To try to understand any kind of psychological defect in depth, we have to be honest with ourselves.
Unfortunately, Pilate, the Demon of the Mind, always washes his hands, is never guilty, and never recognizes his errors…
We must recognize our own mistakes without self-justification, excuses and without any kind of evasion.
Self-exploration is essential for profound self-knowledge and the departure from a radical zero base.
The interior Pharisee is an obstacle to comprehension. To presume that we are virtuous is absurd. Once I asked my teacher the following question: “Is there any difference between your Divine Monad and mine?”
The Master answered: “None, because you and I and every one of us is no more than a rotten snail within the innermost bosom of The Father.
To judge others and label them as black magicians is incongruous because all human beings, as long as they have not dissolved the pluralized Ego, are black magicians more or less…
The intimate exploration of ourselves is certainly something to be taken very seriously; the Ego is in reality a book of many volumes.
Instead of paying homage to the execrable Demon Algol, it is better to drink the wine of meditation in the goblet of perfect concentration…
Full attention, natural and spontaneous, in whatever we are interested in without artificialities is truly perfect concentration.
Any error is multi-faceted and inevitably operates in the forty nine dens of the subconscious.
A psychological gymnasium is indispensable; fortunately we have it in life itself.
The path of family life with its infinite, sometimes painful details, is the best chamber of the gymnasium.
The productive and creative job through which we earn our daily bread is another chamber of marvels.
Many aspirants to the superior life desperately wish to escape their workplace; not to walk round the streets of their village; to take refuge in the forest with the intention of seeking ultimate liberation…
Those poor people are like silly children who play truant, who do not attend classes, who search for escape.
To live from instant to instant in a state of alert perception, alert novelty, like the lookout in time of war, is both essential and imperative if in reality we want to dissolve the pluralized Ego.
In human interrelations, in the co-existence with our fellow human beings, there are infinite possibilities of self-discovery.
It is well known that in these interrelations, the multiple defects we carry hidden in the unknown depths of the unconscious always emerge naturally, spontaneously and, if we are vigilant, we see and discover them.
However, it is obvious that self-vigilance must always proceed from moment to moment. A discovered psychological defect must be completely understood in the various recesses of the mind.
In depth comprehension is impossible without the practice of meditation.
Any intimate defect is multi-faceted and has diverse links and roots which have to be studied judiciously.
Self-revelation is possible when there is complete understanding of the defect that we sincerely want to eliminate.
New Self-determination springs up from the Consciousness when comprehension is total. Superlative Analysis is useful if it is combined with deep meditation, then the flame of comprehension appears.
The dissolution of all those aggregate psyches, which constitute the Ego is hastened if we know how to take maximum advantage of the worst adversities.
The difficult psychological gymnasiums – in the home, the street or at work – always offer the best opportunities.
To covet virtues is absurd; it is better to make radical changes.
Control of intimate defects is superficial and condemned to failure.
Deep change is fundamental and it is possible only by wholly understanding every mistake.
By eliminating the psychic aggregates that constitutes the myself, the Id, we establish adequate foundations for correct action in our consciousness.
Superficial changes serve no purpose. We urgently need, without postponement, in depth change.
Understanding is the first step and elimination the second.
Samael Aun Weor
