As we studied in the previous chapter, we know that there are three types of foods; those related with breathing, with food properly said and with impressions.
The digestion of food brings about as a result, the assimilation of vital principles for the blood. The result of respiration is the assimilation of oxygen which is so valuable for human life. The assimilation or digestion of impressions, brings about as a result, the absorption of energy finer than the other two.
The five senses correspond to impressions. There are two types of impressions: pleasant and unpleasant.
The human being needs to know how to live, but for that, he has to learn to digest and transform impressions and this is vital for comprehension.
We have to transform impressions if we truly want to know how to live. All impressions which reach the mind have Hydrogen 48. Unfortunately, the human being lives mechanically. Man can transform Hydrogen 48 into 24 to fortify the chakras, Hydrogen 24 into 12 to fortify the mind and Hydrogen 12 into 6 to fortify the will.
In actuality, one needs to transform the mind, to move on to a new mental level or otherwise, impressions will continue arriving at the same wrong places of always. People believe that they are able to see things from different angles and that they are sovereign, but, they do not realize that the human mind is limited by preconceptions and prejudices.
In these modern times, we need to transform the mental apparatus, we need to be different. The fabrication of a superior intellectual apparatus, which is adequate to transform and digest impressions, becomes urgent and necessary.
In the same manner that the digestive apparatus has a stomach in order for food to be assimilated, and in the same manner that the respiratory system has lungs to assimilate oxygen, the mechanical man should create a mental stomach – do not confuse it or interpret it as a physical one.
Before digesting impressions, we have to transform them. The Gnostic Teaching permits and facilitates the creation of said stomach, in order to make of the intellectual animal something different.
The necessity of transformation cannot be born without having comprehended such a necessity, this comprehension surges upon having the Gnostic Teaching.
When one thinks differently and positively about people, it is a sign that one is changing.
We need to cease being what we are in order to become what we are not. One has to become lost to oneself. The result of all of this is the appearance of someone who is not oneself.
In the path of the transformation of impressions, we have to be sincere with ourselves and we are not to persuade ourselves. In the beginning, there appears justification in us, but we need to study that such justification can be the fruit of self- esteem.
We need to discover the causes and motives of our behavior before impressions. When impressions are transformed, everything becomes new.
Only the Masters of the Occult Fraternity can immediately transform impressions, whereas human machines do not transform them.
The conscious man can modil situations brought about by past, present and future impressions. If people are not capable of transforming circumstances, they will continue being toys of circumstances and of others.
Life has an objective and that is of a superior world; the Gnostic Teachings teach how to live a superior world, how to live in a solar and immortal humanity. If one did not accept a superior world, transformation would not have a purpose, that is obvious.
The mind, as it is now, is not good for anything. One needs to organize it, remodel it, furnish it, etc., in other words, place it on a superior intellectual level.
In order to be able to transform impressions, we need to reconstruct the scene just as it happened and find out what it was that hurt us the most. If there is no digestion of impressions, there will be any nourishment, if there is no nourishment, the existential bodies of the Being will languish.
The ‘I’ is governed and nourished with Hydrogen 48. Each day, each hour, new ‘I’ are continuously being born. For example: mosquitoes bother us, the rain also, etc., there is always an addition and subtraction of ‘I’
Good impressions should also be transformed. If during the day one has had three impressions which have affected one’s mood, they should be studied and transformed at night, utilizing an orderly procedure. Each ‘I’ is linked with others and they are associated. The ‘I’ join together to form the same scene.
We have to be analytical and judicious in order to transform impressions, so that as a result, new faculties will appear. When persons do not transform themselves, they continue having a shameful and ridiculous state. Where there is no digestion, one is involuting.
We have to digest the impressions of the same day… Do not permit the sun to set on your anger! We have to see things as they are, we have to create the mental apparatus—the mental stomach— which is convenient in order to not be victims of anything.
Samael Aun Weor
