Psychological Death

How beautiful it is to die from instant to instant...! It is only with death that the new comes!

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The “I” Is Memory

Only by dying in oneself, with the Death on the Cross---a symbol which is totally sexual--it the Resurrection then possible... “If the germ does not die the plant is not born”. “The Path of Life is formed with the footprints of the hooves of the horse of Death.”

The Three Mountains, 1972

Only through death comes newness. If the germ does not die, then the plant is not born. Pistis Sophia is found latent within each one of us, within our interior Universe. Only the death of the ego will permit us to be betrothed with Pistis Sophia, in order to ascend to the Thirteenth Aeon.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

If the seed does not die, really, it is doing nothing, it is wasting time miserably. A man is what his life is. If a man does not modify his life, he is wasting time miserably. To die is indispensable –I refer to the death of the Ego, of the “I”–. If one does not eliminate the Ego, one is not wise. How can one know if he does not die in himself? If the seed does not die, the plant is not born. It is necessary that the seed dies in order for the plant to be born.

The Fifth Gospel Essence of the Gnostic Pedagogy Lecture given to the brothers of El Salvador – Mexico City – 1975

One needs to change. We would not be able to change if we did not eliminate the undesirable elements that we carry within. We need to move to a higher level of Being; even more, we need to ascend from level to level until we reach the highest part of all the levels of the Being, and this is only possible by dying in ourselves from instant to instant, from moment to moment. Only with death does the new come; if the seed does not die, the plant is not born.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in The Level of Being, The Science of Meditation

The time has come to understand in depth this matter of dying from instant to instant. Only with death does the new come. If the grain does not die, the plant is not born. It is necessary that we all resolve to die if we truly want to be born spiritually. Let us remember that paragraph of Jesus and Nicodemus. Jesus exclaimed: “You must die to enter the Kingdom of Heaven”. We need to die right here and now, if we truly want to enter the Superior Worlds of Cosmic Consciousness completely awakened, totally enlightened, radically transformed.

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975 also in Awakening, The “I” Is Memory

In fact, the object of the automatic repetition of events is to make us aware of our own errors; that is the law. Unfortunately we can do nothing. Everything is repeated at the correct time, just as the hands of the clock go round. To change external circumstances we have to change internally by forming Soul and Spirit, that is to say processing BEING. Only the BEING can create. Only the BEING can change all things. Whoever wants to possess BEING has to transmute his sexual, emotional, mental, passionate, motor, sentimental, etc. energies. We have to transmute the Base Metals, that is to say, our defects, into the purest Gold of the Spirit. Only in this way will we possess Soul and Spirit. The PLURALIZED EGO has to die. It is urgent that the BEING be born within us. Life in the cellular world is a tremendous repetition of events and we can only liberate ourselves from this tragic wheel of fate by dissolving the EGO on the basis of supreme Understanding and SANCTITY and by forming SOUL and SPIRIT. It is a horrible vicious circle; the Wheel of SAMSARA.

The Book of the Dead, 1965 also in Malkuth, The Law of Destiny, The Law of Recurrence

To liberate oneself it is necessary to die; the death of the ego is indispensable; then one ceases “to return”.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Law of Recurrence

This is the way we can dissolve the ego. Only with the death of the ego 'I' we are able to in reality make a better world.

The Social Christ

The instructors who follow this book carefully will see that it is very simple and, nevertheless, transcendental and practical. It takes the neophytes to the vital comprehension of what is the Ego, the Essence; to understand the necessity of disintegrating it as soon as possible. Obviously, if one does not die in oneself, one cannot change.

The Fifth Gospel Essence of the Gnostic Pedagogy Lecture given to the brothers of El Salvador – Mexico City – 1975

Awakening the Consciousness is fundamental when one wants to see, hear, touch and feel the great realities of the Superior Worlds. But how could we awaken if the Ego has not been dissolved first? How could one achieve true liberation if the Consciousness has to continue bottled up within the various inhuman elements that are carried inside oneself?

The Fifth Gospel Essence of the Gnostic Pedagogy Lecture given to the brothers of El Salvador – Mexico City – 1975 also in Awakening

One has to pulverize the Myself, the Oneself, the Ego, to die in an absolute way, if one really wants to get to know what the truth is. Experience it, but in a direct way, not by what someone tells you or stops telling you, or what someone writes or stops writing.

The Fifth Gospel The Problem of Psychological Multiplicity

For us, I believe, my dear brothers of Zulia, the fundamental thing is to come to discover the truth, and one cannot discover it outside of one-self ever. The one who does not find it within himself will not find it in any country on Earth, anywhere in the Universe. But if they find it within themselves, they will find it everywhere. The truth comes to us when the “I” has died; it comes, and that is its novelty. The truth has nothing to do with the body or the affections or the mind; it is beyond the body, the affections and the mind. By disintegrating the Myself by means of the procedures indicated in this tape recording, all our brothers will come to experience the truth one day.

The Fifth Gospel The Problem of Psychological Multiplicity

The pleasures of the world are of no use, since they leave nothing but pain. After the satisfaction of desire, the only thing that remains is disenchantment. The titles, the honors are useless; theories are of no use in the world; different schools, organizations or forms are of no use in the world. The only thing that is useful in life is dying so that the Consciousness emancipates and acquires that which is called happiness. Happiness is inexhaustible; I repeat, it is not of time. There is a need to experience it, yes, but to experience it, it is urgent to die radically here and now.

The Fifth Gospel The Problem of Psychological Multiplicity also in Suffering

There will be many schools in the world, my esteemed brothers. There are those that are fascinating, enchanting. Mystical orders of every kind, and sects, but they are of no use if one does not die in himself. Of what use are all those schools that do not teach the destruction of the Myself? Enlightenment, emancipation, comes only with death. Thus, if one does not die, one is wasting his time miserably.

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

To exist means to prolong our errors and pain. Therefore, what we must do is to die from instant to instant in order for us not to exist. To be is better than to exist. The ‘I’ is the origin of the error and of its consequence, which is pain. Thus, as long as the ‘I’ exists, pain and error will continue to exist.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The “I” Is Memory

To be born is painful, to die is painful, to live is painful. Pain exists in childhood, adolescence, youth, maturity, old age, because everything in this world has pain. Pain disappears when we cease to exist in all of the levels of the mind. Only by dissolving the psychological ‘I’ is how we radically cease to exist.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Ah…! If those wretched mortals would comprehend the necessity of becoming integral, unitotal, complete… If indeed they would resolve to die from moment to moment… then… indeed! They would radically cease to exist in order to definitively BE.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Being Is the Being, The “I” Is Memory

Answer: Friends, the ego can only be destroyed, annihilated, in two ways: first, through the conscious work on ourselves and within ourselves, here and now. Secondly, in the infernal worlds, through submerged involution, going through horrible suffering.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Klipoth

First of all, it is necessary to become conscious of what the death of the “I” means. The basis, the foundation of any progress consists in death, because only with death does the new come. If the seed does not die, the plant is not born.

The Fifth Gospel Psychic Associations that Lead to Awakening Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975

It happens that the majority of esoteric students forget about death. They only think of perfecting themselves, of acquiring powers, of whatever, but they forget about death. If one goes to the cinema, it means one has forgotten about death, right? Because when one wants to die in oneself, he does not go to the cinema, he is not interested in the cinema anymore. Because I have not seen that a dead person, a corpse placed in a coffin, is interested in the cinema. If one distracts oneself very nicely with television, he is proving ad nauseam that he has forgotten about death, because no corpse is going to sit and watch television.

The Fifth Gospel Psychic Associations that Lead to Awakening Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975

We are not interested in the death of the physical body. We can lose it only by leaving this house, at any moment; in our very bed, we can fall from the bed onto the floor, and die; slip on a peel on any street, and kill ourselves. This is not what is important. What interests us is the death of the “I”, of the Myself.

The Fifth Gospel Psychic Associations that Lead to Awakening Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1975

We have already told the key of the Maithuna very many times, but we have to repeat it in this Message of 1965-1966 for those who do not know it: sexual connection of the lingam-yoni, without ever spilling the Ens Seminis and throughout all of life. We have clarified a lot, we have also said a lot in past Messages about the necessity to know how to die. The mystical death is urgent, the death of the ‘I’, of the myself, of the one self. We have explained excessively that the ‘I’ is a legion of devils. It is urgent to disintegrate that ‘I’, to reduce it to dust, with the sole purpose that the Being is the only thing that exists within us.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

The symbol of Jesus expelling the merchants of the Temple with whip in hand is concerned with a tremendous reality of death and horror. We have already said that the “I” is pluralised. The “I”, the ego, is a legion of devils. Many readers will not like this statement, but it is the truth and this we must say, even though we may not like to. During the work with the demon, during the work of the dissolution of the ego, parts of the “I”, subhuman entities, entities that possess part of our consciousness and our life, are eliminated, cast out of our internal Temple. Sometimes these entities reincarnate in animal bodies. Many times it will have happened that while in zoos we have met forms discarded from ourselves, living in animal bodies. There are people so animalistic that if everything animal was removed from them, nothing would remain. This class of people are lost cases. The Law of Recurrence has ended for these people. The Law of Reincarnation has ended for them. This type of person can reincarnate into animal bodies, or enter definitively into the abyss. There they disintegrate slowly.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Return and Reincarnation, The Law of Recurrence, The Many I’s

All of this represents that we must die in ourselves; the “Ego”, the “My self” must become white, pure, clean, perfect. The stage of putrefaction is when one is within the purgatorial region, represented by the horns. A cadaver in a state of putrefaction appears there. It has repulsive, animalesque forms; reptiles, spiders, filthy worms, horrible larvae.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The first thing one must do in order to die is to dissolve the “I”, that which is a mass of demons, and which the Egyptians call the Red Demons of Set. This must be done in order to awaken consciousness and to receive direct knowledge. The Red Demons of Set are all the demons which we have; they are Satan. These must die. Horns must defeat those demons.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Awakening

The dissolution of the ego is necessary because it is none other than a sum of tenebrous entities. We have reached the conclusion that every human being must dissolve the ego; the seeds must be incinerated, and afterwards one must bathe in the Lethe to put an end to the memories of the past. After the confirmation in the Light, one is received by the White Brotherhood, here the documents are signed. One is then taught that one must be careful; from that instant one must draw back the Veil of Isis which pertains to sex. If the woman is not in agreement with the Maithuna, then she does not work and the man should do so in silence, and viceversa. If the man is not in agreement with the work of the Maithuna, then the woman should work silently.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The “I” Is Memory

We do not have the Causal Body, it must be fabricated in the Forge of Cyclops. In its place we have the demon of Ill-will; that which says I don’t like a particular person. These three demons exist in every gospel; with the Buddha it was the Three Furies, the famous Mara. We have to understand that we are demons, and to start from scratch, to be aware of where we are; that we need the Great Destruction of ourselves, the death of the “I”, the destruction of the seeds, and of the lunar bodies. “That which has been born of the Father is in putrefaction”. This means that the Christ is dead, is putrefying, for which reason it is said that each one of us is a living sepulchre. It is said that He is dead because in none of us does He live.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Hatred, The Intimate Christ, The Three Traitors

With some fear, I interrogated my Interior Being (Atman), saying, “Why do I have to die? Let me live a little longer, I am working for humanity…” I still remember that instant in which the Blessed one smiling repeated to me for a second time, “You have to die.”

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Being Is the Being

Afterwards, the Adorable One showed me in the astral light, that which should die in myself. Then I saw the Pluralized “I” formed by a multitude of tenebrous entities, a true mass of perverse subjects, psychic aggregates, of distinct types, living demons personifying errors.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Many I’s

The doctrine of Judas signifies the elimination of all our psychological aggregates: death to the ego. This is why Judas "hung himself," in order to indicate that the ego must be reduced to ashes.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977 also in The Three Traitors

Really, the plurality of the ‘I’ is the foundation of the plurality of the mind. The ‘I’ is a legion of devils. Each devil has its own mind. The organic machine is under the control of many devils that do not even know one another; devils that argue among themselves, devils that fight for supremacy, devils of desire; devils of the memories, appetite, fears, hatreds, violence, passions, envies, covetousness, lust, pride, jealousy, anger, etc. The mind has no individuality and nevertheless the pseudo occultist texts speak marvelously about human individuality. So much ignorance causes pain. Egotism is the foundation of ignorance. We need to dissolve the ego. Only by dying to the Myself, only be de-egotizing ourselves, do we individualise. But individuality is not everything: later we have to arrive at Super Individuality.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Many I’s, The Mechanical Man, The Mind

We need to die from moment to moment if we truly want to individualise ourselves. The pluralised “I” excludes all individuality. In no way is it possible to have individuality where multiple entities (I’s) exist which argue amongst themselves and give rise to various psychological commitments within us.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Many I’s, The Science of Meditation, The “I” Is Memory

It is clear that the ego does not have a desire to die and that it wants to continue in some exquisitely subtle form and not in the denser and gross forms.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

Arcanum 16: The Fulminated Tower. When the Lightning of Justice falls upon the Tower of Babel, the “I” dies. This death of the “I” is terribly painful! The “I” does not want to die, but the Lightning of Divine Justice falls upon it… fulminating it!

Magnus Opus

Death does not resolve the fatal problem of the ego. Only the death of the ‘I’ can resolve the problem of human pain, but the ‘I’ loves itself too much and does not want to die in any way. As long as the ‘I’ exists, the wheel of Samsara, the fatal wheel of human tragedy will turn.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Vanity

I see with pain; I feel a lot of pain when I see that very few brothers of our Gnostic Movement are concerned about the death of the Oneself. They have no interest in that, it seems that this type of teaching does not appeal to them, and the thing is that the Ego does not like any doctrine that threatens its existence. The Ego wants to defend itself; self-defense is a property of the Ego. Now we can explain why many do not really care about dying in themselves. The Ego is not attracted to death, it wants to live at any cost, but to live.

The Fifth Gospel The Problem of Psychological Multiplicity

Thus, I told you that the Ego of each one of you in no way wants to cease to exist. I am amazed that you have the patience to be listening to me; I am even surprised, because the Ego of each one of you must be seeing me as a terrible demon. It is obvious: I am “death” for you, my true name is “death” for the Ego of each one of you; that cannot please the Ego. Obviously, you receive the words and say: “Well, this is no time to die; a little later on.” “We have to be patient, someday I’ll get there.” “Perhaps the Master is right; perhaps he is blowing things out of proportion.” That is, the Ego tries in many different ways to evade what is coming for it: death. The Ego does not like that skull of death; it wants to live, in no way is it willing to cease to exist.

The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City

When Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua, distinguished christified masters, discovered within themselves the "I"s of perdition, they suffered indescribably and there is no doubt that, by means of conscious work and voluntary suffering, they achieved to reduce to cosmic dust the whole of the inhuman elements which were living within the m. Unquestionably, those Saints Christified themselves and returned to the original starting point after having suffered a lot.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Suffering, The Great Rebellion

Disciple: Master, will it be a good technique to use the meditation of the death of the “I” on the defects one sees in oneself in dreams?

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

Comprehension is fundamental, but it is not all in the work of dissolution of the psychic aggregates, as we shall see in the following chapter.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion, The Science of Meditation

Dying like this, from moment to moment, my dear brothers, the day will come when only the divine, the Being, that which is real, will dwell in the depth of each one of us.

The Fifth Gospel Animic Involution or Intimate Revolution Third Chamber – Mexico City – April 1973 also in The Being Is the Being, The Science of Meditation

If one studies the “Egyptian Book of the Dead”, one sees that it is Isis who is called to put the ego to death. Without the Divine Mother the death of the ego is impossible. The Essence is freed with the death of the ego and becomes lost in Osiris, the Divine Christ. The Essence resuscitates in the heart of Osiris. Where will our feelings, our attachment to things, and our desires be? All that will no longer exist.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Greed, Return and Reincarnation, The Human Soul, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

It is impossible to eliminate the Ego-Devils (psychological defects) without the aid of Devi Kundalini, you know that...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Science of Meditation

Master: He worked in the Ninth Sphere, he fabricated the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, but he did not achieve the total dissolution of the Ego because he rejected his Divine Mother. How can the ungrateful son dissolve the Ego? The ungrateful son does not progress in these studies. First of all, before arriving at the Father we must arrive at the Mother; that is obvious. Does any other brother have anything to ask in relation to this?

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Gratitude and Kindness, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Disciple: Master, why did Gurdjieff being a disciple of yours, not know that the only path to dissolve the Ego is with the Divine Mother Kundalini?

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Without that fohatic power, no one can disintegrate the psychic aggregates; because one cannot achieve anything on his own. The “knife of the Consciousness” allows one to separate the “I’s” one has comprehended, to separate them from one’s psyche, but that does not mean dissolution. I repeat: such “I’s” will fight incessantly to settle back inside the organic machine.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

How many processes, you say? You have to die completely in yourself first; if you do not disintegrate the Ego, you do not develop objective reason. But as you advance profoundly in the destruction of the Myself, the Objective Reason of the Being opens up; when you achieve the dissolution of the Ego at one hundred per cent, the Objective Reason of the Being in yourself will have reached the plenitude of perfection; then you will be Enlightened, absolutely Enlightened, and you will know by direct vivid experience all the mysteries of the universe, you will ignore nothing, and you will have all the powers of the cosmos.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Mind

Well, since the work with the Divine Mother Kundalini gave me formidable results, I said: ‘This is the system to disintegrate the “I’s” and I continued working then with the Divine Mother Kundalini on different “I’s”, that is, on different psychic aggregates, and I was able to verify for myself, through the sense of psychological self-observation, how she worked and how she was disintegrating so extraordinarily the different inhuman elements that we carry inside us. So, the path to attain the disintegration of the Ego is attained with the Divine Mother Kundalini-Shakti.

The Fifth Gospel Didactic Synopsis of Mystical Death also in The Science of Meditation, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

So I did: I descended to the Ninth Sphere to work and I attained, by means of transcendental sexual electricity wisely directed by the Divine Mother Kundalini, the disintegration of a lot of psychic aggregates which I ignored; that I had, but which I never thought I had, and if anyone had said to me, “you have such defect,” well, frankly, I would not have accepted it.

The Fifth Gospel Didactic Synopsis of Mystical Death also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Each time that we eliminate a psychological defect, we liberate the Essence, the Consciousness. On this path, on this track, one reaches complete awakening. When the animal Ego has been absolutely reduced to dust, the Consciousness has reached a one-hundred-percent awakening.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Rebellion Against Inner Blindness also in Awakening

And as the different psychic aggregates disintegrate, the Essence, the Buddhata, is liberated; and when all the aggregates have been reduced to cosmic dust, the egoic consciousness disappears and only the clean Consciousness of the Being, the original pristine Consciousness, remains.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Awakening, The Essence

Disciple: Master, can you do us the favor of clarifying something in relation to what death from moment to moment is. While one walks in the street, for example, and has the need to ask for the death of an “I”, will one have to meditate in the street, or what is the system?

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

Disciple: Master, an Ego usually presents itself in different forms in the different centers. Then, should one ask the Divine Mother to destroy the Ego as one, or are there various subdivisions of the same Ego? Because they always appear in the mind in one way, in the emotional center another way.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977 also in The Centres of the Human Machine, The Science of Meditation, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

We need to die from instant to instant. Only with the death of the ‘I’ does one enter Nirvana. Only with the death of the ‘I’ is the Christ born in the divine dwelling of the soul. The Internal Christ does not evolve because He is perfect. The Internal Christ is the Truth which wants to know Himself in each man. Mechanical evolution of nature exists but leads no one to perfection. We need a tremendous revolution of our consciousness, because when the I is dissolved, there is a revolution of our consciousness.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Intimate Christ, The “I” Is Memory

The pluralised ‘I’ stupidly wastes such psychic material in absurd atomic explosions of envy, greed, hatred, fornication, attachment, vanity, etc. This psychic material is accumulated within ourselves in accordance with the death of the pluralised ‘I’, from moment to moment. Thus, we attain a permanent centre of consciousness.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Many I’s

This is how we keep on dying from instant to instant. This is how we keep establishing in ourselves a permanent center of consciousness, a center of permanent gravity.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

As we die from instant to instant, harmony among men slowly develops. As we die from instant to instant, the sense of cooperation keeps on totally replacing the sense of competition. As we die from moment to moment, good will replaces ill-will little by little.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Gratitude and Kindness, Hatred, The “I” Is Memory

When the ‘I’ begins to die, the materia prima begins to accumulate. When the materia prima begins to accumulate, the establishment of a center of permanent consciousness is initiated. When the ‘I’ has absolutely died, the center of permanent consciousness has remained totally established.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Many I’s

Therefore, dissolving the psychic aggregates is better for learning to live from instant to instant. As one eliminates the psychic aggregates, one learns to live from moment to moment. Keep in mind that psychic aggregates are time; the “I” is time, the “I” is a book of many volumes. But if we disintegrate the “I”, we disintegrate time. It is obvious that we learn to live from moment to moment. Thus, learning to live from moment to moment is carried out little by little as one eliminates the psychic aggregates, that is, as one eliminates time, as one eliminates the Ego.

The Fifth Gospel The Danger of Mental Effigies Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The “I” Is Memory

Disciple: Master, the death of the “I” becomes sterile at the very moment when we do not see the Ego as it is, but instead are making a representation of the Ego.

The Fifth Gospel The Danger of Mental Effigies Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

To die within oneself is radical, if indeed what we long for with all the strength of the soul is to harmonize the two natures, divine and human, in each one of us.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Unquestionably, the absolute perfection of each and every isolated part of the Being can be achieved only by radically dying in ourselves, here and now.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

Man still is not a man, but just an intellectual animal. It is a grave mistake to call the legion of selves soul. Truly, man has within his core psychic material, the material for the soul, but still has no soul. The Gospels say: of what use is it to win the world if you are going to lose your soul?” Jesus told Nicodemus that he had to be born again, of water and spirit, in order to enjoy the attributes that correspond to the Truth. This is impossible without the mystical death.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul, The Many I’s

The schools which teach how to strengthen the psychological ‘I’ are black schools, because the evil consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ are strengthened with that procedure. The schools which teach the dissolution of the ‘I’ (mystical death) are white schools, because they destroy the evil consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Kundabuffer

We need the total death of the “I”, not only at the intellectual level but also in all the deep recesses, regions, areas and passageways of the mind. When we have died absolutely, only that which is perfect is left in us: that which is replete with virtues; that which is the Essence of our Intimate Being; that which has nothing to do with time.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Being Is the Being

I want to emphatically refer to the destruction of the ‘I’, to the death of the MYSELF. Two types of illumination exist.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

It is urgent to undergo mystical death. It is necessary to fabricate the Soul. It is indispensable to sacrifice ourselves for humanity, we must give our lives for our fellow men. The psychological “I” had a beginning, and therefore, it also has an end. Pain is the result of our own mistakes. When one makes a mistake, the result is pain. We make mistakes because we are imperfect; we are imperfect because we have the “I” inside us. When the “I” disappears, true and authentic happiness comes to us.

The Fifth Gospel The Balance of the Energetic Centers Conference given to Gnostic students also in Entropy and Sacrifice, Gratitude and Kindness, Suffering

Remember that sexual regeneration is impossible without the death of the ego. The serpent ascends according to the merits of the heart. The ‘I’ will die as the serpent rises if we work in the teachings of the Fire. Sexual magic and the death of the self are like a pair of twins who walk hand in hand. This doctrine is taught at the School of Secrets in China, in the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, in the Zen Buddhism of Japan, and so on. Understand this, brothers. Thoroughly comprehend these two aspects of Self Realisation, which are complementary to Universal Charity.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

The animic essence is separated by all the entities of the ego. When how ever, one is dissolving it, one is forming the Seminal Pearl. When the ego is destroyed, the Golden Embryo is formed and the immortal principles then enter the man. But this is a sexual question. In other times much was intuitively understood about that which is the creative energy.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

It is necessary to die, and the basis of the Death is in the sexual question. In sex is Death and in sex is Life. After attaining the Second Birth one must eliminate sex. Remember the phrase: “Lead me from the Darkness to the Light”; Death leads to Immortality, from the unreal to the real. The Master must realise all of this, and he does so when he finds the Lost Word. This is the Word which revived Hiram Abiff; it is the Verb, the Word of Light or the superior teaching which the Initiate receives, through which he attains Mastery. It is clear that the Arcanum A.Z.F. is as well the Modus Operandi for the destruction of the ego.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Answer: Distinguished lady, it is urgent that you understand that the root of ego is found in sexual abuse, in lust, in fornication, in adultery... If we take away the roots from a tree it is clear that the latter will ultimately die; something similar happens with ego... unfortunately Lucifer should educate us in sex, there is where we should submit to a rigorous understanding through the most severe temptations; it is clear that if, there in se; we come out victorious, the disintegration of the ego is inevitably precipitated. I do not want to say with this that all the psychological defects should not be worked on with the purpose of reducing them to ashes; I am only putting certain emphasis on the sexual matter, since it is in fornication that the original sin is found.

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

If such an igneous power could in the past divide the divine hermaphrodites into opposite sexes, it is ostensible that it can also extirpate from our psyche the inhuman elements that, as appendages, constitute in us a dual, sinister, terribly perverse, leftist nature. We have already said in our work titled, “The Mystery of the Golden Blossom,” that with the first percentages of liberated essence, the seminal pearl is formed.

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

Master: With the greatest pleasure I will answer this very interesting question of the brother here. Obviously, everything that is born is accompanied by death. There is an intimate relationship between the process of being born and the process of dying. If the seed does not die, the plant is not born. So, death and birth touch each other, they are the two extremes of one single thing.

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

The revolution of the consciousness has three basic factors: first, death, second, birth, and third, sacrifice for humanity. The order of these three factors does not alter the end result. In short, these are three parallel lines of our inner self. They are three well-defined lines of the revolution of consciousness. We must work with these three basic factors if we really, truly yearn for the full self-realisation. Let us now study each of these three factors separately in order to know what must die in us, what must be born and why we should sacrifice for others.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, Evolution, Involution, Revolution

To be born is a sexual problem; to die is a matter of dissolving the ego. Sacrifice for humanity is love. People don’t like the idea of remaining in the Ninth Sphere for twenty or thirty years for the right to be born in the superior worlds; they do not like dying, dissolving the beloved ego; they do not like sacrificing for humanity. Inner selfrealization is of no interest to humanity, and clearly, nobody can be given what they do not want.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Entropy and Sacrifice

Only by dying in ourselves and truly working in the ninth sphere and sacrificing ourselves for our fellowmen, are we able to develop in our inner nature the igneous serpent of our magical powers.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Kundabuffer

Master: What I said previously still stands. There are three factors that are needed for the Revolution of Consciousness: to die, that is, to disintegrate the Ego; to be born, that is, to create the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being in order to become an authentic man, a true man; and third, sacrifice for humanity.

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

But if I have placed a certain definitive emphasis on the matter of the dissolution of the Ego, it is for a clear and precise reason: it so happens that our little brothers of the International Gnostic Movement hardly concern themselves with the dissolution of the Ego, and I, in truth, do not want to make a harvest of Hanasmussens with a double center of gravity. I emphasize the necessity to die because the brothers are exclusively concerned with being born, with acquiring powers, initiations, degrees, etc., but they are not concerned with radically changing, dissolving the Ego, reducing it to ashes.

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

That is why tonight I have placed certain emphasis on the urgent need to die, because the Gnostic Movement has not been concerned and, in reality, many brothers are not concerned with this. So, the Ego does not like to die, and if someone preached the doctrine that leads to the dissolution of the Ego, that someone would be rejected, because it is obvious that the Egos of all human beings would try to defend themselves from that someone. The Ego does not feel like dying. If I speak to you about the dissolution of the Ego, the Ego rebels.

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

Question: Master, we have been taught that the ego can be disintegrated working in the lit forge of Vulcan. What can you tell us about this?

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

The destruction of the psychic aggregates is only possible in the forge of the Cyclops, in full chemical coitus.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

However, I was telling you in the same conference that we had there, in Chapultepec, that one does not realize that he is abnormal, that he is unbalanced, as long as he has not dissolved the psychic aggregates. When one has achieved the radical disintegration of all the undesirable elements that are carried inside, the Essence remains normal within him, the psyche remains normal within him, and once normality is established within him, he, in fact, perceives the abnormality of his fellow men.

The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City also in The Human Soul

Undoubtedly, in the Forge of the Cyclops we can do wonders. There is where we can create the To Soma Heliakon, that is, the Wedding Garment of the Soul. It is also there where we can wield this marvelous weapon, that weapon of Eros with which it is possible for us to destroy the psychic aggregates which constitute the Oneself. When we have radically eliminated the Ego, only the Being, the divine, that which is perfect, will remain in us.

The Fifth Gospel Causes and Consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ also in The Words He Uses

Only with death comes the new. In this way Eros, with his inverted torch, reduces to cosmic dust all the aggregate Psyches, which together constitute the EGO.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

The path of the right is the path of those who resolve to die from moment to moment, of those who dissolve the “I”. That of the left is the black path, the path of those who instead of dying from moment to moment, instead of dissolving the “I”, fortify it within the lunar bodies. Those who tread the path of the left, become Marut or Turam, in other words, Hanasmussians.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The “I” Is Memory

What is the most terrible is that I had already reached the Second Birth. I comprehended very well that if I did not achieve death within myself, I would fail by converting myself into an abortion of the Cosmic Mother, into a Hanasmussen with a double centre of gravity.

Runic Magic, 1969

The Twice-Born find themselves before two Paths: that of the Right, and that of the Left. He who decides to dissolve the ego takes the Right path so as to become an Ineffable Being. They who decide against dissolving the ego take the way of the Left and become diabolic beings (a Hanasmussen is a miscarriage of the Cosmic Mother). This is not every thing however; the seeds of the I’s must be destroyed, one must bathe in the waters of Lethe so as to forget all of the evilness of the ego, and afterwards in the waters of Eunoe to strengthen the Virtues and be confirmed in the Light.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Words He Uses

A Hanasmussen is a Master of the Black Lodge and of the White Lodge. Some sects in the East call them Marut and some of the Mohammedan sects render cult to them. The Hanasmussen has worked in the Forge of Cyclops but has not dissolved the ego; thus they are miscarriages of the Cosmic Mother.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

To achieve immortality it is necessary to have worked in the dissolution of the ego, because if not one becomes a Hanasmussen with a double centre of gravity. These are the miscarriages of the Cosmic Mother which enter the infernal worlds until they reach the second death.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

After the Second Birth, I was intensely instructed in the temple. I comprehended at that time that I needed to die from moment to moment, if I did not want to convert myself into a Hanasmuss with a double center of gravity.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The “I” Is Memory

He who does not die in himself, he who does not dissolve the ego, in the end develops the abominable Kundartiguador organ even if he is working in the lit forge of Vulcan (sexyoga). We have already said in previous chapters that the abominable organ of all the fatalities is developed in adulterers, in those who betray the Guru, in the sincerely mistaken ones who are used to justifying transgressions, in the irate and perverse ones, etc., although they are working with white tantrism, although they do not spill the Cup of Hermes.

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

Master: I already told you that they are created before the Ego dies, but there is a need for the Ego to die so that those bodies can become vehicles of pure gold. Someone could create those bodies without having dissolved the Ego, and if he does not dissolve it, he becomes a Hanasmussen with a double center of gravity. The Abyss and the Second Death is for a Hanasmussen; they are failures, abortions of the Cosmic Mother, and that is all. Let us see, brothers...

The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977

But what is the use of becoming authentic men in the most complete sense of the word, in the most extraordinary sense, if we do not eliminate the Ego? Whoever possesses the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being and has not eliminated the Ego becomes in fact and in his own right a Hanasmussen with a double center of gravity, a failure, an abortion of the Cosmic Mother. Thus, working in the lit Forge of the Cyclops is necessary, but if we do not eliminate the Ego, we will fail utterly.

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

We have to put an end to the process of the human I in order for the Being to be born. Let us not commit the error of dividing ourselves into a Superior I and an Inferior I. That which spiritualist students call the superior I, is not the Being, but rather a refined form of the human I, a subtle modality of self-defense that the human I uses to sustain itself and remain. It is a refined concept of Satan, a subtle escape that the human I uses. We have to die in order to live. We have to lose it all in order to win it all. We have to die with the death of the cross in order to have the right to live. The Being, full of glory and power, is born on top of the cadaver of the human I. The man-I wants to show off everywhere, he wants everyone to applaud and admire him; he lets his hair and beard grow, he wears strange clothes to appear publicly on the streets, in order for the gullible to call him Master, elder brother, etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Vanity

The Apocalypse says, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” The crown of life is the Being of our Being; it is the authentic and legitimate “I Am.” There is a need for the “”I to die in us in order for the Being to be born in us. Later, the Being receives the crown of life, which is the resplendent and divine I Am. The I Am is as different from the “I”, as day is from night, as winter is from summer, as God is from the demon. Those who speak of an inferior “I” and a superior “I”, are in reality seeking escape routes to elude the process of the “I”. We, the Gnostics, do not seek ways out because we know that the “I” is the horrible larva of the threshold and we want to put an end to that larva in order to Be. It is only in this manner that we can receive the crown of life, by incarnating the resplendent I Am.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Being Is the Being

People with subjective psyches are absolutely utopian. They mistakenly suppose that they can be Enlightened without having achieved the death of the EGO in a radical and definitive way.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

We Gnostics do not yearn to be better or worse, we only want to die in ourselves, here and now.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

No one can arrive at “Real Illumination” nor exercise the absolute Priesthood of the Conscious Willpower, if he has not first died radically in himself here and now. Many people write us frequently complaining of not possessing illumination, asking for powers, demanding clues that shall convert them into Magicians, etc.; but they never become interested in observing and knowing themselves, or in disintegrating those psychic aggregates, those “I’s” within which the willpower, the Essence, is absorbed. Persons like that are obviously condemned to failure. They are people who covet the faculties of the Saints but who have in no way decided to die in themselves.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Desire and Will, Greed

However, after such bliss, the Essence returns into the interior of the “myself.” Those who have become accustomed to ecstasy without having dissolved the ego believe that they have already reached liberation. They fool themselves by believing themselves to be Masters. They even enter into the submerged devolution.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Lying, The Essence, The Human Soul

Master: Yes, one can believe that this or that psychological defect has been eliminated, but if the feeling of that “I” continues in us, it means it has not been eliminated. Thus, that is a way in which this knowledge allows us to know if we have eliminated this or that “I”. It is a standard of measurement that allows us to discover if we have eliminated this or that psychic aggregate, or not.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977

Master: Putting an end to the seed of the “I” does not mean being exempt from the possibility of falling. It is enough for one to forget oneself for an instant to fall again. Upon resurrecting the already disintegrated psychic aggregates, there is a fall.

The Fifth Gospel Intelligent Assimilation of Impressions also in Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself

When one is observing oneself, one sees how useful experiences are. If we retired to a lonely cavern without having self-discovered, without having known ourselves, without having dissolved the Ego, the result would be the most absolute failure.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Identification

What really happened was that, trained in the most diverse disciplines of the mind, such cenobites were able to un-bottle the Essence, the Consciousness, and the latter, in the absence of the Ego, could experience that which is not of time, that which is beyond the body, the affections and the mind. Inebriated, then, with the soma of the Samadhi, they believed themselves to be Mahatmas, they never worked on the Ego, they never worried about disintegrating the various psychic aggregates, they only specialized in the yoga of meditation.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Human Soul, The Science of Meditation

Those who achieved the Maha-Samadhi, disincarnated. Then those Essences, having unbottled, were able to live on the Planets of the Christ –worlds where there is an eternal nature which is not subjected to change or death, like the nature of our world Earth–. They were able to enjoy that cosmic bliss, but they were not able to establish themselves as dwellers of such worlds of the Christ because of the very fact that they had not dissolved the Ego. After the Ecstasy passes, that Essence returns to the Ego; then one enters a new womb. So, nowadays, many of those who were considered to be saints and liberated persons in Tibet, are at present vulgar, ordinary people.

The Fifth Gospel Transcendental Exhortation Addressed to the Missionaries also in Return and Reincarnation, The Human Soul, The Science of Meditation

In no way do I want you to make that mistake. It is necessary to reach Final Liberation and it is not possible, in itself, if the Ego is not annihilated beforehand. It is necessary to go through Buddhist Annihilation. One has to take the work on oneself very seriously. There are certain pseudo-schools out there where people want to awaken the Kundalini with mantras. Obviously, such people think that with mudras and bandas, pranayamas, etc., they can awaken the Kundalini and achieve Final Liberation.

The Fifth Gospel Transcendental Exhortation Addressed to the Missionaries

In no way would there be true profound inner Enlightenment if the Consciousness continues to be bottled within the Ego. For this reason, the disintegration of the inhuman psychic aggregates, living personification of our mistakes, becomes indispensable, urgent, unpostponable, so that the Essence, the Consciousness, is liberated. If the brothers who are going to study in the Summum Supremum Sanctuarium understand the need to go through the Buddhist Annihilation, we can then expect magnificent results from them. But if they are only bothered about social positions, powers, initiations and thousands of things of the sort, and they do not work on themselves eradicating their psychological defects, in fact, we are sure that there will only be failures.

The Fifth Gospel The Greatness of the Gnostic Apostolate Interview – Mexico City – November, 1976 also in Awakening, The Essence

Whoever is dying from moment to moment is subjected to thousands of esoteric tests in each of the forty-nine subconscious departments of Jaldabaoth.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

It is evident that I intuitively captured the deep significance of such a symbol... I had dissolved the PLURALIZED EGO in the mineral regions of our planet Earth, yet, I had to continue dying in the infernos of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Answer: Friends, it would not be possible to be able to radically disintegrate the ego in an instantaneous manner and simultaneously in all the 49 subconscious regions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

Naturally, the elimination of those aggregates is carried out in a progressive manner, since many of them are processed in the 49 levels of the subconscious.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

Master: I will answer to what the very distinguished young intellectual has asked. In the name of truth, I have to tell you the following: psychic aggregates are processed in seven levels; that is obvious. As we work on ourselves to disintegrate the psychic aggregates, obviously, we have to go to higher and higher levels of the Being.

The Fifth Gospel Analysis of the Human Psyche Public Lecture – 1977 also in The Level of Being

We cannot deny that the highest levels of the Being, which are the sixth and seventh levels, are very difficult. However, based on conscious works and voluntary sufferings, it is possible to disintegrate the psychic aggregates that we have in the sixth and seventh levels. Whoever achieves it will, in fact, achieve absolute, total Enlightenment, the most complete awakening of Consciousness.

The Fifth Gospel Analysis of the Human Psyche Public Lecture – 1977 also in Suffering

After the absolute death of the “I,” the Spirit of the human being returns unto his interior star that has always smiled upon him. That star is a super-divine atom from the Abstract Absolute Space.

Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957

Certainly, I could evidence until satiety and without a doubt that already nothing that could be called ‘I’, ‘myself’, existed within these human creatures, these men were completely dead. I did not see within them the desire of standing out, of ascending, of climbing until the top of the ladder and wanting to boast of themselves, etc. These creatures had no interest in their existence, they only wanted the absolute death, to lose themselves within their Being, that is all.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Vanity

The Mysteries of the magic of the Thirteenth Aeon lead us to the Buddhist Annihilation. Redemption is obtained by the death of the ego, by omitting its existence.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Treasury of the Light

The Divinity that dwells in the depth of our souls, the authentic and legitimate cognitive faculty, annihilates the ego and absorbs the Essence in its parousia and saves it through total illumination. This is the theme of the Salvator Salvandus.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Being Is the 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

Whoever attains the Buddhic state has put the seven minds in order. But to achieve the Buddhic state one needs, first of all, to have gone through the Buddhist Annihilation; which is: to have disintegrated the Ego, the “I”, the Myself, the Oneself.

The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977

We want objective realities, not absurd and incoherent dreams. I could not accept dreams, I want objective realities, and I wish the very same for all of you. Such objective realities are possible when the Consciousness has truly been objectivized. But it is not possible to objectivize the Consciousness if beforehand one has not really passed through the Buddhist Annihilation –a terrible word that horrifies some schools–.

The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City

Master: With the utmost pleasure I will answer this. I remember that in ancient times, for example, Paul of Tarsus formed many churches without so many courses, only receiving the word of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, that man consecrated many bishops and founded churches throughout Italy and many thousands of people listened to his word and entered Gnosis, because then Gnosis was taught in its virginal and pure form. I consider, then, that one has to balance the Being and the knowing, but this balance, in truth, cannot be done artificially. Only through the Buddhist Annihilation, that is, by dissolving the “I” of psychology, the balance between the Being and the knowing becomes possible.

The Fifth Gospel Transcendental Exhortation Addressed to the Missionaries also in The Level of Being

So that the Light, the Essence, trapped within the “I”, may really be able to shine, to be resplendent, it must be freed; and this is only possible through the Buddhist Annihilation, by dissolving the ego.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

Just as life represents a gradual and more and more complex process of externalisation or extroversion, equally, the death of the “I” is a process of gradual internalisation in which the individual consciousness, the Essence, is slowly divested of its useless garb. The same is true of Ishtar in her symbolic descent, until she is left completely naked before the great reality of life, free in its movement.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

As long as the "self" exists, the consciousness will stay imprisoned; to escape from that prison is only possible through Buddhist annihilation, by dissolving the "I", by reducing it to ashes, to cosmic dust. The free consciousness, devoid of "I", absolutely lacking the myself, without desires, without passions, without cravings and fears, directly experiences true Freedom.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Essence, The Great Rebellion

Indubitably, this last portion of the substance of love is bestowed within the Essence. The Essence, the Consciousness, is disgracefully found bottled up within the psychic aggregates, the living interior representations of our defects of a psychological type. The Essence is liberated and love shines by the annihilation of the psychological aggregates.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

Each time that we attain the disintegration of a psychic aggregate, we liberate the corresponding percentage of Essence, of Consciousness, which is bottled up there. This is how we can increase, little by little, the percentage of real Consciousness within ourselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

The Intimate Christ liberates the Essence, the Powers, in order to pour them into the interior of the Initiate, by means of the Buddhist Annihilation.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

There is an urgent necessity of working on the death of the ego in order to liberate the Essence, the consciousness, the Buddhata.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977

Many are those who care about magic powers. I tell you that the awakened Essence possesses beautiful faculties within itself. What we need is to develop the Essence; and one cannot develop it unless he works upon himself. When we are truly concerned with eliminating our psychological defects: anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc. from our inner nature, the Essence naturally begins to develop wonderfully. Normally, the Essence is bottled up, as I have said so many times, among those multiple inhuman elements that we carry within us –I am referring to the psychological defects–. As we disintegrate or pulverize such elements, the Essence will unravel, unbottle, emancipate, and when we have achieved the total annihilation of all the undesirable elements that we carry within us, then the Essence will be free in an absolute form, completely awake, with a precious spontaneity in this world of manifestation.

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

As we annihilate the Ego, that is, the “I” of psychology, the Myself, the Essence is released. With the radical death of the “I”, of the Myself, of the Oneself, the Essence will be absolutely free, and a free Essence, manifesting through a human body, through a brain –or three brains, because we do not have only the intellectual brain, but also the emotional brain and the motor brain– it will be a naturally beautiful Essence, and in it will shine with the powers of clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, the faculties of astral projection and many other intimate senses that would take a long time to enumerate.

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

So, the path to get powers is that of death. For we have been told: “If the seed does not die, the plant is not born.” When we die in ourselves, when this “beloved Ego” that we carry inside turns into dust, the powers emerge because the Essence surges, the free Essence surges. The free Essence enjoys many faculties, beautiful senses, amazing capacities.

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

The awakening occurs only by annihilating the ego.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Awakening

Therefore, the awakening of Consciousness is only possible by dissolving the “I,” by dying in oneself, here and now.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Awakening

It is impossible to awaken the consciousness, making it totally objective, without previously eliminating the subjective elements of perception. Such sub-human elements are formed by the whole multiplicity of brawling, loud-mouthed Egos that in conjunction constitute the "EGO", the "MYSELF".

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Awakening, The Many I’s

We need to transform the subconscious into conscious and this is only possible by disintegrating the psychic aggregates that make up the ego, the myself, the very self. Let us remember that consciousness is bottled up in such aggregates. Disintegrating the latter, the consciousness becomes awakened.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Awakening, The Essence, The Subconscious

Question: Master, what difference exists between the exercise of the division of attention into three parts and the dissolution of the ego to awaken consciousness? Answer: Ladies and gentlemen, by means of all these talks we have been especially interested in the dissolution of the ego, in the complete destruction of all those psychic aggregates within which, consciousness is found imprisoned, bottled up.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Awakening, The Essence

The radical death of the Ego and other inhuman elements that we carry within ourselves leads us to the Final Illumination (Samyasam Bodhi).

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Unfortunately, –I say– the psyche is abnormal, but when we disintegrate the Ego, the Consciousness awakens and the psyche becomes normal. Then and only then is when we come to realize that we were in an asylum, or that we are in an asylum; not before, it is not possible. It is worth working for awakening the Consciousness, this is indispensable.

The Fifth Gospel Chaotic Consciousness and Intelligent Consciousness Public Lecture – Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico also in Awakening

But for the Essence to be able to travel, it must slowly disintegrate all those psychic aggregates in which the Consciousness is bottled up. When all the aggregates are disintegrated, when the Consciousness is liberated from everything, it will awaken. And once awakened –as a truly celestial Man–, it will initiate its return from the personality to the house of the Father, the world of the Spirit.

The Fifth Gospel The Return of the Prodigal Son Lecture in continuation of “Clarifications of the Pranayama and the Tibetan rites” – December 1974 also in Awakening, The Essence, The Human Soul

So, the journey is indispensable in order to reach the stars, to return to the house of the Father who has always smiled upon us. But the awakening of the Consciousness is necessary. The Consciousness could not awaken to initiate its journey, if the Ego is not disintegrated. We have to turn it into dust. Only like this, does the free, sovereign, awakened Consciousness, master of itself, begin its journey back to the house of the Father. That is the meaning of the parable of the prodigal son. And it is very important to comprehend this parable.

The Fifth Gospel The Return of the Prodigal Son Lecture in continuation of “Clarifications of the Pranayama and the Tibetan rites” – December 1974 also in Awakening

This current capacity for analysis is due to none other than the dissolution of the Ego. It turns out that when one has Ego, one is very clumsy. But when one disintegrates the Ego, the Essence becomes very free, and the free Essence gives one intelligence.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Consequences of the Immolation of Pain Lecture – Interview – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

It is necessary to disintegrate the Ego and to awaken the Consciousness so that the Monad, Atman-Buddhi, the Ruach-Elohim –who according to Moses tilled the waters in the beginning of the world–, the Sun King returns naturally to express himself within us, comes to manifestation, enters our human person. Only he can do. People believe that they do and they do nothing; they act in accordance with the Law of Recurrence, they are programmed machines, and that is all.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977 also in Awakening, The Being Is the Being, The Law of Recurrence, The Mechanical Man

With the death of the Ego the inner mind opens, and the latter is different, it functions with the means of the Consciousness, it receives the data of the superlative Consciousness of the Being, and with such data it elaborates its concepts of content.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Mind

Any anchorite can experience the Illuminating Void, but that does not necessarily imply the intimate self-realization of the Illuminating Void. No one could really self-realize the Illuminating Void in himself as long as he has not eliminated or disintegrated all those inhuman psychic aggregates that we carry inside ourselves. It is worth that we comprehend all this and we reflect profoundly.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

Thus, what is fundamental, my dear brothers, is to die in oneself definitively to be able to open the inner mind and enjoy objective reason, which is true cognition of what is real, intimate experience of the Being, transcendental, divine, buddhic vision beyond the body, the affections and the subjective mind.

The Fifth Gospel Work Taste and Life Taste Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Mind

Simply, my esteemed brothers, one becomes comprehensive when one dissolves the “I’s”, that is obvious; one learns to see the other’s point of view, one becomes tolerant, that sense of destructive criticism disappears, etc. One becomes normal when one destroys the Ego: the psyche becomes normal, it starts to work in a different way, completely different from anyone else’s.

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

We, the Instructors, only wish that you would go through the Buddhist Annihilation so that your Consciousness may awaken. As long as you have not gone through the great annihilation, you are doing very badly. If you ask me how you are doing, I would say badly. Why? Because I see you alive and that is what is serious.

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

The time of great revolutions has come, the time in which we have to decide on the to be or not to be of philosophy, the time when we have to take up arms against ourselves, against the world, against Nature, against the Cosmos, against everything and against everyone. The time has come when we must break the shackles and leave this prison of misery in which we live. Such a prison is called the Ego. As long as we do not destroy this miserable prison, this filthy dungeon, our Consciousness will continue to be imprisoned there, functioning by virtue of its own conditioning, asleep, inert. Now you will comprehend why I care so much, why I said tonight that the main thing is to die. That is how it is, that is how it will be and that is how it must be!

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

In any case, by means of Buddhist Annihilation, by means of the disintegration of all kinds of harmful inhuman or sub-human elements, one achieves that the Essence or Consciousness remains completely unbottled, awakened. The absence of the false personality, the absence of the Ego, confers upon us something that is called “bliss”. Therefore, bliss must be achieved here and now by means of radical transformation. It is through all this that many brothers will go on comprehending, feeling the need for the change.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Foundations of the False Personality Third Chamber – Mexico City also in Awakening, The Essence

When the “I” is about to die, the Being is born full of glory and majesty.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Being Is the Being

Total perfection is born within us only with the dissolution of the ego. Virtues are born within us in a natural and simple way when we comprehend our psychological defects, not only at the intellectual level but also in all the subconscious and unconscious regions of the mind.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Flower That Is Born

With His death, His psychic aggregates are disintegrated, and after the body has descended to the sepulchre for three days, it resuscitates. These three days are also allegorical. After these three days the Son of Man passes through great purifications; the very last inhuman element which he has within dies. For this reason it is said that the Son of Man has died in Himself, has killed death because death can only be killed with death. Later, the Son of Man has to resuscitate with the Physical Body and be comes a Resurrected Master, has the Elixir of Long Life, is a true King of Nature according to the Order of Melchizedek. We may then exclaim like the Apostle Paul; “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15.54-55).

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ

Obviously, the elimination of the ego reevaluates the Being, producing happiness as a result. Unfortunately, the consciousness imprisoned within ego does not understand, does not comprehend the need for the inner reevaluation and prefers animal enjoyment because it firmly believes that the latter is happiness.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Being Is the Being

Certainly, nobody can see God face to face without dying. The death of the self or myself is essential before being able to contemplate the resplendent face of the Elder of the Days.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

This extraordinary unveiling moves us to die in ourselves, so that the Being can manifest in us. In contrast, to drift away from the Being, to continue as ego, in the heresy of separateness, means condemning oneself to the submerged involution of the infernal worlds.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Being Is the Being

The Soul is the conjunction of all the forces, powers, virtues, essences, etc., that crystallize within us when the entire animal ego has been dissolved.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Human Soul

Obviously we must be judged and we must die before the profound inner Resurrection. The tyrant, the ego that we carry within ourselves must die, if we truly long for the resurrection of Christ within ourselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The death of the ego and the Resurrection of the Being within ourselves must occur during life.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Being Is the Being

When we pass through the Buddhist Annihilation, and when the ego is reduced to cosmic dust, then we christify ourselves. The Lord crystallizes within ourselves.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The absolute Resurrection of the Being is more than impossible without the radical death. If you do not die, then your Consciousness will not be resurrected.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Being Is the Being

At the present time, we cannot say that we possess our soul. On the contrary, the soul possesses us, we are a heavy burden for our soul, we are like a cancerous tumor for our soul. But when we completely destroy the Ego, then the liberated Consciousness, the pure Essence will manifest through our human person with all the dominion of ancient times; it will again talk in the pure language of the divine tongue like a river of gold, running under the dense selva of the sun; it will again see the Gods of fire, air, water, earth; the Princes of the elements will open to us the doors of their paradises. We will have returned to the paradisiacal state. It will be then, when we will really possess our soul, when we will truly be only soul; even our own human body will become soul, and we will be one hundred percent soul.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

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, The Essence, The Human Soul

So, only by eliminating the totality of our psychological defects, only by dying in ourselves, will we truly achieve the integration with the Logos, with Divinity. Then we will become Kumaras in the most complete sense of the word. A Kumara is a super-man, a Kumara is an incarnated Logoi, a Kumara has power over fire, over air, over waters and over earth. We must become Kumaras, authentic men, divine beings, ineffable, sacred individuals. But, as we are now, we are truly nothing more than mere intellectual animals condemned to the penalty of living.

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