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Creation of God.

In the beginning, some good men, being endowed with higher thinking and rationality, saw that mankind needed guidelines for morality and conduct, because they saw that mankind easily followed animal passions and outbursts of immorality (as it continues today).  So, these good men of rationality started creating stories of superior deities and divinity, such stories which brought awe and respect, faith and a sense of humility into otherwise wild men.
So, as man evolved and its societies around the world did so as well, then came divine writings and myths; from The Sumerians and Egyptians to India and to all of Christianity, these books or writings were known as “Holy” because they indeed transformed the human creature, they brought the sacred unto man–that is, the sacred divinity WITHIN man already.  It guided men and women into ways of morality and love, and that was the purpose of these universal scriptures.

And so, these universal scriptures which took the beast in man and turned it into a better moral creature were called “the stories or messages of God/from God to man.”  God being this sacred entity in man which was reminded to them by these scriptures and the holy messages they carried.  Now, it so happened then that these myths and stories which exulted or sanctified man gained mayor popularity in their cultures and traditions; that is, there was an impact in each country, for all the countries sought some sort of divinity.

And so, man in his ego formed institutions called religions; as they had institutions for material goods all over the world already, and now they had institutions for “spiritual goods” all over the world as well–each religion (institution) adopted its own stories and myths.  But it so happened that as man and society developed, man forgot that these were just stories and myths, and so strict and vain dogmas and rules appeared in religions while making this same man obey them without choice; and religions then became more a dictatorship of the world than a liberation of the spirit inside man.

Now, of course, these stories and myths were written based on something real; for the GREAT creativity of the mind of man does this, it creates based on something it sees and/or experiences in life.  So we can say these scriptures are tremendously important for the higher morality in us, because they bring hope and faith, and belief in the divinity inside us all; however, we must remind ourselves that these are still stories created by man and his imagination, and so we must seek also truth in science and fact–unite the two into one, thus guide your life and fill your body with light…  “The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” ~ Matthew 6: 22.

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Apply to yourself.

How do you actually change yourself…?? What is the mental process which facilitates your actual change of behavior and thus lifestyle…??  Having high moral character as a human being does not have much to do only with the words you speak and merely the thoughts you entertain; however important these are, what actually makes you a better, truthful, awakened human being is your actions.  This seems silly even, but the truth is that most people have great knowledge and speak kind and wise words while their actions are not wise at all.

This is because the ego of people tend to wallow in comfort like pigs wallow in mud, the ego is self-righteous; thus, most of us believe that by getting spiritual or wise knowledge and getting a mouthful of enlightening words one has high standards of morality and walks the right path.  They read the scriptures, listen to wise words, pray, meditate, acquire great knowledge; but they never actually apply any of it, they are empty souls fooling themselves at each step they take.  So, what is the mindset they should have to begin the change in their lives…??

The mindset they MUST have is that of love for themselves, love for individual change, love for their path of righteousness.  And yes, when you apply yourself and you change out of true love for yourself you may find some discomfort at the beginning, because it takes time to accept a new behavior and change your lifestyle, and because your ego may disturb you and tempt you into falling into the same old pattern; nevertheless, the rewards of constantly changing and acquiring higher levels of morality are your own enlightenment through the awakening of your conscience to make better choices in your life.

So, the key to change is to APPLY what you learn, what you read.  For example, many people fill their mouths with Jesus and how great he was, and how he taught love and tolerance; however, these same people do not tolerate other nations, they abhor immigrants, feel superior to other religions, and have many problems at their own homes due to their lack of comprehension of love and tolerance.  See, no one is above these mistakes, so one must be constantly self-aware and APPLY to oneself what one knows to be true, says as truth, and reads as truth.

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Without excuses.

What results out of unawareness…?? What is that in us which causes suffering and all kinds of arguments and problems…?? The human mind is a temple, a thing of worship, the portal between this physical life and the divine life or that which is of godliness within us; therefore, to really go beyond our fears, opinions, beliefs, and all ego, is to know ourselves, is to see the sacred in us or that which is untainted. But the mind is filled by us, and this content makes us strong or weak, this content allows us to know ourselves or remain wild animals who ignore their divine origin, and this content gives us access to reason or access to ignorance and violence.

So, all that exists in life is the content of your mind really, because your mind’s content will determine how you see yourself and others, it will tell you what to think about your situation and how to feel about it as well. You will feel bliss or feel pain, you will experience peace or anger, all based on your mind’s content. This means that whatever you go through in life is labeled by your mind’s content as either good or bad, as pleasurable or painful; and so, what you experience then is not your situation in reality but your mind and what it tells you, you follow its labels on the outer situation.

And this is why keeping a mind alert and self-aware at all times is so vital to keep your bliss and happiness–even if you lost someone you love, or if you have a disease, you must remain self-aware and not attached to your suffering/do not ignorantly create suffering for yourself. And you can come up with a thousands excuses for the suffering you are going through right now, but truth is that your mind is making it worse than it is because you are letting it. Life might not be easy, struggles exist for all of us; however, your attention dictates how you feel about your life–if your attention is on problems then you will get more problems.

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Three to Divine Love.

Love has been distorted by society, by each person’s ego; it has been made an opinion, a belief, a thing which exists only if the ego is in a good mood–so we have romance, friendship, family, nationalistic, and various sorts of so-called “love.”  But this love of the masses is not eternal but created by man.  Under the heavy and dirty layers of these you find the spiritual love or divinity of God, that which man and woman claim to know but which still is not shown in their actions.  Look at the world.  Look at your society.  Look at your own life.  In 99% of cases, the ego tells people what love is, and people end up suffering for it, and the world ends up suffering for it.

So what is divine love…??  In order to understand divine love, the love of God, one must understand what a soul is.  The spirit is something we all have, it is the substance of energy sustaining our bodies.  But the soul YOU must build, because to have a full soul is tied to morality and ethics; however, we are born only with a soul-seed in order to develop ourselves and grow that seed.  As one grows one must learn to live by higher principles, embodying higher truth and morals in all aspects; most people, as nice as they sound, do not do this, thus their soul is not whole.


Divine love comes to your conscious experience as a delight, always constant and full of wisdom and understanding:

1) (Filial Love) you must accept yourself in all terms, accept your emptiness and work on it, stop seeking pleasures to fill that void.

2) (Agapic Love) you must seek the growth of your true self and stop filling your ego with beliefs, imaginations, pleasures, and knowledge to feel superior over others, and so you have to meditate, pray, be humble and truthful in all you do in order to lessen the hold of your ego.

3) (Erotic or Creative Love) you must transmute your wild impulses and wild desires in order to attend on higher and more creative endeavors of the mind, focus on developing talents and on other things which can help you ascend and get in touch with your true self; because narrow is the gate and the animal cannot walk it, only the human being with a full soul can.

Only following these one can embrace and become full love, build a full soul and raise oneself above the pettiness of a trapped, egoistical, absurd, opportunistic mind.

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The Perfect Dictatorship.

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Always remember that the slavery of the ego, the slavery of your own desires, fanaticism, obsessions, likes and passions, is not a slavery of immediate affliction where you can experience how selfish and vain you are being; but the slavery of your ego is one with the appearance of righteousness, without walls, warm, cozy, so you do not feel a slave and you never try to escape from your pleasures.

A system your ego creates for you, where you feel free and saintly and in harmony, so you believe that following your own pleasures and desires is always the right thing; and this at the same time makes you feel already in paradise, like you do not need to change, like you are a master of yourself.

And this ignorant world your ego creates is the world in which you live and in which you created truth, love, and God out of your own opinions and likes; therefore, in this system whatever brings you comfort–like eating whatever you please, doing whatever you want to your body and mind, watching whatever you want, listening to whatever you want, etc.–is God and truth and freedom for you.

So this is the perfect dictatorship where you have learned to love slavery, where you have become a slave without knowledge of it, and where all your desires no matter that they are believed, erroneously, by the asleep you, to lead you to love and happiness.  And whatever unsettles this, whatever disturbs this illusion you have built for yourself, is mocked, ignored, and rejected by you.

But to be free, to be in love, to be happy, truly, lies outside of this; hence, mastering yourself is stepping outside of your own ego and doing the things that are good for your ascension and evolution–i.e., eating right and staying away from toxins, doing exercise, watching inspiring things, engaging in conversation which builds higher morals, reading factual things which can improve you, controlling your anger and your stress, etc. etc.
 
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The macho-man, the saintly and innocent girl, the violent revolutionary, the lazy, the intellectual, etc.–all these and  more are the faces your ego builds for yourself, and the ones you accept and follow in the perfect dictatorship.  This exists because you are not free, and there is no knowledge of self.
 
 
 
 

 

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The Ego.

In spiritual psychology, the term ego refers to STRUCTURES IN THE MIND that trap the Pure Consciousness (Soul, Psyche, Buddha Nature, Jiva, Nephesh).  When our consciousness is trapped, there is no true liberation.  What does this mean…??  It means that our very existence is ruled by impressions of the world, not by our true selves.  It means that there is no freedom to choose, because we are caged inside a program like robots or some computer; and in this program we have been already given certain choices by our ego and its impressions, by our society and its damaging influence, so we must pick from those as we have no choice then.  And it means that with your Pure Consciousness trapped by the ego, you are living, existing in a world/roller coaster of suffering and pleasure; and you are tied to Karmic Forces you cannot control, which means that whatever you do you are not free from the sharp pendulum of suffering and attachment.

You might think you are your ego, because that is all you experience on a daily basis–i.e., choices from your ego, opinions from your ego, knowledge from your ego, love views from your ego, suffering from your ego, add infinitum.  But the truth is that your mind is a holy temple, thieves, merchants and all types of pollution fill its content, like in John 2:13-17: “When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s House into a market!”  Jesus was upset that The Sacred Temple of The Father (the human mind) was being polluted and cursed by ignorant merchants (the ego).

The ego is a multiplicity of contradictory psychological elements that we have inside, and are in their sum the “ego.”  Each one is also called “an ego” or an “I.”  Every ego is a psychological defect that produces suffering.  That is why the wise person, The Superior Being in man and woman, seeks to find a stable, reliable, beneficial foundation in their psyche, which is the free, unmodified, Pure Consciousness.

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Demon of Agency (Impressions).

What is reality…??  How does reality penetrate into the human psyche…??  Your mind is the content of the world fed by your physical senses–then how do you truly access reality…??  All the mind knows is impressions, and in fact there is nothing outside the mind but impressions; hence, there is no substance of true reality in the world, all you see, touch, hear, and experience are impressions.  Indeed your life–i.e., your relationships, your things, your joys, your miseries, etc.–is impressions.  For example: when you see a beautiful woman or man, what makes your pupils dilate, your heart beat faster, are impressions.  Anything started by a thought, by a feeling, is an impression–something which decays and has no reality of its own.

One may think that one is experiencing reality, and in fact that is why we have an ego–i.e., to experience the wonderful illusions of this world which bring joys and sufferings to the same human structure.  But what we truly experience is subtle winds or sensations originated by the presence of other individual minds in the universal creation; and these winds or sensations, by the marvelous design of our nervous system (our physical existence), get transformed into chemistry which creates familiar forms, attractive or non-attractive shapes, and the rest in order for our experience to offer choice.  And that is what human experience is, namely choice, or a set of choices (conscious or subconscious) which create change.

These demons of agency, these impressions, must be recognized once they penetrate the nervous system if one is to see reality and acquire the great understanding of God and of the whole cosmos.  Reality is not a substance you can acquire or obtain by solely experiencing your individual impressions of the world you see around you; for your impressions only give you thoughts and feelings, opinions and beliefs, concepts and points of view–i.e., all illusions of a human mind.  But reality is true gnosis, true inward search and realization; therefore, anything else is not reality, but your human mind/your own design of reality.

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What does it mean to be human…??

What does it mean to be human…??  Science tells us that if your DNA corresponds to that of the homo-sapiens you are human, which is true; but still a little rigid.  The message is still unclear, people’s minds take this as truth; however, this is half truth, for you may only know your humanity by a deeper, individually private exploration.  The true self is more mysterious than the loud ego, and is case why most of the world only knows their humanity through their egos; therefore, the faint voice of truth can only be heard in a state of tranquility and inward attention, while the ego is loudly seducing you all your waking hours–thus leading your life and painting a false picture of what it is to be human.  Do you follow this…??

What does it mean to be human…??  The struggling and demanding voices only get louder and louder in the dark dimension of your mind, and it can enslave a human being just living there every day hoping for life to get easier or to offer a mere break from suffering and monotony.  But living in a one-dimensional, or purely egoistical, mind cannot give you fruit more than the everyday grind of what happens in our society.  This living in your mind only blinds you to the depth and richness of life–living in your mind makes everything worse because the mind is a program, it is built to work based on a set pattern which decays and gets boring and is bounded to make you angry and frustrated.

What does it mean to be human…??  To be human is to realize for yourself that your tools for a better life lie beyond mind, that is beyond the struggle and the loud voices within the dark dimension of your mind.  It is as if we are many people inside our minds–i.e., the saint, the pervert, the crazy, the genius, the happy, the depressed, the lover, the hater, etc. etc.–and we get lost in the crowd; thus, confusion and frustration set in.  But the freedom, the answers, the constant happiness, the positive moods and attitude, the true love in all–these are indeed part of your humanity as well, spiritually, but human; but not many people find these because these are not in their minds full of noise and struggle, these are found only in the silent and sacred exploration of the self.

 

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Beyond the wall.

What is a belief…??  What is the origin of a belief…??  Why did man create this concept…?? 

By definition exactly, a Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty; but, in other words, a belief is just a thought, an idea (many times a popular idea) that the mind conceives, creates in order to be rid of confusion and the fear of not knowing something. 

A belief then is an illusion, which is a thought the ego creates, a way to validate an idea and to keep the same stream of illusions alive; therefore, a fool’s paradise not based on truth and love, but based on something irrational and comforting/fear.

For example, “I believe there is a creator who created me, a masculine or feminine form who made me in his/her very image; and this masculine/feminine form has thoughts like me, so he/she knows jealousy, hate, fear, love, sex, and all the rest my human mind creates.”  “And I believe aliens walk among us, they have superpowers like the ones I see in movies, and they are in contact with the governments and the Illuminati; and all this I keep reading on the internet is real, because the people who write this are ascended masters and enlightened beings in the subjects they write.”  And a bunch of other beliefs out there. 

But what is the basis for this…??  What is the proof for this, besides your own desire for this to be true of course…??  The activities of the human mind are pretty simple when it comes to the creation of a belief, whether its creation was a thousand years ago or a week ago:

A belief is based on fear–fear of not knowing, fear of not being popular in a crowd, fear of loneliness, fear of death, fear of the truth and its simplicity (as the mind is always seeking complex ways of understanding, something to entertain us and keep the dream flowing). 
All beliefs have their origin on competition, on following, on fear of something; and these thoughts pollute the mind, no truth can actually enter the conscience because beliefs rule your life. 
But in order for you to step out of your own desired world and see the reality of Creation, you must empty your mind from beliefs and rule your life by facts–not by what you have read or heard, but by something real like the very sunlight bathing your skin.
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To be free.

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When the question of freedom is propounded, in each mind there is incoherence, vagueness, and incongruity; in fact, in most cases you wouldn’t find ten people on the street who share the same understanding of what freedom really is.  Nobody really understands what it is, because people are followers, they think they seek reality but in fact they are disturbing reality by following others; thus for them wars are the gateway to freedom, competition is the key to enjoying life and get what they need, love always molds to their each individual concepts, the truth is always what brings them comfort and pleasure, loneliness is cured by bringing more people into their lives, and the stupidity goes on and on and on.  Wars.  Competition.  Different concepts and ways of love.
But how many flags, how much blood, and how many heroes have come to pass in the course of history whenever the question of freedom has been posed in life’s scenario…??  Adolescents long for freedom: It seems incredible that while having food, clothing, and shelter they should want to flee their homes in the pursuit of freedom.  And it is logical that a young girl wants freedom, longs to move away from home, to marry in order to escape from under the parental roof and lead a better life.  This is in part due to her right to be a mother.  Nevertheless, once married, she finds she is not free, and with resignation she must bear the shackles of slavery.  A worker, tired of so many regulations, wants to be free; but even if he achieves independence, he soon encounters the problem of continuing to be a slave to his own interests and concerns.  They all think they know freedom, because they seek freedom–and that is exact;y their downfall.

Truth is, as long as your consciousness remains in slavery to your ego, as long as you seek freedom out there in activities, you will not become free–not in a million years!  Consciousness must be rid from the egoistical mindset and its anxious content; your mind is your world, every thought, every feeling, every experience appears in your mind, and this mind dumps its content on your consciousness.  In short, your mind must be free from society, its concepts and beliefs, in order for your consciousness to see reality as it is and for its pure energy to elevate your mind’s thoughts.

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