Every Gnostic student must understand the Body of the Doctrine in order to practice it.

Gnosis is not a belief; it is not a dogma; nor is it a conventional philosophy; it has its eternal principles based and based on the consciousness.

Gnosis was torn with Man and through the different ages or stages of humanity, it has made it5 presence known in order to guide, orient and direct the work of those who thirst for wisdom and perfection.

It is logical that it is not based on a man, but on the principles of doctrine toward the conquest of the Consciousness of the human being.

Each one of us, who aspires to perfection in our WORK, should be clear about what psychological, physical and mental processes (each one in its own order) merit profound studies, analysis and discernment.

When studying a psychological aggregate with the finality of eliminating it, it is necessary to do this on all three of these levels, characteristic of the expression of the same.

Example: if it is the EGO of ANGER manifesting itself in the physical part, this could be with an upsetting word, with a gesture or a look, by which one expresses the inconformity within proportioned by an aggregate of ANGER.

The same aggregate produces thoughts and if the person is attentive to them, he will understand that they are tied to the gesture or to the person who expressed it in the physical realm.

In the psychological part, the same aggregate will produce emotional states, trying to take the person to an imbalance with the finality of feeding itself with energy to continue existing.

These emotional states are very easy to recognize since at these times the person, because of his reactions normally looks for someone to bell what has happened with the objective of getting help or justification for his attitude. If he doesn't do that, then he must submerge himself into his own psychological country suffering terribly over what he is going through.

The EGO makes him think that he is a victim who deserves consideration on the part of the other person who he has hurt and with which he associates his respective problem.

Do you think, dear reader, that this is logical or normal behavior for a person with the use of reason and who calls himself the owner of himself? If we observe the problem here expressed, we can find it on all levels of society, indicating that human beings in their totality are invaded by the same situation which deserves, as we said, real profound study and analysis to succeed in this era that a small group of men and women can save themselves from these patterns and produce a radical change in their behavior and in their lives.

It is necessary to make a daily balance of the Consciousness; through this evaluation we can realize perfectly well, if, indeed, we are being serious in our work or if, on the contrary, we are leading a mechanical life and repeating like parrots so that others can live the teachings.

This is an absurd role and even ridiculous because we can see "Raymond” and everyone else talking about lovely things, saving his friend and condemning his enemy, as if the Law of God were an altar-toy of some determined person or institution.

The balance of Consciousness should be a self-evaluation a person does on a daily basis, in a just way, to know and understand what is good and what is bad in the work one is doing.

Dear Brother, maybe you are .a. serious student and many times may have asked why your spiritual progress is very slow.

The practice of the balance of the Consciousness and self-observation will give you the clue to your faults.

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