Permanent Center Of Gravity

The Permanent Center of Gravity

Since a true individuality does not exist, it is impossible for there to be continuity of purpose.

If the psychological individual does not exist — if in each one of us live many persons, if there is no responsible subject — it would be absurd to demand of someone continuity of purpose.

We know well that within a person live many persons; then the full sense of responsibility does not really exist in us.

What a determined I affirms at a given instant cannot have any seriousness, due to the concrete fact that any other I can affirm exactly the contrary at any other moment.

The grave thing about all this is that many people believe they possess the sense of moral responsibility and self-deceive themselves by affirming they are always the same.

There are persons who, at any moment of their existence, come to the Gnostic Studies; they resplend with the force of longing; they enthuse with the Esoteric Work and even swear to consecrate the totality of their existence to these questions.

Unquestionably, all the brethren of our movement come to admire such an enthusiast.

One cannot but feel great joy on hearing persons of this kind, so devoted and definitively sincere. However, the idyll does not last long; on any day, due to this or that motive — just or unjust, simple or complicated — the person retires from Gnosis; then abandons the Work; and to straighten the wrong, or trying to justify himself, affiliates with any other mystical organization and thinks that now he is doing better.

All this coming and going, all this incessant changing of schools, sects, religions, is due to the multiplicity of I-s that in our interior struggle among themselves for their own supremacy.

Since each I possesses its own criterion, its own mind, its own ideas, this change of opinions is barely normal — this constant butterflying from organization to organization, from ideal to ideal, etc.

The subject in himself is no more than a machine that as readily serves as a vehicle to one I as to another.

Some mystical I-s self-deceive themselves; after abandoning this or that sect, they resolve to believe themselves Gods; they shine like fatuous lights and finally disappear.

There are persons who for a moment glimpse the Esoteric Work, and then in the instant in which another I intervenes, they definitively abandon these studies and let themselves be swallowed by life.

Obviously, if one does not struggle against life, it devours him; and rare are the aspirants who truly do not let themselves be swallowed by life.

Since there exists within us an entire multiplicity of I-s, the Permanent Center of Gravity cannot exist. It is barely normal that not all subjects intimately self-realize. We know well that the Intimate Self-Realization of the Being demands continuity of purpose; and since it is very difficult to find someone who has a Permanent Center of Gravity, then it is not strange that very rare is the person who arrives at the profound interior Self-Realization.

It is normal for someone to enthuse over the Esoteric Work and then to abandon it; what is strange is for someone not to abandon the Work and to arrive at the goal.

Certainly, and in the name of truth, we affirm that the Sun is making a very complicated and terribly difficult laboratory experiment.

Within the intellectual animal mistakenly called man exist germs that, conveniently developed, can convert us into solar men.

However, it is not out of place to clarify that it is not certain that those germs will develop; the normal thing is that they degenerate and are lamentably lost.

In any case, the cited germs that are to convert us into solar men require an adequate environment, for it is well known that a seed in a sterile medium does not germinate; it is lost.

In order for the real seed of the man deposited in our sexual glands to germinate, there is needed continuity of purpose and a normal physical body.

If scientists continue making trials with the glands of internal secretion, any possibility of development of the mentioned germs can be lost.

Although it seems incredible, the ants already passed through a similar process in a remote archaic past of our planet Earth.

One is filled with astonishment on contemplating the perfection of a palace of ants. There is no doubt that the order established in any anthill is formidable.

Those Initiates who have awakened consciousness know through direct mystical experience that the ants, in times not even remotely suspected by the greatest historians of the world, were a human race that created a most powerful socialist civilization.

Then the dictators of that family eliminated the diverse religious sects and free will, for all that subtracted from their power, and they needed to be totalitarian in the most complete sense of the word.

In these conditions — individual initiative and religious right being eliminated — the intellectual animal precipitated himself by the path of involution and degeneration.

To all the foregoing was added the scientific experiments: transplants of organs, glands, trials with hormones, etc., etc., etc., whose result was the gradual diminution and morphological alteration of those human organisms, until being converted finally into the ants we know.

All that civilization, all those movements related with the established social order, became mechanical and were inherited from parents to children; today one is filled with astonishment on seeing an anthill, but we cannot but lament its lack of intelligence.

If we do not work upon ourselves, we involve and degenerate frightfully.

The experiment that the Sun is making in the laboratory of nature, certainly besides being difficult, has given very few results.

To create solar men is only possible when there exists true cooperation in each one of us.

The creation of the solar man is not possible if we do not first establish a Permanent Center of Gravity in our interior.

How could we have continuity of purpose if we do not establish in our psyche the Center of Gravity?

Any race created by the Sun certainly has no other objective in nature than to serve the interests of this creation and of the solar experiment.

If the Sun fails in its experiment, it loses all interest in such a race, and this in fact remains condemned to destruction and involution.

Each of the races that has existed on the face of the Earth has served for the solar experiment. From each race the Sun has attained some triumphs, harvesting small groups of solar men.

When a race has given its fruits, it disappears in a progressive form or perishes violently through great catastrophes.

The creation of solar men is possible when one struggles to become independent of the lunar forces. There is no doubt that all those I-s we carry in our psyche are of an exclusively lunar type.

In no way would it be possible to liberate ourselves from the lunar force if we did not previously establish in ourselves a Permanent Center of Gravity.

How could we dissolve the totality of the pluralized I if we do not have continuity of purpose? In what manner could we have continuity of purpose without having previously established in our psyche a Permanent Center of Gravity?

Since the present race, instead of becoming independent of the lunar influence, has lost all interest in solar intelligence, unquestionably it has condemned itself to involution and degeneration.

It is not possible for the true man to arise through the evolutive mechanics. We know well that evolution and its twin sister, involution, are only two laws that constitute the mechanical axis of all of nature. One evolves up to a certain perfectly defined point, and then comes the involutive process; every ascent is followed by a descent and vice versa.

We are exclusively machines controlled by distinct I-s. We serve the economy of nature; we do not have a defined individuality as many pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists mistakenly suppose.

We need with maximum urgency to change, in order that the germs of the man may give their fruits.

Only by working upon ourselves with true continuity of purpose and complete sense of moral responsibility can we be converted into Solar Men. This implies consecrating the totality of our existence to the Esoteric Work upon ourselves.

Those who have hope of arriving at the solar state through the mechanics of evolution deceive themselves and condemn themselves in fact to involutive degeneration.

In the Esoteric Work we cannot give ourselves the luxury of versatility; those who have weathervane ideas — those who today work upon their psyche and tomorrow let themselves be swallowed by life — those who seek evasions, justifications to abandon the Esoteric Work, will degenerate and involve.

Some postpone the error; they leave everything for tomorrow while they improve their economic situation, without taking into account that the solar experiment is something very distinct from their personal criterion and from their well-known projects.

It is not so easy to become a Solar Man when we carry the Moon in our interior. (The Ego is lunar.)

The Earth has two moons; the second of these is called Lilith and is found a little more distant than the white moon.

Astronomers usually see Lilith as a lentil, for it is of very small size. That is the Black Moon.

The most sinister forces of the Ego arrive at Earth from Lilith and produce infrahuman and bestial psychological results.

The crimes of the red press, the most monstrous assassinations of history, the most unsuspected delinquencies, etc., etc., etc., are due to the vibratory waves of Lilith.

The double lunar influence represented in the human being through the Ego he carries in his interior makes of us a true failure.

If we do not see the urgency of giving the totality of our existence to the Work upon ourselves with the purpose of liberating ourselves from the double lunar force, we will end up swallowed by the Moon, involving, degenerating more and more within certain states that we could well qualify as unconscious and infra-conscious.

The grave thing about all this is that we do not possess the true individuality; if we had a Permanent Center of Gravity, we would truly work seriously until attaining the solar state.

There are so many excuses in these questions, there are so many evasions, there exist so many fascinating attractions, that in fact it usually becomes almost impossible to comprehend, for this motive, the urgency of the Esoteric Work.

However, the small margin we have of free will and the Gnostic Teaching oriented toward practical work could serve us as a foundation for our noble purposes related with the solar experiment.

The weathervane mind does not understand what we are saying here; it reads this chapter and subsequently forgets it; afterward comes another book and another, and in the end we end up affiliating with any institution that sells us a passport to heaven, that speaks to us in a more optimistic form, that assures us comforts in the beyond.

That is how people are: mere marionettes controlled by invisible threads, mechanical puppets with weathervane ideas and without continuity of purpose.

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The Permanent Center of Gravity Since a true individuality does not exist, it is impossible for there to be continuity of purpose.