The Centres of the Human Machine

The human machine has seven centers, five inferior and two superior, which people do not even suspect. We are going to study the five inferior centers: the first is the intellectual center, the second is the emotional, the third is that of movement, the fourth is the instinctive, and the fifth is the sexual.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Mechanical Man

We have been told that we are the microcosmos of the macrocosmos, but we actually live in the inferior parts of our five centers. We already know that we have five centers: intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977

The mind has its center, the intellectual center, but it is not the Being. The center of the mind, the intellective one, is in the brain, that is obvious, but it is not the Being. The feeling, which corresponds to the emotional center or to the emotional brain, is in the region of the [solar] plexus and extends to the sympathetic [nervous] centers and the heart, but it is not the Being. The Being is the Being, and the reason for being of the Being is the Being himself.

The Fifth Gospel Pedagogy of Knowing How to Live Third Chamber Mexico City – 1974 also in The Being Is the Being, The Mind

There are five centers in the machine, that is obvious: the intellectual, which is the first one; the emotional, which is the second one; the motor, which is the third one; the instinctive, which is the fourth one, and the sexual, the fifth. But the centers of the machine do not constitute the Being; they can put themselves at the Being’s service, but they are not the Being. Thus, neither the mind nor the feeling are the Being.

The Fifth Gospel Pedagogy of Knowing How to Live Third Chamber Mexico City – 1974 also in The Mechanical Man

Each one of these Five Centers penetrates the entire organism; nonetheless, if one selfobserves profoundly, one becomes aware that each one of the centers has a central, basic point situated at a specific area of our organic machine.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Mechanical Man

But humanity is the most important organ of Nature. Why is it the most important? Because it has three brains: the intellectual, the emotional and the motor. The intellectual is located inside the physical brain, the emotional is in the heart, and the motor is in the upper part of the spine. This is what makes humanity the most important organ. It can assimilate certain types of energies and then transform them and retransmit them to the inner layers of the Earth.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

So, in reality and in truth, there is still a residue of the abominable Kundartiguador Organ in the human being. With the disappearance of such an organ it could be clearly seen that the bad consequences of this organ remained in the five cylinders of the organic machine. These five cylinders are the following: the intellectual, located in the brain; the emotional, located in the heart; the motor, in the upper part of the spine; the instinctive, in the lower part of the spine; and the sexual. The bad consequences of the abominable Kundartiguador Organ remained in these five centers of the machine.

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

Master: The three brains and the five cylinders are a whole, in general; because the three brains are three cylinders plus two inferior cylinders, we have five in total. I can come up with the following list: First: intellectual center or intellectual brain, located in the head of the physical body. Second: emotional brain, located in the heart. Third: motor brain, located in the superior part of the spine. Fourth: instinctive brain, which is nothing more than an instinctive center –we can call it “brain” if we want to–, located in the lower part of the spine. And fifth: the sexual center.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

But strictly speaking the intellectual, emotional and motor centers are called “brains”. As for the instinctive and sexual centers, normally, they are not called “brains”. However, all these five centers are the five cylinders of the machine.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

Psychologists synthesize in the following way: intellectual brain, emotional brain and motor-instinctive-sexual brain.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

The revolutionary psychology of the New Era affirms that the organic machine of the intellectual animal mistakenly called man exists in a three-centered or three-brained form.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Mechanical Man

The first brain is the thinking center. The second brain is the center of movement, commonly called the motor center. The third brain is the emotional center.

Fundamental Education, 1970

But don’t forget that the three inferior centers of the organic machine –that is, the sexual, instinctive and motor centers– which form a wonderful triangle, a splendid triangle that can perfectly handle the three forces: the positive, negative and neutral of electricity. This is truly amazing.

The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Thus, each of these minds of the five centers of the organic machine –intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual– has its own mind; and each of the superior emotional and superior mental centers has its own mind.

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

The three brains of man are related to the five centers of the human machine. Intellect, emotion, movement, instinct and sex are related to the same machine. The intellectual center, the emotional center and the motor center are worthy of our attention. Obviously, the motor-instinctive-sexual center is a perfect triangle; the motor-instinctive-sexual center does not hold antagonisms of any kind. That is why in general we talk about three brains: intellectual center, emotional center and motor-instinctive-sexual center.

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

First, no one who has studied natural sciences can ignore the reality of single-brained organisms, that is, endowed with a single brain. For example: mollusks, snails, insects that only last a summer afternoon, etc. Only one single force expresses in them. Then come the two-brained creatures, that is, endowed with two brains: eagles, horses, dogs, cats, superior animals of all kinds. Two forces express in them. Then come the three-brained organisms. These three brains only exist in the intellectual animal, mistakenly called man. The Three Forces express in them.

The Fifth Gospel The Need to Crystallize the Soul Second Chamber – Mexico City – January 1977 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

I want to say that single-brained organisms have sensations; two-brained ones have sensations and perceptions; three-brained ones have sensations, perceptions and concepts. Obviously, only three-brained organisms could crystallize the Three Forces of nature within themselves, here and now. These Three Forces are represented in India by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva; the Holy Affirmation, the Holy Negation and the Holy Conciliation; the positive, the negative and the neutral force.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Discipline for Awakening Interview – Mexico City – 1970 also in Sensations, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Every center is divided into two parts: positive and negative; this division is particularly clear for the Intellectual Center and the Instinctive Center.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

The specific functions of each center indicate, point to certain dualisms in each center, as the dualism of the mind with its incessant battle of antithesis dividing thoughts; the dualism of emotions splitting them into pleasant and unpleasant emotions; the dualism of instinctual sensations splitting them into pleasure and pain; the dualism of sexuality splitting them into attraction and repulsion of sex, etc. Without a doubt, each one of the five centers is, at the same time, positive and negative.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Law of Polarities, The Law of the Pendulum

In the mind, it is perfectly defined by the battle of the antitheses, by conflicting opinions, etc. In the heart, by the antithetical emotions, by the states of anguish and happiness, of optimism and depression. In the motor-instinctive-sexual center it manifests in the habits, customs, movements: we frown, we are sullen when we are depressed; or we smile happily under the impulse of the motor center when we are very content, etc. We jump, we hop around full of joy due to good news, or our legs shake before an imminent danger; thesis and antithesis of the motor center, the Law of Pendulum in the motor center.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Question: Master, I would like to ask you again if each center is independent, if it is handled with a certain type of independent hydrogen, or if it is the same type of hydrogen or the same energy of the five centers.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

Master: Each one of the centers of the machine in itself is autonomous, even though all of them among them are correlated in some way; that is obvious.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City also in The Mechanical Man

Unquestionably, the intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual centers form an entire system by means of which we get in contact with the impressions that reach us through the senses.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

There are people whose Consciousness is totally located in the brain; those people cannot understand the people whose Consciousness is located in the emotional center. There are people whose Consciousness is located in the emotional center; those people do not understand the people whose Consciousness is located in the intellectual brain. There are people whose Consciousness is located in the instinctive-motor-sexual brain; those people would never understand the emotional nor the intellectual, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

Master: Unquestionably, each one of the main centers of the machine is in turn subdivided into three very important parts. But there are many other subdivisions not mentioned by Master G.; that in the intellectual center there is something of the emotional center and of the motor center, we cannot deny that! That in the emotional center there is something of the intellectual and of the motor, we do not deny it! That in the motor center, for instance, there is something of the intellectual and of the emotional, it is true!

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City also in The Mechanical Man

Now, as for the instinctive center, I can tell you that the instinctive center knows more than what people suppose. If people did not hinder the activities of the instinctive center, they would live healthy, there would be no sick people on the face of the Earth. The instinct is very wise, the instinct is what keeps the organism working. A sick person could be cured if he obeyed totally the instinctive center.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

And as for the sexual center, I can tell you that it is magnificent, from there, well, the famous Sexual Hydrogen Si-12 comes out, with which we can radically transform ourselves.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

The entire work of the Intellectual Center is divided into two parts: Affirmation and Negation, Yes and No, Thesis and Antithesis.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Memory is the formative principle of the Intellectual Center. When a person aspires to something more, when someone looks through the limitations of the subconscious and sees that which he has deposited in the memory and analyzes and meditates on the last occurrence or teachings of an esoteric book, then those values move to the emotional phase of the same Intellectual Center. When one wants to know the deep meaning of said teachings and the person surrenders in full to meditation, obviously such teachings move on to the Emotional Center properly said and they then come to be felt in the depth of the soul.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Memory, The Science of Meditation

The intellectual center has three parts: the superior intellectual part, the emotional part and the motor part. We would say that the knowledge passes to the emotional part of the intellectual center; then we begin to feel a certain flavor of what we have deposited in our memory. In a more advanced stage of meditation, that knowledge definitely leaves the intellectual center to be deposited, strictly, within the emotional center and, subsequently, through the technique of meditation, we finally pass the knowledge from the emotional center to the Essence. This knowledge remains deposited in the Essence, which is, the truth or the truths that we can bring to the Essence. To speak more clearly, they have a rather emotional flavor, but I do not speak of inferior emotions, but emotions of a superior type.

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

Pleasant and unpleasant emotions exist in the Emotional Center: happiness, sympathy, affection, self-confidence, etc. are positive.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

When one opens the doors to negative impressions, he not only alters the order of the emotional center which is in the heart but he also makes it negative. One opens his doors, for example, to a negative emotion that a person brings full of anger because someone hurt him. Then, we end up aligning ourselves with that person, against the other who hurt him and also full of anger, without playing any role in the matter.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Anger, The Transformation of Impressions

Disciple: Master, our defects manifest due to negative emotions. Could you tell us some way to balance that emotional center, with relation to the intellectual and the motor centers?

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

The struggle between movement and rest exists in the Movement or Motor Center.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

The motor centre of our body can drive a car or direct the fingers which play the piano keys, without even the most insignificant participation of the consciousness.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

The same struggle between pleasant and unpleasant exists in the Instinctive Center; pleasant sensations, unpleasant sensations and all of those sensations are related with the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Sensations

When we eat a food necessary for our existence, the latter is transformed, it is clear, from one phase to another, into all of those elements which are so indispensable for our existence. Who carries out those processes of the transformation of substances within us? Obviously, the Instinctive Center. The wisdom of this center is really astonishing. Digestion, in itself, is transformation. The food in the stomach, in other words, in the inferior part of this three story factory of the human organism, suffers transformation… If something were to enter without going through the stomach, the organism would neither be able to assimilate its vitaminic principles nor its proteins, that would simply be an indigestio n. As we reflect upon this subject, we get to comprehend the necessity of undergoing a transformation.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

In the Sexual Center, attraction and repulsion, chastity and lust, exist in eternal conflict. The Intellectual Animal sacrifices his pleasures if necessary, but he is incapable of sacrificing his own sufferings.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, Suffering

Indeed, the search for our sexual complement occurs in each function of our human organism. The sense of attraction, indifference and repulsion between a man and a woman is the outcome of a highly complicated calculation of the existing factors of reciprocity of each of its functions and of the average or total function of all of those factors together. Fortunately, such a complex and difficult calculation can never be performed by the Intellectual Center, but only by the Sexual Center. This center can attain a correct result in a second or even less.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Infinite possibilities exist within the Sexual Center (when it is developed) that can either convert us into Angels or Devils.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Disciple: When one practices in the Ninth Sphere, what should be the attitude of the five centers?

The Fifth Gospel The Reason of Being of Objective Justice Lecture – Interview – Mexico City – 1975

It is necessary to know that each of the five cylinders of the machine possesses its own characteristics that we should never confuse.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Mechanical Man, The Words He Uses

Differences in velocity exist among the five centers of the machine.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

People lavishly praise thinking, but in reality of truth, the Intellectual Center is the slowest. Afterwards, operating much faster, follow the Instinctive and Movement or Motor Centers, which have more or less the same velocity. The fastest is the Sexual Center, and is followed in order of speed, by the Emotional Center.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

The Motor and Instinctive Centers are thirty thousand times faster than the Intellectual Center. The Emotional Center, when it works at the velocity that is its own, is thirty thousand times faster than the Motor and Instinctive Centers.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

All of the Five Cylinders of the human machine are fundamental for life, but, without a doubt, the Sexual Center, the Fifth Center, is indeed, the most important and the fastest of all. The very roots of our existence are found within the latter.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Mechanical Man

The Sexual Center (because of its fine energy) is extraordinarily subtle and fast. The majority of its manifestations take place on a molecular level, where its impulses are transmitted thousands of times faster than those of the mind.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

There exists sexual abuse in the action of the sex through the other centers of the human machine or the action of the other centers through the sexual center. Each center of the machine should function with its own energy, but unfortunately the other centers of the machine rob energy from the sex.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Mechanical Man

When the intellectual, emotional, movement and instinctive centers rob the sexual energy, there then exists sexual abuse. The gravest of all this is that the sexual center has to at the same time rob energy from the other centers in order to be able to function; all of this is sexual abuse.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Everywhere there is an abundance of diabolic intellect, violent emotions, passionate movements, passionate races of cars, horses, bicycles, Olympic Games, etc, etc, or also bestial instincts in action, it is clear that there then exists sexual abuse. The worst of all this abuse is that the sexual center is then forced to work with heavier hydrogens which correspond to other centers. When the sexual center is forced to work with hydrogens like 48, 24, etc., etc., it is impossible to fabricate the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Anger

Those people who enjoy movies, novels, and pornographic pictures use the sexual energy in the thinking center and it is clear that end up with the tendency to only satisfy themselves with sexual fantasy and sooner or later they acquire a type of psychosexual impotence, in which when they go to truly carry out the sexual act, they fail lamentably.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

When the emotional center steals the sexual energy, then comes the stupid sentimentalisms, jealousies, cruelty, etc., etc.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

When the movement center works with the Hydrogen Si 12 stolen from the sexual center, then the abusers of the movement center appear, the soccer players, the tightrope walkers from the circus, the bicyclists of the big races, etc. When the instinctive center steals sexual energy, there is then an abundance of instinctive, passionate, violent, acts.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Anger

The pluralised ‘I’ foolishly wastes the essence which we have within to fabricate soul. When we dissolve the pluralised ‘I’ the waster comes to an end and then the essence accumulates within ourselves, converting itself into a permanent center of gravity. When we establish a permanent center of gravity within ourselves, the sexual center comes to then work with its own energy, with its own hydrogen, the Hydrogen Si 12.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Human Soul

Gnostic esotericism teaches that when the sexual center works with its own energy, with its own hydrogen, sexual abuse ends because each center ends up working with the energy that corresponds to it, with the hydrogen that it corresponds to and not with the Hydrogen Si 12 robbed from the sexual center. It is necessary to dissolve the ‘I’ if we want to finish with sexual abuse. Many Initiates partly dissolved the ‘I’ in the past and thanks to this fabricated the Superior Existential Bodies of the Supreme Christmas Message 1965-1966: “The Science of Music”

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

The incorrect function of the five psycho-physiologic centers of the human machine is due to the pernicious activities of the pluralized “I”; these are the evil consequences of the Abominable Kundartiguador Organ.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Mechanical Man

I will mention an example so that I will be better understood. Let us suppose that a woman attends to a gentleman with much consideration and respect; it is clear that the impressions which the gentleman is receiving in his mind are received by the personality and the latter sends the m to wrong centers. Normally, it sends them to the sexual center and this gentleman gets to firmly believe that the lady is in love with him, and as is logical, it does not take long before he rushes to make insinuations of an amorous type to her. Indubitably, if that lady has never had that type of caring for the gentleman, with much reason, she cannot, but feel surprised. That is the result of a terrible transformation of impressions. Here we see how bad a secretary the personality is. Unquestionably, the life of a man depends on this secretary who seeks transformation in its reference books without comprehending in the least, what the event means, and consequently transmits, without preoccupations for what could happen, but feeling only that it is fulfilling its duty.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Personality, The Transformation of Impressions

Why are there so many confusions in the world? You see that the humanoids do not understand each other. I will give you a specific case. A lady, suddenly, for example, decides to help a gentleman because she likes him, because she finds him very nice, etc. She can do that disinterestedly; this lady does not have any thought of lust, she is not in love with the gentleman; he only seems like a good person and she wants to help him in his different needs, etc. But what happens? The gentleman has Ego and the Ego controls the five cylinders of his machine. As the Ego controls those five cylinders of his machine, then he interprets those kind actions of the lady as he pleases. Instead of going to the emotional center, it passes to another cylinder: to the instinctive-sexual center, and then lust arises in that gentleman.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Knowledge of the Essence Lecture given to Gnostic students – 1976 also in Lust and Chastity, The Essence, The Mechanical Man

And the example I give in this regard can be extended to many other matters. We say one word and another misinterprets it. Why did he misinterpret it? Because he does not interpret it with the corresponding center, he interprets it with a center that does not correspond to it. We emit an intellectual concept, for example, and it may be that the emotional center –not the superior, but the inferior– receives that intellectual concept and misinterprets it; he thinks that his self-love is being hurt, that the individual with that concept has cast an irony on him, therefore, he reacts to it. Overall, we do not understand each other. Why? Because of the Ego, and this is a true “Tower of Babel”. And we, the human beings on the face of the Earth, cannot understand each other as long as the Ego exists. There will be wars and rumors of war, there will be strikes, there will be violence, hatred, etc., as long as we do not dissolve the Ego. The Ego has made us all horrible, we do not enjoy true beauty; due to that, due to having Ego, we are ugly, frightfully ugly.

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

Like I said, we have a bad secretary; this one is responsible for sending messages, sending representations, sending impressions to the wrong centers. It sends, for example, an impression to the instinctive center when it should not go to the instinctive, but to the sexual; or it sends an impression that is for the intellectual center to the emotional center; or it sends an impression that is for the emotional center to the motor-instinctive-sexual center.

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

Up there, in the macrocosm, the seven planetary spheres work in perfect harmony, everything works correctly. Unfortunately, here below, in the microcosm-man, everything goes wrong: the seven minds work more or less abnormally due to the Ego. Messages that are, for example, for the intellectual center reach the sexual center; messages that are for the emotional center reach the motor center. Conclusion: everyone lives incorrectly. That which is for the intellect reaches the sex, that which is for the sex reaches the intellect, that which is for the emotional center reaches the instinctive center. In these conditions, everything is wrong; the seven minds work in the wrong way due to the Ego, due to the “I”, due to the Myself.

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

Unquestionably, this matter of the impressions deserves to be analyzed in a clear and precise way. The personality that we have all acquired, receives the impressions of life, but does not transform them because practically, it is something dead. If the impressions fell directly into the Essence, it is obvious that they would be transformed, because, in fact, it would deposit them exactly in the corresponding centers of the human machine.

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

Personality, that is the term applied to everything we acquire, it is clear that it translates impressions from all sides of life in a limited and practically stereotyped way, according to its quality and associations. In this regard, in the work, the personality is sometimes compared to a terrible secretary who is in the front room, who deals with everything according to her own ideas, concepts, preconceptions, opinions and prejudices. It has many dictionaries, encyclopedias of all kinds and reference books, and is in communication with the three centers –that is, the mental, emotional and physical centers– according to its limited ideas. As a sequence or corollary, it turns out that it almost always gets into communication –and that’s the unfortunate thing– with the wrong centers.

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

Question: Venerable Master, we would like to ask you in what way do the impressions penetrate the cylinders of the human machine, and in what way do the poorly transformed impressions hinder or damage the cylinders of the human machine.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

Master: Well the impressions of any kind penetrate the organism through the senses of the machine. Obviously, there are impressions that relate directly to the emotional center. I want to refer, in an emphatic way, for instance, to the impressions related to negative emotions. There are impressions that are related to the intellectual center. I want to refer, in a clear way, to the things or impressions that have to do precisely with the intellect, with the mind. There are impressions that are directly related to sex, the impressions of lust, etc. There are merely motor impressions that impel us to action.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City also in The Transformation of Impressions

I am not saying that superior emotions do not exist, it is clear that they do exist! But unfortunately, the poor intellectual animal, mistakenly called man, has not developed the superior emotional center. Only the inferior emotional center works in him.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Thus, this matter of the five cylinders of the machine and the impressions form a single whole. Many of the impressions that enter through the windows of the senses go to the intellectual center, others go to the emotional center, others to the motor, others to the instinctive and others to the sexual.

The Fifth Gospel The New Generations Facing Gnosis Message directed to the Gnostic youth – Mexico City

To many it may seem strange how a wise man advises us –and I am now categorically referring to Ouspensky– to also use the inferior parts of the different centers of the organic machine, but that is the way it is. These put us in relation with the practical life, with the concrete facts of existence. By knowing how to manage them, we avoid the unnecessary waste of energy.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Foundations of the False Personality Third Chamber – Mexico City also in The Mechanical Man

It would be absurd to use the inferior parts of the different centers of the machine when we should use the superior parts of the different centers of the machine. Or vice versa, it would be absurd to use the superior centers when the inferior ones should be used; or in other words, to use the superior part of the five centers of the machine when the inferior part should be used.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Foundations of the False Personality Third Chamber – Mexico City also in The Mechanical Man

Let us give a concrete example: let us assume that someone is busy, at a given moment, in a trivial job without any importance; and in that moment he is terribly concentrated on that silly job and he has put the best of his mind and of his will to do that stupidity. That is a useless waste of energy. To do something silly it would be sufficient to use the inferior part of the centers of the organic machine, this is obvious, and like this, one would avoid the useless waste of energy.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Foundations of the False Personality Third Chamber – Mexico City also in The Mechanical Man

For example, one bad usage of the energies is the excited thought. An excited mind is malfunctioning. Obviously, if the intellectual center and the emotional center work in a coordinated and marvelous way, they become productive, they carry out splendid works, they do well. But, what if the mind is excited by the sexual energy or by the energy of the instinctive center, or by the energy of the motor center? In this case the mind is excited, it is working badly. What should be done? To delve into the mental center, to put order inside the mind, to take it out of the state of excitability and to think with complete serenity and logic. I am not referring to formal logic, but to the Tertium Organum, to superior logic.

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

Does it take some courage? It is true. But, what good is a problem? If we analyze well the entire process of the emergence of problems, we will see the following: the causa causarum of this or that problem exists in identification. When one identifies with this or that, with this or that event, with this or that circumstance or occurrence, then comes the problem. And what is curious, is that battle of antitheses of the problem. Obviously, the result is worry. If we analyze worry in itself, we will see that it is eminently destructive: the altered emotional center puts the intellectual center to work in a disordered way, and it also excites in an unharmonious way the activities of the motor center.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work also in Identification

And in the mind, there is no doubt that there is a frightful battle of antitheses. It could be said that worry, caused by a problem, is a true chaos within ourselves: it has no order, it has no defined direction. The three centers are active during worrying –the emotional, the intellectual, and the motor– and this is extremely serious. Indisputably, the psychic and physiological debilitation caused by worrying tends to be frightful.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work

The “I” exerts control over the five inferior centers of the human machine. These five centers are: intellect, movement, emotion, instinct and sex. The two centers of the human machine that correspond to the Christ Consciousness are known in occultism as the Christ Mind and the Christ Astral. These two superior centers cannot be controlled by the “I”. Unfortunately, the superior mind and

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

When we analyze any “I” of lust, we come to clearly see for ourselves that it processes in each one of the three brains in a different way: in the purely emotional brain it would express itself as love; in the purely motor-instinctive-sexual brain, through eroticism; in the exclusively intellectual brain, as plans, projects related to love or to the being one loves or believes to love; yet, there you have it: they are all but phenomena of the same “I”, which is called lust.

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

But see how different it manifests in the intellectual brain, what other form it assumes in the heart, and finally what its modus operandi is in the motor-instinctive-sexual center. I repeat: in the motor-instinctive-sexual center, like animal passion; in the heart lust assumes another form, we could call it love; and in the intellect it assumes another form: as projects related to that love, as memories of that love. And every “I” has its three brains: the intellectual, the emotional and the motor-instinctive-sexual. Each “I” is a person with its three brains; that is obvious.

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

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 Science of Meditation, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Any defect is personified by some psychological “I”. There are [three forms of behavior]. One, the way it expresses itself in the intellectual center; another, the way it behaves in the emotional center, situated in the heart; and another, the way it behaves in the motor, instinctive and sexual centers.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work

See that I summarize the motor, instinctive and sexual centers as if they were one, because they are three inferior centers that coordinate with each other to form a kind of personality in one. I see that in each person there are three very marked personalities: the intellectual, the emotional and the instinctive-motor-sexual one. They are three personalities that do not understand each other, that have never understood each other. Studying how the “I” behaves in the intellectual part is basic, how it behaves in the emotional part is fundamental, and how it behaves in those motor, instinctive and sexual centers is extraordinary.

The Fifth Gospel Clarifications About the Psychological Work

All these “I”-persons enter and leave our physical body at will. All these “I”-persons also have three brains. Each “I”-person has an intellectual brain, an emotional brain and a motor-instinctive-sexual brain; each “I”-person is, by itself, a complete entity.

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

Obviously, in the sex, an “I” has a form of expression; in the heart it has another form; in the brain, another. In the brain, the “I” manifests itself through the intellectual matter: reasons, justifications, evasiveness, escapes, etc. In the heart, as suffering, as affection, as an apparent love many times, when it is a matter of lust, etc.; and in the motor-instinctive-sexual centers, it has its form of expression as action, as instinct, as lewd impulse, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The Rescue of our Inner Light

We cannot deny that there are three brains; first, the intellectual brain; second, the emotional brain and third, the motor brain. There are energetic values in the intellectual brain, the values that nature has placed in the intellectual brain – for example, criminals possess mediocre intellectual values–, and when we have magnificent development, there is no doubt that great values are expressed through us then, through our own intellectual brain, because –I repeat–, the values are of nature.

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

The emotional brain is also very important. The emotional brain is located in the heart and in specific nervous centers of the great sympathetic system, as well as in the solar plexus. The emotional values turn out to be extremely important for life. If there were no emotional values, we would not get excited about an idea, we would not cheer up on a sports field, and life would develop without the various factors that it entails, with a frightening indifference.

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

The motor brain, located in the upper part of the spine is also very interesting for us. The values that are located in that brain allow us to walk, move, go back and forth in different directions: to play baseball, basketball, do gymnastics, etc. If we did not have values in the motor brain, we would practically not be interested in sports nor walks nor excursions nor anything related to movement.

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

So, indeed, the three brains are very important. Now, when we try to learn sports by abusing them, obviously, the values of the motor brain get worn out in a definitive way. And if in the gym, we consider that the emotional brain and the motor brain is something that we have to be interacting with all the time –by hitting, ges-ticulating, shouting, arguing, etc.– there comes a natural moment when the values of the motor brain are worn out; and, in these conditions, this brain has to die.

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

Many people who are in the clinics of “mental rest”, that is, in the asylums, are due to the fact that they wore out the values of the intellectual brain. Many people who are in a state of “coma”, we would say, have worn out their vital values –the fatal result of living in the wrong way–.

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

There are others who have worn out the vital values of their emotional brain. Consequently, they suffer from palpitations and nervous disorders, that is, they tend to suffer from the heart, so, without any doubt, a myocardial attack comes to them sooner or later. A heart attack appears often among the sports fans and artists, among the emotional and the sentimental ones who have worn out the values of the emotional brain.

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

And what will we say about the motor brain? This one, we have already said, allows us to play a little, allows us to play football, baseball, etc., but if we abuse the motor brain, sooner or later, such brain will die, and then, it is obvious that we will have diseases such as cerebral embolism, paralysis, etc.

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

We always die by thirds. For example, some time ago, a friend of ours got sick, he had abused the intellectual brain too much. This man seldom got excited and began to get sick one day. He had exclusively dedicated himself to the intellect, and one day he got an embolism. We observed the case, we investigated it and when we visited him, it happened that his intellectual brain could not coordinate ideas. Days later, his motor brain died, then, it is obvious that he could not move anymore. Finally, the emotional brain died, he had a heart seizure. Therefore, one always dies by thirds and this is already proven. All this is serious, and in some way, it is closely related either to the intellectual brain, or to the emotional brain, or to the motor brain.

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

Unquestionably, what is harming us is the abuse or excessive use of the intellectual brain; we abuse the intellect too much, we waste the vital values of the intellect. So, frankly, what could we compare ourselves to: someone who only lives within the intellectual cerebration, someone who does not do sports, someone who never listens to pleasant music, who does not get excited about anything in life? I think we could compare them to one of those strange creatures, to those that live at this time in the depths of the oceans.

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

But there are different kinds of creatures in the universe. There are one-dimensional creatures, of only one dimension. For example, an insect that only lasts a few hours of summer has only one brain: the instinctive one. There are two-dimensional creatures, that is, they possess two brains: the instinctive and the emotional. Such creatures are the superior animals: the horse, the elephant, the dog, the cat, etc. And, there are also creatures that have three brains: the instinctive, the emotional and the intellectual. Obviously, such species acquire superior forms. Unquestionably, I refer to the intellectual animal, mistakenly called man.

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

Sports that are harmonious and balanced are useful for the motor brain, but abuse of sports signifies excessive waste of motor energies and the result is often disastrous.

Fundamental Education, 1970

It is not absurd to affirm that there are people who are dead in the motor center. Such dead persons are known as hemiplegics, paraplegics, progressive paralytics, etc.

Fundamental Education, 1970

The sense of aesthetics, mysticism, ecstasy, superior music, is necessary in order to cultivate the emotional center, but the abuse of this brain produces a useless waste and uses up the emotional energies. The emotional brain is abused by the existentialists of the “new wave”, the rock music fans, the sensual pseudo-artists of modern art, and the morbid, passionate persons of sensuality, etc., etc.

Fundamental Education, 1970

Even though it seems incredible, in each person death truly operates in thirds. It has been verified till satiation that every illness has its cause in one of the three brains.

Fundamental Education, 1970

The great law has wisely deposited in each of the three brains of the intellectual animal a set capital of vital values. To save this capital means, in fact, to prolong life; to waste this capital causes death.

Fundamental Education, 1970

Over the centuries, through all the ages, the mistaken use of the three brains shortened the lifespan little by little.

Fundamental Education, 1970

A Hierarch of the Law cuts some sheaves of wheat which have grain of varying sizes, both large and small. These are what are called “Boby-Caldenos” and represent the values, the capital which each human being carries in his three brains (intellectual, motor, emotional).

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

He who carries small grain lives only a short while; dying within a few days, months or in the first few years of life. One lives by thirds and one dies by thirds; he who squanders his intellectual capital descends into madness, schizophrenia, etc. He who abuses his motor or movement centre ends up being paralysed, deformed, etc. He who misuses his emotional centre suffers from ailments of the heart.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Within each one of our three brains the Lords of Karma deposit a determined quantity of Vital Values: First Brain: thinking or intellectual, in the head.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Law of Karma

If one exhausts the values of the emotional centre, one provokes illnesses of the heart, nervous and psychotic states, illnesses which are related with emotive or emotional aspects. Many artis ts exhaust the emotional brain and end up with particular psychopathic, emotional or cardiac conditions.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

They who exhaust the values of the motor centre finish up paralysed, or with illnesses related with the muscles, the knees, the joints, paralysis, etc., damage to the spinal column.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

In general, all illness results from the misuse of these three brains; what this means is that one dies by thirds, little by little. For example, foot ballers, runners, boxers are people who abuse the motor brain. These persons end up in a bad way, their death being due to misuse of the motor brain.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Over there, in Asia, there is a very interesting Buddhist monastery. There, the monks live 400 or 500 years because they know how to manage the intellectual brain, the emotional brain and the motor brain. When they get tired of the intellectual brain, they use the emotional one; when they get tired of the emotional one, they use the motor brain and, in this way, they maintain the energy, they do not exhaust their “vital values”.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Solution to Problems Excursion – Xochimilco Forest, Mexico City

There are those who believe that when one comes to the world, it is because one had to be born at that particular date and time –well, I have nothing to argue about this–, but moreover they think that one has to die on a certain date and at a certain age and this on the other hand is something debatable. What happens is that the Lords of Karma give one a certain capital of “vital values” that are deposited in the intellectual, emotional and motor brains. If one exhausts any of them, one dies very fast. But if one keeps one’s “values”, he can live to the age of 90 or 100 years and even more. So, what one has to do is learn to manage the three brains. Understood? Understand why I am talking to you about the intellectual man, the emotional man and the instinctive-motor man.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Solution to Problems Excursion – Xochimilco Forest, Mexico City also in The Law of Karma

One always dies by parts. Notice that F.D. Roosevelt, for example, began to die when he developed paralysis, that is, the paralysis of his motor brain. It was the beginning that caused, in the long term, his death. As for others, there are those who die because of the intellectual brain: they abuse the intellect so much, they have so many worries, that they exhaust the “values” that are in that brain, and that is where they start until in the end they die. There are also others, like the artists of the screen, who abuse the emotional brain. That is where they start until in the end the heart is affected and they die.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Solution to Problems Excursion – Xochimilco Forest, Mexico City

Currently, true creative systems do not exist for the harmonious cultivation of the three brains. Teachers of schools, colleges and universities speak only to the unfaithful memory of the bored students that anxiously wait for the time when they can leave the classroom. It is urgent and indispensable to know how to combine intellect, movement and emotion with the purpose of delivering complete information to the three brains of students. It is absurd to instruct one brain only. The first brain is not the only one of cognition. It is criminal to abuse the thinking brains of students.

Fundamental Education, 1970

The Cosmic Dramas are based on the Law of Seven. Certain intelligent deviations of such law were always utilized to transmit to the neophyte transcendental teachings. It is well known in music that certain notes can produce happiness in the thinking center; others can produce sadness in the sensitive center, and lastly, others can produce religiosity in the motor center.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

In this matter of wisdom that relates so much to the mind, we must understand, my dear brothers, that there exists an antithesis. I refer to the culture of the pseudo intellectual type with which one is fed during the preparatory age. Certainly, that culture that one receives in kindergarten, in Primary schools, in Secondary school, in the “High school”, in the University, is causing us horrific damages. I would rate such a culture as black magic of the worst kind, because that kind of culture –and may I be excused here by the university brothers, like E., and, all in all, by the brothers who have loads of information in their heads; I refer to everyone, even myself, I recognize that I also went through those so much vaunted schools of Primary and Secondary Education, and all that– it no longer has any relation with the different parts of the Being. Rather, it is fatally related, of course, to the five cylinders of the machine and it falsifies them. The intellectual center is the one which receives the worst damages; then the emotional center, the motor,

The Fifth Gospel The Danger of Mental Effigies Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Mechanical Man, The Mind

The music that was used properly instructed the emotional brain; it was a special music. They knew perfectly well that in the human organism there are certain ganglia which have been formed by the sounds of the Universe, and they knew how to manage all those ganglia, all those parts of the human being, by means of the different musical combinations. That is how they were teaching the emotional brain through music.

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

You know that a war march makes one feel like marching; that a funeral music makes one meditate, reflect; that a romantic music brings back memories of bygone times, one’s nights of love, etc. They intelligently combined sounds to wisely instruct the emotional brain as well. See how interesting it is!

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

In the name of truth, we must say clearly that the subjects that are currently studied in educational institutes have no relation whatsoever with the different parts of the Being. That is why they only serve to falsify the five cylinders of the organic machine, to take away our capacity for wonder, to develop the sensory mind, to forge within us a false personality, and that is all.

The Fifth Gospel The Power of Intuition of the Psychological Man Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 22, 1977

The humans of the fourth level never identify themselves with any particular center of the human machine.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Mechanical Man

An individual who reads a book at five hundred kilometers an hour from page to page and says: “Now I know it!”, is ruining the intellectual brain; he is not fulfilling the cosmic duty.

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

The fourth level of man is different. On the fourth level of men, we find the perfect development and harmonious balance of all the centers. On the fourth level, we find perfect harmony and rhythmic agreement in the functionalism of the five centers of the machine. To reach the fourth level, one has to fully develop all the centers. No one could develop the five centers of the machine if he rejected all those activities that exist in the world.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Reason of the Solar Man also in The Mechanical Man

It is clear that everything there is in the world serves for the development of each part of the centers. It is worth knowing that each one of the centers of the machine possesses different parts. The sexual center works harmoniously and develops harmoniously through the transmutation of the creative energy.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Reason of the Solar Man

The instinctive center does not need to go through any educational regime. It might as well educate us, for it is the one that keeps us alive, that regulates all the activities of the organism and runs them wisely. When we want to train the instinctive center, we risk losing our lives or getting sick. It is worth remembering that neither the heart nor the liver nor the kidneys would ever function if we did not possess in our nature the instinctive center.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Reason of the Solar Man

The Pure Esotericism is based upon the Mystical Experience, and the latter is submitted to Mathematics of Transfinite Numbers and to the Unmistakable Laws of Superior Logic. We studied the Astral Body in the former chapter. The complete manifestation of our Superior Emotional Center takes place through the Astral Body.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

The complete development of our Superior Mental Center can be achieved only through a legitimately Solar Type of Mental Body.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

The superior centres are fully developed in us, and they send us messages, which we must learn to consciously grasp.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Language of Dreams

Those who interpret everything literally, think that the sower of the Christic Gospel went to sow, and that the seeds fell on rocks, and so on, but they do not understand the sense of the parable, because it belongs to the symbolic language of the Superior Emotional centre.

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

When the Superior Emotional centre is actually working, the thinking process stops, at least for a brief moment.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

The two superior centers are the superior emotional and the superior mental. Only the inhabitants of the Kingdom can use these centers.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Man has two centers that he still does not use—his Superior Mind and Superior Emotion. These are his two divine centers; the true instruments of the eternal and imperishable man with Soul. With these two superior centers we can profoundly study the great mysteries of life of death. We have been told that with these two superior centers we can penetrate into the Great Reality that is found far beyond time and eternity.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in The Mind

Disciple: Venerable Master, touching on the sense of self-observation, does this have any direct relationship with the superior centers of the organic machine?

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

Master: Well, obviously, the superior centers of the human machine itself are already distorted, precisely, by the education received. Therefore, these centers of the human machine, we will have to purify them, and that is why the work of the intimate Self-Realization of the Being is so difficult.

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

Master: Well, obviously, self-remembering is related to the superior mental center, as is self-observation. However, I think –and I have always said– that the emotional center –I am especially referring to the superior emotional center– has more penetrability, more omniscience, more wisdom, and it is more important.

The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977 also in Identification, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Remembrance of Oneself

Remember that the entire Bible, beginning with the creation of man and ending with the judgment of man in the Book of Revelation, is written with the superior emotional center, in the language of parables, and hence the wisdom that is contained in every verse. That is all. Any other brother can ask a question. Let’s see, sister...

The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition