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Chapter 32: Prayer In The WorkObservation, judgment, and execution are the three basic factors for dissolution. First: one observes; second: one judges; third: one executes.
In war, spies are firstly observed; secondly, judged; thirdly, shot. In interrelations, there is self-discovery and self-revelation. Whoever renounces co-existence with his fellow man also renounces self-discovery |
Any one of life’s incidents, however insignificant it may seem, undoubtedly has as its cause, an intimate actor within us, a psychic aggregate, an “I”.
Self-discovery is possible when we find ourselves in a state of alert perception, alert openness.
The “I” discovered in action must be carefully observed in our brain, heart, and sexual center.
Any “I” of lust may manifest in the heart as love and in the brain as an ideal, but, on placing our attention on the sexual center, we will feel a certain unmistakable morbid excitation. The judgment of any “I” must be definitive. We need to sit it in the dock, and judge it mercilessly.
Any evasion, justification or consideration must be eliminated, if in reality we want to make ourselves conscious of the “I” that we wish to eradicate from our psyche.
Execution is different. It is not possible to execute any “I” without previously having observed and judged it.
Prayer in the psychological work is fundamental to dissolution. We have need of a power superior to the mind if in reality, we wish to disintegrate a particular “I”.
The mind itself could never disintegrate any “I” this is irrefutable.
To pray is to converse with God. We must appeal to God the Mother deep within us if we truly want to disintegrate “I’s”.
He who does not love his Mother, the ungrateful son, will fail in the work upon himself.
Each of us has our particular, individual Divine Mother.
She herself, is a part of our own Being, but derived.
All ancient peoples adored “God the Mother,” in the very depths of the Being. The feminine principle of the Eternal is Isis, Mary, Tonantzin, Cybeles, Rhea, Adonia, Insoberta, etc., etc., etc.
If in the merely physical we have a father and a mother, then also in the depths of our Being we have our Father who is in secret, and our Divine Mother Kundalini.
There are as many Fathers in Heaven as people on Earth.
God the Mother in our own intimate depths is the feminine aspect of our Father who is in secret.
He and She are certainly the two superior parts of our intimate Being. Undoubtedly, He and She are our own Real Being, far beyond the “I” of psychology.
He unfolds into She, commands, directs, and instructs.
She eliminates the undesirable elements which we carry within, on the condition that we work continuously on ourselves.
When we have died radically, when all the undesirable elements have been eliminated, after much conscious work and voluntary suffering, we shall fuse and integrate with the “Father-Mother.” Then we shall be terribly Divine Gods, beyond good and evil.
Our individual, particular Divine Mother, by virtue of her fiery powers, can reduce to cosmic dust any one of those many “I’s” that has been previously observed and judged.
A specific formula is not in any way necessary to pray to our inner Divine Mother. We should be very natural and simple when we address Her. The child who speaks to his mother never uses special formulas. He says what comes from his heart and that is all. No “I” is instantaneously dissolved. Our Divine Mother must work and even suffer very much before achieving the annihilation of an “I”.
Become inward-looking, direct your prayer within, seeking within yourself, your Divine Lady, and with sincere supplications, you will be able to speak with Her. Beg her to disintegrate that “I” that you have previously observed and judged.
The sense of intimate self-observation as it develops will permit you to verify the progressive advance of your work.
Comprehension and discernment are fundamental.
Nonetheless, something more is needed if we really want to disintegrate the self.
The mind can enjoy the luxury of labeling a defect, passing it from one department to another, exhibiting it, hiding it, and so on, but can never fundamentally alter it.
We need a special power superior to the mind, a fiery power, capable of reducing any defect to ashes.
Stella Maris, our Divine Mother, has that power. She is able to pulverize any psychological defect.
Our Divine Mother lives in our intimate depths, beyond the body, the attachments, and the mind. She Herself, is an igneous power superior to the mind.
Our particular, individual Cosmic Mother possesses Wisdom, Love, and Power. In Her there is absolute perfection.
Good intentions and their constant repetition serve for nothing and lead nowhere.
It serves no purpose to repeat, “I will not be lustful.” The “I’s” of lasciviousness will continue existing regardless, in the very depths of our psyche.
It is useless to repeat daily, “I will no longer be angry.” The “I’s” of anger will continue existing in our psychological depths.
There is no use in saying daily, “I will no longer be greedy.”
The “I’s” of greed will continue existing in the different regions of our psyche.
It is useless to withdraw from the world, to confine ourselves to a convent, or to live in a cavern. The “I’s” within us will continue existing.
Some cave-dwelling anchorites, basing their lives on rigorous disciplines, attained the ecstasy of the saints and were taken up to the heavens, where they saw and heard things that are not possible for human beings to comprehend. Nonetheless, the “I’s” continued to exist within them.
Unquestionably, based in rigorous discipline, the essence can escape the pluralized “I” and enjoy ecstasy. However, after the joy, it returns to within the “myself”.
Those who have accustomed themselves to ecstasy without having dissolved the ego believe that they have already reached liberation and deceive themselves into believing that they are Masters, and finally submerge into involution.
We would never speak against mystical rapture, against the ecstasy and happiness of the soul in the absence of the ego.
We only want to emphasize the need to dissolve “I’s” in order to achieve final liberation.
The essence of a disciplined anchorite, accustomed to escaping the “I” repeats this feat after the death of the physical body, enjoying ecstasy for a time, later to return like the Genie of Aladdin’s lamp, to the interior of the bottle, the ego, the self.
Thus, no other remedy remains, than to return to a new physical body with the purpose of repeating his life on the stage of existence.
Many mystics, who disincarnated in the caverns of the Himalayas in Central Asia, are now commonplace, ordinary, normal people in this world, despite the fact that their followers still adore and venerate them.
Any attempt at liberation, as grandiose as it may be, is condemned to failure if it does not take into consideration the need to dissolve the ego.
Self-discovery is possible when we find ourselves in a state of alert perception, alert openness.
The “I” discovered in action must be carefully observed in our brain, heart, and sexual center.
Any “I” of lust may manifest in the heart as love and in the brain as an ideal, but, on placing our attention on the sexual center, we will feel a certain unmistakable morbid excitation. The judgment of any “I” must be definitive. We need to sit it in the dock, and judge it mercilessly.
Any evasion, justification or consideration must be eliminated, if in reality we want to make ourselves conscious of the “I” that we wish to eradicate from our psyche.
Execution is different. It is not possible to execute any “I” without previously having observed and judged it.
Prayer in the psychological work is fundamental to dissolution. We have need of a power superior to the mind if in reality, we wish to disintegrate a particular “I”.
The mind itself could never disintegrate any “I” this is irrefutable.
To pray is to converse with God. We must appeal to God the Mother deep within us if we truly want to disintegrate “I’s”.
He who does not love his Mother, the ungrateful son, will fail in the work upon himself.
Each of us has our particular, individual Divine Mother.
She herself, is a part of our own Being, but derived.
All ancient peoples adored “God the Mother,” in the very depths of the Being. The feminine principle of the Eternal is Isis, Mary, Tonantzin, Cybeles, Rhea, Adonia, Insoberta, etc., etc., etc.
If in the merely physical we have a father and a mother, then also in the depths of our Being we have our Father who is in secret, and our Divine Mother Kundalini.
There are as many Fathers in Heaven as people on Earth.
God the Mother in our own intimate depths is the feminine aspect of our Father who is in secret.
He and She are certainly the two superior parts of our intimate Being. Undoubtedly, He and She are our own Real Being, far beyond the “I” of psychology.
He unfolds into She, commands, directs, and instructs.
She eliminates the undesirable elements which we carry within, on the condition that we work continuously on ourselves.
When we have died radically, when all the undesirable elements have been eliminated, after much conscious work and voluntary suffering, we shall fuse and integrate with the “Father-Mother.” Then we shall be terribly Divine Gods, beyond good and evil.
Our individual, particular Divine Mother, by virtue of her fiery powers, can reduce to cosmic dust any one of those many “I’s” that has been previously observed and judged.
A specific formula is not in any way necessary to pray to our inner Divine Mother. We should be very natural and simple when we address Her. The child who speaks to his mother never uses special formulas. He says what comes from his heart and that is all. No “I” is instantaneously dissolved. Our Divine Mother must work and even suffer very much before achieving the annihilation of an “I”.
Become inward-looking, direct your prayer within, seeking within yourself, your Divine Lady, and with sincere supplications, you will be able to speak with Her. Beg her to disintegrate that “I” that you have previously observed and judged.
The sense of intimate self-observation as it develops will permit you to verify the progressive advance of your work.
Comprehension and discernment are fundamental.
Nonetheless, something more is needed if we really want to disintegrate the self.
The mind can enjoy the luxury of labeling a defect, passing it from one department to another, exhibiting it, hiding it, and so on, but can never fundamentally alter it.
We need a special power superior to the mind, a fiery power, capable of reducing any defect to ashes.
Stella Maris, our Divine Mother, has that power. She is able to pulverize any psychological defect.
Our Divine Mother lives in our intimate depths, beyond the body, the attachments, and the mind. She Herself, is an igneous power superior to the mind.
Our particular, individual Cosmic Mother possesses Wisdom, Love, and Power. In Her there is absolute perfection.
Good intentions and their constant repetition serve for nothing and lead nowhere.
It serves no purpose to repeat, “I will not be lustful.” The “I’s” of lasciviousness will continue existing regardless, in the very depths of our psyche.
It is useless to repeat daily, “I will no longer be angry.” The “I’s” of anger will continue existing in our psychological depths.
There is no use in saying daily, “I will no longer be greedy.”
The “I’s” of greed will continue existing in the different regions of our psyche.
It is useless to withdraw from the world, to confine ourselves to a convent, or to live in a cavern. The “I’s” within us will continue existing.
Some cave-dwelling anchorites, basing their lives on rigorous disciplines, attained the ecstasy of the saints and were taken up to the heavens, where they saw and heard things that are not possible for human beings to comprehend. Nonetheless, the “I’s” continued to exist within them.
Unquestionably, based in rigorous discipline, the essence can escape the pluralized “I” and enjoy ecstasy. However, after the joy, it returns to within the “myself”.
Those who have accustomed themselves to ecstasy without having dissolved the ego believe that they have already reached liberation and deceive themselves into believing that they are Masters, and finally submerge into involution.
We would never speak against mystical rapture, against the ecstasy and happiness of the soul in the absence of the ego.
We only want to emphasize the need to dissolve “I’s” in order to achieve final liberation.
The essence of a disciplined anchorite, accustomed to escaping the “I” repeats this feat after the death of the physical body, enjoying ecstasy for a time, later to return like the Genie of Aladdin’s lamp, to the interior of the bottle, the ego, the self.
Thus, no other remedy remains, than to return to a new physical body with the purpose of repeating his life on the stage of existence.
Many mystics, who disincarnated in the caverns of the Himalayas in Central Asia, are now commonplace, ordinary, normal people in this world, despite the fact that their followers still adore and venerate them.
Any attempt at liberation, as grandiose as it may be, is condemned to failure if it does not take into consideration the need to dissolve the ego.
