of
work, for giving so many conferences, for showing me the path of
Intimate Self-realization of the Being, to live within me.
And as we started our day by saying “Thank you Father”, we will start
this book by saying “Thank Universe” for the wonderful opportunity to get
to the bottom of the soul of the one, who is currently reading these lines.

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 PREFACE

In this book we have tried to sum up the essential orientations

needed in order to know ourselves.
It is dedicated to you, to your interior and consciousness. Its
dedicated to what’s worth saving from your interior and which deeply
sleeps in the darkness and ignorance.
What’s brought up in this book is the product of many years of study
of the human psychology, of what was learnt in Gnosis, in Shamanism, in
the dreamed world, in the study of plants and complementary medicine,
thousands of patients treated with this medicine and life in general.
If you want to read this book and afterwards say I already read it, you
should close it.
Open it when you are willing to understand and comprehend it.
Because is not how much you read what makes you smart, but how much
you understand it, live it and practice it.
This is an invitation to reflect all theses, for discovering in your
interior.
This book talks about you and your life, this book is an invitation to
look at yourself.
Its objective is to help us to understand the analogy that exists in the
mind and body; all the previously mentioned has the objective of us
realizing that the diseases respond to our way of being and what we carry

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internally; we have to realize that what is really sick is our soul and this is
manifested as a physical disease.
This book is a consciousness awakening, is a bell for the fallen angels
for them to regret what they’ve done and stand up again.
In this book you can find a summary of the many esoteric self – help
teaching.
The one who understands and practices what is written in this book,
will be out of the Samsara wheel (Tears valley).
The main practice of this book is the “Death of the ego”, so most of
the chapters are aimed at understanding our own darkness (ego). There
are some chapters that provide other practices, but not much more,
because if we deviate from the main objective, we are not going to do
anything.
Each chapter is simple, synthetic and practical; tells you where the
problem is, how to discover it and correct it in ourselves. They are short
chapters, with the essentials of teaching, since the rest must come from
inside the reader, through reflection and understanding of each subject.
If you feel that there are some concepts are repeated, it is because
they have to be reinforced. The first time you just read the book, the
second time you understand it, and finally the third time you will
comprehend it.
It also delivers us a clear and precise methodology of what to do to
discover, understand and eliminate our psychological defects (anger, fear,
anxiety, addiction, envy, etc.) Plus, it gives us a key to eliminate the root of
the defects and free ourselves from them.
This book is not aimed at your mind but your heart and your
conscience; which are able to intuit the truth.
All this knowledge is already in our interior, we only have to
remember it, dig it and rescue it from the unconscious.
We hope that this book is a good help to break the chains of pain and
realize that the light has never abandoned us.
Our prison is in our mind, and by being free from it, we will go
savoring the true freedom, that freedom that does not depend on
anything or anyone, because it is the result of the self - conquest.
We invite you to be able to face yourself to develop the intelligence
and discover the secret enemy that dwells in your interior, to stop being a
victim, to understand that everything has its reason and everybody has

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what deserves. We are the architects of our lives and the only way to
change our lives is changing ourselves.
This book gives you a sword, use it bravely to go into your interior
darkness and face to your own unconsciousness.
The invitation is to develop the “courage/ value and decision” to free
yourself.
We expect this book not to transform into a simple and ordinary
book that you have read about personal development, on the contrary, we
expect this book to open the doors of your subconscious; we also expect
this book to invite you to do some great transformations in your interior…
is all up to you because ALL IS IN YOU.
For those who want to deepen the interior work and the
consciousness awakening we recommend to read the book “SUPRASEX,
the divine sexuality”.
Look after this book, do not ruin it, because as it was helpful for you,
it might be for other people.
God bless this piece of work and the hands that are holding it.

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 READING METHODOLOGY

To make everything here exposed, really helps you; you must follow
the guidelines of reading, follow the study method suggested previously.
Otherwise, it will be another simple book you read and went to the
drawers of mind.
Every chapter is accompanied by a small graphic or drawing. That
drawing is a message for your emotional brain (intuitive, emotional,
artistic), by just seeing it, your heart and your conscience will receive
information.
We recommend you to read the title of the chapter and afterwards,
look for a minute the picture that represents the chapter, without trying to
understand it, you have to feel it, listening what it says, watch it.
After all this, you can read each chapter, activating you intellectual
center, your brain. In this way the increase of cognitive potentiality is
produced, since we will receive part of the intuitive knowledge through the
reception of images.

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 Once finished reading each chapter, it is suggested not move to the
next, without answering the questions that are on the separator sheets
included in the work.
You can even apply these five self-reflective questions to just one
phrase that catches your attention or to what you feel that you need to
understand better.

1. What did I learn in this chapter?

2. How is this related to my life?
3. How this subject helps me to my self- knowledge?
4. After reading the chapters of this book, should I correct or
change something?
5. Is there any practice that suggests to me this Chapter?

It is recommended to have a notebook with the title: “Self-

knowledge: discovering my own light”.
In this notebook, which must be your loyal partner, you will write the
answers of the questions you will go asking to yourself when you finish
each chapter.
In the answers that you will go re- reading, you will go discovering the
“light of your consciousness”.
“The light is within you and it appears when you discover it”.
The Self-knowledge is not in this book, but in that notebook.
“The pen knows a lot, especially in the occult; let the pen tell you about
it”.
If you're not able to answer, reread the chapter. Each chapter must
go through a process of assimilation, impregnation.
As it said esoterically, you got it swallow it.
This is the objective of the understanding: the integration of
knowledge received, to see it in yourself, and not in others, as we are used
to see.
You're understanding yourself, since the person who understand
himself, understands everybody else, because “We're all the same”.
So knowledge becomes one; it ceases to be “borrowed”. You should
not read many newspapers chapters, since you will only understand but
not comprehend; you will accumulate knowledge in your mind, but nothing
will go down to your heart.

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 The life events are going to allow you to gradually understand (in
depth) the matters carried out in each chapter.
You can read the chapters alternately, according to “what you feel
that you need to read”; since each of the chapters have some autonomy,
and this intuitive system, will go structuring your own way of getting to
know yourself.
As long as we go working in ourselves, we will go achieving the real
self- knowledge, because we go discovering how we really are, and not
how we are supposed to be.
All of us have a fake image of ourselves, which is formed by
incomplete truths that are formed according to our own interests and our
limited way of appreciating the things.
As long as all this is understood, and you go working in your interior,
the sleeping consciousness starts awakening, and increases the
understanding of the real reason for our existence and the reason of
certain pain and sufferings.
In this task each of us is really essential, since nobody could do it for
us.
This book will take towards your interior, growing in realization; thus
arriving at an understanding of “the root of suffering and pain”; which is
our beloved ego, who is the architect of the whole trick of the
subconscious mind, which has us drowning in a sea of tears and darkness.
Only at this level of understanding and with the help of our Divine
Mother, we will be able to its radical and final disposal.
For those who work with patients such as: psychologists, coaching,
therapist; and ended up thinking this book was a useful tool for their work,
we have created a therapeutic set of self – knowledge that consist of a
user manual and 130 tickets of each one of the chapters of the book.
The manual gives practical examples on how to use the tickets, even
though the therapist should intuitively know how to use it in a didactic
way.
With this set we can help people (and ourselves) deepen in the
subjects related to the inner world, we can also help people to reflect
those matters that the consciousness did not understood.

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 TITLE 1

HEALTH OF THE BODY & SOUL

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 1.1 THE EXTERIOR IS A REFLECTION OF THE INTERIOR

50% of illness is “fear”, the 50 % of health is faith.

The fear is due to the lack of faith and doubt “kills the faith”.
Therefore, in order to remove the fear of our hearts, we must increase the
faith, and move away the doubt.
Fear and resentment are “magnets” to the disease.
The disease is the response to your mistakes, whereas, health is the
answer to your corrections.
“The exterior is the reflection of the interior”.
In a sick body there is always a “sick soul”. In a sick soul, there is
always a “sick body”.
The body influences on the soul, the soul influences on the body.
What you do on the body has an impact on the soul, and what you do on
the soul affects the body.
If you can heal the body and the soul, then you will make an amazing
achievement. A soul in a sick body suffers, but a soul in a healthy body can
be happy.
When disease retreats, the sorrow is shattered and the faith regain its
place, then and only then, the man will be happy.
The disorder is the ego’s law, on the other hand, the order is the law
of conscience. The disorder sicks the body.

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 Our mental mistakes damage certain organs, and create certain
diseases.
For example “anger” will harm the liver, sadness will harm the
pancreas, the inflexibility will damage the column, the greed will harm the
heart, the fear will do the same thing with the stomach and finally the
frustration will damage the eyes.
There is no disease, there is the “absence of health”.
There is no darkness, there is the “absence of light”.
There is no evil, there is the “absence of God”.
Only God has real existence, the rest is a temporary illusion, which
has its beginning and its end.
“How distant you are from God, will mark your darkness”.
With physical health we have well – being, and with mental health we
have happiness.
With physical health the floor of our house will be bright, however
with mental or spiritual health; the glasses of our house will be sparkling.
When the floor of our house is impeccable we are thrilled to walk over
there, when the glasses of our house are sparkling, we are happy to look.
With a healthy body we walk, with a healthy soul we ascend.
Acceptance and understanding are essential for healing. If we don’t
accept our illness as something that we really deserve, as something that is
“Divine Will”, if we protest against it, if we ask “why me?”, “I don't I deserve
this”; there will be no healing.
“First you understand, then you transcend”.
Acceptance goes hand in hand with “submission”, as well as the
understanding goes hand in hand with “reflection”. The psychic is
analogous to the physical. The work of restoration and cleaning, that we
do in the physical (body) we have to do it in the psyche (soul).
The methods are also similar, and analogous; what vary are the
instruments. The methods are also similar and similar; as we cannot study
the stars with a microscope; nor bacteria with the telescope.
All disease is the response to a psychological imbalance.
The fact of the relationship between the mind and body, invites us to
reflect on the psychological origin of the disease. Finding the source
(cause), we can ensure that the disease disappears (effect).

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 1.2 DISEASE AND SYMPTOM

The disease is an internal imbalance, it is processed in the

consciousness plane, of the information, and then it is shown in the body
as a symptom.
Therefore, the body is a vehicle of manifestation of what is
happening in the conscience of the person. The body will not get sick
alone, it only shows what is happening “inside” the person.
That is why, is a mistake to declare that the body is sick, (only the
human can be sick).
The symptom is part of the disease and its aim is to draw attention, in
order to identify which the part of the body is affected, so that we can
reflect on the relationship between the part of the body and the emotion.
The symptom becomes the teacher, it comes to the human being
with a single objective: “to teach”. This is why some say that the disease is
a teacher and a path, which shows us the defect to be corrected.
When your own conscience was not able to teach you, appears the
disease to do the job, so that you see in the body what you could not see in
your soul.
What does your disease want to teach you? Have you reflect about
it? What is the disease imposing and impeding you?
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increases our understanding and through the symptom we train to find the
message that the body cries out.
The ultimate aim isn’t to eliminate or suppress the symptom, but to
comprehend the language of this messenger and not consider it as our
enemy. It is not something that needs to be eradicated, but it’s a message
that can help us to find the origin (root) of our illness (unbalance).
“Healing occurs exclusively from a transmuted disease, never from a
defeated symptom”. (Thorvald Dethlefsen and Rudiger Dahlke).
The symptom is a warning that something is missing or that we have
more than enough of an object, it is the expression of a mismatch.
Each organ has a close relationship with some emotion, as the
emotions that we constantly live, have the power to heal our body or to
make it sick.
Some emotions, the ones that we consider “negatives”, are
participating in our lives, and many times, without even perceiving them,
they are silently damaging, unbalancing, and altering the proper
functioning of any organ in our body or in the entire system.
All these happen, because our body needs to have our attention, for
us to make a change.
This is exactly what the illness is caused: it looks for the
transformation and modification of our actions and emotions.
In this way, an inner change would generate health and well-being in
our body, and for achieving this change, is necessary to know how to
interpret the language of the symptoms.
Therefore, all healing is exclusively based on an inner transformation,
because there is the disease. If we only try to shut the symptoms, we will
eliminate the effect, but not the cause.
Don’t fear the disease, it’s not your enemy; Understand it, transcend
it, learn from it.

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 1.3 THE ORIGIN OF DISEASE

There is no coincidence, or good and bad luck, but all is the result of
our homegrown.
Positive or negative actions trigger all kind of consequences.
Therefore, our present existence is the result (result) of our actions,
whether in this life or the previous one. What happens to us is the result of
ourselves.
Everything is governed by the law of compensation (karma), this law
uses different agents to express itself, like diseases, microorganisms,
infections, toxins, accidents; all that, obey the law of karma.
It’s time to take responsibility of ourselves, to understand that our
existence is just what we need in order to grow, and we need to
understand that if there is bitterness, pain or disease, is just because we
are paying debts with the universe and life.
Unfortunately, we live arguing and protesting the different
circumstances that we had to live, looking for someone to blame,
justifying, thinking in ourselves as good souls, believing that we don’t hurt
anyone. But if we are honest and if we review our behavior, we would see
that we can all be in the dock.
We gotta understand the processes of life; we have to be more
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 Diseases aren’t bad, they are necessary to show us what we have to
correct and learn.
While in our psyche is the ego, we will continue repeating the path of
error and our life will be charged of karma; That is why we need to be
aware of who is the secret enemy (ego) and destroy it, only in that way,
joy, peace and happiness will be back in our lives.
Psychological imperfections lead us to make mistakes, and the
consequences of this are pain, illness and suffering. Karma is tied to ego,
eliminate ego and suffering will be over.
The ego is the great karma maker, therefore, is the creator of disease.
“We can pray whatever we want, if we don't correct ourselves, we
won't grow. Those who pray and sin, gets a tie”.
The real Cause of all disease: physical, mental or psychosomatic, is to
be found in the secretions of perverse psychic aggregates (animal ego).

1.4 THE LAW OF KARMA

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 Among the fundamental laws to understand our existence, exists the
“law of cause and effect” or also called the law of “Karma”.
Karma means “Law of cause and effect” Every effect has its cause and
every cause has its effect.
There is neither luck nor coincidence, but the “causality”.
Each disease has as a cause our wrong of living, our negative
thoughts and our wrong actions.
Every act in our lives, for good or bad it might be, will have a
consequence or effect, on the mediate or immediate future.
Our past mistakes, debts and errors, take now form in our bodies as
diseases, sufferings and anguish.
Sufferings, pain, problems, difficulties and tragedies, have their
karmic origin in our bad actions, whether they are from this existence or
from the previous.
“Everyone gets what deserves, neither one more gram, nor one less”.
Physical death of human beings, must be gradual and natural (Illness,
old age, decrepitude), all violent death, in accidents or natural disasters, is
karmic and definitive.
To understand the law of karma is essential in order to grow in our
inner work, since our current psychological status is a sleeping conscience.
This is the karmic consequence from thousands of years.
“Never protests against the karma, the important thing is to know how
to negotiate it”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Karma is a medicine that is applied to us, is not a Divine punishment.
God does not penalize, he only gives the chance to learn what we need.
This ancient law was known for antique civilizations such as:
Egyptians, Mayans, Greeks, Aztecs, etc.
The regent of the karma law is “Anubis”, a god widely known for the
Egyptians, who is responsible for weighting the heart of the dead,
comparing it with a feather. According to this god, the heart of the
deceased must weigh less than a feather; therefore, it should not have
hate, bitterness, fear, sorrow, frustration, desire, and negative emotions
that are very dense and heavy.
The feeling that someone is in debt with you; the pain received from
the injures that others gave you, etc., it stops all inner progress of the soul.
(Samael Aun weor).

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 Karma is paid in two ways: with pain or with good actions.
Most people chose pain (Sickness, anguish, depression), since are
few who dedicate themselves to do good actions consciously, to pay his
karmic debt.
“Sick people instead of worrying about themselves, should work for
others, should do charity, they should try to heal others, they should try
to comfort the afflicted, take to the doctor to those who do not have
money to pay for it, they should give medicines, etc., and in that way
they will cancel his karma and will totally heal”. (Samael Aun Weor).
For example, if you have a disease and you cannot be healed, you
gotta dedicated yourself to heal sick people who don’t have resources to
be healed, this good actions will help you to pay your karma, and you will
finally heal.
We should understand that, the way to receive is to give, and what
you give, you will receive; that’s how it works this law.
Anubis is constantly weighing us, and has come the moment where
the plate of the balance needs to get filled with the weight of our good
actions; Specially with the “Good Action” which is the psychological
cleaning that everyone should do as an inner work , with the help of our
Holy mother.
Every mistake, every floss, every sin is associated with a certain
karma.
Karma is negotiable, because the Divine Law is merciful, it’s not an
accomplice to the crime, since is “terribly Fair”.
The forgiveness of the sins is only achieved when we present the
dead body of the sinner, when the ego sinner has died in us.

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 1.5 ANXIETY, HEARTBREAK, PANIC CRISIS

All these moods are different manifestations of fear.

Why are there human beings feeling so anxious today? Why chil-dren
suffer from anxiety, fear and nightmares? Why panic attacks are
increasing?
Nowadays we can be healthy, wealthy and physically attractive
people, without any evident problem, but with anguish, sadness and
melancholy.
What’s this all about?
The problem is a matter of energy, vibration, emotion. All this, is the
manifestation of certain deeply hidden mental defects in the mind of men.
All the previously mentioned it is the manifestation of psychological
entities that live the depths of the unconscious person. They are low
energy vibrations; we could say that they might be abysmal.
Part of our psychology is already in the underworld, and from there
sends their influences, and vibrations, seizing psychosomatic centers of the
physical body and making it vibrate in that symphony.

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 “Nothing is still, everything moves, everything vibrates”. (The
Kybalion).
Defects are characterized primarily by fear, strengthened by the
absence of light and the distance of Being.
The defects previously mentioned, are feelings of emptiness, in which
the person tastes his own psychological state, to become aware of what
he possesses in his interior and to become aware the place where he is
immersed.
“The worst circumstances of life, the most critical situations, the hardest
events, turn to be wonderful for the intimate self – discovery”. (Samael
Aun Weor).
Self – medicating is not to hear the message that the body is shouting
at us, it is not having the courage and the intelligence to see the mistake
that is being made, in order to face ourselves.
“Is necessary to understand where we are and who we are
psychologically”. Is necessary to take responsibility for ourselves, to
destroy the false image and develop the courage for facing our own
darkness.
The enormous fear that people feel when panic attack starts, is
because in that moments we are connected to our abysmal ego, and it is
from that place, where those feelings come from.
“Heaven is for the brave and it is taken by assault”. (Samael Aun Weor).
By the development of self – observation we can discover,
understand and eliminate the manifestation of these types of defects,
therefore we can go rescuing our conscious from the depths of the
unconscious.
Step out of hell is urgent, but still possible.
Take the hand of your Divine Mother, look bravely toward your mind
and your heart; and in that place you will be discovering these demonic
manifestations.
At the slightest manifestation, you have to ask to your Divine Mother,
for the disintegration of these forces, and slowly you will go releasing
them, until you no longer feel the entropic force.
Be brave, don’t get tired and you will overcome.
“From the cradle to the grave is a school, so what we call problems are
lessons”. (Facundo Cabral).

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 1.6 DEPRESSION AND STRESS

These two psychological diseases can be considered as part of an

infection of this century.
Who hasn't heard about them?, and who has not been linked to any
of them in one way or another?
The phrases “I feel stressed or I’m depressed” are very common
nowadays. Both are the side of the same corner, both are the two ends of
the pendulum. The depressed doesn't want to do anything and the
stressed person has done too much. At the end of the day the symptoms
of these diseases are mixed, and you will end up having the same
symptoms but due to two different diseases; you are going to end up
feeling tired, you will have memory loss, confusion, boredom and
listlessness.
Memory loss affects to many people, not only to the elderly who
have Alzheimer.
Nowadays, many people feel tired as we commonly say that “we are
running out of batteries”, people are exhausted, they wake up and go to
bed feeling tired. Is like we don’t have energy; therefore we don’t want to

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do anything. This fatigue is due to, among other reasons, a poor diet, and
due to the person's mind never rests, we can say that there is an abuse of
the mental, emotional and motor energy. The abuse of the body's own
energy, the fear and the unconformity are behind these pathologies.
There is an imbalance, we tend to lose our way, there is no clarity of
the meaning of life, and there are no true spiritual principles in life. Both
sought the foundation of our happiness outside of us… and the result was
immediate.
Eventually, our body and soul charged us for the mistakes we made
and the abuses we committed.
Why is caused endogenous depression? Some experts may say that it
is caused by the lack of some chemicals in our body; nevertheless if you get
yourself tested, you might find some metabolic, chemistry and hormonal
imbalances, however this is not the cause of the problem, this is just part
of the effect of it.
The decrease (hypo) or increase (hiper) of these substances in our
body continues being the consequence of a more profound cause …We
continue misunderstanding the influence of our psyche (soul) in the body,
and in our life.
Obviously, endogenous depression goes beyond the performance of
certain endogenous systems, and it goes beyond the lack of certain
hormonal and chemical composites that are essential in our body, such as
dopamine, adrenaline and endorphins.
Endogenous depression is simply because “Our soul is sick”.
People become addicted to those hormonal substances (Molecular
messengers) because is a foodstuff for its psychological defects, it is a vice.
In the depressive person these psychological defects are nourished
by laziness, irresponsibility, sadness; every depressive person turns into a
lazy, irresponsible and melancholic person, since these are the
psychological defects that end up being stronger.
When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we analyze carefully,
we will realize that the cause lies in our memory. The emotions (fear and
stress) that are tied to these memories, affect us now.
The stressed person doesn’t feel happiness in his life, he is not
stressed because he’s doing a lot of things, he feels stressed because he is
doing them, without happiness; he doesn’t feel a real motivation for doing
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in what he does. He is doing one stuff, however he’s thinking in another,
what he does isn’t in his vocation, it’s not motivated by his conscience.
The depressive doesn’t accept life, he doesn’t accept what he has to
live, feels injustice, he regrets what’s happening, he feels shame, is
unhappy.
In both cases, his Yoes are making him think and feel an empty life,
meaningless.
Eliminating the yoes, life comes back, those horrible feelings are
eliminated, we can find the meaning of our lives, the vocation.
You have neither depression, nor stress, you are just on the wrong
path, you just forgot about yourself, you are unhappy.

1.7 PSYCHOLOGICAL CLEANING

This is where each of us plays an important role.

We can be replaced in mostly everything: in the workplace, in a
relationship, even as a father, but when we talk about inner work, no one
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 We need to get an internal cleaning of our thinking, feeling and
acting.
Behind our negative thoughts, our passions and hidden intentions,
our psychological defects (yoes) are hidden, and they must be removed
from our interior.
Just like Jesus expelled the “merchants of the temple” with the “whip
of willpower”, we must clean up “our own Temple” (physical body), and is
important to know that in order to clean something, we must first see the
trash, the dirt. If we are not able to see it, we can hardly eliminate it.
As we are being aware of our unconsciousness, we're training for the
transformation of it, taking out the undergrowth, that doesn’t allow the
germination of the truly important in our being.
To achieve the process of cleaning, we need a basic tool (see Title 6,
The End of ego). However, to start the process previously mentio-ned, first
we need to recognize, observe actively and comprehend what we need to
eliminate from our psyche. In this way we will start taking responsibility for
ourselves, to be a little bit more serious with ourselves and finally we will
start doing the inner job that we have put off.
There are some people who are super neat, they are always worried
about the personal hygiene and the house cleaning; nonetheless they
aren’t doing the same thing with the hygiene/ cleaning of their minds,
which at the end of the day, is one of the souls’ room.
For example if you have an important visitor in your house, you might
be worried about the house cleaning, in the same way, we need to have
everything clean and neat so when the Great visitor comes, doesn’t find
your mind and soul filthy and untidy.
“To put in order our untidy interior home is vital, when you are trying
to change the path of an unfortunate existence” (Samael Aun Weor).

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 1.8 THE SOUL

The soul is a set of faculties, powers and virtues. The soul consists of
an awake conscious, which is a mediator between spirit and matter.
Unfortunately nowadays our soul is trapped and asleep in the jaws of
our own ego. It is a slave of the psychological defects.
Is sad to say that we have no soul, that we are heartless, even when
we think of ourselves the best...
Becoming aware of this sad but true state of unconsciousness is
essential to get out of it, otherwise we will continue believing that we
have, what we don’t have, and that we are, what we are not.
Everyone who is discovering his spiritual poverty, will start working
on correcting it, and will try to recover himself, and built himself internally.
The Gospels tell us: “In patience you will possess your souls” and “Is
meaningless gain the world, if we don’t have a soul” We have two choices
we either lose it, or we possess it, there is no alternative.
“Who owns its soul has extraordinary powers. Those who have come to
crystallize Alma, have become, for this reason, in absolutely different
creatures”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Each ego (psychological defect) has caught a small percentage of our
soul, that is to say that our soul is scattered, disunited, divided, and spread
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 As long as, with the help of our Divine Mother, we eliminate these
defects, our soul will be achieving reintegration, merging and console-
dating itself, so that in this way, we will recover it and possess it.
The ego tends to be disperse, it is a divisive and “centrifugal” force;
On the other hand, the essence, is a force that leads us to concentration,
it’s a “centripetal” force, which is inclusive and tends to unify.
“Human beings have become accustomed to live in a centrifuge way, and
this carries a potential wastage of the vital energy of the human
organism”. (Samael Aun Weor).
As ego makes us disperse we can say that with the ego we are many,
but with essence we are just one.
As we work on the ego elimination, we go “Crystallizing Soul”,
owning ourselves, reaching true inner freedom.
The proper awareness of the emancipation process of the soul and
the secret enemy, will lead us to liberation of our subconscious, our own
mental confinement.
“Know the truth and it will set you free”, Jesus said.
By knowing and understanding our own inner poverty, it will born a
spiritual force that will push us to work on ourselves, to release and hold
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 1.9 DETOXIFICATION OF THE BODY & SOUL

Toxins are poisonous substances that we either ingest or generate in

our bodies, and that can cause diseases or disorders.
There are many poisonous substances such as: gasoline, sprays,
pesticides, paintings, lead, cleaning products, etc.
Everything that goes into our body, in any way (mouth, nose or skin)
should be filtered by processors organs, which end up being the most
affected (lungs, stomach, liver, kidney).
Every person that suffers chronic fatigue symptoms, have in some
way a form of toxicity in his body. It is necessary to mention that toxins
and cancer are closely related.
Pure air and good oxygenation are essential for being healthy.
Sleeping with a window slightly open and exercise, mainly stretching, will
be a valuable help.
Let your first medicine be fresh air and pure water, and the second
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 There are natural systems that can help us to detoxify the body by
cleaning the liver, the gallbladder, the colon and the kidneys.
As an advice it would be a good idea that you read Andreas Moritz, in
order to learn about his book “The amazing liver cleaning”.
We also recommend fasting as an efficient method which allows the
body self-healing and self-detoxification. You can read the book “The
fasting. Practical Guide for fasting”, Dr. José Luis Perez-Albela.
All the previously mentioned is done since nowadays we are
intoxicated either in the body and the psyche.
The ego is like a toxin, like a poison to the mind. Unfortunately most
of us live with your mind intoxicated (panic attacks, depression, insomnia,
multiple thoughts that you can not stop, anxiety, apathy, and anger).
The ego is toxic for the soul and therefore should be purged from the
mind release it and allow it to function normally.
Our current style of life tends to intoxicate us and leads us to abuse
of many things that are harmful for us.
“Too much will kill you”.
Every toxin opposes the balance or homeostasis of the body, since it
causes disease, irritates internal organs, hinders and obstructs the flow of
energy.
The same goes for the ego in a psychic level: since it unbalances, it
sicks and it interferes with the flow of energy of our psychic life (prana, Qi,
Shi).
Today there is much talking related to the environmental pollution,
but little attention is paid to mental pollution of men. We must understand
that the problem of global pollution is the result of man's psychic pollution.
As is above, is below; as is inside, is outside.
Just like there are techniques that allow us to clean our body (colon,
liver and kidney cleaning techniques), this book give us techniques to clean
our psyche.
Also as some people have inadvertently poisoned their body, in the
same way they have their psyche intoxicated without even suspecting it.
Nowadays toxic chemicals are spread everywhere, we can find them
in the water, in the rain and wind, causing many diseases and allergies.
Similarly ego entropic forces have been expanding at an alarming rate,
spreading across the globe (Internet, TV, mobile, newspapers, movies, and
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 Whoever gets to purge toxins from the body and mind, will do an
amazing inner work.
Remember to answer the self-reflexive questions before moving on
to the next chapter.

1.10 MENTAL ACCELERATION AND HYPERACTIVITY

Is not strange that nowadays we are all agitated and accelerated;

many adults, youth and children suffer from hyperactivity.
This of having “The mind accelerated” is caused for the abuse that we
make of the body’s energy.
The human body is made up of five centers (intellectual, emotional,
motor, Instinctive and Sexual) which are grouped into three brains: Mind,
Heart and Sex; to think, to feel and to act. The sexual brain contains
instinctive and sexual engine centers.
At birth, each center brings certain amount of energy for each brain,
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person.
By abusing the power of these centers, there is a deterioration of the
brain; we can say that the brain is destructed because we have abused of
it. A person dies in different parts.
The abuse of intellectual center results in the destruction of this and,
therefore, the consequences of this destruction is: insanity, dementia and
schizophrenia.
“It is therefore logical to say that mental institutions are cemeteries of
intellectually dead people”. (Samael Aun Weor).
It might be necessary to mention that the abuse of the emotional
center causes violence, insensitivity, indifference, dependence and anxiety.
In the same way, the abuse of the motor center causes: paralysis,
disability, disability, hemiplegia and paraplegia.
Following the previous idea is necessary to mention that the abuse of
the instinctive center causes nervousness, arrhythmias, constipation and
allergies.
Finally, the abuse of the sexual center brings impotence, frigidity and
degeneration; as a conclusion we can say that the abuse of one part of the
brain is caused for the paralysis of other part of the brain.
Nowadays one of our biggest instabilities is in the psyche, because
we think too much, we abuse of our brain when we study, there are too
many things “to keep in mind”.
When we abuse of our mind (projects, thoughts, ideas) the energy of
the intellect runs out, and in order to work it steals energy from the sexual
centre, producing a sexual weakening and a psyche acceleration.
As sexual energy is faster than the intellectual, the mind is
accelerated, as if one person loads a small car with airplane fuel; the car
will travel fast, however it will be out of order in a short while.
The ego is the one who steals energy to his own satisfaction, because
the ego loves thinking and wasting energy.
The biggest problem, is that there is an energy disorder inside the
physical body, there is a sort of abuse in all its centers and our work is to
balance them, so that each operates with their own energy.
As long as we work with the elimination of the ego, every part of the
brain will start working with its own energy.
Another cause of the recent acceleration (of people) is the abuse of
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the television, is very fast; you go from one image to another, from one
scenario to another, everything is very fast, so that the mind is functioning
at this level of speed.
Natural life has other rhythms: flying birds, the wind, the clouds, the
trees, they all move at normal speed, we can be nourished by these things,
but unfortunately is easier to push a button, turn the television on, and
bring nature to the “small screen”.
It is even worse if we prefer violent movies about war and murder. By
doing this not only we unbalance our energy, but also we are feeding the
ego.
There are people who have trouble sleeping, who cannot sleep
because their mind is running fast, however, watching TV before going to
bed, will not calm the mind, it will accelerate it.
There is also the bad habit of doing several things at the same time,
therefore our mind is getting used to be very “busy”, so when we want to
calm it down, we can not stop it. It's good to learn to do one activity at a
time, by doing this, we are teaching and training the mind not to “shoot in
all directions”.
The so-called attention deficit disorder (lack of concentration) is
consequence of energy and mental disorder acceleration. If you want to
help someone with this problem, we must teach the doctrine of ego and
we must lead him until the ego is eliminated. With this, the energy of that
person will begin to balance, his mind will start being calm, and he or she
will be more aware of his/ her movements and emotions.
We must learn that our movements should be slower, they should be
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 1.11 THE BRUXISM

Some dentists’ statistics say that the 75 % of the population suffer

from bruxism (Grinding teeth, jaw clenches unconsciously, especially at
night). You might not believe yourself as a bruxer, but if you go to the
dentist, perhaps, he would say the contrary.
The recommendation for this modern disease is the Relaxation Plano,
which consists in a silicon dental plaque, that you have to put in your
mouth when you go to bed, which, might be helpful, but is not the solution
to this problem.
There isn’t effective pharmacological treatment or solution for this
condition. It may be necessary to add that bruxism is caused by anxiety and
stress.
Bruxism is manifested most strongly in the moments when we sleep,
when we are connected with our subconscious.
Even though this is a common night disease, there are many people
who also suffer from this problem during the day (bruxo tense).
Symptoms include bleeding gums in the morning, jaw pain,
headaches and as time goes by loss of the dental enamel in the dental
necks, and loss of the mobility of teeth.
It is rare to find people of all ages with this problem, from young
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 The grinding of teeth (typical of a bruxer) is perceptible by people
who live with him, since he is not aware of his problem until the symptoms
appear.
It’s incredible the state of our unconsciousness because even though
we have a problem, we do not realize when we are grinding our teeth, this
shows a low level of self-observation.
Unfortunately this condition is due to the manifestation of certain
psychological defects that link us to the darkest regions of nature, “The
Abyss”, where we find only pain and terror.
The Holy Scriptures tell that in the abyss can be heard the “Weeping
and gnashing of teeth”. Undoubtedly, the gnashing of teeth is associated
with fear, darkness, cold and terror.
The fact is that we have grind our teeth because we need to work on
ourselves, to eliminate those yoes that connect us to those regions of
darkness and suffering.
Whenever you feel your jaws clenched, you should ask your Divine
Mother to remove the sinister force that compresses your jaw.
It should be clear that nature of the ego is infernal, and as long as he
is manifested in our psyche, this will be filled with darkness. All bruxer
suffers, in addition, of generalized muscle contracture, and this is
manifested with greater force in the jaw, back, neck and shoulders.
We must intensify the process of self-observation, in order to
discover the thoughts and feelings that comes with the muscle contracture
of the jaw.
Relaxation, peace and peace of mind are not virtues that
accompanies a bruxer, hence the importance of feeding on the previously
mentioned virtues; and in order to do it we have to understand the feelings
of uneasiness, worry, anger, mental comprising acceleration.
Virtues are hidden behind flaws, like light behind the darkness. If you
yearn for virtues, you have to disintegrate your flaws and in the end you
will get virtues.
As all stressed and clenched muscle, the masseter (the main jaw
muscle) can be elongated, for what we can put the jaw in protrusion and
then open it as much as possible for a few seconds.
If you want to work during the hours of sleep when you go to sleep
just pray to your Inner Father, like this: “Father, my God, I pray with my soul
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 The being with his usual infinite love, will do it, and in the moment
you wake up you should not move, instead you should do a retrospective
study of your sleep so that you understand the situations that keep you
tense. Then write your dream down on a sheet of paper, in order to
compare it with the situations of the coming day. In this way you will have
the necessary information for being alert during the day and work with the
psychological defects that are related to your problem, since you are
working from the subconscious conscious.

1.12 DRUG AND ALCOHOL

By definition, any drug is “A substance that causes an alteration of

mood and is capable of producing addiction”.
The ego is the generator of these substances and makes us addicted
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fantasy, delusion and unreality.
We live in an addictive society, the ego is addicted to many
substances, he is constantly seeking these substances and although some
of them are not considered drugs, they do produce mood change,
dependence and addiction, the already mentioned substances can be:
drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, coffee, chocolate, newspapers, certain soft
drinks and compulsive shopping, etc.
We all have one of these addictions, in a greater or less degree; we all
have the “junkie” in ourselves, since we are all addicted to something.
The use of harmful substances such as marijuana, cocaine, synthetic
drugs, feed the ego and it is the same use of these, that has became in the
“Great Swipe” of humankind.
Drugs produce three types of damage: physical, mental and spiritual.
Ignorance, curiosity, inner emptiness, disorientation, the constant
search of different things, the desire of wanting to be accepted, make us
fall into these scourges.
Parents are usually the last to know that their child are using drugs,
and unfortunately this is a clear sign of the lack of communi-cation and
trust in these times.
Drugs also affect the physical body, aging it, decreasing vitality,
degenerating the body, finishing it.
They also damage sexual energy, leading to impotence, since the
nostrils are connected to the sexual gonads (Read our book “SUPRASEX,
the divine sexuality”). Even worse, drugs affect genetics (heredity),
bringing sick children to the world. It provokes the loss of discerning
between right and wrong, making us fall into immorality easily.
These substances also affect the vital body, the etheric or the energy
body which fades; it looses its light, its energy and remains weak. The living
body of a normal person stands a few inches; however, the living body of a
drug addict is hardly seen.
The drugs feed the unconscious (the ego is in a feast), drugs
stimulate lower passions, leading the person from the audacity to the
recklessness.
Mentally, the mind gets overexcited and destroys “Alpha rays”,
causing a separation between mind and brain, which causes confusion,
disorder and even madness.
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soul) is affected, losing will and ended up being as if it was drunk.
Many people use drugs for the competitive level in order to perform
better at work or in sports.
Addicted people make drugs a religion, for this type of people, drugs
are an escape for the reality that they either don’t want to face, or they
cannot do it.
The person who has poor spiritual principles, who is not solid in
himself, will always seek external stimulants, such as drugs and alcohol for
certain activities.
These selves are manifested through details, which are just a small
justification to continue with the addiction.
There are many psychological defects that are presented as addictive
defects, by saying this we mean that these defects are so addictive that the
body needs them in order to work.
Every addiction releases certain biochemical messengers (adrena-line,
dopamine, endorphin, serotonin), and unfortunately we are getting used
to them.
Marijuana, so fashionable today, makes the person focuses his
existence on the mental plane, forgetting the sense of feeling; marijuana
makes people confuse the sense of feeling with the sense of thinking,
making the person live everything from his head only.
As marijuana stimulates the intellectual center, it is harmless at first,
but eventually becomes in a pathology which makes people have an
erroneous perception of the world, seeing it, full of fantasy and reverie.
“People who are addicted to marijuana, come to believe that thinking and
living is the same... It tends to keep the individual in a prolonged state of
immaturity.
Mental hyperactivity provides the feeling of solving many problems, of
having “great” ideas, understand complex things. However, it is usual
to observe that the same subject has extreme difficulty carrying out those
ideas day by day.
They tend to stay in the oral or written discourse, often prolific up to the
verbiage, perhaps brilliant (intellectual fascination) but indigestible
(untranslatable heaviness acts)”. (Dr. Jacques Mabit).
Self-Awareness seeks to calm the mind, remove ego, looks after
energy and vitality of the body; and as we can see the use of any drug,
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might be that we will never achieve the process of calming the mind and
removing the ego, because what we do with our hands, will be broken with
our feet.
It is impossible to self- observe consciously under the influence of
these drugs or alcohol, so the spiritual progress is truncated to the addict
and alcoholic.

1.13 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

The human nervous system consists of the Central Nervous System

(brain) and Autonomic Nervous System (hypothalamus).
In the brain we have what is managed by our will, plus in the
hypothalamus we have what is handled by the subconscious, the instinct.
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accelerator and a brake which are: the sympathetic nervous system and
parasympathetic nervous system.
In these times of stress, fear and abuse, the accelerator pedal, mostly
known as “Throttle”, works very fast, making us act rapidly.
Moreover, the sympathetic system has prepared people bodies’ to
start, to fight and to defend themselves.
The many digestive problems such as: gastritis, headaches, infertility,
chronic fatigue, are caused for our lifestyle.
Nowadays we are living like in the Stone Age or as if we were in war;
we live as if the rest of the world would attack us, as if they would like to
damage us; This is also fed with news of theft, violence, abuse; This clearly
shows the way we are living, our lifestyle.
Many people complain of “nerves”, saying: “I'm just nervous”, they
complain saying that they don’t know how to be relaxed and calmed.
However this is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system
Sympathetic, that person does not know how to control or manage.
If we have this system activated our muscles will be tense and fear
will have us alert enough to run if necessary.
Auto – observe and pay attention to your body, your back, your
gastrocnemius, your hands when they are clenched, your stiff neck and
your mouth dry.
We must understand that the nervous system responds to our way of
being, our psyche, and consequently to our ego.
Negative emotions affect every physical body system such as:
immune, digestive, endocrine, reproductive, blood, skeletal muscle and, of
course, nervous system.
Behind the altered nervous system we can find inner defects such as
fear, distrust, worry, anxiety and smoking. These are the kind of flaws that
the person needs to work on, and also these are the kind of defects that
should be observed, understood and eliminated from the psyche.
What was previously mentioned needs only be done, if you really
want to solve your problems.
To think and say “I have always been like this”; “is hereditary”; to think
and say “is a disease”, is to defend the ego and not wanting to face
ourselves.
A person who has the nervous system altered can suffer from: colon
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body trembling, tachycardia, insomnia, dry mouth, noninfectious cystitis,
cold hands, etc.
Wanting to fix these problems by taking relaxing pills, painkillers or
antidepressants, is to circumvent the root of the problem, adding another
problem which is: addiction to these drugs.
Apparently drugs can give some solution to our problems, but
ultimately, they only add one more problem to all of the ones we have: the
“Drug”.
To help the imbalanced or altered nervous system, we can use natural
means such as homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, meditation or breathe
work. But the important thing is to be determined and to face ourselves,
since being poor, comfortable or lazy will not help us to achieve anything,
and the problem will continue for years or existences.
You don’t have to do anything feeling your mouth dry, since it is a
sign that your stress nervous system is fully activated and you are most
likely to make mistakes.
You can reverse this with a simple phrase: “I need to keep my mouth
moist” say this mentally and several times; concentrate on moisten the
mouth, feel the saliva coming back in your mouth while you are breathing
slowly, all these since hyperventilation is also an acceleration signal.
After you feel your mouth moist, you must call good things you need,
and deny the bad things you don’t need, Saying “I will be fine” instead of
saying “I will not go wrong”, saying “I am brave” instead of” I have no
fear”...
This is because the mind knows no negation, if I tell you not to think
of a white horse, most probably comes to your mind the image of a white
horse.
That’s why if I say or think “I don’t have it”, the mind clears the “no”
and the phrase that the mind understands is “I have it”.
This is the synthesis of positive thinking.
As we work on the elimination of the ego, the body begins to receive
other type of energy, the nervous system begins to stabilize, our nervous
system starts to balance itself and it begins to restore peace and to make a
nest in us.
The ego is highly instinctive; he possesses vestiges of our animal
nature, so that work on the ego, is to eliminate mechanical instinctive
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 1.14 RENCOR AND FORGIVENESS

The man is able to feel a lot of grudge without even noticing that is
destroying his life…
Every thought, based on a memory of yesterday, which has some
relation to pain or humiliation makes us keep some kind of resentment
towards something or someone.
This attitude makes us a victim of circumstances, since they are
related to an injustice or a major accident, but sometimes it is due to
simple situations such as lack of a greeting or a simple glance.
These kinds of thoughts eat our mind away, and darken the light of
our heart, since it poisons our consciousness quietly.
Tell me, my beloved reader, does the resentment, anger, feel of
offense, makes the past event change in any way? Undoubtedly, the
answer is clear...
So is it useful to have bad feelings and to charge with them for
something that has already happened?
We can only overcome resentment through understanding; this is a
great virtue that allows us to see that everything has a reason, that
everything happens because we deserve it, and that are the laws of nature
the ones that makes up for everything, etc.
The act of comprehend the other, makes us feel compassion for the
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those bad feelings and emotions that affected us.
Undoubtedly, the “wounded pride” is the emotion that is affected in
our interior; this emotion makes us feel resentment. So again we see that
the problem is ours and is not of the person who causes it.
If we remove the pride from our psyche, would we be affected if
someone does not greet us while we are walking down the street?
With pride, we believe we are somehow punishing the one who hurt
us, and we do not realize that through this harmful feeling, we are quietly
opening an internal wound that tomorrow will become in a disease.
We must not forget that in order to heal something we need
forgiveness, and forgiveness is achieved through comprehending the other
and through the psychological death of the selves, which cause
resentment, revenge, complaint, sadness, pride, etc.
Forgiveness will set you free from bondage that embitters the soul
and makes ill the body. What heals people is forgiveness (love) and
gratitude.
Forgive others is a prerequisite for health, “first you forgive, then you
heal”.
Do not expect that the person who attacked us change or modify his
behavior, since is probably that he does not change, and get even worse.
By not forgiving, the ego is the one who has the control in our lives,
and he is the one who wants, at all costs, to punish the offender.
Forgiveness must be carried out with “no expectations”, this means
without expecting anything to happen. If we expect the offender to accept
his mistake, we will be waiting in vain and we might be spending our time
and energy in a situation that perhaps will never come.
The act of not forgiving is a poison that destroys the spirit, since it
stops the expression of love.
Everyone is able to love a friend, but the act of loving the one who
has harmed you, is just done by comprehensive people, those who are able
to stand over their own suffering.
“When we have misunderstandings with someone, you can be sure, that
it is the same thing that we have to work on”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 1.15 PRACTICE OF FORGIVENESS

Once you understand the importance of forgiveness, once you

understand that it is extremely important to free ourselves from the
bondage of bitterness, you realize that forgiveness is a “liberating act”, and
that the first person that will be liberated is ourselves.
We must remember that in our lives we have made lots of mistakes,
and when we go to heaven (if we), we will want to be forgiven, but the
first thing we are going to be asked is, did you do forgive? Why do you ask
for something that you could not do?
To forgive, we can do the following exercise:
“Sitting comfortably in a chair or on our bed, we're going to
concentrate and relax in our heart and we are going to feel our heartbeat.
Then, let's imagine (in our hearts) a beautiful place (field, beach, mountains,
etc.) As we like.
Afterwards, in that beautiful place, which is our “Heart Temple” we will
invite the person that we want or we must forgive.
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front of us, at about 15 feet away, we smile at that person and he smiles us
back; after that we start walking slowly towards him.
As we go walking, we imagine a blue color light, which starts from our
heart and enlightens the person that we are directing to, the person feels
gratified with the light that is coming from our hearts, and that is bathing
him with love.
When we are already close to each other, we look into the eyes of that
person, and we say with all our hearts, that this fraternal embrace, will
forgive any rancor (or whatever you feel) because we understand that there
are no guilty, that everything is “meritoriousness” and is perfect, that life
experience is necessary and that forgiveness is the greatest thing that we can
offer.
Then, we give a fraternal, loving, deep hug and we imagine the light
coming out of our heart, that light becomes a fire that melts with his heart,
burning all the pain, grief, anger, and all I used to have against that person.
After everything you have done, you have to give him a little kiss on the
cheek and let him go, turning around and leaving it in freedom”.
Next day if necessary we can repeat the practice, it might be a week
later or a month, we have to do it when our conscience tells us. Perhaps,
with once is enough or maybe it requires several times until we feel that
forgiveness has crystallized in our soul.
When we see to that person, if we see him, we give him a hug, only if
we see him (because if we don’t see the person is not necessary to do it),
since the silent job, deep down our hearts, is enough for those thoughts,
looks and feelings begin to change.
Remember that forgiving will set you free.
Life is too short, and is a luxury to waste our time in evil thinking and
resentful for the offenses of other people.
Get rid off the poison of resentment and revenge, you have to
reconciled with life, be happy and love all beings. Learn from the sun that
shines equally to all beings without distinction of any kind.
“We are able to give up everything except our past and our pain”.
(Samael Aun Weor).
By carrying out this practice, we take away the strength of the ego, in
this way we change our relationship with the person and with ourselves,
we can do this, by understanding and being trained to eliminate the self of
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the crystallization of forgiveness will be guaranteed.
“The mistakes of others must be forgiven; however we have to work on
our own mistakes”.
The mistakes made by us have to be “regretted”; they have to go
through “conscious emotional crisis”, we have to reflect deeply in order to
understand why we are making those mistakes and accept them, we have
to understand them and see them. This will make the Divinity to forgive us,
and also it is important to mention, that this is a clear sign (for our Divine
Mother) that we are working deeply and seriously in our interior.
The “guilt” is an ego, which must be understood and removed from
our nature. If a person wants to forgive himself is because he wants to
avoid the commitment of “working with himself (inner work)”; the act of
feeling guilt is a subtlety of the ego to continue being hidden in our
psychological darkness.
We should not make the mistake of “forgive and accept our own
mistakes”, because if we do is just because we want “to feel that our defect
was cancelled”, we want to feel that our mistake was released, that our
mistake was fixed, and this is wrong because our error will be only fixed
with the help of our the Inner Mother.
No error is fixed without the death of the egos that were involved in
the event (of making the mistake) and as we can’t eliminate the errors of
others, we must only advise them, and afterwards we must “accept them
and forgive them”.
We do not have psychological influence on the psyche of the other;
we can only give them a piece of advice or a good example.
Nevertheless in our own psychology, in our own inner world, and we
must do great and important transformations of psycho- spiritual nature.
“We must accept other people, but we must transform ourselves”.

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SELF-KNOWLEDGE

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 2.1 THE INNER WORLD

As there is an outside world the same way there is an inner one. Both
of them need to be watched, the outside one with the physical eyes and
the inner one with the self-knowledge sense.
The physical eyes do not work to watch the inner world; on the
other hand this world is totally manifested to the self-observation
awareness’s eyes.
No matter how much we refine our view, it will be never
discovered an acting ego with the physical eyes. We will only see that in
everyone else, which is what we are used to do.
When the ego is faced to the self-observation it is left naked, it
loses its unreal clothes therefore it can be seen as it really is.
Discovering the inner world leads us to be direct witnesses of our
own psychology, going further of everyone’s believes.
Thoughts, ideas, emotions, wickedness, all are inner feelings that
are invisible to the physical sense, they belong to the psychological space
and have huge reality in our lives.
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we wish, curse, suffer and have joy.
No wonder why old civilizations stated: “Man, get to know yourself
and you will be able to know the Universe and the Gods’’.
At further our inner world is explored we will realize that we live in
two realities: the outside one and the inner one.
The more we observe ourselves it will help to develop the self-
observation sense more and more and that will help us to discover those
psychological defects we never thought of having.
“Similarly to the way that it is necessary for everyone to learn to walk
in the “Outside World’’ so you do not fall in a cliff, you do not get lost in
the city streets, you select your friends, you do not associate with evils,
do not eat poison, etc., the same way, through the psychological work
about ourselves we learnt to walk in the “Inner World’’ which is
explored trough the self-observation’’. (Samael Aun Weor).
The ability to investigate the inner world is atrophied in every one
of us.
Working on the inner world means to work on our selves; there is
when all human being transformation begins.
The inner world in tremendously real and specifically there is where
we need to start our job, from where we are going to take all the psychic
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 2.2 SEE OURSELVES AS WE ARE

One of the most important jobs for humans is to be able to learn to

see themselves as they are and not as they believe they are.
In order to see ourselves as we are, we need to learn how to leave
aside the mental concepts we could have about ourselves; based on
believes, vague memories or personal conveniences; because they prohibit
the fact of getting to know ourselves.
Only taking off our masks we will be able to see the real actor of
our lives.
In order to see ourselves as we really are we need to learn how to
develop the “Psychological Self-Observation’’ sense, which is going to help
us discover those hidden facets of ourselves, that maybe everyone else is
able to see but that we will vow that we don’t have them.
Everyone has a “Fake image of itself’’…
We are used to see the devil outside of ourselves, we believe that
the rest of the people are the evil ones, the guilty, the betrayers; while we
are the meek sheep, we are never guilty, and we are just sufferers of a
cruel world.
There are only few brave people that dare to see themselves going
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they seem to be. Those few that take that chance are the ones that
accomplish the self-knowledge.
When we start to self-observe ourselves, when we start to watch
our way of thinking, feeling and acting, we start to discover a list of ideas
full of envy, a list of feelings full of rage and we discover how behind of our
way of acting there are hidden negative intentions of damaging and
harming the rest of the people or even ourselves.
Why do you talk bad about your brother? Are you really neutral in
your decisions? Are you sure that your thoughts are based on truth?, are
you sure that your eagerness of leadership is being guided by love?... You
should reflect and understand before the cold night covers you with its
bleak robe.
Only having an “Active attention’’ to ourselves, we are going to be
able to step out of the self-delusion and realize that we are not as good as
we thought we were.
“That an honorable man, unable to take something that belongs to
someone else, honorable and worthy of all honor, discover in an unusual
way a number of robbers egos which are living in the deepest zones of its
psyche, it is something frightening yet not impossible”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
Because of that is that we say that “It is better to know yourself
being bad, than believe yourself being good’’; since the one that believes is
good is not going to do anything to amend itself (because is already good),
it will keep self-deluding for the rest of the days in its fake kindness. A lot
of people just live their lives day by day and live with the comfort of feeling
better than the rest.
However, the one that bravely starts discovering its own
wickedness is qualified to feel sorry and fight against that negative facet of
itself, against that wickedness that disturbs its mind and heart.
Each person is “like a mirror’’, in which we see reflected our own
psychological defects; when we criticize somebody else is because we have
that same defect in ourselves and we see it reflected in the other person,
that is why it bothers us and we judge it, we condemn it.
Do you want to know yourself?... By self-observing yourself pay
attention to your mind and feelings, to discover the hidden intentions that
could be in how you act. This way you will discover your unseen envy, your
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 That is the reason why only a few are the ones that achieve the
Self-knowledge, because there are only few people that obtain that
sincerity with themselves. Most of people choose to stay deceived,
believing that they are doing good, vowing that they did it with good
intentions.

2.3 THE MIND LABYRINTH

The representation of the mind is like a labyrinth in which is very easy

to get lost, it misplays in time.
The conquest of the Minotaur by Perseus represents this fight of
every revolutionary against itself, against that demon (ego) that is hidden
in the labyrinth center, in our mind’s depths.
The Greek mythology says that in the palace of the kind Creta, Minos,
there was a huge labyrinth, with hundreds of rooms, corridors and
galleries. It was so gigantic that the one that got inside never found the
way out. In the labyrinth lived the Minotaur, a monster with bull head and

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man body.
Theseus got inside the labyrinth to face the Minotaur, he was guided
by the ball of yarn that Ariadna gave him, along with a magic sword.
To get inside the labyrinth we need Ariadna’s ball of yarn (the light of
awareness, the Spiritual guide), that is the only way we will be able to get
in and out of the labyrinth without getting lost; and to beat it we need the
magic sword (sexual strength).
The one that gets inside the labyrinth without waking up its
awareness will get lost and be eaten by the Minotaur.
“As Theseus we also need Ariadna’s ball of yarn to get out of that
labyrinth; in the centre there was always the Minotaur; Theseus
succeeded beating it, therefore the Greek tradition. We also need defeat it,
we need to destroy the animal ego. To be able to get to the centre of the
labyrinth where the Minotaur is, there is a lot of fight to be fought’’.
(Samael Aun Weor).
There are hundreds of theories about the inner growing and self-
knowledgement, some schools say one thing, some others say something
different, that the change takes this path, that takes this other one. To find
the real path among all that game of antithetical theories, is only possible if
we have Ariadna’s yarn, otherwise nobody gets outside the labyrinth of the
mind theories being alive.
In a lot of cathedrals the labyrinth after the temple entrance, since
the one that wants to receive God’s light, must first break through its own
mental confusion, must solve the labyrinth in its own existence.
In the labyrinth centre, in the depths of our own subconscious, there
is the bellowing beast, waiting to devour us; but here is the Ariadna’s light,
the light that your own soul is going to hand you so you can enter in your
own labyrinth and beat the Minotaur.
Are you willing to do it? Do you have Theseus’ courage? Or are you
going to be one of the scarified ones to the labyrinth monster? Ending up
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 2.4 OUR MIND: EGO’S LAIR

The basic things for the self-knowledge are study and know our own
mind. The starting point of the self-knowledge is given in the
comprehension of what is manifested in our mind.
If we want to change we should do it in our way of thinking.
In our mind are manifested our fears, doubts, sorrows, memories,
angers, etc.
It is essential to comprehend that the ego (I, myself, itself) uses our
intellectual center (mind) to manifest itself. The ego – that in Spanish
reminds the word selfish (egoista): first I, second I and third I- it is the
psychological multiplicity that keeps our mind in a constant state of mess
and lack of concentration.
We move from one thought to another; from one idea to another, to
promise but then don’t do it, we think good about someone but later bad;
we swear eternal love and then we hate. This never ending ideas and
contradictions have its base and fundaments in our loved ego. While the
ego exists in our inner self there will keep being this mess.
Who hasn’t lived the issue that going to some place and getting
there asks itself: what did I came here? That is due to the lack of
concentration, because of doing one thing but thinking in another one.
The mind has a female nature, that is why it must be “passive and
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and penetrating”.
Therefore how our mind is going to be, the same way our heart is
going to be.
Behind every thought there is a thinker; removing the thinker (the
ego) the mind calms down.
The stress, the insomnia, the fear, the anxiety, the worries, are based
on an “active mind”.
This internal work starts by working on our own mind, giving it back
its principal characteristic that is: “to be passive”.
Why do you have so strong reactions? Why do you only listen to
yourself? Are you sure that you are always right? Whom are benefitting
your ideas and projects?...
The current live is accelerated, because we have our mind
accelerated, because there is too much chaos in our inner self, too much
ego.
The mind is our labyrinth, our jail and we must release out of it; that is
the only way in which we are going to be able to taste the real happiness,
the serenity, peace and a calmed heart.
The time is in the mind, the past and the future, the memories and
the future plans. The unconscious (ego) takes and uses everything to make
us dream and block us of living the present.
Setting us free from the mind we also release from the time and we
start to live minute by minute. We start to connect with our mind, that is
further from the time, but that unfortunately is locked up in the ego,
confined in the psychological multiplicity.
The mind as a tool is amazing, but it can be at the service of the ego
or the mind. When it is used by the ego there will be negative thoughts,
anger, rancor, dreams. On the other hand, used by the conscience we will
achieve the inspiration, intuition, concentration, etc.
Nowadays our mind is spinning around the “most”; more money,
more titles, more material belongings, more acknowledgments.
“Is not rich the one that has the most, but the one that has less needs’’.
Who gets free from the ego (mind), also gets free from the
unconsciousness kingdom, the psychological darkness and is able to
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 2.5 PROBLEMS ONLY EXIST IN OUR MIND

Life is full of difficulties. These adversities are necessary to grow up,

to learn, they are part of the “Great Master Plan” that gives our soul
countless opportunities to understand the reason for our existence.
When we allow these difficulties (that are external to ourselves)
remain and keep staying in our mind “we create a problem’’.
Therefore problems are shaped by the mind; there they breed and
stay; they start to be part of ourselves, they are with us in our daily lives
spinning around our mind and most of them continuo in our dreams.
“Tell me what are you dreaming about and I will tell you which are
your problems’’.
That mind “identification’’ with life adversities is what makes our
mind be full of problems.
Due to our unconsciousness, to our lack of comprehension, the
mind keeps accumulating every time more problems in it, until at the end it
collapses.
If you want to learn how to not have problems, don’t let these be
shaped in your mind, leave setbacks aside where is that they belong.
When we create a problem, we start filling up ourselves with
tension, anguish and sorrow.
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There are, undeniably, certain hard circumstances that have
touched us or that we will have to live, however as we comprehend all of
this we will be able to connect better with our soul, which is beyond the
mind. This soul, immortal and perpetual, will empower us superimpose to
our mind and learn to view the adversities with more acceptance, with
more devotion, without that much toughness since this one is the one that
creates identification and sorrow.
Every good worker, when finds any difficulty in its duties and
doesn’t find the solution, should come near to its boss immediately
superior, to recognize the difficulty and ask for help and orientation,
otherwise there could be an unnecessary waste of energy and time. It
happens the same in your life, when you will find a difficulty and you are
not able to find any solution, go to your direct boss and give him/her the
problem so he/she can solve it.
Your direct boss is God, hand him those things that you cannot
solve, “send up’’ the problem, straight to the leadership and wait the
orientations, calmly, quietly, faith. God answers through signs; heedful to
the great boss’ signs, orientations and guides.
You don’t own anything, everything you own now, you will have to
leave at some point of your life, your house, your stuff, your kids, your
partner, your job, your body, everything, absolutely every-thing.
The word preoccupation means “pre = before of’’; it means before
being worried. We must never be preoccupied, yet “worried’’.
The worry is the never ending mental mess that doesn’t allow us
to sleep, that is constantly moving inside our head and that only takes our
energy, making us weak and depresses.
Nothing should make us worry. Especially that we already are
worried, points where the ego is more identified, where the conscious-ness
is more asleep.
“The Inner Master talks to us with feelings. If men would obey those
feelings, it would live without problems”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 2.6 THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE OUR
MISTAKES

The worst thing that could happen to a man is to die without haven’t
recognized and mended its mistakes…
When it is about judging ourselves we are not the best judges. That
is why it is good to listen attentive those who point out any mistake we
have done.
Nonetheless, our natural psychics’ inclination is to not want to
admit our mistakes, to think that the other person is the wrong one, that I
didn’t want to do it, “that is not true, you are the one that doesn’t
understand me’’.
We end up excusing ourselves, without listening to the one that’s
talking to us and “as always’’, listening to ourselves, to our own mind,
hiding behind the innocence outfit.
And what is worse, in some cases, reacting with anger since our
“good person’’ pride has been wounded.
Anger and pride eat from the same plate, they always come
together to stand up for our assumed unconsciousness.
In every irritable attitude there is our wounded pride hidden. Anger
and pride always conspire together to rise from the subconscious and be
manifested.
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 Every irritable person is a coward, since it is not able to face the
problems in a calm way, with courage, serenity and love.
The anger is our second shield to protect until death our not
assumed mistakes.
The bad temperament, the bad mood are anger demonstrations,
very common in the human psyche in the present days.
If we don’t recognize our mistakes we are heading by the worst of
the paths, the one of the “blindness’’ to itself.
“Be brave, accept your mistake, correct it’’.
Undoubtedly, the one who is not able to recognize his mistakes when
someone else is pointing them out, is because he is used not to recognize
them when the conscience is speaking out.
Only by opening our minds, giving ourselves the possibility to make
mistakes, by recuperating the self- honesty, we will see not only beyond
our mistakes, but also we will see beyond what we are.
“The devil knows more for being old, that being devil”.
It is easiest to see the mistakes of others; criticizing and judging is
more comfortable.
Not recognizing our mistakes is a tremendous obstacle for Self-
Awareness, cause we get stuck and what is terrible we will get worse.
Time does not improve anyone, time only strengthens the ego;
because the ego is the time, the ego lives in time, it's time. We cannot hope
to be better with the pass of the time.
Over the years, as the mind strengthens we will find difficult to
recognize our mistakes, we will be more and more stubborn.
”It is Ironic to become an expert, but not know anything about
yourself”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 2.7 ESSENCE, CONSCIENCE AND SOUL

The essence is the raw material which produces soul; the essence is
the embryo of the soul.
Essence is what makes beautiful a newborn child, who only expresses
his essence, his purity.
When we speak about the Essence, we are talking about God in us (in
our being). Our true nature is the essence, it is expressed as a set of
virtues, powers, attributes within us.
It is what makes us regret, reflect, truly love, feel, etc.
The essence is developed in small percentages, it is developed with
conscious works and with voluntary sufferings.
Spiritually we give the term “beauty” to the essence. The beauty is
inside.
The essence gives us the knowledge of ourselves, it allows us the self-
knowledge. So if we want to know the higher aspect of ourselves, we need
to bond more with our essence.
For the essence to grow and develop within a person, serious work is
needed on the person himself.
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 “The development of Essence is only possible through conscious works
and voluntary sufferings...” (Samael Aun Weor).
Unfortunately our Essence is trapped (bottled) inside the ego.
For what was mentioned before it comes the importance of
eliminating the ego, since our essence is trapped on it; and this is the
reason: if the ego dies, our essence will be released. Every time the ego is
removed, the Essence is released and it becomes consciousness.
Consciousness is, therefore, Essence liberated, emancipated, saved
from the clutches of the ego.
The nature of the ego is the dispersion, disintegration; however the
nature of the Essence is unification and integration.
As we go working on the dissolution of the ego, the emancipated
Essence starts merging and becoming integrated, so the soul will go
forming.
When the ego is removed we begin to feel the faculties of our
essence, such as love, patience, happiness and joy of living.
Awakening is a process that involves the dead of the ego. Death
precedes awakening, because the act of being awake is the act of being
born in another reality, another dimension (Astral world), only in this way,
the soul is crystallized.
Let us see the sequence to form our soul. First of all we have to keep
in mind that, without the elimination of the ego is impossible to have a
soul.
The person who believes that time will develop your consciousness, is
terribly wrong. The development of Essence has nothing to do with time.
To God 1000 years is like a second, and a second is like 1000 years, since in a
second we can eliminate defects that had us trapped 1000 years ago.
The development of the essence is given by the “action”, there are
many lazy people who leave work over the years without doing any inner
work, without having formed his soul, without fulfilling the basic reason for
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 2.8 LOVE, HAPPINESS AND PEACE

Love, happiness and peace cannot flourish until we were not

liberated from the power of the mind.
Love, joy and serenity are deep states of Being, which come from
spiritual dimensions of conscience, that are connected to your Self.
Love is happiness is freedom, love is giving.
The worse thing to do is to confuse love with desire, desire is the
antithesis of love. True love would never makes us suffer. Suffering is part
of the unconscious, of misunderstanding, is part of the ego, but it will
never be part of pure and genuine love.
We must never confuse happiness with pleasure. Happiness is born
from the soul and it depends on anything or anyone; happiness is
continuous, it has neither beginning nor end, since is the result of the
conquest of ourselves, is an expression of our own freedom and sovereign
consciousness.
“The greatest joy for the Gnostic is to celebrate the discovery of one of his
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 On the contrary, the pleasure as simple satisfaction of the senses, has
a beginning and an end, since it is a chemical response of certain
stimulations of the physical body, not of the soul.
What is commonly said seems not to be correct: “happiness is the sum
of the happiest moments of life”.
“Whenever ends the pleasure, the pain begins”. What gives us sensual
pleasure today, tomorrow will give us physical pain. Sensual pleasure and
physical pain are the same thing, but they are put on different parts of the
emotional pendulum of life.
The ego will always want you to confuse. Do not get confused, we
need to recover the true joy of living, of being, of existing.
“The essence of life is to be happy” if you're not happy, you are failing
in the essentials of life.
“The only thing that is required to qualify for true happiness is, above
all, not having ego”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Peace cannot be achieved with treaties, with signatures, with papers.
Peace is individual, it is the conquest of the calmed heart. We can live in the
middle of war, however we can feel peace, a calmed heart is the key for
peace.
Living in peace is a life choice, no matter what happens, never lose
the peace of your heart.
How much is peace? Priceless, right? Then, if you change your inner
peace through a bad face or hurtful words, you have just made a “bad
deal”.
Do not condition your joy and peace to certain events, we don’t have
to say: if such a thing had not happened, I would be happy”, that's the trap
of ego, since the ego wants to condition yourself to time and past events,
in order to keep you unhappy and resentful.
Do not be upset for joy or sadness. “We must persevere in the
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 2.9 CITIZEN OF THE COSMOS

Unfortunately, the ego has made us live a very basic and limited life...
We live in an infinitesimal fraction of creation, limited by our own
mind. We put limits where we don’t have to put them and this is another
problem, since our limits are inverted.
Our existence is centered on a small circle, where our limited physical
senses do not allow us to perceive reality, we are not able to see beyond
ourselves...
Our existence is focused on “The people who are around me”, “Those
who are close to me”, based on a small circle, as if “I was the center of
something”, we are only the center of our selfish reduced vision. Each
person works and strives to help and please those who are closest to him,
his relatives and friends.
The act of thinking only on the people who are close to me, depends
on who I believe that is away from me. Everything is a matter of
parameters, measuring ranges.
Undoubtedly for the ant, the next block is far away from it, and the
neighboring district is even more far away.
We must realize that our consciousness is enormous and it comes
from the heavens, from the infinite cosmos. Unfortunately nowadays our
consciousness is asleep, and this is the cause of our limited appreciation of
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 “Whoever is able to awake the conscious, lives in the superior worlds as a
citizen of the Cosmos fully awake”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If for someone those who are far away, are from another city,
obviously those who are close to you are your neighbors.
If those who are far away, are from another country, those who are
near (around me) will be in my country; and if for some people who are far
away, they are from another planet, the people from that planet will be
close to you; if for other people, the ones who are far, are from another
galaxy, your neighbors will be in this galaxy, etc.
We must expand our conscious, we must feel that we are “Cosmic
Beings”, people who live in the cosmos. In this way we will be training our
conscious to grow, to expand, and to go even more far away, that has
been gone before.
The one who expands the frontiers of his conscious, expands his love,
it does not use divisive terms like “family” and “nation”.
We must feel every person as part of our family, the whole world as a
big nation, and we must feel the entire planet as a simple room that God
created.
We are cosmic beings, we come from the stars, our ancestors knew
that, but we forgot it, our conscious fell asleep.
“Live without spiritual boundaries, but do not lose your moral
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 2.10 THE INFINITE

Just as exists an external infinity (planets and suns, galaxies) in the

same way, there exists an internal infinity. Everything that exists outside of
us, there is also inside us. We are the Microcosm, living in the Macrocosm.
We are just “a point” in the tangent of binding of these two infinities.
“We are mathematical points in space that serve as vehicles for specific
sums of values”. (Samael Aun Weor).
The door that we need to open in order to enter to the external
infinity, is in the inner infinity.
The person who cannot find door inside of him, is not going to find it
anywhere.
Human beings are too labored with the outside world, they are just
looking outside what's inside, and this is why he will never find anything.
Scientists invent and build bigger and more sophisticated telescopes,
they want to find the center of the universe, the origin of Creation;
however they do not realize that the origin and what they are looking for,
is within us, that we are a living Universe, with all the secrets of the
cosmos.
Feel the infinite inside you, understand how huge you are,
understand that everything is inside you, that you're much more than you
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In your inner infinite there are houses, buildings, cities, countries and
worlds inhabited by selves (yoes), which are creations of many existences
of unconsciousness, misunderstanding, bigotry and lies.
Stop making fool of ourselves, let’s clean our infinite, let's ride in the
inner skies, let’s get out of our hell, let’s break the chains; by immersing
ourselves we will find the doors of all the dimensions.
“All dimensions are within you”.
There is a 4th dimension which is in your vital body; the 5th dimension
is in your astral body and mind; the 6th dimension is your essence and
finally the 7th dimension you can find it in your intimate.
The infra dimensions however, are in our unconsciousness, in our
beloved ego, in our darkness, ignorance and pain.
The person who destroys his unconsciousness, it is released from it,
and enters to worlds where you can find highest happiness, light, eternity,
and where you can find the Absolute.
The one who works on his internal infinite, will be cleaned from ego ,
and the doors of the outer infinite will be opened, this will allow the
gradual trip to other dimensions, planets, galaxies and suns; you will be
able to do all these, by using your Astral body and the conscious who was
liberated from the sinister ego.
We are a reflection of the immensity, and it is inside ourselves, where
we can find the doors that will take you to the ends of the universe.
Only someone who has achieved the conquest and mastery of
himself, of his own inner infinite, is allowed to entry to the cosmic infinity,
to other planets, stars and suns.
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 2.11 THE GREAT JOURNEY

By knowing yourself we know our origin, where we come from,

where we are going, what is the reason of our existence.
Our present existence is part of the “Grand Tour” that our soul is
traveling, and started millions of years ago.
This journey started in the immemorial times, when we decided to
leave our true home called “Absolute”.
In the Absolute we were happy, however we were not aware of it,
and “Happiness without consciousness of happiness is not happiness”. Like
the little baby who is happy because his mother loves him, nourishes him
and protects him, but this little being, does not know that he is happy, he is
not aware of their happiness.
When the soul goes out of the Absolute and begins the journey of
self- knowledge, it goes losing the ability to love, it goes losing the “love”
because in the Absolute there is only love. When we move away the
primary love, we lose the ability to feel unconditional love, to feel us
unconditionally loved.
So this great journey, aims to recover the conscious happiness, it
aims to understand that what was previously mentioned, depends only on
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 This great trip, can continue for millions of years or we can decide to
return. For some people “The Comeback has begun”. For every trip, no
matter how long it is, has their final destination is the starting point.
“Where have you come, you have to go back; your essence, your
being”.
Are you ready to start the journey back to your Being, to the
Absolute, to your true home? Or do you still need to continue traveling and
living in homes that do not belong to you?
The return is only initiated when the soul begins to awake from the
illusion that had it trapped and blind.
When your trip ends you need pack up, buy a ticket and get on the
plane or the bus back home. What will you put in your bags? , material
things are worthless, you cannot carry anything from this earth. In case you
want to carry something, you can only bring your awareness and
consciousness, besides the experience of the great journey you had;
teaching all these, the rest of the things are useless. Not even your
memories will be helpful, only the experience of the consciousness, only
the understanding of thousands of existences will serve…
The money to buy your ticket is the Love that you felt for all
humanity, that's the “Cosmic Capital” which enables you to pay your debts
and your commitments.
Do you have capital in you internal account? , You can either pay your
ticket or keep working (loving and doing Good Works) to save money
(Cosmic Capital) for your final journey.
The bus or plane in which you will go back, are your internal vehicles,
your inner bodies that allowed you go traveling through the subtle
dimensions of nature: Astral Body, Mental Body and Causal Body.
If you do not possess these bodies how are you going back? So if you
want to get out of the illusion and leave the world of continuous deaths
and births you must “Increase your awareness; you must achieve the Second
Birth to create your internal bodies and you have to love to mankind, all
alike”, in order to have the Capital (money) to pay the ticket, otherwise
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 2.12 THE VERB

The verb and the word have an immense power, that unfortunately
we have forgotten.
Angels create with the power of the word.
The word geometrizes, the verb is “Akashic” the vibration (etheric
force of the laryngeal plexus).
The human mouth is the only source in the world, where honey and
gall arises at once, it blesses and curses, it loves and hates.
Who learn to handle his verb, will learn to handle himself.
Just like a ship is sailed by a small rudder, our body is governed by a
very small rudder called language.
The word is worthy. We must follow what we say, when we promise
something and we do not accomplish anything, we are showing lack of
internal work.
Is shameful to hear today’s people, especially young people, they
tend to swear all the time, because they think they are “rude” and they feel
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The quality of our energy depends on the quality of the verb, as it is
above, it is below. What is the verb of prostitutes? Undoubtedly the quality
of the sexual energy of humans, depends on the quality of their verb,
among others. If our word is rude (dirty), our sexual energy is dirty too.
It is impossible to have a sublime energy, with a crude language. “By
taking care our language, we will be taking care the quality of our energy”.
We must take care not only the language of the palate, but also the
internal language; the language of the mind, which is constantly chatting.
The fact of being constantly with our mind bustling, with the noiseless verb
of the mind, is also harmful.
Many times we don’t say anything, but mentally we rip apart a
person, we speak badly about that person using our internal language.
“What really counts in these studies is how men behave internally and
invisibly to each other”. (Samael Aun Weor).
We must learn to speak when we have to do it, and we need to learn
to be silent when we it is necessary. There are infamous words and criminal
silences.
We are the owners of our silence and the slaves of our words.
The word, the verb must always come from the heart, not from the
mind, we have to feel that is our heart the one who speaks, only in this way
we will upraise our language.
“You need to understand the value of the word and not desecrate it with
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 2.13 THE INTERNAL OWL

The starting point of Self-Knowledge is the “Psychological Self-

observation”, which is to look at ourselves, to be a spy of ourselves.
Consciousness has the ability to look at itself in an objective and
realistic manner; however the ego does not do the same thing, since it
gives us a distorted image of ourselves.
When the ego looks at himself, he does it in order to have more ego,
that is, to grieve himself (because he is ugly) or to be pride (because he is
cute).
The conscious has the ability to see the unconsciousness, the ability
of observe itself at all times, is represented by the owl.
If we look at this very special bird we realize its wonderful capacities:
 The owl is able to see at night, this means, the owl sees the darkness
of the subconscious, he can notices what we did not know about
ourselves, it is able to see that we have, what we thought we did not
have.
 Owl’s big eyes are in constant vigil, seeking their prey (Subconscious
selves).
 The owl can move its neck at 360 degrees, indicating the ability of the
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where you can hide a defect.
 The ability of self–psychological observation is the starting point of
self-discovery.
The person who does not self–observe, and does not observe his
thoughts, feelings and intentions, will never know himself.
“As we persevere in the self-observation of ourselves, the sense of
intimate self-observation will be developed progressively”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
Only by the constantly vigilance of what we think, feel and act, we
will go “finding” the animals that we carry in our interior.
The Owl can catch the mice, snakes and the lizards that inhabit our
interior.
Those animals are the living representation of our most hidden and
terrible defects, and the worst part of this, is that we have no idea of its
existence.
Minerva, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, had an owl, and this bird was
important, because it was the one that taught her and gave her wisdom.
After we said this, we are able to understand the symbolism of Greek
Wisdom.
Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding and Light, are based on self-
knowledge, in self- observation. Everything is inside us, but is hidden in the
darkness of our own ignorance. The internal Owl we will be showing us,
our subconscious, everything that we did not want to see such as anger,
lust, greed, revenge, suicide (terrible defects that inhabit in our interior)
“The offense is dressed up as saint, it uses the best virtues, is presented
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 2.14 FREEDOM

The word freedom fascinates many people.

A lot of blood has been spilled in the world due to this word...
Today, there are many people who claim to seek freedom, but they only
follow their “Willful mental concepts of freedom”. That is what the ego
does, it creates an ideal, making us captive in their mental cage.
You can you get freedom by with conquering yourself, when you
realize what cause you a sense of closure, limitation and stagnation.
The real bars that imprison human beings are not physical, but
psychological and mental, they are based on memories, anger, grief, and
resentment.
The bars of the mind have us captive in the cage of pain and
suffering, and make us claim (to the others and to our life) the lack of
freedom, without understanding the truly background of our self-
confinement.
As the ego goes dying, we go experiencing what we call free-dom.
Dead ego is destroyed bar, is expansion achieved, is indepen-
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 The attachment to things, people, money, creates the feeling of
lack of freedom.
There are those who abandon their families, those who quit their
jobs, seeking emancipation.
Any search of freedom outside of us is self-deception, is wanting
to achieve something greater through an inferior and meaningless act.
The deep feeling of liberty that reaches those who start dying in
their vices, in their defects, has a taste that ego doesn't know.
We do not know the taste of freedom, we just have beautiful
concepts, beautiful ideals.
A person can be imprisoned, but he might feel completely free, he
might feel a greater freedom, greater happiness, and vice versa.
“Any attempt of liberation is useless if it does seeks to destroy the ego,
even if this attempt is enormous”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Write in your notebook what is impeding you to be free, what does
not let you “Ride through the air”, write what is making you a slave of
things and people. Freedom is not licentiousness. Freedom does not mean
run away. Only BEING. That is the true freedom, lasting, unconditional, full.
Internal freedom is achieved with respect and responsibility. Want to be
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 2.15 KNOWING THE TRUTH

“The truth is liberating”. If one person receives education, and is not

able to give solutions when there is a problem, then is not helping to fix
the problem, therefore is not the truth.
All truth, for tough it might be, will lead us to greater freedom. Zen
says “Do not seek the truth, simply leave your opinions behind”.
It happens to be urgent to conclude what the Orientals said about
the conscience, in order to come to know the truth. The truth is inside us,
but the mind does not allow to know it.
Our mind clouds and it twists everything, it hides the truth under a
veil of intellectual logic, of belief and understanding.
“Do no intellectualize anything, understand everything. Don’t believe
anything, research it all. Do not assume anything, know everything”.
The truth is hidden within the ignorance, the light is in your darkness,
your consciousness is hidden within your mistakes, and happiness lies
enclosed inside your suffering.
You have to destroy your ignorance to know the truth, destroy your
darkness and meet the light, disintegrates your ego and you will have
consciousness; stop suffering and be happy... Is it very hard to understand?
“The truth is only perceived with the eyes of the heart”. The mind does
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the belief and duality, and the truth is the truth and assertiveness. We do
not get to the truth through intellectual study. The truth is not studied, it is
feet and lived.
The truth belongs to the consciousness and reflects love;
nevertheless the ego belongs to lies and corresponds to desire.
We live in a world of lies, deceit and falsehood. The truth comes to us,
but our darkness (ignorance and fear) does not allow us to recognize it.
“Truth is not a matter of sophistry, ideas and opinions. Truth can only
be known through direct experience. Mind can only comment and give
opinions, however this has nothing to do with the truth”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
The truth is inside you, your conscience is aware of this, but the ego
with its intellectual logic is responsible for hiding the truth; this is the
dream of our consciousness.
As you already know the truth, this book is simply designed to
remind you.
Jesus said, “Know the truth and it will set you free“.
The own awareness of the ego’s psychological imprisonment, the
act of understanding that the bars that have us captive from truth, are in
our own mind, the deep comprehension of the fact that we are slaves of
the ego’s desire, will allow us to work in order to step out of this state of
unconsciousness and to achieve the truth.
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 2.16 THE LIE

The lie threatens the truth and God, because God is truth. Lying is a
sin against the Father, is a short circuit to the light energy that lightens the
being
“Know the truth and it will set you free, know the lie and it will lock you
up”.
There are no “white lies”, or compassionate lies, the lie is a lie,
period.
“The one who lies is lying to himself”.
If you base your life in lies, you will only find darkness. Every lie
strengthens cowardice, since we do not have the courage to face things
with the truth, we feel afraid to “lose” things, so we prefer to lie.
By lying we prefer to lose the connection with our being, before
losing an object, a judgment, money, a couple.
In our present state of consciousness we do not know the truth and
what is worse, we assume to know it. Each of us has a more or less
distorted version of the truth.
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lying facets, which often go unnoticed even to ourselves.
“If we do not want to be victims of artificial emotions and false
experiences, it is essential to fight to death against the fantasy that we
have about ourselves, since besides putting us in ridiculous situations,
stop all possibility of inner development”. (Samael Aun Weor).
The karma of a liar is the physical deformity, people in previous
existences based their lives on lies, and today must learn to live in a
deformed, amorphous body, as a result of their continuous lies. The truth
hurts, but lies kill.
“Today’s lie is tomorrow’s darkness”.
Unfortunately this society is based on lies: politicians and spiritual
leaders lie, men lie to women to conquer them, women lies to men to keep
them, parents lie to their sons when they talk about “Santa Claus”, etc.
There are false spiritual guides that tell you ten truths to convince
you, and then give you only one lie and destroy you. Maths are simple,
cares less for less, that is, if I give you ten facts and then tell a lie, the final
result is negative, dark.
Only truth is sustained itself.
“The one who speaks with lies shall not be planted firmly in my sight”.
(Salm 101:7).
You have to tell the truth, no matter what. Only the one who always
walk with the truth, will know the light of his Being
As long as the consciousness is asleep, we will not be able to see the
difference between truth and falsehood, when we start to wake up we will
realize that lying is a big mistake that sealed us spiritually, and this will
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 2.17 MENTAL STRUCTURES

The prison is in our mind, and the bars turn to be the mental
structures that have been created through the years, the lessons we learnt,
the unconscious intellectual logic and the assumptions we made.
These mental structures, which were self- created or self- imposed by
the environment, do not allow us to move forward, those mental
structures limit us, restrict us and rigidify us, leaving the mind in a state of
restriction.
During the work of self-observation and inner transformation, these
rigid structures begin to be discovered and to be eliminated gradually, so
we are returning the consciously freedom to the mind, regaining
innocence, but with conscience.
You have to give the ductility back to our mind, since this is one of the
primary tasks of anyone who wants to go beyond himself.
“Thoughts must flow in silence, must flow serene and integrally,
without the battle of antithesis, without the reasoning process, that
divides the mind between opposites concepts”. (Samael Aun Weor).
It is impossible to destroy any of these structures, if it is not firstly
seen and understood in our mind.
The “professional deformation” of college and university studies are
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things we learnt, and this creates a logical structure, provided of higher
emotions.
To break the mental structures, we must eliminate the structuring,
the rigid, stubborn and wiseacre ego.
During childhood, during the first seven years of life, certain mental
and emotional structures are created and based on the examples given by
parents, siblings, friends and classmates; nevertheless all these structures
or bad habits are reinforced by our own mind and lack of awareness that
comes from pre-uterine times.
We should not blame anyone for our current limitations and mental
structures, instead we should observe them, in order to understand them
and eliminate them.
If we want to know ourselves, we must unstructured us from a series
of prejudices, habits, customs, stale ideas, alleged virtues that were
created in our mind, due to our limited way of perceiving the world and
ourselves.

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 The mind does not know the truth because it moves in constant
duality, always from one end to another (in the eternal flow of the
antithesis).
In the presence of doubts the mind has always two alternatives:
either yes or no. Do I stay or do I go, do I turn to the left or do I turn to the
right.
Once you have made a decision, you will see two more paths, and this
same thing will continue happening for ever...
This constant duality (to which we are exposed), has as aim to
develop the “discernment”, which is the ability to distinguish between
what is right and what is wrong, between what comes from the light, and
what comes from the darkness.
Our mind is only aware of its wrong decision, when it sees the
negative consequences of the decisions it made.
Unfortunately, due to our bad decisions, we are currently living in the
darkness, we can rarely see the light in the path.
To develop discernment and do not get lost in the duality of the
mind, we must learn to listen to the voice of our heart, we must learn “To
think psychologically; to develop emotional intelligence”. We must think
with the heart and feel with the brain.
Assertiveness is from the heart, it belongs only to the emotional
intelligence, intuition and to the silent verb.
The ego takes advantage of this intellectual duality to confuse us, to
make us doubt, to cloud our path and keep us imprisoned in confusion and
error.
Duality feeds the doubt, and doubt strengthens fear. This duality,
breeds fear.
“The origin of the doubt is fear and duality”.
As long as we continue walking down the path of duality, not only we
will not be able to find the path, which lead us to the awakening of our
consciousness, but also and we are not going to return to the Self
The Path of Self- knowledge will lead us to step out of duality, and it
will lead us to start walking down the path of certainty, objectivity,
conviction and faith.
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the new, since is petrified and frozen”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Remember to answer the questions and write the answers in your
personal notebook, before moving on to the next chapter.

2.19 THE DISCERNMENT

Discernment is the ability of our consciousness, to differentiate

between what is real and unreal, between good and evil, in other words,
between right and wrong.
Discernment requires training, because today we are accustomed to
act mechanically, since others do the same, because we are used to,
because we were taught to do it.
We must learn to discern, we must learn to develop the discerning
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 We could hardly work on ourselves without judgment, without
understanding.
To step out of the ego’s deceive, discernment is essential.
Our daily actions, our decisions must pass through the filter of
discernment.
Why do we have certain reactions? Why we do this or that? What are
the reasons of our actions?
The tattoo, the ring and the piercing, are things that we use in order
to get people’s attention, it is a way for the ego to get attention, to feel
unique, to be different.
If we apply discernment, we will discover a number of “yoes” which
are hidden in these decisions. For example: vanity, lust, emptiness, pseudo
mystical, evil prosecuted rebellion, imitation, etc.
Discernment is essential for understanding, undiscerning will lead us
to misunderstanding.
If we want to understand the ego, we must discern our behavior.
Unfortunately, nowadays discernment is not important.
Modern people dislike discerning, “they don’t feel doing it” they only
accept or reject things, without reflecting, without maturity
Discernment is a gift, which is developed as the ego dies.
The ego does not know how to discern, it only knows how to
condemn and justify.
Discernment belongs to consciousness, it is a power, useful for those
who want to work their psyche.
No discerning, no progress, no correction, no understanding.
Understanding occurs when the heart is lightened by the know-ledge.
When knowledge takes the emotion.
Remember that the ego is hidden in the deception, in the farce and
the falsehood.
The ego will always present us a different facet, accommodated to its
interests...
Discernment will allow us to discover all these trappings of ego and it
will be showing us what is hidden behind our actions.
“Discernment is understanding without reasoning. We must change the
reasoning process for the beauty of Understanding”. (Samael Aun
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 2.20 EVERYTHING IS INSIDE OF YOU

Do not seek outside of you what you have inside, if everything is

inside you, there is nothing to find outside.
It is not “holding up” that we will be happier, but “throw it off”. We
do not lack anything, we have too much.
All this knowledge is inside you, you're not learning anything new,
you are just remembering.
Our own ego is responsible to hide the light, to erase the memory of
the centuries, since the greater the ignorance, the less light.
“There is only one good: The knowledge, There is only one evil.
Ignorance”. (Socrates).
The gates of heaven and hell are inside you. Everyone chooses which
one will open.
Some are opening the doors of hell, and are walking to their
unhappiness, anxiety, fear, hatred, abuse, depression... Others, however, a
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truth...
We only have one physical body, therefore, there cannot be two
people inside us.
It exists either the consciousness or the ego, but it cannot exists
both, because otherwise we are “neither one thing, nor another”.
No one can serve two masters.
If we want to know the universe, we must know our inner universe.
Just as there are suns, planets, galaxies, and there are also suns,
planets and galaxies inside us
If we want to know God, we must look inside of us.
However, the one who wants to know God, needs to deal with the
devil (ego).
“Anyone who wants to ascend, must come down first”, that is the law
and the law needs to be followed.
The light (consciousness) is in your interior, but the darkness (ego)
hides it.
That is why, if you want to have light, you must face your own
darkness, you must to destroy your darkness and dissolve your ego.
The light is available for everyone, but only the brave will dare to go
after it.
“The person who closes the door of hell, opens the door of heaven”.
All laws, principles guidelines and systems of nature and cosmos are
in our interior, and if we do not find it in ourselves, we are not going to be
able to find it outside of ourselves.
“As soon as men achieve self – knowledge, there will be no need for
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 2.21 THE LIGHT BEHIND THE DARKNESS

The darkness is the veil of light, the light is behind the darkness.
Whoever wants Light, has to know his own darkness first.
God has done so, because he wants that only the brave and
determined reach the light.
The funky, the lazy and idle will never have the courage to face his
own darkness.
Anyone who wants to have light in his life, and tries to find it by
assisting to workshops, by taking weekend short courses or by reading
books, is not going to find it; The only choice that he has, in order to find
the light, is by looking at himself discovering and eliminating his
psychological darkness.
Each “self” has trapped a percentage of our light and wisdom.
“An eliminated ego becomes in light”, if you eliminate your “self”, you
will have light
When you eliminate an ego a part of your soul is released, and when
this happens the light that was trapped in our unconscious emerges.
If you want light in your life, and you are waiting an angel to give it to
you, you'll spend your life waiting that to happen.
The ego stole our inner light and fire; if we want to recover them, we
must deal with the ego and face it; we must be able to gather our courage
and patience and to look at the unconscious, in order to transform it into
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 If you want to have light in your existence, look at your interior, and
you will find what is impeding the light in your life (the ego).
The light comes out of the darkness and fire.
Anyone who dares to work his darkness (ego) and fire (sex) will
achieve light, on the other hand, we will keep looking in our exterior, what
has been hidden inside us, for centuries.
Do not fear the darkness, remember that darkness itself does not
exist, but it is just a God’s trick to make us appreciate, yearn and seek Him
The confinement of light in the darkness is only temporary, since
eventually the light will set itself free from confinement and concealment;
however this only depends on us.
We are either the light releasers or the light lockers; depending on
our thoughts, feelings and actions, we are constantly catching or releasing
our inner light.
Undoubtedly these days, not only most people hide their light, but
also they cover it, and lie to themselves.
Free your light, destroy your darkness, enlighten you and enlighten
the rest.

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 Just as everything is in you, the power is also in you.
Swami Sivananda said: “in what a man thinks, he is transformed”.
Nonetheless if we want to do this, we must go further and we must
understand it deeply.
Recall that the ego is the thinking of us, most of our subconscious
thoughts come from ego.
Not only we have to think, but also to know how to “Think
psychologically”; consequently our thoughts and reflections should come
from the highest part of our Being
“To serve the consciousness, the mind will have to turn into a completely
passive receptive and complete mind, this is called thinking
psychologically”. (Samael Aun Weor).
To firm up the power in ourselves, thoughts, feelings and actions
should converge.
If we only think of something sublime, but we neither feel it, nor we
work to achieve it; we will hardly succeed.
When we remove the “deceivers and talkative” selves, we begin to
make us masters of our thoughts; when the cheesy ego is removed, our
emotions are driven by conscience; when the “revolutionary, lazy and
undisciplined” ego dies, our actions are motivated by the conscious will.
Then and only then, the forces of nature begin to work in us, allowing us to
make great spiritual steps and do the “Work” on ourselves.
You have the power to free yourself, to achieve “self-realization” and
to achieve the re- encounter with our Intimate, with our Atman, with our
being. Do not turn on superfluous things, do not use all your potential to
achieve ephemeral things that exist today and that it will not exist
tomorrow (material things, money, degrees, etc).
The ego will try to deceive you by setting a thousand traps. It will tell
you different types of lies.
Selves want to live inside you; they want to steal your energy, your
power, as they have done this for thousands of years.
The power is in you, it is your turn, take the opportunity to step out of
the illusion, to break the “Lamp of Aladdin and to “set the Genie out of the
bottle” which make wonders, since it is nothing but your own
consciousness locked in the illusion of existence, making you believe that
power is outside yourself and that not only it is possessed by other person,
but also possessed by money… Awakes!

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 2.23 THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING

“The whole is hidden inside of nowhere and only God could have done
this”. Obviously, because is logically impossible.
Understanding this is very important, as it will help us in the self-
knowledge deal and in liberation.
Who is “All”?... God is All.
Who is Nothing? ... We are nothing, the ego is nothing.
If we see the universe, the infinite creation of God, we are nothing.
Do you have questions about this?
Where is God? ... within us and everywhere, nevertheless if you can’t
find Him in our interior, we will not find it anywhere.
So here's the key: “The whole is hidden into nothingness”.
God is wonderful. How can he do something so complex in a simple
way?
The all hides the nothing, just as darkness is hidden in light.
The wise understands all these, and he is not lost or confused at all,
because his vision goes beyond the apparent. The wise is able to look and
find the hidden from the occult. Similarly, the one who seeks self-
knowledge does not get lost in the superficial and apparent, but is able to
see where the light does not reach.
If the ego is nothing, why do we give so much importance as if it was
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 There it is the problem, we are confused and entangled in our own
moral errors.
After the “nothing” is destroyed, the “All” it goes out with its
splendor and expertise.
Search the Everything feels Everything vibrates with the All. But
remember that in order to get it, you must go through the void.
This is the Law: Anyone who wants to ascend, has to go down first;
everyone who wants to be king, must be slave first; everyone who wants
to give commands, must learn to obey first.
If you want to work with “All” first have to work with the void.
“Exaltation is preceded by a humiliation” and if you do not believe,
just remember the Stations of Christ.
Remember: “Everything is in you, nobody hides it”.

2.24 TO BE OR NOT TO BE

We are facing the dilemma of the philosophy of “To Be or Not to Be”.

We only “are” if we have incarnated the being, on the contrary,
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The verb “To Be” in English means “being”, this means, you only “be”
when you are “are”. As this is the same. If “we are not, we do not exist”.
How often you are physically in one place, but psychologically you are
flying away without living “here and now”.
The one who is not, does not be; therefore does not have the being
and the Spirit. The one who is not, is only a shadow.
Life has as an ultimate goal, which is, “Being” this means “to be”.
It is important to understand that when a person is filled with ego
and is not living the present, when the person is mentally evading himself
from any place, he is not.
The mind deceives us by making us feel that we are constantly doing
things, but the truth is that we are not doing anything, since things just
“happen to us” as when it rains or when the sun raises.
We often say: “let me tell you what happened to me”, of course,
because things often “happen to us”.
Only a conscious being that has the ability of “being”, can create
circumstances that will help the Great Work.
Orienting yourself in this maze is essential, otherwise we will fail
again.
The ego “is not” is an illusion, an unreality, is not the deepest dream
of our consciousness, it is important to know that as long as the ego lives
in us, “we will not be” and the final result will be failure.
The only person that will end up “being” is the one who has
embedded its “Being”. To achieve the previously mentioned, not only it
must be eliminated the “not to be”, but also it must disappear illusion,
falsehood and lie.
“The Self is the Self, and the reason of the Self is the Self itself. The Being
is what is Divine, is the immortal spark of all human beings, it has
neither beginning nor end, it is terribly divine.
Humans beings still do not have that spark inside their bodies, if we
sanctify ourselves and if we remove the sinner, the Mephistopheles; it is
clear that one day the Spark will enter to our bodies”. (Samael Aun
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 2.25 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

To make progress on the spiritual path is a necessary to help others

to make a progress too.
The selfish does not advance in the path that leads to the being.
Unfortunately in this modern world competitiveness, consumerism
and cronyism will limit the free expression of love towards our neighbor.
Sometimes we are able to give everything for our son or a close
relative, but we do not care about people who are not our family.
The development of the love towards your neighbors is essential for
spiritual progress.
“Whoever wants light, should give light”. (Samael Aun Weor).
As we grow, as our awareness increases, the same consciousness
must push us to help others, who are the same or worse than we.
If we only stay at home, and we do not share what we have received,
we will no longer receive anything.
“Selfishness is the blood of the ego”.
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Love is a very high energy vibration, frequency and speed, it is much
faster than the speed of light. So if you really love, you will travel at an
incredible speed and you will have the ability to be in several places at the
same time.
This gift is called “ubiquity”, which not only is associated to many
saints, but also modern quantum physics is proving to be a reality at a
subatomic level.
Let see the great men of history, the Saints and avatars; they all gave
up their lives for others, their sacrifice was appreciated with good actions,
not with good intentions.
Every time we help others to grow, to free themselves, and
understand what they have to do in order to get rid of their own prison
(ego), we also help ourselves since everything we give, will be returned
and multiplied.
Giving is helping others and it is a very good example, it must be
clarified that if we are not giving a good example, we will not be able to ask
anything to other people.
All this is very important to understand, because if we want to go up,
we must comprehend that each of us is a link in this great chain. Therefore,
we must always help the one is behind us.
Do not try to move forward without helping the person who is
behind you, because if you do it, you'll have to go back to help this person.
Love towards your neighbor acts as a driving force in our own
promotion.
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 2.26 THE INTELLIGENCE

If you ask 10 people a definition of intelligence, it is likely to have 10

different definitions.
Some will say that being smart is being a good student, others will
say that being smart is to have a good memory, other people are going to
say that is to be happy, or to have problem-solving skills, and so on.
For us “Intelligence is the ability to discover the evil”, it is certainly a
ability of our own consciousness, our own Self
As intelligence is a skill, it can be developed while it is used.
What is the “mishap” that intelligence goes discovering? The
misfortune that hurts us, that keeps us from happiness, and that damages
us or our neighbors.
As we work in the destruction of our mental disorder (lack of
concentration, addictions, anger, pride) intelligence develops, since we are
having room to express our Real Self, our Spirit, the Inner Master.
“The important thing in life is not only know the word intelligence, but
experience it in ourselves its deep meaning”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Intelligence belongs neither to the mind, nor the time, otherwise all
elderly would be intelligent and wise. You will see that over time if you do
not work within itself, the mind goes petrifying (in many yesterdays) and
ends up slow, stubborn as if it was divorced from the present.
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 As long as we work with our dark side (unconscious), more changes
we have to discover our internal disorder and therefore, our intelligence
will grow and it will show us what needs to be improved and worked, so
we end up reaching the freedom of our mind.
The act of developing our intelligence will help us to discover the evil
in all the facets of our lives, such as personal problems, psychological
problems, important decisions, hazards, etc. According to the previously
mentioned if we develop our intelligence, we will end up being good
students, we will have a good memory, we are going to be happy, we will
solve problems without identifying ourselves, we will be more
understanding and healthier.
Intelligence must go hand in hand with value, and the value with the
prudence.
The value comes from the heart and intelligence from the
consciousness. To develop the necessary courage is necessary to step out
of the mind and connect with the heart.
They say that intelligence is the ability to solve problems, but we can
say that intelligence is the ability “not to make trouble”. Some people
spend their lives solving problems, however they are constantly creating
problems and they are worried about a thousand things...
Intelligence is a female virtue; women possess intelligence because it
pertains to the heart. The man is wise, the woman is intelligent.
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 2.27 THE HEART

We can find the key to everything in the heart, in here there is the
door to heaven. However, you can also find hell in your mind. Heaven and
hell are in constant struggle within you.
For the heart you'll do it all, because love is all, because God is
everything... “Love is the key to all the doors”.
Let us study some techniques to handle the loving force of the heart:
 When you talk you must feel that your words come from your heart,
in this way your verb will be loaded with love, peace, joy and Christ
Force.
 When you self- observe, you must feel the connection with your
heart, as if you were observing yourself from your heart, also you
must read the chapter “Living in the heart”.
 When ask for the death of the ego to your Divine Mother, you must
imagine a light in your heart, because that’s what you're doing:
“Lighting the Heart”.
 When you want to do a practice of concentration, do it in your heart,
focus on your heartbeat, feel and see the blood in and out of it. By
focusing on your heart you go back to you, you reconnect with
yourself, you stop the dispersion.
 In your heart there is a Temple, “The Heart Temple” and by
concentrating in this temple you are entering it. Imagine this temple
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beauty and harmony. Imagine that in the center of the Temple there
is a Dais with beautiful light being seated at center, he is thy Self,
your Inner Father that lives in you, and speaks from the heart and
guides you.
 If you want to practice the “Astral Projection”, do it concentrating on
your heart. Lie in bed and concentrate on your heartbeat, messing
imaginatively within your heart. Stay there, listen to the beat of your
heart and you will start feeling the symptoms of Astral Projection.
 If you want to meditate, do it in your heart. Read Chapter
“Meditating or live in meditation”.
 If you want to forgive someone, you must do it from your heart.
Read the chapter on the practice of forgiveness.
 If you want to pray, just do it from the heart, feeling very connected
to your heart.
 If you want to understand the subjects in this book you must carry
out all these teaching, leading it to your heart. This will give you a
“Wise Love” full of light, caring and strong.
 When you go somewhere for the first time, pay attention to your
heart, as it will always indicate (intuitively) if that place suits you or
not. Institution hit you right away, expressing you at the moment
you cross the door.
If you want to live consciously, you must do it from the heart, feeling
the heart, and in continuous self-observation, looking at you from the
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 2.28 LOVE OR FEAR

There are those who suggest that there are only two emotions: love
and fear. From one comes out of the rest.
Fear is multifaceted, it uses a lot of different clothes and it is
presented in myriad ways.
The goal of knowing yourself, is to create real and intelligent men and
women.
What is to be aware? To be Aware is to be comprehensive, to be
clear.
What is intelligence? To be smart is to discern, to be reflective.
Intelligence comes from the heart, not from the mind. The
intelligence comes out of love, which lead us to Understanding and
Consciousness.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, the essential is
invisible to the eye”. (The Little Prince).
Knowing that something is true “in our heart” belongs to a differ-rent
order of conviction than thinking with the rational mind.
Realizing of one's feelings in the moment they are expressed, is the
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 The one who does not awaken his consciousness or develop their
intelligence will fail in life. You will be a victim of yourself forever.
The virtue (ability) to control yourself will allow you to face the
emotional setbacks of life. This self-control begins to develop when we
discover our own unconsciousness and when we go eliminating it from our
interior.
Fear traps you and sleeps the love in our interior. The lack of love is
the cancer of this great civilization.
By eliminating the fear from our interior, it will begin to emerge Love,
Courage and Confidence.
Lack of happiness and of confidence is due to a “feeling of emptiness”
and this false feeling generates fear.
All the emotions you may feel are from the Love or fear.

LOVE ≠ FEAR
Light Dark
Consciousness Ego
Faith Doubt
Value Anger
Health Disease
Compassion Mockery
Goodness Evil
Caress Hitting
Relaxation Stress
Patience Impatience
True False
Freedom Oppression
Understanding Impulsiveness
Create Imitate
Correcting Punishing
Plenitude Frustration
Sweetness Bitter
Confidence Mistrust
Everything Nothing
Unfortunately, our actions today, are based on fear, sowing
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 By understanding the origin of our actions, we will understand the
outcome of our life.
If we sow in our interior garden bean seed, we will reap beans, if we
sow corn, we are going to reap corn. What will we reap if we sow hate,
resentment and violence?
All angry or violent is a coward, because they don’t have the courage
to face the problem without anger.
“Violence is the shield of the coward”.
Imitation is the result of fear, because we do not have the courage to
be authentic.
What has more value in you Love or fear?
When we eliminate the defects of our interior, the virtues that were
trapped in our interior, will start to bloom. The one who eliminates fear
will know Love and the one who eliminates anger, knows the courage.
People have to think that the best thing to do is to love, because if in
your mind you create hell, you will never be happy.
The greatest success of our existence is happiness, and the person
who hates, it will never be happy.
We must learn to develop the “Values or Virtues” that exist in our
interior, such as: Respect, Tolerance, Kindness, Love, Courtesy, Joy,
Friendship, etc.
The main value to develop, as the name suggests is the “VALUE”,
bravery, courage. If we are afraid, then we will always be mediocre, fearful
and coward.
This courage always uses the clothes of love, it does not use the
garments of fear or doubt.
“Everything is Love; nothing in fear”. The person that loves, does not
need anything”.
The word courage means “Be Strong”, therefore, the development of
these virtues, makes us stronger in life, in order to deal with many
difficulties. The word virtue means “Physical Value” and this comes from
the Latin “Vir” (manhood, hero, soldier).
“Success in life” has a mother who is called Love, and Father called
Value.
In the “Brave Love” is the key to our transformation and our
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 2.29 INTERNAL VACUUM

Many people today feel emptiness in their interior, as if there is

something is missing, that cannot be filled with anything.
That void is the vacuum of the BEING, is the absence of the Spirit that
makes us feel that sense of emptiness.
The impulsive desire to buy, to have, to possess, is the trick of the
ego to make us feel that we fill that void, but it deceives us, since the
vacuum persists… it continues.
The internal void is due to our internal poverty, we have not
developed or awakened our consciousness, much less our soul.
The loss of the sense of life, depression, suicide, lack of vocation,
selflessness, and superficiality, are due to the internal emptiness.
It is strange to realize that the Oriental philosophy talks about the
importance to achieve the Internal Void, the Illuminating Void, the
Samadhi.
This is for us to understand the dualism of life, as everything has its
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 The “Illuminating Void” comes only when the false void stops
torment us. Only by emptying ourselves of darkness, we will be filled out
with the light of consciousness.
Is not the same to “Emptied” than “to be empty”, it looks similar, but
is not the same.
We must empty ourselves, to reach the “Great Void” in order to be
completely filled by “everything”. Empty your emptiness and attain
freedom.
While we want to fill that emptiness with superficial things as:
money, appliances, cars, fashions, the void will exist, because nothing
material will fill it.
The feeling of emptiness we have today, is due to the Super effort
that our being does not only to wake us up, but also to makes us
understand the shallowness of our lives, our unconscious and our
emptiness.
“In the darkness, to help us the Light is disguised as darkness”. Do not
struggle to fill the void, “understand it”.

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 Ego reminds us the word selfish, first me, second me, third me. The
ego is a sum of selves, the ego is a psychological multiplicity, it is like many
people living in us.
The ego is our subconscious, conscience is asleep, infra-
consciousness
The ego is a lot of errors, defects, mistakes, bad habits.
It is known in all religions under different names, such as the Seven
Deadly Sins (Catholic): Lust, Anger, Greed, Envy, Pride, Sloth and Gluttony.
Each of these defects are considered “legion head”, of which thousands of
defects arises. In ancient Egypt it was known as the “red demons of Seth”,
in Buddhism as “The three daughters of Mara”, in Tibet as “psychic
aggregates”.
The ego has been formed within us with the passing of the years and
existences. Is the embodiment of our mistakes, it is the result for giving out
light and fallen into disobedience.
The ego is made of mental energy; it is the negative crystallizations of
mind, is like a strained mind. The ego within us corresponds to ignorance;
this leads us to error and error lead us to pain. Therefore, it does not allow
us to know the truth and it always makes us suffer.
As long as the ego is in our interior, our life will be marked by the
pain, the confusion, the darkness and the unconscious.
The ego makes us be so changeable, it makes us promise and not
achieve, and then it makes us want something and afterwards it makes us
hate it.
Within us “lives many peoples” many “selves”. Each “ego” is relatively
independent in thought, feeling and action.
The ego occupies the centers of the human machine to manifest
itself; it puts thoughts in the intellectual center, feelings in the emotional
center and it puts impulses in the motor center.
“Everyone thinks they know themselves, but they do not even suspect the
doctrine of the many”. (Samael Aun Weor).
In our interior live 100% of the selves that exist in this humanity, some
are strong and others are weak, but we have them all. Within us there is
also the “murderer”, but is not expressed in this existence. “Opportunity
makes the thief”, so these egos (selves) which are hidden in our
subconscious, are just waiting for their chance to express themselves.
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we criticize the mistakes of others, it is simple because we also have that
defect within us, but it is hidden.
Jesus said: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s
eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye”.
The biggest problem is that each ego has caught a certain percentage
of our Essence (Soul) and is constantly being nourished by it. Our soul is
divided into lots of selves, and our work o is to reunite and form our Soul
Essence, so this soul will lead us back to the Self.
Working in the dissolution of the ego is the only compulsory thing for
us to do, if we do not do this emancipatory work, no one will do it for us.
The ego has no real existence; it exists only in our psychological
space, in our mind. Only the Essence is Real, however in these decadent
times, “The unreal has caught the Real”, darkness maintain us immersed in
the dream of consciousness, and it is impossible to step out of there
without dissolving the ego.
We are about to face a fight to death, and we have to choices, we
either overcome the ego and as a consequence we are liberated from it; or
we are submerged into the darkness of the subconscious, suffering the
consequences of being heartless.
The ego creates divisiveness, separatism, property, border, banner.
Without ego, this mankind would one brotherhood, one family. While
there is ego, there will be possession… what’s “mine” and “yours”.
The ego is an expert in the art of deception, therefore, any person
with a strong ego is very skilled in fraud, lies.
The liar will always end up being a victim of his own confusion.
It is good to clarify that there is no “Higher”, “Divine Self” or “Alter
Ego”, but the ego, it is not superior or divine.
In our interior there is either the ego or the Self, but there it cannot
exist both, it is important to mention that we have the capacity to choose
which one we want for ourselves.
The Gospel says: “I will put in front of you two paths, angels or demons,
you will choose”.
Understanding all this is only possible with consciousness, when the
ego stops feeding itself, and begins to die.
The ego is strengthened by the collective unconscious, so that when
a person is in a group is able to do things that he or she would not do by
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Whenever an ego is expressed in us, it robs us energy, the ego lives
by the energy that robs us.
The ego with a sense of self-observation ends up naked, since it loses
her false guise, its mask, so we can see it “as it really is”.

2.31 GOOD YOES

Our consciousness is beyond good and evil. God is beyond good and
evil. The words right and wrong only serve to confuse consciousness.
If we really want to know ourselves intimately, we must be able to
observe ourselves at a deep level, even when we think we are doing
something good, since in our interior lives bad and good selves.
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Just as there are terribly perverse selves, there are also extremely
“good” selves. Only a deep self-observation of ourselves, will allow us to
capture these astute defects, that even talk about love, pray, give alms,
etc.
“Not only you have to do good, but also you have to know how to do
it”.
This is one of the major obstacles to our spiritual growth: “To be able
to discover our evil behind the alleged acts of kindness”.
These “pseudo good” selves, give alms in the street to an alcoholic, to
encourage bad granny spoil her grandson, it confuses mothers who keep
her son, who is being a deadbeat, it creates a false image of ourselves,
constantly justifying ourselves, feeling that we are perfect, and that we
perform our duties, perfectly.
The “Good selves” make us feel good, good people, good heart, that
we are righteous.
“The 'ego' which feels that in itself is the basis on which we rest, must be
dissolved, if we really crave authentic Bliss”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If we truly want a “Radical Transformation”, we must start from the
basis that we do not know anything about ourselves, we must be
conscious that the little knowledge we have about ourselves is cleverly
manipulated by the ego, thus disfigured, this knowledge is accommo-dated
for the ego’s own convenience and survival.
To think yourself as good, is a tremendous obstacle to the self-
knowledge, because if I think I’m good, I am not going to self- observe
myself carefully, in order to discover the ego and its saint clothing.
“People seem very kind, every day they drag their fellows, into the secret
cave of themselves, to do with them all they want. (Harassment, ridicule,
derision, etc.)”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 2.32 THE DEVIL

To talk about the devil, scares people, they do not even want to hear
this word, they do not realize that the devil dwells in our interior, in us.
Every each of us see the devil out of ourselves, the murderer, the
abuser, the swindler, without even realizing that each of us carries these
defects and, therefore, the devil is within us.
Nobody outside ourselves will make us fail; nobody will push us down
the abyss.
If we fall into perdition, failure or chaos, it will be by our own inner
devil.
The devil is the sum of psychological defects that we have within us,
the ego is diabolical nature, and these are the defects (egos, selves) that
are leading us to perdition.
There are few brave ones who are able to confront their own inner
devil, there are few who to dare the ego to death.
Most people prefer to ignore the ego, some people do it by thinking
that the ego does not exit; others prefer to escape (panic attacks, suicide).
The devil is painted red because it has “our fire”, he took us away our
energy, our courage, our will.
We must “Take the fire from the devil” we have to face ourselves, we
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 The devil has a tail, a living representation of the downward energy
sexual, due to the fornication and sexual abuse.
The devil only exists because of our weakness, our fear, our lack of
courage, for our misunderstanding, our fanaticism.
“It's not bad to be bad; bad is to remain being bad”. We must stop
“doing mischief”.
Stop looking for the evil outside of yourself.
Remember that the gates of heaven and hell are in our inner self, and
we decide where we want to walk.
“We must start from scratch and recognize that we are demons, if we
really want to get to the intimate self- development of the Being”.
(Samael Aun Weor).

2.33 DESIRES ARE YOUR ORDERS

Yes, “Your wishes are commands for the subconscious”, therefore,

every time we want something, the forces of the unconscious (ego) are
operated, in order to realize what we want.

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 It is good to understand what desire is and how we are caught.
Desire is the greatest strength of the ego, it makes us fall, over and
over again.
One of the great deceptions of the ego is to make us believe that
desire is love. Moreover, the great weapon of the ego is the confusion and
lies.
Desire is the antithesis of love.
Desire is the great murderer of love.
Desire is the ego force in action.
Desire wants everything, love gives everything.
Desire wants for myself, love for others.
The desire wants to receive, the love wants to give.
Desire wants to enjoy, love wants to sublimate.
Desire is the engine of self, love is the engine of consciousness.
The greatest danger is to strengthen the desire, since it increases
selfishness and is food for the ego.
These are small and subtle errors that keep us in a state of
unconsciousness. Great psychological defects are not needed to have a
sleeping consciousness.
Herein is the difficulty in awakening our consciousness, in becoming
aware of those little mistakes that keep us slaves of ourselves.
Desire is an expression of fear, it is a deficiency, a weakness.
There are some books that subtly teach and develop the desire to
strengthen the power of thought; disguising all with a spiritual language of
self- improvement, power and light.
It's super easy to “rise to the bait” when you do not have clear
concepts.
From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step and we
should be very alert not to give it.
Reflect, deduce and comprehend, in this way you will be prepared to
advance in the true Self-knowledge, by always being aware of the different
ways in which the ego can deceive us.
Always remember that there will be external and internal forces that
want US out of the path, they want us to be confused and misguided. All
this is achieved because of our weaknesses, our faults, our misconceptions
and our desires.
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By wanting to impose our will (desire) we might end up manipu-lating
situations, without respecting the free will and imposing our thoughts.
Liberation is craved, not desired. Never confuse “longing” with
desire, although they seem to be similar, they are diametrically opposed.
The powers of the soul should not be desired, but you must be
prepared to receive them.
The Self-knowledge teaches us not to flee the desire, but to learn to
discover the ego behind it and remove it.
You are not aware of desire by denying it; you have got to observe,
learn, understand, and correct.
The desire lives according to the “more”, people always want more,
they are never satisfied.
Desire is insatiable because it causes suffering.
Desire is a vice that produces addiction, and if you do not believe this
I invite you to go for a ride to a Mall (shop).
Desire is what makes the gods be overthrown, and is what makes the
creatures fall into the Abyss.
“Desire is the most deceiving poison that exists throughout the Cosmos”.
(Samael Aun Weor).
Wishing is wanting; desire always leads to suffering, fear and death.

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 2.34 MENTAL PROGRAMMING

Programming is using the mental strength to achieve a goal.

We should not use the power of thought to program anything in our
lives. In all programming there is a schedule, weather, mechanical, ego
desire, individual will.
The Lord's Prayer teaches us: “Thy Will be done, on earth as in
heaven”.
Any process of mental programming is wanting to impose our will.
The mind in the service of ego, strengthened with desire becomes
highly dangerous and can turn off to anyone.
It is through the “Mind Control” that you can free yourself, you
cannot awaken your conscience through mental programming.
In both: control and mind programming, you will find the same ego
using the power of the thoughts, to achieve their goal.
Remember that the house of the ego is the mind; therefore, the one
who programs is the ego itself.
The consciousness is what constructs reality, not the mind, many fake
schools argue that the mind is what creates the reality, but that is not true,
because is not the mind who created reality but it’s the consciousness. The
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“In these times many issues abound for the mind control. Some believe
that certain exercises can be magnificent contrived to control the
understanding. There are schools, there are many theories about the
mind, many systems and more, how could be possible to do something
useful from the mind? Reflect, then, if we do not know the how and the
why of the mind, we could get the mind to be perfect”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
The modus operandi of consciousness is different. It is not interested
in imposing its will, it is not interested in using the mental strength to
strengthen the desire.
We do not know what's best for ourselves, so we do not need to
program anything.
Craving, begging, pleading, praying is different.
You have to thin down self-observation, in order to learn the
difference between ego -desire and craving- awareness. Desires look good
and very reasonable, however they poisoned by the ego.
To use our mental power to shape our desires, will only distances us
from the Divine Will, it only makes us strengthen the mind and strengthen
the desire (ego). All this is food for the ego and it debilitates our
consciousness.
By fortifying the mind, we also strengthen the personality, because
the mind is the food of personality. Any person with a marked personality
is also an intellectual person with a mind fed, with a “logical ego”.
Not feeding your personality is how you go approaching the Self
Personality is the “ego dye” because is what gives the “structure” to
the ego. If you lack personality do not worry, you do not need it, just die in
your egos of shyness, shameful, fearful, etc. And you will see how they
start to awaken the virtues of consciousness, which does not need
personality to express itself.
If we use the power of thought to strengthen and shape our desires,
we will get some results. The ego is also able to create. The desire
strengthened by the power of thought can also get a special power.
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 2.35 HIDDEN ANATOMY

The physical body and the five senses are not the only things that
exist.
We have other ways more subtle and more powerful than the five
basic senses.
The knowledge of the occult anatomy of man, the development of
these higher senses and management of these is not given to the ego, but
is given to our consciousness, as it is the only who can make proper use of
the faculties and powers the soul.
The knowledge of the Higher Laws (Karma, Reincarnation, involution)
of Aura, the Vital Body, the Astral Body, Chakra, Intuition development of
clairvoyance, clairaudience of the Astral Travel, the authentic Meditation
and the Mystical Ecstasy, are processes that are occurring gradually to the
ones who clean their psyche of the darkness (ignorance) of the ego. As we
said before, all this information is already in our interior, and it will
reappear at any given time, without being necessary for us to look outside
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 The photograph “Kirlian” is a scientific proof of the existence of the
etheric or vital body, belonging to the fourth dimension.
We shouldn't be worried for “knowing” more than it is necessary.
This is like when a first-grader is worried about eight-graders subjects or
the subjects that are taught at the university… this is a bit much.
As the ego is dying, our consciousness will be allowed to express
itself freely, (soul) and it is the consciousness the one who is allowed to
subdue, to fully understand and manage these bodies and faculties.
“Whoever wants to incarnate their soul must have an astral body,
mental body and causal body. Humanity does not have these vehicles. If
we examine the astral clairvoyance of any ordinary person, we will see
that the Astral is a cold and slept ghost”. (Samael Aun Weor).
To know the alchemical techniques used to create these bodies, we
suggest reading our book “SUPRASEX, the divine sexuality”.
In all these matters, today, there are many confusing literature,
maliciously distorted, so the search is not recommended in any book.
We are in the era of synthesis, where all doors can be opened by the
revolutionary soul that looks inside of these mysteries.
Astral travel, for example, is becoming a reality for the person who is
eliminating his ego.
We cannot deny that the ego can, in some way, acquire some of
these powers but think if the ego is dangerous without powers, how will it
be with powers?
So all these transcendental knowledge starts to be acquired, or it
would be better if we say that they start to be recovered during
psychological cleansing.
The development of the Chakras can also be done subjectively,
nevertheless these discs will start spinning light in any person who cleans
his soul from such unnecessary dross, and it will purify the sexual energy,
eliminating the lustful egos of adulterers and fornicators.
“Don’t look for powers, be prepared to receive them”.

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TO LIVE HERE AND NOW

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 3.1 THE TIME

Step put of deception is urgent, since the ego needs time to subsist,
getting rid of the deceit of time.
In our minds, time is processed through memories of the past or
projections from the future; this whole process which may seem illogical is
part of the illusion that the ego makes for us throughout the decades.
Our mental tendency is to always be thinking about the past and
worrying about the future. The past, as much as the future, only exist in
our minds and are perceptible only through the present.
The key here is to comprehend that time is not lineal but circular, in
other words “a spiral”; the beginning and the end make contact in their
extremes; death is the way back to the matrix which provides an possibility
of repeating our existence in different scenarios. Hence, the symbol with
the serpent which bites its tail.
“Time is round and the life of human personality is a closed loop”.
(Samael Aun Weor).
In the times of Christopher Columbus, the earth was thought to be
flat and with a limit which led to a cliff; only a few brave people dared to
say it was round. It is the same in this case. To think that time is lineal and
not curve; are you brave or do you want to keep your obsolete way of
thinking?
The fact of thinking that time is mapped in a straight line means that
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our conscience is trapped in a unidimensional world because this line
represents a world with a single dimension. Our understanding of time has
to transcend to the multidimensional world as well as comprehending that
time belongs to the fourth dimension which is represented as a spiral.
Most of us are trapped in this spiral which is a very slow path that
takes us from existence to existence throughout evolution, rising slowly
through continuous suffering.
Time is processed in a spiral with concentric circles with a bigger
upper diameter and a minor lower diameter. Nowadays, in these decadent
times we are situated in the lower portion of the spiral and for this reason
we perceive time more quickly. Everything is done in a rush and time is not
enough.
Ego belongs to this level, the ones that are the lowest in the spiral
where everything turns dense, rushed and delayed.
Time does not make anyone perfect. To think that with time we will
become better is an utopia. To think that with the come of a determined
year or age (for instance the year 2012) the world will be filled with love
and we will al be happy and full of virtue is an illusion that only makes
laziness grow bigger.
It is not time that makes us better. If that was the case, all the elder
would be saints. As long as ego exists in the human psyche there will not
be peace nor happiness.
Ego is the time inside us. Ego is time; it is born, it grows and dies
within time. This is not the case of conscience which does not have a
beginning or an end.
Time gives us different opportunities, different scenarios in life to get
to know ourselves, it provides us with limitless experiences but it does not
make us perfect. Perfection has nothing to do with time since it is
mechanical (such as a clock) and perfection is the result of the growth of
the person's conscience; as a result from a process with conscience of
ourselves. Perfection has no mechanical principles to be followed.
If you want to free yourself from ego do not think about “tomorrow”
since there will always be one. The mind loves to enclose itself in time and
thinking about a better tomorrow or postponing what has to be done
today for an uncertain tomorrow.
Only by living from moment to moment can we gradually free
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and we end up trapped in an illusion from what it has already ceased to
exist.
To free ourselves from time is of vital importance to achieve self-
awareness and only then we will see further than what we have seen so
far.

3.2 I DO NOT HAVE TIME

Since time does not have a real existence it cannot be considered as a

possession.
For this reason saying “I do not have time”, “I did not have time” is
illogical.
Time does not exist. There are occurrences, circumstances, events
and tasks. When the time is not enough to complete a certain task it was
not because “there was no time” but because it was not given the
necessary priority; hence, doing something else was more important that
the unfinished task.
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It is transcendental to comprehend this notion to put time in its
rightful place instead of using it to justify our actions within an illusion.
A lot of people justifies their lack of interior work with the excuse of
lacking time; this is not true but a justification in their own minds.
The job concerning the person's interior goes further than time and
the mind. To excuse yourself from working on your ego saying that there is
no time is a clear signal of avoidance and escaping reality. Such a person is
simply refusing to work on their psyche.
Let us observe our priorities and make a list of them hierarchically.
What is first on the list?
This list is a reflexion of our priorities, of our preferences. It would be
good to put in the most important things on that list our internal work,
level it up, and give it its rightful priority and value.
There are no excuses to postpone our internal work; either you have
the will to do so or you do not, that is all there is to it.
To include time in our internal work process signals that the person
does not comprehend and is immature; such a person is indicating that
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 3.3 HERE AND NOW

Attention makes our presence felt, if we do not pay attention it

means we are neither present nor aware.
If we are physically in a place but our minds are not there, the result
will be a sleeping conscience.
Keeping our presence strong is a requirement for self-awareness.
Only can we auto-observe ourselves if we are aware of the present
moment. We are used to a mind that is divorced from the body; our minds
being in a place different to that of the body.
When we are in a place, we must put all our senses there, feeling,
listening, watching; we cannot allow the mind to take us to a different
place or to bring different thoughts to those currently inside our head; by
doing that we put an effort into being constantly present and we become
capable to get to know ourselves.
Everything happens in the present time so if we are not present we
cannot be aware of what is currently happening, we are asleep. Nothing
happens yesterday, nothing happens during the morning, everything
happens in the present time.
“While a man says the word “tomorrow” he will never change” (Samael
Aun Weor).
The past and the future can only be experience through the present
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 When we are not present and we let our minds wander off to a
different place we are feeding our egos and making our conscience weaker
because we fall into the slumber of the ego.
Being present means we are awake. The holy scriptures talk about
being awake; “watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation”.
Watching means to keep awake and praying means to ask the holy mother
for the death of the ego.
Someone who is not present, is dreaming inside their mind, thinking
back or making future projections. Only by living here (place) and now (the
present) can we guarantee our presence will be felt.
By being present we can hear the voice of our Self (intuition) and we
can “taste the joyness of being”.
That who lives from instant to instant, from moment to moment
(which is not the same as “living for the moment”) is capable to be in
continuous self-observation, discovering the most minimal expression of
any psychic flaw.
Only the conscience can be present since it belongs to eternity. The
ego, even if it thinks it does belong to it, cannot achieve this and belongs
to time by seeing the present time through the rancid eyes of the past or
the illusory eyes of the future.
Inside of everyone there is a continuous void and the sensation of
being capable of filling it in the future or a determined ideal situation.
The objective of working with our inner selves is to achieve a state of
continuous presence since by doing so we become more aware of
ourselves and we become capable of discovering the root to our problems.
Any thought or emotion that has the intention of moving us away
from “here and now” has to be eliminated from our interior from the very
moment we perceive them otherwise it will take our presence from us and
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 3.4 MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCE

The work on ourselves is the work done with out memories. Life
experiences are marvellous but they leave traces in the mind called
memories.
The psychic flaws use these memories, these mental forms and feed
from them; they create dreams, nightmares, projections, distress and
resentment.
A memory is a “waste of the mind” and experience is “the light of
conscience”. In order to grow internally it is very important to comprehend
this.
We have to eliminate the memories and comprehend experience.
“Everything has a motive”.
Our life experiences are necessary, they are part from our growth,
they are life's lectures; they are what we need to experience.
We have to die within our memories, sacrifice our mental images
which were created with time. We have to free ourselves from the
crystallisation of the mind in our psychological space (memories), so the
necessary life experience can gradually settle.
All the memories that torment us, and even the “good memories”
that do not allow us to live the present, must be processed since the keep
us tied to the past of our existence.
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Sometimes we “get stuck” in the memory of a bitter experience and
we find it very difficult to get over that situation; the memory of it
torments, weakens and holds us back. It hurts us.
Erasing memories does not necessarily mean we will forget them, but
it means a cleansing of the mind from the “crystallised mental images”, also
called “representations of the mind” which have resulted from the
identification and pain.
In such a way the mind will be gradually cleansed from garbage, from
mental residuals and the most pure experience, which is very necessary to
awaken our conscience, is what remains.
“When the man dies there are only memories left. These memories
conform the I. The myself, the reincarnating ego. These unsatisfied
wishes, these memories from yesterday, reincarnate. Hence we turn into
the past's slaves”. (Samael Aun Weor).
As the comprehension of everything that has happened in our lives
intensifies, they become “necessary experiences” for our internal growth
and that we must learn to take the good from the bad and the bad from
the good so as to gradually enrich our life experience and our conscience.
“It is not 'what happened to you' but 'what you have done' about what
happened to you”.
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 3.5 THE IMPERMANENCE

To comprehend the impermanence of everything is fundamental to

be able to let go of things and free yourself from the unreal.
Nothing is permanent, everything is born and dies, everything has a
beginning and an end. If this is a reality, why would we become attached to
what is not real, why would we create emotional links of dependency
towards what is doomed to disappear, to die, to cease to exist?
Your family, your children, your partner, your material possessions,
your house, your money; everything is temporary, it is ephemeral
compared to the infinity of your soul. It is part of a dream, it is one of the
biggest weapons of our secret enemy; “to make us believe that what is not
real exists and to make us doubt of what really exists”.
“Do not posses anything and you will be the owner of everything”, said
otherwise, do not have an ego and you will have God inside of you. Do you
still not understand. In what language should you hear it?.
We doubt God and only believe that money will help us; we mistrust
our immortality and we are afraid of death; we ignore happiness and we
only keep the pain; we doubt perfection and we stay with the critics; we
divinise the illusion and despise divinity, etc.
We have to feel the eternity and the permanency of our immortal
spirit deep inside of use, we must escape from the hoax of the ego, which
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 The problem lies not in possessing something or not, the problem lies
in the emotional and mental relationship we maintain with our
possessions.
The problem lies not in enjoying life, the problem lies in having as a
life objective, to constantly enjoy.
Do not get attached to the impermanent, do not look for the
impermanent, do not wish for the impermanent, do not grieve for the
impermanent, do not die for the impermanent. Embrace the eternal, look
for the truth, yield for the light, reach the continuous ecstasy and
immortalise yourself.
By erasing the selves that foster desire we will step away from the
venom that obscure our minds and makes us embrace the impermanent,
the unreal, the illusion of the inexistent.

3.6 TO INHABIT THE HEART

“That who wants to wake up has to abandon their mind”.

The mind traps, wraps and puts us to sleep. The heart embraces us
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 “At the beginning all thoughts belong to love. Then all love belongs to
thoughts”. (Albert Einstein).
If we focus on the heart, we are more alert and we can observe
better.
In living in the heart, you live from instant to instant because you step
out from time which is in the mind.
Joy is inherent to the heart, as it is the case of simplicity, humility and
peace. If you do not raise those virtues you will not be able to live in the
heart and you will deceive yourself.
If you sept out from your mind, you will keep your problems away.
Problems come from the mind, it creates them; the mind loves to
complicate things.
The heart shows you the truth, the mind shows you what you want to
see.
In the heart there is action, in the mind there is reaction.
The action makes us spontaneous, natural; the reaction makes us
mechanical and repetitive.
In the heart there is spontaneity and in the mind there are habits.
Spontaneity allows us to change, with habits we will always be the same.
We have a thousand reasons to change houses; if you do not do it it is
simply because you do not want to.
In the heart there is love, in the mind there is desire. Love makes you
bigger, desire makes you smaller.
Look for love and it will make you free; keep relying on desire and you
will remain a slave of your senses.

“From the heart, you will look towards the mind,

and you will see the thief (ego).
Armed with courage,
you will be able to get rid of it.
With infinite love and determination
you will make a petition for disintegration to your Goddess.
By proceeding in such a way you will reach what your yielded for:
To free yourself from the oppression that captivates and encloses your
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 Intuition is the language of the heart, of the soul in everyone of us.
Intuition does not lie to us.
To heal the body and the soul we need intuition since it will tell us
where our mistakes and illnesses lie.
Let us listen to the voice of the heart and decipher its language. It is a
very simple language without any stilted words or entangled phrases.
Intuition will be our best guide. It will alerts us if there is any danger,
if we are doing things well or wrong and will let us know which direction to
take.
Wonderful Intuition, commonly called hunch (because it comes from
the heart) is something we have to trust because no deceit can come from
it.
The faculty comes from the heart, not from the mind. This lesson
enters through the mind but it is not put if it is not put into the heart, the
faculty cannot be awaken.
The eyes are the windows of the soul and the heart is the door.
“The heart is your best clinic, God is your best doctor”.
Love is the most important and we cannot allow anything to destroy
it. That who raises love deep inside, takes it everywhere.
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 3.7 THE ETERNITY

We are immortal and eternal…

We must learn to live outside of time and comprehend deeply that it
is an illusion.
It is of urgency to understand that we live eternally in different
existences, enclosed in the circle of time.
Each human existence is nothing but a round of experiences to
comprehend determined subjects. When the round of the human
materiality ends we go back to the same starting point plus the
experiences obtained in the cycle.
When we forget out eternity we only work to have a “good passing”
through this existence.
We are so slumbered that we let ourselves fall into the illusion of the
temporary, of the ephemeral and of the unreal; we forget constantly about
what we really are and what we must do during the existence of our Self,
our soul and our eternity.
We live in an illusory world because we live in a mortal world which
has a beginning and an end.
Everything that dwells under the sunlight has a beginning and an end,
a birth and a death, it is just an illusion.

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 The eternal is what we have inside, our soul and our spirit. But,
unfortunately, we do not do much for that which is real, true and eternal.
The dream of the conscience is so big that our life only goes around in
circles.
Let us not keep going around in circles through time. Let us enter the
5th dimension, the astral world, the eternity; let us work on our souls and
let us free it from our inner beasts, from all the sinister ego that smells of
rancidity, suffering, fear and indifference.
Our soul is trapped in a lot of vices, flaws and mistakes which we do
very little to amend.
You are eternal, feel eternal. What there is to be afraid of if you are
eternal and immortal?

3.8 THOUSANDS OF EXISTENCES

That who denies the reality of the successive existences will never be
able to comprehend their true mission in life.
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 “We can establish the thesis for successive existences but we cannot do
so with successive lives because there is only one”. (Samael Aun Weor).
In each existence we come to learn something, but the truth is that
we do not need so many of them, only one to work on our inner selves and
free ourselves from the circle of the continuous incarnations.
Since we have a difficult time to learn we have to go back into the
uterus time and time again.
The dying elderly start to feel like a baby, adopt a fatal position, they
have to be fed, they become rebellious, wear diapers, forget about the
recent and forgets about their time as a child. The uterus calls them, the
matrix calls them, the new cycle of life is pulling him back.
The objective of life is to free us from the circle of continuous births,
to step out of the vicious circle of death and birth. To recover our primary
immortality, to go back to eternity but with a conscience. This time with
self-awareness otherwise we will be trapped again.
If we cannot recall what we ate or what we wore at this same date a
year ago we cannot say we did not eat anything or that we were naked, we
just do not remember.
The fact that we cannot remember does not mean it did not happen.
The same happens with our previous existences, we do not
remember them but we did have them.
This cycle of existences is coming to an end and it is a must to
conclude, and define wether we go up or down, there is no middle.
Each cycle is formed by 108 existences and there are 3.000 cycles.
That who wakes up, that who splits will be able to investigate all of
their former existences and to comprehend that we have been going
around in the circle of incarnations for thousands of years and that the
conscience is mature enough to conclude this cycle.
Each existence is like a year of college studies and in this phase we
have to take our final exam. All those who know themselves will pass the
exam and those who ignore their own psyche will fail.

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 3.9 THE IMMORTALITY

It seems strange to talk about immortality in a book about self-

awareness but the truth is that we are immortal.
That is one of the objectives of the work on our inner selves, to
comprehend that we are an immortal soul inside a mortal body.
Unfortunately the process is understood backwards, we believe to be
a body with a soul when the truth is “we are a soul and we have a body”.
Deep inside ourselves there is something that is infinite, immortal,
perfect; and our labour is to set it free from the illusion, to awaken it from
the dream of the conscience and to comprehend that it is the soul the one
which has to work to immortalise us, to make us believe in the spiritual
aspect, which has been set aside nowadays.
We do not get old because the years pass but because we charge the
time (ego) inside of us. It is the ego with its mechanical laws what makes
the body age. A being without an ego inside of it, does not age, it is
immortal and is not regulated by the inferior laws of the body, death and
suffering.
When we gradually polarise ourselves with our immortal nature, we
charge ourselves with a force that is capable to fight everything; on the
contrary if we let ourselves get trapped by mediocrity, by the moral
aspects of life, we get stuck and limit our great opportunity to grow to an
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 When these aspects of the immortality of the soul are understood,
we cease to suffer, we grow; the spirit becomes stronger because we get
closer to our true spiritual nature.
All the self-awareness work is made by our conscience (fraction of
the soul) and it is immortal; thus, in working on the conscience we are also
working on our immortality.
Each time we face a hardship in the world, apart from being aware to
die in the ego that puts our conscience to sleep, we have to reflect and
repeat to ourselves: “I must not let that something mortal (a problem) wins
over something immortal (the soul)”.
Because all problems have a beginning and an end they are
considered mortal.
We die for the Karma of the ego, the “Divine law” judges the ego and
sentences it to die. Or do you believe that God wants to eliminate himself
and erase its own conscience?
Take the first step and kill your ego yourself, here and now. Who is
going to be eliminated by the law of karma if there is nobody (ego) to kill
inside of you? From the moment you already eliminated from your inner
self the origin of death you became immortal.
When the soul gets back its primary state of immortality the physical
body also becomes immortal.
Love immortalises us. From there comes the spanish word “a-mor”
(without death). Every time we feel love for God, for ourselves, for the
rest, we get closer to the sublime state of immortality. On the other hand,
the antithesis of love (fear, desire, hate) will destroy us and will take us to
the pantheon (the ill, destroyed and exhausted).
“Only love will grant us immorality”. (Samael Aun Weor).
We can reach something we do not feel deep inside. Because of that
and in order to reach those sublime states of immortality we have to begin
by feeling immortal, and feeling our soul, spirit and true self.
Do not embrace what is not real (impermanent) because you will
suffer. Everything is born and dies. The reason for which we exist must be
something that is not related to the process of birth and death. We must
learn to connect with that which is not born nor dies in order to become
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION

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 4.1 THE HOLY MOTHER

This book was written for our “Holy Mother”, since we must redeem
her, comprehend that “she is the light” inside of us and that in order to
enter heaven we must become children-like.
The Holy Mother is the mother of our soul, she is our true and
legitimate mother. She made us, she gestated us. Physically, she is
represented by all the mothers we have had in our existences in the
physical world.
Having respect towards “the feminine” is fundamental to be assisted
by the holy mother. We must learn to see our holy mother in our physical
mother, in our partner, in our grandmother and in general in every woman.
Only by doing so the respect towards the feminine is possible.
It is impossible to get our spiritual mother's assistance if we are cruel
towards women. If we do not love and respect our physical mother.
Any disharmony or rancour towards our physical mother must be
eliminated, corrected; only by doing so we will receive spiritual aid.
If we learn to see in our wife the manifestation of our Holy Mother,
the relationship with the partner will very much improve.
Unfortunately, with an ill intention, the marvellous power of our holy
mother has been hidden from us but the moment has come to recover our
link to Her. Calling her incessantly when fighting our own psychic beasts.
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India she is called Kundalini, in buddhism as Tara, in Egipt as Isis, in Greece
as Cibeles, in Turkey as The White God, in christianity as “Virgen del
Carmen”, in the Aztec civilisation as Tonantzin, in the Hebrew culture as
Mary, in the Latin culture as Mater, etc.
In the whole fight against the ego our holy mother must suffer a lot in
order to free us from our abysmal atrocities, but She faces our psychic
demons because she loves her children.
Her love and intelligence allow her to do such arduous labor silently
and anonymously.
Our mother filled with love and courage faces the psychical flaws we
indicate. Armed with a fire spear, she incinerates, pulverises and
disintegrates all the psychical flaws we discover inside ourselves.
She wants us to call her, to remember her, asking her from deep
within our heart for the disintegration of all our psychological flaws.
The first word every child learns is “mother”; when children are
scared they run to their mothers; when chicks are scared they seek for
refuge in their mother. The love and protection of every mother is
something undeniable.
If a physical mother, full of flaws, is capable of risking their own live
to save her child our spiritual mother full of perfection will be willing to do
that and more.
Feel your mother inside of you, cherish her, get closer to her, create a
bond with her, ask her to help you develop your intelligence to discover
ego. She will do so.
The ungrateful child will not see any improvement regarding their
work on the inner self. If you think you can defeat your inner selves
without the help of your holy mother, your are wrong and in the long run
you will fail.
Do not mistake your holy mother with Virgin Mary. Mary is the
representation of our spiritual mother, but each and everyone of us has
their own mother and it is her who we have to run to when we need help.
Christ said: “Nobody can reach The Holy Father if it is not through me”
and we can add “nobody can reach The Holy Son if it is not through The
Mother”.
For those who do biomagnetism it is known that the healing power
of the magnets has its foundation in the flow of electrons it projects. The
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to say, Mother Nature. As it can be seen, the Holy Mother in her infinite
manifestations heals our body and soul.

4.2 PSYCHOLOGICAL GYMNASIUM

Life is a big “psychological gymnasium” where we can train and

become psychologically stronger.
Having life as a goal means we have not comprehended our spiritual
essence, our conscience and the state it is currently in.
Life is a marvellous school where we can learn about ourselves,
where our potential is put to test and where we can learn where our limit
lies, what it is we are lacking and what must be fixed.
As much as we know about human relationships, about self-
awareness and about psychological work we can only go further if we let
life teach us through experiences that will allow us to reach full
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 The gymnasium trains and forms elite sportspeople. Only by training
can they develop muscle mass and the abilities a sportsperson needs. In
such a way work on our inner selves must be done. We need a gymnasium
to train over and over again until we prove ourselves we are reaching our
goals and what we could not do before can be done more easily.
This psychological gymnasium exists and it is our own life in which we
will be trying day after day until we defeat the ego and its illusions.
What will become of the sportsperson that does not train? With no
doubt they will fail. Only by seeing life as a great psychological gymnasium
can we improve our capacity to fight the ego and observe our spiritual
progress.
In our daily life the different phases of the ego gradually appear and if
we do not pay attention, if we are not trained on self-observation we will
be once again, victims of our own darkness.
Let us take advantage of life and put ourselves to test everyday in
order to discover the light that the ego hides from us.
Only by constantly going to the gymnasium (life) we will obtain
victory.
“The practical life is precisely the psychological gymnasium through
which we can discover our flaws”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Those who reject life, also reject self-awareness. Those who are
intelligent will be capable of seeing light even during the worst events.
When proceeding in such a way, we become grateful towards life and its
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 4.3 THE MOTIVE OF LIFE

What is the objective of your life? Why do you live? What do you live
for? Write down the answers to these questions on your notebook because
they will guide us to find the objective of our life.
Some live for their children, some live for their job, some live for their
projects and for watching their grandchildren grow and some others
simply live to wake up every morning.
There is little transcendency to our lives, our objective or motive of
live is very basic and external to ourselves.
Many physical and psychological illnesses come precisely from the
loss of a more transcendental and sublime life objective.
We must never mistake our responsibilities and musts with our
“motive of life”. They are different but sometimes mistaken.
To feed and educate our children, to work, to buy a house. These are
part of our responsibilities as citizens but having them as life objectives is a
sign of lack of spirit and a wrong conception about what life really is.
Our life objective must be growing and developing spiritually,
cleansing our mind and our emotions from negative aspects, purifying our
soul.
Another very important life objective is to find our “true vocation”, to
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Finding our vocation is discovering one of life's most marvellous
treasures because we will work with love and it will make us happy.
“Those who love what they do are destined to become successful”.
It is not good to do something because it is an obligation or because
we promised to do it. We have to do it with love and the there will be
plenitude and with it everything can be done without any effort because
we are moved by life's natural force.
God put a human being in charge of you and that human is yourself.
You have to make yourself happy and free. Only then can you share a real
life with everyone else.
“The essence of life lies in being happy”. That is a good objective. To
reach our happiness, freedom and plenitude.
Most people have extreme life objectives that can make things
difficult for them. They get confused and sooner or later they lose their
objective since it is ruled by time. Children leave and a job has an end.
Couples die.
Set spiritual goals for yourself; to eliminate vices, to fix bad habits
and give more love to your neighbour, to awaken your conscience and to
be more understanding and reflexive.
It is not necessary to spend your life running all the time, with a
strained body, backaches and wishing for 25 hour long days.
During these times, everything must be done with anticipation,
everything has to be done in a rush, everything is urgent and because of
that we always postpone what really is important: to be happy, to live
peacefully, to surpass yourself, to fix yourself and to develop your inner
courage.
Life is a school but considering it a goal without any work on yourself
signals you do not understand what life is really about.
What is the motive of your love? Why do you live? Reflect on this and
make your own conclusions in order to prevent ego from confusing you
and making you believe you are on the right path when maybe you are not.
“Tragic is the existence of those who die without having known the
motive of their lives”. (Samael Aun Weor).
“It does not matter where you came from but where you are going”.
Reflect on these phrases at home by yourself until you fully
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not know where you are going; you are not doing bad, you are doing
terrible. That is one of this book's objectives; to help you give your life a
more transcendental sense that has its foundations in the freedom from
your own psychological jail.
“To give sense is to give meaning”.
The great deceit of the ego is to make the elder believe that “they
have already accomplished their part” just because their children are now
married adults with a profession and because they do not have any debts
left to pay and their own home.
With this mindset waiting is the only thing left. Some even wish for
their physical death losing the marvellous opportunity to work on their
own psyche.

4.4 THE VALUE OF THE WORLD

Each one of us gives the world a different value. For some it is

wonderful and for some other it is a terrible place.
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other it is a torture. The value we give to the world is related to our interior
world. What we have inside we see outside.
If we only carry bitterness, tears, pain and misery within us the world
will become horrible and worthless; however, if we carry joy, happiness,
peace and we are live contently the world will become priceless.
How much do you appreciate the world? How much do you
appreciate your own life?
We must go through a “transvalorisation” since we somehow given
the wrong priority to our values. We appreciate too much what is
worthless and we do otherwise with that really is worthy.
The image you have of the world is the result of the image you have
of yourself.
For a drunken man to find money on the streets means they can keep
drinking, for a beggar it means the food they so much need and for a
person in need it means a gift from god. Which one of the three saw the
truth?
The value and the truth depends on our conscience and our own
internal valorisation since for understanding people that know that picking
up anything that does not belong to them it is simply a test for their
conscience. By doing so they do not feed their “thieve selves”.
If someone insults us we feel hurt, sad or angry but if we are insulted
in Japanese, Russian or any other language we do not know we do not feel
anything. But still we are being insulted!
What is more important then, the words said by the person insulting
us or the understanding of them? That means that the weight of the words
is not given by the person insulting but by the receiving end. Each one of us
reacts according to the understanding we have of things and words. We
are the ones giving them value. What life does to you is not important but
how you face it.
When you are insulted and feel offended the first one that insulted
you is nobody but yourself because you gave it a negative value to the
words. You are the one who gives value to words, according to your
offended ego.
“When someone discovers something that offends them at a given
moment; the discomfort that it caused uncovers the psychological
grounds for their reaction. According to the Christian gospel: the
grounds where your house was built!” (Samael Aun Weor).

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 Nowadays we live in the world of the disposable. Everything is about
using and throwing away, we have lost the sense of responsibility, care and
protection. Even marriages are disposable.
“The only thing we can dispose of is the ego”.
Let us learn to appreciate joy, the simple fact of living, the fact of
breathing, having both our eyes, being able to walk, etc.
We spend our lives saving money, living from appearances, worried
about what the rest will say about us without being thankful for being
alive.

4.5 TRANSVALORISATION

The physical body is wonderful and it is reduced to a unit. For

example, the body is reduced to the iris of the eye (iridology), the palms of
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the hands (chiromancy), the sole of the foot (reflexology), the ear
(auriculotherapy) and the face (physiognomy). Only God could have
created such a wonder and if God is so wonderful why do we pay so little
attention to Him?
We must change the value of things, we give too much value to what
is worthless and we do otherwise with what is really worthy.
Such is the transvalorisation we must go through.
In order to increase our self-awareness we must give things an
adequate value and restructure ourselves so as to put an order to our
empty and disorganised life.
The psychological transformation of the human being must go
through a transvalorisation.
We have to love internal work because if we do not develop a
yearning for regeneration we will not make it. We will stay in mediocrity,
shallowness and we will be happy with doing little. This will result in failure.
We must understand that our conscience is in a state of
“Abnormality” so we must “normalise our conscience” and this is possible
only if we go through a transvalorisation that allows us to comprehend
that our whole existence is doomed to feed the ego and that the work on
ourselves has been postponed.
Fall in love with the work on your inner self, love deeply your Self and
comprehend that He is yearning for your freedom and is willing to help you
throughout this whole process.
“Every person's inner master is willing to help any disciple that is
willing to work for the awakening of their conscience”. (Samael Aun
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 4.6 THE ENTROPY

Entropy is the law of “levelling superior levels into inferior levels”.

If we have a rotten peach in a box full of peaches they will all end up
rotting; this is entropy.
It is strange that only one rotten peach is enough to rot the rest.
That is the law of nature; we will always be pushed to the lowest
level.
This law is also applied to our psyche.
Examples of entropy: poorly dressed, a dirty face, shamelessness,
insolence and laziness. We cannot allow entropy to enter our lives.
There are people that live in a constant mess leaving everything on
the floor. They do not make their beds; do not clean their houses, etc. That
is the entropic force in action; if we want to change our lives it is urgent to
comprehend what entropy is and fight it.
“What can be seen outside is what there is on the inside”. If we live in a
constant mess and surrounded by filth we will be mirroring what is inside
us.
If we do not do anything to reduce the “selves” to dust we will
become the garbage bins of entropy.
The only way we can defeat the law of entropy is through a superior
law and that is the law of sacrifice.
Sacrifice is not torture or flagellation but “transformation”; in every
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the ego, ignorance and darkness; what is it that has to be born in us?
Conscience, the soul and light.
Without sacrifice there will be no transformation and without
transformation there will be no self-awareness. We will stay unconscious
and asleep.
If we do not make “super efforts” charged with a dose of sacrifice we
will be eaten by entropy and we will end up rotting like a peach.
If we do not work on our psyche with our subconscious we will
become thieves, murderers, sexual perverts, adulterers, swindlers and liars
because if we do not put an effort we will fall. Such is the law.
Imitation is entropy, fashion is entropy. Do not let yourself fall into
the entropic forces of this decadent civilisation.
Do not let yourself go. If we are successful at doing something and
we do not keep fighting entropy will start working on us.
Nature's entropic forces attack in many ways; they do not want us to
break free and will oppose our efforts constantly.
That is why we should never let our guard down, we must keep
attentive, making great efforts if we really want to defeat entropy and
dominate nature, internally and externally.
“If people do not work on themselves, if they do not go through a
psychological revolution, if they do not modify their habits and the way
they live they will exist in function of the law of entropy. They will go
backwards in evolution and someday there will be no differences between
anyone. We will all become perverse”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 4.7 THE ROOT OF PAIN

The root of pain can be found in the ego. The ego is the great
generator of pain.
All the pain, drama and tragedy we see today in humanity has its
origins in the different egos that the affected people (directly or indirectly)
take with them.
As long as the ego exists inside of us we will be surrounded by pain.
If we want to stop suffering, if we want to keep the pain away from
our lives we must work on our own pain generator (ego) and erase it from
our psyche.
We constantly mistake happiness with pleasure. Pleasure is the
satisfaction of the physical senses and that is what the ego came to this
world for: satisfaction and pleasure.
The ego is constantly seeking pleasure and where pleasure ends is
where the pain starts.
The pain is the antithesis of pleasure. We could say they are the same
thing but at a different extreme.
We live in the world of duality, slaves of extremes. That is why we go
from one place to another, from pleasure to pain, from joy to sorrow;
tomorrow we could be crying because of the same thing we were laughing
about today.
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“The I is the origin of crime and pain, the I created pain. The universal
life spirit did not create pain; the I is the author of pain”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
It must be clarified that there are certain hardships we have to face,
many of them very painful. That is another type of pain; the good kind of
pain if you will. While we have the ego we will be in this world to pay for
the karmic debts and that causes a certain degree of pain.
When people understand what is pain and their relationship with it,
pain loses strength, its exhausting and ruining power wear out because we
look at them from a different perspective.
The work in the root of the ego is the work on pain, the debts, harm
and with the musts and the sense of having.
“Pain is a consequence but suffering is an option”.
Only by going to the root of our problems will we be able to find a
definite solution for them, otherwise we will suffer over and over again,
complaining; without realising that suffering feeds from our ignorance.
“The love you deny, is the pain inside of you”. (Alex Collier).

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 4.8 INFORMATION, FEELING, REACTION

To fully comprehend our psychic functioning is the key to reach an

inner transformation.
If we do not know how our psyche works we will have a difficult time
controlling it.
Our most basic aspects consist in the information we keep in our
mind; from school, our parents, friends, university or religion. This
information is kept in images, formulas, memories in the form of “waves”
or frequencies.
Our mind is a big information storage. A big hard disk.
If we show someone the picture of a stranger, that person might not
feel anything, but it the picture shown is the picture of an ex-couple that
cheated on him or her, that person will feel terrible.
What comes first is the information we have from what is entering
our senses.
This is the second fundamental aspect of life. The feeling attached to
the information, which will cause a reaction on that person's whole body.
It can be awkwardness, anguish, crying or joy.
When people receive a piece of news (information), it can cause joy
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or sadness and a reaction which can be jumping from joy or pulling out
their hair.
There cannot be a reaction without feelings and there cannot be
feelings without information; understanding this is basic.
The information is stored in the brain in the form of images. Emotions
are processed in the solar plexus (at stomach and transverse colon level);
feelings are generated in the cardiac plexus (heart).
Emotions are momentary (fear, joy, sorrow) and the feelings are
formed with time (love, hate).
The emotions create feelings. By spending time with a person and
feeling happy about it we end up loving that person.
Reactions respond to our nervous and muscular system and have an
intention and an objective.
The order of our proceeding comes in this way: “Thinking, feeling and
reacting”.
So if we want to change the way we are, the way we react in life, we
have to work on it from the starting point: our thoughts and our mind. We
have to work on the information we keep in our intellect, in our brains. It is
impossible to see any inner changes if we do not start from the beginning,
the starting point; our mind.
All work on ourselves has to start with a change on the way we think
because it is where everything starts.
In the same way we can “delete information” from a computer,
detrimental information can be deleted from our minds.
After that we have to change the negative feelings associated with
this mindset; deleting hardships, grudges and frustration which will change
the way we act since that is the result of what we thought and felt about
something or someone.
The starting point for the transformation of human beings lies in
changing the way they think. If you do not change the thoughts linked to
your life you will not be able to truly change.
It is impossible to transform emotions if we do not change the
information that originated them.
It is impossible to work on our reactions if we do not change the
emotions that caused them.
We must go back to the start in order to not lose time and do things
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existence.
“The problem lies not in what you see but in your opinion of it”.

4.9 BREAKING FREE FROM THE MIND

We are all slaves of our own minds.

Our jail is in our minds. We are locked inside of it, limited by its own
conditioning.
Only a brave person will be able to face its own mind.
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it, it polarises negatively or positively.
Abuse and freedom of will are what pushed us away from reality and
locked us up inside of our minds.
The ego controls the mind, it thinks for us, it confuses us and keeps
us limited within its own interpretations, conclusions, its logic and in the
long run we end up tricking ourselves. We end up becoming victims from
ourselves, ill.
“Those who do not work on themselves are always victim of the
circumstances; they are like a mere log floating in the stormy waters of
the ocean” (Samael Aun Weor).
The mind loves to complicate things. It makes a problem out of
everything turning it around in the head, thinking over and over again
about the same. It gets stuck without letting us rest or sleep, torturing us
with its eagerness.
The mind does not know the truth; the truth does not belong to the
mind, it goes beyond. Only conscience (which goes beyond the mind)
knows the truth and what is real.
By breaking free from the torturing mental process, by taking the ego
out of our heads comes peace, quietness, and the joy of the self.
In order to reach true peace we must quiet down our minds,
subjugate it; only in that mental quietness state can the conscience express
itself, tasting the joy of living and serving.
“Those who do not live to serve were not made to live”.
Let us learn not to pay so much attention to the mind, let us not
prevent it from controlling us, it does not know the truth.
Most people do not know how to live without thinking too much,
they think that is the correct way of living. They do not realise that they are
abusing their minds, that they are addicted to the intellectual process and
then they cannot quiet it down anymore. It becomes impossible for them,
they want to but they can never find the mind's off button.
As the time goes by the mind gradually loses its ductility and it starts
turning rigid, stubborn, tough and crystallised until it just lives from past
memories.
This can be clearly seen in a “cranky old man” whose prettified mind
lives only from memories and stories from the past. Such a mind smells
rancid.
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because it allegedly is the one who is always right.
Another serous problems of the mind is the bad habit of comparing.
It loves to compare. It compares a son with the other one, this couple with
that couple, a tree with another tree.
When the mind makes comparisons it fails to appreciate beauty. Any
comparison is negative because it strengthens the dualist processes of the
mind.
In every comparison there is lack of love. Making comparisons is like a
competition where there will always be a winner (proud person) and a
loser (humiliated person).
All this has to motivate us to comprehend the importance of breaking
free of our mind and its limitative, stubborn, comparative, dualist and
hateful processes.
By eliminating the ego, the mind will gradually break free and will
start calming down, slowing down and quieting down.
In this state of mental quietness the conscience strengthens and
starts to live the present and the scent of peace becomes our best partner.
“The ego is the chauffeur of the mind”. Let us take the wheels from it
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 4.10 THE AWAKENING OF THE CONSCIENCE

Talking about the awakening of the conscience means to talk about

the realization of God in ourselves because the conscience is God inside of
us.
Our conscience is currently asleep, trapped inside a group of demons.
It let itself get trapped by ignorance and disobedience. Therefore, the
contrary forces that made it fall asleep are going to abandon it. That is to
say, knowledge (wisdom, comprehension, light) and obedience (faith,
conviction, discipline).
Awakening the conscience means to free it from its confinement,
taking it out of the darkness and freeing it from ignorance. This can only be
accomplished if we kill our ego which takes advantage of it and weakens it
all the time.
Every time we eliminate a psychological flaw, the conscience and the
virtue inside of it emancipates, breaks free and transforms into the
conscience.
The worst is to think you are awake without being so and that is the
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ignore our ignorance”. What is even worse, we think we are awake.
“Even though daily life, a profession and a job are vital for existing, they
constitute the dream of the conscience”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Our conscience is not just asleep but it keeps falling asleep every day.
The sequence of sleeping is: identification, fascination and dream.
Every dream of the conscience is part of the identification with things or
daily life situations.
Identification is the first step of the dream of the conscience.
Identifying means to establish an unconscious, mental and emotional link
with something or somebody. The sense of property (my things, my family,
my ideas) for instance.
Identifying is to give more value to the things than the value the
actually have. It is over dimensioning the events, it is not to see life from an
objective point of view.
The awakening of the mind also has a sequence. “Auto-obser-vation,
comprehension and correction”.
Correction has to be done with facts, not with good intentions. That
is why it must be funded in the death of the flaw in order to lay the
foundations for the emancipation of the conscience that was asleep in the
flaw.
“Only by awaking the conscience can we see the tight, narrow and hard
path that guides to light” (Samael Aun Weor).
People say we have to “wake up” but nobody teaches us how to do
so. “Here we have the what and how”.
To awaken is to stop dreaming; the ego makes us dream, it trapped
us in a many year deep slumber of various existences.
“The men that awaken conscience experience the great truth that they
are no longer salves and that through pain they can verify that people
who go around dreaming look like living corpses”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If you think that time is going to awaken you, you are wrong. Time
only strengthens the ego making the conscience fall into an even deeper
slumber.
To awaken is to be born and you cannot be born if you do not die
psychologically.
“Your own awakening must be the motor of your existence”.
In Buddhism this awakening is better known as “Illumination or Stop
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“The key to awakening lies in the Angel of Death's pocket”.

4.11 COMPREHENSION AND IMPOSITION

Comprehension is fundamental for any work on our inner selves.

Comprehension's foundations lie in the conscience and it varies according
to the experiences people have while working on their inner selves.
“Comprehension is very elastic. Therefore, we need to go in deeper each
time; what today we can understand something in a determined way we
can understand better tomorrow” (Samael Aun Weor).
Comprehension is the core of the mind's understanding process.
All work on our inner selves towards self-awareness must be based in
comprehension and not imposition.
We must not impose ourselves goals by force because this generates
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 In all impositions there is tyranny and we must not be tyrants to
anybody or to ourselves. When we impose certain systems of life, patterns
and guidelines to ourselves we get tired.
Even the discipline of inner work must be impulsed by a
comprehension force. If we impose ourselves a discipline without
understanding it, sooner or later we will abandon it.
When things are done by comprehension they do not cause rejection,
pain, anguish or anything negative; on the contrary, even though they are
difficult they are gladly accepted. It is different when we impose things to
ourselves, for example, an obligation. In the long run we get tired of
obligations.
“The experiences and the study transformed into comprehension do not
leave residuals in the sepulchre of the memory and so we become simple,
innocent and happy” (Samael Aun Weor).
Comprehension grows as we eliminate the ego.
The nature of the ego is dictatorial, eager, inflexible and abusive. To
comprehend the urgency of our inner work is the key to the liberation of
the spirit.
In order to comprehend this we must reflect; we cannot accept them
just because. Reflection goes beyond the intellectual processes of the
mind, it will allow us to taste the sweet scent of comprehension.
Comprehension is momentary and it comes with a very particular
taste that we can feel deep inside our hearts. It is charged with intuition
and it is undeniably. “It simply IS”.
When we truly comprehend things we do not need to transform
them into ideals, or try to impose them to the rest or ourselves.
“We must do everything through comprehension because when done
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 4.12 RESIST OR DIE

The soul liberation work cannot be reached through resistance, self-

control or by counting to ten.
The fight against the ego cannot be won with resistance because
“the more you resist the more you persist”.
Resisting is like blowing up a balloon, sooner or later it bursts. It is like
pulling a rope that will break in the end.
More than resisting we need to die. That is the difference. The ones
who die do not oppose any resistance; they simply observe, comprehend
and eliminate.
“How happy must feel those who eliminate one of their flaws! They must
feel like they took off a very heavy weight from their shoulders. Such
joy!” (Samael Aun Weor).
Resistance causes suffering.
“To resist means to impose yourself. To die means to flow towards
another direction”.
The work based on comprehension is a lot more valuable that the
work done based on imposition.
“Resistance makes you tired. Death lets you rest”.
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 The way of doing things is by comprehension, it is to activate the
conscience in the precise moment and it will observe and eliminate the
hidden strength that drives us to making mistakes.
The five senses are the ones that provide the mind with information
and since in the mind is where the ego hides, these five senses are
controlled by the ego.
That is the reason why we should always keep an eye on our five
senses. The are the ones that feed the ego.
Vision, for example, is controlled by the ego. It pays attention where
there is an interest, it watches what it likes. Observe your vision and you
will realise there is something that moves it. They are little details, even
more so when you look at the opposite sex. The same happens with the
rest of the senses.
To prevent ego from getting fed we must watch our senses and pay
attention to the information the want to receive from the physical world.
It is not about resisting your senses because they are necessary in the
physical world, they provide us with vital information. But we must be on
the look out in order to realise the moment the information enters the
windows of our senses and goes straight into the ego.
Once we disclose the ego when it is controlling our senses we must
eliminate what has been done and ask the Holy Mother for help. It is not
about resisting but about comprehending and eliminating.
In such a way the conscience will be the one that controls the senses
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 4.13 SOMETHING WELL DESERVED

To think and feel that we do not deserve the difficult situations we

face in life is a clear sign of our unawareness.
We deserve everything that happens to us, good or bad because of
the cause and effect law.
“I do not deserve this”, “why me”, “how unfair is life to me”, “I have
not done bad to anyone” are expressions that prove we do not understand
our personal processes and our responsibility in our different chores in life.
There is no injustice, everything is perfect because God has allowed it
to happen that way.
The masters of the law use all this to make people pay for their debts.
Everything is controlled by them because our freedom of will is very limited
by our unawareness.
Let us protest less and let us accept things as they are.
When we understand and accept this we get a heavy weight off our
shoulders. We feel lighter because the hypnotic force of the ego, self
deceit and the fake image of ourselves.
When we are faced with a difficult situation we can say “God I accept
this bitter drink because I deserve it and I will drink it on your behalf”.
In life there is a marvellous opportunity to learn, grow, awaken the
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 “Every cloud has a silver lining”. Life is neither good nor bad, it just is.
The good and bad is imposed by the ego because it likes to tag things
without understanding them.
“If people started their day consciously it sure would be a different day
from the rest” (Samael Aun Weor).
To feel victimised, to feel that you do not deserve what happens to
you keeps you away from self-awareness and makes you believe in injustice
and covers you with a veil of false innocence.
Instead of protesting against life, instead of feeling like innocent
birdies we should understand that everything that happens to us we
deserve.

4.14 YING AND YANG

The Ying and the Yang represent two independent forces in

equilibrium. These forces are present in everything that surrounds us.
They do not exclusively represent good and bad because such terms
only confuse us and prevent us from comprehending. We become
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 What is good for some can be bad for others.
“The bad of the devil is the good of God”.
“How unfortunate, said the good. How fortunate, said the bad”.
Things are not good or bad. Everything depends on the purpose; it is
us who give either a positive or negative direction to things. From deep
inside comes out the energy the polarises everything to the right or wrong
path.
Many times when we think we are doing well, we might be doing
otherwise. That is why it is important to comprehend all this because our
conscience goes beyond good and bad and the ego lives thanks to our
ignorance. The word ignorance in this case is to be interpreted as
“psychological darkness” not as lack of knowledge.
An equilibrium is fundamental in life and that is precisely what the
Ying and theYang trie to convey.
“If we work too much, for example, there will be a decompensation in
our Yang energy; hence, we will generate Yang type illnesses (rigid, hard)
such as tumours, warts, high pressure, anxiety and stress.
On the other hand if we work too little we will generate a
decompensation in our Ying energy (soft) such as depression, low pressure,
infections, etc.
In order to maintain a balance in our health, the action and non-action
must be well compensated”.
Knowing about the Ying and the Yang means you know how to find
balance in the dual phases of our existence.
This symbol also teach us that there is always good in bad and vice-
versa. “Wise are those who can see good in bad and bad in good”.
Every life event despite how sad and hard has its good side and our
duty is to learn how to discover that good side.
Our minds are incapable of discovering the good and the bad. This
can only be discovered through the eyes of conscience, transcending the
concepts of right and wrong.
Only by fully understanding that everything in life has a reason, a
motive, we will become capable of go through a balanced path in life.
Through either sweet or bitter experiences.
On the contrary, if we do not understand this we will experience
what is called the law of the pendulum which will take us from one
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Such is the law of the pendulum (which rules the ego). There is lack of
balance and comprehension. The ego is pendular and extremist. It goes
from one extreme to the other; it does not know equilibrium and it cannot
see beyond what is shown by the eyes or what is interpreted by the mind.
“The religious fanatic, due to any inexplicable event or deception can go
to the other pendulum's extreme, become an atheist, materialistic and
sceptic” (Samael Aun Weor).
Remember not to go to the next subject without answering the
question that will incorporate the teaching in your conscience.

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 There are many people that know how to speak very well but there
are little who know how to listen to others.
Knowing how to listen to others is a proof of love and in contrast not
listening to someone who is talking to you is very disrespectful.
The problem is that we do not know how to listen because we only
listen to ourselves, to our minds, to our inner language.
Knowing how to listen is an art that requires attention, presence, love
comprehension and a peaceful mind.
Inside of us there is a “bad secretary” that interprets everything it
hears (if it does), and is the ego the one that likes to go around
interpreting and commenting everything it is told.
Learning how to listen is vital and in order to do so it is necessary to
mute your mind making it receptive and open.
“You do not listen to others, you listen to yourself”.
Nobody can consider themselves to be cultured or respectful if they
do not know how to listen to the rest.
When you think you know everything you do not listen to anybody.
That means to be a know-it-all and such people cannot go beyond where
they are standing. They cannot grow because their minds have them stuck
in their own beliefs and deductions.
Wisdom comes to us through different ways. God teaches us through
the beggar, the shoeshine person, the farmer, humble people, kids; but if
we are not used to listen to anybody our lack of humility will hold us back.
If the mind is always talking, when is it going to listen? That is why it is
necessary to mute our minds in order to listen correctly. Only a peaceful
and receptive mind is capable of listening.
By refining our ability to pay attention we will become capable to
listen even when there are no words.
When we become capable of listening, not only with our ears but
with our whole body we will be able to prove we can listen.
The wise is capable even of listening to the voice of silence.
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 4.16 DIGGING UP KNOWLEDGE

Everything that is explained in this book is already known by our

conscience.
It comes from former existences and that is why when you read these
pages there is “something” inside of us that tells us it is true.
Our duty is to dig this knowledge up and rescue it from the
subconscious because it is asleep inside of us.
We are simply helping ourselves remember something we had
forgotten.
We do know need to read more books. Each one of us is a big living
book.
As our ego dies our conscience starts to recover all this knowledge
and improves comprehension, clarity and light.
Therefore by reading this book we will identify with all this because
deep down we already know it. We are simply remembering so you we can
restart our job and finish what we left unfinished.
There is not a bigger jail that the one we create. It is urgent to know
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“you already know about this”.
Even if it is difficult to believe it each on of us is an “old soul” with a
lot of inner experience that is asleep. It is like having a “buried treasure”.
There is a lot of experience and many existences.
As we do our inner work and the ego dies the conscience that it held
prisoner shows us our inner wisdom. The inner master (Self) slowly starts
to express itself opening the books of many past experiences.
The inner master awaits its liberation. It wants to express itself freely,
it wants to teach us and take control of our lives but the ego does not
allow this. It oppresses it with the veil of illusion.
Everything is inside of us. We spend our whole existence searching
outside for what is inside of us.
You must be brave and capable to looking deep into yourself, where
darkness is the queen and coldness the king.
Only by doing so we will be capable of recovering what has been lost
and realising that “it has always been there”.
Dig deep into your subconscious and search, liberate your light.

4.17 UN-LEARNING

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 There is more to be un-learned that there is to be learned.
Our mind is full of many false knowledge, retrograde ideas,
erroneous lessons, negative habits, rancid customs and unbreakable
dogmas, suppositions, beliefs.
By cleaning our mind and taking out these wrong ideas,
misunderstandings, tergiversated lessons, lies and ill willed stories we will
be able to comprehend the new teachings and our mind will not react
negatively.
“The bowl must be empty” say the Tibetans, “the goat-skin flask must
be new” said Jesus, “The mind must be empty” said Buddha.
How do i un-learn? Reflecting, comprehending and breaking the
corroded bars of our own mental jail.
If we get stuck in our mistakes, in our misinterpretations, in our
mistaken suppositions we will die just like the rest “with no glory”.
“It is better to empty yourself if you want to be full”.
Where do your limitations lie? Do you know what your brakes are?
What is your prison?
Reflect, and understand yourself. Break free from yourself here and
now; there is no time to lose. We have already lost too many time and too
many existences.
Open your mind and expand it. Understand that your own
unawareness has got you into darkness even though you think you know
everything.
Self-awareness has its foundations in the comprehension of our
beliefs, of what we have stored in our minds, what we have learned and
what we think we know.
Reorganise your mind and destroy all the mediocre ideas you have of
yourself. Clean your mind from useless things; only then the light of
conscience will start illuminating your life.
Learn with a clean mind, without so many prejudices or preconceived
ideas but with a new, clean, pure mind that is hungry for knowledge and
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 4.18 BELIEFS

Beliefs are just limitations…

Anyone can choose to believe or not to believe and after all that
comes what?
Beliefs are mere acceptations or rejections of theories, dogmas and
unproved truths.
Just because I do not believe in God it does not mean he does not
exist. He exists I believe it or not.
There are many beliefs in our inner self that are going to limit our
inner work and that are going to put obstacles on self-awareness.
We have to deeply reflect over our beliefs so that we can gradually
discover the obstacles that the ego put in them and that are stopping us.
“We must liberate the mind from all kinds of pre concepts, wishes, fears,
hatred, schools, etc. All those flaws are stopping the mind from breaking
free of the senses” (Samael Aun Weor).
We all have beliefs of what we are, our achievements and our
mission. We believe in our suppositions and that is a mistake. We must not
make any suppositions but we have to reflect and understand.
Remember one of the 4 Tolteca agreements: “Do not make
suppositions”.
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The work lies in comprehending where the knowledge ends and
where the belief begins. Where the limit that separates one from the other
begins.
In order to reach self-awareness we must let go of the false beliefs
we have of ourselves, the rest, society, the world, cosmos and God.
The worst belief is to think you are “too good” because if I think I am
too good I will not put an effort to improve. The worst poison is to fool
yourself.
The wise do not believe and do not reject; the wise investigate,
prove, comprehend and conclude.
A dogma is an “ignorance patch” so in order to become better we
cannot have any dogmas. Each dogma is a misunderstanding so we get
stuck.
Accepting something just because, without any comprehension is not
wise.
Do not believe so much in what your mind tells you, it could have
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 4.19 COURAGE AND DECISION

The first virtues that the Masters of the White lodge ask from their
members are courage and decision. Fear and doubt must be understood
and erased.
Courage is trapped inside fear and decision inside the doubt.
If we want to develop courage we cannot make it “feeling brave” but
we must erase fear. Those who develop courage without eliminating the
fear will strengthen rage and violence. All violent people are cowards.
“Rage is the costume of the coward”.
If we eliminate the fear, courage will gradually build up and will break
free from its imprisonment in cowardice and fear.
God made us brave but the negative life experiences helped fear take
control of us, imprisoning courage.
In order to keep courage we must not doubt; we must always have
faith and god and have confidence in ourselves.
Everytime we feel fear the courage weakens and every time we
doubt we lose control over our conscience.
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 We must not mistake the courage of the conscience with the
boldness of the ego. Those who feel brave without getting carried away by
their ego end up bold, careless and risky.
There are many people that practice extreme sports and they are
considered brave; that is not courage, that is boldness. Courage is a virtue
of the conscience and it would never jeopardise our physical body for a
strong emotion. That is not what we are talking about; a really courageous
person is the one that confronts him or herself.
God does not want cowards. The sons of God are brave.
Without these two virtues we can hardly reach our own conquest.
We will always be martyrs of our own weakness.
There are people who think they are brave and they even say “I am
brave” but the real brave people are the ones capable of facing their own
fears and darkness.
No book about cowards has been written. Cowards are worthless.
The word fear must be erased from our inner dictionary. We must not
fear anything or anybody.
We cannot even fear God because God is not to be feared but to be
loved. Or is there a father that wants his son to fear him?
Children are told they must develop “values”, but what is the main
value we have to develop? That is courage.
Many of the problems of humanity happen because of a lack of
courage because this society teaches us about fear. It even instils it.
In life we are constantly being tested on our courage and decision.
Do you have the courage to look inside of you as you are? Have you
decided to do so?
“We must grab the bull by its horns, here and now with absolute
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 4.20 TRIUMPH OR FAILURE

There are many people that feel proud of their wins and some other
that feel defeated by their failure. Both feelings come from the ego and are
circumstantial.
Every time you feel you are a winner in life your are poisoning
yourself with a fake feeling of victory. It is one of many tricks of the ego to
make you believe you have succeeded in something. You do not win or
lose; everything is an experience and the fake feeling of the “I” makes you
feel like a winner or a failure.
“Break free from the necessity of winning”.
You have never failed in anything, you have just had experiences.
The only thing you cannot fail in is in conquering yourself, in
accomplishing with the real motive that your own self has sent you to this
world for, to get to know yourself, to discover who you really are, which is
the real motive of your life; that is what you cannot fail at because your
soul and this “great match of life” is at stake. At the moment,
unfortunately, we are losing.
If people congratulate you for your wins they are feeding your ego
and if they blame you because of your failures they are feeding your ego.
Everything is food for the ego when it is not received with the conscience.
Only those who compete are the ones that lose or win. Do not
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competition will bring victory or failure, pride or humiliation.
Every time a human being competes against another person it is only
feeding the ego. The essence does not compete with anyone. The actions
of conscience are not based in competitions of any kind. Unfortunately,
from school kids are taught to compete with their classmates in their
grades, exercise, etc.
Competitive sports are not good for a man's soul. If you do not
believe me just look at what happens in the stadium.
We must break away from the low passions of winning or losing. We
must not let them into our lives.
Keep quiet when you succeed and when you lose because in life we
are always being tested. If you are clapped at give that clapping to your
'Self' saying “Oh, father, this is for you and to you”. That is a big blow for
the ego, we do not keep anything, everything is for the Self.
When we do something, a piece of art work, for example. When we
finish it we must say “My Self did a great job” so as to not feed the vain ego
and to comprehend that behind all our wins and accomplishments there is
the Self as the real and only architect and designer.
Only in this way will we discover the selves that want to feel the taste
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 4.21 EVERYTHING IS SIMPLE. THERE IS NOTHING
COMPLICATED

To comprehend that everything is simple is the basis of success. To

entangle yourself in the complications of the mind is the basis for failure.
“God is everything”, God is simple or is God complicated?…
So: “Everything is simple”.
The ego is nothingness, it is the biggest lie of our existence. The
kingdom of the ego is chaos, entanglement, lies and complication. So:
Nothing is complicated.
Those who can solve complicated problems with simple solutions are
wise.
Do not trouble yourself, simplify yourself. Remember: “Everything is
simple”.
The mind loves complication, it believes that the more difficult it is
the better. It likes stilted words, complex definitions and make us feel even
more confused and troubled.
Complexity only exists when the light (Everything, God) is not
present.
Simplicity is the virtue of effortless success. Simplicity, humbleness,
God is humbleness.
We must reflect on this phrase:
“Everything is simple, nothing is complicated”.
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Life has to be simple, when it is complicated it is ruled by the ego.
Look for simplicity, the beauty of simple thing, the beauty of natural
things.
Children are simple, they do not complicate themselves. We forgot
how to be kids. We have too many problems to feel simplicity.
We forgot how to “feel”, we only think.
Only by embracing simplicity will we be able to know ourselves
because the ego wants us to be complicated so as to make self
observation more difficult.
The more complicated our lives are the more confused we will get.
“The road is simple but the ego makes things harder”.

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 You are valuable because of who you are, not for what you have.
There are many rich people that are poor and many poor people that
are rich.
The level of being or the spiritual level is what determines the
greatness of the human being, not the quantity of belongings they have or
their socio economic status.
Rich are those that have many values.
A rich person without values is simply a poor person.
The being is expressed through the verbs, the sublime thought, the
elevated feelings, purity of energy, etc.
The ego is the “not to be” it is the fake inside of use, it is what keeps
us away from the truth, the identity, authenticity. The ego only appraises
itself and the rest because of what they have.
The development of the Self must be equal to the development of
having. It is not bad to have. It is bad when you think and feel that you are
valuable because of what you have.
There are many people who roll around in the mud of poverty and
many that roll around in the mud of wealth. Neither wealth nor misery are
the way.
Having is related to the horizontal work and the Self with the vertical
work.
“The Self is calling us, but 'having' is holding us back”.
What is the use of having lots of things if we are not taking any of
them to the other side.
Having does not only include material things but also intellectual
knowledge since knowledge can be absent.
There are many that have few material possessions but their mind is
full of ideas, concepts, superior studies, degrees, projects.
The Self and knowing also have to be harmonically equal in our lives
in order to reach self-awareness.
When the Self is developed without developing knowledge, the
hypocritical appear, when knowledge is developed without the self, the
crooked appear.
Some can but do not know, some other know but cannot. Blessed
the ones who can and know.
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learning. Only those who are humble with their knowledge will keep
learning; because those who proudly express their knowledge denigrate
their Selves and lose track.
What you are is in your heart, what you have is in your mind.
The Self is purity, simplicity; it simply IS.
We must comprehend that the primary is the Self and that if we are
not working for our Self, even though we have a lot, we really have
nothing; because the owner does not exist, it IS NOT.

4.23 SON OF A MILLIONAIRE

Imagine you are the son of a millionaire, of a very rich man, with
many properties, jewellery, extreme abundance. Besides, this millionaire is
a very loving person and loves his son and always helps him with what he
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What do you think this guy's life is like? Is he worried about what he is
going to eat the next day, or the clothes he is going to wear? Obviously he
is not. He does not have any worries because if he needs something his
father will provide.
Well, this is you. The son of a millionaire, of a endlessly wealthy being,
full of luxury, palaces and castles covered with gold and diamonds.
The father inside of you, your real being, your God is a millionaire and
He loves you. Or did you think God lived in a sty.
If you are the son of such a powerful being why do you worry so
much about tomorrow? Why is it that most of your worries come from
money, food and scarcity?
Remember this “Your Father is a millionaire”.
Do not worry so much about what is illusory, do not fear what comes
with the future, do not step off the right path and just walk towards your
Self. He is waiting in one of his many castles; He already has its fine plush
site and beautiful carvings.
“In my Father's house there are many homes; if it was not like that I
would have told you before” (John 14:2).
Understand this, “The Self is calling to us right now!”
Leave mediocrity, the fear of tomorrow and the feeling of emptiness
behind; it is necessary to leave everything behind. Do not get attached to
anything.
“You must let go of everything to win everything”.
You get to the Self only with absolute freedom, without getting
attached, no money; nothing at all, that is to say, without the ego.
Many poor people carry their poverty within themselves; their misery
is inside of them charging many mediocre and lazy Selves. Therefore
developing a karma that limited their inner development.
Even if it seems impossible they like to be there, they enjoy their
misery and carry masochist Selves.
Life is abundance, God is abundance. If I plant a seed I will have many
more to harvest. If I plant a tree I will obtain a great harvest; life equals
multiplication.
Believe in God; believe in yourself, believe in abundance and believe
that you will never lack anything if you walk towards your Self, to recover
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your disobedience.
“Firstly look for the reign of God and its justice and everything else will
come with it” (Matthew 6:33).
Said in another way “Firstly you have to look for your divine essence
(which is trapped in the darkness of the ego) within yourself and from your
divinity everything else will come easily”.

4.24 NO-VIOLENCE

Inner peace can only be reached if we comprehend what “no-

violence” is.
As long as we move in the emotions of violence, madness and rage
our conscience will keep weak and the ego will become very strong.
There is violence against the rest, violence against yourself and
violence against God.
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 There is violence against the rest in the look of the eyes, the gestures,
the words, the fights, the uproars and war.
There is violence against yourself in the self-obligation, flagellation,
unnatural acts such as masturbation and depressive thoughts such as
suicide.
There is violence against God in the denial of Divinity, religious
fanaticism, in the mock to the spiritual principle and the disobedience of
the 10 commandments.
Violence creates and sows suffering which is a cancer of the soul.
There are newspapers and television shows that stimulate violence
by showing morbid murder news and relating in detail the way the criminal
committed the crime; only iniquity makes it to the news.
We must let go of that morbid energy that only feeds our ego and
leaves our essence starve to death.
However, we do not understand our own acts of violence, our own
slightly aggressive, imposition, lacking affection, and mocking behaviours.
“Within the human mind lie the factors that cause wars. Those factors
are hate, violence, selfishness, rage, fear, criminal instincts and warlike
ideas spread by the television, the radio, the cinema, etc.” (Samael Aun
Weor).
Sarcasm is a form of violence used by the intellectual. A strong mind
is sarcastic, ironic and sardonic.
Only by comprehending the different sides of violence and all its
aspects, from the most subtile to extreme violence we will be able to face
them and eradicate them from our minds so as to recover serenity, peace,
trust and courage.
As long as there is rage within ourselves we will not be able to
become our own owners. We will always be prey to the low, aggressive
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 4.25 INJUSTICE

The only injustice in this world is the one we ourselves infringe on the
rest or ourselves because they are the only acts that pass through the filter
of our conscience and that can be modified.
The rest only follow the law of cause and effect (karma) and are
approved by God; thus they are perfect and appropriate. There is no
injustice outside of you. As terrible as it might seem to you and your
judgement what happens to a person, family, group or nation is perfect
and deserved.
“Those who feel the world is unfair are filled with suffering”.
These justice and injustice topics are very trendy nowadays. Even
more so in politics, everyone wants to fight for the social injustice but few
are the ones that are really fair in their own lives.
If we were aware of our own acts we would see all the little or big
unfair acts we commit.
Seeing injustice in the rest is very simple, everyone does it, but to see
our own unfair deeds is what is the hardest.
If every person tried to carefully reflect on their acts, in search for the
fair actions we would reach the true justice in this world.
Instead of fighting for the injustice infringed on the rest we should
fight to mercifully help the rest. That is to say, that our motivation be
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Those who understand this stop moving for the cognitive and
subjective rationale of their limited minds and start moving for the deep
feelings of their understanding conscience.
Our mind can only give us signs of the injustice or justice of our own
actions since it has the information of the situation at hand; however,
when it comes to other people it does not have all the antecedents
necessary to understand and consciously determine whether there was
justice or not; so mercy is the necessary motivation.
Do you think someone's situation is unfair? Do you know what that
person did in his or her former existence? Are you sure he or she always
walked on the path of light? Do not become the devil's lawyer but be
compassionate even to the evil people.
“Everyone falls into the whole they have dug with their own hands. Evil
falls over the heads of the people who make it. Injustice falls over the ones
that originate it. Such is the law” (Samael Aun Weor).

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 4.26 COMPASSION AND SORROW

“Do not feel sad for anyone but be compassionate to everyone”

We feel sad when we make someone else's pain our own but
compassion is the act of being there for that person when they are in pain
without making it ours.
Compassion is born from comprehension; sorrow is born from
identification. Compassion is a must, sorrow is an option.
Those who move for compassion will be gratified; those who move
for sorrow will be tortured.
Compassion feeds conscience; sorrow feeds the ego.
Sorrow can wear various costumes; there is love that is founded in
sorrow, there are actions that are done because of sorrow; sorrow sows
suffering, it makes us depressed.
“Sorrow is not worth the effort”
Compassion is the breathing of love, it is born from unification,
integration and totality.
We must not mistake one for the other and although at first they are
similar, they are opposites.
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compassion: piety, mercy, clemency, humanism, forgiveness, devotion,
altruism, tenderness and charity.
One of them makes us richer and the other one degrades us. We
grow from one and we become smaller from the other.
Sorrow is the antithesis of indifference. They are the same but with a
different vibe in opposite sides of the pendulum. To the centre of the
pendulum, in perfect balance there is compassion without being dragged
by the extremist forces of sorrow or indolence.
That is why the one that feels sorrow cannot understand the
indifferent because they feel they are alright and the other is bad. On the
other hand the one that has compassion understands both because
understands the psychology of both.
“When a man begins to work on his inner self, the same day, when he
observes his annoyances and sorrows, he begins to walk through the path
towards success (Samael Aun Weor).
When you feel sad for someone, make your sorrow go away with the
help of the Holy Mother and mentally tell that person: “I yearn for you to
wake up and get up”. Instead of going down to where that person is
(underworld), let's give them a hand to help them get up.
Many people dress as victims to make the others feel sad for them.
We must learn to recognise these fake costumes, take them off of them
and dress them with light, hope, love and compassion.
Mercy must always be in our path and the eyes of our conscience
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 4.27 INTUITION

Intuition is the language of the heart, it is the perception of what is

real without reasoning anything; also called a hunch, impulse or feeling.
The development of intuition is urgent in these hard times.
It is one of the most important capabilities we must develop since our
Self communicates with us through it.
Women are more intuitive that men because intuition is related to the
emotional aspect of the heart.
With intuition we will learn to know where danger is because it will
let us know when it is over us.
In order to develop intuition we must stop being so intellectual
because we think that by thinking we will be able to know the truth. We
must become simpler, more emotional, giving space for the wisdom of the
heart or intuition to express itself. We must learn to constantly be
connected with our hearts.
“When the doors to fantasy are closed, the organ of intuition awakens”
(Samael Aun Weor).
“The mind screams, the heart whispers”, within the constant screa-
ming of the mind we cannot hear the smooth whispering of the intuitive
heart. The heart only whispers because the Self has never and never will be
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 As the ego is eliminated the intuition develops because there is more
communication with the heart.
We must get used to always tell the truth because the “Father” is the
truth so when we lie we make short circuit that gradually pulls us away
from our Self and we lose its intuitive messages.
The intuition will indicate us how we must proceed in certain
situations; if we should talk or keep quiet, for example, because sometimes
we speak too much and sometimes we have mutual understanding
silences.
When you learn not to identify yourself with extremes there always
appears a new third choice which is intuition. Intuition appears when you
learn no to identify yourself with good or bad; that is the other way of
developing intuition.
Let us trust our intuition because it will be a great help in the road
towards self-awareness and liberation of the ego.
“Marvellous intuition, guide us through the path of truth and love”.
The intuition is the only capability that cannot be controlled by the
ego, therefore it will never lie to us. All the other capabilities can be
trapped by the “selves”, but not the intuition. It vibrates to strongly to be
caught by the claws of the inner beast.
Intuition is related to the cardiac chakra so by developing this heart
chakra the intuition becomes stronger.
Practice to develop the intuition of the cardiac chakra:
Sing a mantra using the letter “O” and make an extended
“OOOOOOO” in the D pitch (fourth musical note; fourth chakra). Imagine a
disc of light spinning in the heart from left to right; for 20 minutes every
day.
“An hour of vocalisation every day is worth more than reading a million
of oriental theosophy books” (Samael Aun Weor).

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 4.28 TO MEDITATE OR LIVING IN MEDITATION

Meditation is a deep reflection to reach the truth, which goes beyond

our minds. In meditation we must reach a state of calmness, serenity and
emotional and mental quietness, absolute peace. It requires a lot of
discipline and practice.
Reflecting is not the same as thinking. The reflection is the use of the
mind at the service of conscience and it is a guided process with a clear
objective, in clear concentration and profundity. Thinking is the use of the
mind for the ego, it is superficial, based in memories, in fake conclusions,
egotistical suppositions and arbitrary points of view.
The reflection comes with a superior emotivity; thinking only comes
with the cold intellect.
It is urgent to give the mind its passiveness back, the serenity it needs
to reflect on the truths of the Self.
That is one of the main objectives of meditation: “to calm the mind”.
In order to do so some disciples spend hours and even days fighting to
reach a serene mind.
Meditation means to have a thought free mind; not a blank mind
because blank is already something.
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 There are many meditation practices but all of them require a lot of
concentration and the goal is the same “to silence the mind”. Not having
any thoughts in the mind.
That is why that from concentration to meditation there is only one
step which is to erase the only thought we had in our mind.
A simple practice for meditation is:
To look for a comfortable position, seated or lying down and focus on
your heart, feel your heartbeats and after a while we must erase the only
thought in our mind saying the following phrase: “I am not looking for the
heart and I am not looking for any of this. Get out!” and with the only
thought in our mind gone we reach the “Samadhi, enlightening void, Tao or
Satori”.
Another meditation practice is the Mantras or words of power that
can make the mind silent and activate the conscience; for example the
“Gate Gate Pargate Parasamgate Bohi Suaha” mantra. The mantra must be
repeated hundreds of times without thinking of anything else but the
mantra.
However meditation will not be effective if the rest of the day we let
our minds loose and entangles, worries and identifies us.
Those who are working on the die of their flaws, those who are self
observing their minds and fighting to reach mental quietness during their
activities throughout the day will reach the state that we could call: “Living
in meditation”.
This state is a big accomplishment since peace, serenity and mental
quietness (so absent in most of the people's minds nowadays) come with
it.
Those who are constantly fighting to reach mental peace with the
help of their Holy Mother in the death of intruding thoughts and the
mental uproar; if you devote yourself to the practice of meditation in your
home, you will obtain better results because your conscience is already
strong, disciplined in the mental quietness.
Such a mind is a lot more alert during the whole day, self observation
becomes easier, the present is lived from instant to instant and you
become more intuitive.
“He who cannot meditate, he who is superficial, the ignorant, will never
be able to dissolve the Ego; he will always be impotent driftwood in the
furious sea of life” (Samael Aun Weor).

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 4.29 THE VIRTUAL WORLD

Today we can talk about the virtual world and almost everyone will
understand since the computer, the internet, the email, the electronic
games and the video conferences are very known and very spread aspects
in the modern society.
The virtual world, even though it may great, it is not that much so.
The virtual world goes against the spiritual world.
The virtual world, just like the spiritual world is invisible to the
physical eyes but totally perceptible; in order to perceive the virtual world
we need artefacts and for the spiritual world, capabilities.
The virtual world has entered our homes with a lot of strength. Who
has not got a computer in their home? What kid does not play video
games?
For example, we have “Second Life” an internet video game that
allows you to have a virtual life where you can accomplish everything you
have not in the real world. There you can be a millionaire and have
everything you want under a tridimensional virtual figure, that some
configure in the way they wish they were in the real world.
Some play for many hours every day, thus becoming compulsive
gamblers. This consists in a progressive alteration of the person's
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And so the ego is fed many times with games that may seem
inoffensive or with technologies that seem indispensable.
The stronger the virtual world becomes inside of us the more the
spiritual world becomes replaced.
Many times we have seen a group of young people in a meeting but
each of them is chatting on their mobiles without really being present,
without sharing with the one next to them. It is incredible but the more
technologic the mobile the less real communication exists amongst people.
Virtual communication has supplied the real communication from
soul to soul. The exponential increase in the virtual communication
deteriorates the intuitive and telepathic communication amongst human
beings since it is one or the other, but never both.
There are people that go crazy of they lose their mobiles, they feel
empty and disconnected from the world because their spiritual connection
has been replaced by the virtual kind.
In Facebook there are many people that have hundreds and even
thousands of friends but in their intimate life they feel lonely because their
virtual friends are only apparent. Such is the virtual word; it seems as
though it is giving us something but it is actually taking it from us.
Let us not fall into the virtual world, it enters us through our five
senses, and strengthens only our mind and weakens the conscience.
The virtual world is the world of fantasy, illusion and dreams; on the
contrary, the spiritual world is the world of truth, comprehension, of Being.
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 4.30 HOROSCOPES AND LUCK

One of the fundamental objectives of the inner work is to break free

of the mechanical laws that rule our psyche.
The more inner work you do the more freedom you get. This freedom
is based in independent actions which cannot be mistaken with
licentiousness.
The influence of the stars over our psyche, body, destiny, etc; is
something undeniable. But to let ourselves get trapped by these
mechanical laws is different.
There are people who will not leave their beds if they have not read
their horoscope for that day; waiting for what the horoscope told them to
become a reality and if it is something bad, feeling scared.
All this obeys the mechanical laws of nature and we came to
transcend those laws, not to be controlled by them. We came to this world
to transcend the mistakes of the past, not to repeat them.
Luck does not exist, there are no coincidences in this world, only
causalities.
Those who look for luck in a gable have forgotten about God.
“There is no gambling, God does not Gamble” (Albert Einstein).
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 Those who think that with that prize their problems are going to go
away are wrong.
“Luck does not provide, only lends”.
The pathologic gambler that constantly visits the casinos or gambles
ends up a slave of his dreamer selves; victim of his ambition, laziness, fear
and fantasy. These places are ruled by the forces of darkness where the
ego finds its “delicacies”.
Do not search for luck, do not read your future. Trust yourself and
your inner wisdom, your intuition. You do not need other people telling
you what your destiny is; besides, if they tell you they will only read in you
the mechanical laws that rule you.
“The term 'bad luck' is only used by losers to justify their failures”.
A lot of luck is the excuse for losers…
To use protection amulets is a signal of fear and search for security, it
is to feed the “superstitious self”, it is to believe in luck and not
understanding that everything is deserved.
Walk through life without depending on nothing or anyone, totally
free from matter and superstitions.
“Fortune tellers see the images of the abyss and dream dreams of the
abyss with which predict events that can not happen because they cannot
crystallise in the physical world the scary images of the abyss every
single time”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 4.31 MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY

The word marriage comes from the latin “Matriz-onium” that is to

say: “Matriz = uterus and Onium = union” union through the matrix.
Therefore, every sexual union, every intimate relation between a man and
a woman is a “matriz-onium”.
The papers we sign and the ceremonies we make are only to give a
formal character to the event because marriage is the sexual union itself.
The holy scriptures say that the man will become unified with a
woman and will form one single body. This happens because every time a
man becomes sexually unified with a women a fusion in different levels
takes place; not only physical but also psychologic and spiritual.
In the sexual union the auric bodies of people make fusion forming
one single auric body. Moreover a fusion of the karmic doubts of each
individual takes place, mixing their karma. That is to say if a person
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thief will be prone to this type of flaws because those energetic vibes will
mix with theirs. This is called “Karmasaya”.
Let us imagine what is happening today with so much sexual
promiscuity; there is a terrible mix of karma that is putting us into a no end
alley.
In order to have the necessary force to face our psychological flaws
we must rightly use our sexual every and comprehend all this and fight
those flaws that may be affecting us in something so important as our
sexual energy.
Our sexual energy is the syntheses of everything we eat, breathe,
think and feel.
If our thoughts are rough, vulgar and negative; such will be the
quality of our energy because “as it is upside it is downside”.
Our sexual energy is like our seed and in it there is everything we are.
In the sexual energy we find an extraordinary force that can impulse
us up or makes us sink into the abyss.
The ego manages the sexual energy at will and feeds off it, it lives off
it. Every time a self is expressed in us it steals sexual energy from us, it
weakens us.
That is why it is important to work on the death of the ego because in
such a way we will be taking care of our sexual energy.
The big battle between the forces of light and darkness reside in sex.
The forces of evil want to teach sexual degeneration, abuse, promiscuity,
lechery, orgies. On the other hand the forces of good want to teach the
wise use of the sexual energy, transmutation, the care for our energy in
order to be strong and awaken our conscience.
Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being but only by
transmuting the sexual pleasure will we be able to defeat ego taking away
its main food.
If we are weak we will fail and there is not a bigger weakness than
sexual weakness. We will fall there as we have before.
The fall of a man is a sexual fall and that is why Adam and Eve put a
leaf on their sexual organs.
“You pay for your sins through where you sinned”.
We must enter through the same door we used when we left the
Eden.
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“The perfect marriage is the union of two beings, one that loves more and
the other that loves better” (Samael Aun Weor).
If you want to learn more about the mysteries of sexual alchemy, we
recommend you to read our book “SUPRASEX, The divine sexualite”.

4.32 DISINCARNATION

As we have already mentioned the fear is produced by a lack of faith,

that is to say the fear of losing our Self (God, Love). Our fear marks the
distance at which we are from God. The bigger the distance bigger the
fear.
Understanding the fear and its multiple faces is essential in order to
break free. This flaw is a big spiritual obstacle.
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 Let us analyse: behind jealousy there is fear; the love we think we feel
for a relative that is going to die soon is the fear to be left alone, to lose
that relative; having great amounts of money saved is fear to the future;
worrying about somebody is the fear that something bad is going to
happen to that person; if you are superstitious because of fear; you buy
insurance because of fear; we imitate the rest because of fear and our
houses are surrounded by gates because of fear.
Since the fear goes against faith, to scare somebody means to
damage that person spiritually, watching horror films means to get away
from God. Everything that links us to fear is highly detrimental for our soul.
The word fear should be erased from our inner dictionary.
“The fear you feel is the love you deny”.
Those who eliminate fear, liberate the courage (faith) and this force is
going to join them for the rest of their inner work process. Courage will
give us the “Decision” necessary to face ourselves every day.
Being scared will not stop something tragic from happening to us or
someone we hold dear. If we must go through a tough or shocking
experience it is because God has planned it all for our inner growth,
therefore being scared does not change anything.
One of the biggest fears is the fear of death. Let us read some
reflections by Tomás de Kempis:
“If you had a clean conscience you would not fear death.
If today you are not ready to die, will you be tomorrow? How do you
know you will live another day?
What good does living too much if we amend ourselves so little?
Dying might be dangerous but living too long is even more so.
Live prepared so that death does not catch you off guard.
Live now so that when you die you become more joyful than fearful”
The physical death can be defeated with psychological death. Only by
doing so every day we will be prepared for the great moment and we will
understand that death is a part of life.
If a person could not get to know himself when he was alive, hardly
will he do so after disincarnation.
“Death is the return to the beginning of life with the possibility of repeat
it once again in the stage of a new existence” (Samael Aun Weor).
Dying is an act of love. As a matter of fact the mother that dies while
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of Light. Because there is not a bigger sacrifice, a bigger proof of love than
dying in order to give life to someone else.
If someone close to you died, it means they just left first, because
there is where all of us will end up. Moreover, the best of him and his love
are still within our heart.
“There is no death, there only is moving”. (Facundo Cabral).

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FORGING YOURSELF

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 5.1 THE COMMITMENT TO OUR BEING

We must have a serious commitment to our being; we must be

motivated by the desire of change and the desire of fulfilling our duty “of
the Lords of Heaven”, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve our mission.
The Being wants to help us, but we need to show it that we really
want to change, we need to show it that we want to change not because
we want to be in fashion or because we feel scared, but for love and
understanding, since “we are in Crisis” we must stop making our-selves
fool.
The work itself requires the personal effort of everyone, you do not
get things for free; everything has its price. A greater effort, a greater
merit.
The ability to change psychologically is normally lost within our souls,
it is difficult to find a serious person, who is willing to fight for his
liberation.
Dear reader, do not take for granted your psychological work, if you
do not work with your interior, who else will do it?, Who else but you can
see your thoughts? , Who else but you can feel your emotions?, Can you
delegate your inner work?
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 As you progress in your inner work, your Inner Being (God) you will
help you in the dissolution of horrific elements that are inside you, He will
give you enough strength to face the different inhuman elements that live
inside us.
“It would be manifestly absurd to look for our Being outside ourselves...”
(Samael Aun Weor).
Our inner father will only help the soul that demonstrates its love to
internal work. Our inner father does not help the lazy, the mediocre and
the person that lacks in perseverance, since he knows that this type of
person might abandon the path of light.
Be loyal to your Being, trust him; He will not leave you, even when you feel
crestfallen, you will have the strength to keep on going.
Do not let your being down, since you might not have opportunities
like this.
“Let no one follows no one; each person must follow his illuminated
internal Being”. (Samael Aun Weor)

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responsible to themselves.
Responsibility arises from consciousness, if there is not self-
awareness, there will be never self-responsibility.
Some parents teach their children to be responsible, to do their
school homework and to accomplish with their social and family
obligations, however they do not teach them to achieve the “Parlock Duty”
(they do not their children to achieve it, since those kind of parents are not
able to accomplish it.)
The parlock Duty has to do with the act of awakening their
conscience.
Only by being responsible to ourselves, we can be responsible with all
the others. The responsibility toward oneself, is the mother of all the
responsibilities.
The act of blaming others for that happens to us, is an excuse for not
taking responsibility for ourselves.
We tend to look for the devil outside us, nevertheless we do not
realize that the devil lives inside us.
We must take responsibility for our own suffering, we must
understand that every suffering is caused by our mistaken way of relate us
with the world and with ourselves.
All suffering comes from spiritual immaturity.
People do not know how to live, they are constantly blaming others
for their suffering, they do not understand that there are consequences for
what they do every day.
Nowadays, the sense of responsibility is misguided.
We take responsibility for our work, our children and our proper-ties,
but we are not responsible with ourselves, we get sick, we waste our
energy, we forget about ourselves, we are unhappy.
Some people are absolutely responsible for their work, they are an
example for others, however afterwards they die having no idea about
themselves, they die having no idea of what was the reason of their
existence; this is terrible, but happens a lot.
If you take responsibility for you, then you are being responsible for
your own happiness, your own feelings and your own way of thinking.
Whoever is irresponsible to himself, dies early, fall into vices, fails in
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 If we ask people if they believe they are responsible for their lives,
they will say they are but if we study their intimate lives we will realize that
they are not responsible.
Finding the meaning and our mission in life and accomplishing the
fundamental purpose of life are signs that we have become responsible for
ourselves, that life has not been in vain.
Due to the psychological multiplicity that we have in our interior, it is
hard to find the sense of responsibility developed in our interior because
we are very scattered, we believe we are doing everything well, but the
final results show the harsh reality.
“A man is what his life is, if he does not change anything in his interior,
if he does not transform his life in a radically way, if he does not work on
himself, he is wasting his time miserably”. (Samael Aun Weor).

5.3 THE EVOLUTION

Evolution is a mechanical law which is governed by time, so it neither

releases, nor perfects anyone.
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consciousness starts awakening, it does it due to the “simplification of
energy”.
Following the previous idea, evolution is useless for the
Consciousness, since it does not make our soul. If Evolution, which is
something that is processed over time, serves as the Spirit, we should close
this book and wait for the time to set us free.
Evolution has a twin sister called involution. The evolutionary forces
of nature elevate us to a maximum point of growth and maturation and
then it leads us to aging and death.
This is how the mechanical laws of nature work.
As the plant which is born, grows, gives flowers, withers and dies.
“By creating the theories of evolution, modern thoughts forgot about the
destructive processes of nature”. (Samael Aun Weor).
So if you think that time, with its evolutionary processes will help you
to raise awareness, you're wrong, because that would have been done
thousands of years ago.
To awake our conscious and to know ourselves, we need to step out
of the developmental and reactionary mechanical laws.
We need to work with the “Consciousness Revolution” we must break
those mechanical laws and the negative forces, we have to eliminate
darkness.
This revolution is internal and not external. We are not doing
anything by being revolutionary against political and social systems, if we
go to the streets to protest because we want a different and better world;
we are neither doing nor changing anything.
The world is a reflection of how the man is; governments are the
karmic result that people deserve.
If we want to change the world, we must change internally, we have
to change in a psychologically way, and that change will impact positively
on the society.
Civilizations go through processes of growth, development and
apogee (evolution) then they fall into decrepitude, abuse and death
(involution). We are witnessing the involution processes of this civilization
and the entire world. We can only fight for our own domestic and personal
transformation.
Evolution is not perfect, if so, all the elders would be perfect.
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animal and human kingdoms, and now it depends on us, if we continue this
consciously ascent to spiritual states or ,if we go back to the lower realms,
to fossilization, in an involutive way.
Nature cannot wake us up, you must remember the law of entropy. If
nature (with its mechanical laws) would have been able to awaken the
consciousness of human beings, then human beings would be all awake,
however nowadays you can see that the opposite is happening.
The Aquarian Age is starting; nevertheless it does not start as an Age
of Light, but as an age of transformation and profound change that
occurred in the nature and inside every human being fighting for their
liberation.
Remember: the light will come later, and only those who have
conquered their interior will see it, since the light comes from our interior;
and the person who does not find the light in his interior, is not going to
find it anywhere.

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already reached him. But the truth is that the path that takes you to the
being is very steep and rugged, and the people who wants to achieve the
transformation, that allow them to endure the warm and energetic light of
our beloved Being, must do internal hard work.
Jesus said: “One thousand seek me, but only one finds me.
Thousand people find me, and only one follows me.
Thousand people follow me, but only one is mine”.
The path that takes you to the light of God is not around the corner; it
comes from our interior, and the first thing that everyone will find is a lot
of demons which are malicious and terribly ugly; This is why only few
people reach the Sine of Being, because they are brave and are capable of
facing the aberrations of the underworld, the creation of thousands of
years of sleeping consciousness.
The person who progresses in the dissolution of his psychological
defects, will see the essence (Scared little girl) surrounded by monsters
that want to devour her.
All these psychological monsters are eliminated in this physical world,
they are eliminated when we self – observe us, and when we apply “the art
of death” with the help of our “Divine Mother”.
That is the task; that is the work; that is the path; to release our own
“Divine Essence” from brutal confinement and release it from abyssal
monsters, which are nothing more than the ego, in its many demonic
manifestations.
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in
heaven. (Matthew 7:21).
What is the Father's will? , Do we do the Father's will every day?
Write in your answer book, what are the things you do, that are the
“Will of the Father”.
It must be clear that the ascent to the Father’s heavenly abode, it is
preceded by the descent of our own hells, because we cannot get to
heaven without having cleaned the barn, without having worked with our
own demons (selves devil).
“To get to the being we must pass over the body of the devil”.
The first thing that appears when you are working in your self –
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our small remaining Essence is able to face and look at these terrifying
psychological monsters.
The ego doesn’t let us seeing the right path, the ego puts us
limitations (problems, idleness), obstacles (cute things, fun games for the
mind) that stop us going to the right path.
Unfortunately we are friends of the devil, we carry him inside us and
we do not want to get rid of it, is our ally and every night when we
undertake the astral travel, we walk hand in hand with the demons. Let us
remember the saying: “Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who
you are”.

5.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-OBSERVATION

We are our best psychologist, we do not need others to tell us how

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 We are always looking at others saying that they are gossipy, Awful,
Picky, tempered, selfish, etc.
We have no problem observing others, but we do not know how to
observe ourselves.
Self-observation is the active attention to our inner world, to our own
psychology, to our way of thinking, feeling and acting. This requires a
special effort in an intentionally way.
Self-observation is a “sense of awareness”, a sense of awareness of
our inner world, that we have atrophied, but when we start using it, it
develops gradually.
The more we self- observe us, our sense of awareness (located in the
pituitary gland) will be more developed, and our sense of self knowledge
will be greater and much more detailed.
“Unused organ, atrophied organ”.
All sense can be refined, sharpened (such as hearing, taste, sight,
smell), in the same way you can refined your self-observation, because the
more you use it, the more refined it is.
“We need to refine the psychological palate”.
To refine our self – observation sense is a technique to know
ourselves, is the first step we need to take for increasing Self-Awareness
and the Revolution of Consciousness.
With self- observation we started to transform into practical people,
we begin to discover and acknowledge our defects, as there are thousands
of thoughts that are manifested in us, that are hidden selves.
Selves are invisible to the physical eye, but visible to the eyes of self-
observation. If we do not discover our defects, we will not be able to
eliminate them.
We must achieve an internal split in Observer (essence) and Obser-
ved (selves who think, feel and act).
We must learn not to identify those selves, but to separate them
from our thoughts.
Modern physicists argue that the only way to study quantum physics,
is keeping the observer out of the system that describes. Taking what has
been previously said, and comparing it with psychological self-study, we
must understand the importance of separating us (not identify us) with
daily life in order to self- observe us in detail, and discover the truth of
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 Ours essence is essentially asleep, so it must be activated in order to
discover our psychological defects.
The act of believing better than others, egotism, self-reliance, self-
conceit, the mystical pride, hinders self-observation.
“The act of believing ourselves good” prevents self-observation. How
am I going to find something in me, if I do not think I have it?
When I discover a self, it appears the desire of removing it and
change.
To know and to observe are different, since the first obeys the
memories and the belief of the mind; however and the second is the result
of active attention to ourselves.
People can say “I know”, but that is not what they need. They need
to go beyond what they have accumulated in their minds and observe
carefully in the present moment, only in this way they will go self–
discovering them.
We have to beg our Divine Mother to develop our maximum degree
of self- observation, we must beg this sense to be sharpened, which is
called “Emotional Intelligence”.
Attachment is a major impediment for self-observation, since people
tend to self-observe in a better way when they are in presence of unknown
people, that instead of being in front of people with whom you share more
continuously and for whom we are emotionally attached. (You cannot self-
observe you in the presence of your family).
To defend our defects, we justify ourselves by saying that such
defects are inherited.
“Whoever identifies with the various processes of the SELF pluralized, is
always a victim of circumstances.
How could you edit any kind of circumstances, if you do not know
yourself? How could you know yourself, if you have not observed you
internally?, How could someone observe him, if he has not been
previously divided into Observer and Observed?
Now, no one can begin to change radically if is not able to say: 'This
desire is an animal self that I must remove', 'this selfish thought is other
self that haunts me and I need to break up'; 'this feeling that hurts my
heart is an attacker who need to reduce to cosmic dust', etc, etc, etc.”
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 5.6 NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

Our mind is constantly generating thoughts of all kinds. These

thoughts are generated beyond our own will, we don’t have the
determination of choosing what are the thoughts we want to have, and
what are the thoughts we don’t want to have. This is because we are not
the ones who think, it is the same ego that uses our intellectual center to
generate a number of thoughts, many of them negative, such as envy,
distrust, anger, grief, helplessness, frustration, jealousy and adultery.
Behind every negative thought, there is a different thinker, an ego, a
self, a defect that takes possession of our minds and is manifested by
making us falsely believe that we are the ones who think; nevertheless is
the ego, the author of these succession endless ideas, preferences and
goals.
We have to stop being deceived and stop thinking that we are the
ones who think. We must understand the hidden manifestation of the
countless thinkers that live in our interior.
By being in continuous self-observation, we are aware of the
incessant bubbling of thoughts and, therefore, we train ourselves to stop
it.
“The more we are identified with a negative thought, the more we will be
slaves of the corresponding ‘SELF’ that characterizes it”. (Samael Aun
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 The ego wants to be manifested in our mind, since the expression in
the intellectual center, feeds him, it allows him to stay alive, to steal the
energy of the intellectual center.
If we learn to be aware of ourselves, the lies of the ego become
impossible and we can train ourselves for discovering and eliminating the
different stakeholders of our problems, tragedies and sorrows.

5.7 PRAYER AT WORK

“In the inter-relationship it exists: self-discovery and self-revelation.

Whoever quits living with his fellows, also renounces self-discovery.
Any incident of life by insignificant as it may seem, is caused by an
intimate actor in us, a psychic added in “SELF”.
“Self” discovered in flagrante, must be carefully observed in our brain,
heart and sex.
Any “self” of luxury may be manifested in the heart as love, in the brain
as an ideal, even more if you put attention to sex, we would feel a certain
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 Any evasive, justification, and consideration should be eliminated, if we
really want to make us aware of the “selves” that we want to eliminate from
our psyche.
Prayer in the psychological work is fundamental for the elimination of
selves.
If we really want to eliminate any “self”, we need a bigger power than
the power of the mind
The mind by itself could never disintegrate any “self”. That is
indisputable, irrefutable.
Prayer is talking to God. If we really want to break up our “selves”, we
must appeal to God Mother in Privacy; “who does not love his mother, the
ungrateful son, will fail to work on his interior work.
Each of us has a particular, individual Divine Mother, she is a part of
our own Being, but is derivative.
All ancient peoples worshiped “God Mother” in the depths of our being.
The Eternal Feminine Principle is: Isis, Mary, Tonantzin, Cybele, REA,
ADONIA, Insoberta, etc., etc., etc.
If in the merely physical part we have a father and mother, in the depths
of our being we have also our Father, who is in secret, and our Divine Mother
Kundalini.
Our particular and individual Divine Mother, can reduce to cosmic
dust, any of the egos that has been previously observed.
We must be very natural and simple to talk to our Divine Mother. The
boy who talks to his mother, never has special formulas, says what comes from
his heart and that's all.
No “ego” dissolves instantly, our Divine Mother should work and even
suffer a lot before achieving the annihilation of any ego.
Turn introverted, direct your prayer towards your interior, look for your
Divine Lady in your interior, and with sincere supplications you talk to her.
Beg her to disintegrate the “ego” that you have previously observed.
The sense of intimate self-observation, as it develops, will allow you to
check the progression of your work.
The mind can afford to label any defect, passing them from one
department to another, display them, hide them, etc. It could never alter them,
fundamentally.
It takes a power greater than the mind, a fiery power, to reduce the ashes
of the defects.
STELLA MARIS, our Divine Mother has that power, and with that
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power, she can spray any psychological defect.
Our Divine Mother lives in our intimacy, beyond the body, the affections
and the mind. She is by herself a superior power to the igneous mind.
Our particular Cosmic single mother has Wisdom, Love and Power. In
her there is absolute perfection.
Good intentions and the constant repetition of the same, are useless, it
lead nowhere.
There is no point on repeating: “I am not lustful”; the “selves” of the
lewdness will continue existing in the very substance of our psyche.
It would be useless to repeat: I will have no anger”. The “selves” of anger
will continue existing in our psychological depths.
There is not point on saying: I will no longer be greedy”. The “ego” of
greed will continue existing in various depths of our psyche.
And definitely there is not point on locking ourselves away from the
world and live in a monastery or in a cavern, since the “ego” within us will
continue existing.
Any attempt of liberation, by grandiose it might be, is doomed to failure,
if you do not take into account the need to dissolve the ego”.

Note: This chapter is fully transcribed from the book “Treatise of

Revolutionary Psychology” by Samael Aun Weor.

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 5.8 PATIENCE AND SERENITY

Patience and serenity are two indispensable virtues we need to

develop, to walk down the Path of Self-Knowledge.
Without patience we will not get anything, because patience is the
science of peace (peace science). And this work is done with Love, Serenity
and Peace.
Any feeling of impatience is motivated by some ego of anxiety,
impulsivity, intolerance.
The anxious is impatient as well, they do not live in the present, they
are separated from themselves, they are focused on obtaining results,
without reaching an understanding of the process.
Everything has its process; there is not a tree the day after you plant
the seeds. Serenity is peace of mind, is not concern, you do not “have
mental issues”.
Behind the serenity is the courage, the fearful is not serene.
Those who learn how to keep their mind and heart in peace and
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 Patience will be tested in the path of self-knowledge.
The results are not immediate and unfortunately the human psyche is
used to get things in an immediate way, an example of can be appreciated
in this situation: If you do not have the money to pay something, you ask
for a loan.
Today everyone is rushed, nervous, and restless; nobody has serenity
in his mind or in his heart. The ego loves to make us uncomfortable, in this
senses the ego is beating us.
The concern is lack of serenity, the act of living constantly worried
move us away from the peace of conscience.
We must do a lot of self-observation work in order to discover our
impatient, anxious, restless and uneasy egos, which keep us away from the
wonderful virtues of Patience and Serenity.
“We need to do a psychological inventory of ourselves, in order to know
what we have, and what we lack”. (Samael Aun Weor).

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 Learning to live relaxed is the key to happiness.
Always keep your hands open to give and receive. The person who
has his hands clenched does not give or receive.
A clenched fist is a symbol of anger, rage, and repressed violence.
By learning to live relaxed, without tensions, muscle contractures and
with our minds serene and calm; we will be able to apply the synthesis of
relaxation to our daily lives.
The tongue on the palate is a symptom of stress and nervousness.
A tense body, indicates a tense mind, the body responds to the mind
and if the body is rigid, it is because our mind is restless, worried, nervous
and with “a thousand issues”.
To save conscious energy, you need to be always relaxed.
Relaxation is the perfume of the tranquil heart, is a wonderful balm in
crisis times.
You should always observe your body, in order to discover your
voltage, and work on eliminating the egos and defects with the support of
the Divine Mother. She will get rid of the egos which are charged with dark
forces, density, suffering, fear and failure.
Only the person that has complete control over himself will be able to
walk freely. From this state of freedom he will be capable of deeply self-
observe him. By doing so he will gradually discover the hidden egos
expressed within his whole tense body
Here’s a technique to practice relaxation:
“Lying or comfortably sitting imagine a white light traveling through
your right foot, relaxing it and transforming it in cotton or gas, leaving your
foot weightless. Keep up the light from the right leg to the hip, enlightening
and relaxing all the muscles, bones, tendons, nerves, veins and arteries of
your right leg.
Repeat the same process with your the left leg, then with your waist,
going up the internal organs, lighting and relaxing them up to your neck.
Then from your right shoulder to your fingers; afterwards repeat this in
your left arm, neck, head and finally in your scalp.
Bring the light to all parts of your body, brain, eyes, ears, fingers, nails
and absolutely everything.
You should illuminate and transform your body into cotton or gas.
After the sequence, you can repeat it again starting on your right foot,
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Later in that state of absolute relaxation, focus on your heart and stay
there praying and feeling the life in peace, love and trust”.

5.10 TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMPRESSIONS

The outside world comes to us through the windows of the five

senses in the form of impressions.
Impressions are just food, as the food that is introduced in the mouth
and as the oxygen that enters through the lungs.
As food is transformed in the digestive tract, and oxygen is
transformed in the respiratory system, impressions must be transformed in
the apparatus of the conscience.
If oxygen is not transformed in the lungs, and enters directly into the
blood, it can kill us.
The same thing happens with impressions. If we do not transform the
impressions of a beautiful woman we might end up in adultery; If we do
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same thing happens if we are not able to transform the impressions of an
abundant meal, we will end up with a stomachache, in addition if we do
not transform the impressions of an insult, we might end up fighting.
By manipulating our conscious we can go transforming our
impressions, we can understand them and we can go reflecting about
them.
The impression of a beautiful woman or a handsome man, in the case
of the ladies, ca be transformed imagining how he will be in a few years, a
wrinkled old man; The impressions of a nice car can be changed by saying:
“This car is a lot of folded cans with melted plastic”, or can you imagine that
car old and outdated; consequently we will understand what things really
are, and how they will be over time, by understanding what things really
are, we will go removing the hypnotic power of the ego.
We are going to work with all the deception levels of the ego.
“The worst adversities bring us the best opportunities”. (Samael Aun
Weor).
The non - transformed impressions either feed the ego, or are
transformed into new egos; so not only we have to struggle with the ego,
but also we have to be alert not to continue creating them.
“No matter what you observe, but what you say”.
These non-transformed impressions create “representations in the
mind”, so our egos grab these representations and take them to the world
of dreams, when this happens we end up fulfilling their wishes; Moreover
when the ego is strong, it makes us live its dreams in the physical world
and the results are catastrophic.
“The photograph is not the event”.
The photo is a representation, an image of any event. We all have
pictures, models, mental pictures of our environment, of ourselves and of
God.
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 5.11 DESPAIRING

The ego always makes its best to lead us to despair, because if it

accomplishes that, we will be managed by the ego, “we will be trapped by
it”.
Serenity should be our constant companion, “do not you ever
despair”, no matter what happens, you have to act with confidence, we
have to be unshakable, we must act with tempera value.
Desperation reduces your value, sowing fear, hopelessness and
cowardice. Desperation destroys your greatest virtues, which are love,
courage, confidence, peace and harmony.
When despair takes control of us, we lose the ability to think, to
understand and to realize what is happening.
Whenever we face a problem with despair, we act incorrectly, “we
are not capable of seeing the solution”, our consciousness gets disturbed;
we can have the solution in front of our eyes, however we are not able to
see it.
All suicide is desperate, all depressive is desperate, every angry
person is hopeless, and all violent people are desperate.
Desperation is the companion of our worst “egos” of the sleeping
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With the continuous self-observation we can go discovering the
negative impulses of ego, that leads us to confusion and despair.
As long as we are confused, we will feel the realm of the ego which is
anarchy, confusion, and chaos.
Even if the feeling of despair is small, you should ask the Divine
Mother for the disintegration of it, at the exact moment it appears,
because you don’t have to permit the ego’s poison to take control of you.
The person who acts desperately, will never be a winner; he will only
taste the bitterness of failure.
You have to be attentive to yourself, without lowering your guard,
since the ego waiting to take over the human machine.
The ego is waiting to put its negative thoughts and passions into
humans, in order to take us into the underworld of psychological darkness,
where you will only feel the chill of fear and despair.
“First of all we need to understand that we are people, machines, mere
puppets controlled by secret agents, hidden selves”. (Samael Aun Weor).
“Calming the mind, you calm the body”; all hurried and restless body,
is the result of a mind of the same nature.
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 5.12 IT IS HARD

Saying “It is hard”, is one of the biggest ways we restrict ourselves

and avoid what we have to do, is to justify our laziness, is a clear sign that
we do not want to do what we have to, it could be because we are scared,
lazy, etc.
The mind, with his usual evasive ability of truly responsibility to
oneself, deftly uses these escaping phrases.
When you say “it's hard”, the first listener is yourself, because your
ear is ten inches from your mouth, therefore your words enclose you in a
vicious circle of disability.
It is like trying to ride a car, but with the handbrake on.
The things of God are not difficult, but the ego does not like them,
because they take him out of his dream, of his fascination, his identification
and his projects.
The other way out is the phrase “is complicated”, you haven’t started
doing it, but you say that is complicated. How skillful is the ego “knows
everything by heart”...
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 Listen to yourself when you are evading, you have to realize the
subtleties of ego, realize his way of escaping.
The internal work is not difficult, it is “hard”, since it requires
perseverance, discipline and effort, but is not difficult.
If we fail, it is not because of the difficulty of the work, but is because
of our laziness, our negligence, our unconsciousness.
It is illogical to think that God is calling us to do a job that we know in
advance we will not be able to do it, because of its difficulty. It's like he was
laughing at us... or not?
However you might be mistaken, since God does not laugh at you,
God wants you to work on yourself, he knows what are the things you can,
nevertheless is you the one who is not aware of it.
So next time you say that internal work is difficult, remember this
chapter and understand the subtlety of the ego; remember how the ego
stops you in your inner growth.

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 Never feel guilty about anything; only judges dictate if you are guilty
or innocent.
Guilt or innocence is the final verdict of a trial, and we should judge
neither anyone, nor ourselves.
When there is a verdict of guilt, there must be determination of
“wrongful verdict” and that sentence is punishment, suffering or pain.
Much of the pain we feel is the result of our own punishment, as we
are “punishing” the guilty of our drama or tragedy.
The ego loves to play the role of innocent or self-condemnation. The
ego suffers because the victim is guilty or because is innocent, he likes
“suffering”.
The ego loves to suffer, he does not conceive of life without pain, life
would be unknown.
The word “Guilty” must be eradicated from our internal dictionary.
Nobody is guilty of anything, is necessary to clarify that, we all have a
degree of responsibility in everything we do.
Responsibility is a matter of conscience and therefore can be
understood and corrected.
No more guilt, please. Free yourself from your own self-deception,
from your own trap... Remember that the ego is masochistic; remember
that in his unconsciousness and immaturity cannot see beyond his
thoughts and assumptions.
“Do not assume anything, understand everything”, your conscious-
ness is able to reach that level, is more than you think, “is all your
consciousness wants”.
Only by taking responsibility for ourselves we can make big changes
within, without allowing the poison of guilt or false innocence destroys us.
We must not confuse guilt of the ego with the “remorse of
conscience”. The first seeks suffering; nonetheless the second seeks the
correction, amendment.
Consciousness puts the feeling of deep remorse in our hearts, in
order to make us reflect and correct our mistakes.
However, guilt does not encourage us to reflect, it encourages to the
self-punishment and suffering, is highly masochistic, and it makes us
thought severely.
Man dies under his own responsibility, but the veil of his
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understood existence”.

5.14 ACCEPT, REFUSE, UNDERSTAND

Neither accept nor reject are understanding. Understanding is the

key to self-knowledge.
Both are intellectual processes, reasoning of mind.
We can please ourselves with something, and it could be something
fake like a lie or a trap. On the contrary, we can reject something which
was true, which could have been an extraordinary opportunity.
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 Accepting something does not mean you have understood, we just
admit it.
Many people will reject the concepts expressed in this book, many
others are going to accept them, and very few will understand them.
In understanding there is awareness, experience, intuition and
reflection.
Acceptance and rejection are born in a very superficial level of the
mind, they are almost unthinking and dogmatic processes.
Everything in life should be understood or at least, you should try to
understand everything.
As long as you work on yourself, you should be discovering certain
facets of life that were accepted without being understood, in the same
way you will be discovering other facets which rejected without being
reflected.
Sometimes the things we accepted can be rejected by us, and vice
versa. The accepting and rejecting are extremes of the pendulum; the
“creative understanding” is at the center of the pendulum, in perfect
balance, without any extremism.
“Where you can find UNDERSTANDING, acceptance or rejection are
unnecessary”. (Samael Aun Weor).
Understanding has a very particular taste; it is something that is felt
in the depths of our being, it is born on the same consciousness, beyond
the selective intellectual processes of the mind.
Do you reject someone? Do you dislike that person? Do your best to
understand him.
Defects are not removed because we reject it.
Virtues do not appear because we accept it.
Defects must be understood and removed; only in that way the
trapped virtue will be born.
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 5.15 THE LIFE’S MECHANICITY

Everything that is happening in our lives is a response on how we are

on the inside.
What is important is how you are as person, since this will attract the
circumstances of the outside world.
“How we are internally, lavish, stingy, generous, violent, peaceful,
chaste or lustful, attract the various circumstances of life...” (Samael
Aun Weor).
Therefore, the way to change our outer world is changing it
internally. This new internal energy will shape our life differently.
Many people want to change but they do not know how to do it, they
see life as if it was surrounded by problems.
As long as we charge our inner anger, lust, greed, pride, etc. the
dramas, tragedies and comedies are not going to stop happening to us.
Those who live in disgrace, in misery, in constant pain, should strive
to remove the misery loaded within us. You must work on eliminating
those mental defects that attract such circumstances, only in this way you
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misery and misfortune.
Learn not to identify yourself with the various problems of life, is the
key; Undoubtedly the task of eliminating the countless negative emotions,
is hard, however you need to remove the feelings related to debt,
unemployment, fraud, treachery and bad payments.
Unfortunately, we are used to react mechanically to the different
circumstances of life.
We never stop to reflect what is happening to us and how to change
it. We are just victims of circumstance.
Eventually our inner world locks us up, and transforms us into slaves
of ourselves, wanting to change the circumstances, but without changing
the psychological states.
We spend our lives criticizing others; we ask them to change,
however we are not able to understand that we are the ones who need to
change first.
It is important to mention that as long as the ego lives within us, our
lives will be governed by mechanical, recurrent and unconscious principles.
When we change our mechanical reactions, new reactions will come,
therefore we are going to be more comprehensive and we will stop being
mechanical human beings.
Dear reader, think about our lives, we get up at the same time every
day, we have the same breakfast, we walk down the same streets and we
say the same words, etc. our days are exactly the same, our life is repetitive
and mechanical and lacks conscious principles.
“We really have the illusion of doing something, however we do nothing,
everything happens to us: this is fatal, mechanical...” (Samael Aun
Weor).
There are certain circumstances that cannot be modified, we just
have to change our relationship with such unpleasant event, so you can
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 5.16 THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

The only existing “secret” is that we are asleep, and our dream is
made, fed and developed in our own mind.
Your life story has been created by the people who live in your mind.
The results of your life will always depended on yourself, since you have
been, and you will always be the architect of your own existence.
The “Law of Attraction” is a reality, but if we apply it without
eliminating our psychological defects and without removing our ego, then
we will only strengthen the “desire” of getting material triumphs and
money, consequently we would do our will without even thinking on God's
Will.
The poison of desire, which is strengthened by the force of the
attraction law, will push us away even more from the Light of God.
It is not the fulfillment of desires which guarantee happiness, but the
daily fulfillment of the Will of the Father.
Remember that Buddhism tells that desire causes suffering.
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inner work, our consciousness and our transmuted energy, to attract what
we really need for our life and for our being, but without the dangerous
poison of desire.
By eliminating our insatiable ego, by cleaning the mind of such rancid
slag, by sublimating the sexual energy and dying on the egos of lust and
passion, our consciousness (which is God within us) will go expressing in a
stronger way, and it will apply the attraction law for its own benefit and
freedom.
If we only apply the attraction law to the level of the mind and the
five senses, the ego will use it and it will strengthen the desire, and we will
become in avaricious people.
Our internal vibrational state is the “big magnet” of the law of
attraction. What we attract is the result of what we are.
The internal work is changing our vibrational energy, which is the
force that attracts different people and circumstances around us.
The importance of changing psychologically, is that our new
vibrational level will attract the best interest to our soul, and is not going to
attract the ego’s desire.
We must not forget that the ego is mind, therefore if we use the Law
of Attraction through the mind, we will give more power to the ego, and
we are going to give tools of spiritual growth to the devil.
“Instead of attracting things or people with our mind, let us worthy of
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 5.17 THE LACK OF BOUNDARIES

Today we see lots of problems whose cause is the lack of boundaries.

The human being has forgotten to set some limits in life, everything is
allowed, the total lack of boundaries is leading us to anarchy, to the loss of
values and total chaos.
We have not understood that in the difference between right and
wrong there is a line, and in the difference between the sublime and the
ridiculous there is a step.
In addition once we have crossed the line, we are on the other side
of the line, therefore other laws are governing us, and disorder and
confusion has started to govern us.
The young have been raised by permissive parents, since according to
the law of the pendulum, society has been transformed from an
excessively authoritative society, into an absolutely permissiveness society.
Nonetheless, are parents able to set limits, if they do not know how
to put boundaries to themselves?
The problem is that few know where one thing ends and another
begins.
We are under the law of “Everything is valid”, “Everything can be”,
“Everything is permitted”.
That is precisely what the ego wants to create: confusion, chaos and
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 While our psyche continues in this limits confusion (which is nothing
but confusion of values) we can hardly raise our awareness and get out of
our own darkness.
Consciousness knows the limits, but as it is asleep, it cannot express
itself.
Unfortunately we have lost the “capacity amazement”, nothing
surprises us, our consciousness is asleep so that nothing draws our
attention.
Furthermore as we go eliminating our psychological defects, our
consciousness will express itself in a stronger way, therefore it will show us
our confusion, our lack of boundaries and our loss of values.
Both, modern children and young people are the result of this
society, although it is important to mention that the problem exists in this
society and in all of us, due to we have forgotten to set limits.
This lack of boundaries comes from disobedience.
We were expelled from Eden not only for disobedience, but also for
not respecting the limits that Gods sets, consequently the result is obvious:
permissiveness, disobedience, anarchy, disorder, confusion, atheism,
among others.
We must learn to set limits to our lustful by managing our vision and
thoughts; we have to set limits to our anger by handling our words and
body language; we must set limits to our greed by understanding where
necessity ends and begins greed; we need to set limits to our envy by
feeding love for our friends and for good actions; we have to set limits to
our pride by not boasting for our triumphs; we need to set limits to laziness
by sleeping less and finally we have to set limits to our gluttony by eating
measurably.
As a conclusion it is necessary to remember that we need to recover
the domain of ourselves by learning to set our own limits and by setting
limits on others; otherwise the lack of boundaries on other people will only
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 5.18 THE INTENTIONALITY

Every action in our lives has an intention.

The intention, which is often hidden (even from ourselves) is like an
invisible force that impels us to the “vertical Way”, either up or down.
Throughout our existence we are moving both physically in
horizontal form (forward or backward), and psychically in vertical form (up
or down).
Love is the biggest driving force of the rise; desire is the force of the
descent.
The same action can make one person to raise and another person to
descent. Everything depends on the hidden intentions of our actions
It's not what you think of an action that gives it the meaning, but the
intention in itself is the thing that polarizes it.
Even when you touch someone, it may seem innocent, but it has with
a hidden intention.
Unfortunately, nowadays the ego is the one who encourages those
intentions, and only with the death of the ego we will be sure that our
intentions are increasingly fair and transparent, for us and others.
Furthermore, we have to remember that the ego will always want to
deceive us, it is going to make us believe something that have hidden
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 We have got to be aware of every act of our lives, since this is
essential if we really want change.
Intentions are like secret impulses that manage the action, plus every
action results in a growth or spiritual decline; So the sum of all these
impulses lead us where each of us are now.
In addition you have got to become cleverer, in order to discover the
hidden agenda in every act of our lives. This requires a lot of self-
observation, discernment and alertness.
To achieve deep self-knowledge, you will need to be transparent with
yourself, at all levels. Therefore we need to stop self – deceiving you, and
you have to start “discovering you” in the minimum uncons-cious actions of
your life.
“We have to get naked in front of God”, this is urgent if we really want
to know the hidden agenda of the subtle ego.
Are you sure you do it for love? , Do you really think that the intention
is sublime? , Are you convinced that your look is clean?

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 Separation is the greatest heresy...
As long as man feels separated from their environment, he will
continue asleep.
“Live in everything and everyone, everything is within you and you are
in everything”.
We need to feel each person within us, we are connected with all the
beings of the earth and the universe.
The ego, with its concept of “self”, is separated from the rest, it
wants individuality, it wants to be unique and it wants to be separate from
the rest, it is selfish and egocentric.
The ego tends to dispersion, to the consciousness and integration.
Only with the unification of all the Infinite, we will end up feeling
ourselves part of ALL (God).
The ego, the “I” , has put in us the idea and feeling of the divorce
with the environment, with everything and everyone, that's one of the
reasons why today there are many conflicts among people, that’s why
there are so many misunderstandings, because we do not feel the other
within ourselves, we feel separate, “divorced” from everything.
We must feel fully integrated with the universe. It does not exist
either distance or time, there are only limitations of the ego, there are
tricks it makes in order to make us feel asleep in the illusion of nothingness,
of separation, disintegration, disunity and dispersion.
We feel that God is too far from us, because when you ask someone
where is God, he answers: “In heaven”. That answer is in the past, is
extemporaneous, and it’s useless in these times; since we must feel God
within us, closer than our nose, we must be fully integrated with God.
Accordingly, the person who is close to God begins to awake and
begins to discover this “false sense of self”; therefore starts removing it
with the help of the Divine Mother, since it is a poisonous, toxic feeling.
When this happens, the feeling of separation is gradually replaced by
a deep sense of “integration”, the feeling that we are all “one” and that
everything lives in me and you live in it.
“Everything is near” or is God (all) far away?
The cold intellect, with its concepts of time and distance feels
everything away, but the warm heart brings everything closer.
Feel everything close to you; feel that there is no distance, there is no
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There are those who say, that the ego must be integrated into us,
that we should not fight it, but to integrate it. It is necessary to clarify you
need to be careful with this trick of the ego, since the ego wants its
perpetuation based on esoteric principles, and divine rules which does not
govern it.
Because of the ego evilness, unconsciousness and molecular weight,
he is governed by other kind of laws with higher density and complexity.
Do not be deceived, because the only thing that the ego deserves is
complete disintegration.

5.20 FALLING IN LOVE OF GOD

Many say they believe in God, but few say that they “Love God”.
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get out of the “pit” in which we are stuck.
Remember the first commandment: “Love God above all things, and
your neighbor as yourself”.
When the soul is in love with God, it is intensely connected to Him
People love their family, love their children, their grandchildren, their
pets, but they neither love themselves, nor God. Perhaps they fear God,
but they do not love Him.
If we do not respect the first commandment, there is no chance we
respect others.
All the laws that we have created, and the governments of the world
continue creating, are made due to the violation of basic laws that God has
given us.
Some say that we should “fear God”, but God should not be feared,
only loved; Or does a parent want his child to fear him? Do not fear God,
God does not punish, you punish yourself for your lack of love, for your evil
deeds or your fear which is disguised as love...
If you have not fallen in love with God, you will hardly fall in love with
someone else, that’s impossible, because this is showing us that we simply
“do not know how love”; you can depend on someone, want someone, fill
something empty with someone and fear someone, but never feel love .
“Facts are love, but not good intentions”.
Dear reader, think hard about your love towards God; beyond what
you “Think” about God, beyond what you say you feel about God, beyond
what you “Preach” for God, and discover the way “egos” are involved in
your relationship with God; there are misticoides egos, fan egos,
superficial love, etc.
There are Misticoides egos which like talking about God, there are
egos which like quoting the Bible, however you will discover them for their
acts.
“Prayer is talking to God, meditation is listening to God”.
When you pray to God, you have got to say “I love you my Lord, King
of my heart, my soul and my own life”, help me to be a good citizen, to work
for your kingdom.
That is the way you have to talk to God, with love, with tenderness
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 5.21 ACEPHALOUS

Buddhism talks about “Buddhist Decapitation” John the Baptist was

“beheaded”, David “cut Goliath’s head”; Judas hanged himself, the Maya
show many “beheadings” in his prints, Perseus cut off the head of Medusa.
“MEDUSA has to be decapitated”. (Samael Aun Weor).
There are many lessons about the need to be headless, because is the
living representation of the death of the ego, of the “mental silence” and
the end of the “psychic stuff”.
In ball game of the Maya, the guides tell the tourists that the winning
team will cut the head of the losing team; they say this based on the
pyramids that have recordings of people without heads, and these heads
have “streams of blood”.
We should clarify that this is false, as the ball game of the Maya
represents the struggle between right and wrong, and the winner is
headless, this means without ego, without the “individual self”, for the true
owner of this physical vehicle be born.
The streams of blood, which are as snakes, are the seven snakes that
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So, whoever wants to return to the being must be willing to lose
everything, even his own identity, since other person will be born in
yourself, so you do not to recognize yourself.
For the birth of the “New Man”, the “old man” must die, must go
through the “Buddhist Decapitation”, he should be able to walk down the
street headless, without the “Myself”, merged with the Cosmos .
The true Self-knowledge leads you to the “Radical Transformation”
which transforms you into another being, totally different, much more
sympathetic, wiser, more disciplined, flawless and with virtues that you
never thought you had.
“The Lack of self- knowledge is the greatest misfortune of our
humanity”.
When you dream about beheading, you know what the Masters are
telling you.
We must understand the symbolic dream language, and not stay only
with the dead letter and without the deep meaning of these sublime
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 5.22 THE ILLUMINATION

To look for enlightenment is to seek the light of consciousness.

Many people seek enlightenment, however only few have found it.
Finding the lighting is finding yourself.
The light is hidden behind the darkness; the light comes out of the
darkness, as the heat comes out of the fire.
Whoever wants to be enlightened, must find his own darkness first,
because behind the darkness, is hidden the light.
To reach the state of “Illuminated”, you do not require anything
external to yourself. You don’t require any specific teacher or book.
None particular place will give us enlightenment. It can only guide us,
but is not going to make us achieve enlightenment, as this depends only on
ourselves, on our own work, our own efforts, our own courage and love
for procurement.
The Divine Mother has the torch of the light, as “She's the fire and the
light within us”.
If you want lighting, approach your Divine Mother and ask her, beg
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 Every time we discover a defect, a negative thought or misconduct;
we must invoke our Divine Mother for her to eliminate this defect, and she
will do so, destroying the darkness of ego and releasing the light of
consciousness, that was trapped in the ego.
It is important to know that the higher death of ego, the greater light
of consciousness.
“The Divine Mother Kundalini has the power to reduce to ashes any
subjective, inhuman psychic aggregate”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If you want to achieve enlightenment, and you do not die
psychologically, you will never succeed.
All those little sparks you release from the jaws of the ego, will go
merging until forming a light within you; eventually that light must arouse
in other dimensions of nature, with Astral Projection Techniques,
Meditation and Transmutation of the Sexual Energy.
Just as Buddha achieved enlightenment sitting under a fig tree
(sexual energy symbol); we can see that full enlightenment requires the
Alchemical work; nonetheless everything is preceded by death. “If the seed
does not die, the plant is not born”.
You have got to clarify your own conscience, work it, develop it and
increase it, because is fundamental for the existence of psychophysical
health, and for achieving enlightenment.
Teacher is the one who teaches what he has lived, consequently our
life and life experiences are absolutely necessary to achieve spiritual
growth, in other words enlightenment.
Whoever rejects experiences, whoever escapes from himself,
whoever believes that life is being cruel with him, that life is hard, is
rejecting enlightenment, liberation and the return to his Inner Father.
“You should not desire powers, but you should be prepared to receive
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THE ELIMINATION OF THE EGO

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 In this chapter we are going to find the methodology for the
elimination of ego.
All previous chapters are only the preamble of this, since the death of
the ego synthesizes our triumph over the evil and liberation.
Talking about the death of the ego, is talking about the Arcane 13 and
about the “Transformation”. Dying on the ego is not disappearing, is
transforming and allowing something new to be born in us, but
unfortunately, we do not want change.
Each of us is perhaps good at physical cleaning. We take shower
every day, we wash our hands all the time, we brush our teeth, we eat
healthy food. However, most of us do not have the same mental hygiene,
we do not clean our mind, this is said because we allow a series of dirt,
garbage and trash that harm us and harm others.
We should always start from the beginning, because if we think or
believe that we have done enough we will get stuck and we will stop
working on our inner work.
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To eliminate the ego we need to appeal to a higher power of the
mind, because our mind can hide a defect, change its name, hide it, forget
it, “but never delete it. This force exists, has a spiritual nature and it is
waiting for us to appeal to it, in order to eliminate any defect that was
discovered using the sense of self -observation.
That strength, that power, that ability is in our “DIVINE MOTHER”, in
our Spiritual Mother, in the Mother of our Soul.
Our Spiritual Mother who is armed with a spear, will face any
psychological defect that we ask with the heart.
She must beg her “with all our heart” to eliminate the defect we have
discovered, even if it is small, as a thought, feeling or action.
Even if it is tiny detail must be ask our Divine Mother: “Mother, get
me out this defect and eliminate it with your spear”; and she'll do so
because that is her mission, help us in this way, in order to find freedom.
The act of supplicating to Our Divine Mother must be done with
Particular Strength and Faith, you have to do it at the exact moment when
you discover an ego or psychological defect.
She only eliminates the “I” that we have discovered in one of our
“Three Brains” (mind, heart and sex) and it is necessary to remember that
we need to find these defects through Psychological Self-Observation,
“from moment to moment, from instant to instant”.
We must have faith that Our Divine Mother will disintegrate that ego
or psychological defect at the exact moment we ask her.
You can only remove the ego in the physical world, since here is the
energy to do it (Sex force). When you disembodied (physical death), the
work is delayed until a new incarnation; Therefore it is important to work
hard with ourselves during this existence.
Any negative thought that is discovered must be submitted to our
Mother for her to eliminate it, and we have to do it without hesitating, and
with great determination. If we do it like I previously mentioned, the defect
will lose its volume and it is going to be sprayed.
Only the continuous monitoring of our mind, heart and sex, will train
us for the elimination of each and every one of the defects that bounded
us to the world of pain, deception and suffering.
When a psychic element is manifesting it, “in any of the three centers”
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 As the ego is eliminated, true self- love starts being born; and this
love is being expressed as love towards your neighbor, moreover it is born
the intimate desire to help others, in order to set them free from their own
defects.
The worst moments are the best to discover and eliminate the ego.
Therefore, the difficulties should not be shunned, but you have to
intelligently take advantage of these moments for self-discovery.
The more you work, the more is refined your psychological palate,
and it is in a position to discover defects, of which you never thought you
had.
During the course of history there are several names that have been
given to ego death: “Mystical Death, Buddhist Annihilation, Die in the Lord,
Psychological Decapitation, clean the barn, deny oneself, Confronting the
inner beast, Fighting the dragon, Desegoistizarse, Awakening the
Consciousness, Releasing the Soul, Defeat demons, Working with Details,
Death in Motion, Craft soul, polished yourself, etc.”
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Yes, says the Spirit, they will
rest from their labors, and their works follow them”. (Revelation 14:13).
This ego work has also been taught in children's stories, such as “The
Sleeping Beauty”; in this story the sleeping beauty is the consciousness
(Beautiful Soul), and the soul is the one which is sleeping, because it has
been deeply poisoned by the witch (ego, evil, apple, lustful sex in their
appearance).
Another example is the story of Aladdin, in which the Genius of
“Aladdin's Lamp” is the consciousness, and it is trapped in the bottle, which
is the ego (mind).
The Divine Mother eliminates the ego depending on our
understanding of the same, to greater understanding, more profound is
the death that she carries out of the defect. It is therefore important to
exacerbate self-observation, in order to increase our knowledge of the “I”
that we want to disintegrate.
Psychological defects are those that sharpen our character, so if we
work on the death of the ego, our character will start changing.
The objective of our inner work is: make us increasingly aware of our
own sinfulness.
Every time we eliminate a defect, emerges a virtue, since it is itself
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 The Meaning of the relationship between the Psychological Self-
Observation and the pituitary gland, is that: it goes developing even more,
and is increasingly clear that the Self-discovery is being more and more
detailed.
There are many books that talk about the ego and describe it very
well. The detail is how to remove it or transcend it, since not only you must
be aware of the ego through understanding, meditation, reflection and
self- observation, but also is vital its elimination and this is only possible
with the help Our Divine Mother; otherwise the ego can be weakened, but
never deleted.
Remember the Holy Scripture when God talks to the tempting serpent
(ego): “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring; she shall bruise your head, and you shall
bruise her heel”. (Genesis 3: 15).
With this, it is revealed the power that God gave the Divine Mother to
break the ego.
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 6.2 DETAILS AND DEATH IN MARCH

Working with the details, also called “Death in march” is the most
simple, practical and effective way to remove the ego, in these times
where our consciousness is asleep, and the ego has a very fortified form.
If we want to win the battle against the ego, we must do it in detail.
In every detail a small demonstration of a self is hidden; if we pay
attention to those details, we can eliminate that ego.
Each psychological self can be represented by a tree, where the thick
roots maintain the tree up, so that the wind does not bounce it.
Nevertheless, that tree receives the food from very small little roots,
which are receiving the nutrients from the soil, the water and minerals. The
ego is likewise, since it receives its food from small “details” that we have
in large quantity; for example when we say “white lies”, or when we pick
coins, when we look at someone or something inadequately, etc.
For example if I want to eliminate the anger, we must pay attention
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expected.
If we want to eliminate the ego of lust, we must be attentive to the
details of lewd leering, inappropriate jokes, browse magazines, prolonged
hugging and inappropriate touching.
In this way, this tree (ego) will not receive its food and it will get dry
slowly, until it finally dies.
“Details make difference”.
If we want to eliminate the ego, but we don’t work on the details is
will be very difficult to remove the ego, almost impossible; however if we
work out the details, the ego begins to weaken and to lose its strength.
“When you have many things in yourself that are neither known nor
accepted, such things complicate our life really horribly, and cause all
sorts of situations that could be avoided through the knowledge of self”.
(Samael Aun Weor).
Every eliminated detail gives us a grain of conscience, and if we
combined it with another grain, it will made a soul.
Anger and pride always go hand in hand, if anger is removed pride
will be weakened, and the other way around.
To work out the details we must have some discipline in our lives, if
we do not work with discipline, removing the details is going to be
difficult.
For instance, if we want to eliminate laziness, but we have the bad
habit of getting up late (10 or 11 in the morning), we will not achieve
anything, because that indiscipline is a food for the ego.
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 6.3 THE REGRET

In each of us there is not true regret for the mistakes we made.

We are superficial in our inner work; we don’t deserve the
forgiveness for our sins, because we have not felt a real and deep regret.
Regret is demonstrated only when we strive to remove (from our
inner nature), a series of psychological errors that pushes us away from the
light of the Self.
Just as Jesus Christ expelled the merchants from the temple with a
whip (will), saying: “Get out of the temple of my Father”. Similarly, each of
us must expel the merchants of the “Temple of the Father, which is the
mind”, since they are doing what they want in this precious place.
As long as our will grows, the whip goes growing, until one day it can
turn into a sword.
All these ancient teachings of King Arthur and Merlin the wizard,
represent the struggle against the ego, the liberation of men, and the
obtaining of powers and authority to be a great sovereign (of itself).
“If the water does not boil at one hundred degrees, is not removed
what it was supposed to be eliminated”, that is to say, we must go through
certain conscious emotional crisis of profound regret, for the mistakes we
made.
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The Gospels say, “Until you are not like children, you will never enter
the kingdom of heaven”.
Only by working seriously with ourselves, we will be worthy of
heavenly help, because in our actions we will go showing our deep
repentance.
Moreover we will show repentance, by facing ourselves and
becoming into corpses that amount of selves that wallow us in the
darkness of indifference, ignorance and laziness.
“Of the repentant is the Kingdom of Heaven”.
“True regret is not in words, but in fact”.

6.4 THE FOOD OF THE EGO

The ego needs his food to survive, if we take the food from the ego,
he will be weak.
If you really want to get rid of the ego, it is necessary to know the
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 The ego’s main food is obviously our energy. He is fed with the
energy of our thoughts, feelings and actions, in other words, every time
that the ego is manifested in our body, it ends up satisfied.
That is why after a moment of anger, we end up tired, exhausted,
with no energy. Why? Simply because the ego has nurtured from it.
Each “I” struggles to manifest itself in the human machine, it wants
to use our physical vehicle; it wants to think, to feel and act, in order to
feed itself from our energy.
The energy that feeds it the most is our sexual energy, the ultimate
expression of desire.
This modern world is made “by the ego and for the ego”. Television,
films, advertisements, news, and fashion are designed, so that the
different “selves” of human beings are fed.
The ego not only uses our energy to feed itself, but also it uses our
five senses. For example the ego of lust uses the eyes to feed itself by
looking images in magazines or in television, by listening to morbid stories
with aphrodisiac perfumes and by touching someone of your opposite sex,
etc.
If we really want to eliminate the ego, we must watch our five senses,
because the five senses provide great food to the ego.
In today's world, everything works around the “I”, and around being
individually remarkable (competitiveness, selfishness).
Whenever the ego is fed, we are weakened, that is the sign that he
has stolen our energy.
The ego is very subtle in its manifestation and feeding processes, so it
is important to be very attentive to ourselves, otherwise we will continue
feeding it, as we have done the last existences.
“It's not nice to know that inside ourselves, live hundreds and thousands
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 6.5 WEAPONS OF EGO

The greatest weapon of the ego is to make us believe that it does not
exist; therefore it disguises itself as a sheep.
The temptations, seduction, greed, ambition and individualism, are
infallible weapons that the ego possesses and uses to keep us in a world of
fantasy and instinct.
Even worse the ego steals us our spiritual memory, changing it to a
limited memory conditioned by time.
The ego tempts us thousands of times because he wants to make us
fall in temptation, consequently when we do it, we end up feeding the ego.
Only released consciousness is capable of discovering and understanding
subtle lies of the ego.
One of its most effective weapons is the blindness with oneself, self-
deception. “All liar, lies to himself first”.
The ego makes us believe that the three-dimensional world (physical
world) is all that exists, so your goals will be on this world only. That is why
is so difficult to find people who actually have spiritual goals.
Addictions, excesses, abuses, are also part of its weapons, one of the
ego’s best weapons are: temptation and pleasure.
The ego seeks pleasure. Gluttony seek pleasure in food, lust seek
pleasure in the sexual abuse and laziness seek pleasure in doing nothing.
The ego traps us in the passions, leaving us slaves of seduction; and it
is precisely here where the ego obtains its biggest feast: our sexual energy.
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 The only thing that the ego wants is to steal our energy and weaken
us; making us slaves of illusion; as weak and unwilling people.
Likewise, the affection for material things, the bonding with people,
with pets and possessions, maintain us in a state of dependence and
slavery; the ego makes us confuse love with affection for things and
people, it creates a false sense of emptiness, abandonment, helplessness
and fear that can only be filled with something (object) or someone
(person).
The subconscious use of telepathy is another of its weapons.
“The selves of two individuals are looking to each other through
telepathic waves, and they get together to repeat the same mechanically”.
(Samael Aun Weor).
Collective Hypnosis is a generalized ego strength that traps us
constantly, by being fan of something (Sports for example) or someone
(artist), by being part of a fan club, by imitating someone and by keeping
up with fashion. This is the way to keep us asleep and restricted from our
true authenticity.
“Worst of all is that no one notices”.
What was previously mentioned is demolished in the presence of
Self-observation and death in march.
The ego begins to fall apart and the soul is strengthened, in order to
eventually accommodate the Self, our Inner Father.
“The best weapon a man can use in life is a correct psychological state”.
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 6.6 FORMING THE WARRIOR

It is impossible to be a good warrior, if you are not taught in the art of

war; only good strategists (in the art of war) will be victorious in any battle.
So we will study some extracts from the book “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu:
1. “The whole Art of War is based on deception”. That is why until now
we have been subjected to the ego, since he deceived us, making us
believe that we are the ones who act, when the fact is that he is the one
who acts. Let’s deceive him by continuing our lives normally, but with a lot
of self - observation to discover it (the ego). We should not boast about
anything, by saying that “nothing is going on here”, if we do this the ego
will continue showing himself and we will able to catch it.
2. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you do not have to fear the
result of a hundred battles. If you do not know the enemy but know yourself,
you have a chance to win than to lose. If you know the enemy and you know
yourself, all your battles will be counted by defeats”. This speaks for itself. If
we want to overcome the ego, we must be in continuous self-observation,
which will give us much knowledge of our enemy and ourselves. Self-
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3. “A victorious army first wins and then engages in battle, a defeated
army fights first and tries to win later”. Feel victorious, you have to
dethrone the ego, if others have done it, we can do it. If we doubt our
ability to overcome the ego, we will never make it.
4. “The good fighters make opponents come to them, and in no way allow
them to go outside its fortress”. If you follow the ego’s game, and we have
negative thoughts, we will be taken out of our center, we will be defeated
and we will end up being identified with the ego. Our strength is our heart,
we should never get out of there. From there we have to observe the
mind; and the ego, sooner or later will manifest himself.
5. “The difficulty of armed fight is to convert long distances into
proximity, and make problems into advantages”. Even if the roots of certain
defects, are very deep and archaic, we will discover them, and we will learn
to take the good from the bad; we will learn to smile at adversity, and
these will enable us to be winners; otherwise we will always be victims of
ourselves.
Every difficulty in life is an opportunity to know yourself, from
adversity you will get the light that you need to self- discover you.
6. “So, an army perishes if it is not equipped, if it does not have
provisions or money”. To be equipped is to have good weapons, and our
best weapon is self-observation and the help of our Divine Mother;
provisions are the energy that we will store, by not being identified with
the situations. Money is the Dharma which can be received as a prize for
our efforts to correct us.
7. “Exhaust your enemies by making them feel busy and not letting them
breathe”. We have to work on ourselves continuously, if we stop for a
moment the ego will take advantage of this, and it will be fed
8. “The enemy that operates in isolation, that lacks strategies, and that
takes for granted his opponents, will inevitably end up being defeated”. It is
impossible to defeat the ego without the help of our Divine Mother; you
must always remember the observation in mind, heart and sex. The ego
maintains us asleep for centuries, do not underestimate it. The triumph of
the ego, is to make us believe that it does not exist.
9. “The rapidity of action is the essential factor in the condition of
military force”. At the slightest manifestation of the defect, you must
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10. “It is not enough to know how to attack the enemy with fire, you
must know how to prevent others attacking you”. We know where the ego
attacks us, if we watch our thoughts, feelings, actions and the five senses,
he cannot attack us.
11. “A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military
leaders should not provoke war out of wrath”. The fight against ourselves is
based on love, on understanding, and on the pursuit of peace in our heart,
the fight is not based on anger, it is against the wrath!
12. “Espionage is essential for military operations”. Self- observation is
watching and spying yourself. We also need to understand the importance
of conscious Astral Projection, since, it is in this region of nature, where we
can study the ego, we can talk to him and get the information needed to
defeat it in the three-dimensional world.
Finally, there is another important war slogan: “Pick battles big
enough to matter, small enough to win”. We may think that the fight against
our own ego, (to free our soul and regain true happiness) is big,
worthwhile; consequently if we fight this battle against those small details
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 6.7 UNDERSTANDING THE EGO

The Divine Mother removes the ego as intensely as we understand it.

A greater understanding, a greater clearance.
Our Holy Mother has the power to eliminate our ego in just a second,
but if she would do that; would we be conscious of the origin of evil?
The fact that we self- observe us, and we ask our Divine Mother for
the elimination of our defects, shows that we are aware of our own
darkness.
Understanding is the highest level of knowledge. “Knowledge belongs
to the mind, understanding belongs to the heart”.
The person who is not understanding, who is superficial and
immature, will never grow spiritually.
To increase our understanding of the ego, we must learn to meditate,
to reflect about it.
The basis of self-knowledge is in the comprehension of what we are
now, not on what we want to be.
A greater self- observation, leads to a greater understanding of what
we have internally.
If we ask for the elimination of one defect (using death march), and it
does not die; if it continues haunting us, it continues squeezing our heart
and mind (with its stormy thoughts), is SIMPLY because we have not
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 After you’ve been through a daily unpleasant event, and after you
have asked the Divine Mother for the disintegration of a defect (through
the death in March) we can continue with the understanding of this dark
chapter of our life, by meditating about each of the psychological defects
which are present in our internal struggle.
Comfortably seated, we will reconstitute the scene, remembering the
unpleasant event and observing from the outside, the thoughts, feelings
and intentions that led us to failure.
“It is clear that if you discover a defect, it must be consciously worked, in
order to separate it from our psyche.
Unfortunately, we do not even suspect what is going on with us, and we
act as puppets which are controlled by invisible strings.
Understanding turns to be very elastic, this is why we need to go into
detail about our understandings, since, what we understand today,
tomorrow will be understood in a better way”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If we have these kinds of thoughts, there is no way we can help to
find the hidden light:
• What type of thoughts, this psychological entity puts in my mind?
• What feelings, what intentions?
• How did I feel after the event?
• What triggered it?
• Have I been through this before? When? How many times?
• When was the first it was expressed?
• Do I always have the same reaction?
• Who is been damaged for this defect? , Does it benefit anyone?
• Is the pride involved?, is the anger?, the fear? Does this smell like
lust? ...
• What are the details?
• What emptiness is in me, that makes me react like that?
• Is this defect a manifestation of love?, if it is not, what it is?
• Does exert strength on me?
• Is this what I want for my life?
• What's true and what's fake about this defect?
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 6.8 THE GENERALS OF EGO

Meeting the Generals of the enemy is fundamental to win any battle.

The more you know the enemy, the better you can face it.
The ego has a hierarchical order on its lines; there are some strong
and powerful selves, which we could call “commanders and generals of the
darkness”.
The hierarchical system of the ego is divided into: 3, 7 and legion.
“Because I said out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
name is Legion: for we are many”. (Mark 5:8).
The three commanders are: justification, desire and unwillingness.
The mind is always justified, feels innocent and argues its point of view; the
insatiable desire wants everything, in order to get what it wants, desire is
able to do anything.
Being able to do anything, laziness, carelessness and procrastination
are more important than working on oneself (unwillingness). These are the
most sinister forces of ego.
The seven generals are indicated in the Holy Scriptures, and are
known as the seven deadly sins, remember: lust, anger, greed, envy, pride,
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From these generals depend thousands of minor defects, which are
expressed as details, and they are almost unnoticed by the limited human
consciousness.
Anger is connected to pride. Every time you get angry for any reason,
is due to your wounded pride.
All frustrated desire turns into anger. Let’s pay attention to anger,
and we will realize that there is a frustrated desire.
Hence, is important to work on the defect of desire, because by doing
this, we are leaving the anger without any type of food.
Anger is the enemy number one of marriage; whoever works wrath is
taking cares of his marriage.
The actions or gestures related to anger are: strong words,
penetrating eyes, arrogant attitudes, impatience, frustration, gesture,
muscle tension, being negative and being intolerant.
If we pay attention to these details, we will be able to deal with the
general of the armies of darkness.
Another powerful ego is lust which is multifaceted and versatile; we
can find it on countless details such as inadequate looks, touching a person
of the opposite sex, undiscerning fondling, provocative gestures, tight
clothes, necklines, perfumes, hints and looking at magazines or movies
with tantalizing scenes.
Whoever works on these two defects will weaken all the others, since
these are the greatest manifestations of the defects. There are many who
covet not be greedy, however greed always wants more.
Envy is the secret spring of many actions, the envious is a maverick.
Pride is the poison of the soul; you can only get to God without pride,
just by being humble and serene.
Lazy is lazy, a lazy person is ill will; this type of person just does what
he wants; there are many “lazy workaholic” of the internal work.
Greed is insatiable, it deforms and it sickens our bodies.
All these generals live in our inner darkness, and it must be
discovered and removed from our psyche. Whoever says that he or she
does not have any of these defects is because he or she has not self-
observed him/her carefully, and also because his/her consciousness is very
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 6.9 TO SACRIFICE THE SUFFERING

It is urgent to stop being a victim, the emotion of us being hurt, take

us away from the possibility of eliminating the ego.
By refining the inner work, we will get to capture the manifest-tation
of the ego in all its facets.
The Ego “loves suffering”, it is fed with the martyr feeling, often being
almost masochistic, it cannot get over certain feelings of suffering. “Stop
suffering, is to stop being a victim”.
The suffering, the pain, the grief must be sacrificed.
“People love their own suffering, and they feel important when they
remind it”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If we could understand that behind our sufferings, there are lower
emotions of the self, which are hidden manifestations of certain self-
flagellating defects, we would take the determination to eliminate them,
to sacrifice them.
The etymology of the word sacrifice is “sacred = Holy” and “Office =
Work”, in other words: Sacred Work. Sacrifice is for the sacred work,
therefore, by sacrificing certain determined inferior emotions, we are
allowing the true emotions of the soul to arise.
True happiness is hidden in a series of negative suffering emotions,
which must be observed and eradicated from our psyche.
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defects and we will disintegrate the selves we are supposed to eliminate
in an urgent way”. (Samael Aun Weor).
We have to start sacrificing the suffering of illness, we have to stop
“being sick” and start feeling good, we must to call healthcare through the
sacrifice of the psycho-emotional distress.
Sacrificing suffering is not easy, there are few who come to
understand this; however they succeed, they discover the trap of ego, as
internal beasts take possession of our emotions and make us believe that
are true.
When talking about the elimination of the ego to people, the general
tendency is to say “it is very difficult to eliminate it”, since people tend to
limit themselves, they dependent on the phrase “I cannot”.
Watch what you say, because we can self- limit us and we can
eliminate, with small subtleties, the tremendous opportunity of a profound
transformation.
Do not let the suffering devour you, it's not a real emotion, it's part of
the trick of the ego, since he sets you up in a dreamed state of
consciousness, which is totally limited and makes you blind of the true
reality.
“If pains perfect us, then and all humanity would be perfect”. (Samael
Aun Weor).
The ego can only hurt the ego. If someone says something ugly to us,
it's our own ego that is hurt. If you learn to receive the words of the
insulter, without the ears of the ego, there would be no suffering in us.
Consciousness sins for omission.
With courage and intelligence we can stand over our own suffering;
we can observe the deepest of our hearts and remove suffering.
Remember that this suffering is accompanied by “logical reasons”,
“justifications of the mind”, “painful memories” and “wounded pride”
which must also be observed and eliminated in order to ensure the total
liberation of this poisonous deception.
Lift your head, look over yourself, do not identify with what
happened (it was a necessary experience), give strength to your
conscience, reflect and you will realize that everything is possible, inclu-
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these animals are the ones we carry inside us (anger is represented by the
bull, lust is represented by the dog, sloth is represented by the bear,
cunning is represented by the fox, vanity is represented by the peacock
and filth is represented by the mouse), which make us suffer when we do
get into the lair of pain, distress and suffering.
It is no necessary to feed more suffering, however is urgent to rebel
against it, and remove it from our psychological space.
“If a person does not sacrifice the pain, he or she will never be happy”.
The state of suffering is not a state of fullness.
What you sow as suffering, tomorrow will be a big tree. These are
the typical small mistakes that with the pass of the time will be growing in
our minds.
“To stop suffering, you have to stop thinking. The suffering is in the
mind and not in the circumstances”.
Suffering and pain are typical characteristics of the ego, on the other
hand, consciousness is Wholeness, Love and Joy. To eliminate the ego we
must be aware of our suffering. “We created it, and destroying it, is going to
be painful to us”.

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 Everyone wants the rest meet their expectations, everybody else
should work and act the way “that person wants”.
If things do not go the way “I” want: I get angry, I’m offended.
We are always seeking perfection outside ourselves, we want
everything to be “perfect”.
Do not seek perfection out of yourself; look for it within yourself,
which is the only place where it exists. Only God is perfect and lives within
you.
Do not have ideals, there are no “ideals”, because the things that for
you are correct, for other person might be wrong. If you are looking for an
ideal, and you are not able to find it, you are going to be frustrated, and
therefore you will suffer.
The only “ideal” is to be free you from yourself, you have to liberate
you from your severity, from your bigotry, your stubbornness and your
stiffness.
We must learn to be more tolerant, we must learn that not
everything has to work the way “I want”, in this way we will letting our
mental rigidity go, which at some point it will turn into mental rigidity, and
as a consequence of the previously mentioned it will become into a
physical rigidity, stubbornness and obstinacy.
The ego always interpret things in relation to himself. It does not
know how to see another's point of view, it does not know what is
empathy, therefore it is always located in the center, everything happens
around the ego and its way of thinking.
“Free yourself from the need to be right”.
The ego lives demanding others, those around him (friends, relatives)
give him what he needs (attention, phone calls, worries).
The ego loves to require, but it is very bad at giving things.
The ego always thinks that others should worry about it, and it thinks
that if people are not worried about it, is because they do not love it. That
is why the ego lives in a constant manipulation, because it needs to get the
attention and love of others to fulfill what he wants.
The ego is very subtle on its manipulations, it manipulates others and
itself as well.
We must be very alert to discover the subtleties of manipulative self,
who always wants everything to be done as “he wants”.
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 6.11 RUNNING FROM YOURSELF

The one who runs away from the problems is a coward.

Existence is a “Psychological Gym” consequently we have to learn,
discover and correct our life in this gym.
If you feel bad under certain circumstances, in certain places, with
certain people, you do not have to run away from that place, since if you
do that, you are not going to learn anything, and we are not going to get to
know ourselves
The objective/ purpose of every existence is our awakening, our
initiation, our light, and every event, circumstance or episode in our life is
related to something we have to learn, correct or pay.
If we run away from any place is due to the cowardly (fear, weakness,
ignorance), and also because of the lack of value (love, strength,
knowledge).
The one who runs away, must take the test again, in this existence or
in the next one, he has to live the same event again, until that person is
able to understand and overcome.
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 Remember that cowardice is because of fear, and fear is the lack of
love.
We do not feel love for the work that will liberate us.
“To shun the work of close observation, to be evasive, is an unmistakable
sign of degeneration”. (Samel Aun Weor).
Instead of running away from any event, we must learn to
“Psychologically step out” of it, we must learn to not identify with the
circumstances, to take away the “hypnotic power” that the event has on
us, finally we must learn to look the event “from outside”, as it was a
movie.
The smart one is able to be in a place, but not being part of it, the
smart one does not get emotionally involved with it.
Remember that life is “Maya or Illusion”; remember that every-thing
passes away, everything has a beginning and an end, and if you're suffering
for any circumstance or an episode of your life, is because you have given it
an exaggerated value, you have oversized it, and now is too heavy for you.
What would you tell me about the suicide? Has that person emerged
victorious or he has failed his lesson? Certainly these people should repeat
their life lessons, and next time they are taking the lessons there will be
more karma, since they assaulted their own life. They ran away from life
through a false door.
Only when this is understood, life itself is responsible for making the
necessary adjustments to continue your inner work, but not motivated for
the escape, but because “The lesson is already learned and the karma is
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 6.12 DAVID AND GOLIATH

The struggle of David versus Goliath, is the struggle of the

consciousness against the ego.
Our consciousness is very small and has no weapons, on the other
hand, the ego is big on us, and is strongly reinforced with different domain
techniques and with fear domain.
The five stones that David took represent the sexual force which is
able to give us Clairvoyance. The eyebrows Chakra, is the Chakra where
David beat Goliath.
The number five (5) represents the Divine Law, the Law of Karma
which should join us in the work of spiritual cleansing.
“And while David puts his hand in his bag, he took a stone he threw the
stone with a slingshot and struck the Philistine on the forehead; the stone
sank into his forehead, and fell on his face to the ground”. (1 Samuel
17:49).
David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took the Philistine's sword,
pulled it from its sheath, killed him, and then he cut off his head with it.
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Samuel 17:51).
David is within us, Goliath too.
David is brave and intelligent, important virtues to develop in our
consciousness. If we are cowardly and ignorant, we will never be able to
face our own ego, our inner Goliath.
In this moment Goliath (ego) has our sword (our power, our strength,
our will), he has our sexual strength in his hands; we must take the sword
from him, and using the same sword, we must cut his head off.
“You have to take the fire from the devil”. The one who has
understanding, let him understand, because here is wisdom.
Esoteric and spiritual teachings, have these characteristics: “They are
eternal”, they do not go out of fashion as ordinary knowledge.
The army of our internal Goliath (ego) dominates us today, we are
slaves of him. We are so asleep that we do not realize how dominated and
governed we are.
“If any of our readers do not yet understand the doctrine of many of the
egos, is solely due to the lack of practice of self-observation”. (Samael
Aun Weor).
David, though he was only a child, managed to defeat the giant
enemy. We can do the same, we can face the monster, which is horrible
and is terribly armed... and we are able to win because God is on our side,
because the Self wants to set us free from the oppressive yoke of our inner
beast. Self - observe yourself, and discover the horrible enemy, rip its head
off with the sword of the will; we can do, we should do it!!

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 6.13 THE FIGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON

The struggle against the ego is symbolized by the struggle against the
dragon. The dragon represents the darkest part of the ego, the fiercest
part of it, moreover the descending serpent represents its greatest
weapon “Temptation”.
Defeating the dragon is important. By very fierce and terrifying it
seems we can defeat it. To defeat the dragon is the most important thing.
The battle against our own ego has been taught by different cultures
in different ways: St. George with the dragon, Hercules vs the Hydra of
Lerna, Samson vs lion, Krishna against her enemies, Buddha against the
three daughters of Mara, etc.
The struggle of (in Greek mythology) Theseus against the Minotaur,
reflects the struggle against desire. The Minotaur (ugly monster ego) is
hiding in the maze (mind).
Today our mind is filled with false heroes (Superman, Spiderman,
Dragon Ball Z, athletes, movie stars), the time has come to be your own
hero and to save your own soul from the jaws of ego.
This is not another film story; this is the story of your life, where you
are being called to be the main character, to rescue your awareness from
the dark abyss, you are being called to fight face to face with your own
dragon.
Are you prepared to do it?, Are you brave?, are you able to?
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 The dragon is not easily defeated, since it has many weapons to make
us fall. We are tempted to lust, anger, sloth, fear, pride, desire, despair,
prestige, etc.
“You can disarm beasts and unmask traitors, throughout appropriate
internal states”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If we decide to face the dragon, if we have the courage and
intelligence to do it, we can do it, “There are no impossible deeds, only
weak men”.
The confrontation with the dragon is just after we are able to face
our own ego using the death – march; Moreover the confrontation
happens in advanced stages of liberation. We could hardly face this beast
now, being as we are: weak and hypnotized.
Our weaknesses are many: lazy, laziness, comfort, fear, doubt,
ignorance and passivity.
The collective hypnosis is large, and is based on an entire modern
apparatuses that puts our human psyche to sleep (film, television, fashion,
Internet, post-graduate studies are some of the apparatuses).
As Goethe said, “If you are truly committed to your goal... The whole
universe conspires in your favor for the instruments and people to
appear, allowing you to achieve your goal”.

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 6.14 FALL INTO THE ABYSS

In our current existence, we are at the edge of what is allowed.

We are ancestral souls, with a lot of experience from different stocks.
We are too ripe to bear fruit; What is our fruit? , What is our Work? , What is
your work beyond your family, your property and your work?
As we said, our soul is divided into lots of selves which are loud-
mouthed and troublemakers.
These selves are inhabitant of the darkness and the underworld,
therefore the human subconscious is of infernal nature.
Nightmares are a reflection of our entrance into the underground
world of the abyss. The monsters we see in our nightmares exist in the
dark regions of nature.
Our subconscious is linked to the region of darkness. This is precisely
what our self-work consist of, in getting rid of the abyss, in stepping out of
the infra-dimensions and returning to the light.
In our interior are the doors that lead us to the abyss and to the sky.
Unfortunately in these times of crisis, the door to the abyss is very wide,
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 As Jesus Christ said “Narrow is the gate that leads us to the Kingdom of
heaven and few are those who find it”.
Certain amounts of stocks are assigned to our soul, for us to learn,
develop awareness and return to the bosom of our being.
Unfortunately most of us are lazy to work on ourselves. Perhaps we
can be “workaholics” on other things, because we like it or because we
make money, but when it comes to psychic work, we do nothing.
That's one of our biggest problems “psychological Sloth”.
Consequently you need to understand that right now we have to
make our best to accomplish our duty, which is “Rescue our soul from the
abyss”.
Today is not at stake one or more existences, but is at stake the “fall
into the abyss”.
Each and every one of us are “old souls” with a lot of experience in
different existences, and “we are mature”, therefore we must “bear fruit”.
“Tree that does not bear good fruit is hewn down, and cast him into the
fire (abyss)”. (Matthew 7:19).
Friends, the thing is serious, unfortunately information has been
hidden from us, and it will be hidden even more.
However when our soul starts to awake (with the death of the ego),
it will develop certain powers that will allow us to investigate by ourselves,
we will be able to investigate in other parts of nature and other
dimensions.
All red media: suicide, rape, murder, outrages, are manifestations of
the abyss, they are different expressions of the density and the horror of
those abysmal regions.
All of us (in varying degrees) have much of our soul in the abyss, and
we have to recover it. The death of the ego is the formula to go dying on
our faults, defects and mistakes and also to liberate ourselves from those
regions; if we do this we will discover the true purpose of life, which is to
awaken to our true reality.
“Rare are those who achieve real salvation, almost all humans fall into
the well, are swallowed by the deep”. (Samael Aun Weor).
This was clearly explained by Dante Alighieri, in his book “The Divine
Comedy”, which recounts his journey through the “Dantesque circles”.
For more information on the abyss and Dantean circles, read the
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book from this author may be downloaded free from the Internet, since he
had quit the copyrights).
“The mind is a wild colt, tame it with the whip of willpower, not to
throw your car into the abyss”. (Samael Aun Weor).

6.15 HEAVEN

Heaven is a state of consciousness, is an internal vibration that is

reached when you have eliminated the sinister force of ego, when we stop
vibrating with the egoic density.
In this new sublime vibration state, doors are opened to us to other
dimensions, other regions of the ineffable nature, that we could also call
heaven.
The gates of heaven are in your interior, you the opening of it
depends on your inner work, it depends on what you do with yourself,
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 If we walk down hell, we will tremble with terror; fear will overcome
us and we will want to run away (just remember a nightmare). Teachers,
however, go (consciously) to the infradimensions, to help some specific
souls and they do not feel fear since they do not have the selves of fear,
terror, darkness, but they have their own heaven (in their interior)
consequently they are not victims of the outside world.
As Master Judas, for example, who is currently working, tirelessly and
lovely, in these dark regions of nature (Limbo) looking for a soul to help
and make it return to the world of light, in order to work on itself.
“The outside world takes the reality that the inner world gives”.
If you are internally loaded with fear, terror, suspicion, mistrust and
vulnerability, you will live in hell, far from the higher vibrations of heaven or
paradise.
All this work (in the death of the ego) is to form the sky in us and to
increase our conscious and vibrational energy state.
It is to create (in our interior) the spiritual triumph through the
ejection and disintegration of our own hell.
“Sky has never been so close” because it has never before delivered to
us this particular technique for inner growth.
Whenever you delete an ego, you awake the sky in your interior
Right now, everything is at our disposal; if you do not do it, is because
you do not want to, not because it is difficult.
It only requires self - love, we do not have to forget ourselves, our
consciousness and our Spirit (Father-Mother).
The energy vibration of fear is a very dense and heavy energy, which
limits us in our internal growth, hence the importance of understanding
the development of the foundation of heaven in our hearts.
“Heaven is taken by assault, the brave have taken it”. (Samael Aun
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SYNTHESIZING THE WORK

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 7.1 THE ESSENTIAL OF THE WORK

Once you have read and understood this book, you can begin to work
seriously on yourself, and we now have a practical tool that will allow us to
“Auto–observe” our own inner world.
Our real enemy is not outside of us, but in our inner world. Our
enemies are those thoughts of hatred, resentment, frustration, anger,
disgust, jealousy and sorrow that accompanied the same kind of feelings
and actions, not only keeps us in a deplorable state, but also makes us act
in a wrong way. We tend to see everything negative and we lock our mind
being unable to see the light.
The Bhagavad-Gita sacred book of Hinduism says:
“Krishna said, “Yudhishthira, how can you be happy, if your worst
enemy is still alive?”
Yudhishthira said: “My worst enemy? Whose is it? Why I do not know
anything about him? Please tell me where it is!”
Krishna said, “Your worst enemy is inside you and nowhere else. You've
been feeding it and nurturing that enemy for a long, long time. Unless
and until you have conquered that enemy, no matter what you
accomplish, no matter what you do for yourself and for humanity, you
can never be happy”.
It is unfortunate, but each one of us is “Sleeping with the enemy”, we
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 It is painful how we spent a lifetime fighting with the rest of the
people we know, with the neighbor, with our couple, with children, with
our coworkers. We always feel and see others as the responsible for our
unhappiness.
As long as we do not realize that the enemy (our beloved ego) lives
with us, sleeps with us, as long as we do not realize that we nourish him
every day (our life energy), we will hardly remove it.
The time to make us aware of all these has come; to understand that
we are the only responsible for our tragedies, we must understand that
everything is in our interior.
By appealing to that small percentage of essence (David) that we still
have in our interior, we can strengthen the value and intelligence of our
consciousness and therefore we can begin to discover the “real guilty of
our tragedies”, the ego (Goliath) that we carry inside us, our
unconsciousness and our inner darkness.
By learning “not to identify” with the difficulties of life, we will be
developing a sense of “self-observation” and with this we will discover “In
flagrante” the ego in our thoughts, feelings and actions.
If you do not like a person: Self- observe yourself and think: What
triggers that person inside you?, what thoughts?; what feelings and
intentions?
Once you have discovered the manifestation of the ego (vices,
defects and errors), we will be able to eliminate it and disintegration it.
Talking about death scares, but we must understand that death is
“Transformation” and it is very important for each of us to go through that
psychological transformation.
For something new to be born in us, the old must die. Only death
brings new.
“Fool, what you sow is not quickened, except it die”. (ICorinthians
15:36)
Worst of all is that we are glued to our habits, our customs, our way
of being, our way of thinking, feeling and acting.
Every discovered defect, must be removed on the spot...
To do this, we must appeal to an internal force capable of
disintegrating the defect that we have discovered. That force exists within
each of us and is our DIVINE MOTHER, who is armed with a spear that can
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 Pay attention to our mind and when we find a negative thought of
anger, lying, pride, jealousy, etc., we must ask the Divine Mother: “Divine
Mother, get me this defect and eliminate it with your spear”.
She will do so, and we will go releasing our consciousness (soul) of
the jaws of the ego, because the ego lives in the trapped conscience, the
ego has divided our soul.
Even if we find a tiny negative detail, we must earnestly ask the
Divine Mother to delete it.
“Through little things, you achieve big ones”.
As the ego goes dying, our consciousness will emancipate and
liberate, it will begin to rise and to awaken.
Do not be afraid to ask again and again, she helps us with her infinite
love, and is just waiting for the call. Direct your attention to the mind, heart
and sex.
With this work we are going to be liberated from our own
psychological prison that is based on our “beloved ego”.
Working with the details and death- march (with the support of the
Divine Mother) is the simplest thing to work our psyche and to liberate our
soul.
The one who thinks that will find a simplest, faster and effective
technique to work on his inner world, is wrong.
This methodology has been delivered by the Masters of the White
Lodge, who considered the current psychological state of humanity.
With time and after working hard on ourselves, other paths will begin
to be opened, the eyes will be losing the veil, and the entrance to the
spiritual world (Astral), it will be permitted for us.
In the Astral world we can learn a lot about the processes of
humanity, the coming events, our past existences, we can travel to other
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To go to the astral World consciously is urgent in these times.

Everything written in this book can be verified and understood in the
Astral World.
Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about Astral Projection,
there are many “fear makers”, which are like the dog in the manger they
“neither eat, nor allow eating”.
There are many formulas and practices to achieve Astral Projec-tion,
but it all require “Concentration, patience and tenacity”.
The Astral world is a parallel world to the physical world, it belongs to
the 5th Dimension and is governed by 24 laws.
Every night when we sleep, we enter to the astral world as we are
unconsciously sleeping. The idea is to do the same thing but with
awareness of natural processes of the astral unfolding.
The astral projection is a physiological necessity, since for the physical
body to regenerate its vital energies, is a requirement for the psyche to be
outside. As in a house, to clean a room, it has to be unoccupied.
In the Astral world we can visit temples and talk to great teachers,
guides of the humanity that from that dimension work tirelessly for all of
us.
We should not be afraid, but to develop the courage to go and meet
the sky, remember that heaven is for the brave.
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Astral Projection more synthetic and simple here:
“Lying in supine position or fetal side, we focus on our hearts, we feel
the heartbeat.
We begin to feel how our body loses its limits, we feel some tingling and
an electric shock running through the body. We must keep our focus on the
heart. If a thought comes to our mind, let’s imagine that is like a cloud, and
we let it go, we do not have to go with it, we follow our heart.
When we feel a sharp engine noise in the neck, we have to men-tally
say, “I 'm coming, I 'm coming, I 'm coming”, and suddenly...Prum, “we go
out of body!”
Being now out of the physical body, we ask to our Inner Father, to
our being and to our God to give us wisdom and to teach us what we need
to learn for our inner growth.
From now on, it begins the esoteric experience, and it is important to
mention that each of us must learn to silence of what is happening, since it
is just for us. We should not tell everything, but we have to learn to
differentiate what we can say, and what we cannot say; we must learn that
this is a merit of our soul and therefore, we must keep Esoteric silence.
“Those who have not learned to travel in the astral body is because they
are lazy”. (Samael Aun Weor).
If you want more information about the practices of Astral
Projection, we recommend you to read the book “Hercolubus or Red
Planet” of VM Rabolú.

To contact the author please write to:

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 ÍNDICE
THANKS TO: 7
PREFACE 8
READING METHODOLOGY 11
TITLE 1 14
HEALTH OF THE BODY & SOUL 14
1.1 THE EXTERIOR IS A REFLECTION OF THE INTERIOR 15
1.2 DISEASE AND SYMPTOM 17
1.3 THE ORIGIN OF DISEASE 19
1.4 THE LAW OF KARMA 20
1.5 ANXIETY, HEARTBREAK, PANIC CRISIS 23
1.6 DEPRESSION AND STRESS 25
1.7 PSYCHOLOGICAL CLEANING 27
1.8 THE SOUL 29
1.9 DETOXIFICATION OF THE BODY & SOUL 31
1.10 MENTAL ACCELERATION AND HYPERACTIVITY 33
1.11 THE BRUXISM 36
1.12 DRUG AND ALCOHOL 38
1.13 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 41
1.14 RENCOR AND FORGIVENESS 44
1.15 PRACTICE OF FORGIVENESS 46
TITLE 2 49
SELF-KNOWLEDGE 49
2.1 THE INNER WORLD 50
2.2 SEE OURSELVES AS WE ARE 52
2.3 THE MIND LABYRINTH 54
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2.4 OUR MIND: EGO’S LAIR 56
2.5 PROBLEMS ONLY EXIST IN OUR MIND 58
2.6 THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING TO RECOGNIZE OUR MISTAKES
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2.7 ESSENCE, CONSCIENCE AND SOUL 62
2.8 LOVE, HAPPINESS AND PEACE 64
2.9 CITIZEN OF THE COSMOS 66
2.10 THE INFINITE 68
2.11 THE GREAT JOURNEY 70
2.12 THE VERB 72
2.13 THE INTERNAL OWL 74
2.14 FREEDOM 76
2.15 KNOWING THE TRUTH 78
2.16 THE LIE 80
2.17 MENTAL STRUCTURES 82
2.18 THE DUALITY 83
2.19 THE DISCERNMENT 85
2.20 EVERYTHING IS INSIDE OF YOU 87
2.21 THE LIGHT BEHIND THE DARKNESS 89
2.22 THE POWER IS IN YOURSELF 90
2.23 THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING 92
2.24 TO BE OR NOT TO BE 93
2.25 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR 95
2.26 THE INTELLIGENCE 97
2.27 THE HEART 99
2.28 LOVE OR FEAR 101

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2.29 INTERNAL VACUUM 104
2.30 THE EGO 105
2.31 GOOD YOES 108
2.32 THE DEVIL 110
2.33 DESIRES ARE YOUR ORDERS 111
2.34 MENTAL PROGRAMMING 114
2.35 HIDDEN ANATOMY 116
TITLE 3 118
TO LIVE HERE AND NOW 118
3.1 THE TIME 119
3.2 I DO NOT HAVE TIME 121
3.3 HERE AND NOW 123
3.5 THE IMPERMANENCE 127
3.6 TO INHABIT THE HEART 128
3.7 THE ETERNITY 131
3.8 THOUSANDS OF EXISTENCES 132
3.9 THE IMMORTALITY 134
TITLE 4 136
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION 136
4.1 THE HOLY MOTHER 137
4.2 PSYCHOLOGICAL GYMNASIUM 139
4.3 THE MOTIVE OF LIFE 141
4.4 THE VALUE OF THE WORLD 143
4.5 TRANSVALORISATION 145
4.6 THE ENTROPY 147
4.7 THE ROOT OF PAIN 149
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4.8 INFORMATION, FEELING, REACTION 151
4.9 BREAKING FREE FROM THE MIND 153
4.10 THE AWAKENING OF THE CONSCIENCE 156
4.11 COMPREHENSION AND IMPOSITION 158
4.12 RESIST OR DIE 160
4.13 SOMETHING WELL DESERVED 162
4.14 YING AND YANG 163
4.15 KNOWING HOW TO LISTEN 165
4.16 DIGGING UP KNOWLEDGE 167
4.17 UN-LEARNING 168
4.18 BELIEFS 170
4.19 COURAGE AND DECISION 172
4.20 TRIUMPH OR FAILURE 174
4.21 EVERYTHING IS SIMPLE. THERE IS NOTHING COMPLICATED 176
4.22 TO BE AND TO HAVE 177
4.23 SON OF A MILLIONAIRE 179
4.24 NO-VIOLENCE 181
4.25 INJUSTICE 183
4.26 COMPASSION AND SORROW 185
4.27 INTUITION 187
4.28 TO MEDITATE OR LIVING IN MEDITATION 189
4.29 THE VIRTUAL WORLD 191
4.30 HOROSCOPES AND LUCK 193
4.31 MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY 195
4.32 DISINCARNATION 197
TITLE 5 200
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FORGING YOURSELF 200
5.1 THE COMMITMENT TO OUR BEING 201
5.2 RESPONSIBLE TO ONESELF 202
5.3 THE EVOLUTION 204
5.4 THE PATH TO THE BEING 206
5.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-OBSERVATION 208
5.6 NEGATIVE THOUGHTS 211
5.7 PRAYER AT WORK 212
5.8 PATIENCE AND SERENITY 215
5.9 RELAXATION 216
5.10 TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMPRESSIONS 218
5.11 DESPAIRING 220
5.12 IT IS HARD 222
5.13 GUILTY 223
5.14 ACCEPT, REFUSE, UNDERSTAND 225
5.15 THE LIFE’S MECHANICITY 227
5.16 THE LAW OF ATTRACTION 229
5.17 THE LACK OF BOUNDARIES 231
5.18 THE INTENTIONALITY 233
5.19 THE INTEGRATION 234
5.20 FALLING IN LOVE OF GOD 236
5.21 ACEPHALOUS 238
5.22 THE ILLUMINATION 240
TITLE 6 242
THE ELIMINATION OF THE EGO 242
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6.2 DETAILS AND DEATH IN MARCH 247
6.3 THE REGRET 249
6.4 THE FOOD OF THE EGO 250
6.5 WEAPONS OF EGO 252
6.6 FORMING THE WARRIOR 254
6.7 UNDERSTANDING THE EGO 257
6.8 THE GENERALS OF EGO 259
6.9 TO SACRIFICE THE SUFFERING 261
6.10 THE WAY I WANT 263
6.11 RUNNING FROM YOURSELF 265
6.12 DAVID AND GOLIATH 267
6.13 THE FIGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON 269
6.14 FALL INTO THE ABYSS 271
6.15 HEAVEN 273
TITLE 7 275
SYNTHESIZING THE WORK 275
7.1 THE ESSENTIAL OF THE WORK 276
7.2 THE ASTRAL SPLITTING 279

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 “This book is a “Self-knowledge Manual” which will go guiding
you, for you to discover your hidden part and for increasing the
understanding of yourself; of what is left and what is missing.
It helps us paying more attention to ourselves, eliminating
mental dispersion.
In this way we are enabled to discover and understand our own
psychological defects, which are the architects from all the pain and
all human tragedy.
Once discovered, we will proceed to the elimination appealing to
an internal force, unknown at this time, and it may disintegrate at the
moment you provoke it, any mental defect.
This book is written for anyone who is really willing to change
internally, for the person who has to face himself and is willing to be
unmasked in front of his own conscience;
Is written to anyone who is willing to see himself as he really is,
beyond the false impression that his own mind has created for
himself.
Only in this way the true feeling of freedom is reached, achieving
a life in fullness of being, here and now”.

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