Hypocrisy

We must never forget that hypocrisy and the silly vanities of our false personality make of us persons that are dull, rancid, retarded, reactionary, and incapable of seeing that which is the new.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

The intellect can give to itself the luxury of hiding defects or repudiating them, condemning them, justifying them, labeling them with diverse names, dissimulating them, hiding them from the sight of the neighbor, passing them from one department into another, etc. Yet, it can never eliminate them.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The Ego pleases itself with falsehood, deception, falsity, hypocrisy, vanity, error, fiction, with pretending, etc. Yet, the Being is different; He never lies, always utters the truth no matter what the cost might be.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in Lying, The Being Is the Being

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 Pride

Yet now the “I” will be alert; his passions will not flourish so easily. He will disguise himself with the appearance of a beautiful child, but now it is more dangerous, more sly; he does not want money but power; he does not want fame but honors from the world, from the human flock; he wants to receive reverence from the human flock and to receive kisses on his hand from them, so that they can call him great Prelate or great Master. Now, he writes books, dictates lectures and enjoys talking about his great deeds. As the actors from theatres, he enjoys the applause. He always has a philosophical excuse to amend all of his evil actio ns. He shaves his crowned head or lets his beard and hair grow long; he dissimulates sanctity in all of his moods; he disguises his anger with severity and his pride with beggar’s attitudes; he undresses himself without shame in order to show his great powers, and in gatherings he always craves for the first chairs of the first row. Nevertheless, for God there is neither space nor time. But while the human being awakens from his dream of separatism, within which only the impulse of his passion moves to the degree that these are governing the world; he lives dead in regard to God, to himself and to fellowmen. He polishes his personality throughout his reincarnations; thus, his body and face become beautiful or ugly according to his deeds (read The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde). Only his eyes are slowly changing and he leaves the unmistakable seal of his way of being, thinking, feeling and loving in all of that which he does. Then, one day tired of his painful pilgrim life over the earth, he stops, turns and goes back towards his Beloved One. The liberation of this type of human is what the Divine Master Jesus Christ refers to in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973 also in Anger

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

When I observed them with the sense of psychological self-observation, I saw them fleeing: the thief who steals and flees terrified, horrible faces of theft! I was horrified, yes, of myself, but I have no problem confessing it, because if I did not confess it, it would be a sign that those “I’s” were still alive in there; because the hypocrite has the tendency to hide his own defects. So, I have no problem confessing that I had that kind of “I’s”. Even leading an honorable life, I had them; even paying the debts of others, I had them. What did I have to do? To disintegrate them, to reduce them to cosmic dust. And this caused me horror.

The Fifth Gospel The Hidden Facets of our Lunar Psychology Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Fear, Identification

Master: The “I” disguises itself as a saint, as a martyr, a penitent, a good husband, etc. Many virtuous people possess psychic aggregates. Remember that there is much virtue in the wicked and much evil in the virtuous. Amidst the cadence and the perfumes of the temple, crime hides. The most abject criminals put on pious poses, portrayals of martyr, etc. In the Abyss, there are many mystics and anchorites who believe that they are doing very well.

The Fifth Gospel The Balance of the Energetic Centers Conference given to Gnostic students

As long as the psychological disintegration of all these abominations, ambitions, envy, etc. has not been done, even when we think we are honest, honorable, sincere, charitable, beautiful people on the inside, etc., obviously, we will not be more than whitened sepulchers: beautiful on the outside, but full of disgusting rottenness on the inside. There are many people who assume that, by means of good intentions, it is possible to reach sanctification. Obviously, as long as psychological aggregates exist within us, underneath a pious look and a venerable face, there can be no sanctification.

The Fifth Gospel The Balance of the Energetic Centers Conference given to Gnostic students

Between the cadences of the verse, transgression also hides; among the perfumes of the temple transgression hides; adultery, fornication is committed in the shadow of the cross, and the lowest criminals assume pious poses, sublime figures, facades of being martyrs, etc.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The time has come for us to know that we are perverse ones disguised with the robe of sanctity: wolves in sheepskin, cannibals dressed in gentlemen’s clothing, executioners hidden behind the sacred sign of the cross, etc.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

These magicians of the darkness abound wherever there existed ini tiatory colleges. They are the antitheses of those colleges and they speak as Masters, always presuming to be Initiates of those colleges. They never say anything that could arouse suspicion. They show that they are kindly and humble, defend the good and the truth, adopt tremendously mystical postures, etc. Clearly, under such con ditions the naive and inexperienced devotee abandons the Path of the Razor’s Edge and entrusts himself fully to those wolves in sheeps clothing. That is fatality.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

But crime tends to disguise itself with many ap-parels. There are bad children in the world who are working on themselves wanting to reach the Self-Realization of the Being. There are bad wives who are working on themselves and who want Liberation. There are bad husbands who think they are perfect, but they are monstrous, and, nevertheless, they are working on themselves, they set out to reach Liberation, and they long for it. All that kind of people fail! It is useless for us to disguise ourselves, failure is failure.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work

If there exists human cruelty, it is true that there also exists spiritual cruelty. All of us who love the light have already passed through many type of “isms”, that is to say, we have known the schools of Theosophism, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism, etc., etc. Thus, where only love, brotherhood, fraternity and peace were proclaimed, we really only found hypocritical Pharisees, whitened sepulchers, resentment disguised within garbs of philosophy, terrible fanaticism and secret gossiping.

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

It is ostensible that with this warning Jesus referred to the doctrines of materialist sadducees and of hypocritical pharisees.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Evidently, pharisees gather at their rites so that others say that they are good people, to pretend in front of the others, but they never work upon themselves.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

We must be careful of the doctrine of the Sadducees –the sensual mind– and of the doctrine of the Pharisees, who attend their rites, their cults, etc., but with no intention of ever working on themselves.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975

Who are the Pharisees? They are those who attend their temples, their schools, religions or sects, etc., for everyone to see them; they hear the word, but they do not do it within themselves. They are like the man who looks at himself in a mirror and turns around and leaves [forgetting what he saw]. They only attend so that others see them, but they never work on themselves, and that is very serious. Such people are content with mere beliefs, intimate transformation does not interest them. Ultimately, they waste their time miserably and fail.

The Fifth Gospel Secret Functionalisms of the Enlightened Mind Conference given to Gnostic students – 1975

The leaven of the hypocritical Pharisees, who do not work on themselves, is in the second mind.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

There are many Pharisees who discourse with the Adepts with words of peace, though they secretly plot against them.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The most that we can do is to astutely conceal what is convenient to us, to hide our perversities and smile like saints, this is the fallacy of the ego, the habit of deceiving. One part of the myself can hide another part of the myself Is this something unusual? Does perhaps the cat not hide his claws? This is the fallacy of the ego. We all carry the Pharisee within us; we are very beautiful from the outside, but we are very rotten within. We have known Pharisees who are horrifying. We knew one who wore the immaculate robe of the Master, his hair was long and a razor never shaved his venerable beard. This man frightened the entire world with his sanctity, he was one hundred percent vegetarian, he drank nothing that could have alcohol, people knelt before him.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Lying

You do not eat meat, you do not drink alcohol, you do not smoke... Truly you appear just before men, but you are full of hypocrisy and evil within.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

With his fallacy of the ego, the Pharisee conceals the crimes from the eyes of others and also conceals them from himself We know Pharisees who carry out tremendous fasts and frightening penitences, they are certain of being just and wise, but their victims suffer the unutterable. Almost always, it is their wives and their children who are innocent victims of their evils, but they continue with their sacred exercises convinced of being just and holy.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

We knew a hypocritical Pharisee who rejected the sacred wine because the grapes had fermented. Someone hosted him in his home and he indignantly fled from this house because the owners of the house ate meat. That perverse Pharisee was a horrible black magician. Hypocritical Pharisees! “Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” (Matthew, 15: 17, 18, 19 and 20). “And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. The venerable Master Litelantes was criticized by the Pharisees because she ate meat. She responded, “First I will correct my defects and after I have corrected them, 1 will then stop eating meat.” The Pharisees then turned furious against this great guru of the Law.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

The hypocritical Pharisees never ever self-realise. They are the ones who become horrified when they see someone eat meat or drink a glass of wine; they clean the outside of the glass and the plate, but the interior of their consciousnesses and of their minds are full of thievery and wickedness.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Not all those who fabricate a superior ‘I’ fall into mythomania; fanatics abound who are not mythomaniacs and they only aspire to evolve in order to achieve the union with the superior ‘I’. Those fanatics do not eat a piece of meat, or drink a glass of wine and terribly criticise all those who eat a tiny piece of meat or have a cup of wine in their hands ready to make a toast. These fanatics are unbearable, they are commonly one hundred percent vegetarian, they consider themselves very holy, but at home they are cruel with their wife, with their children, etc. These people are delighted with fornication, adultery, covetous, ambition; but, they consider themselves very holy.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

There are people who clean up on the outside, they do not eat meat, they do not drink, they do not smoke, they presume to be chaste, but at night they have pollutions. There are people who covet not being covetous, these people loathe covetousness and nevertheless they covet not being covetous.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Envy, Greed

When I visited the ogre, I found him immersed in mystical prayer; he was telling me that he wanted to arrive at his Father, that he wanted to self-realize, etc. He was an unbearable one-hundred-percent vegetarian, he considered himself a saint, he washed his hands, he thought himself to be perfect.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work

Answer: Woe are you, hypocritical Pharisees, whitened sepulchers, perverse generation of vipers, who clean the plate and cup, although inside you are full of putrescence. The Pharisee “I” is found active deep within many devotees; they presume to be saints and sages, chaste and perfect, but deep down they are frightening fornicators.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The Pharisee “I” blesses the food upon sitting at the table, he has pious attitudes, he deceives himself, believing himself virtuous, but in the profundity of himself, he hides designs too shameful to be confessed and Machiavellian purposes that justify with good intentions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

That coenobite resembled a saint of course. What an expression! What a beatific attitude! Such a pious posture! Upon his chest a crucifix glittered.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

All that sanctimony, my God! What extremely horrifying hypocrisy... It was obvious that the PHARISEE EGO was strongly established in that blue monk...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

The interior pharisee is an obstacle to comprehension. To presume that we are virtuous is absurd. Once I asked my teacher the following question: "Is there any difference between your Divine Monad and mine?"

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Mystic Pride is a characteristic of the Interior Pharisee. These are people who boast of being Initiates, Saints and Wise, who renounce sex without having previously built the Solar Bodies, without having previously worked in the Ninth Sphere, without previously reaching the Second Birth; then they wind up developing the Abominable Kundartiguador Organ.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Pride

Oh, how wretched we are, how many times do we believe we are loving, when what is happening is that another person filled with lust is utilizing the heart center. How wretched we are; we confuse animal passion for love! Nevertheless, it is someone else within ourselves, within our personality, who goes through these confusions. All of us think that we will never pronounce those words of the Pharisee in the biblical parable: “God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are,” etc.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

The Pharisee ‘I’ exists within each person.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Even the most virtuous men and women can fall into the abyss of perdition if they do not disintegrate the Pharisee ‘I’.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

To speak of sanctity in these times is something very difficult because the world is full of stupidly sanctimonious persons who presume to be saints.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

Esoteric discipline is very demanding. We should not confuse sanctity with sanctimoniousness. The human type of sanctimonious person has filled the world with tears. The sanctimonious fanatic becomes horrified at everything. When a tenebrous, sanctimonious person saw the Mexican sculpture of the Bat God, he said that was black magic. For the sanctimonious person, even the most divine things are black magic. Master Litelantes was criticized by the spiritualist sisters because she did not partake of their hypocrisy. Sanctimonious women hated her because she did not share their parrot chatter, those who talk but not do, and speak of what they do not know. The sanctimonious person only lives visiting from school to school, like a butterfly, and always seated in comfortable armchairs. The sanctimonious person hates sexual magic and lives always filled with fear.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

The sanctimonious person enjoys theories and believes himself to be of the kingdom of supermen. The sanctimonious person is so imbecile that he would dare to excommunicate a Ghandi, or a Jesus Christ, if he was to surprise them eating a piece of meat. This is the sanctimonious type, always fanatic, always afraid, always a fornicator.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Those who betray the people demand sweetness, and criticise those who treat them with the severity of the law. These are the Pharisees who are scandalized by everything, but who sell the Christ for thirty silver coins.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

The intimate self-realisation is not in what we eat or in what we don’t eat. The intimate self-realisation has nothing to do with the poses of false gentleness, or the sweetness of the sanctimonious. The intimate self-realisation is not for the foolish, or for the self-righteous, or for any false hypocritical Pharisee. The intimate self-realisation is only for revolutionaries.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

No hypocritical Pharisee, no overly pious person will enter into the Kingdom of magic and of esotericism.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Commonly, the aforementioned people often say, with a certain sanctimonious air, “The first thing we need is the moral, because without it there is nothing, everything else will come later.” In this way they escape, fleeing in order to take refuge in that heavy and horrible inertia of the false moral.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

The consciousness of the investigator is moved, upon contemplating the heads of households submerged in the tenebrous Jupiterian region; however what is more curious is that they always thought themselves virtuous, just and kind, in this world, under the light of the Sun., and some of them were even profoundly religious.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

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

I would call them hypocrites, Pharisees, whitened sepulchers, using the tone of the Great Kabir Jesus; however, this would never be said by their followers or those that would have seen them in beautiful halls of a pseudo-esoteric or pseudo-occultist type.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

We are poor and miserable, naked and perverse. However, we believe ourselves to be holy and powerful.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

However, everyone, like Pilate, washes his hands, they believe they are saints, they suppose that they march on the road of perfection.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

However, those persons who do not ignore that they are demons would never admit to the idea that they are bad since they firmly believe they are good persons, just and uprights If someone were to reprimand them because of their trans if someone were to admonish them, if they were called to repent they would feel offended, slandered and would react with acts of violence.

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

Nonetheless, they cynically say, “I am a child. I have no pride. I am very simple, etc.” “Hypocrites, Pharisees, whitened sepulchers, generation of vipers.” To the abyss! To the abyss! To the abyss!

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

May none of us think he is perfect, because perfect, only the Father who is in the Heavens is perfect; we all, starting with me –who is the one delivering this conference here before you–, must consider ourselves imperfect. It is lamentable that in the Gnostic Movement there are still personalities who think they are perfect; it is lamentable that in our Gnostic Movement there are still mythomaniacs, people who feel sublime and hierarchical. I, as founding president of this great Movement, would never feel perfect, because I am perfectly convinced that only he, the Lord, the Father, is perfect. But in the Gnostic Movement, one sometimes sees astonishing incon-gruities: people full of error who think they are wise, people who feel very holy when their hands are full of coal; people who feel very elevated hierarchically, transformed into Hierophants when, in reality and in truth, they have not even started to tread the revolutionary vertical path.

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975 also in Clairvoyance, Lying

Unfortunately, people –as I have told you– live only in a small part of themselves. They do not see the whole picture, they only see a comer of it. Each one has forged a depiction of oneself: the depiction of the honorable man, the depiction of the virtuous lady –even if she is not, but she believes she is virtuous–, the depiction of the charitable gentleman, etc. According to that depiction, one conditions one’s existence, and from there he acts and reacts incessantly. There lies all of his pettiness, criticism and censure, but he believes he is perfect.

The Fifth Gospel The Hidden Facets of our Lunar Psychology Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

The lips of the hypocrites speak against those who have performed the Goddess Justice within themselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocrites believe themselves to be Saints and they speak against the Alchemists who have performed Minerva within themselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocritical Pharisees tear their vestures while thundering and striking with lightning that which they do not know.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocrites believe that they know, however, they do not even suspect that they do not know.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocritical Pharisees of today, yesterday, and all times dare to slander and judge even the Master of the White Lodge.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocrites are white as washed sepulchres, a perverse generation of vipers.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocrites stick their nose where it does not belong. Thus, they judge what they believe they know, yet, they truly do not know.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

What do the hypocritical Pharisees know about the intimate life of the Wise?

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Never has any Pharisee believed himself to be mistaken.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Christ is judged by the Pharisees who believe themselves to be wise. Thus, this is how they throw stones against Him.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Many hypocritical Pharisees hate us because we condemn crime. They say that we hate; this is how they erroneously judge us, because we are not complacent with whores.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Many puritanical people, on reading these lines will judge us immoral. These people, however, are not scandalized by brothels or prostitutes. They insult us but are incapable of going to preach the Right Way in the neighborhoods where prostitutes live. They hate us but they are incapable of abhorring their own sins. They condemn us because we preach the religion of sex, but they are incapable of condemning their own fornication. Such is humanity.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Lust and Chastity

How absurd it is to judge by appearance and throw stones against Christ. A horrible Karma will befall upon the hypocritical Pharisees.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The hypocritical Pharisees devolve within the submerged mineral kingdom of the infernal worlds.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Second Death and the burning lake of fire and sulphur await the hypocritical Pharisees.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, found millions of hypocritical Pharisees in the kingdom of Pluto, they are whitened sepulchres who always fake love towards religion, but who are filled with arrogance and pride.

Runic Magic, 1969

By descending this Hero into more submerged regions, he found many parricides and matricides who were suffering frightful torments. He also found many wives who bathed their hands with the blood of their husbands; also traitors who betrayed their country and who violated all of the ir oaths. Nevertheless, even when appearing incredible, these traitors were suffering less punishment than the hypocrites and simoniacs.

Runic Magic, 1969

Thus, this was the will of the three judges of the Infernal Worlds, since they say that these hypocrites and simoniacs are not content with being evil as the rest of the condemned ones, but moreover, they boast of themselves as being saints, and they mislead people with their false virtue. They place people far away from the path which leads towards the Truth.

Runic Magic, 1969

There are also pious people with secret transgressions which cannot be confessed; what good they have was always paid well by the law of Karma but the bad that they have takes them to the abyss of perdition.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Law of Karma

With just reason Christ said, “Out of a thousand who seek me, one finds me. Out of a thousand who find me, one follows me. Out of a thousand who follow me, one is mine.” The intellect is the weapon that the black magicians use to drive us away from the doors of Eden. The lucifers have brilliant intellects. The lucifers despise sex and are fornicators; they are terribly wicked and hypocritical. What is most serious is the appearance of holiness that the tenebrous ones put on. They speak of the light of the Gospels, love and charity. They present themselves full of apparent humility, and then they say that sex has no importance, that sex is low and gross, that they seek the purest spirituality. This is how they shut the doors of Eden unto poor humanity. “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.,, Chapter 9 THE SEVEN CHURCHES The Kundalini enters through the inferior orifice of the spinal canal, which in run - ofthe-mill persons is closed. The seminal vapors uncover this spinal orifice in order for the igneous serpent to enter through there. Along the canal there exists the “Canalis Centralis” and within this channel exists another, even finer, called Brahmanadi in the Orient; within the latter there is a third channel which is even finer. That third channel is the Chitra nadi and in that nadi exist seven lotus flowers, which are the seven chakras. Those are the Seven Churches of which the Apocalypse of St. John talks to us about. As the Kundalini ascends through the spinal canal, it opens each of the seven churches. These seven chakras resemble seven lotus flowers surging forth from our spinal column. These lotus flowers hang from the medulla when the sacred serpent is enclosed in the Church of Ephesus. However, when the serpent ascends up to the cerebrum, these lotus flowers turn upwards, shining with the sexual fire of the Kundalini.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Lust and Chastity

They are hypocritical Pharisees who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; the failures who neither enter the Kingdom nor permit others to enter. In truth, sex is the stumbling block and rock of scandal.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

That which we so much criticize in others, is something which lies in the dark side of ourselves and which we neither know nor want to recognize.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Censure, criticism is due precisely to lack of comprehension. What do we censure in others, what do we criticize others for, or in others? Our own defects, that is what we are criticizing in others, the way in which we project them.

The Fifth Gospel The Hidden Facets of our Lunar Psychology Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

It is sad to know that we project our psychological defects onto others; it is sad to know that we see others the way we are, that we see our fellow man the way we are. This is something that we must understand because we all have a tendency to believe ourselves to be perfect. It has never occurred to us to look at that part of the moon, of our psychological moon, that part that one does not see. Never!

The Fifth Gospel The Hidden Facets of our Lunar Psychology Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

Simply one, and it’s very easy to understand: it happens that each one projects one’s own psychological defects onto others, each one sees one’s own defects in one’s fellow man. The defects that we saddle others with, we have them in excess ourselves; we judge others as we are.

The Fifth Gospel The False World of Appearances Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

Pilate, the demon of the mind, always washes his hands, always declares himself innocent, is never to blame, constantly justifies himself to himself and to others, he seeks excuses, means of evading his own responsibilities, etc.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Naturally, the only cause of all of these wo rds of self-consolation and self-consideration is their own self-justification.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Pride

By means of the mechanisms of fantasy, we always justify our worst infamies, we elude responsibilities, we look for escapes, we indulge ourselves, we consider ourselves to be the best and we believe ourselves to be just and perfect.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

There is not true charity in thousands of aspirants, they presume of being charitable, but when we call on them to struggle for a new social order, they flee terrified or they justify themselves saying that the Law of Karma and Evolution will resolve everything.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Gratitude and Kindness

The disciple –let us now symbolically call him Justinian– how many times has he justified himself? He is convinced that he is doing very well, maybe lately he has improved somewhat. Has he not perhaps protested at certain moments? Has he not perhaps protested in front of the altar of sacrifice? He feels undefeated; he is sure that he has never protested and that he has always done everything in favor of the Great Cause, without ever failing.

The Fifth Gospel Imagination as POWER, Fantasy as Illness

In that way, that saint stops his progress toward the Eternal Common Cosmic Father. And many are the saints who are thus detained in their progress. In truth, although they are from Nirvana, on the occult side of the moon, which is not seen, on that occult side of the psychological moon, they carry all those “I’s”, and this is what many don’t understand. This is really the serious thing. We all have the tendency to justify ourselves, to let ourselves be carried away by appearances.

The Fifth Gospel The False World of Appearances Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

It is urgent to distinguish between the smile of sincerity and the mechanical smile. The smile of sincerity comes from the very bottom of the soul. The mechanical smile is hypocritical and tenebrous; it is the grimace of the devil.

Introduction to Gnosis

People have lost notion of sincerity. Nowadays, human words do not carry the substance of sincerity and people suffer due to the lack of sincerity. Today, human words are full of falsehood and hypocrisy.

Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Lying

Sincerity is what we need, to not miserably deceive each other anymore. Unfortunately, there is a huge lack of sincerity in the world. Everyone believes they are perfect, everyone believes they are righteous, everyone believes they are holy, everyone believes they are wise. In the different schools of a pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist type, there is no one who thinks he is ignorant; everyone believes they have already “grabbed hold of God by the beard”. They ignore, and the worst of all is that not only do they ignore, but moreover they ignore that they ignore. That is what is most serious!

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975 also in Lying