Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist and author. He established himself in Mexico in the 50's where he founded the 'International Gnostic Movement'. In his over sixty books and hundreds of held conferences, he describes a teaching called "Gnosis".

Life

Samael Aun Weor was born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Republic of Colombia, son of Manuel Gomez Quijano and Francisca Rodriguez de Gomez. His childhood and family life are not well known, except that he had a brother, and his father remarried after a divorce.

In his autobiographical work "The Three Mountains", Samael Aun Weor stated that because he was born with an awakened consciousness, he was analyzing his previous lives before mastering how to walk.] Arjuna fighting against his own blood (the ego);cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Three Mountains | publisher=Glorian Publishing |origyear=1972 | year=2003 | id=ISBN 0-9742755-5-7 |pages=p. 21] the demons of Seth that attack Osiris;cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Pistis Sophia Unveiled | origyear=1983 | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0-9745916-8-8 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=p. 79] Jesus throwing the merchants out of the temple; [ibid. p. 19] the archetypical death and resurrection of the "Solar Hero" exemplified in the stories of Jesus and Osiris; the descent into the Inferno (representing our unconsciousness) in order to accomplish a great task, such as those performed by Hercules or Orpheus; the archetypical Dragon (ego) that must be slayed by the Knight, etc. Samael Aun Weor states that this specific paradigm is called "The Doctrine of the Many" and has been taught in esoteric schools and religions since the beginning of time.cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Great Rebellion | origyear=1976 | year=2003 | id=ISBN 0-9742755-3-0 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=p. 86]

In order to achieve psychological transformation, extensive methods of meditation, self-observation, and sexual transmutation are taught and recommended to be practiced on a daily basis. The goal of psychological work is the awakening of consciousness and ultimately the state of Paramarthasatya or Adi-Buddha Yoga.

Physiology and Sexology

cquote|Indeed, sexual energy is without a doubt the most subtle and powerful energy normally produced and transported through the human organism. Everything that a Human Being is, including the three spheres of thought, feeling and will, is none other than the exact outcome of distinct modifications of sexual energy. [Citation
last = Samael Aun Weor
year = 1950
title = The Perfect Matrimony
publisher = Glorian Publishing
chapter = Normal Sexuality
url = http://www.gnosticteachings.org/content/view/196/43/ ] Basic physiology is studied, mostly endocrinology and the hormonal influence of primary and secondary sexual characteristics.cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology | origyear=1959] cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |pages=pp. 63,259 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6] It is taught that there are three fundamental nervous systems: cerebrospinal nervous system, grand sympathetic nervous system, and the Parasympathetic nervous system. These nervous systems are referred to as the "Three Brains" or three centers of the intellectual animal, and are named Intellectual Center, the Emotional Center, and the Motor-Instinctual-Sexual Center. Each center is studied in relation to the types of energies or "occult hydrogens" that animate them, the frequency at which each center operates (sexual center being the fastest, then emotional, then intellectual), and how aggregates form and act within each center: aggregates that are expressed through the intellect one way and through the emotions in a different way, etc. [cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology | publisher=Glorian Publishing | origyear=1974 | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0-9742755-7-3 |chapter=The Gnostic Esoteric Work]

The three centers are directly related to the Trinity, Trimurti, or threefold-ness of creation, the intellect being related to the Father (Kether, Affirmation, Positive), the emotion related to the Son, (Chokmah, Denial, Negation), and the sexual center related to the Holy Spirit (Binah, Reconcile, Neutral). The primary energy of the intellectual brain (Father) is the air, which is then placed in the bloodstream which is related to the emotional brain (Son), and lastly the final condensation of blood is found in the semen or sexual hormones, which is directly related to the Holy Spirit: that which impregnates or manifests creation, Shakti, etc.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |pages=p. 63 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6] cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah |origyear=1978 |year=2003 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-1-4|pages=pp. 8-9]

Samael Aun Weor teaches that psychological aggregates form in one of these three centers; therefore, it is said that there are three fundamental defects: the demon of the mind related to the intellectual center, the demon of desire related to the emotional center, and the demon of evil will related to the motor-instinctual-sexual center. They are collectively referred to as the "Three Traitors", and many references to religion are found that are held to symbolize them, for example: Judas (desire), Pilate (intellect), and Caiaphas (will) who crucify Jesus; Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum who murder Hiram Abiff; Apopi, Hai, and Nebt who murder Osiris; the three furies who attack Orestes; the three daughters of Mara who attack Buddha and who are conquered through right Thinking (Intellectual Center), right Feeling (Emotional Center), and right Action (Motor-Instinctual-Sexual Center) (see Noble Eightfold Path).cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah |origyear=1978 |year=2003 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-1-4|pages=pp. 70-72]

Occult or esoteric physiology is also studied, which refers to the study of the supra-sensible bodies of minerals, plants, animals (rational and irrational), and human beings. It is said that everyone contains seven bodies, closely related to the Theosophical septenary, which Samael Aun Weor calls: physical, vital, emotional (astral), mental, causal, buddhic and atmic.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah |origyear=1978 |year=2003 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-1-4|pages=p. 27] Aun Weor differentiates between an intellectual animal and an authentic human being through the differences in the vehicles of emotion (astral body), mind (mental body) and will (causal body). Intellectual animals (ordinary man and woman) are said to contain the Lunar Astral Body, the Lunar Mental Body, and the Lunar Causal Body, each referred to by different names in different schools of Occultism. It is stated that these lunar bodies are the result of mechanical evolution through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms and therefore, they are of an infrahuman or animal quality.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah |origyear=1978 |year=2003 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-1-4|pages=p. 24] The only true difference between the rational animal and irrational animals is the intellect, which gives the former the ability to become human, or as Samael Aun Weor states, the intellectual animal has the "seed" or potential of a human latently existing within its sexual organs.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=Revolutionary Psychology |origyear=1975 |year=2001 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-7-3 |pages=p. xvii |chapter=Introduction]

What are called authentic human beings, although physically appearing identical, have crystallized the Solar Bodies: Solar Astral Body, Solar Mental Body, and Solar Causal Body. Lunar bodies are vehicles that receive the energy of creation (that is, God) at the level of an animal, while the solar bodies permit the reception of a much greater voltage allowing greater levels of wisdom and superior emotion to be incarnated. Samael Aun Weor states that the solar bodies are collectively referred to as the "soul" in many religions, and states that according to Jesus in the New Testament, the ordinary person does not actually possess a soul (Luke 21:19 "In patience you will possess your souls.").cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |pages=p. 153 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6 |pages=p. 259]

Samael Aun Weor asseverates that the solar bodies are formed in the same manner that physical bodies are formed: through use of the sexual function. In order to form the solar bodies, sexual transmutation via sexual magic is taught.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=Esoteric Course of Runic Magic |origyear=1969 |chapter=Rune GIBUR] Sexual magic is the arousal of sexual energies through the act of coitus between husband and wife, but instead of expelling those energies through orgasm they are transmuted into higher octaves of energy. [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6 |pages=p. 21 |chapter=The Son of Man] Each successive Solar Body is the result of the saturation of transmuted sexual energy at its respective octave: first, the "Christ Astral" is formed by transmuting the sex energy into a second octave; second, the "Christ Mind" is formed by saturating, condensing or crystallizing the sexual energy into a third octave, and the causal body or "Christ Will" is formed by transmuting the sexual energy called "Hydrogen SI-12", into a fourth octave. [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Doomed Aryan Race |origyear=1967] The "birth" of the solar bodies is what Samael Aun Weor states is the true meaning of being "born again." It is taught that the solar bodies are referred to in the Bible as the three sons of Noah or the three Christians in the (alchemical) furnace of Nebuchadrezzar. [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=Treatise of Sexual Alchemy |origyear=1954]

The topic of sexuality is approached from a very stern point of view, and it is indeed the crux of Samael Aun Weor’s entire message. He states that there are three fundamental types of sexuality: suprasexuality, which is the sexual functioning of someone like Buddha or Jesus, who naturally transmutes all their energy perfectly; normal sexuality, which is defined as those who have no sexual conflict and who transmute their sexual energy; finally infrasexuality, a category which contains homosexuality, adultery, prostitution, masturbation, abortion, bestiality and any other "abuse" of the sexual energy.cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |pages=p. 63 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6 |pages=pp. 45-64] According to Samael Aun Weor, as with everything that one is born with, such as one’s psychology, family, physical body, geographical location and so on, homosexuality is the outcome of karma. Homosexuality is said to be a modification of one’s nervous system due to karma related to the misuse of sexual energy in a previous life. Thus according to this notion, the fact that more people are being born as homosexuals is a sign of society’s furthering sexual degeneration. Samael Aun Weor does not deny that homosexuals have a modified nervous system and authentically desire the same sex, but states that because homosexuals cannot create, not even physically, that they also cannot create spiritually, and for this reason they have degenerated, or literally "lost the ability to generate." Likewise, Samael Aun Weor calls homosexuals "rotten seeds" in his work "Yes there is Hell, a Devil, and Karma" because unlike heterosexuals they do not have the ability to create the Solar Bodies. This does not damn the soul-essence of a homosexual, as it is implied that if a homosexual works on him or herself and deeply yearns to change, after death he or she may acquire a heterosexual body to use in the next reincarnation, but it is also stated that this is something very rare. [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=Yes, There is a Hell, a Devil, and Karma |origyear=1973]

oteriology

Soteriology the study of salvation is presented in the light of every notable religion yet usually with special differences not held by orthodox interpretations. There are many degrees of salvation generally accomplished by paying one’s karma, removing the psychological imperfections and finally creating the solar bodies. The idea held by many religions that belief in God alone achieves salvation is categorically rejected.

Many different levels of salvation are explained, each depending upon the willpower of the individual accomplishing it. For those who do not remove their psychological imperfection (ego) – which is the cause of karma and the suffering of humanity – after approximately 108 rebirths they will have their ego removed forcefully through mechanical devolution within the infradimensions (Hell). Here it is said that "Mother Nature" mechanically pays out one’s accumulated karma through a great deal of suffering over thousands of years until one is returned to the state of an innocent elemental, or Essence. This is said to be a state of being that is total happiness, yet not cognizant happiness and therefore not complete happiness. It should be noted that Hell is not taught as a place of eternal damnation, just a place to pay one’s karma, and in fact it is seen as a part of God's grace because if the ego is not removed forcefully, these souls would continue to suffer indefinitely. It is held that after Hell, the elemental is reinserted into the mechanics of evolution in order to once again attempt to gain conscious happiness: They are first inserted at the basic level of existence (minerals), and through millions of years, transmigrate through increasingly complex organisms until the state of intellectual animal is reached again.cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Pistis Sophia Unveiled | origyear=1983 | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0-9745916-8-8 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=pp. 211-214]

For those who do work on themselves, depending on the degree of perfection, happiness and wisdom they wish to attain, two distinct paths emerge: the Straight Path of the Razor's Edge (full of dangers inside and out) and the Spiral Path (the easy way out). The Spiral Path involves reaching a state of relative enlightenment by choosing the enjoyment of the Higher Worlds, Heaven or Nirvana), and occasionally returning to a physical body in order to pay out a little more karma and help humanity in the process. Samael Aun Weor refers to these as the Pratyeka Buddhas and Sravakas, and that the vast majority who reach this state choose the Spiral Path because it is very easy and enjoyable. The dangerous Straight Path of the Razor's Edge is the Path of the Bodhisattva who renounces the happiness of the Higher Worlds (Nirvana) in order to help humanity. In the doctrine of Samael Aun Weor, the Bodhisattva has a very specific definition, as it is not merely someone who has taken the Bodhisattva vows. It is the physical (Malkuth), vital (Yesod), astral (Hod), mental (Netzach) and causal (Tiphereth) vehicles – in other words the human soul – of a self-realized spirit, (Geburah-Chesed) who has chosen the extremely dangerous Straight Path of the Razor's Edge in order to incarnate the Christ (Kether-Binah-Chokmah). In other words, the Bodhisattva is the "Son" of a self-realized God who is trying to return to the Absolute or 13th Aeon. cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Pistis Sophia Unveiled | origyear=1983 | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0-9745916-8-8 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=pp. 283-285]

Christ is viewed as the savior but not as traditionally understood by contemporary Christianity. Instead, Christ is an impersonal force or intelligence that emanates from the Absolute and is also referred to as the Cosmic Christ. Christ is said to be before Jesus, and is represented in different traditions with names such as Thoth, Ormuz, Ahura Mazda, Krishna, Osiris, Zeus, Jupiter, Quetzalcoatl, Okidanokh, Kulkulcan, Chrestos, Baldur, Mahavatar Babaji and Avalokitesvara. It is held that Christ enters into and exalts any individual who is properly prepared, which denotes the complete annihilation of the ego, the exhaustion of all karma and the birth of the solar vehicles, the latter is necessary to handle the super high voltage of Christ. Samael Aun Weor writes that only those who choose the previously mentioned Straight Path of the Razor's Edge can incarnate the Christ because the Spiral Path is not a path of total sacrifice. Likewise, any true Bodhisattva has incarnated the Christ or is in process of doing so. It is said that in history Christ incarnated in Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, Moses, Padmasambhava, John the Baptist, Milarepa, Joan of Arc,
Fu-Ji, Ramakrishna as well as many others now forgotten by time. [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-0-6|pages=pp. 131-132] cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah |origyear=1978 |year=2003 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9742755-1-4|pages=pp. 147-148] [cite book |last=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Doomed Aryan Race |origyear=1967 |pages=p. 104 |year=2003 |id=ISBN 0-9742755-6-5| publisher=Glorian Publishing]

It is important to notice that some of these individuals represent Christ as an impersonal force e. g. Jesus, meaning that although he was an individual Christ, he taught the doctrine of the Cosmic Christ, intentionally molding his physical life after the psychological processes that one undergoes to incarnate the Christ. As with Buddha, Jesus is seen as a Bodhisattva who came to help humanity. Jesus is viewed as the Savior of the World because he is a Paramarthasatya (an inhabitant of the Absolute) that physically incarnated (a very rare occurrence) specifically for the sake of poor suffering humanity. According to Samael Aun Weor, Jesus purposefully played out physically the internal or psychological struggle one must undergo in the path of Self-Realization; thus, the Gospels are a mixture of reality and kabbalistic, initiatic symbolism.cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Mysteries of the Fire: Kundalini Yoga | origyear=1955 | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-9742755-8-1 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=pp. 28-31] cite book | author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Great Rebellion | origyear=1976 | year=2003 | id=ISBN 0-9742755-3-0 | publisher=Glorian Publishing |pages=pp. 149-152] According to Samael Aun Weor, there is the historic Christ as depicted in so many Christian Churches; then, there is the Christ of Transubstantiation to be known exclusively through the Gnostic Church; and finally, there is the Apocalyptic Christ who is to come with the New Jerusalem, after the Great Fire Cataclysm that will consume the world. This is all explained in "The Aquarian Message", being a gnostic interpretation by Samael Aun Weor of the Book of Revelation. [Samael Aun Weor, "The Aquarian Message", Part III, Glorian Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-1934206317] "...there will be a new heaven and a new earth." ["The Aquarian Message", ibid. part III, ch. xxxii]

Bibliography

He wrote over sixty books, covering a broad range of esoteric, philosophical, and anthropological subjects. The following is taken from the [http://www.gnosticteachings.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=67 Glorian Publishing] website.

*1950 - The Perfect Matrimony - Kindergarten (Revised and expanded in 1961. See below).
*1950 - The Revolution of Bel
*1951 - Zodiacal Course
*1952 - Secret Notes of a Guru
*1952 - Treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic (Revised and expanded in 1978. See below).
*1952 - Gnostic Catechism
*1952 - Christ Consciousness
*1952 - The Power is in the Cross
*1952 - The Book of the Virgin of Carmen
*1953 - The Seven Words
*1953 - Igneous Rose
*1954 - Manual of Practical Magic
*1954 - Treatise of Sexual Alchemy
*1955 - The Mysteries of the Fire: Kundalini Yoga
*1955 - Cosmic Ships
*1956 - The Major Mysteries
*1958 - The Magnum Opus
*1958 - Universal Charity
*1958 - Esoteric Treatise of Theurgy
*1959 - The Mountain of Juratena
*1959 - Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology
*1959 - Christ Will
*1959 - Logos, Mantram, Theurgy
*1959 - The Yellow Book
*1960 - The Aquarian Message
*1961 - Introduction to Gnosis
*1961 - The Perfect Matrimony (revised)
*1962 - The Mysteries of Life and Death
*1963 - Marriage, Divorce and Tantra
*1963 - Gnosis in the Twentieth Century
*1963 - Great Supreme Universal Manifesto of the Gnostic Movement
*1964 - The Social Christ
*1964 - Christmas Message 1964-1965 ("The Dissolution of the I") Title given by students.
*1964 - Grand Gnostic Manifesto of the Third Year of Aquarius
*1965 - The Social Transformation of Humanity
*1965 - Supreme Christmas Message 1965-1966 (The Science of Music) Title given by students.
*1966 - The Book of the Dead
*1967 - Platform of POSCLA
*1967 - Christmas Message 1966-1967 (The Buddha's Necklace) Title given by students.
*1967 - Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
*1967 - Christmas Message 1967-1968 (The Doomed Aryan Race/The Solar Bodies) Title given by students.
*1967 - Flying Saucers
*1968 - Constitution and Liturgy of the Gnostic Movement (For Second and Third Chamber Students ONLY).
*1968 - We'll Reach the One Thousand, But Not the Two Thousand (Title given by students).
*1968 - Supreme Christmas Message 1967-1968
*1969 - Esoteric Course of Kabbalah
*1969 - Christmas Message 1968-1969 (Esoteric Course of Runic Magic)
*1969 - Christmas Message 1969-1970 (My Return to Tibet) Title given by students.
*1970 - Fundamental Education
*1970 - Beyond Death
*1971 - Christmas Message 1971-1972 (Parsifal Unveiled)
*1971 - Christmas Message 1971-1972 (The Mystery of the Golden Blossom)
*1972 - Grand Gnostic Manifesto 1972
*1972 - Christmas Message 1972-1973 (The Three Mountains)
*1972 - Gazing at the Mystery
*1973 - Aztec Christic Magic
*1973 - Christmas Message 1973-1974 (Yes, There is a Hell, a Devil, and Karma)
*1974 - The Metallic Planets of Alchemy
*1974 - The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac
*1975 - The Great Rebellion
*1975 - Liturgy of the Gnostic Movement (For Second and Third Chamber Students ONLY).
*1975 - Revolutionary Psychology
*1976 - Sacred Book of Gnostic Liturgy (For Second and Third Chamber Students ONLY).
*1977 - The Mysteries of Christic Esoterism
*1977 - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries
*1977 - Esoteric Course of Theurgy
*1978 - Gnostic Anthropology
*1978 - Didactic Self-knowledge (Collected Lectures).
*1978 - Christmas Message 1977-1978 (Treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, revised)
*1978 - The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah
*1980 - For the Few
*1983 - The Revolution of the Dialectic
*1983 - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

See also

*Anthroposophy
*Cult
*Esoteric Christianity
*Fourth Way
*Gnosticism
*Hermeticism
*Mysticism
*Philosopher's Stone
*Rosicrucianism
*Samael
*Scientology
*Taoism
*Western Mystery Tradition

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