Cult of Personality, Private Life and Gossip.

The Cult of Personality, Open Letter to all Gnostic Students

To all my brothers and sisters in the Gnostic Movement.

Inverential Peace!

My adored brothers/sisters:

The time has come to end personalism and the cult of personality.

Please, I beg you most earnestly, from now on, do not send me any more flattery and praise by mail.

It grieves me very much to tell you that any letter bearing laurels, flattery and praise will be rejected.

If you have something to say, if you have something to ask me, write to me seriously, without flattery, without praise, without adulations, without vain laurels.

The old members of our Gnostic Movement must remember that the Judas of today were the adulators of yesterday.

Those who hate and curse us today, disguised in robes of holiness, those hypocritical Pharisees, those “whitened sepulchers”, are consummate masters in the art of adulation and praise.

To the brothers who publish my works, I implore you, I beg you earnestly, not to praise me in the foreword, do not quote me, do not name me.

Those who write the foreword of my works must limit themselves exclusively to commenting on the doctrine, that is all.

Personalism and the cult of personality are a cancerous tumor that must be radically removed from within the bosom of the Gnostic Movement.

To the directors of the Gnostic lumisials, I beg you, please, prohibit flattery, praise and adulations at the meetings.

Those who yesterday praised and flattered me within the Gnostic lumisials, today throw against my insignificant person all their defamatory slime. See, therefore, my brothers/sisters, how vain praise is.

Unfortunately, there is a Pharisee inside every person. Reduce to dust the Pharisee within, I implore you with all my heart, I beg you.

(Pharisee: claims to be innocent and humble. “Pharisee” refers to something within ourselves that claims to be just and humble but truly is a hypocrite. Pharisee also relates to the intermediate mind. “Clearly, the Pharisees gather at their rites in order to be seen, so that it will be said that they are good people. They pretend in front of others, but they never work on themselves.” – The Great Rebellion. “The interior Pharisee is and obstacle to comprehension. To presume that we are virtuous is absurd.” – The Mystery of the Golden Flower. In short, our inner Pharisee that we all have within is puffed up with mystical pride and only thinks of themselves. “These are people who boast of being initiates, saints, and wise.” – Samael Aun Weor.)

To all my brothers/sisters here in Mexico and my beloved visiting brothers/sisters who come from abroad, I beg you, I implore you, do not praise me, do not flatter me, do not offer me adulations.

I am your friend, I truly love you, and therefore, I beg you to treat me as your friend.

Most beloved, as I conclude this open letter, frankly I fear that I have been too hard on you, but the truth is the truth and it must be told at all costs. Remember that for the truth, Christ, our Lord, died crucified on wood.

Inverential Peace!

Samael Aun Weor

From the Abraxas International Magazine

Concerning the Private Lives of Others

We have verified with deep sorrow that within the lumisials of the Gnostic Movement some dear brothers, who presume to be saints, have no problem intervening in people’s private lives.

No one has given them, to such brothers, the right to judge anyone and yet they meddle where they should not meddle and judge other people’s lives. They make laws as they please and want others to live according to their personal whims; they walk around very calmly with a certain “sublime” attitude, even though the victims suffer unspeakably.

I advise those brothers who are in the habit of interfering in other people’s intimate lives to study my book the Fundamentals of Gnostic Education.

In this world, it is very difficult to find saints, my dear brothers/sisters. All people have the same defects. We seem to be “cut from the same cloth”, and those who do not have a defect in one direction have it in another.

The Holy Scriptures say: (See Matthew 7)

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the plank in your own eye?”

“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye, and behold the plank in your eye?”

“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”

It is shameful that within the very respectable and very venerable lumisials of the Gnostic Movement, conjugal issues are formed, a sister is rejected, a brother is hacked to pieces: the intimate lives of others are condemned; those who long for the light are humiliated or insulted.

No one in the Gnostic Movement has been given the authority to judge others; no one has been appointed as a judge over his brethren.

The lumisial is one thing and the private life of each person is another. One goes to a lumisial to pray, study, meditate, and not to be judged, to be subject to public exposure, or criticism of his or her private life.

No one has the right to interfere in someone’s private life; everyone deserves to be respected, to be given space. Each to his own, and everyone has the right to live his private life as he sees fit.

IN THIS WORLD, NOBODY HAS THE AUTHORITY TO JUDGE ANYONE, BECAUSE ALL OF US ARE, IN REALITY, MORE OR LESS DEVILS.

It is truly absurd that within the same Gnostic lumisials, uproars and scandals are formed over marital issues, over love affairs, because “John” left “Jane” and went with “Joanna”, because the neighbor’s wife said, because someone said what someone else said, etc.

The temple, the lumisial, needs to be respected. It is essential to keep composure in the sacred place. Avoid at all costs commenting on other people’s lives, and absolutely abstain from expressing opinions on the intimate lives of other brothers/sisters.

I deeply regret that within the Gnostic lumisials, the private lives of other people are judged.

Inverential Peace!

Samael Aun Weor

Gossip

“Over there they say that”, “ That the neighbor’s wife went off with so-and-so’s husband”, “And they say that John said that Jane said that Joanne told her that Jim was in love with a sister of the lumisial…”

The funny thing about all this gossip of the dear brothers, and with “they say that”, is the “seriousness” with which they recount what the neighbor’s wife or so-and-so’s son told them.

No one feels the heart when loosening the tongue, they are all “saints”, yes, but “chocolate saints”, and yet they think they have the authority to expel, sentence, and judge others.

Many behave as if they were Mahatmas, Masters, Hierophants. In the Gnostic Movement, no dear brother or dear sister is humble, they all are great, powerful, sublime.

That “they say that”, that brother so-and-so is fallen”, that “so-and-so is a black magician”, etc., are, without doubt, appalling ridiculousness. That is the path of shame of our beloved Gnostic Movement.

It is necessary to understand right now, once and forever, that no one is more than anyone else, and that all human beings are, in fact, more or less diabolical and bestial.

Inside the Sanctum Sanctorum of the temple, I asked my Guru:

“IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR DIVINE MONAD AND MY DIVINE MONAD?”

“NONE! FOR YOU AND I, AND EACH ONE OF US, IS BUT A POOR SNAIL IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER.”

If that is what my Holy Guru (whose sacred name I must not mention) says, what can we, miserable worms of the mud of the earth, say?

To call others “black magicians” is contradictory and incongruous. As long as the pluralized ‘I’ has not been dissolved, any dear brother/sister, even if claiming to be saint, is, at heart, more or less “black”.

And not even those who have dissolved the pluralized ‘I’ can afford to judge others. They still carry the residues, the bad tendencies, the seeds of the ‘I’. At the slightest neglect, such seeds can germinate. So too, like the Phoenix bird, the ‘I’ can be reborn from its own ashes.

It is not enough to dissolve the pluralized ‘I’ to stop being more or less “black”, later one has to “fry the seeds”. As the yogis say, that is not all, later one has to bathe in the waters of Lethe to forget the perversities of the ‘I’ and acquire innocence.

To judge others, to qualify others, is indeed extremely difficult; not even those who have already bathed in the waters of Lethe can afford to do so. These innocent beings still have to submerge in the waters of Eunoe to fortify their virtues if they do not want to fall later on.

It is urgent to be aware, it is indispensable to understand that not even those virtuous ones, who fortified their virtues among the sacred waters of the Eunoe River, would dare to judge anyone. Those saints suffer the unspeakable while waiting for the grace of being confirmed in the light; that grace is not given freely, it costs terrible sacrifices.

Remember brothers, the first haughty one. He was the most excellent creature, he had dissolved the pluralized ‘I’, he had burnt the seeds of the ‘I’, he had bathed in the waters of Lethe, he had immersed himself in the waters of Eunoe, he was clothed in the glorious and holy flesh of the solar bodies. But because he did not wait for the Light of Divine Grace, he fell from heaven before he was confirmed in it.

How absurd it is to judge others! Who are you, who wants to sit in court to judge a thousand miles away, with but an inch of sight?

Oh intellectual animals! Oh earthly animals! Oh stupefied intelligences! When will you put an end to gossip?

Inverential Peace!

Samael Aun Weor