The psychological unfolding of man allows us to reveal the crude realism of a higher level in each of us.

When one has been able to verify for oneself in a direct way the concrete fact of two men within oneself—the lower one on the common and ordinary level, and the higher one on a more elevated octave—then everything changes, and in this case, one strives to act in life according to the fundamental principles carried in the depths of one’s BEING.

Just as there is an external life, there is also an internal life.

The outer man is not everything, psychological unfolding teaches us the reality of the inner man.

The external man has his way of being, he is a thing with multiple typical attitudes and reactions in life, a puppet moved by invisible strings.

The interior man is the authentic BEING; he operates under very different laws and could never be turned into a robot.

The exterior man “never stitches without a thimble”; he feels he has been treated unfairly, he pities himself, he is overly self-considerate. If he is a soldier, he aspires to be a general; if he is a factory worker, he complains when he is not promoted; he wants his merits to be duly recognized, etc.

No one could ever attain the SECOND birth—be born again, as the Gospel of the Lord says—as long as they continue living with the psychology of the common and ordinary inferior man.

When a person recognizes their own nothingness and inner misery, and has the courage to examine their life, they inevitably come to realize that they possess no merits of any kind.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3

Poor in spirit, or spiritually indigent, are truly those who recognize their own nothingness, shamelessness, and inner misery. That kind of being unquestionably receives illumination.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Mark 10:25

It is evident that a mind enriched with so many merits, decorations and medals, distinguished social virtues, and complicated academic theories, is not poor in spirit and therefore could never enter the kingdom of heaven.

To enter the Kingdom, the treasure of faith becomes unavoidable. As long as the psychological unfolding has not occurred within each one of us, FAITH remains something more than impossible.

FAITH is pure knowledge, direct experiential wisdom.

FAITH has always been confused with vain beliefs. As Gnostics, we must never fall into such a grave error.

FAITH is direct experience of the real; magnificent inner experience of the interior man; authentic divine cognition.

The interior man, by knowing through direct mystical experience his own inner worlds, obviously also comes to know the inner worlds of all the people who populate the face of the Earth.

No one could know the inner worlds of planet Earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which we live, without first having known their own inner worlds. This is similar to the suicide who escapes life through a false door.

The extra-perceptions of the drug addict have their particular root in the abominable *Kundabuffer organ (the tempting serpent of Eden).

Consciousness, bottled up among the multiple elements that constitute the Ego, operates by virtue of its own bottling

Egoic consciousness thus falls into a comatose state, with hypnotic hallucinations very similar to those of any subject under the influence of one drug or another.

We can pose this matter as follows: hallucinations of egoic consciousness are the same as hallucinations caused by drugs.

Obviously, both types of hallucinations have their original cause in the abominable KUNDABUFFER organ. (See Chapter XVI of this book).

Undoubtedly, drugs destroy the alpha rays, and thus the intrinsic connection between mind and brain is unquestionably lost; this, in fact, results in total failure.

The drug addict turns vice into religion and, misguided, believes he can experience the real under the influence of drugs, ignoring the fact that the extra-perceptions produced by marijuana, LSD, morphine, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, hashish, excessive tranquilizers, amphetamines, barbiturates, etc, are mere hallucinations fabricated by the abominable KUNDABUFFER organ.

Drug addicts, devolving and degenerating over time, eventually sink definitively into the infernal worlds.

Samael Aun Weor

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Some psychologists symbolize the consciousness as a knife very capable of separating us from that which is fastened to us, extracting our strength.

These psychologists believe that the only way to escape the power of this or that “I” is to observe it more clearly, each time with the objective of comprehending it so as to become cognizant of it.

These people think that in this way, separation of ourselves from this or that “I” will eventually occur, although it may be just by the width of a knife’s edge.

In this manner, they say, the “I” separated by the consciousness resembles a cut plant. Becoming conscious of any “I,” according to them, means separating it from our psyche and condemning it to death.

Without question, although apparently very convincing, such an idea fails in practice.

An “I” which has been cut off from our personality by the knife of consciousness, thrown out of the house like the black sheep of the family, continues in the psychological space.

Transformed into a demon of temptation, it insists on returning home. It does not submit so easily. In no way does it wish to eat the bitter bread of exile. It looks for an opportunity, and when we let down our guard for a minute it accommodates itself anew within our psyche.

Gravest of all, is that within an exiled “I,” there is always a certain percentage of Essence, consciousness, imprisoned.

All those psychologists who think this way have never been successful in dissolving any of their “I’s”; they have actually failed.

No matter how hard one tries to evade the question of the Kundalini, it remains a very serious problem.

In fact, the “ungrateful child” never progresses in the esoteric work on himself.

Obviously, an “ungrateful child” is anyone who scorns Isis, our own particular, individual, Divine Cosmic Mother.

Isis is one of the autonomous parts of our own Being, yet a derivative. The igneous serpent of our magical powers is Kundalini.

Obviously, only Isis has the absolute power to disintegrate any “I,” this is irrefutable, indisputable and incontrovertible.

Kundalini is a compound word: KUNDA reminds us of the abominable “Kundabuffer organ,” and LINI is an Atlantean term meaning termination.

Kundalini means “the termination of the abominable Kundabuffer organ.” In this case, it is imperative not to confuse Kundalini with Kundabuffer.

As we already stated in a previous chapter, the igneous serpent of our magical powers is found coiled up three and a half times inside of a certain magnetic center, located in the coccygeal bone at the base of the spinal column.

When the serpent rises, it is Kundalini; when it descends, it is the abominable Kundabuffer organ.

Through White Tantra the serpent ascends victoriously along the spinal canal awakening the powers of deification.

Through Black Tantra the serpent hurtles downward from the coccyx toward the atomic infernos of the human being. This is how many are transformed into terribly perverse demons.

Those who make the mistake of attributing all the sinister, negative characteristics of the descending serpent to the ascending serpent, definitely fail in the Work upon themselves.

The evil consequences of the abominable Kundabuffer organ can only be annihilated with the Kundalini.

It would not be an overstatement to say that such evil consequences are crystallized in the pluralized ego of revolutionary psychology.

The hypnotic power of the descending serpent has submerged humanity in unconsciousness.

By contrast, only the ascending serpent can awaken us. This truth is an axiom of Hermetic wisdom. Now we understand better the deep significance of the sacred word Kundalini.

Conscious will is always represented as a sacred woman, Mary, Isis, who crushes the head of the descending serpent.

Frankly speaking, in plain language, the dual flow of light, the living and astral fire of the Earth has been represented in ancient mysteries as a serpent with a bull, billy goat, or dog’s head.

It is the double serpent of the Caduceus of Mercury and the tempting serpent of Eden. But it is also, without the slightest doubt, the bronze serpent of Moses entwined in the “Tau,” that is to say, the “generating lingam.”

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It is the male goat of the Sabbath and the Baphomet of Gnostic Templars, the Hyle of universal Gnosticism, the double tail of the serpent that forms the feet of the solar cockerel of Abraxas.

The “black lingam” inserted in the metallic “yoni,” (symbols of the God Shiva, of Hindustani divinity) is the secret key to awaken and develop the ascendant serpent or Kundalini. This is under the lifelong condition of never spilling the “vessel of Hermes Trismegistus,” the thrice great God, Ibis of Thoth.

We have spoken between the lines for those who know how to understand. Whosoever has understanding let them understand, for herein lies wisdom.

Black Tantra practitioners are different. They awaken and develop the abominable Kundabuffer organ, serpent of temptation from Eden, when they commit the unforgivable crime of spilling the sacred wine during their rites.

Samael Aun Weor

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In the field of practical life, each person has his own criteria, his own more or less stale way of thinking, and never opens himself to anything new; this is irrefutable, indisputable, incontrovertible.

The mind of the intellectual humanoid is degenerated, deteriorated, in a clear state of devolution.

Indeed, the intellectual capacity for understanding of today’s humanity is similar to that of an old, inert and absurd mechanical structure, itself incapable of any authentic flexible phenomena.

The mind lacks ductility, it is bottled up in multiple rigid and outdated norms.

Each person has their own criteria and certain rigid rules within which they act and react incessantly.

The most serious thing about this whole issue is that the millions of criteria are equivalent to millions of putrid and absurd norms.

In any case, people never feel wrong, each mind is a world itself and there is no doubt that among so many mental recesses there are many distracting sophisms and unbearable stupidities.

But the narrow criteria of the multitudes do not even remotely suspect the intellectual bottleneck in which they find themselves.

These modern people with “cockroach brains” think the best of themselves, they boast of being liberals, of super-geniuses, they believe that they have very broad criteria.

The enlightened ignorants turn out to be the most difficult, because in reality, speaking this time in the Socratic sense we will say:

“Not only do they not know, but, in addition, they ignore that they do not know.”

Socrates

The intellectual scoundrels clinging to these antiquated norms of the past are violently prosecuted by virtue of their own bottleneck and emphatically refuse to accept something that in no way can fit within their steel standards.

The enlightened know-it-alls think that everything that for one reason or another goes outside the rigid path of their rusty procedures is one hundred percent absurd. In this way, these poor people with such difficult judgments deceive themselves miserably.

The pseudo-sages of this era boast of being brilliant, they look down on those who have the courage to depart from their time-worn norms, the worst of all is that they do not even remotely suspect the harsh reality of their own obtuseness.

The intellectual pettiness of stale minds is such that they even allow themselves the luxury of demanding demonstrations about what is real, about what is not of the mind.

People with a rickety and intolerant intelligence do not want to understand that the experience of reality only comes in the absence of the ego.

Unquestionably, in no way would it be possible to directly recognize the mysteries of life and death as long as the *inner mind has not been opened within ourselves. *(Study the lecture “The Three Minds” here)

It is worth repeating in this chapter that only the superlative consciousness of the Being can know the truth.

The inner mind can only function with the data provided by the Cosmic Consciousness of the BEING.

The subjective intellect, with its reasoning dialectic, can know nothing about that which escapes its jurisdiction.

We already know that the content concepts of reasoning dialectics are elaborated with the data provided by the senses of external perception.

Those who are bottled up within their intellectual procedures and fixed norms always resist these revolutionary ideas.

Only by radically and definitively dissolving the EGO is it possible to awaken consciousness and truly open the inner mind.

However, since these revolutionary declarations do not fit within formal logic, nor within dialectical logic, the subjective reaction of the involutionary minds opposes violent resistance.

These poor intellectual people want to put the ocean in a glass, they assume that the university can control all the wisdom of the universe and that all the laws of the Cosmos are obliged to submit to its old academic norms.

The ignorant paragons of wisdom do not even remotely suspect the degenerate state in which they find themselves.

Sometimes such people stand out for a moment when they come to the Esoteric world, but soon they go out like will-o’-the-wisps, they disappear from the panorama of spiritual concerns, they are swallowed up by the intellect and disappear from the scene forever.

The superficiality of the intellect can never penetrate the legitimate depths of BEING, but the subjective processes of rationalism can lead fools to all kinds of very brilliant but absurd conclusions.

The formulative power of logical concepts in no way implies the experience of reality.

The convincing game of reasoning dialectics self-fascinates the reasoner, making him always confuse the cat with the hare.

The brilliant procession of ideas blinds the scoundrel of the intellect and gives him a certain self-sufficiency so absurd as to reject everything that does not smell of library dust and university ink.

The “delirium tremens” of alcoholic drunkards have inconclusive unmistakable symptoms, but that of those drunken on theories is easily confused with genius.

When we get to this part of our chapter, we will say that it is certainly very difficult to know where the intellectualism of scoundrels ends and where madness begins.

As long as we continue bottled up within the rotten and stale norms of the intellect, the experience of that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real will be more than impossible.

Samael Aun Weor

*Note: The term “Involution” is used in relation to Degeneration, which is A retrograde or degenerative change, such as in biology or zoology

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The Kundalini

We have arrived at a very thorny point, I want to refer to this question of the Kundalini, the igneous serpent of our magical powers, mentioned in so many texts of oriental wisdom.

Undoubtedly, the Kundalini has a lot of documentation and is something worth investigating.

In the texts of Mediaeval Alchemy, the Kundalini is the astral sign of the sacred sperm, STELLA MARIS, the VIRGIN OF THE SEA, who wisely guides the laborers of the Great Work.

Among the Aztecs she is TONANTZIN, among the Greeks the CASTE DIANA, and in Egypt she is ISIS, the DIVINE MOTHER of whom no mortal has lifted the veil.

There is not any doubt whatsoever that Esoteric Christianism never stopped adoring the Divine Mother Kundalini; obviously she is MARAH or better said RAM-IO, MARIA or MARY.

What orthodox religions did not specify, at least as far as the exoteric or public circle is concerned, is the aspect of ISIS in her human individual form.

Ostensibly, only in secret were the initiates taught that this Divine Mother exists individually within each human being.

It is not superfluous to emphatically clarify that Mother-God, REA, CYBELES, ADONIA or whatever we wish to call her, is a variant of our own individual Being here and now.

Specifying, we will say that each of us has his own particular, individual, Divine Mother.

There are as many Mothers in heaven as creatures on earth.

The Kundalini is the mysterious energy which makes the world exist, an aspect of BRAHMA.

In its psychological aspect manifest in the occult anatomy of the human being, the KUNDALINI is coiled three and a half times within certain magnetic center located in the coccygeal bone. There rests numb as any other snake the Divine Princess.

In the center of that Chakra or room, exists a female triangle or YONI where there is a male LINGAM established.

The sublime serpent KUNDALINI coils around this atomic or magical LINGAM which represents BRAHMA’s sexual creating power.

The igneous queen in its serpent form, wakes up with the secretum secretorum of certain alchemical craft which I have clearly taught in my work titled: The Mystery of Golden Blossoming. Unquestionably, when this divine force awakes, victorious it ascends through the spinal medullary canal to develop in ourselves the powers which deify.

The sacred serpent, in its subliminal divine transcendental aspect, transcending the merely physiological, anatomical, in its ethnic state, is, as I have already said, our own Being though derived. It is not my purpose to teach in this treatise the technique for the awaking of the sacred serpent.

I only want to put some emphasis on the harsh realism of the Ego and the inner urgency related to the dissolution of its diverse inhuman elements.

The mind by itself cannot radically alter any psychological defect.

The mind can mark in a name on any defect, move it from one level on to another one, hide it from the same mind or from other people, excuse it, etc., but never eliminate it.

Comprehension is a fundamental part, but this is not all, it is necessary to eliminate.

A defect which has been observed must be analyzed and wholly comprehended, before proceeding to its elimination.

We need a power superior to the mind, a power capable of atomically disintegrating any defect-“I” which we have previously discovered and profoundly judged.

Fortunately, such power is deeply underlying beyond the body, affections and the mind, although it has its concrete exponents in the bone of the coccygeal center, as we have already explained in previous paragraphs of this chapter.

After having wholly comprehended any defect-“I”, we must submerge ourselves in profound meditation, begging, praying, asking our own individual particular Divine Mother to disintegrate the previously comprehended defect-“I”. This is the precise technique required for the elimination of the undesirable elements which we carry within.

The Divine Mother Kundalini has power to reduce to ashes any subjective, inhuman psychic aggregate.

Without this didactic, without this procedure, every effort for the dissolution of the Ego is fruitless, useless, and absurd.

Samael Aun Weor

Being and knowing must be balanced to establish a blaze of comprehension within our psyche.

When knowing is greater than being, it causes all kinds of intellectual confusion.

If being is greater than knowing, it can produce cases as serious as that of a stupid saint.

In everyday life, it is advisable to observe oneself with the purpose of self-discovery.

It is precisely everyday life, the psychological gymnasium, through which we can discover our defects.

In a state of alert perception, watchful attention, we can directly verify that the hidden defects flare-up spontaneously.

Clearly, we must work on the discovered defect consciously with the purpose of separating it from our psyche.

Above all, we must not identify with any I-defect if we really want to eliminate it.

Imagine that we are standing on a board and we wish to raise it to a position of it leaning against a wall. It would be impossible to do so if we were still standing on it.

Obviously, we must begin by separating the board from ourselves, removing ourselves from it and then lifting the board with our hands to a reclining position against the wall.

Similarly, we must not identify with any psychic aggregate if we truly wish to separate it from our psyche.

When one identifies with this or that I, one really strengthens, rather than disintegrates it.

Let us suppose that some lustful self took possession of any stereotypical image in the intellectual center to project lascivious and sexually morbid scenes on the screen of the mind. Unquestionably, identifying with the passionate picture greatly strengthens that lustful ego.

If, however, instead of identifying with such an entity, we separate it from our psyche, considering it as an intrusive demon, then obviously creative comprehension will have emerged within us.

Subsequently, we could have the luxury of analytically judging the aggregate in question with the purpose of becoming fully conscious of it.

The seriousness of the problem lies precisely with people’s identification, and this is most regrettable.

If people were familiar with the Doctrine of the Many Selves, if they actually understood that not even their own lives belong to them, they would not make the mistake of identification.

Scenes of anger, pictures of jealousy, etc., in everyday life, are useful when we find ourselves in constant psychological self-observation.

Thus, we prove that neither our thoughts, nor our desires, nor our actions belong to us.

Unquestionably, multiple I’s intervene like bearers of an ill omen, putting thoughts in our minds, emotions in our hearts and actions of all kinds in our motor center.

It is deplorable that we are not masters of ourselves and that various psychological entities make of us whatever they will.

Unfortunately, we do not even remotely suspect what is happening to us and we act like simple puppets, controlled by invisible strings.

Worst of all, instead of fighting for independence from all these secret tyrants, we make the mistake of fortifying them, and this occurs when we become identified.

Any street scene, any family drama, any silly quarrel between spouses is undoubtedly due to this or that I, and is something of which we must always be aware.

Everyday life is the psychological mirror in which we can see ourselves just as we are.

First, we must understand the need to see ourselves and the need to change radically. Only in this way will we want to really observe ourselves.

Whosoever is content with the state in which he lives, the foolish one, the dawdler, the negligent one, will never feel the desire to see himself; he will love himself too much to ever be willing to review his conduct and way of being.

We will say clearly that in some comedies, dramas and tragedies of everyday life various “I’s” take part. These “I’s” must be understood.

What comes into play in any scene of passionate jealousy are the egos of lust, anger, pride, jealousy, etc. We must later analytically judge each one separately to fully understand them with the clear purpose of their total disintegration.

Comprehension is very elastic, which is why it is necessary to delve deeper each time. What we understand in one way today we will better understand tomorrow.

Considering things from this angle, we can verify for ourselves how useful the diverse circumstances of life are when indeed we use them as a mirror for self-discovery.

We would never in any way attempt to say that the dramas, comedies and tragedies of everyday life are always splendid and perfect. Such a statement would be ludicrous.

Nonetheless, however absurd the different situations of existence may appear, they are marvelous as a psychological gymnasium.

The work relating to the dissolution of the diverse elements that form the me, myself, is terribly difficult.

Within the cadences of verse, misdeeds are also hidden. In the delightful perfume of the temples, transgressions lurk.

At times, crime becomes so sophisticated that people confuse it with sanctity, and so cruel that it eventually seems like sweetness.

Crime clothes itself in the judge’s robe, the Master’s tunic, the beggar’s rags, the businessman’s suit, and even in the habit of the Christ.

Comprehension is fundamental, but that is not all in the work of dissolving the psychic aggregates, as we shall see in the next chapter.

It is urgent, unavoidable and non-excludable that we make ourselves conscious of each ego, to separate each one from our psyche. But this is not all, something else is missing. For this we must see Chapter 16.

Samael Aun Weor

Without a question, each person has his own particular psychology. This is indubitable, indisputable, and irrefutable.

Unfortunately, people never think about this, and many never accept it. This is because they are trapped within the sensorial mind.

Anyone would admit to the reality of the physical body since it can be seen and touched. Our psychology, however, is a different matter. It cannot be perceived by the five senses. For this reason we have a general tendency to reject or simply underestimate and scorn it, qualifying it as something of no importance.

Undoubtedly, when someone begins to self-observe, it is an unmistakable sign that they have accepted the tremendous reality of their own psychology.

Clearly, no one would attempt self-observation without having previously found a fundamental reason for doing so.

Obviously, someone who initiates self-observation becomes a very different person from others. This, in fact, indicates the possibility for change.

Unfortunately, people do not want to change; they are content with the state in which they live.

It pains one to see how people are born, grow, reproduce like animals, suffer indescribably and die without ever knowing why.

To change is fundamental but it is impossible if we do not initiate psychological self-observation.

We must start by seeing that our purpose is to acquire self knowledge, since rational humanoids really do not know themselves.

When one discovers a psychological defect, a great step has actually been taken, because this allows one to study and even radically eliminate that defect.

Indeed, we could not succeed in counting all of the psychological defects we have within since there are so many, not even if we had a steel palate and a thousand tongues to speak with.

Gravest of all is that we do not know how to measure the dreadful reality of any defect. We always look at it superficially without due attention. We see it as something unimportant.

When we accept the Doctrine of the Many Selves and understand the harsh reality of the seven demons that Jesus the Christ drove from the body of Mary Magdalene, obviously, our way of thinking (with regard to psychological defects) undergoes a fundamental change.

It cannot be asserted emphatically enough that the Doctrine of the Many Selves is 100 percent Tibetan and Gnostic in origin.

It is not at all pleasant to find out that within each person there lives hundreds and thousands of psychological people.

Each psychological defect is a different person existing within us, in the here and now.

The seven demons that the great Master Jesus the Christ threw out of the body of Mary Magdalene are the seven deadly sins: anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness, and gluttony.

Naturally, each one of these demons leads separately to a legion.

In the Pharaohs’ ancient Egypt, an Initiate had to eliminate the red demons of Seth from his inner nature if he wanted to achieve the awakening of consciousness.

Considering the reality of psychological defects, the aspirant longs for change. He does not want to continue in the state in which he lives with so many people within his psyche. He then begins self-observation.

As we progress in our inner work, we can verify for ourselves an interesting order in the system of elimination.

One is astonished when one discovers that there is an order in the work related to the elimination of the multiple psychic aggregates that personify our errors.

What is most interesting about all of this, is that such an order in the elimination of defects comes about gradually, and is processed according to the dialectic of consciousness.

The dialectic of reasoning will never surpass the formidable work of the dialectic of consciousness.

In time, the facts show us that the psychological order in the work of eliminating defects is established by our own profound inner Being.

We must clarify that a radical difference exists between the ego and the Being. The “I” can never establish an order in psychological matters as, in itself, it is the result of disorder.

Only the Being has the power to establish order in our psyche. The Being is the Being, and the reason for the Being to be is to be the Being Himself.

Order in the work of self-observation, judgment, and elimination of our psychic aggregates gradually becomes evident through the judicious sense of psychological self-observation.

All human beings have a sense of psychological self-observation in a latent state, but this sense develops gradually to the extent that we put it to use.

Such a sense allows us to perceive directly, and not through simple intellectual associations, the diverse selves that live within our psyches.

The question of extrasensory perception has begun to be studied in the field of parapsychology. In fact, it has been demonstrated in numerous experiments, prudently carried out over a period of time about which there is extensive documentation.

Those who deny the reality of extrasensory perception are utterly ignorant, villains of the intellect, incarcerated in the Sensual Mind.

Nevertheless, the sense of psychological self-observation is something that is deeper, which goes far beyond simple parapsychological conclusions. It allows us intimate self-observation and full verification of the terrible subjective reality of our diverse aggregates.

The establishment of a consecutive order of the different parts of the work related to this extremely serious subject of eliminating the psychic aggregates, allows us to generate a work memory. This is quite interesting, and even extremely useful in the question of inner development.

This work memory can certainly give us distinct psychological “photographs” of the different stages of our past. As a whole, it will bring to our imagination a vivid and even repugnant imprint of what we were before beginning the radical psycho-transforming work.

There is no doubt that we would never wish to return to that horrifying image, that vivid representation of what we once were.

From this point, such psychological “photography” is useful as a means of confrontation between a transformed present and a regressive, stale, clumsy and unfortunate past.

The work memory is always recorded on the basis of successive psychological events registered by the center of psychological self-observation.

In our psyche there are undesirable elements, the existence of which we do not suspect in the least.

For an honest man, honorable and worthy of respect, incapable of taking anything that does not belong to him, to discover in an unusual way a series of thieving selves living in the deepest areas of his own psyche, is something frightening, but not impossible.

A splendid wife, abundant in great virtues, or a maiden with exquisite spirituality and excellent education, may discover in an unusual way that groups of prostitutes live within her intimate psyche. Such a thought is sickening and unacceptable to any righteous citizen’s intellectual center or moral sense. However, all of this is possible within the precise field of psychological self-observation.

Everywhere there are many scoundrels of the intellect lacking positive direction and who are poisoned with loathsome skepticism.

Certainly, the repugnant poison of skepticism has infected human minds alarmingly since the eighteenth century.

Before that time, the famous Nontrabada, or Encubierta island, located off the Spanish coast, was constantly visible and tangible.

There is no doubt that such an island is situated in the fourth dimension. Many are the anecdotes related to this mysterious island.

After the eighteenth century, the aforementioned island was lost in eternity; no one knows anything at all about it.

In the times of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, elementals of Nature were manifest everywhere, deeply penetrating our physical atmosphere.

Many are the tales of elves, leprechauns, and fairies, which still abound in green Erin, Ireland. Unfortunately, all these things of innocence, all this beauty from the soul of the Earth is no longer perceived by humanity. This is due to the intellectual scoundrel’s pedantries and the animal ego’s excessive development.

Nowadays, the know-it-all ignoramuses laugh at all these things, rejecting them, though deep down they have not even remotely achieved happiness.

If people understood that we have three minds, it would be a very different story. They might even become more interested in these studies.

Unfortunately, learned ignoramuses, absorbed as they are in the labyrinth of their own difficult scholarly pursuits, do not even have the time to pay any serious attention to our studies.

These hopeless people are self-sufficient; they are conceited with vain intellectualism; they think that they are on the right path; and they do not have even the slightest idea that they are up a blind alley.

In the name of truth we must state that in synthesis we have three minds.

The first one we can and must call the Sensual Mind. The second we shall christen with the name of Intermediate Mind. The third we shall call the Inner Mind.

Now we are going to study each of these three minds separately and judiciously.

The Sensual Mind

Unquestionably, the Sensual Mind develops its basic concepts via external sensory perceptions.

Under these conditions, the Sensual Mind is terribly crude and materialistic. It cannot accept anything which has not been physically demonstrated.

Since the fundamental concepts of the Sensual Mind are based on external sensory data, undoubtedly, it can know nothing about what is real, about the truth, about the mysteries of life and death, about the Soul and the Spirit, etc.

For the rogues of the intellect, totally trapped by their external senses and incarcerated within the basic concepts of the Sensual Mind, our esoteric studies are lunacy.

In the reasoning of the unreasonable, in an insane world, they are right, due to the conditioning by the external sensory world. How could the Sensual Mind accept what is not sensory?

If information from the senses serves as a secret means for all functions of the Sensual Mind, then it is obvious that the latter generates sensory concepts.

The Intermediate Mind

The Intermediate Mind is different. It has no direct knowledge of what is real either; it confines itself to belief and that is all.

Found in the Intermediate Mind are religious beliefs, unbreakable dogmas, etc.

The Inner Mind

The Inner Mind is fundamental for the direct experience of the truth.

Undoubtedly, the Inner Mind creates its basic concepts with information contributed by the superlative consciousness of the Being.

Unquestionably, the consciousness can live and experience reality. Without a doubt, the consciousness knows the truth.

To manifest itself however, the consciousness needs a mediator, an instrument of action, and this in itself is the Inner Mind.

Consciousness knows directly the reality of each natural phenomenon and can manifest it through the Inner Mind.

To open the Inner Mind would be the appropriate thing to do in order to remove ourselves from the world of doubt and ignorance.

This means that only by opening the Inner Mind will genuine faith be born within the human being.

Seeing this question from another angle, we would say that materialist skepticism is a characteristic peculiar to ignorance. There is no doubt that learned ignoramuses are 100 percent skeptical.

Faith is the direct perception of what is real, it is fundamental wisdom; it is the experience of that which is beyond the body, the affections and the mind.

We must distinguish between faith and belief. Beliefs are found stored in the Intermediate Mind. Faith is a characteristic of the Inner Mind.

Unfortunately, there is always a general tendency to confuse belief with faith. Although it seems paradoxical, we emphasize the following: “Those who have true faith do not need to believe.”

This is because genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, and direct experience.

For many centuries, people have confused faith and belief. Now it is very difficult to make them understand that faith is true knowledge and never futile beliefs.

The sapient function of the Inner Mind has as its intimate resource all that formidable data from the wisdom embodied in consciousness.

One who has opened the Inner Mind recalls one’s previous existences, knows the mysteries of life and death; not because of what one has or has not read, not because of what someone has or has not said, not because of what one has or has not believed, but because of terribly real and vivid direct experience.

The Sensual Mind does not like what we are saying here. The Sensual Mind cannot accept this because it is out of its grasp, has nothing whatever to do with external sensory perceptions. This is alien to its own basic concepts, to that which was taught at school or what was learned from various books, etc.

What we are saying here is not accepted by the Intermediate Mind either, as it is contrary to its own beliefs. This spoils what its religious teachers made it learn by heart.

Jesus, the great Kabir, warned his disciples by saying:

Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

– Matthew 16:6

Obviously, with this warning Jesus the Christ was referring to the doctrines of the materialistic Sadducees and the hypocritical Pharisees.

The doctrine of the Sadducees is the Sensual Mind. It is the doctrine of the five senses.

The doctrine of the Pharisees is irrefutably and without dispute situated in the Intermediate Mind.

Clearly, the Pharisees gather at their rites in order to be seen, so that it will be said that they are good people. They pretend in front of others, but they never work on themselves.

It is impossible to open the Inner Mind unless we learn to think psychologically.

Unquestionably, when someone starts to observe himself, it is a sign that he is beginning to think psychologically.

As long as we do not admit the reality of our own psychology and the possibility of changing it fundamentally, we certainly do not feel the necessity for psychological self-observation.

When one accepts the Doctrine of the Many Selves and understands the need to eliminate the different egos carried within one’s psyche (for the purpose of liberating the consciousness, the Essence) undoubtedly, one initiates, in fact and by one’s own rights, psychological self-observation.

Obviously, the elimination of undesirable elements carried in our psyches commences the opening of the Inner Mind.

All this means that the aforementioned opening takes place gradually as we annihilate those undesirable elements which we carry within our psyches.

Whosoever has eliminated those undesirable elements 100 percent from within, will also have obviously opened up the Inner Mind 100 percent.

Such a person will possess absolute faith. Now you will understand the words of Christ when he said:

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, ‘Remove hence to yonder place;’ and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

– Matthew 17: 20

Samael Aun Weor

Certainly, one of the most difficult problems of our epoch stems from the intricate labyrinth of theories.

Undoubtedly, in these times there is an exorbitant multiplicity of pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist schools here, there, and everywhere.

The marketing of souls, books, and theories is frightening. Rare are those who really manage to find the secret path among the many cobwebs of contradictory ideas.

Gravest of all is intellectual fascination. There is a tendency to nourish ourselves only intellectually with all that reaches the mind.

The vagabonds of the intellect are no longer content with all the subjective literature and the ordinary types of books found in abundance in the bookstores. Now, to make matters worse, they also stuff themselves to the point of indigestion with cheap pseudo-esotericism and pseudo-occultism that abound everywhere like weeds.

The result of all this is a gibberish of confusion and manifest disorientation amongst the villains of the intellect.

I constantly receive all sorts of letters and books. Those who send them to me usually inquire about this or that school, this or that book. I confine myself to the following reply: “Refrain from idle mental curiosity. There is no need for you to be involved in other people’s business. Disintegrate the animal ego of curiosity, for the business of other schools is not your concern. Become serious, know yourself, study yourself, observe yourself, etc.”

Really, the important thing is to know ourselves profoundly in all mental levels.

Darkness is unconsciousness; light is consciousness. We must allow light to penetrate our own darkness; obviously, light has the power to defeat darkness.

Regrettably people find themselves incarcerated within the fetid, filthy environment of their own minds, worshipping their beloved ego.

People do not want to realize that they are not masters of their own lives. Indeed, each person is controlled from within by many other persons. I refer emphatically to the multiplicity of I’s that we carry within.

Evidently, each one of these I’s puts in our minds what we must think, in our mouths what we must say, and in our hearts what we must feel, etc.

Under such conditions the human personality is no more than a robot governed by different people, each disputing its superiority and aspiring to supreme control of the major centers of the organic machine.

In the name of truth, we solemnly affirm that the poor intellectual animal mistakenly called human being, though believing himself balanced, lives in a complete psychological imbalance.

The intellectual mammal is by no means unilateral, otherwise he would be balanced.

Unfortunately, the intellectual animal is multilateral, as has been proven repeatedly.

How can the rational humanoid be balanced? In order for perfect equilibrium to exist, we need an awakened consciousness.

Only the light of consciousness, directed not from different angles, but fully focused and centered upon ourselves, can put an end to the contrasts, to the psychological contradictions. Only thus can we establish within ourselves the true inner equilibrium.

The awakening of our consciousness will come if we dissolve the whole collection of I’s that we carry within, thus the consequence or corollary will be the true balancing of our own psyche.

Unfortunately, people do not want to realize that they live unconsciously. They are deeply asleep.

If people were awake, each one of us would feel our fellow beings within ourselves.

If people were awake, our fellow beings would feel us within themselves.

Then, obviously, wars would not exist and the Earth would be, in truth, a paradise.

The light of consciousness endows us with true psychological balance and comes to establish each thing in its place. Anything that previously entered into intimate conflict with us, in fact, stays in its appropriate place.

The unconsciousness of the multitude is such that they are even unable to find the relationship existing between light and consciousness.

Unquestionably, light and consciousness are two aspects of the same thing. Where there is light, there is consciousness.

Unconsciousness is darkness, and the latter exists within us.

Only through psychological self-observation do we allow light to penetrate within our own darkness.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5

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This question of the me, myself, of what I am, of that which thinks, feels, and acts, is something that we must explore within ourselves in order for us to gain profound knowledge.

Everywhere there are lovely theories which attract and fascinate us. However, they are of no use at all if we do not know ourselves.

It is fascinating to study astronomy or to amuse ourselves somewhat reading serious works. Nevertheless, it is ironic to become erudite and not know anything about the me, myself, about the “I,” about the human personality we possess.

Everyone is very free to think whatever they want and the subjective reason of the “intellectual animal” mistakenly called man is enough for everything, it can just as easily turn a flea into a horse as it can turn a horse into a flea; There are many intellectuals who live playing with rationalism. And what after all?

To be scholarly does not mean to be wise. Learned ignoramuses are as abundant as weeds. Not only do they not know, but they are not even aware they do not know.

Learned ignoramuses are those know-it-alls who believe they know everything and who indeed do not even know themselves.

We could theorize splendidly on the psychological I, but that is not exactly what interests us in this chapter.

We need to know ourselves directly as we are, without involving a depressing process of “options.”

This would in no way be possible unless we were to observe ourselves in action from instant to instant, from moment to moment.

This is not a matter of seeing ourselves through theories or by simple intellectual speculation.

We are interested in seeing ourselves directly as we are; this is the only way we will be able to gain true knowledge of ourselves.

Although it might seem incredible, we are mistaken with regard to ourselves.

Many things we believe we have, we do not have, and many things that we do not believe we have, we do.

We have formed false concepts about ourselves, and we must, therefore, do an inventory to find out what we have too much of and what we lack.

We assume that we have such and such qualities, which indeed we do not, and we are surely ignorant of many virtues that we do possess.

We are asleep, unconscious, and that is very serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and never even suspect that we are asleep.

The Holy Scriptures insist on the need to awaken, but do not explain the system to achieve this awakening.

Worst of all, there are many who have read the Holy Scriptures and still do not understand that they are asleep.

Everyone believes that they know themselves and do not have even the faintest idea that there exists a Doctrine of the Many.

Indeed, each person’s psychological “I” is multiple; it always consists of many.

By this we mean that we have many selves and not just one, as is always assumed by learned ignoramuses.

To deny the Doctrine of the Many is to make fools of ourselves. In fact, it is the height of absurdity to ignore the intimate contradictions which each of us possess.

“I am going to read a newspaper,” says the “I” of intellect. “To heck with reading,” exclaims the “I” of movement, “I prefer to ride my bicycle.” “Forget it,” shouts a third ego in disagreement, “I’d rather eat, I’m hungry.”

If we could see ourselves in a full-length mirror, just as we are, we would discover for ourselves directly the Doctrine of the Many.

The human personality is only a marionette controlled by invisible strings.

The ego which swears eternal love for Gnosis is later replaced by another which has nothing to do with the pledge; then the individual leaves.

The “I” which swears eternal love for one woman is later replaced by another one which has nothing to do with that oath. Then the person falls in love with another woman, and like a house of cards it all collapses.

The “intellectual animal” mistakenly called human being is like a house filled with many people.

There is no order or agreement among the multiple I’s; they all quarrel with each other and fight for supremacy. When one of them gains control of the capital centers of the organic machine, it feels unique, a master. Nevertheless, in the end it is overthrown.

Considering the matter from this point of view, we come to the logical conclusion that the “intellectual mammal” does not have a true sense of moral responsibility.

Undoubtedly, whatever the machine says or does at a given time depends exclusively on the type of ego in control at that moment.

It is said that Jesus of Nazareth drove out seven demons, seven egos, from the body of Mary Magdalene, living personifications of the seven capital sins.

Obviously, each of these seven demons is the head of a legion. Therefore, we can establish as a natural consequence that the intimate Christ was able to expel thousands of egos from the body of Mary Magdalene.

Reflecting upon all this we can clearly infer that the only worthwhile part of us is the Essence which, tragically, is trapped within these multiple I’s of the revolutionary psychology.

Unfortunately, the Essence is always limited in its processes by virtue of its own imprisonment.

Without question the Essence—or consciousness, which is the same thing—sleeps deeply.

Samael Aun Weor

The sparkling intellectualism as manifest functionalism of the psychological I, undoubtedly is THE ANTICHRIST.

Those who suppose that the Antichrist is a strange personage born somewhere on the Earth or coming from this or that country are certainly completely mistaken.

We have emphatically stated that the Antichrist is definitely not a particular person, but all people.

Obviously, the Antichrist itself exists deep within each person and expresses itself in many ways.

Intellect which is placed in the service of the Spirit is useful; intellect which is divorced from the Spirit becomes useless.

Villains arise from intellectualism without spirituality: a vivid manifestation of the Antichrist. Obviously, the villain, in and for itself, is the Antichrist.

Unfortunately, the world today with all its tragedies and miseries is governed by the Antichrist. The state of chaos in which modern humanity finds itself is undoubtedly due to the Antichrist.

The iniquitous one, of which Paul of Tarsus spoke in his Epistles, is certainly the harsh reality of our times. The iniquitous one is already here. It manifests itself everywhere; it certainly has the gift of ubiquity.

It argues in cafes, negotiates at the United Nations, sits comfortably in Geneva, conducts experiments in laboratories, invents atomic bombs, remote-controlled missiles, asphyxiating gases, bacteriological bombs, etc., etc., etc.

The Antichrist, fascinated by its own intellectualism, which is absolutely exclusive to know-it-alls, believes that it knows all of the phenomena of Nature.

The Antichrist, believing itself to be omniscient, is trapped in the decay of its own theories. It directly rejects anything resembling God, or that which is worshipped. The self-sufficiency, pride and arrogance of the Antichrist are unbearable. The Antichrist mortally hates the Christian virtues of faith, patience and humility.

Everyone bows before the Antichrist. Obviously, it has invented ultrasonic aircraft, wonderful ships, splendid cars, amazing medicines, etc. Under such conditions, who can doubt the Antichrist?

In this day and age, anyone who dares to speak against all the miracles and wonders of the Son of Perdition condemns himself to everyone’s ridicule, sarcasm and irony; he condemns himself to be classified as stupid and ignorant.

It is hard to make serious and studious people understand the former statements. They in and on themselves react and offer resistance.

Clearly, the intellectual animal mistakenly called human being is a robot, programmed at kindergarten, primary and secondary school, college and the university, etc. No one can deny that a programmed robot functions according to its programming. In no way could it function if the program were removed. The Antichrist has produced the program with which the humanoid robots of these decadent times are programmed.

Making these clarifications, emphasizing what I am saying, is frightfully difficult, as this is not in the program. No humanoid robot could admit things that are not in the program.

This issue is so serious, and the mental entanglements are so tremendous, that in no way would any humanoid robot even remotely suspect that the program is of no use, since it has been arranged according to the program, and to doubt it would seem a heresy, something incongruous and absurd.

For a robot to doubt its own program is absurd, an absolute impossibility, because its very existence depends upon that program.

Unfortunately, things are not as humanoid robots think they are. There is another science, another wisdom, which they find unacceptable. The humanoid robot reacts, and rightly so, as it is not programmed to deal with another science or another culture, or anything else that differs from its well-known program.

The Antichrist has prepared the programs of the humanoid robot and the robot humbly prostrates itself before its master. How could a robot possibly doubt the wisdom of its master?

A child is born innocent and pure. The Essence expressing itself through each child is exceedingly precious. Without a doubt, Nature deposits in the brain of newborns all the wild, natural, sylvan, cosmic and spontaneous information indispensable for the capture or comprehension of truths. These are contained in any natural phenomena perceivable by the senses. This means that a new born baby can discover by itself the reality of each natural phenomenon. Regrettably, the Antichrist’s program interferes with it, and the marvelous qualities placed by Nature in the brains of the newborns are soon destroyed. The Antichrist prohibits different ways of thinking; all babies that are born must be programmed by order of the Antichrist.

There is no doubt that the Antichrist mortally hates that precious sense of the Being known as the ‘faculty of instinctive perception of cosmic truths.’

Pure science, different from the decaying university theories which exist here, there and everywhere, is something inadmissible for the Antichrist’s robots.

Many wars, famines and diseases have been propagated by the Antichrist throughout the world, and no doubt they will continue to be propagated before the arrival of the final catastrophe. Unfortunately, the hour of the great apostasy has arrived (that time announced by all the prophets), and no human being will dare to rise up against the Antichrist.

Samael Aun Weor