The human being possesses diverse levels of consciousness, according to his level of evolution and his psychological work. There exist three types of people with distinct levels of consciousness, which are;

Man in a state of sleep
Man in a state of vigilance
Man who has consciousness of himself

These three states belong to three categories of people identified with themselves and with everything around them. Man lives more or less in a state of psychological sleep, and he is only conscious of himself very occasionally for very short periods of time. In general, he remains for the majority of time in a state of hypnosis of unconsciousness.

Much of the evil in this world can be attributed to humanity's evil, but we mistakenly believe that preaching justice, love and equality, we can solve many problems. This is however just a romantic and inoffensive idea that ignores the true origin or principle of evil. Only understanding the causes of unconsciousness and realizing a revolutionary work that allows us to wake from the state of sleep in which we find ourselves can we begin to make the first steps towards a real social transformation. To change the world, it is first necessary for the individual to change, this is an unquestionable principle.

Man has the capacity to achieve a quarter of a state of consciousness, what is called an objective and real consciousness. But, how is it possible to change the individual? Well, the answer, as we shall find out, lies in applying the principles of a revolutionary psychology based on a serious and prolonged work on ourselves.

1. The Sleep State

Today, there exist many occult and pseudo-esoteric schools that only serve to strengthen the Ego, the 'me or myself' in people, promoting the development of faculties and powers or speaking about subjects that do not truly concern the authentic work on oneself or the waking up of consciousness.

Truly, as V.M. Samael Aun Weor has said, there is not much time left to spend on pursuits that fuel disputes between schools; in speaking badly of others, or in discovering whether this or that person is a master or a black magician. Each one should preoccupy himself with his own psychological work, because an awakening is urgent to be able to contribute to the work of sacrifice for humanity.

Those who have studied up close the revolutionary psychology know well that the first step in the waking of consciousness is to realise that we are in a state of sleep, that we are submerged in the world of Maya or illusion. This is not easy because we believe, mistakenly, that we are conscious of our acts and thoughts. It takes work to recognise that we are only a bundle of psychological aggregates that respond to mechanical stimulation coming from the exterior. We do not have a real will, but our will obeys the capriciousness and imposition of the EGO.

In this way, we become puppets of our egos. Jealousy, pride, anger, covetousness, envy and passion are reactions from an instinctive and animal part that dominates our psyches. But how are the defects of the personality formed? From the time when man left Eden due to fornication, that is to say, when he wasted his sexual energy for the first time, the Ego began its process of formation and growth. In this process the personality became stronger and stronger as man descended from the angelic state to the demonic.

Man is born with a capital of energy that is absorbed by the environment that surrounds him, by the social consensus. He also has five inferior centres through which he wastes his energy, which are:

The motor centre (the physical body)
The instinctive centre (where impressions rule)
The emotional centre
The intellectual centre
The sexual centre

The athlete and the sportsman that focus their time in physical exercise, invest their capital of energy in the first centre of the human machine. The fornicator, that has not been capable of learning to transmute his energy, wastes it through the sexual centre. The intellectual who dedicates his life to theoretical study, focuses his energy towards the intellectual centre, while the emotionally unstable person that suffers from jealousy, anger, resentment etc. loses his energy through the emotional centre.

In any of the above cases there exists an imbalance in the person. Since there is no master of the house to put things in order, the other centres are forgotten about. For actions to be conscious it is necessary for all the centres to be in balance.

There does not exist a permanent centre of gravity, a dominion of one's self, a conscious will capable of saying I am, I act, I think. Instead one should say: 'that acts', 'that thinks', 'that feels', as there is no self but an aggregate of selves that act and think, taking control of one's will.

Much is spoken about the evil in this world - of the violence, crime, robbery, egoism, exploitation etc. - and the necessity of combating it through justice, love, peace, etc. But truly it is necessary to go to the root of evil and the origins of evil lie in our own interior, in the mechanical laws that rule us.

Carl Jung said that all men are more or less neurotic, aggressive, covetous, proud etc., however only when our imbalance transcends certain limits, are we sent to psychiatric clinics, to the psychologist, to the priest, or in the worst of cases to a fortune-teller or 'spiritual adviser'.

2. Keys for the waking up of consciousness

So, what is the key for the awakening of our consciousness, the key to acquiring will and eliminating the aggregates that form our personality? The first step to begin to eliminate these defects is self-observation, becoming aware of the here and now, of the way in which we react to stimulus and exterior impressions. The aim of this practice is not to identify ourselves with these exterior and interior processes. In other words, as the studious Gnostics would put it, the key is SOL:

S; Subject (The I that acts, the way it acts and the way it reacts)
O; Object (What am I doing, in which moment am I doing it - present)
L: Location (Where am I acting - here and now)

It is crucial to be aware of this in all moments and remain in a state of alert attention in the exterior as well as in the interior. One should also exercise effort and will as although we may remember self-observation one moment, in the very next moment we may let ourselves be enveloped by worries and mundane thoughts once more and forget about the work on ourselves and falling into mechanical behaviour once more. Laziness is the cause of mechanical behaviour, and will, that is conscious effort, is a requisite to escape it.

The true psychological work begins when we truly learn to observe ourselves, for as long as we are able, in order to discover the state of unconsciousness in which we find ourselves. In this way we can let go of the personal pride that prevents us from awakening.

We need to fight against the imagination, a force that can satisfy all our instincts so that man remains satisfied with the imaginary instead of the real. When we are identified with ourselves one dreams and believes that he is awake or on the point of waking up. This is how we strengthen the imaginary I, which impedes our observation of the real and makes us believe that we are respectable, intelligent, admirable etc. without realising that we are in a psychological sleep or self-hypnosis.

The objective of self-observation is to create an I that observes, which leads us to the real I, but it is an I that acts consciously and that does not degenerate to mechanical actions. But it is so difficult to detach ourselves from our egos, because they envelop us and we identify ourselves with them, falling once more into the unconscious. Only a man that fully understands the difficulty of waking up can understand the necessity of prolonged and arduous work on one's self with the aim of waking up.

The next step is the study of the way in which the human machine operates, in order to try and balance our centres and acquire a permanent centre of gravity from which we can have control of our emotions, thoughts, sensations etc. While we have an I to defend, an ego which on a daily basis manifests in our lives to justify our actions, while there is not a master of the house to put it in order, we can not even take the first steps to acquire an objective consciousness.

The goal therefore, is to remain for the greatest amount of time possible in a state of remembrance and consciousness of ourselves, so that we can become masters of our acts, of our emotions and thoughts and to have in this way an objective real and permanent consciousness. In this way we take force from our personality (ego), to allow the I-AM to emerge, the Intimus, the essence that was previously bottled up.

Remembrance of ourselves allows us to consciously assimilate impressions and have an expanded consciousness. This remembrance is an act of attention directed towards the inside so that we can see everything that occurs within us, how we feel, what we are thinking, which are our emotions, fears etc. without identifying ourselves with them.

3. The elimination of the Ego

The EGO is a monstrous larva that began to form when we left Eden and feeds on our sexual energy, when we release it. The ego, defect or psychological aggregate, exists in the interior part of ourselves(subconsciousness) that is enclosed within the shell of our personality. The personality can change but the ego continues the same because the ego is different from the personality. The personality is just the vehicle through which the ego expresses.

The ego is the part of us that makes us act and react mechanically when faced with external situations, so in every moment we are identifying with one or another facet of the ego. The ego is offended by everything that occurs, cries, suffers, seeks pleasures, has fear of life, of death, of hunger, of misery, of loneliness etc. The ego is what makes us look for friends, pleasures, distractions, entertainment, intellectual theories and even religions and spiritual schools or doctrines to seek comfort in and to possess. Being self chaining they result in more and more karma.

The I passes through three successive stages;
- The I of everyman
- The I of the cultured and intellectual man
- The subtle and dangerous I that is transformed into an angelic or divine I that wants everyone to recognise its merits.

The first case is that of the mundane man who does not believe in anything more than the material and has three principal defects; passion, covetousness and anger.

The second case is one that is quite common in these days, and belongs to those men who are dedicated to the cultivation of the intellectual centre, to theories. These people almost always end up by strengthening their egos through the pride of their learning, without understanding clearly the difference between knowing and being.

The third is more subtle, because it refers to an I that takes control of the Self until it assumes total control (the guardian of the threshold). It is an I that seeks powers, supernatural talents, mastery or esoteric grades in order to be recognised for its merits. It therefore has a high degree of egoism and desire for personal advancement, and does not take into account the three factors of the revolution which are:

- To be born
- To die
- Sacrifice for humanity

Many schools and doctrines believe that there exists an inferior I and a 'superior I', really however as long as one speaks of an I, one is speaking of a defect or psychological aggregate, that keeps the essence bottled up. The V.M. Samael made a very good distinction between the I and the true I-AM. The I-AM, is the Intimate, the Crown of Life, the Being, far beyond pleasure and pain, fear and vanity, intelligence and death? It is the real being that receives by its own merits, the initiations, grades and mastery in the interior planes.

However, knowledge of the process of the I is not enough to put an end to it. Psychological work can help to know our defects, but it does not eliminate the ego. The Ego only dies beneath the flaming sword, the sword that is Kundalini and can only be awoken by practicing sexual magic with the woman, with the tantra yoga and without losing the sexual energy. Only with the terrible sacred serpent in ascension and with the help of the Divine Mother can we decapitate the egos.

We must finish with the Process of the I in order to have the right to absolute Being. To be born again, we first have to die, to dissolve the egos until we turn them into dust. Initiation is that same birth, a birth that can not be conceived without sex. In each initiation something is born within us and something dies within us. We must get rid of that which is surplus and recuperate that which we lack. When a part of our ego dies, a part of our being is born, piece by piece in accordance with the merits of our heart.

4. Evolution and Involution

Man, like the rest of creation is subject to laws of evolution and involution. Many scientists and intellects believe that evolution is a natural law and that the human race is on an ascending ladder, as described by Darwin's theories. But the reality is that evolution does not occur by itself, but requires the exercise of great and conscious effort, that counter the tremendous mechanical laws that control this planet. If man would like to escape from the law of recurrence, of the eternal return to the same, be it in other words or forms, a return to the wheel of Samsara, of the cycles of deaths and births, he must fight for a complete revolution in order to liberate himself.

Just as evolution exists, so does involution. It is a natural law that man is no stranger to. His unconsciouness can lead to a descent of the ladder to inferior states of nature. Man has the freedom to choose the path that he would like to follow: to continue chained in a denser and denser material world, or instead, to search for the path of self-improvement, of liberation.

Frederick Nietzsche spoke well when he said that; "man is a bridge that connects the animal and the super-man", therefore, he still has the mission to develop himself, by eliminating all that has been inherited from the animal genes; our instinctive, aggressive and passionate states. The warrior of the new era that wishes to cross this bridge to become part of a new race should exert efforts in order to awaken the consciousness and eliminate his defects. These actions will, in time, incarnate the Intimate, the I-am, liberated and participating in harmony with the birth of a new generation.

Inverential Peace,
Practicanrrav

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