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Gnosis is usually interpreted as the search for an La Gnosis suele interpretase como la bsqueda de absolute and liberating knowledge un conocimiento absoluto y liberador

REVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

PSICOLOGIA REVOLUCIONARIA

All the teachers of school, college and uniLos maestros y maestras de escuela, versity should study in depth the Revolutionary colegios y universidades deberan estudiar a fondo Psychology taught by the International Gnostic la Psicologa Revolucionaria que ensea el Movement. Movimiento Gnstico Internacional The Psychology of the Revolution in Pro- La Psicologa de la Revolucin en Marcha es gress is radically different from all that has been radicalmente diferente a todo cuanto antes se known by this name before. conoci con este nombre. We can say, without a doubt and without any fear of making a mistake, that in the course of the preceding centuries since the profound Night of all Ages, never ever, has the Psychology fallen so low as it actually has in these times of the rebels without a cause and the rock stars. Fuera de toda duda, podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos que en el curso de los siglos que nos han precedido desde la noche profunda de todas las edades, jams la Psicologa haba cado tan bajo como actualmente en esta poca de rebeldes sin causa y caballeritos del Rock.

La psicologa retardataria y reaccionaria The retarded and reactionary Psychology of these modern times, is at the height of disgrace and de estos tiempos modernos, para colmo de desgrahas lamentably already lost its sense of being, and cias, ha perdido lamentablemente su sentido de ser y todo contacto directo con su verdadadero origen. all its direct contact with its true origin. In these times of sexual degeneration and total deterioration of the mind, it is not only impossible to define with whole exactness the term psychology, but furthermore, the basic subjects of Psychology are truly unknown. En estos tiempos de degeneracin sexual y total deterioro de la mente, ya no solamente se hace imposible difinir con entera exactitud el trmino Psicologa, sino que adems se desconocen verdaderamente las materias bsicas de la Psicologa.

Whoever mistakenly assumes that PsychoQuienes suponen equivocadamente que la logy is a contemporary science of the modern Psicologa es una ciencia contempornea de ltima times, is totally confused because Psychology is a hora estn realmente confundidos por que la very ancient science which has its origin in the Psicologa es una ciencia antiqusima que tiene su Schools of Archaic Mysteries. origen en las Escuelas de los Misterios Arcaicos. To the snob, to the ultramodern scoundrel, Al tipo del snob, al bribn ultramoderno al to the retarded person, it is impossible to define that which is called Psychology because with the excep- retardatario, le resulta imposible definir eso que se tion of this contemporary epoch, it is obvious that conoce como Psicologa porque a excepcin de Psychology never existed under its proper name esta poca contempornea, es obvio que la due to the fact that for many reasons it was always Psicologa jams existi bajo su propio nombre suspicious of the subversive tendencies of political debido a que, por tales o cuales motivos siempre or religious character; and because of that it was fue sospechosa de tendencias subversivas de carcter poltico o religioso y por ello se vi en la forced to disguise itself with multiple robes. necesidad de disfrazarse con mltiples ropajes. 1

Since ancient times, in different scenes of Desde los antiguos tiempos, en los distintos the theater of life, Psychology has always played its escenarios del teatro de la vida , la Psicologa roll intelligently disguised with the robes of Phi- represent siempre su papel, disfrazada losophy. inteligentemente con el ropaje de la Filosofa. Since the dreadful Night of Centuries, at the shores of the Ganges river, in the sacred Indian land of the Vedas, there have existed some forms of Yoga which deep inside are pure experimental Psychology of a high degree. A orillas del Ganges, en la India sagrada de los Vedas, desde la noche aterradora de los siglos, existen formas de Yoga que en el fondo vienen a ser pura Psicololga Experimental de altos vuelos

The seven yogas have always been deLas siete yogas han sido descritas siempre scribed as methods, philosophical systems or proce- como mtodos, procedimientos o sistemas filosfiedings. cos. En el mundo rabe, las sagradas enseanzas In the Arab world, the Sufis sacred teach- de los Sufis, en parte metafsicas en parte ings, are in part metaphysical and in part religious; religiosas, son realmente de orden Psicolgico. they are in reality of a Psychological order. En la vieja Europa podrida hasta el tutano Even in ancient Europe (rotten to the bones de los huesos, con tantas guerras, prejuicios marrow with so many wars, racial, religious, and raciales, religiosos, polticos, etc., todava hasta political prejudices), in order to go by unnoticed, finales del siglo pasado la Psicologa se disfraz Psychology was disguised with the robes of Phi- con el traje de la Filosofa para poder pasar losophy until the end of the past century. desapercibida. Philosophy, despite all its divisions and subdivisions such as Logic, the Theory of Knowledge, Ethics, Aesthetic, etc., is without a doubt in itself evident self-reflection, mystic cognition of the Being, and cognocitive functioning of the awakened Consiousness. La Filosofa a pesar de todas sus divisiones y subdivisiones como son la Lgica, la Teora del Conocimiento, la Etica, la Esttica, etc., es fuera de toda duda en s misma auto reflexin evidente, cognicin mstica del Ser, funcionalismo cognocitivo de la Consciencia despierta.

The mistake of many Philosophical schools El error de muchas escuelas filosficas is to consider Psychology as something inferior to consiste en haber considerado a la Psicologa Philosophy, like something related only to the low- como algo inferior a la Filosofa, como algo est aspects, and even trivial, to human nature. relacionado nicamente con los aspectos ms bajos y hasta triviales de la naturaleza humana. A comparative study of religions permits us to reach the logical conclusion that the science of Un estudio comparativo de religiones nos Psychology has always been associated in an inti- permite llegar a la conclusin lgica de que la mate way with all the religious principles. ciencia de la Psicologa siempre estuvo asociada en forma muy ntima a todos los principios Any comparative study of religions comes religiosos. to demonstrate that in the most orthodox sacred literature from different countries and different epCualquier estudio comparativo de religioochs, there exist wonderful treasures of the Psycho- nes viene a demostrarnos que en la literatura logical science. sagrada ms ortodoxa de diversos pases y diferentes pocas, existen maravillosos tesoros de la ciencia psicolgica. 2

Deep investigations in the terrains of Gnosticism permit us to find that wonderful compilation of different Gnostic authors who come from the origins of Christianity and it is known under the title of PHILOKALIA, which is still used today in the oriental Church, especially for the instruction of monks. Without a doubt and without the least bit of fear of falling into self-deceit, we can emphatically affirm that PHILOKALIA is essentially pure experimental Psychology. In the ancient Mystery Schools of Greece, Egypt, Rome, India, Persia, Mxico, Per, Assyria, Chaldea, etc., Psychology was always tied to Philosophy, to the real objective art, to science and to religion. In ancient times, Psychology intelligently hid within the gracious forms of the sacred dancers or within the enigma of the remarkable hieroglyphics or in the beautiful sculptures or in the poetry or in the tragedy [of the theatre] and even in the delightful music of the temples.

Investigaciones de fondo en el terreno del Gnosticismo nos permiten hallar esa maravillosa compilacin de diversos autores Gnsticos que vienen de los primeros tiempos del Cristianismo y que se conoce bajo el ttulo de PHILOKALIA, usada todava en nuestros das en la iglesia oriental, especialmente para la instrucccin de los monjes. Fuera de toda duda y sin el ms mnimo temor a caer en engaos podemos afirmar enfticamente que la PHILOKALIA es esecialmente pura Psicologa experimental. En las antiguas Escuelas de Misterios de Grecia, Egipto, Roma, India, Persia, Mxico, Per, Asiria, Caldea, etc., la Psicologa siempre estuvo ligada a la Filosofa, al arte objetivo real, a la ciencia y a la religin. En los antiguos tiempos, la Psicologa se ocultaba inteligentemente entre las formas graciosas de las danzarinas sagradas o entre el enigma de los extraos geroglficos o las bellas esculturas en la poesa en la tragedia y hasta en la msica deliciosa de los templos.

Before science, philosophy, art and religion Antes de que la ciencia, la filosofa, el arte y separated to live independently; Psychology la religin se separaran para vivir independienreigned sovereign in all ancient Schools of the temente, la Psicologa rein soberana en todas la Mysteries. antiqusimas Escuelas de Misterios. When the Initiatic Schools closed due to the Kali-Yuga or dark era in which we still are; Psychology survived among the symbolism of the different esoteric and pseudo-esoteric schools of the modern World, and especially among Gnostic esotericism. Profound analysis and deep investigations permit us to comprehend with very sharp clarity that the different psychological systems and doctrines that existed in the past and exist in the present may be divided into two categories: Cuando los Colegios Iniciticos se cerraron debido al Kali-Yuga o edad negra en que todava estamos; la Psicologa sobrevivi entre el simbolis-mo de las diversas escuelas esotricas y pseudo-esotricas del mundo moderno, y muy especialmente entre el esoterismo Gnstico. Profundos anlisis e investigaciones de fondo nos permiten comprender con toda claridad meridiana que los distintos sistemas y doctrinas psicolgicas que existieron en el pasado y que existen en el presente se pueden dividir en dos categoras:

First: The doctrines that many intellectuals assume. Modern Psychology belongs, in fact, to Primera: Las doctrinas tal como muchos this category. entelectuales las suponen. La Psicologa moderna pertenece de hecho a esta categora. Second: The doctrines that study man from the Revolution of the Consciousness point of view. Segunda: Las doctrinas que estudian al hombre desde el punto de vista de la Revolucin de la Consciencia. 3

The latter ones are indeed the original docEstas ltimas son en verdad las doctrinas trines, the most ancient. Only they allow us to originales, las ms antguas. Slo ellas nos permicomprehend the living origins of Psychology and ten compreder los orgenes vivientes de la Psicoloits profound significance. ga y su profunda significacin. When everyone of us has comprehended in integral form, and in all the levels of the mind, how important the study of man is from the new point of view of the Revolution of Consciousness, then we will understand that Psychology is the study of principles, laws and facts that are intimately related to the individuals radical and definitive transformation. It is urgent that all the teachers of school, college and university comprehend in integral form the critical times in which we live and the catastrophic state of psychological disorientation that the new generation is in. Cuando todos nosotros hayamos comprendido en forma ntegra y en todos los niveles de la mente, cuan importante es el estudio del hombre desde el nuevo punto de vista de la Revolucin de la Consciencia, entenderemos entonces que la Psicologa es el estudio de principios, leyes y hechos intimamente relacionados con la transformacin radical y definitiva del individuo. Es urgente que los maestros y maestras de escuelas colegios y universidades comprendan en forma ntegra la hora crtica en que vivimos y el catastrfico estado de desorientacin psicolgica en que se encuentra la nueva generacin.

It is necessary to motivate the children of Es necesario encausar a la nueva ola por el the new age by way of the Revolution of the Con- camino de la Revolucin de la Consciencia, y esto sciousness and this is only possible through the slo es posible mediante la Psicologa ReFundamental Educations Revolutionary Psychol- volucionaria de la Educacin Fundamental. ogy.

THE CONSCIOUSNESS

LA CONSCIENCIA

People associate Consciousness with inLas gentes confunden a la Consciencia con telligence or with the intellect, and a very intelli- la inteligencia o con el intelecto y a la persona muy gent and intellectual person is given the adjective of inteligente o muy intelectual le dan el calificativo very conscious. de muy consciente We affirm that Consciousness in man is without a doubt and without fear of self deceit, a very particular kind of apprehension of the inner knowledge totally independent of any mental activity. Nosotros afirmamos que la Consciencia en el hombre es fuera de toda duda y sin temor a engaarnos, una especie muy particular de aprehension del conocimiento interior totalmente independiente de toda actividad mental.

The faculty of the Consciousness permits us La facultad de la Consciencia nos permite the knowledge of ourselves. el conocimiento de s mismos. Consciousness gives us integral knowledge La Consciencia nos d conocimiento nof where it is, of what it is, of what in reality one tegro de lo que es, de dnde est, de lo que realknows, and of what one certainly ignores. mente se sabe, de lo que ciertamente se ignora. Revolutionary Psychology teaches that only La Psicologa Revolucionaria ensea que man, himself, may know about his own Conscious- slo el hombre mismo puede saber de su propia ness and whether it exists in a given moment or not. Consciencia y si sta existe en un momento dado o no. Man, himself, and nobody else but him, may learn for an instant, for a moment, that before that El hombre mismo y nadie ms que l puede instant, before that moment, he was not conscious, darse cuenta por un instante, por un momento, de he had his Consciousness well asleep, afterwards he que antes de ese instante, antes de ese momento, no will forget that experience or he will preserve it as a era consciente, tena su Consciencia muy dormida; reminiscence, as a remembrance of a very strong despus olvidar esa experiencia o la conservar experience. como un recuerdo, como el recuerdo de una fuerte experiencia. It is urgent to know that Consciousness in the rational animal is not something continuous, or Es urgente saber que la Consciencia en el permanent. animal racional, no es algo contnuo, permanente. 5

Normally Consciousness in the rational Normalmentela Consciencia en el animal animal is not something continuous, or permanent. racional no es algo continuo, permanente. Normally, in the intellectual animal called Normalmente la Consciencia en el animal man, Consciousness sleeps profoundly. intelectual llamado hombre, duerme profundamente. Few, very few, are the moments in which Raros, muy raros son los momentos en que the Consciousness is awake. The intellectual ani- la Consciencia est despierta; el animal intelectual mal works, drives automobiles, gets married, dies, trabaja, maneja carros, se casa, muere, etc., con la etc., with the Consciousness totally asleep and only Consciencia totalmente dormida y slo en at very exceptional moments does he wake up. momentos muy excepcionales despierta. A human beings life is a life of dreams, but La vida del ser humano es una vida de he believes he is awake and would never admit that sueo, pero l cree que est despierto y jams he is dreaming, that he has his Consciousness admitira que est soando, que tiene la asleep. consciencia dormida. If somebody succeeded in waking up, he would feel awfully ashamed of himself, he would comprehend immediately his clownishness, his mockery. This life is terribly ridiculous, horribly tragic and very seldom sublime. If a boxer were to awaken all of a sudden while boxing, he would look ashamed at the honorable public and he would flee from the horrible spectacle, to the astonishment of the asleep and unconscious multitudes. Si alguien llegara a despertar, se sentira espantosamente avergonzado consigo mismo, comprendera de inmediato su payazada, su ridiculez. Esta vida es espantosamente ridcula, horriblemente trgica y rara vez sublime. Si un boxeador llegara a despertar de inmediato en plena pelea, mirara avergonzado a todo el honorable pblico y huira del horrible espectculo, entre el asombro de las dormidas e inconscientes multitudes.

When the human being admits that he has Cuando el ser humano admite que tiene la his Consciousness asleep, you can be sure that he is Consciencia dormida, podis estar seguros de que beginning to wake up. ya comienza a despertar. The reactionary schools of antiquated Psychology which deny the existence of Consciousness, and even the uselessness of such a term, demonstrate that they are in the most profound dream state. The partisans of such schools sleep very profoundly, practically into a state of infra consciousness and unconsciousness. Las escuelas reaccionarias de Psicologa anticuada que niegan la existencia de la Consciencia y hasta la inutilidad de tal trmino, acusan el estado de sueo ms profundo. Los secuaces de tales escuelas duermen muy profundamente en un estado prcticamente infraconsciente e inconsciente.

Whoever confuses Consciousness with psyQuienes confunden la consciencia con las chological functions: thoughts, feelings, movement funciones psicolgicas, pensamientos, sentimientos, impulses and sensations; they are indeed very un- impulsos motrices y sensaciones, realmente estan conscious, they sleep profoundly. muy inconscientes, duermen profundamente. Whoever admits the existence of the ConQuienes admiten la existencia de la sciousness but fully denies the different Conscien- Consciencia pero niegan de plano los distintos tive degrees, shows lack of conscious experiences, grados conscientivos, acusan falta de experiencia and dreams of the Consciousness. consciente, sueo de la Consciencia. 6

Any person that, for the first time, has Toda persona que por alguna vez haya awakened consciousness momentarily knows very despertado momentneamente, sabe muy bien por well by their own experience that there exist differ- experiencia propia que existen distintos grados de ent degrees of consciousness observable within consciencia observables en uno mismo. oneself. Primero: Tiempo. Cunto tiempo permaFirst: Time. How long have we stayed con- necimos conscientes? scious? Segundo: Frecuencia. Cuntas veces heSecond: Frequency. How many times have mos despertado Consciencia? we awakened consciousness? Tercero: Amplitud y penetracin. De qu Third: Amplitude and Penetration. What se era consciente? were we conscious about? La Psicologa Revolucionaria y la antigua The Revolutionary Psychology and the an- PHILOKALIA afirman que mediante grandes sucient PHILOKALIA affirm that, through great per esfuerzos de tipo muy especial se puede despersuper efforts of a very special kind, one can awaken tar consciencia y hacerla contnua y controlable. consciousness and make it continuous and controllable. La Educacin Fundamental tiene por objeto despertar consciencia. De nada sirven diez Fundamental Education has as its main o quince aos de estudio en la escuela, el colegio y objective to awaken Consciousness. What is the la universidad si al salir de las aulas somos good of going to school, college and university and autmatas dormidos. studying for ten or fifteen years if when we leave the classrooms we are sleeping robots? No es exageracin afirmar que mediante algn gran esfuerzo puede el animal intelectual ser It is not an exaggeration to affirm that consciente de s mismo tan solo por un par de through some great effort, the intellectual animal minutos. may be conscious of himself for only a couple of minutes. Es claro que en esto suelen haber raras excepciones que tenemos que buscar con la It is clear that in all of this there may have linterna de Digenes, esos casos raros estn been a few exceptions which we have to seek with representados por los Hombres verdaderos: Diogenes lantern; those rare cases are repre- Buddha, Jesus, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl, etc. sented by true Men like: Buddha, Jesus, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl1, etc. Estos fundadores de religiones poseyeron consciencia contnua, fueron grandes iluminados. Those founders of religions possessed continuous consciousness, they were greatly illumiNormalmente las gentes no son conscientes nated. de s mismas. La ilusin de ser conscientes en forma contnua nace de la memoria y de todos los Normally people are not conscious of them- procesos del pensamiento. selves. The illusion of being conscious in a continuous form is born from memory and from all the processes of thought.

Quetzalcoatl: pronounced "Ket-zal-ko-ah-tle"

A man who practices a retrospective exercise to remember his whole life, can indeed remember recall how many times he got married, how many children he engendered, who his parents were, his teachers, etc. But this does not mean to have awakened the Consciousness, this is simply to remember unconscious acts, thats it.

El hombre que practica un ejercicio retrospectivo para recordar toda su vida, puede en verdad rememorar, recordar, cuntas veces se cas, cuntos hijos engendr, quienes fueron sus padres, sus maestros, etc.; pero esto no significa despertar consciencia, esto es sencillamente recordar actos inconscientes y eso es todo.

It is necessary to repeat what we have alEs necesario repetir lo que ya dijimos en ready said in preceding chapters. There exist four precedentes captulos. Existen cuatro estados de states of consciousness. These are: dreaming, state consciencia. Estos son: sueo, estado de vigilia, of vigil, self-consciousness, and objective con- autoconsciencia y consciencia objetiva. sciousness. El pobre animal intelectual equivocadaThe poor intellectual animal mistakenly mente llamado Hombre, slo vive en los primeros called man, only lives in two of those states. One dos de esos estados. Una parte de su vida part of his life goes by in dreams and the other in transcurre en el sueo y la otra en el mal llamado the wrongly called vigil state, which is also estado de vigilia, el cual tambin es sueo. dreaming. El hombre que duerme y est soando cree A man who sleeps and is dreaming thinks he que despierta por el hecho de regresar al estado de wakes up by the mere fact that he returns to the vigilia, pero en realidad durante este estado de state of vigil, but in reality while in this vigil state vigilia contina soando. he keeps on dreaming. Esto es semejante al amanecer: se ocultan This is similar to a dawn: stars hide due to las estrellas debido a la luz solar, pero ellas sun light; but they exist anyway although physical continan existiendo aunque los ojos fsicos no las eyes couldnt perceive them. perciban. In the normal and run-of-the-mill way of En la vida normal comn y corriente, el ser living, a human being knows nothing about Self- humano nada sabe de la Auto-Consciencia y mucho Consciousness and even less about the objective menos de la Consciencia Objetiva. Consciousness. Sin embargo la gente es orgullosa y todo el Nonetheless people are proud and every- mundo se siente Auto-Consciente. El animal intebody feels self-conscious. The intellectual animal lectual cree firmemente que tiene consciencia de s firmly believes he is conscious of himself and in no mismo y de ninguna manera aceptara que le way would he accept being told that he is asleep dijesen que es un dormido y que vive inconsciente and that he lives unconscious of himself. de s mismo. There exist exceptional moments in which the intellectual animal wakes up, but those moments are very rare. They may show up in a moment of supreme danger, during an intense emotion, in any new circumstances, or in some new unexpected situation, etc. Existen momen tos excepcionales en que el animal intelectual despierta, pero esos momentos son muy raros. Pueden presentarse en un instante de peligro supremo, durante una intensa emocin, en alguna nueva circunstancia, en alguna nueva situacin inesperada, etc.

It is indeed a disgrace that the poor intellecEs verdaderamente una desgracia que el tual animal doesnt have any dominion over those pobre animal intelectual no tenga ningn dominio brief states of Consciousness that he can not evoke sobre esos estados fugaces de consciencia, que no and that he can not make them continuous. pueda evocarlos, que no pueda hacerlos contnuos. However, Fundamental Education afSin embargo la Educacin Fundamental firms that man can achieve control of the con- afirma que el hombre puede lograr el control de la sciousness and acquire self-Consciousness. consciencia y adquirir autoconsciencia. Revolutionary Psychology has scientific La Psicologa Revolucionaria tiene proceedings and methods to awaken Conscious- mtodos, procedimientos cientficos, para despertar ness. consciencia. If we want to awaken Consciousness, we need to begin by examining, studying and then eliminating all the obstacles which show up on the way. Here in this book we have shown the path to awaken Consciousness, beginning from the school benches. Si queremos despertar Consciencia necesitamos empezar por examinar, estudiar y luego eliminar todos los obstculos que se nos presentan en el camino. En este libro hemos enseado el camino para despertar Consciencia empezando desde los mismos bancos de la escuela.

Whoever wants to experience the Superior Worlds great realities without having awoken, here and now, is going by the way of error. The awakening of Consciousness gives origin to the development of the Spatial Sense and permits the experimentation of THAT which is REAL.

Querer vivenciar las grandes realidades de los mundos superiores sin haber despertado, aqu y ahora, es marchar por el camino del error. El despertar de la Cons-ciencia origina el desarrollo del sentido espacial y permite la experimentacin de ESO que es lo REAL.

Samael Aun Weor

Fundamental Education

Samael Aun Weor

Educacin Fundamental

THE THIRD STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

EL TERCER ESTADO DE CONSCIENCIA

The technique to awaken Consciousness is La tcnica para despertar Consciencia se based in the remembrance of oneself. fundamenta en la recordacin de s mismo. Every human being is fascinated by differTodo ser humano est fascinado por ent things. When a specific representation (or distintas cosas. Cuando una determinada impression) fascinates us, we forget about our- representacin (o impresin) nos fascina, nos selves and then we dream. olvidamos de nosotros mismos y entonces soamos. We have seen people during a public manifestation delivering themselves to violence, gentlemen who in their sane judgment, are not capable of articulating a bad word, but in these cases they have insulted and have thrown stones, when hidden amongst the multitudes. Behold the power of fascination: one forgets about oneself and then one dreams and, dreaming, one does absurd things. Then, afterwards, problems and shame arise. It is necessary for the Gnostic student not to let him or herself become fascinated by anything. In the presence of any kind of interesting representation one must remember oneself and ask oneself the following questions: Where am I? What am I doing here? Could I be out of my physical body? Thus one will awaken into the internal worlds. Se ha visto, a las gentes, lanzarse a la violencia durante una manifestacin pblica; caballeros que en su sano juicio no son capaces de pronunciar una mala palabra, en estos casos han insultado y han lanzado piedras, confundidos entre las multitudes. He ah el poder de la fascinacin: uno se olvida de s mismo y entonces suea y soando hace cosas absurdas. Despus viene la verguenza y los problemas. Es necesario que el estudiante gnstico no se deje fascinar por nada. En presencia de cualquier representacin interesante, debe RECORDARSE A S MISMO y hacerse las siguientes preguntas: Dnde estoy?, Qu estoy haciendo aqu? Estar fuera de mi cuerpo fsico? As despertar en los mundos internos.

Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor

Cuando uno se acuerda de s mismo, cuando trabaja sobre s mismo, cuando NO SE IDENTIFICA con todos los problemas y penas de la vida, de hecho va por la SENDA VERTICAL REVOLUCIONARIA.

When one remembers oneself, when one works on oneself, when one DOES NOT IDENTIFY with all the problems and sorrows of life, in fact, one enters the REVOLUTIONARYVERTICAL PATH.

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Introduction Those who suffer, those who cry, those who have been victims of some kind of betrayal, of a bad pay back in life, of some ungratefulness, of some slander or some fraud, in reality, they forget about themselves (about their Real Inner Being), and they completely identify with their moral tragedy.

Introduccin Quienes sufren, quienes lloran, aquellos que han sido vctimas de alguna traicin, de un mal pago en la vida, de una ingratitud, de una calumnia o de algun fraude, realmente se OLVIDAN DE SI MISMOS (de su Real Ser ntimo), se identifican completamente con su tragedia moral.

El trabajo sobre s mismos, es la caracteThe work upon ourselves is the funda- rstica fundamental del CAMINO VERTICAL. mental characteristic of the VERTICAL WAY. Nadie podra hollar la senda de la GRAN REBELNobody could step on the path of the GREAT RE- DA, si no trabajase jams sobre s mismo. BELLION, if he has never worked on himself. El trabajo al que nos estamos refiriendo, The work we are talking about, is of a psy- es de tipo psicolgico y se ocupa de cierta transforchological type and its purpose is to make certain macin del momento presente en el que nos transformations of the present moment in which we encontramos (necesitamos aprender a vivir de are (we need to learn to live from instant to in- instante en instante). stant). Por ejemplo: una persona que se For instance: a person who is desperate encuentra desesperada por algn problema because of some kind of sentimental, economic or sentimental, econmico o poltico, obviamente se political problem, has obviously forgotten about ha olvidado de s misma. him/herself. Tal persona, si se detiene un instante, si If such a person stops for a moment, if they observa la situacin, trata de recordarse a s observe the situation, and try to remember them- misma y luego se esfuerza en comprender el selves and then make efforts to comprehend the sentido de su actitud; si reflexiona un poco, si purpose of their attitude; if they reflect a little, if piensa en que todo pasa, en que la vida es ilusoria they think that everything passes, that life is illu- fugaz y en que la muerte reduce a cenizas todas la sory, fleeting and that death reduces to ashes all the vanidades del mundo; si comprende que su vanities of the world; if they understand that their problema, en el fondo no es ms que una llamarada problem, deep inside, is nothing else but a straws de petate, un fuego ftuo que pronto se apaga, ver mat flame, a will-o-the-wisp which soon will extin- tambin de pronto, con sorpresa, que todo a guish, they will also see all of a sudden, with great cambiado... surprise, that everything has changed... Transformar reacciones mecnicas es It is possible to transform mechanical reac- posible mediante la confrontacin lgica y la tions through the logical confrontation and the auto-reflexion ntima del Ser. intimate self-reflection of the Being. Quien aprende a transformar las reacWhoever learns to transform mechanical ciones mecnicas, de hecho se mete por el camino reactions, infact, enters into the vertical path. This vertical. Esto representa un cambio fundamental represents a fundamental change in the Level of the en el Nivel del Ser, resultado extraordinario de la Being, an extraordinary result of the Psychological Rebelda Psicolgica. Rebellion.

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GNOSIS 1 TEST (Pre-Chamber) NAME: ___________________________________________ DATE: __________________________________________ FAX No: ( ) ___________________________________

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GNOSIS # 1 (Answers) (Public Chamber) 1- What is Gnosis?

GNOSIS # 1 (Respuestas) (Cmara Pblica) 1- Qu es Gnosis?

It is the illuminated knowledge of the divine mysteries.

2- What is the purpose of Gnosis?

Es el conocimiento ilumindado de los misterios Divinos.

2- Cul es el propsito de la Gnosis?

It is to restore in each one of us, the ability to live consciously and intelligently, through the study, comprehension of and experimentation with art, science, philosophy and transcendental mysticism.
3- Is Psychology a new science? (explain)

Restaurar en cada uno de nosotros, la habilidad de vivir consciente e inteligentmente a travs del estudio, comprensin y experimentacin, del Arte, la Ciencia, la Filosofa y la Mstica Trascendental.
3- Es la Psicologa una Ciencia nueva? (explique)

No, Psychology is a very ancient science which has his La Psicologa is una ciencia antiqusima que tiene su origen origin in the Schools of Archaic Mysteries. en las Escuelas de Misterios Arcicos.
4- What is a SNOB? The snob is the kind of person who 4- Qu significa la palabra SNOB? always keeps on trying to do whatever is in fashion. He is El snob es el tipo de persona que trata siempre de hacer lo que est de moda. Es el prototipo del bribn. the prototype of the scoundrel. 5- Who are the SUFIS? 5- Quines son los SUFIS?

The Sufis are the Gnostics of Islam. (muslims)

6- What shows Psychology has been associated with all the religious principles?

Los Sufis son los gnsticos del Islamismo. (musulmanes)

6- Qu demuestra que la Psicologa ha sido asociada con los principios religiosos?

A comparative study of Religions allows us to arrive at El estudio comparativo de las Religiones nos permite llegar a esa conclusin lgica. that logical conclusion.
7- Qu significa FILOKALIA? Es la Psicologa experi-mental que data de los primeros It is the experimental Psychology from the first times of Christianity and it is still used in the Oriental Church for tiempos del Chistianismo y que an se usa en la iglesia oriental para la instruccin de los monjes. the instruction of monks. 7- What is PHILOKALIA?

8- What does KALI-YUGA mean to you as we have explained in class?

8- Qu significa KALI-YUGA segun lo hemos explicado en clase?

It is the end of times in which degeneration reigns because Es el final de los tiempos en que la degeneracin reina ya que es siempre al final de una raza, es la edad de hierro. it is the end of a race, it is the Dark Age. It is the study of Principles, Laws and facts intimately Es el estudio de principios, leyes y hechos ntimamente related to the individuals radical and definitive transfor- relacionados con la transformacin radical y definitiva del individuo. mation.
10- How do you understand the word CONSCSCIOUSNESS? 10- Qu entiende Ud. por CONSCIENCIA? 9- How would you define Psychology? 9- Cmo definira Ud. a la Psicologa?

It is a very particular kind of apprehension of the inner Es una especie muy particular de aprehencin del conocimiento interior totalmente independiente de toda knowledge totally independent of any mental activity. actividad mental.
11- Name some conscious MEN who have been on this planet:

Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl.

11- Mencione algunos nombres de HOMBRES conscientes que han habitado en este planeta.

Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl.

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12- Explique. Qu es el Tercer Estado de Consciencia? 12- Explain what the Third State of Consciousness is:

It is the technique to awaken Consciousness and it is based on the remembrance of oneself. It is necessary for the Gnostic student not to let himself become fascinated with anything. In the presence of anything of importance, one must remember oneself and ask oneself the following questions: Where am I? What am I doing here? Would I be out of my physical body? This way we will awake into the internal worlds.
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Es la tcnica para despertar Consciencia y se fundamenta en el recuerdo de S Mismo. Es necesario que el estudiante gnstico no se deje fascinar por nada. En presencia de cualquier representacin interesante, debe RECORDARSE a s MISMO y hacerse las siguientes preguntas: Dnde estoy? Qu estoy haciendo aqu? Estar fuera de mi cuerpo fsico? As despertar en los mundos internos.
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