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Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor, born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez, was a spiritual teacher and author of over sixty books of esoteric spirituality. He taught and formed groups under the banner of "Universal Gnosticism", or simply gnosis. A prolific author of syncretistic books, Gómez first made a name in the early gnostic movement in his natal country of Colombia, before moving to Mexico in 1956, where his movement gained increased popularity, and his works became popular among practitioners of occultism and esotericism, and were translated to other languages.

Author | March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977
All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.
The time has come for us to understand that the Eternal Feminine is the greatest power in this Universe.
The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell. — © Samael Aun Weor
The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.
Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.
We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.
Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.
The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes.
The one who has real Faith doesn't need to believe.
The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.
Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.
Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.
The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism
Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.
The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.
Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type. — © Samael Aun Weor
Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.
Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.
When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.
Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.
Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.
The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.
Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.
The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.
When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.
The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.
Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
May Peace reign in all hearts. Let us not forget that Peace is Light; let us not forget that Peace is an essence which emanates from the Absolute. It is Light which emanates from the Absolute. It is the Light of the Ancient of Days. Christ said: “MY PEACE I GIVE YOU, MY PEACE I LEAVE YOU”.
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.
The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that’s all.
The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.
The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk.
When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.
Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of love. Only love can truly transform the World. — © Samael Aun Weor
Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of love. Only love can truly transform the World.
The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.
Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born.
Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.
Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.
Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.
The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.
Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness.
Only the great Souls can and know how to love. — © Samael Aun Weor
Only the great Souls can and know how to love.
To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.
It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.
The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.
Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.
All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.
We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.
Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.
A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.
As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real.
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