In that world, that of comprehension, everything is abstract and apparently incoherent.
This incoherence is when the first steps are taken in the world of comprehension.
The mind and the psychological universe are in a great chaos and that is why there is no concatenation of ideas, sentiments, etc.
In the 49 levels of the subconscious, there is a great quantity of files with powerful information, but, unfortunately, they are in disorder and anarchy.
When one works in the world of comprehension, images and words emerge in the form of koans.
In the first works on the comprehension of defects, the assistance of sleepiness becomes necessary. In this comprehensive action one reaches confused levels, where images do not have coherence and where color does not yet possess clarity, in other words, they do not possess much sparkle.
On of the principal obstacles in the comprehension of a defect is not being able to focus on the psychological element being studied, because the mind tends towards distraction.
In the world of comprehension, when one tries to work on an ‘I’, everything becomes dark, one cannot see absolutely anything and the consciousness loses, at certain moments, its lucidity, rapidly falling into fascination.
The current of thoughts and sentiments is an obstacle to arrive at comprehending a defect. Upon wanting to comprehend an ‘I’, we fall into a dark void, into a type of amnesia in which we do not know what we are doing, who we are and where we are.
The force of Eros and the Creative Energy are the most perfect helpers for comprehension.
The Creative Energy, transmuted or sublimated during sexual magic —without the ejaculation of the entity of the semen—, opens the 49 levels of the subconscious, causing all the I which we have hidden, to come out of them. These psychic aggregates emerge in the form of drama, comedy, movie, and through symbols and parables.
It is written that the clue of comprehension is found in these three psychological keys: imagination, inspiration and intuition.
IMAGINATION
For the sage, to imagine is to see. The imagination is the translucence of the soul.
In order to achieve the imagination, one needs to learn to concentrate the mind on a single object. Whoever learns to concentrate the mind on a single object performs marvels and prodigies.
The Gnostic who wishes to reach Imaginative Knowledge should learn to concentrate and know how to meditate. The Gnostic should provoke sleepiness during the practice of meditation.
Meditation should be correct. The mind should be exact. One needs logical thought and exact concept so that the internal senses will develop absolutely perfectly.
The Gnostic needs much patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.
On the path of the Revolution of the Dialectic, one needs patience, will and absolutely conscious faith.
One day, in one’s sleep, a faraway picture, a scene, a face, a number, a symbol, etc. emerges during meditation; this is the sign that one is already progressing.
The Gnostic rises towards Imaginative Knowledge little by little. The Gnostic lifts the veil of Isis little by little.
Whoever awakens consciousness has reached Imaginative Knowledge and moves around in a world of symbolic images.
Those symbols that he saw when he dreamt, when he tried to comprehend the ego during meditation, now be sees them without dreaming; before he saw them with asleep consciousness, now he moves around among them with the consciousness of the vigil state even when his body is profoundly asleep.
INSPIRATION
Upon reaching Imaginative Knowledge, the Gnostic sees the symbols but does not understand them…, he comprehends that all of nature and the ego are a living writing that he does not know. He then needs to rise to Inspired Knowledge in order to interpret the sacred symbols of nature and the abstract language of the ego.
Inspired Knowledge confers upon us the power of interpreting the symbols of nature and the confused language of the ego.
The interpretation of symbols is very delicate. Symbols should be analyzed coldly, without superstition, malice, distrust, pride, vanity, fanaticism, prejudices, preconceptions, hatred, envy, covetousness, jealousy, etc.,, since all those factors are of the ‘I’.
When the ‘I’ intervenes, translating and interpreting symbols, it then alters the meaning of the secret writing and of the orientation which the Being wants to give us symbolically about our inner psychological state.
The interpretation should be tremendously analytical, highly scientific and essentially mystical. One has to learn to interpret in the absence of the loose cathexis, —the ego, the myself.
One has to learn to interpret the symbols of nature and those of the bound cathexis, the Being, in the absolute absence of the ‘I’. However, one should multiply self-criticism, because when the I of the Gnostic believes he knows much, he then feels himself as being infallible and wise, and even supposes that he sees and interprets in the absence of the ‘I’.
We have to know how to interpret basing ourselves on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, on the Law of Correspondences and on the Numerical Kabbalah. We recommend the Mystical Kabbalah of Dion Fortune and my book titled “Tarot and Kabbalah”, study them.
Whoever has hatreds, resentments, jealousies, envies, pride, etc. will not achieve the elevation of himself to Inspired Knowledge.
When we rise to Inspired Knowledge, we understand and comprehend that the accidental accumulation of objects does not exist. Really, all the psychological phenomena of nature and of all objects are found intimately linked organically among themselves, some internally depending upon others and conditioning themselves mutually among themselves. Really, no psychological phenomenon of nature can be comprehended integrally if we consider it in an isolated manner.
Everything is in incessant motion, everything changes, nothing is still. In every object, internal struggle exists. The object is positive and negative at the same time. The quantitative is transformed into qualitative.
Inspired Knowledge permits us to know the interrelationship between what has been, what is and what shall be.
Matter is nothing more but condensed energy. The infinite modifications of energy are absolutely unknown both to historical Materialism as well as to dialectical Materialism.
Energy is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. We, Gnostics, withdraw from the antithetical struggle which exists between Metaphysics and dialectical Materialism. Those are the two poles of Ignorance, the two antitheses of error.
We walk on another path, we are Gnostics, we consider life as a whole. The object is a point in space which serves as a vehicle to specific sums of values.
Inspired Knowledge permits us to study the intimate relationship existent between all forms, all psychological values and nature.
Dialectic Materialism does not know the values, it only studies the object. Metaphysics does not know the values and neither does it know the object.
We, Gnostics, withdraw from the two antitheses of ignorance and we study man and nature integrally, seeking integral Revolution.
The Gnostic who wants to reach Inspired Knowledge should concentrate profoundly on music. The Magic Flute of Mozart, which reminds us of an Egyptian initiation; the Nine Symphonies of Beethoven and many other great classical compositions, among them, Wagner’s Parsifal, will elevate us to Inspired Knowledge.
Profoundly concentrated on the music, the Gnostic should become absorbed in it like the bee in the honey, the product of all his work.
When the Gnostic has reached Inspired Knowledge, he should then prepare himself for Intuitive Knowledge.
INTUITION
The world of intuitions is the world of mathematics. The Gnostic who wants to rise to the world of intuition should be a mathematician, or at least, have notions of arithmetic.
Mathematical formulae confer Intuitive Knowledge. The formulae of Kepler and of Newton can serve to exercise ourselves in the development of Intuitive Knowledge.
If the Gnostic practices with tenacity and supreme patience, his own internal Being, bound cathexis, will teach him and instruct him in the Great Work; then, he will study at the feet of the Master, he will elevate himself to Intuitive Knowledge.
Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition, are the three obligatory steps of the Revolution of the Dialectic. Whoever has followed the three steps of Direct Knowledge has achieved Supraconsciousness.
In the world of intuition, we only find omniscience. The world of intuition is the world of the Being, it is the world of the Inner-Self.
In that world, the ‘I’, the ego, the loose cathexis cannot enter. The world of intuition is the world of the Universal Spirit of Life.
HUMAN PROBLEMS
The astute and repugnant luciferian intellect creates problems but it is not capable of resolving them.
There are many theories which resolve nothing and complicate everything. The vital problems of existence continue as usual and the world is very close to the Third World War.
The intellectual animal, falsely called man, feels proud of his subjective and miserable reasoning which resolves nothing and complicates everything.
In practice, the tremendous battle of the mind has demonstrated to be the least indicated one to resolve problems.
What does abound a great deal in this era of world crisis are the “know-it-ails” who want to resolve everything and resolve nothing.
The “know-it-ails” harm the fruits of the soil with their absurd hybrids, they infect children with their vaccines of tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, etc. The “know-it-ails” know everything and know nothing. They cause harm with everything that they have created and they boast of being knowledgeable. The mind creates problems which it is not capable of resolving, that is a game of bad taste.
Today, like yesterday, the poor human biped is nothing more than a mechanical toy moved by forces it ignores.
Any cosmic event, any sidereal catastrophe, produces waves of a certain type that upon being picked up by the unhappy animal called man, become world wars. Millions of human machines who unconsciously launch themselves to the stupid task of destroying so many other millions of human machines.
The comic and the tragic always go together, and the comical thing of this case, are the flags and the mottoes and all kinds of phrases which were invented by all of those unconscious machines. They say that they are going to war to defend democracy, freedom, the country, etc.
The great thinkers, the prostitutes of the intelligence, known in the world as journalists, ignore that these wars are the result of certain cosmic waves in action and that the armies in the battlefield move like automatic puppets under the dynamic impulse of those unknown forces.
No fundamental problem has been resolved by the minds of these poor intellectual animals. The intellect is the faculty which allows us to comprehend that everything is incomprehensible.
The great intellectuals have totally failed as is being demonstrated to satiety by the catastrophic state which we are in… Mr. Intellectuals, there you have your world, the chaotic and miserable world that you have created with your theories! The facts are speaking: You proud intellectuals have failed!
The battle of the mind is go in its inner nature. We need a new faculty which is not egocentric.
We need the battle to pass and for the mind to remain still and serene; this is only possible by comprehending in depth the entire mechanism of the subjective and miserable mind.
In the serenity of the mind, a new faculty is born in us, the name of said faculty is intuition. Only intuition can resolve problems.
It is obvious that if we want to develop this new faculty, we first need to comprehend in depth that complicated associative mechanism of the subjective mind. The basic center of the reasoning mechanics is the psychological ‘I’. Said center is egotistical and because of that it can never resolve problems.
Intuition has nothing to do with that basic center of reasoning, intuition is Christ centric.
Every problem has been created by the mind and exists as long as the mind sustains it. Every problem is a mental form which the mind sustains. Every mental form has a triple process: emergence, subsistence and dissipation.
Every problem emerges, subsists and then dissipates. The problem emerges because the mind creates it; it subsists as long as the mind does not forget it and it dissipates or dissolves when the mind forgets it.
When the mind ceases, beatitude and later illumination is born in us. Before arriving at illumination we should first pass through beatitude. The phases of transformation are three: Non-thinking, beatitude and illumination. Intuition is illumination. Every enlightened person resolves the most difficult problems.
Really, problems cease to exist when we forget them. We should not try to resolve problems, we should dissolve them. They dissolve when they are forgotten. The problem is an ultra-sensible mental form with two poles, one positive and the other negative.
Do not have fear, forget the problem, and in this manner, the problem will be dissolved.
Do you know how to play chess? A game of chess would not be a bad idea to forget the problem, or drink a cup of coffee or a good cup of tea and then go to the swimming pool and swim, or climb a mountain and laugh a little; it feels good to laugh and this causes you to forget the problem. At any moment, a hunch comes and the problem is resolved;
perhaps the solution is not to your liking but the truth is that the problem is resolved, or better said, dissolved.
A sage said:
“Take care of the thing before it comes into existence, therein lies the solution. For let us not forget that the problem has been born and has its existence in the mind. It is raining and you have left your umbrella at home, that is not a problem in itself, neither is the fact that you have debts, that you have lost your job and it is urgent for you to pay, a problem. These facts are relatively true in a relative world, but problems are something that you, therefore, should kill before they are born or solve later bearing in mind that the more time we allow to elapse, the greater the giant that we will have to overcome will be.”
Fear is our worst enemy. The demon of fear does not like us to resolve problems. Are you afraid that you will be thrown out on the street because of not having money to pay the house rent? And if they throw you out? So what? Do you by any chance know what new doors shall open for you? Intuition knows it and that is why the intuitive is not afraid. Intuition dissolves problems.
Are you afraid of losing your job? And if you lose it, so what? Do you by any chance know what new job there will be for you? Intuition knows it and that is why the intuitive is not afraid.
When the battle of the mind ends, intuition is born and fear ends. Intuition dissolves problems no matter how difficult they are.
Samael Aun Weor – The Revolution Of The Dialectic – Chapter V
