The Essence

What makes every newborn child beautiful and adorable is his Essence; the Essence in itself constitutes his true reality.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

The Essence or Consciousness is re-embodied within the body of the newly born child. This is what gives the baby its beauty.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

We do not mean to state that one hundred percent of the Essence or Consciousness is reembodied within the newly born child; it is only the three percent of free consciousness that normally is not bottled up within the “I’s Nevertheless, that free percentage of Essence, re embodied within the organisms of newly born babies gives them full self-cognizance, lucidity; etc.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Awakening, The Human Soul

The child is born innocent and pure; the essence expressing itself in every child is greatly precious.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

We, really, are machines moved by forces that we do not know. When a child is born, the first thing that enters into the creature is the Essence, the animic part: three percent, which is the only thing that is free, because the remaining ninety-seven percent is bottled up among the “I's”. But the free part impregnates the fertilized egg and remains inside the body of the creature. Therefore, in a newborn child there is three percent free Consciousness and that three percent is self-conscious.

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

You see how beautiful a newborn child is. The only thing that is expressed through the child is the Essence –but I speak of a newborn child– Those who think that a newborn child is in a state of unconsciousness, asleep, are profoundly mistaken. A newborn child sees you with pity, he is more awake than you. If you think that he is not aware of your life, you are perfectly wrong. Not only does he realize how you live, but even worse, the horrors that you carry within you; and this is the most lamentable part.

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

The first one of these aspects is that which is called Essence. In Zen Buddhism this Essence is denominated Buddhata.

Runic Magic, 1969

The Essence, the Buddhata, is within the human being and it is that aspect which has true reality, it is that which is genuine within the human being.

Runic Magic, 1969

In reality, the “intellectual animal” does not have true individuality, he does not have a permanent center of gravity, and he does not have a true sense of moral responsibility. The only thing of value within our lunar bodies is the Buddhata, the sacred Essence, the psychic material that is unfortunately wasted by the various entities which together constitute the ego, the pluralized “I.”

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Many I’s

In reality, no such superior or divine “I” exists. Within the lunar bodies, there exist only the Essence and the legion of ”I’s” that is all.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Many I’s

In the name of truth it is necessary to say that the only thing of worth within us is the "ESSENCE". Unfortunately this in itself is dispersed here and there and is bottled up by each of the different Egos.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

I want to emphatically refer to the essence, the psychic material, that is certainly the foundation, the basis of all of our psychic organization.

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

Then, that intellectual knowledge that one acquires in school, etc., is relative, it is not anyone’s property. That of one’s own is that which one carries of the Essence, it is the Consciousness, it is the soul; that is indeed one’s own. Everything else is temporary. So, the harsh reality is that the Consciousness is asleep, unfortunately, and this is the saddest thing, it is asleep!

The Fifth Gospel Magic and Experimental Psychology Public Lecture – 1976

The Essence, bottled up among each “I”, is Consciousness and will. This is something we must comprehend thoroughly. The Essence is a fraction of the soul, universal will. When the essential will is released, it is then mixed or fused with the universal will and, for that reason, it becomes omnipotent and sovereign.

The Fifth Gospel The Liberating Power of the Will Lecture given to the brothers of Colombia – Mexico City April 23rd, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Ordinary people are trapped by external senses. However, there are people who have already established within themselves a permanent center of gravity. They are those people who were part of these studies in their previous lives. These people will seek the teaching, will long for it, will feel that there is something beyond the world of the senses, and they are not mistaken. Far beyond these senses by means of which we get in touch with the outside world, we find the Essence. There is no doubt that those people who have a permanent center of gravity, indeed long for something distinct, different. Despite all the uncertainties of existence, their Essence remains immutable, it has not been deteriorated or altered.

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

There are two currents of thought inside each one of us: one comes from the personality; the other, from the Essence. We can also say that thoughts that come from a cultured personality, apparently, are brighter, of a substantial content; but, deep down, the thoughts that come from the Essence are of a superior nature. However, a great capacity for observing is needed to distinguish one from the other.

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

As the thoughts of the Essence are simpler and those of the personality are more complicated, we could get confused and believe that the thoughts of the latter, that is, of the personality, are of superior quality than those of the Essence; but such confusion is especially based on ignorance. The thoughts of the Essence, although they do not have much erudition, although they are very simple, they are of superior quality.

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

When someone in life starts to interest himself a little about his situation in his existence, when he realizes that he is nothing but an inhabitant of the Earth –so very small when he thinks about how the Earth is like a piece of the Sun, a detached slice of the Sun or a particle of the Sun– undoubtedly, this indicates to us that his Essence is restless, it has longings, it has something of a superior character.

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

Obviously, these kinds of thoughts, although very simple, are of no interest to the people who live in their tiny little world –that of the microcosmos–, to the people who live within the infinitesimal world of the ordinary senses. One would not feel the longing to know if the Earth is a piece of the Sun and if the Sun belongs to the Milky Way unless the Essence would come with such concern or such longing. It is the Essence that has that quality of thoughts, simple, but ultimately magnificent.

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

Therefore, it is necessary that the brothers understand that, the most important thing that we have within us is the Essence, that is to say, the Consciousness.

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

This Essence has its own correct feeling, which is different, completely different from the false feeling of the “I”. This Essence, really, with its feeling, emanates from the true Causal Soul or Cosmic Soul; thus, the feeling that the Essence has, is the same that the Cosmic Soul has, the same that exists in the Spirit Soul, the same that exists in the Intimate or Atman.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Objective reason bases its functionalism on the data that the Essence provides. It is good to know that in the Essence are the particles of pain of our Father who is in secret. If these particles are used wisely, we can awaken the Consciousness through them. In the Essence there is the religion, the wisdom, the Buddha and, in general, all the data that we need to orient ourselves on the path of the Revolution of the Consciousness.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Reason of the Solar Man also in Suffering, The Human Soul, The Mind

Now, the authentic Consciousness, the legitimate Consciousness is that of the Being, that of the Essence. It is the real Consciousness, which is put aside over there, discarded.

The Fifth Gospel Particularities of Objective Reason Conference – Mexico City – 1975 also in The Being Is the Being

The Buddhata, the interior Buddhist principle, the psychic material or the prime matter in order to build that which is called soul, exists within every human being who is not in an extreme state of degeneration.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Human Soul

This technique of meditation with its non-thinking, puts to work the most central part of the mind, the one that produces the ecstasy. Remember that the central part of the mind is that which is called Buddhata, the essence, the consciousness. When the Buddhata awakens we remain illuminated. We need to awaken the Buddhata, the consciousness.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Awakening, The Science of Meditation

The Buddhata, the essence, is the psychic material, the inner Buddhist principle, the spiritual material or prime matter with which we will give shape to the soul. The Buddhata is the best that we have within and awakens with profound inner meditation. The Buddhata is really the only element that the poor intellectual animal possesses to arrive at the experience of that which we call the Truth.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Awakening, The Human Soul, The Science of Meditation

Actually, there is an intimate relationship between the Essence and the Consciousness.

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

That said, we need to pay close attention to what we are talking about if we really want to awaken Consciousness. First of all, what is this Consciousness that we are willing to awaken? It is the Essence. Well, that is indeed correct.

The Fifth Gospel The Two Types of Metaphysical Crystallizations Thud Chamber – Mexico City – 1975 also in Awakening, The Human Soul

The beautiful blue creature seen by clairvoyants inside the lunar vehicles is what Zen Buddhists call Buddhata, the Essence, a fraction of the sacred Human Soul, which is within us.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Human Soul

In the run-of-the-mill intellectual animal, the Being, the Inner-Self is not born, nor dies, nor reincarnates, but it does send the Essence to each new Personality. The Essence is a fraction of the Human Soul, the Buddhata.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

It is urgent to know that the Buddhata, the Essence, is deposited within the Lunar Bodies with which the Ego garbs itself.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul

The Buddhata or Essence is only a fraction of the Human Soul within us. Therefore, to confuse the Buddhata or Essence with the Causal Body is an absurdity.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Human Soul

Thus, as Atman rends himself asunder into the Buddhi and the Superior Manas; likewise, the Superior Manas rends himself asunder into the Buddhata, into the Essence.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Atman unfolds into Buddhi, and Buddhi into Manas, just as if we were to see ourselves in a mirror, and then the Trinity comes into being. The Essence is an unfoldment of Superior Manas, that Essence being in turn trapped in the “ego.” The awakening of that Essence is the awakening of consciousness; is to become conscious of the Mysteries of Life and Death. Many want to awaken consciousness, but in a given moment, abandon the work. Due to this, the Maithuna was never communicated to anyone before awakening consciousness. The Christmas Message 1968-69 contains the Runes for awakening consciousness.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Awakening, The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

The Mental Body, Body of Desire, Etheric and Physical Bodies incorporate the personality. The Essence, on entering into these vehicles, becomes trapped in the ego. That which returns is a fraction of the Human Soul.

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

Such a fraction is denominated ‘Essence.’ In Nippon Zen, this fraction is simply named ‘Buddhata.’ Lamentably, this ‘Essence’ abides in dreams within the variegated and grotesque conjunction of submerged, tenebrous entities, which constitute the Ego, the Myself, the Itself.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Before all else, we should not become identified with the mind if we truly wish to take the most advantage of the Second Jewel, because if we feel ourselves being the mind, if I say: “I am reasoning! I am thinking!”, then I am affirming an absurdity and I am not in agreement with the Doctrine of the Yellow Dragon, because the Being does not need to think, because the Being does not need to reason. The one who reasons is the mind. The Being is the Being and the reason of being of the Being is being itself He is what is, what has always been and what will always be. The Being is the life which throbs in each atom just as it throbs in each Sun. What thinks is not the Being, what reasons is not the Being. We do not have the entire Being incarnated, but we have incarnated a part of the Being which is the Essence or Buddhata, that part of Soul which exists in us, the spiritual, the psychic material. It is necessary for this living Essence to impose itself over the mind. What analyzes in us are the I’s, because the I’s are but mere forms of the mind, mental forms that we have to disintegrate and reduce to cosmic dust.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Identification, The Being Is the Being, The Mind

“Nephesh” is the Human Soul or Causal Soul, from where, precisely, the Essence that each one has in his interior is derived. This Essence, we have to awaken it; it is the part of the Consciousness that we have within. This Essence, we have to activate it. Unfortunately, it is asleep, it is inside the inhuman psychic aggregates that we carry within us.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977 also in Awakening, The Human Soul

At the dawn of each Mahamanvantara, the Son, the Child Horus, the Divine Spirit of each one of us, must send the best part of himself, which is his Essence, unto this valley of tears with the purpose of Self-Realising.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Human Soul

The Essence that each one of us carries within his interior comes from above, from Heaven, from the stars...

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Unquestionably, the marvelous Essence emanates from the note “LA” (the Milky Way, the Galaxy we live in).

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

The precious Essence passes through the note “SOL” (the Sun) and then passes through the note “FA” (the Planetary Zone) then enters this world and penetrates within our own interior.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Our parents created the appropriate body for the reception of this Essence that emanates from the stars...

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

The essence in itself is very beautiful, it came from above, from the stars and, regrettably, it finds itself inside all these "I"s which we carry within.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

Upon coming into the world, we are given the opportunity to transform ourselves. We carry within ourselves the most decent, the worthiest, which is the Essence, that which is called soul. I repeat, the soul is bottled up within the Ego. That Essence, that soul, originally comes from the Milky Way.

The Fifth Gospel The Reality and Fantasy of our Psychology Public Lecture – 1976 also in The Human Soul

Well, the Essence is the worthiest, the most decent thing that we have inside us. It originally comes from the Milky Way. There the musical note “LA” resonates, then it goes to the Sun with the note “SOL”, and then it comes to this physical world with the note “MI”. The Essence is beautiful, it is a fraction of one’s human-Christic principle, which is the Human Soul, which normally dwells in the causal world. Therefore, with just reason, there is talk about the Christic-Essence or of the Christic-Consciousness, and it is said that our Consciousness in Christ can be saved, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The Rescue of our Inner Light also in The Human Soul, Tiphereth

In a clear and precise way, the revolutionary psychology of the Gnostic Movement makes an absolute differentiation between the ego and the essence.

Fundamental Education, 1970

During the first three or four years of life, only the beauty of the essence manifests in the child. During this time the child is loving, sweet, and beautiful in all of his or her psychological aspects.

Fundamental Education, 1970

When the ego begins to control the delicate personality of the child all the beauty of the essence continues to disappear, and in its place flourish the psychological defects characteristic of every human being.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

In the same way that we must make a distinction between ego and essence, it is also necessary to distinguish between personality and essence. The human being is born with the essence, but it is not born with the personality. It is necessary to build the personality.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

Personality and essence must develop in a harmonious and balanced way.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

In practice we have been able to verify that when the personality develops in an exaggerated way at the expense of the essence, the result is a knave.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

The observation and experience of many years has allowed us to comprehend that if the essence develops totally without paying the least bit of attention to the harmonious cultivation of the personality, the result is an unintelligent mystic, without personality; noble of heart but incompetent and unable to adapt.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

The harmonious development of the personality and the Essence yields brilliant men and women.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality, The Human Soul

In the essence we have all that is our own, in the personality, all which is borrowed.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality, The Human Soul

In the essence we have our innate qualities, in the personality we have the example set by the adults around us; what we have learned at home, in school and on the street.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality, The Human Soul

Amongst students of psychology there exists much confusion surrounding personality, essence, and ego or self. Some confuse the personality with the essence, and others confuse the ego or self with the essence. There are many pseudo-esoteric or pseudo-occultist schools that have as the aim of their studies an impersonal life.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

It is necessary to clarify that it is not the personality we must dissolve.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

The personality is merely a vehicle of action, a vehicle that was necessary to create, to make.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality

The personality in itself is merely a vehicle and nothing more. Through the personality the ego or the Being can manifest, it all depends on us.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality, The Being Is the Being

Perfect balance between personality and essence, the harmonious development of thought, emotion and movement, and a revolutionary ethic constitute the foundations of fundamental education.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Personality, Revolutionary Ethics

Master: The personality must be in balance with the Essence. When the personality is stronger than the Essence, there is imbalance. When the Essence is stronger than the personality, there is imbalance. Many people from the countryside develop a marvelous Essence at the expense of the personality. When they come to the city, they are unbalanced. And if the people of the city develop the personality in an excessive way, when they go to the countryside, when they get in touch with nature, they are in imbalance. We need a perfect equilibrium between the Essence and the personality.

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

The shadows of the failed ones are many, each disembodied person is a bunch of unconscious shadows, a bunch of larvae that live in the past, that do not become aware of the present, that are trapped in all their dogmas, in their rancid things of yesterday, in their happenings of bygone times, in their affections, in their family sentimentalisms, in their egotistical interests, in their animal passions, in their vices, etc., etc. On being reborn, the essence expresses itself during the first three or four years of infancy, then, the creature is beautiful, sublime, innocent, happy. Unfortunately, the ego begins to express itself little by little as one gets closer to the age of seven years, and comes to totally manifest itself when the new personality has been totally created. It is indispensable to comprehend that the new personality is precisely created during the first seven years of infancy and becomes strengthened with time and experiences.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Personality, Resentment & Generosity, Resentment and Generosity, Return and Reincarnation

Before the new personality is totally formed, the essence can give itself the luxury of manifesting itself with all its beauty and even make small children be quite psychic, sensitive, clairvoyant, pure, etc., etc.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Personality, Return and Reincarnation

Bear in mind, my dear friends, that when a child is born, the following is processed: we effectively have three percent of awakened Consciousness. That three percent takes charge of the child’s organism and the other ninety-seven percent, which is made up of psychic aggregates, will go around the cradle, trying to get inside the human organism, but will not be able to do so. In order for the psychic aggregates to enter the human organism, a new personality needs to be created.

The Fifth Gospel Analysis of the Human Psyche Public Lecture – 1977 also in Awakening, Personality, The Human Soul

That personality is created during the first seven years of childhood, and it strengthens with time and experiences. The first three or four years of the child are very beautiful: only the Essence, the Consciousness, express through the creature, that is why the child is self-conscious, awake.

The Fifth Gospel Analysis of the Human Psyche Public Lecture – 1977 also in Awakening, Personality, The Human Soul

Obviously, as time passes, everything changes. That child will gradually fall asleep, especially due to adults. He begins to imitate the gestures of his elders, their inferior emotions, etc., until he also ends up asleep, doing the same things.

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

As the Ego is multiple, any true Enlightened One who decides to observe a newborn child, will see the following: the child in his cradle, awake; a minimum fraction of his Essence, which is the one thing that expresses itself, and is completely self-conscious, awake. But creatures that try to manifest themselves, different Egos, different “I’s” will also be seen around the cradle, some in beautiful shapes, others in horrifying forms that come and go, enter and exit that room where the child sleeps, they circle his cradle, etc. Those are the “I’s” that await to express themselves. The rest of the Essence are distributed within those “I’s”, that is, the ninety-seven percent of the Essence, they are bottled up inside each one of those “I’s” –inside one “I” a certain amount of Essence [is] bottled up; among another “I”, another quantity, etc.

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

And those multiple “I's” circle the cradle, they want to express themselves, to manifest themselves, to get inside the little body of the child, but they cannot. But it happens that as time passes, the new personality of the infant is formed: it is formed with the example of elders, at the school, etc. So, as the new personality is formed, the “I’s” also have an opportunity to express themselves after the anterior fontanelle of the newborns closes. You have observed it perfectly in children that the upper parietal bone is slightly open. It is something called “the soft spot”; we say, technically, the anterior fontanelle of the newborns.

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

While it is open, everything goes well. But as that anterior fontanelle closes, the personality also develops and the capacity for the “I’s” to begin intervening becomes greater and greater. Then we begin to see in children, certain manifestations of anger –especially by the age of three and four–, they begin to become irritable and, little by little, the “I’s” get the opportunity to express themselves, until they all end up definitively manifesting themselves. It is interesting to observe newborn children.

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

Disciple: Venerable Master, what could we do so that children, as their new personality is being formed, do not allow themselves to be trapped by the “I’s”?

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

Master: Well, the truth is what it is –Verbum est codex–. Obviously, in a newborn child it is the Essence, a minimum fraction, which expresses itself through him; that is why he is beautiful and sublime. Unfortunately, and this is the worst, sooner or later –especially after the newborns’ anterior fontanelle closes–, the “I’s” begin to express themselves, they begin to get inside the little body because they are not dissolved. If we could guide children from childhood, we should truly teach them the path of Gnosis, show them what the Ego is, etc. But this would be a separate chapter, it would be the subject of another talk and it would take too long to speak about the education of children. I only limit myself to saying that as long as the “I’s” exist, they will have to express themselves.

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

Disciple: Master, all of us who have dealt with young children know very well that, on occasions, certain expressions of irritation occur in them, what we call “tantrums”. Could such statements be considered as expressions of the pluralized “I” or of a specific “I”?

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

Master: That is right! Those “I’s” already express themselves freely, and as the child grows, the opportunity or opportunities for the expression of the different “I’s” increase until eventually, the pluralized “I” definitively expresses in its entirety, and that is what makes us ugly, horrible. If only the Essence are the ones that express through us, we would enjoy the beauty of God. From such beauty emanates, in turn, that which is called “love”.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Knowledge of the Essence Lecture given to Gnostic students – 1976 also in Anger, The Many I’s

The “I’s” or psychic aggregates –whatever we call them–, personify errors, they circle the cradle of the creature; they come, they go, they want to enter that body, but they do not have the opportunity, why? It is interesting to see that only the pure, free, self-conscious Essence manages to express itself through the child; that is why the child is awake. Sometimes, babies laugh. What do they laugh at? At their own “I’s” that come and go. Other times they become frightened when they see their very ugly “I’s”. They also often see the relatives of their past existences, and remember their previous lives; they do not ignore anything, and this is wonderful.

The Fifth Gospel The Wonders of Awakened Consciousness Public Lecture – 1975 also in Awakening, Return and Reincarnation

In the times when the Ego had not arisen in the human species, we were all like children; we could see the angels, the Gods, the ineffable beings and talk with them face to face. When the Ego developed, that happiness was lost. Likewise, when the child is born, in the beginning their Essence manifests itself, but later things change: the “I’s” begin to express themselves through the personality and eventually, the Essence remains there at the bottom, forgotten.

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

By opposition, the essence can retrace its steps, return to the original starting point, go back to the stars, but first it must free itself from its bad companions who have it put in the slums of perdition.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

When the magnetic centre becomes established in the consciousness, in the essence, then the return of man to the stars begins.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

This wonderful parable of the Christic Gospel is formidable. The Essence must return “home”. The Essence, the Consciousness that we have within, must return to the house of our Father who is in secret. Each one of us must initiate the return to the Father’s house.

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 The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Unlike the mechanical center of gravity, which is located in the personality, the conscious center of gravity truly ends up being located in the Essence, in the Consciousness, in the animic part. That is the difference.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Personality, The Mechanical Man

The Divine Mother eliminates broken bottles. Each small “I” is a bottle within which a fraction of the Essence is engrossed.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul, The Science of Meditation, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

This means that the Essence, the Buddhata, the Soul or Fraction of the Human Soul that every intellectual animal has, has become thousands of fractions, which are bottled up. For example: Anger, is represented by hundreds or thousands of I each is a bottle within which the Essence is engrossed; to each bottle corresponds a fraction of the Essence.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Anger, The Human Soul

What is most serious is that within the banished "I", there is always a percentage of essence, of consciousness.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

Within each psychic aggregate, there is a certain percentage of imprisoned Light. Obviously, we are referring to a certain percentage of Essence, of Consciousness, which is trapped and bottled up.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Human Soul

Unfortunately, the Essence is bottled up within the psychic aggregates. Such aggregates personify our errors of a psychological type. Unquestionably, every defect, even if it is invisible to the external senses, is duly personified.

The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975 also in The Human Soul

Disciple: Master, I have understood that the difference between an effigy, a representation and the Ego is that the Ego has bottled up a portion of the inner Essence and the representation has not. Is it right?

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

Master: It is correct. In the representation there is no bottled Essence; in the Ego there is indeed bottled Essence.

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

All of that is certain, all of that is true. But what is serious of our Consciousness, of our Essence, is that being so precious, possessing such wonderful gifts, such precious natural powers, it is placed inside all those undesirable, subjective elements that we unfortunately carry in our interior. That is, it is placed – speaking in synthesis– in a dungeon.

The Fifth Gospel The Rescue of our Inner Light also in The Human Soul

For instance, for example, brothers, we have an impulse of anger, a fit of rage against another person; with that rage we feel terribly irritated, we would like to hit our fellow man. Then, that psychological attitude of ours assumes a figure with our resemblance, with our eyes, with our same face, etc.; a figure within which part of our Consciousness gets bottled up. And that figure is not something dead, it is not a painting, it is not a stuffed animal, it is something that has reality, that lives; that figure is a living creature that, thanks to the sexual agent, takes form in the solar plexus, and then it surges from there; it already carries some of our Consciousness inside it. This is how the “I’s” form.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Meaning of the Golden Embryo Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1971 also in Anger, The Many I’s

All these “I”-persons –I repeat– enter and leave our body. Within each “I”-person, we truly have a fraction of our own Consciousness bottled up. So, our Consciousness is bottled up within all that multiplicity of “I’s” which constitute the Myself. Our bottled-up Consciousness functions by virtue of its own conditioning, that is to say, we have the Consciousness asleep.

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975 also in Awakening, Identification, The Many I’s

So, indeed, the Essence of the human being – which is the worthiest, the most decent thing which we have inside us– is nowadays conditioned by the psychic aggregates, it is bottled up. Is there anything else that is bottled up? The manasic or mental essence and the will. In these conditions, each of us is a multiplicity and not an individuality.

The Fifth Gospel Causes and Consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ also in The Human Soul, The Many I’s

We have been wisely told that we have ninety-seven percent of subconsciousness and three percent of Consciousness.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Awakening, The Human Soul, The Subconscious

Plainly and bluntly speaking, we shall state that the ninety-seven percent of Essence that we carry within ourselves is bottled up, stuffed, inserted within each one of the “I’s” which in their conjunction constitute the “Myself.”

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Awakening, The Human Soul, The Many I’s

Obviously, the Essence, or Consciousness, bottled up within each “I” processes itself in accordance to its own condition.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

Unquestionably, as long as the Essence or Consciousness continues bottled up within each one of the “I” that we carry within our interior, it will always be asleep, in a subconscious state.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Awakening, The Subconscious

The Essence, the Consciousness, which is enclosed, bottled up, imprisoned painfully within the diverse elements that make up the myself, the ego, unfortunately acts by way of its own conditioning.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The intellectual humanoids mistakenly called men in truth possess only three per cent of Consciousness, if they had even ten per cent, wars would be impossible on the face of the Earth.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Awakening

It is obvious that when the ESSENCE is bottled up within the PLURALIZED EGO, self imprisonment exists.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

The imprisoned ESSENCE only functions in accordance with its own conditioning. The EGO is SUBJECTIVE and SUB-HUMAN. Obviously the perceptions that the Essence receives through the senses of the PLURALIZED EGO are deformed and absurd.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Unquestionably, the essence or consciousness which is the same, sleeps deeply.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Awakening

Disgracefully, the Essence, the Consciousness, is found bottled up within these psychic aggregates. Thus, the Consciousness processes itself by virtue of its own embottlement. Now we better comprehend why humanity is found in such a hypnotic state, unconscious and asleep.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Awakening

The harsh reality of the facts is that our Consciousness is found bottled up, buried, stuffed into all that multiplicity of “I’s”, in all that tenebrous and abominable horde that we carry within us. The Consciousness, in us, is asleep, it is stuck inside a dungeon, or inside many dungeons because each “I” is a dungeon, a horrible prison.

The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975 also in Awakening, The Many I’s

We can assure you that there is a ninety-seven percent of subconsciousness and a three percent of Consciousness. Speaking in other terms, we would say that ninety-seven percent of the Consciousness is asleep and that there is only three percent of awakened Consciousness. However, there are people who do not reach the three percent of awakened Consciousness, normally they reach two percent, and there are those who only reach one percent. But if we tell people that their Consciousness is asleep, they would not believe it, rather they would be offended. It is hard to tell people that they sleep, because they do not believe you, they think they are awake, or they think that we are hurting them, that we are offending them.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Discipline for Awakening Interview – Mexico City – 1970 also in Awakening, Identification, The Subconscious

You are seeing then my dear friends, how difficult it is to give the conscience full lucidity and objectivity. it is lamentable that the essence is so imprisoned within the many varied subjective and infrahuman elements.

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

The essence suffers when it is imprisoned within the ego, but once this is dissolved, the essence stops suffering.

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

When such an organ disappeared, there remained the consequences within each person and the latter crystallized becoming the ego, a type of second nature within which the essence remained lamentably imprisoned.

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

For in these dark times of KALI-YUGA, the celestial life between death and re-birth has become more impossible each time... The cause of such an anomaly lies in the strengthening of the animal Ego; The ESSENCE of everyone is completely trapped in the PLURALIZED SELF.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Return and Reincarnation

When they raised their eyes toward the infinite, they could perceive other planetary humanities. The planets of space were visible to the ancient people in a different way, for they saw the aura of the planets, and they could perceive as well the Planetary Genies. But when the human Consciousness became imprisoned within all those “I’s” or psychic aggregates which constitute the Myself, the “I”, the Ego, then the Consciousness fell asleep. Now, it processes itself by virtue of its own bottling.

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE also in Awakening

In a remote past, the Essence was not trapped, it was free, it manifested itself fully through our daily life, through our senses. At that time humanity was innocent, sublime, and beautiful; neither good nor evil was known, everything belonged to everyone and everyone could eat from the neighbor’s tree without any fear.

The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975 also in Fear, The Human Soul

When the Essence was free, it was awake; at that time, there was only light within us, it was said that we were in Eden. But when the Ego arose in us, the Essence got bottled up in it. When the Essence was free, there was true faith, the product of true knowledge. But when the Ego appeared and the Essence was trapped in it, undoubtedly, faith was lost. Today, skepticism reigns supreme on the face of the Earth.

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

The Consciousness, the Essence, the Buddhata, the purest thing that exists in us, was altered since then, due to the concrete fact that this Essence remained bottled up among the undesirable elements that we carry in our psyche. Since then, an abnormal psychic state established itself in us, because if the psychic material –that is, the Buddhata, the Essence– was trapped by the various inhuman psychic elements, the result could not have been different. Obviously, since then the human psyche is altered and the tri-cerebrated beings that live on the face of the Earth are ab-nor-mal –I repeat that word like this, slowly, quite slowly–.

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

These days, the poor intellectual animal falsely called man, only has one useful element within, the aforementioned element is the Buddhata, the essence of the mind, with which we can experience the Being, the Intimate, what is real. This precious element is placed within the bottle of the animal intellect. When during interior profound meditation the mind remains completely quiet and in absolute silence within and without, not only in the superficial level, but also in all the different subconscious corridors, layers, zones, and spheres, then the essence, the precious element, escapes from the bottle and fuses with the Being, with the Intimate, in order to experience reality.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation

When dualism is done away with, when the mind becomes integrated, serene, quiet, profound, when it no longer compares, at that time the essence, the consciousness awakens, and this must be the true aim of fundamental education. Let’s distinguish between objectivity and subjectivity. In objectivity there is awakened consciousness. In subjectivity there is sleeping consciousness, subconsciousness. Only objective consciousness can enjoy objective knowledge.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in Awakening, Identification, The Mind, The Subconscious

The eruption of the Void, the Experience in the illuminating Void, are only possible when the Essence, the Soul, the Buddhata frees itself from the intellectual bottle.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul

The Essence, the consciousness, even when of a Buddhic nature, disgracefully lives bottled up within the exaggerated intellectual dualism of the opposites ‘yes and no’, ‘good and evil’, ‘high and low’, ‘mine and yours’, ‘like and dislike’, ‘pleasure and pain’, etc.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

To reach, to obtain quietude and silence in the mere superficial intellectual level, or in some subconscious departments of the mind is not enough, because the Essence continues bottled up within the submerged infraconscious and unconscious dualism. A blank mind is something extremely superficial, hollow and intellectual. What we need is serene reflection if what we truly want is to achieve the quietude and absolute silence of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

In all creatures, the normal growth of the Essence is certainly scanty, insufficient. The human body grows and develops in accordance with the biological laws of the species; however, such possibilities in themselves are extremely limited for the Essence. Unquestionably, without help, the Essence can only grow to a small degree.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Speaking frankly and bluntly, we will say that the spontaneous and natural growth of the Essence is only possible during the first three, four and five years of life; in other words, during the first phase of life.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

People think that the growth and development of the Essence always occurs in a continuous way, according to the mechanics of evolution, but Universal Gnosticism teaches clearly that this does not occur in such a manner.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul

Something very special must happen, something new must be fulfilled so that the Essence may grow more.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

It is necessary to understand that this work does not refer to professional matters such as banking, carpentry, masonry, railroad repairs or office matters.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

This work is for any person who has developed his personality; it concerns something psychological.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

We all know that we have within ourselves that which is called ego, “I”, me, and myself. Unfortunately, the Essence is completely imprisoned, absorbed inside the ego, and this is lamentable.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

Religion, the Buddha, Wisdom, the particles in pain of our Father who is in heaven, and all the information we need for the Intimate Self-Realization of our Inner Being, are within the Essence.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Accordingly as all these abominations are being reduced to cosmic dust, the Essence, besides becoming emancipated will harmoniously grow and develop unquestionably the Essence shines within ourselves when our psychological “I” has died.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

When the knowledge has become emotional, when it has been deposited in the emotional center, it is finally absorbed in the Essence, that is, in the Consciousness, and the knowledge that becomes part of the Consciousness is never lost; not even with the death of the physical body, because when we return, we bring it with the Consciousness. But that which is exclusively deposited in the memory is lost sooner or later. For this reason, my dear brothers, it is advisable to deposit the knowledge in the Consciousness.

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

Disciple: Master, you have explained to us the process by which knowledge must undergo for it to become conscious. My question is the following: is the nature of truth of an emotional character or of an instinctive character?

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

The superior emotion allows any truth to pass onto the Essence, where it gets deposited. But the cold analytical intellect of an Aristotle, for example, is completely crippled, it would never allow knowledge to become conscious, it would remain strictly deposited in the memory and that is all. That is why between the Aristotelian systems –which is pure and cold reasoning– and the Platonic or Porphyric systems –of Porphyry–, I prefer Plato. Neoplatonic methods, or the schools of Iamblichus and Porphyry, are emotional and they allow knowledge to be brought to the Consciousness, that is, they allow knowledge to become conscious, something that would never be achieved with the cold Aristotelian reasoning. That is all. Is there any other question?

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

As long as the consciousness, the essence, the most dignified and decent part within us, continues to be bottled in the oneself, in the myself, in the self, in my cravings and fears, in my desires and passions, my preoccupations and violence, in my psychological defects, we will remain imprisoned.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Desire and Will, The Great Rebellion

It is plain and evident that on freeing the essence, upon its liberation, it awakens radically.

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

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

Only by the emancipation and consequent awakening of the Essence, does Enlightenment come.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Awakening

When one dissolves the Ego in an absolute way, he acquires freedom, he comes to know what freedom is. Before the Ego is dissolved, the Consciousness is completely imprisoned, formally imprisoned, locked up in a horrible dungeon. That dungeon is the Ego. If one destroys the dungeon that is the Ego, the Consciousness is free, and this is fundamental; to put an end to those shackles that keep us imprisoned inside the dungeon. If we achieve this, the Consciousness is free.

The Fifth Gospel The Problem of Psychological Multiplicity

When all the bottles have been broken, the Essence in its totality has been liberated and the Divine Mother dedicates herself to the elimination of cadavers.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Just as when the atom is split it liberates energy, so the total disintegration of any of the various infernal Egos liberates Essence, Light...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Human Soul

The amount of liberated ESSENCE is proportionate to the percentage of increased Consciousness.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Human Soul

In this way the Essence will be progressively liberated in keeping with the rate at which we destroy our Egos.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Human Soul

A determined percentage of Consciousness is liberated when any “I” is disintegrated. Hence, the emancipation or liberation of the Essence or Consciousness without the disintegration of each “I” is impossible.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

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

Putting an end to the “many” in oneself is not easy –we, the ancient Egyptians, thought and still think the same way–. The Red Demons of Seth must be killed. The Essence is bottled up inside them. Among the devotees of Chan and Zen, the Essence receives another name: it is called the “Buddhata” – so, you see that this doctrine is not the exclusive property of Mr. Gurdjieff or anyone else; it is of a general nature–. That Buddhata or psychic material, which we carry inside us, is important: it is the Essence which is bottled up within the Red Demons of Seth, within the psychic aggregates. It is necessary to break each one of those undesirable elements that we carry inside us in order to liberate the Essence. Only like this will we be able to integrate ourselves and really become sacred individuals.

The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City also in The Many I’s

Many people have written to us in terror because of our affirmation that man still does not have soul. Some have qualified us as materialists. Really, man has the essence within, which is needed in order to fabricate soul. The essence is a fraction of his causal principle, the psychic material with which one fabricates soul.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Human Soul

The essence transforms into soul by dissolving the ‘I’. The ‘I’ foolishly squanders the psychic material in atomic explosions of anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc. By dissolving the ‘I’, the one who squanders is eliminated and then the essence is strengthened until it transforms into soul, which can be mortal or immortal. It is mortal if it does not receive the Fire of the Holy Spirit. That Sacred Fire is the result of the intelligent transmutation of our sexual secretions through the Maithuna.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Greed, The Human Soul

Whoever possesses the four bodies, whoever has fabricated soul by working with the essence and truly loves humanity, has the luxury of incarnating his Divine Monad.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being

Max Heindel denominates the triune spirit with the names of Divine Spirit, Spirit of Life and Human Spirit. The theosophists call this triad Atman-Buddhi-Manas. Really, we only possess a fraction of this divine triad: the essence, the materia prima in order to fabricate soul.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

That fraction is called “Essence”; in Japanese Zen it is simply called “the Buddhata”. It is the psychic material with which one can, and must fabricate the Embryo of Gold (see the book: “Mystery of the Golden Blossom”).

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Human Soul

The Essence lamentably dreams, lying beneath that motley and grotesque mass of submerged, tenebrous entities which constitute the Ego, the Myself, the Self. That Essence is, however, the Materia Prima with which to fabricate the Soul. Unfortunately this concept has still not been well understood by our Gnostic students.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Human Soul

By awakening the Essence we create a Soul to awaken the Essence is to awaken Con&. To awaken consciousness is equivalent to creating within us a PCC. Only the one who awakens consciousness becomes an individual, however, the individual is not the end, later, we have to reach super-individuality.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Awakening, The Human Soul, The Many I’s

Answer: Friends, there exists no difference between the golden embryo and the conscience, because it is the same organized essence, the same objectivized conscience, radically liberated from every subconscious process.

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

The original ESSENCE which is liberated at the beginning of the process of Death is unquestionably that becomes THE SEMINAL PEARL. This is the mathematical point of Consciousness mentioned in the gospel of Tao. Here the Mystery of the Golden Blossom begins.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Certainly, I have to tell you that the soul is a set of laws, principles, virtues, powers, etc. People possess the Essence, the psychic material to fabricate the soul, or better said, to crystallize the soul, but they do not yet possess the soul.

The Fifth Gospel Didactics for Buddhist Annihilation Conference at the end of the Missionary Course – Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico – From June 15 to August 30. 1976 also in The Human Soul

It is wonderful to see how all those various spiritual elements, virtues and powers slowly crystallize in the Essence, as it liberates itself. There is a reason why we said that the Essence is the material to crystallize the soul. The term “fabricate” does not seem very correct to us. We find it in truth very heavy, grotesque; however, many authors use that term. Allow me the freedom to disagree with it. I prefer to say “crystallize”, since the soul is not something that one must fabricate; it exists, what one has [to do] is to crystallize it, and this is different.

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

The process of awakening begins with the Seminal Pearl. But that Pearl is not formed, it must be formed, and it forms with the first percentages of Essence that tend to escape or unbottle upon destroying the first “I’s”.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Meaning of the Golden Embryo Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1971 also in Awakening, The Human Soul, The Words He Uses

And when that happens, the Essence liberates itself and takes form in the Golden Embryo. That is why that embryo is intimately related to the sexual energy, understood? Well, is there any other question, brothers?

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Meaning of the Golden Embryo Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1971

The liberated Essence confers upon us inner beauty perfect happiness and true love emanate from such a beauty.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

The Essence possesses multiple senses of perfection and extraordinary natural powers. When we die within ourselves, when we dissolve the Psychological “I,” we can then enjoy the precious senses and powers of the Essence.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Question: Don’t you think Master that an essence without an ego would result in an extremely boring life on this beautiful planet?

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

With what right then, can the ego dare to talk against boredom, when it itself in its depths becomes tediousness, bitterness, disillusion, disenchantment, frustration and boredom? If the ego does not know what fulfillment is how can it express concepts about it? Unquestionably, when the ego is dead, reduced to ashes, the only thing that is left in us is the essence, beauty and from the latter comes happiness, love and fulfillment.

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

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 Human Soul

ESSENCE liberated from the EGO is completely innocent and pure. The EGO is that which is converted to cosmic dust within the bowels of this world...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Return and Reincarnation

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, Lust and Chastity, The Mechanical Man

The mind, of course, is controlled by sex, as has always been seen, and the gentleman says: “That lady is in love with me, she probably likes me.” Later, he begins to make proposals of a sexual nature; the lady is surprised and says: “Impossible, if I was helping him disinterestedly, and this man has misinterpreted my good manners, my good conduct.” Yes, he has misinterpreted them. Why has he misinterpreted them? Because he has Ego and the Ego controls the five cylinders of his machine. But if that gentleman had no Ego, if the Essence was the only one that controlled the five cylinders of his machine, the attention of that lady would pass to the emotional center, and this would express with pure kindness and true beauty; there would be no misinterpretation.

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

If only you could see how beautiful the Essence is when free of the Ego. One fills with ecstasy when, with his superior faculties, enters a garden and sees the innocent elementals of the flowers, without Ego; the elementals of the trees as children full of beauty, without Ego. They have no Ego, there are no problems between them, they live in a true paradise, these elemental paradises of nature, and they enjoy beautiful faculties, the free faculties of the Essence.

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

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 Human Soul

With profound sorrow, I realize that when someone speaks, the word comes out, unfortunately, not from the profundities of the Being, but from the depth of any inhuman psychic aggregate. If the word was to come out exclusively from the Essence, there would be nothing to object: it would be pure, perfect; but people have the psychic aggregates very well developed.

The Fifth Gospel The Consequences of Psychological Plurality Public Lecture

A change would only arise in one by destroying all those people who live inside one. Upon eliminating those people, the only thing that would be left within oneself would be the liberated Essence and it would be full of beautiful attributes, precious faculties, perfection and inner beauty. Then there would be a radical change.

The Fifth Gospel Particularities of Objective Reason Conference – Mexico City – 1975 also in 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 Human Soul

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 Human Soul

Disciple: Master, if one barely has three percent of awakened Consciousness, can they, with that three percent, go to the astral world in a fully conscious way?

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

The second of such advantages leads us onto the path of varied direct experiences, to the total verification of each and every one of the affirmations that we made in these talks. Integral illumination, luminous living, practical confirmation is the modus operandi of the freed, awake, self-conscious essence.

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

The faculties of internal perception of the human being became atrophied when the Essence was kept bottled up within the psychic aggregates.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Clairvoyance

An initial study in the technique of meditation is the antechamber of that divine peace that surpasses all knowledge. The most elevated form of thinking is non-thinking. When one achieves the stillness and silence of the mind, the ‘I’, with all its passions, desires, appetites, fears, affections, etc. becomes absent. It is only in the absence of the ‘I’, in the absence of the mind, that the Buddhata can awaken to unite with the Inner Self and take us to ecstasy.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Awakening, The Science of Meditation

Those who do not have the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being cannot succeed in getting the Divinity or the Being to operate or incarnate in them, but they are able to liberate the essence so that it will fuse with the Being and participate of His ecstasy.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

When one achieves the dissolution of the mental mechanics, then comes that which in the orient is called the breaking of the bag, eruption of the void; then there is a shout of joy because the essence (the Buddhata) has escaped from within the battle of the opposites and now participates in the communication of the Saints.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum

When the Mind is still, when the Mind is in silence, then the Essence remains free and the Experience of what is Real in the illuminating Void comes.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Science of Meditation

During Samadhi, the Essence, the Buddhata escapes the Personality, then it becomes Fused with the Being and the experience of what is Real in the Illuminating Void comes. It is only in the absence of the Ithat we can converse with the Father, Brahma.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Being Is the Being, The Science of Meditation

I have said that when the Essence, the Buddhata, acts in the absence of the “I”, of the Myself, of the Oneself, it completely fuses, even if only momentarily, with the Human Soul in the Causal World, and then it acts, we would say, like in a buddhic way. It can feel in itself, experience in itself an “element” that transforms radically. That is why Zen and Chan meditation are so formidable: because they allow the un-bottling of the Essence.

The Fifth Gospel Pedagogy of Knowing How to Live Third Chamber Mexico City – 1974 also in The Human Soul, The Science of Meditation

The Essence, engrossed in the “myself,” is the Genie Aladdin’s lamp, wishing for liberty... Once the Genie is free, h can accomplish miracles.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975

Unquestionably, the Essence, through rigorous disciplines, can escape from within the “I”; thus, it enjoys ecstasy.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

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 Human Soul

Nonetheless, we are not pronouncing ourselves against mystical ecstasy, against the ecstasy and happiness of the Soul while in the absence of the ego. We only want to place emphasis on the necessity of dissolving “I’s” in order to achieve the final liberation. The Essence of any disciplined hermit, accustomed to escaping from within the “I” repeats such a feat after the death of his physical body. Then, his Essence enjoys the ecstasy for some time. Yet, after such time, his Essence returns as the Genie of Aladdin’s lamp, back into the interior of the lamp, the ego, the myself.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Human Soul

Those anchorites were accustomed to momentarily taking the Essence, the Buddhi out of the bottle. They then experienced Satori and Samadhi. Yet, following that mystic experience, they returned into the bottle like the genie of the lamp of Aladdin. Some of these Saints died in complete Mahasamadhi. Nevertheless, presently such Beings have returned as vulgar, common and current persons.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Science of Meditation

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 Human Soul

When the Pluralized ‘I’ is killed and eliminated, the Essence unites with the Being, with the Inner-Self, and the Lunar Bodies are eliminated during a mystical trance, which lasts three days.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

Having made a transcendental synthesis of much long and hard work, we would say: First the Essence has to be liberated so that the light may shine inside us; then it has to be fused with ATMAN (the Being), to liberate ourselves from the mind; afterwards it has to be given to the ANCIENT MAN OF THE DAYS (the Father that is in secret, the Monad), to become perfect and resurrected Masters. Finally the Essence has to be definitely absorbed in ISHVARA, the LOGOS, first emanation of the supreme PARABRAHAMAN (the great Ocean of the Universal Spirit of Life).

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

I clarify, not all the immortal sparks, not all the sublime monads, want mastery. When any monad, when any divine spark truly wants to reach the sublime state of “Master-Monad,” It is indubitable that it then works its essence, its soul, awakening in this soul infinite desires of transcendental spirituality.

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

It is necessary to understand that when one works on oneself, he enters the path of the revolution of Consciousness, he aspires to one day receive his animic and spiritual principles, that is, to become a temple of the inner Monad; because it is obvious that a developed, unconstrained, awakened Essence, integrates, fuses completely with the Human Soul in the Causal World.

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Psychology of False Feelings Third Chamber – Mexico City – May 4. 1977 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Being Is the Being, The Human Soul

That which continues beyond death is the Ego (dressed with lunar bodies). That which never dies is the Essence, the Buddhata, the Soul that unfortunately is bottled up within the Ego.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Human Soul

The only thing that is saved from all of that tragedy, the only thing that does not disintegrate is the Essence, the Buddhata, that fraction of Human Soul that the intellectual animal carries within his lunar bodies.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul

Question: Since the essence is the only thing that makes up our psychic organization, you were saying Master, that it is fortunate that it has not been lost. Does this mean that there would be a danger of the essence being lost?

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

Answer: With great pleasure I will answer the question of the gentleman. With all due respect, I allow myself to tell the audience that is listening that the question has been somewhat badly phrased; I have not said that the essence is our psychic organization; I have only wanted to affirm that the former is the basic factor of all our psychic organization and this is a little different.

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

Even though the essence imprisoned within ego has to involute in time within the infernal worlds, it is evident that it would never be lost, because once the ego is dissolved, it would remain free and, as we have said so many times, willing to enter into new evolving processes.

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

The Essence is free only with the Second Death, which is, the death of the ego within the womb of the Earth.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Human Soul

The Essence that exists within, can never die, it is eternal. But the plurality of the “I” will have to involute within the entrails of the world. Nature will have to disintegrate the Ego; Nature will have to do for us what we have not been capable to do for ourselves. Nature will have to free the Essence so that it comes out into the sunlight, so that it can evolve again from stone to man. And when one reconquers the human state that was once lost, he is assigned another new cycle of existences.

The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation, The Human Soul