SERENE REFLECTIONPSYCHOLOGICAL AND ONTHOLOGICAL

FUNDAMENTSHOLY SILENCE

“BE SILENT THAT THE LORD WHO GAVE THEE LANGUAGE MAY SPEAK”

Jalal-Al-Din Rumi

International Gnostic Society

SEATLE SPRING RETREATAPRIL 17-22, 2008

INTRODUCTION

About Mozhao:

“The term Silent Illumination, or Mozhao1, is associated with the Song dynasty master Hongzhi Zhenjue (1091-1157), although the practice itself can be traced back at least as far as Bodhidharma and his concept of entry through principle. Five generations later, the great master Yongjia (665-713) wrote about “clarity and quiescence” in his Song of Enlightenment. Quiescence refers to the practice of silencing the mind, and clarity refers to contemplation, illuminating the mind with light of awareness.

Hongzhi himself described the “silent sitting” as thus: “your body sits silently; your mind is quiescent, unmoving. This is genuine effort in practice. Body and mind are complete rest. The mouth is so still that moss grows around it. Grass sprouts from the tongue. Do this without ceasing, cleansing the mind until it gains the clarity of an autumn pool, bright as the moon illuminating the evening sky.”

In another place, Hongzhi said, “In the silent sitting, whatever realm may appear, the mind is very clear to all the details, yet everything is where it originally is, in its own place. The mind stays on one thought for ten thousand years, yet does not dwell on any form, inside or outside.”

To understand Silent Illumination Ch’an, it is important to understand that while there are no thoughts, the mind is still very clear, very aware. Both, the silence and the illumination must be there. According to Hongzhi, when there is nothing going on in one’s mind, one is aware that nothing is happening. If one is not aware, this is just “ a sleeping state”, not the state of Mozhao. So in this state, the mind is transparent. In a sense, it is not completely accurate to say that there is nothing present, because the transparent mind is there. But it is accurate in the sense that nothing can become an attachment or obstruction. In this state, the mind is without form or feature. Power is present, but its function is to fill the mind with illumination, like the sun shining everywhere. Hence, silent illumination is the practice in which there is nothing moving, but the mind is bright and illuminating.”2

About this retreat:About going into seclusion for practice: is it your mind or is it your body that needs to be secluded? If the former, then your mind is the place where you can practice and your body of temporary fusion of the four elements is spacious enough for the purpose. But if

1 The author Chan Chen Chi, in his book, “The practice of Zen”, translate the word Mozhao like: “serene reflection”, and is how Master Samael usually used it in His teachings. Perhaps, in zen literature it is more common to find it “silent illumination”.2 Extracts from the teachings of Ch’an Master Sheng-yen.

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your mind is dispersed and your body craves for material comforts, it doesn’t matter how spacious the place is, it will not be large enough to contain your distracted mind ruled by physical desires.

About the purpose:

“Do not depend on ideals or foreign concepts because the real wisdom is within oneself.”

“Nevertheless, before we can absolutely depend on our own Interior Being, we must be completely obedient to our Guru. Every authentic Guru pronounces himself against fornication and adultery. Every authentic Guru is a Twice Born. Every authentic Guru sacrifices himself for humanity.

To be born, to die, and to sacrifice for humanity are the three factors of the Revolution of the Consciousness.”

SAMAEL AUN WEORTHE PISTIS SOPHIA UNVEILED

The Seventh repentance of Pistis Sophia, Chapter 46.

PRACTICE:

GURU YOGA“TAKEN REFUGE INTO THE GURU’S SOUL”

OM MANI PADME YON

BUDDHA MAITREYA

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l.- PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTS.

“Flowers are silent,Silence is silent,

The Mind is a silent flower,The silent flower of the World

Opens!”

Ikkyu Zenji

l.l.- CHATTER

“The esoteric exercise of Internal Silence exists in Gnosis. Our disciples in “Third Chamber” know of it.

It is not irrelevant to state with complete clarity that Internal Silence must specifically refer to something precise and definite.

This Internal Silence is achieved when the process of thinking is intentionally exhausted during profound inner meditation…

The practice of Internal Silence to which we are referring does not mean to impede something from penetrating into the mind either.

Indeed, right now we are talking about something very different, a different kind of Internal Silence. This is not something vague and ordinary…

The Internal Silence that we want to exercise is related with something that is already in our mind: a person, event, our business or another one’s business, what we were told, what such a fellow did, etc…without our interior tongue commenting about these things, without internal discourse…

To learn how to remain silent not only with the exterior tongue, but also with the secret, internal tongue, is something extraordinary and marvelous.

Many keep quiet externally; however, with their internal tongue they skin their fellow men alive. The internal, poisonous and malevolent chatter produces inner confusion.

If one observes wrong internal chatter, one will then see that it is made up of half-truths or of truths that are more or less incorrectly related to each other, or of things that were added or omitted unto it.

Unfortunately, our emotional life is exclusively based on “self-sympathy.”

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To top off so much infamy, we only sympathize with ourselves, with our much “beloved ego”. Moreover, we feel antipathy and even hatred towards those who do not sympathize with us.

We love ourselves too much. We are one hundred percent narcissists, this is irrefutable, indisputable.

As long as we continue bottled up in “self- sympathy”, any development of the Being becomes something more than impossible…

What truly counts in these studies is the manner in which human beings behave internally and invisibly with one another…”

Master Samael Aun Weor,Buddha Maitreya,

From “Revolutionary Psychology”, Ch. 22

Practice:

“The breath sweeps the mind”

1. Inhale serenity, exhale all tensions.2. With serene observation, discover the origin of your own “internal noise”. From

where it is coming? Can you observe how the “inner confusion” is generated from this internal chatter?

3. Can you see the “self sympathy” implicated?4. Sweep the mind breathing serenity. Keep the mind at home.

l.ll.- MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS.

“Obviously, in our mind there are thousands of representations that can be altered if we take part in negative conversations, if we give an ear to slander, if we hear that “they say that,”etc. Due to all of these and other things, it is not advisable to give an ear to the negative words of people; to do so is a serious error. Moreover, not only do our psychological aggregates constitute a burden that we carry inside, but so do the living representations of our psychological defects. Therefore, we must not forget this matter about the representation of our understanding.

Walkers of the path, for giving an ear to negative conversations, for being in huddles where negative phrases can be heard, you usually deform many representations of understanding, and these, in the world of the mind, consist of real demons which form and create obstacles or a series of impassable obstacles for the awakening of the Consciousness. In this way, we can site the case of many Gnostic students who, at night, usually have innumerable dreams of a negative type; sometimes they dream they kill another person, etc. It is a most serious matter to carry such enemies

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inside oneself, in one’s own mind. Obviously, the most recommendable thing for our negative representations is to appeal to the annular serpentine power, to invoke Devi Kundalini Shakti so she will destroy these negative representations.”

Master Samael Aun WeorBuddha Maitreya

From lecture: “Mental representations”

The Lankavatara-sutra states:

“The reflection of form in a mirrorIs an image without substance.

Duality –like that image-Is a projection of the mind.

The perception of external phenomena as realityIs caused by diverse thoughts

Rooted in the psychic residue of past lives.This is the transitory mind.

It creates all forms.What appears to be external reality

Is actually nonexistent.The seeming self within the body

Experiencing the sensesIs only the mind; this I proclaim.”

The Ratnamegha-sutra comments:

“The world is led by the mind.The mind does not see itself;

Good or bad actions are caused by the mind.It revolves like a fire wheel,

Moves like waves,Burns like a forest fire,

Widens like a great river.”

Practice:

“The cave of Plato”

1. Inhale serenity, exhale all tensions.2. With serene observation, discover “the living representations of our

psychological defects”. [brief comments about “the cave of Plato” in our own mind –the psychological elaboration of mental representations- opinions, images, mental dictators, fallacies, etc…]

3. Bring your creative comprehension to this sentence:

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“The reflection of form in a mirrorIs an image without substance.

Duality –like that image-Is a projection of the mind (Ego).”

4.- With great devotion, invoke Devi Kundalini Shakti to destroy the mental representations observed. Mantra KRIM several times.5.- Keep awake everywhere, avoid mechanic reactions originated in mental representations.

l.lll.- MESSAGES FROM THE BEING

“ Unquestionably, we must not have such representations, negative or positive, within our minds. The mind should create certain serene attitudes that are at the disposition of the Being, but for that to happen, we need the human personality to become passive. A passive personality is a receptive personality, it receives the messages that come from the higher parts of the Being.

Unquestionable, such messages go through the higher centers of the Being before entering the mind. This is the advantage of having a passive personality. The mind, disgracefully, is found to be totally controlled by very heavy elements, very difficult aggregates which are related to the world of ninety-six laws, also known as the region of Tartarus.

The personality is active because it is controlled by aggregates of hate, pride, envy, and horrible lust….If we achieve the elimination of such heavy psychological elements from our psyche, our human personality turns passive and the mind becomes receptive to the messages that descend from the highest parts of the Being through the higher center of our psyche.

Now you comprehend, my dear friends, the necessity to eliminate those elements which are too heavy….

A receptive mind should be created, a mind that never projects itself, that is always receiving instead of projecting. Obviously, it would be good to accept positive or negative representations in the distance depths of understanding; such a mind would only bring the messages that come from the highest part of our fellow men. In so much as we continue giving food to the distinct representations of understanding, it will never be a prodigal mind, a progressive mind. In reality, truly, the mind is conditioned by time and by pain. Analyzing in this way we will see that not only must we eliminate the undesirable psychological aggregates, but I see we also have a very difficult problem for inner illumination, and this is that we carry to many representations, apart from all the inhuman psychological aggregates.”

Master Samael Aun WeorBuddha Maitreya, idem.

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The Vajrapanjara says:

“No external reality exists except for the mind.Everything appearing as form and the like

Is a manifestation of that very mind.”

l.lV.- THE SILENCE OF THE MIND

“ When one studies the distinct creases of the mind, one also comprehends that the calmness and total silence of understanding are not possible as long as the mind is occupied by psychological aggregates and representations. One could object, saying that there exists laudable, clear and magnificent representations. This is supposed to be acceptable, but it is not. We, as a whole, must be Being. Why must we have things that are not of the Being in our mind? I do not see why we must carry intruders in it. I have comprehended that only the Being must be in the mind, that is all. But as long as that temple is full of strange elements, things, games, huge cabinets of representations and aggregates, it can be said that there exists a deep sleep in the Consciousness, this is unconsciousness.”

Practice:

“The Empty Temple” “And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and

bought”Matthew21:12

1. Inhale serenity. Exhale all tensions.2. When you feel relaxed, start working with the mantra Wu.3. Using this powerful and beautiful mantra, start cleaning your Inner Temple

from all intruders, strange elements, things, games, huge cabinets of representations and aggregates.

4. Enjoy the Grace of the Christ in the Empty Temple and reflect this sentence: “We, as a whole, must be the Being.”

l.V.- SELECTING IMPRESSIONS: SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION

“ Let us select emotions. If someone brings us positive emotions of light, harmony, beauty, wisdom, love, poetry, and perfection, let us open the doors of our heart. To the beings that bring us negative emotions of hate, violence, jealousy, drugs, alcohol, fornication, and adultery, we must not open the doors of our heart. Let us close them, Close the doors to negative impressions. When one reflects on all of this one can perfectly modify oneself, make something better of one’s life.

We see the representation of a friend who has always helped us, he is kind, charitable, marvelous. Suddenly, someone excited, full of negative impressions, comes to us with a problem. We open the doors to those negative impressions, he is murmuring, he is saying

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that our friend is a robber, a bandit, a bank robber, and forty thousand other things. All those negative impressions enter our mind. Such an altered representation converts itself into a real demon which obstructs work on oneself. Through all of this and many other things, you can see that this necessity of cleaning the temple of the mind is very difficult, but not impossible.

We need to have a clear mind, a clean temple, without filth, without abominations of any kind. But we must know how to live, it is necessary to know how to live. In practical life disgracefully, people do not know how to live. We blame all of our sufferings and all our sorrows on others, and we are the only ones who truly are to blame…

The roots of pain are in the ego, and when the ego is terminated, all that remains in us is beauty, that beauty transforms itself into that which is called love and happiness. When the mind reaches these heights it is calm, in silence, it is no longer a mind that projects itself, it is no longer a mind that reacts just because of anything. It receives the messages that come from above, from the superior parts of the Being; it is a mind full of plenitude.

I repeat, no only should psychological aggregates be eliminated, but is clear that mental representations must also be eliminated, negative ones as well as positive ones. We need to clean the inside of our minds of all rubbish. We need the golden flame to blaze with serene light within the limits of the temple. When the mind is calm, when the mind is in silence, then something new happens…

What we need at this present time is to stop our mental laziness and work very hard on ourselves.”

Master Samael,Buddha Maitreya,

From lecture: “Mental representations”.

Practice:

“PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA MEDITATION”1. With great respect, take the text of the Prajnaparamita Sutra and sing it.2. Keep the supreme mantra: GATE, GATE, PARAGATE,

PARASAMGATE, BODHI SWAHA, in your mind.3. Later, in silence, in serene reflection bring this sentence to meditation: “We

have the golden flame blazing with serene light within the limits of the Temple.”

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l. Vl.- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SONG.

“The moment in order to very seriously reflect about that which is called “Internal Consideration” has arrived.

There is not the least bit of doubt regarding the disastrous consequences of “intimate Self-consideration.” Besides hypnotizing the consciousness, it causes us to lose a lot of energy.

If one would not make the mistake of identifying too much with one’s self, then internal Self-consideration would be something more than impossible.

When one becomes identified with his “self”, such a one loves his own self too much and feels self-pity. Often, such a person thinks that he has always behaved very well with this or that fellow, with their spouse, children, etc. and that nobody has appreciated it, etc. In summary, one is a saint and all others are scoundrels and rascals.3

Preoccupation about what others might think about our own selves is one of the most common forms of inner Self-consideration. They might suppose that we are not honest, sincere, truthful, courageous, etc..

The most intriguing aspect of all this subject matter is that we unfortunately ignore the enormous loss of energy that this kind of worrying causes us…”

Master Samael,Buddha Maitreya,

From book: “Revolutionary Psychology”, Ch. 24(To read the complete chapter is recommended before meditation)

“Therefore when I am speaking of the organization of the psyche, it must be understood that we must know how to handle and utilize these energies. We should not identify ourselves, nor forget ourselves in order not to waste our energies foolishly. When one forgets the self then one becomes identified and when one is identified then one cannot give form to the psyche, one cannot make the psyche become intelligently structured within itself because one squanders the energies foolishly. To understand this is urgent, my dear brothers and sisters.

Therefore a true Man (or Woman) is one that has saved his energies and that has built the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being by means of the same energies. A true Man is one that has received his animated and spiritual principles, a perfect Man is one that has disintegrated all of the psychic inhuman elements.”

3 Reflections about 100% of the responsibility with the life that we, ourselves, are creating every moment.

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Master Samael,Buddha Maitreya,

From lecture: “The organization of the psyche”

Practice:“Prajnaparamita Sutra Meditation”.

1. Keep the supreme mantra “GATE” in your mind.2. In serene reflection, analyze the roots of your own “psychological song”.3. Observe in particular, how that “song” does not let you live the

PRESENT MOMENT, with the consequence of a tremendous waste of energy. KRIM

“Quiet Mind, Simple Mind”

“When we are aware of ourselves, is not the wholemovement of living a way of uncovering the “me”,

the ego, the self?The self is a very complex process

that can be uncovered only inrelationship, in our daily activities, in the way

we talk, the way we judge, calculate, the way we condemnothers and ourselves. All that reveals the

conditional state of our own thinking,and it is important to be aware of this whole process?

It is only through awareness of what is truefrom moment to moment that there is discovery

of the timeless, the Eternal.Without self-knowledge, the Eternal can not be. When

we do not know ourselves, the Eternal becomes a mere word, a symbol, a speculation,

a dogma, a belief, an illusion to which the mind can escape.But if one begins to understand the “me” in all its various

activities from day to day, thenin that very understanding, without any effort,

the nameless, the timeless comes into being.But the timeless is not a reward of self-knowledge.

That which is eternal cannot be sought after; the mind cannot acquire it.

It comes into being when the mind is quiet,and the mind can be quiet only when it is simple, when it is no

longer storing up, condemning, judging, weighing.It is only the simple mind that can

understand the real, not the mind that is full of words, knowledge,information. The mind that analyzes,

calculates, is not a simple mind.”J. Krishnamurti,

From: “The book of life”.

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ll.- ONTHOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTS OF SERENE REFLECTION

“Jesus said:When you know yourselves,

then you will be known, and you will understand that

you are children of theLiving Father. But if you do not

know yourselves, then youlive in misery, and you

are the misery.”Gospel of Thomas

“If you can become an observer of your “I”, the ego, (the poverty of the Gospel of Thomas) how

will that change your perception of reality?”

“Do you realize that the “I”, isthe creator of your current state of living?”4

“What are your assumptions of reality? What’s the mostbasic one you make every day?”

“What paradigm governs your reality?What are the dogmas in your own life? How do they govern

how you perceive yourself and your reality?

“How has dualism affected the way you perceive yourself and reality?”

Practice:

“Precepts of Gnostic Philosophy”

1. Inhale serenity, exhale all tensions.2. In a state of conscious serenity, reflect profoundly on these things: “The

absolute modification of the erroneous states originates complete transformations in the field of practical life….We must consider life as a successive series of interior states. The authentic history of our life in particular is formed by these states…”

3. So, what is reality?

4 Reflective questions extracted and modified from the book: What the bleep do we know?

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“The only thing constant is change.”Lao Tse

“You can’t step into the same river twice.”Heraclitus

“Everything passes.”Samael Aun Weor

ll.l THE BEING: “THAT WHICH IS!”

“Take everything from each moment because each momentis a child of Gnosis; each moment is absolute, alive and significant.

Momentariness is a special characteristic of the Gnostics.We love the philosophy of momentariness.”

Samael Aun Weor

“It is only in the absence of the “I”, in the absence of the mind, that the Buddhata can awaken to unite with the Inner Self and take us to ecstasy…

The stillness and silence of the mind has a single objective: to liberate the Essence from the mind, so that when fused with the Monad or Inner Self, it (the Essence) can experience that which we call the Truth…

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives…

When we practice meditation, our mind is assaulted by many memories, desires, passions, preoccupations, etc.

We must avoid the conflict between attention and distraction. A conflict exists between attention and distraction when we combat those assailants of the mind. The “I” is the projector of such mental assailants of the mind. The “I” is the projector of such mental assailants. Where there is conflict, stillness and silence cannot exist.

We must nullify the projector through self-observation and comprehension. Examine each image, each memory, and each thought that comes to the mind. Remember that every thought has two poles: positive and negative…

Examine the two poles of each mental form that comes to the mind. Remember that only through the study of these polarities can one arrive at a synthesis.

Every mental form can be eliminated through its synthesis…

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Bird-like thoughts should pass through the space of our own mind in a successive parade, but without leaving any trace behind.

The infinite procession of thoughts projected by the “I” is exhausted in the end, and then the mind remains still and in silence.

“A great Self-realized Master said, “only when the projector, in other words, the “I”, is completely absent, will the silence (which is not a product of the mind) then befall. This silence is inexhaustible; it is not of time, and it is immeasurable. It is only then, when, THAT which is, arrives.”

This whole technique is summarized in two principles:1. Profound reflection2. Tremendous serenity

This technique of meditation with its non-thinking puts to work the most central part of the mind, the one that produces the ecstasy.

Remember that the central part of the mind is that which is called Buddhata, the Essence, the Consciousness.

When the Buddhata awakens we remain illuminated. We need to awaken the Buddhata, the Consciousness”.5

Practice

1. The Six Paths of Perfect Concentration.2. Mo Chao.

ll.ll. THE CHRIST: ARCHETYPE OF PERFECTION AND EMPTINESS.6

According to St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, the effects of true prayer are twofold: illumination of the mind (through attention), and contrition of heart (through the mind’s descent into it and the heart’s awareness of God’s presence). When contrition seizes the heart through the action of the wordless Word within it, then man’s spirit begins to experience, in some small measure, the life of the Christ Himself.

“The truly humble man”, says St. Isaac the Syrian, “wishes to enter and dwell in stillness, to forsake totally his former conceptions together with his senses, and to become as something that does not exist in creation, which has not come into being in this world, which is totally unknown even to his soul and his senses. And so long as such a man hidden, locked away and withdrawn from the world, he remains wholly with his Lord.”

5 Master Samael, Buddha Maitreya, from the book: “Revolution of the Dialectic”, Ch. lll6 See the master Samael commentaries on chapters 4,5,6 and 7 of Pistis Sophia Unveiled.

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This is the perfect self-emptying and self-forgetting of one’s self, known to man’s spirit as love, love between God and man, and between the three Persons of the Divinity.

“Imagine, in the center of the sun, in the dazzling light of its midday rays, the face of a man talking to you. You see the movement of his lips and the changing expression of his eyes, you hear his voice, you feel someone holding your shoulders; yet you do not see his hands, you do not even see yourself or his figure, but only a blinding Light spreading far around for several yards and illuminating with its glaring sheen both the snow blanket which covered the forest glade and the snowflakes which besprinkled me and the great Elder.”

S. Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833)About his experience with the Uncreated Grace of the Holy Spirit,

Who is the Christ himself, after His ascent (Gospel of John, Ch. 16).

“One is the light of glory of the Holy Spirit. Another is the glory of Christ, and another the glory of the Father. The three forms of Logoic Light are of a diverse class and diverse type, one more excellent than the other. However, the entire Logoic Triple Light is one. The Triple World of the Logos is the glory of Atziluth”.7

Practice

“The Hymn of Jesus”8

1. The Isis will light 12 small candles on the altar.2. The participants form a chain around the altar, answering “AMEN!”

“Glory to Thee, Father!(And we go round in a ring answer to Him:)

Amen!Glory to Thee, Word (Logos)!

Amen!Glory to Thee, Grace (Charis)!

Amen!Glory to Thee, Spirit!   Glory to Thee, Holy One!   Glory to Thy Glory!

Amen!We praise Thee, O Father;   We give Thanks to Thee, O light;   In Whom Darkness dwells not!

Amen!For what we give thanks to the Logos.

I would be saved; and I would save.Amen!

I would be loosed; and I would loose.Amen!

7 Master Samael, in the book Pistis Sophia Unveiled, Ch. 5.8 From: “The Acts of John”.

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I would be wounded; and I would wound.Amen!

I would be begotten; and I would beget.Amen!

I would eat; and I would be eaten.Amen!

I would hear; and I would be heard.Amen!

[I would understand; and] I would be understood; being all Understanding Amen!

I would be washed; and I would wash.Amen!

(Grace leadeth the dance.)I would pipe; dance ye all.

Amen!I would play a dirge; lament ye all.

Amen!The one Eight (Ogdoad) sounds with us.

Amen!The Twelfth number above leadeth the dance.

Amen!All whose nature is to dance [doth dance].

Amen!Who danceth not, knows not what is being done.

Amen!I would flee; and I would stay.

Amen!I would be adorned; and I would adorn.

Amen!I would be at-oned; and I would at-one.

Amen!I have no dwelling; and I have dwellings.

Amen!I have no place; and I have places.

Amen!I have no temple; and I have temples.

Amen!I am a lamp to thee who seest Me.

Amen!I am a mirror to thee who understandest Me.

Amen!I am a door to thee who knockest at Me.

Amen!I am a way to thee a wayfarer.

Amen!Now answer to My dancing!

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See thyself in Me who speaks; And seeing what I do, Keep silence in My Mysteries.Understand by dancing, what I do; For thine is the Passion of Man, That I am to suffer.Thou couldst not at all be conscious, Of what thou dost suffer,  I am thy Word; I was sent by the Father.Seeing what I suffer,Thou sawest Me as suffering;  And seeing, thou didst not stand, But wast moved wholly,  Moved to be wise.Thou hast Me for a couch; rest thou upon Me.Who I am thou shalt know when I depart.  What now I am seen to be, that I am not. [But what I am] thou shalt see when thou comest.If thou hadst known how to suffer,  Thou wouldst have power not to suffer.  Know [then] how to suffer, and thou hast power not to suffer.That which thou knowest not, I Myself will teach thee.I am thy God, not the Betrayer'sI would be kept in time with holy souls.In Me know thou the Word of Wisdom. 

Say thou to Me again:Glory to Thee, Father!  Glory to Thee, Word!  Glory to Thee, Holy Spirit!

 But as for Me, if thou wouldst know what I was:  In a word I am the Word who did dance all things, and was not shamed at all. 'Twas I who leaped [and danced].But do thou understand all, and, understanding, say:

Glory to Thee, Father!Amen!

(And having danced these things with us, Beloved, the Lord went forth. And we, as though beside ourselves, or wakened out of [deep sleep, fled each our several ways”.

Practice1. Sit in silence.2. Practicing HAM SAH evoke the invisibility of the Christ: Be invisible for

your personality, be invisible for your physical body and any kind of sensation, be invisible for your internal bodies, be invisible for the “I” in the mind, in the feelings, be invisible for the memory and for the mental representations.

3. Pray to the Christ for His Invisibility and go into His Light.

lll.- THE HOLY SILENCE

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“ Come Holy Love, Divine Volitive Energy,and transform my will making it one with yours!

Come Supreme Power and descend over those whoknow the Mystery!

Come excelsior valor and give me the temperanceand force that is needed to penetrate it! Come Holy Silence

who speaks of the power and magnitude that Heencompasses and reveal to me the occult!

Come and reveal to me the Mystery!Descend over us Holy Dove of white plumage…”

The Gnostic Mass

In the Gospel of John, chapter 16, we read:

“4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

 5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

 6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

  8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

And, in “The Yellow Book”, Master Samael unveils this mystery of the “Paraclitus” [the Conforter] saying:

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“The Kundalini is the igneous serpent of our magical powers. This sacred serpent, which is coiled up three and a half times, is dormant within the Church of Ephesus. The Kundalini is the Divine Mother. The Kundalini is the Pentecostal Fire. The Sanctuary of the Divine Mother is located in the heart…

“The fires of the spinal medulla are Jehovistic. The fires of the heart are Christic. The fires of the head (between the eyebrows) spark the terrible divine rays of the Father.

The ascent of the sacred serpent through the medullar canal is controlled by the fires of the heart. The Kundalini evolves and progresses according to the merits of the heart.

The Kundalini must ascend towards the brain; it must then proceed towards the sacred sanctuary of the heart.

The Kundalini dwells within the electrons. Sages meditate on the Kundalini. Devotees adore and worship the Kundalini in their homes of perfection…

The Kundalini awakens with sexual magic combined with pranayama, concentration, meditation, profound devotion, willpower, comprehension and sacred mantras…

Whosoever raises the energy of the Kundalini to the pineal gland, actually achieves supra-consciousness (State of Nirvikalpa Samadhi). The person who reaches this higher state is an illuminated one, a God…

This is how we become kings/queens and priests/priestesses of Nature according to the Order of Melchizedek.

The atom of the Father is found within the magnetic center at the root of the nose. The atom of the Son is found in the pituitary gland and the atom of the Holy Spirit is found in the pineal gland.”9

Practice1. Intensely full of attention practice PRANAYAMA.2. Mantra: Kandil-Bandil Rrrrrrrrrrrrr3. Invocation of the Holy Spirit.4. Profound meditation in this sentence:

“Come Holy Silencewho speaks of the power and magnitude that He

encompasses and reveal to me the occult!Come and reveal to me the Mystery!

Descend over us Holy Dove of white plumage…”

9 Master Samael: “The Yellow Book” , chapter 2.

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End of this spiritual retreat.Comentaries and blessings.

lV. ATTACHMENT

The Heart Sutra: Prajnaparamita-Hridaya-Sutra

Om namo bhagavatyai arya-prajnaparamitayai!

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Om! Salutation to the blessed and noble one! (who has reached the other shore of the most excellent transcendental wisdom).

(In this invocation the perfection of transcendental wisdom is personified as the compassionate mother of bodhi – wisdom (Sophia) -- who bestows enlightenment upon the bodhisattvas who had vigilantly followed the course prescribed for the aspirant to full enlightenment -- samyak sambodhi.)

Verse 1

arya-avalokitesvaro bodhisattvo gambhiram prajnaparamitacaryam caramano vyavalokayati sma: panca-skandhas tams ca svabhavasunyan pasyati sma.

The noble bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara, being engaged in practicing the deep transcendental wisdom-discipline, looked down from above upon the five skandhas (aggregates), and saw that in their svabhava (self-being) they are devoid of substance.

Verse 2

iha sariputra rupam sunyata sunyataiva rupam, rupan na prithak sunyata sunyataya na prithag rupam, yad rupam sa sunyata ya sunyata tad rupam; evam eva vedana-samjna-samskara-vijnanam.

Here, O Sariputra, bodily-form is voidness; verily, voidness is bodily-form. Apart from bodily-form there is no voidness; so apart from voidness there is no bodily-form. That which is voidness is bodily-form; that which is bodily-form is voidness. Likewise (the four aggregates) feeling, perception, mental imaging, and consciousness (are devoid of substance).

Verse 3

iha sariputra sarva-dharmah sunyata-laksala, anutpanna aniruddha, amala avimala, anuna aparipurnah.

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Here, O Sariputra, all phenomena of existence are characterized by voidness: neither born nor annihilated, neither blemished nor immaculate, neither deficient nor overfilled.

Verse 4

tasmac chariputra sunyatayam na rupam na vedana na samjna na samskarah na vijnanam. na caksuh-srotra-ghrana-jihva-kaya-manamsi. na rupa-sabda-gandha-rasa-sprastavya-dharmah. na caksur-dhatur yavan na manovijnana-dhatuh. na-avidya na-avidya-ksayo yavan na jaramaranam na jara-marana-ksayo. na duhkha-samudaya-nirodha-marga. na jnanam, na praptir na-apraptih.

Therefore, O Sariputra, in voidness there is no bodily-form, no feeling, no mental imaging, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sense objects of bodily-form, sound, smell, taste, or touchable states; no visual element, and so forth, until one comes to no mind-cognition element. There is no ignorance, nor extinction of ignorance, until we come to: no aging and death, nor extinction of aging and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no cessation, no path; there is no higher knowledge, no attainment (of nirvana), no nonattainment.

Verse 5

tasmac chariputra apraptitvad bodhisattvasya prajnaparamitam asritya vibaraty acittavaranah. cittavarana-nastitvad atrasto viparyasa-ati-kranto nistha-nirvana-praptah.

Therefore, O Sariputra, by reason of his nonattainment (of nirvana), the bodhisattva, having resorted to prajnaparamita (transcendental wisdom), dwells serenely with perfect mental freedom. By his non-possession of mental impediments (the bodhisattva) without fear, having surpassed all perversions, attains the unattainable (bliss of) nirvana.

Verse 6

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tryadhva-vyavasthitah sarva-buddhah prajnaparamitam asritya-anut-taram samyaksambodhim abhisambuddhah.

All Buddhas, self-appointed to appear in the three periods of time (past, present, and future), having resorted to the incomparable prajnaparamita, have become fully awake to samyak sambodhi (absolute perfect enlightenment).

Verse 7

tasmaj jnatavyam: prajnaparamita maha-mantro mahavidya-mantro 'nuttara-mantro samasama-mantrah, sarva-duhkha-prasamanah, satyam amithyatvat. prajnaparamitayam ukto mantrah. tadyatha: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. iti prajnaparamita-hridayam sa-maptam.

Therefore prajnaparamita should be recognized as the great mantra, the mantra of great wisdom, the most sublime mantra, the incomparable mantra and the alleviator of all suffering; it is truth by reason of its being nonfalsehood. This is the mantra proclaimed in prajnaparamita. It is:

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond (to the other

shore)!

O enlightenment! Be it so! Hail!

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AVALOKITESHVARA BUDDHATHE COSMIC CHRIST

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