"To live to serve is of the Gods. To serve to live is of the Christians"

Every Gnostic student must learn to manage the mind and the conscious imagination. The mind has its actions and reactions; it belongs to the element of fire and as you know, it is moved by multiple aggregates that have their respective characteristics which make the mind subjective in its appreciations.

The mind lives in duality; that is, the beautiful and the ugly, the white and the black of the world, the good and the tad, etc.

Reality is in none of these. Reality is always in the synthesis; it s in the center of things; opinions and concepts are not real.

Reality is that which is much further on than the mechanical process of opposites.

What is good for one person is bad for another; but both have the right to have their opinion and to think and feel as they wish.

Then, which of these two people who form a different opinion about the same thing is right? When the mind cannot find the solution to solve a problem, it calls on another Ego to get it and this brings with it, that the first problem grows, because it united with another. For example: a jealous man begins to slander his wife because he thinks she is being unfaithful to him with his friend; when this doesn't seem to solve the problem with reasoning, he calls on another recourse perhaps to mistreat her or insult the other man. J When even this doesn't solve the problem, the Ego of pride, self-love, anger, and jealousy called by way of the mind, on another Ego more dangerous, even cruel and heartless, a criminal Ego. What did the mind solve with this? It worsened the problem! The individual who is jealous must understand that by God's law each person has a free will and this must be respected. We are not the owners of anyone; we simply have acquired a responsibility with a person and the day anyone of the two do not want to continue fulfilling this, it is broken.

V. M. Samael says that when someone loves his wife or vice versa and the one goes with another, the abandoned one, if he really loves the other, should feel content to know that he left to live and share a better life with the other person.

Dear reader, this is Love; he gives of himself without hoping to be recompensed.

The imagination belongs to the element of air and has the characteristic of seeing the bottom of things through the same element.

It is important for esoteric students to learn to think without imagining and to learn to imagine without thinking; when we can do this, we will be more objective in what we think and imagine.

The energy we spend on vague thoughts and negative imaginings, is difficult to recuperate if you don't learn to think and to imagine.

In esoteric studies one is taught that man is what he thinks and to imagine is to see.

If a person doesn't have mental hygiene nor puts his mind and thoughts under strict discipline and organization, his Consciousness will be fractioned because he converts himself into a thinker without any order in his work.

The imagination is the same ‘seeing' but as in the case of the mind, with it, it is necessary to be objective, serious and disciplined. On the contrary the person will live imagining subjective aspects, and, logically, this impedes the emancipation of the Consciousness.

V.M. Lakhsmi (excerpt from “Light in the Darkness”)