Humility

“Be meek and humble, but when it regards the truth, be strong in thought, word and deed”.

Zodiacal Course, 1951

Know that evolution and its twin sister, involution, are only mechanical laws which cannot self-realise anybody, because self-realisation cannot be the result of mechanics. Be gentle and humble in thought, word and deed, but when it comes to the Truth, be strong in thought, word, and deed.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Gratitude and Kindness, The Mechanical Man

The Initiate must be temperate, faithful, chaste, humble and obedient.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in Lust and Chastity

IT IS NECESSARY FOR YOU TO REACH SUPREME HUMBLENESS.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

Whoever transforms intellectual information into true creative comprehension, whoever transforms one’s life experiences into true profound comprehension has nothing in one’s memory, lives from moment to moment filled with real plenitude, has become simple and modest even though he may live in a stately home in the city.

Fundamental Education, 1970

Experiences and studies transformed into thorough comprehension do not leave residues in the sepulcher of the memory, and thus we become simple, modest, innocent and happy.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The “I” Is Memory

It goes without saying, in this Christmas Message 1974- 1975, that patience is the ladder of the Gnostics and humility is the gate of their garden.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Science of Meditation

Martha, within ourselves, is that part of our Being who represents the virtue of humbleness.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us, The Words He Uses

Only Martha, humbleness, can proclaim the solution of the repentance of Sophia.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

Master: Sister and brothers, undoubtedly, I repeat: “For love, actions speak louder than words.” It is as bad to be overbearing as to have a “rubber spine”. I understand naturalness as modesty and simplicity.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

Each triumph of the disciple is celebrated in the ‘Children’s Hall’, with ineffable music and feasts. Each one of the four ordeals has its special celebration. The ‘Children’s Hall’ is so named because the disciple is received by the Masters who have taken on the shape of children, in order to tell him: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew: 18: 3).

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950

Nowadays, the whole world wants to be a great lord and sit in the front seats of the synagogues; they all want to be great avatars and great Masters; no one feels like being a child. They all know too much; they preach those teachings but they do not apply them. None of them wants to have a child’s mind; it does not please them. The brothers of the different schools, orders, lodges, etc. are bookworms; they believe that they know a lot and becoming a child even seems ridiculous to them. But, they auto-declare themselves to be like children, just out of pride; that is the present humanity. They all say that they are famous reincarnations. No one wants to be less, no one wants to be the least of all. In order to receive the Crown of Life, one must have a child’s mind.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Envy, Vanity

We must be simple in order to be wise. We must put an end to any kind of reasonings. We must put an end to any kind of desires, emotions, passions, hatred, selfishness, violence, greed, intellectualism, social prejudices, etc. We must have a mind like a child has, we must be pure and simple.

Christ Consciousness, 1952 also in The Mind

Ah! I understand, I said to myself. It is imperative, it is essential for childhood to be reconquered in the mind and heart. "Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

It is desirable that we disintegrate the “I’s” so that the Essence remains free. Upon coming back, upon returning, upon reincorporating in a new vehicle, we would then come fully awake and we would firmly follow the Path of the Razor’s Edge, we would be different. Unfortunately, upon reincorporation, sooner or later, the “I’s” begin to manifest themselves, and when they actually begin to enter the body, to express themselves through us, obviously, we lose that beauty of the newborn. It is for this reason the Christ said: “Unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Knowledge of the Essence Lecture given to Gnostic students – 1976 also in Awakening, Return and Reincarnation, The Essence, The Human Soul

Let us suppose that we want to dissolve an “I” of envy. At the beginning it will be a horrendous monster, but as we work on it, it loses volume, it gets smaller and becomes more beautiful. Finally, it takes the form of a child and the child shrinks more and more, until it disintegrates, already having turned into cosmic dust. Thus, fulfills what Christ says: “Unless you are converted and become as little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” So, we need to disintegrate all the “I’s” so that the Essence remains free and expresses itself in us with all its beauty, with all that naturalness, with all that spontaneity.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Knowledge of the Essence Lecture given to Gnostic students – 1976 also in Envy, The Essence

People covet the precious virtue of humility. The poor people do not want to comprehend that humility is a very exotic flower. By the simple fact of feeling ourselves satisfied with this virtue, it then already stops existing in us. It is necessary to very deeply comprehend the processes of pride in the different occult levels of the subconscious. Thus, pride will end, and then without any effort, the exotic flower of humility will be born in us.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Pride, The Flower That Is Born, The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

Pride often disguises itself in a tunic of humility, and there are many people who covet humility who do not comprehend that they must dissect pride, in all subconscious levels of the mind, before the exotic flower of humility will blossom in a natural and simple way.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Envy, The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

The Solar Pride The Lunar Avarice The Venusian Lust The Martian Cholera The Mercurian Laziness The Saturnian Gluttony The Jovian Envy - into faith, into humility. into altruism.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Laziness

Then what? What would arise in us with these reflections? Humility, it is clear. And this, obviously, would produce a transformation of the impressions related to flattery, adulation and praise, and we would not react, as a result, in the form of pride, right? The more we reflect on this, the more we see the need for a complete transformation of impressions.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Protection Against Impressions Lecture given to the brothers of Colombia – Mexico City – 1974 also in Pride

When one breaks and disintegrates completely the psychic aggregate of lust –or the aggregates, because they are many–, that precious virtue of the soul known as chastity crystallizes in the Essence that we carry within. When one succeeds in destroying, annihilating the psychic aggregate of hatred, then the precious virtue of love crystallizes in one. When one manages to reduce to cosmic dust the psychic aggregate of selfishness, then the precious virtue of altruism or of “christ-centrism” crystallizes in one. When one manages to annihilate the psychic aggregate of pride, then the ineffable virtue of humility crystallizes in us.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977 also in Hatred, Lust and Chastity, Pride, Psychological Death, The Essence, The Human Soul

When one disintegrates, in reality and in truth, the psychic aggregate of pride, obviously humility crystallizes in us, which is the most precious virtue. Take into account that there is not only pride based on social positions, on capital, on family lineage, etc. There is a pride that is much worse and more harmful than all those forms I have just mentioned, and it is mystical pride: believing ourselves to be saints, sages, feeling that we are Gods, believing or supposing that no one is greater than us, that we are great Initiates, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977 also in Pride

So first of all, it becomes urgent that, upon entering these studies, we attain the elimination from ourselves of mystical pride, which is the most dangerous one. If we achieve this, the precious virtue of humility will surface in us.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977 also in Pride

Pride is transmuted into solar faith and the humility of Christ.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

For exa mple, when there is pride in one, the latter has ignorance as its basis; for a person, for example, to feel proud of his social position, of his money. But if this person, for example, thinks that his social position is a mere mental matter, that it is a series of impressions which have reached his mind, impressions about his social status, when he thinks that such status is nothing but a mental matter or when he analyzes the question of his worth, he comes to realize that his position exists in his mind in the form of impressions. Those impressions which money and social position produce, are nothing but the external impressions of the mind. With the simple fact of comprehending that they are only impressions of the mind, there is transformation of the same. Then, pride, by itself, declines, collapses and humility is born in us in a natural manner.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Flower That Is Born, The Mind, The Transformation of Impressions

When I, Samael Aun Weor, understood the pride and vanity of these people, I turned by back to these little cliques of hypocrites, and I went away, with the common people. I went away with the humble ones, the sincere ones, the poor pariahs of life, with the common people: the tortured, the people crushed and humiliated daily by the villains, and full of well being I said, Lord! Lord! Lord! Here are your people, as simple and wise as the sign of AQUARIUS, as large as the pyramids of Egypt, as ardent and as heroic as the revolutionary poems of the children of the fire.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

The man-I wants to occupy the front row seats in the synagogues and in public places. The man-I has no modesty; he says it all, he speaks about everything, he tells everything without any modesty whatsoever. The man-I, like the artist, works in order for others to applaud him and admire him.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Vanity

The instructors should not be called masters, but “friends” instead. Only the Inner Christ is Master. The Gnostic Movement is impersonal and made up by humble laborers. Let us reject all personalism; let us not accept bossy persons; no one is more than anyone else. Among us, we are all laborers, bricklayers, mechanics, farmers, writers, doctors, etc. Idolatry of the golden calf will now remain abolished in the Aquarian Age and we reject it in the Gnostic Movement. A God of the Fire told us: “In the Aquarian Age, capital will be decapitated;” that great being dwells in the igneous stratum of the earth. There will be no intellectuals in the new era; they are dangerous because of their barbarism and perversity; avoid interacting with them. In the new era, there will be no rich or poor persons, but rather, only worthy and decent laborers of the Great Work, that is all. We do not accept nobility titles, nor high-sounding titles such as doctor, lawyer, guru, Master, elder brother, avatar, etc. among us. We are all friends; Aquarius is the house of friends.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Aquarius

Those Initiates who are attached to magical powers are departing from humbleness and from nothingness, therefore, they fall into the abyss of perdition.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

When somebody knows that his inner being is a Master, he becomes filled with pride and arrogance. Fortunately, Krishnamurti learned how to be humble.

Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957

The ANTICHRIST's self-sufficiency, its pride and arrogance, is something unbearable. The ANTICHRIST mortally hates the Christian virtues of faith, patience and humility. Everybody goes down on one knee before the ANTICHRIST. Obviously, the latter has invented ultra-sonic aeroplanes, wonderful ships, splendid cars, surprising medicines, etc. Under these conditions, who could doubt the ANTICHRIST? Whoever may dare nowadays to pronounce himself against all these miracles and prodigies by the son of perdition, condemns himself to the gibe from his fellowmen, to sarcasm, to irony, to being called stupid and ignorant.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Impertinence and insolence are based on the lack of humbleness and patience. The Ego is always offensive, irreverent, an inopportune one, nonsensical, gross, hasty, torpid. 40. Hail, thou, Neheb-kau, who comest forth from the city, I have never sought to make myself unduly distinguished.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Many certified Physicians can be blamed for deaths that occur daily. Yet, human justice cannot reach them, even when, so to speak, they can fill up a cemetery on their own. I knew young people who were humble and modest while they were simple students from the Faculty of Medicine. Yet, as soon as they received their Physician’s title, they became proud, vain and despotic. Medicine is a very sacred priesthood. Therefore, by no means can a despotic or proud individual ever be an authentic Physician.

Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)

Be careful, Gnostic Priests, of falling into pride as a result of having been given the power in order to work with Devi Kundalini, for the elimination of the Devil ‘I’s… Be meek, pure and simple.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

The “I” dresses itself with the robe of Aristippus; it is humble as long as they do not touch its sore spot; when they touch it, it reacts full of sublime anger.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Anger

Vainglorious women curl their hair, dress and adorn themselves with everything they can so as to arouse envy in other women, but vanity also disguises itself with the robe of humility.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Pride, Vanity

Some people dress humbly, (not doing anything ostentatious) but they have sublime pride, boasting of their simplicity; they hide their pride, not only from others, but also from themselves.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Vanity

Nothing can be achieved without Holiness. Crime also hides amongst the incense of prayer. All spiritual schools are full of adultery, fornication, gossip, envy, slander, etc. Pride dresses itself up in the tunic of humility, and within the robes of holiness, adultery dresses up as a saint.

Christ Consciousness, 1952 also in Pride

Many are the devotees of the path who do not covet money, but covet psychic powers. There are many devotees of the path, in the world, whose humility astonishes others; they can calmly sleep on the floor, at the door of a rich man and are content with the crumbs that fall from the master’s table, but they are proud of possessing many virtues or boast of their humility.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Greed, Pride, Sagittarius, Vanity

It would be the breaking point of absurdity to think that an Initiate with the Ego very well dead would commit the crime of dumping garbage or filthy things into the lakes or rivers. However, it is obvious that the ‘I’ enjoys such crimes, it delights in doing evil, it does not feel compassion for all creatures. The Ego does not want to understand that when the liquid element (water) is infected, as a fact, he is damaging everything that is with life. 37. Hail, thou, Ahi, who comest forth from Heaven, I have never made haughty my voice. The Ego is lofty, haughty, proud, arrogant, imperious, contemptuous, disdainful. It is accustomed, nonetheless, to hide its pride under the tunic of Aristippus (a vesture filled with holes and patches). The Ego even gives to himself the luxury of uttering with fake meekness and pietistic poses; yet, through the holes of its clothing its vanity is shown. 38 Hail, thou, Spirit, who givest commands to the Initiates, I have never cursed the Gods. Perverse people abominate and denigrate the Gods, Angels or Devas.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in Hypocrisy, Pride, Vanity

Nevertheless, those know-it-all ignoramuses think the best of themselves and even wear the robe of Aristippus in order to demonstrate wisdom and humility...

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

It is stated, in accordance with legend of time, that Aristippus wanted to demonstrate wisdom and humility. So, he decked himself with an old robe full of patches and holes, then held the rod of philosophy with his right hand and walked the streets of Athens... When Socrates saw him coming, he exclaimed in a loud voice: “Oh Aristippus, your vanity is shown through the holes of your vesture.”

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

Vanity is also accustomed to being disguised with the costume of modesty. A vain painter or writer can appear in public displaying a costume of a beggar.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Pride, Vanity

Some pseudo-occultists or brothers of many sects adore themselves so much that they have gotten to believe themselves as being fountains of humility and sanctity, They feel proud of their own humility. They are terribly proud.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Pride, Vanity

The pedantic, the vain, the proud, believing themselves to be very humble, wear the robe of Aristippus. Humility is a very exotic flower, whoever boasts of humility is full of pride.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Pride, The Flower That Is Born, Vanity

Conceit has so many faces, it is the worst enemy of the dissolution of the Ego. If one becomes conceited because of the virtue of chastity, in fact, one loses it. The one who says: “I am chaste, I am working in the Ninth Sphere, I am gnostic one hundred percent!”, unquestionably, deep down they turn out to be perverse fornicators. The one who says: “I have already attained humility, I have no pride over anyone; I handle myself well with everyone; even the most unhappy ones, I have esteem, appreciation for them; in my house I receive everyone!”. Well, the one who becomes conceited by the virtue of humility, undoubtedly resembles Antisthenes, the philosopher of Greece, who put on a robe full of tremendous holes to show everyone his humility, grabbed the stick of philosophy and went through the streets of Athens, and arriving before Socrates, the latter exclaimed: “Oh, Antisthenes, your vanity is visible through the holes of your garment”.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in Pride, Vanity

“Blessed be they who cleanse their garments (the seven bodies) in the blood of the Lamb (Christonic semen) in order to enter through the doors of the City.” Yet, really, how few are they who achieve High Initiation. Very few are they who are capable even of kissing the whip of the executioner. To kiss the hand that strikes us is very difficult and yet urgent for those who to attain High Initiation. Christ said, “Of the thousand who look for me, one finds me; of the thousand who find me, one will follow me; of the thousands who follow me, one is mine.” The worst thing is that those who have read much occultism and who have belonged to many schools are full of platitudinous sanctity. They believe themselves to be very saintly and wise although they presume to be humble. These poor brothers are further from the altar of initiation than the profane. Whoever wishes to reach High Initiation must begin by recognizing that within he is per verse. Whoever recognizes his evil is on the path of Realization. Remember that within the incense of prayer the crime also hides. This is difficult for those who have read a great deal. These people feel themselves to be full of sanctity and wisdom. When they have sparks of clairvoyance, and then they are intolerable because they declare them selves Masters of Wisdom. Naturally, people like these are sure candidates for the abyss and for the second death. The abyss is full of sincerely mistaken individuals and persons with very good intentions. When the Initiate has made part of his creative Fire emerge from the head, he casts his crown at the feet of the Lamb. Saint John speaks of the twenty four elders who cast their crowns before the throne of the Lord.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Clairvoyance, Hypocrisy, The Holy Grail, Vanity

The poet imagined everything but an insult. Great was his surprise when with a compassionate look and furrowed brow the saint closed the door saying to the poor poet, “Go away my friend, go, go… Such things do not please me, I abhor flattery… The vanities of this world disgust me, this life is illusory… I follow the path of humility and modesty.” The poor poet, wanting only some change, instead got an insult from the saint, a hurtful word, a slap in the face, and with his aching heart and his poetry torn to pieces he passed slowly...slowly...slowly...through the streets of the city.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Vanity

Many are the devotees of the path who in the physical world are humble sheep, but subjected to the test in the internal worlds, they result being tigers.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Sagittarius

They were extraordinary pious persons with feigned humilities and comedian poses; unbearable vegetarians of the type who make of food, a religion of the kitchen.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Hypocrisy

Conclusion: Others are scoundrels, unjust, adulterers, thieves and perverse persons; yet, each one of us is a humble lamb, “a saint with a golden halo,” who is worthy to be shown as a golden masterpiece inside any temple.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

As majestic as we may seem inside our temples or inside our classrooms of light and harmony, as serene and sweet as we may seem to our fellowmen, as reverent and humble as we may appear, the abominations of hell and all the monstrosities of the wars continue to exist at the bottom of our psyche.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Subconscious

Many are the students of certain pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist schools who despise the things of this world and who do not work at all because everything is vanity, but they are jealous about their virtues and never accept anyone classifying them as lazy. Many are those who hate flattery and praise, but they have no inconvenience in humiliating with their modesty, the poor poet who composed a verse for them with the only purpose of obtaining a coin to buy bread.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Jealousy, Laziness, The Flower That Is Born

There are true virtues and false virtues. Virtues are like precious stones: there are true ones and there are false ones. An imitated virtue is a false virtue. For example, if one proposes to be serene, meek hearted, not angry, and proposes to imitate the virtue of meekness, it would seem as if one really had the virtue.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in Anger, Hypocrisy

I have known cases of individuals who said: “I do not have anger against anyone!”, and when someone insulted them, they blessed them and smiled; but when I looked at their smile, I could see that it ended in a sneer. All in all, they tried to imitate a virtue, but they did not have it; they imitated the virtue of meekness, but they did not really possess it.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in Anger

And if all of a sudden we discover out there an “I” that, wanting to ingratiate itself with noble friends, drinks and drinks again, what would we say? Out of humility, because those people are humble; it is the buddy so-and-so who threw the little party today for one of his little daughters, how are we going to turn him down? Well, we accompany our buddy with a few drinks until we get drunk. Will that be good because we are very humble? We have to destroy that kind of “I’s”; it is an apparently good “I”, but we have to destroy it, we have to annihilate it. So we have to annihilate the “I’s” of good and the “I’s” of evil; we have to fight against good and fight against evil. Speak, brother.

The Fifth Gospel Didactics for Buddhist Annihilation Conference at the end of the Missionary Course – Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico – From June 15 to August 30. 1976 also in Gluttony, Pride, The Many I’s

The mind should humble itself before the majesty of the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

This is the First initiation of greater Mysteries. In this initiation, the soul unites with the Inner-Self and we become Masters of Greater Mysteries of the White Brotherhood. One needs much humility to attain the union with the Inner-Self. The Apocalypse tells us, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Human Soul

The twenty-four Elders cast their crowns at the feet of the Lamb. Whosoever opens the church of Laodicea must humbly toss his crown to the feet of the Lamb.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

I saw them penetrate into the Uncreated Light of the Absolute filled with infinite humbleness and veneration.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur

Without prostituting my intelligence for gold, I truly preferred to prostrate myself, full of humility, in the presence of the Demiurge Creator of the Universe.

The Three Mountains, 1972

Any grateful guru humbly prostrates before the first creator who gave him life.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in Gratitude and Kindness

Pistis Sophia as Power-Wisdom, must humble herself in the presence of the Intimate Christ.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

When man finishes with fornications and adultery, when man humbles himself before the Eternal, then he truly will have earned the right of intergalactic travel. However man wants to conquer the starry space by force and the result will be the fall of the Tower of Babel which today as yesterday threatens the starry skies. The year 1960 will signify something very grave for the world. In the 1960’s a fulminated tower will fall and the Catholic clergy will suffer a lot. Men are about to conquer the moon. The human being will walk on that satellite.

Mountain of Juratena

Unquestionably, the kalkian personality is a victim of self-deceit. He believes that he has achieved everything when he has achieved nothing and what is worse is that he has lost the sense of veneration; he has forgotten the true and authentic religiosity; he has also lost humility before the Creating Logos. This is the kalkian personality.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Lying

So, then, the way AMORC teaches the practice is wrong; part of self-sufficiency, of the belief that one – a poor fool and miserable as one is– is capable of performing wonders, when one is not capable. One has to have faith, to start by being humble and to recognize that we are capable of nothing. That we are poor fools. If the Divine Mother appears here, after having opened the chakra well and after meditation, if she appears in meditation, she appears if she wants to appear, and if she does not want to appear, then she does not appear. If she considers that it is not appropriate for us to know our past lives at that instant, at least at that moment, well, simply, she does not appear, and it is useless then to insist in front of the mirror.

The Fifth Gospel Satanic Origins of Skepticism and Mythomania Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975 also in Memory, Pride, The Science of Meditation, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

The devotee who wishes to have powers must ask the Divine Mother. The true devotee humbles himself before God the Mother.

The Yellow Book, 1959 also in Seventy Times Seven, The Yellow Book, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

“Now, yes, Mother of mine, I ask you to bless me and forgive me”, I spoke filled with ecstasy. Terrific was the moment in which my Mother, on Her knees, kneeled with infinite humbleness and filled with wisdom, love and power, blessed me when saying: “My son you are forgiven.” “Allow me to kiss your feel, oh Mother of mine”, I cried. Then, oh God! when I deposited my mystical kiss upon Her sacred feet, She instructed me with a certain symbol, which reminded me of the washing of feet in the Last Supper of the Lord.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Seventy Times Seven, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Even if your soul is warped by suffering, stand firm, oh disciple! And give yourself humbly to your Mother Nature...

The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Suffering, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Then the Potential Shakti, the Divine Wife of Shiva, my perfect Mother Kundalini, prostrated with infinite humility, adored me...

The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

The missionary must eliminate from himself the undesirable elements of his psyche, and he will achieve it by begging the Serpent with humility, imploring her to bum or disintegrate, by means of her igneous flames, each one of his psychic aggregates. Thus, the missionary will move forward triumphantly.

The Fifth Gospel Transcendental Exhortation Addressed to the Missionaries

Just few days ago, it occurred to me to visit the Temple of Chapultepec in Mexico again. A certain sister was humbly bowing herself before the door of the temple, thus imploring her admission. These types of sincere supplications are always heard.

Runic Magic, 1969

The Lord never despises the prayer of the humble one.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

When something is not granted to us, it is because we must pay what we owe. Instead of protesting, we must humbly incline ourselves before the verdict of the Law.

Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Law of Karma

We must not forget, by no means, that everything will be done in accordance with the Law. Everything will be arranged for us not in the way that we want, but as the Law wants it. Thus, we must humbly incline before the verdict of the Law.

Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)

Whosoever is united with the Intimate becomes omnipotent and omniscient. He knows how to command and to obey, he never becomes arrogant because he has learned to be simple and humble within the cosmos.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950

The one who writes this book is only the humble and rough personality of the Master Samael Aun Weor. This Master is my Real Being, that is to say, my Intimate, my Innermost, my ‘Monad’.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950 also in The Being Is the Being

In this way, my humble worthless person is the Bodhisatva of the Master of the White Brotherhood SAMAEL AUN WEOR, and as it is logical, I must be a good citizen, fulfilling all my obligations.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

An authentic guru does not go around saying it. The authentic guru is the Inner Christ. A true Master goes around anonymously and unknown everywhere. He does not exhibit his deeds or powers, and is full of modesty. A true Master is before all else an upright citizen The authentic master is never an intellectual. The intellect is an animal function of the man-I. The authentic Master is like a child, pure, holy, simple and natural. The true Master is the inner Christ who illuminates every man who comes to the world. After death, the soul undresses itself from the astral and mental bodies through successive periods of internal evolution; then the soul submerges itself within the ineffable bliss of the infinite, where the marvelous harmonies of fire resound.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ

Listen, men and gods! Initiations are awakenings of the consciousness, intimate matters of the consciousness. Let us learn how to be quiet, to be humble, modest. Authentic evolution is in the consciousness, not in the “I”. The “I” does not evolve; it complicates itself, that is all. Mineral consciousness evolves when it awakens as plant consciousness. Each mineral atom is the physical body of an elemental creature full of beauty. These mineral elementals have a language, their consciousness, they gather in tribes or families; they resemble innocent children.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Elemental Magic, Evolution, Involution, Revolution

The truly humble Boddhisattwa never praises himself. The humble Boddhisattwa says: I am just a miserable slug from the mud of the earth, I am a nobody. My person has no value. The work is what is worthy.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in Pride, Vanity

Whoever has not incarnated his Soul does not have real existence. It is a legion of “I’s” that struggle to manifest themselves through the body of man. At times the drinking “I” acts, at others the smoking “I’, the killing “I”, the stealing “I”, the loving “I” etc., etc. Conflict exists between these I’s”. That is why we see many who swear they belong to the Gnostic Movement, and later regret it, declaring them selves enemies of Gnosis. The “I” who swears to be faithful to Gnosis is displaced by another, which hates Gnosis. The “I” who swears it adores a woman is replaced by another “I” that abhors her. The “I” is a Legion of demons. How can we trust in clairvoyants who have not yet incarnated their Soul? The man who has not incarnated his Soul still does not have moral responsibility. How could we possibly trust in demons? Students of Gnosis must be very careful of those who go about “declaring themselves seers and prophesying to the people”. The true clairvoyant never says so. The Masters of the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries are very humble and quiet. No student of occultism is a Master. Only those who have obtained the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries are True Masters. Nobody is a Master before the Fifth Initiation.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Clairvoyance, The Human Soul, The Many I’s

Only those who have penetrated the world of objective intuition, only those who have reached the solemn heights of Noetic thought are truly awakened and illuminated. A true Turiya cannot dream. The Turiya, who has reached the heights of Noetic thought, never goes about saying so, never presumes to be wise; he is extremely simple and humble, pure and perfect.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Geburah, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

The high Mayan initiates communicate with the masters from Tibet, and within a few seconds they can travel anywhere on the planet Earth with their physical bodies within the astral plane, the fifth coordinate. These sages are tremendously quiet and humble, and no "civilized" person will ever attain their secrets, unless the person has become worthy and deserves to be received as a disciple.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

I have concluded this work of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic. In the name of the Truth I affirm the following: I am not searching for fame, honor or money. Only the longing of humbly serving this poor suffering humanity is what motivates me.

Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)

Disintegrate the one of self-importance because we are not important; not even I, who am the Founding President of the Gnostic Movement, could consider myself important. I consider that I am a vile worm in the mud of the earth and that is all. I neither think, nor wish to think, that I am greater than you. I am your servant, but nothing more than a servant, a humble servant.

The Fifth Gospel The Transvalorization of the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975 also in Pride, Vanity

The clairvoyant should be humble, serene, obedient, tame, chaste, respectful and moderate in speech, pure in thought and word. The clairvoyant should be like a child.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Clairvoyance

The clairvoyant must be simple and humble like the little timid and perfumed flower existing during the starry night.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in Clairvoyance

The true seer never says that he is a seer. The true seer must be humble and modest. The seer must learn how to see without the presence of the “I”, to see without translation, and without judgement.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

When a true clairvoyant sees something important, he gives his concepts in a very cultured way and with supreme respect for others. He never says, “I am seeing.” He always says, “We recognize, we have learned.” This is how all of those that have reached the ineffable summits of supraconsciousness distinguish themselves by their gentility, humility, and modesty.

Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957 also in Clairvoyance

Every clairvoyant needs initiation. The clairvoyant without initiation is in danger of falling into very grave error. The clairvoyant who lives recounting his visions to all the world is liable to lose his faculty. The talkative clairvoyant can also lose the equilibrium of the mind. The clairvoyant must be quiet, humble, modest. The clairvoyant should be like a child.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Clairvoyance

Joyfully, I advanced towards the place of prostrations and adorations. Here, there, and everywhere, in all the blessed places of the temple, a multitude of humble and simple men were coming and going, who rather were resembling submissive and obedient peasants. They were the Boddhisattwas of the Gods, they were men in the most complete sense of the word, creatures who enjoy of the objective knowledge, who are one hundred per cent Self-conscious.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Awakening

How happy I felt while advancing through the centre of the temple towards the sacred altar! Certainly, I was marching arrogantly, energetically with a triumphal step. Suddenly, one of those ‘humble peasants of pick and shovel’ was walking by blocking my way. For a moment I tried to keep ahead walking arrogantly, haughtily and with disdain.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Hatred

But, Oh God of mine! An intuitional lightning bolt fulminated me to death, and I then vividly remembered that in a forgone time, in the remote past I had committed the same error while in the presence of this humble peasant. That past error was clearly present within my mind. With horror, terror and fear I remembered the dreadful instant in which with frightening words uttered from the Sacred Altar, amidst lightning bolts, rays and thunder, I was cast out of the temple.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Hatred

The whole of this event of the past revived within my mind in a thousandth of a second. Then repented, I stopped my arrogant and proud march and feeling contrite, regretful and remorseful in my heart, with modesty and submission, I prostrated myself before this peasant. I kissed his feet while addressing him like this: “You are a great Master, a great Sage”, but that creature instead of being satisfied with my words answered: “I do not know anything, I am nobody.” I answered back, “Yes, you are the Boddhisattwa of one of the great Gods who is the governor of many constellations.”

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Hatred

The First Great Initiation of Jesus was as natural and simple as the humble and innocent birth of a lotus flower. The bodhisattva Jesus did not covet initiations, powers, titles, degrees, hierarchies, masteries, social or divine positions, kingdoms, gold, or silver. Being more than all the Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, Powers, etc., he preferred to only be a good man.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Christmas, Greed

The Christ. The Lord, will always be born within the humble individual stable of any prepared initiate The Lord’s mother has been, is, and always will be Divine Mother Kundalini, the igneous serpent of our magical powers The kings of intelligence, the three wise men, the true geniuses these will always recognize the Lord and come to adore Him The child will always face great dangers: Herods, the world, and the tenebrous will always want to kill him. Baptism in the Jordan of existence is always indispensable; the waters of life cleanse, transform, and baptize. After the transfiguration, He interprets the Law of Moses with supreme intelligence, teaching people and showing in his work all the marvelous zeal of an Eli as.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Christmas, The Intimate Christ, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

The Intimate Christ, though he is perfect humility, infinite modesty, absolute simplicity, must eliminate from himself the sickening elements of pride, of vanity, of conceit. The Intimate Christ, the word, the Creating Logos, always living in constant activity has to eliminate in our interior, in himself and by himself, the undesirable elements of inertia, of laziness, of stagnation. The Lord of Perfection, though being used to all the fastings, temperate, never a friend of drunkeness and great banqueting, has to eliminate from himself the abominable elements of gluttony.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Gluttony, Laziness, The Great Rebellion, The Intimate Christ

The Intimate Christ, when incarnated in a simple and humble human being, will use his sacred Vesture in the Mystery.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The Intimate Christ is covered by the humble personality of someone. People can never recognize the incarnated Christ.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

Before the terrible and glorious majesty of the Father we are nothing but miserable particles of dust, horrible worms of the mud. What I am saying is neither an allegorical nor a symbolical matter. I am speaking literally, crudely, about a terrible reality. Really it is the “I” that says, “I am Master such-and-such, the rein carnation of prophet so-and-so” etc., etc. Certainly the animal “I” is Satan. It is the “I”, the ego-devil, who feels himself to be a Master, Mahatma, Hierophant, Prophet etc.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The Angel must be born within us. This Angel is born of his sexual seed. Satan must die; this is a matter of sanctity. We must give our life so that others live. This is Christcentrism. The Hierophant Jesus really lived all the drama of the Passion, just as it is written. Though we are really miserable worms of the Earth, we need also to live all the drama of the Passion.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ, The Three Factors

One comprehends how absurd arrogance and pride is when within the Inferior Molecular Region. We are nothing else but simple chrysalides, miserable slugs from the mud of the earth,, inside which the heavenly butterfly could be formed, based on tremendous Intimate super-efforts. But, there is not a law in order for this to be fulfilled. Those chrysalides could become lost, and this is what is most common.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Laziness

All of you are nothing else but poor Intellectual Animals, who are sentenced to the penalty of living.

Runic Magic, 1969

Man is man, and the smaller and more microscopic one feels, the better. We, mankind, must feel that we are ants. God is God because the Divin ity is that which has power. We are nothing, we are poor devils; and even the man who is a complete Man is an ant compared with God. A Master said to me: “V. M. Samael Aun Weor, true happiness is having God within. Although one may be in the Absolute or in Nirvana, if one does not have God within one will not be happy; even though they who dwell there have God incarnated”.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Indeed, I am nothing else than a miserable slug from the mud of the earth; yet, I became victorious.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

Certainly, my dear reader: I am nothing more than a miserable worm from the mud of the earth, a worthless nobody; however, since I have travelled the path, I can show it to others with complete clarity, and this is not a crime...

The Three Mountains, 1972

With just reason, everyone who discovers his intimate contradictions feels ashamed of himself, be comprehends that he is nobody, that he is a wretched person, a miserable worm of the earth.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

Each of us is nothing but a vile worm of the mud of the earth; when I speak in this manner, I begin with myself. To be full of oneself, to have false images of oneself, fantasies of oneself, is to be in inferior levels of the Being.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Level of Being

We cannot walk on the path of the kalkian personality; we cannot accept those false dogmas such as Evolution; such as that of believing that all humanoids are perfect, complete Men with their existential bodies; such as fearing the igneous Serpent of our magical powers and the lived experience, etc. We prefer instead to follow the path of authentic Wisdom, the path of the Tantras, that of the dissolution of the ego and that of the recognition of our own misery and incapacity. We prefer to recognize that we are nothing, that we are only miserable worms in the mud. We are concerned, yes, to work in ourselves, upon ourselves. We want the dissolution of our “myself’, of the “oneself’. We use the intelligent power of the Creative Energy. We work in the Forge of the Cyclops which frightens pseudo-esoterists and pseudo-occultists so much. We are, therefore, on a different, one hundred percent revolutionary path, and which nonetheless, has a frightening antiquity which is lost in the unbearable night of all ages.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Psychological Death

In order to disintegrate them, we will have to concentrate on the Divine Mother Kundalini, to implore her, to beg her to reduce them to dust. But first, a defect will have to be comprehended –let’s say anger–, and afterwards, after having comprehended it, we then beg the Divine Mother Kundalini to eliminate it. After that, we comprehend impatience, we beg her to eliminate this error. After that, we comprehend self-importance. Why do we think we are important? If we are nothing more than miserable worms of the mud of the earth, on what do we base our self-importance, in what do we lay a basis?

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE also in Anger, Pride, The Science of Meditation, Vanity, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

In reality, there is no basis for our self-importance because we are nothing; each one of us is nothing but a vile worm of the mud of the earth. What are we in front of the infinite, in front of the galaxy in which we live, in front of those millions of worlds that populate the endless space? Why do we feel self-important?

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE also in Pride, Vanity

The personality of people is active because it is controlled by aggregates of hate, pride, envy, abominable jealousy, frightful lust, selfishness – which wants everything for itself and nothing for others–, conceit before our fellow men –without foundation, because in reality and in truth we are only miserable worms of the mud of the earth–.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Personality

Superiority, what will we say about that “I” of superiority? Why do we have to feel so important in front of the others, in front of our fellow man, if we are nothing more than miserable worms in the mud of the earth? That of superiority, of believing that we are superior to others, is an obstacle to awakening.

The Fifth Gospel The Transvalorization of the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975 also in Pride

Master: Well, we have to start by sacrificing conceit. Start by becoming conscious that we are nothing but miserable worms of the mud of the earth. We will also sacrifice vanity, because, really, we are nothing more than miserable worms of the mud of the earth, there is nothing to be proud of. Sacrifice the worries that are completely useless, turn them into dust. What good are they to us? Sacrifice jealousy that leads us into error, to slander and to crime.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Foundations of the False Personality Third Chamber – Mexico City also in Entropy and Sacrifice, Jealousy, Pride, Vanity

We ought to recognize our own nothingness and misery.

Fundamental Education, 1970

To begin to realize our own nothingness and the misery in which we find ourselves is absolutely impossible as long as that concept of “more” exists in us.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Hypocrisy

So, clinging to “mine” or to “my” is more than enough in order to prevent recognition of our nothingness and interior misery.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

As long as the disintegration of all these psychological abominations, of all this lasciviousness, of all these curses: robbery, envy, secret or manifest adultery ambition for money or psychic powers, etc. has not been produced, even when we think ourselves honorable persons, true to our word, sincere, courteous, charitable, beautiful in our interior, etc., obviously, we are nothing more than whitened sepulchers, beautiful from outside, yet full of disgusting filthiness inside.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

When we acknowledge our own nothingness and inner misery, when we have the courage to revise our live, undoubtedly we come to know for ourselves that in no way do we have merits of any kind.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

Poor in spirit or indigent in spirit, are really those who acknowledge their own nothingness, shamelessness and inner misery. Beings of that kind unquestionably receive the enlightenment.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

If we carefully examine our existence, we discover that in truth it is not one of the seven wonders of the world. This examination that we make on ourselves and on our own life will have wonderful consequences that will allow us to know what we are, to understand that we are nothing more than some poor sinners, some vile worms from the mud of the earth. Like that, in that way, we will walk on the path of simplicity and humility.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977

When one recognizes one’s own nothingness and inner misery, when he does not feel so sublime, nor so godlike, nor so wise, when he understands that he is a sinner like any other, then he is no longer full of himself and he will be blessed.

The Fifth Gospel The Destruction of our Lunar Inheritance Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

It would be necessary to first to recognize our own nothingness and inner misery so that there would remain in the vessel, in the bowl, in the pot, a place –a place, yes– for the word. But as long as we are full of ourselves, how can the word enter into us? Or in other words, how could we learn to listen from a psychological point of view? Because to know how to listen logically, or to know how to listen physically is relatively easy, but psychologically, how difficult it is to know how to listen!

The Fifth Gospel The Metaphysical Value of Knowing How to Listen

Those who are full of pride, of self-sufficiency, those who are stuffed with theories, do you think perhaps that they are in the right state to be able to receive the word? First of all, we have to recognize our own nothingness and inner misery before we can receive the nourishment of the word, and it is not possible to receive that nourishment if we do not know how to listen.

The Fifth Gospel The Metaphysical Value of Knowing How to Listen also in Pride, Vanity

Always be the last, do not aspire to be the first. Sit yourself on the last seats; never occupy the first place. Remember that you are nothing else but a poor sinner. Do not be proud of perfection because only your Father who is in secret is perfect.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

The Beloved One can be filled with Initiations and Powers, but you are nothing else but a sinning shadow. It is urgent that you arrive to the annihilation of your “I.” never say how many Initiations you have or someone else has because your “I” never receives Initiations. The Initiations are very sacred. Only the INTIMAE is the unique One who receives Initiations, Degrees and Feasts. The Initiations are for the INTIMATE. You are nothing else but a shadow which must be annihilated.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

If your internal God is the God of a Sun, or the God of any constellation, then you must be even more humble, since you are nothing else but a poor BODDHISATTWA, or, in other words, a poor human being, more or less imperfect.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

You must vanish and look for shelter within the nothingness, since you are nothing. Thus, through this way of supreme humbleness, you will return into the innocence of Eden. Then, your soul will be absorbed within the Lamb. The spark will return to the flame from where it came forth.

The Aquarian Message, 1960

Eight is the number of Job, the man of saintly patience. That number represents the life and sacrifice of Job which is the path which leads the Initiate towards the Second Birth. The tests are very hard, we need the patience of Saint Job; without it, it is impossible for one to do that Work. To Job came a grave illness (Job 2. 9) (the flesh of Lazarus was rotting; Luke 16. 19-31), the friends of Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar (the three traitors of the Internal Christ) said to him: “If you are a friend of God’s then why don’t you complain?” He said: “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away” (Job 1. 21). The number of Job is patience and meekness; here lies the path of putrefaction. The original Bible, which includes the works of the Aeneid, the Odyssey and Maccabees bears witness to this. Examples of the abovementioned Bible are to be found in the museum in London, in the Vatican, and the Washington Museum. The modern Bible is a cadaver. The Bible is an Arcanum; in Psalms, chapter 19 it deals with the Tarot.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Three Traitors

The Lord’s Gospel also says: “Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth...” This is a phrase that no one has understood. Blessed are, we would say, the non resentful. If one is resentful, how could one be meek? The resentful person lives keeping count: “And I who did him so many favors... I protected him, I did so many deeds of charity for him and look at how this friend has paid me back when I have helped him so much and now he is incapable of helping me!” This is the “accounting” of the resentful.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Gratitude and Kindness, Resentment and Generosity

How could one be meek if one is full of resentments? The one who is full of resentments lives keeping count at all times, the refore, he is not meek. How could he be blessed? What is understood by blessed? What is understood by happiness? Are we sure that we are happy? Who is happy? I have known persons who say: “I am happy! I am content with my life! I am joyful!” But I have heard these same persons say. “So and so bothers me! I dislike that person! I do not know why I cannot get what I have always desired!” Therefore, they are not happy, what really happens is that they are hypocrites, that is all. To be happy is very difficult, for that, one first of all needs to be meek.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Resentment and Generosity

If we truly become meek through non-identification, we will then get to be happy. But it is necessary not only to not become identified with our thoughts of lust, hatred, vengeance, rancor, resentment, but also to eliminate from ourselves the Red Demons of Seth, those psychic aggregates which personify our defects of a psychological type.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Anger, Resentment and Generosity

In order to have the virtue of meekness, one has to eliminate the “I’s” of anger that is a legion, and this is long and hard work. In order to have the virtue of chastity, you have to eliminate the “I’s” of lust, and this is serious labor, more bitter than gall, which lasts a lifetime and even several lives. In order to have the virtue of tolerance, one has to eliminate the “I” of intolerance, and this is a costly, terrible work. The imitated virtues are fake stones, they are not real. Only true virtues are authentic, legitimate, true stones.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in Anger, Lust and Chastity

For example, we could not acquire the virtue of chastity, if we do not disintegrate the defect of lust. We could not acquire the virtue of meekness, if we do not eliminate from ourselves the defect of resentment. We could not acquire the virtue of altruism, if we do not eliminate the defect of selfishness.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977 also in Greed, Lust and Chastity, Resentment and Generosity

All this which I am telling you is of a lunar type. See how we carry the Moon even in the bone marrow. If we want to become independent from lunar mechanics, we have to eliminate from ourselves the “I” of resentment, the “I” of self-love. Because it is written: “Blessed are the meek– that is, the unresentful– , for they shall inherit the Earth.”

The Fifth Gospel The Destruction of our Lunar Inheritance Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Pride, Resentment and Generosity

It is better to be humble, pure, chaste, simple. It is of more worth, on the other hand, to love our worst enemies; to kiss the feet of those who hate us; to kiss the hand that hits us; to caress the whip that hurts our flesh. It is more elevated to love those who hate us, yes, because they do not comprehend us, and to love more those who do not love us. And to return good for evil. And to give up to our last drop of blood for poor suffering Humanity.

Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959 also in Hatred, Suffering

Old age is like love, it cannot be hidden even when it disguises itself in the garments of the age of youth. Old age abates the pride of men and humbles them, but it is one thing to be humbled and quite another to fall humiliated.

Fundamental Education, 1970

Whoever suffer in their home should multiply their humility, their patience and serenity. Do not answer with insults; do not tyrannize your fellowmen, do not upset those who surround you, know how to forgive the defects of others with patience multiplied to the infinite. In this manner you would cancel your karma and would become better.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Anger, Gratitude and Kindness, Seventy Times Seven, Suffering, The Law of Karma

The apologies, compliance and the humiliations which we demand from others for the wrongs they caused us are also demanded from us, even if we consider ourselves to be “humble sheep.”

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Seventy Times Seven, The Psychological Song

As long as one identifies with oneself, one cannot forgive anyone. It hurts to be insulted, it hurts to be humiliated, it hurts to be despised. Why? Because one has the “I” of pride, one has the “I” of self-love in there, very much alive; and as long as he has the “I” of self-love, it hurts when another person wounds his self-love. Thus, if we do not identify, then it is easy for us to forgive, and moreover, I say, to cancel the debts, which is better.

The Fifth Gospel The Destruction of our Lunar Inheritance Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Anger, Gratitude and Kindness, Identification, Vanity

Each one of you must carry his cross. Each one of you must die in order to live, must lose everything in order to gain everything. You will die to the world but you will live for the Father. Life feeds itself with death; there is a need for the earthly man to die in order for the Celestial Man to be glorified. It is necessary to persevere with prayer. It is necessary to persevere with the division of the bread and the wine. All prayer should end with the bread and wine. Sexual Magic, prayer and the division of the bread and the wine will keep forming the Christ within you. It is necessary to be humble in order to attain wisdom, and after attaining wisdom it is necessary to be more humble still.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in INRI and the Cross, Suffering, The Intimate Christ, The Last Supper and the Gnostic Unction

(Those who become fatuously proud of their wisdom, those who praise themselves, are like the idiot who, on top of a solitary tower, begins to scream and praise himself... Those who are really wise, instead of criticizing their fcllowman, Jet them show by good conversation, their deeds and with humility and meekness, their wisdom).

Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959 also in Anger, Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, Vanity

In this epoch the great majority of Bodhisattwas are fallen, and pass from life to life. We need to be humble to attain Wisdom, and afterwards, to be even more humble.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The ninth Arcanum of the Tarot, the wise and prudent Hermit wrapped in the protective mantle of Apollonius—which symbolizes prudence—leans on the staff of the Patriarchs and is illuminated with the lamp of Hermes (wisdom). The alchemist must always do the will of the Father. He must be humble in order to attain wisdom, and once he has attained it he must be even more humble than all others. It is better to die and to keep silent. As the Sinning Adam dies, the Adam Christ is born.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in Christ Will — We must obey the Will of the Father

It defends and gives life to the humble and virtuous; it wounds and destroys the curious and impure.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

During meditation, Master Wu Wen was in a whole, receptive, and very humble state; with a quiet and profoundly silent mind; without making any kind of effort; without mental tension; without any desire to be something more, because he knew very well that the I is that which it is and can never be something more than it is.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Science of Meditation

Only the humble one can receive illumination by grace of the Lord.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

But in the sphere of Mercury, souls are respected only for their saintliness and their wisdom. Souls which in life were humble, pious, and charitable feel happy in the sphere of Mercury.

The Mysteries of Life and Death also in Gratitude and Kindness