Unquestionably, just as there exists the Exterior Country in which we live, so also in our intimacy there exists the Psychological Country.
Samael Aun Weor
The Psychological Country
Unquestionably, just as there exists the Exterior Country in which we live, so also in our intimacy there exists the Psychological Country.
People never ignore the city or the region where they live; unfortunately it happens that they do not know the psychological place where they are situated.
At a given moment, anyone knows in what neighborhood or quarter he finds himself, but in the psychological terrain the same does not happen. Normally, people do not even remotely suspect, at a given moment, the place of their Psychological Country in which they have entered.
Just as in the physical world there exist colonies of decent and cultured people, so also it happens in the psychological region of each one of us; there is no doubt that there exist very elegant and beautiful colonies.
Just as in the physical world there exist colonies or neighborhoods with very dangerous alleys full of robbers, so also the same happens in the psychological region of our interior.
All depends on the kind of people who accompany us; if we have drunken friends, we shall end up in the tavern; and if these latter are libertines, indubitably our destiny will be in the brothels.
Within our Psychological Country, each one has his companions, his I-s; these will take one where they must take one, according to their psychological characteristics.
A virtuous and honorable lady, magnificent wife, of exemplary conduct, living in a beautiful mansion in the physical world, due to her lustful I-s could be situated in dens of prostitution within her Psychological Country.
An honorable gentleman, of impeccable honesty, magnificent citizen, could within his psychological region find himself situated in a cave of thieves, due to his terrible companions — the I-s of robbery, very submerged within the unconscious.
An anchorite and penitent, possibly a blue monk living austerely within his cell in some monastery, could psychologically find himself situated in a colony of murderers, gunmen, robbers, drug addicts, due precisely to infraconscious or unconscious I-s, submerged deeply within the most difficult recesses of his psyche.
For some reason it has been said to us that there is much virtue in the wicked and that there is much wickedness in the virtuous.
Many canonized saints still live within the psychological dens of robbery or in houses of prostitution.
What we are affirming in an emphatic form could scandalize the prudes, the pietists, the illustrated ignorant ones, the paragons of wisdom — but never the true psychologists.
Although it seems incredible, among the incense of prayer the crime is also hidden; among the cadences of verse the crime is also hidden; under the sacred dome of the most divine sanctuaries the crime clothes itself with the tunic of holiness and the sublime word.
In the deep backgrounds of the most venerable saints live the I-s of the brothel, of robbery, of homicide, etc. Infrahuman companions hidden within the unfathomable depths of the unconscious.
Much for this reason did the various saints of history suffer; let us remember the temptations of Saint Anthony — all those abominations against which our brother Francis of Assisi had to struggle. However, those saints did not say everything, and the greater part of the anchorites kept silent.
One is astonished on thinking that some most-holy penitent anchorites live in the psychological colonies of prostitution and of robbery.
However, they are saints; and if they have not yet discovered these frightful things in their psyche, when they discover them they will use hair-shirts on their flesh, they will fast, possibly they will scourge themselves, and they will beseech their Divine Mother KUNDALINI to eliminate from their psyche those bad companions that have them put away in those tenebrous dens of their own Psychological Country.
Much have the different religions said about life after death and the beyond.
Let the poor people no longer rack their brains over what is there, on the other side, beyond the sepulcher. Unquestionably, after death, each one continues to live in the Psychological colony of always.
The thief will continue in the dens of thieves; the lustful one will continue in the houses of assignation as a ghost of ill omen; the irate, the furious will continue to live in the dangerous alleys of vice and of anger — there, too, where the dagger gleams and the shots of pistols sound.
The Essence in itself is very beautiful; it came from above, from the stars, and unfortunately it is put away within all these I-s we carry within.
By opposition, the Essence can retrace the path, return to the original point of departure, return to the stars — but it must first liberate itself from its bad companions who hold it in the suburbs of perdition.
When Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua, distinguished Christified Masters, discovered within their interior the I-s of perdition, they suffered the unspeakable; and there is no doubt that on the basis of Conscious Works and Voluntary Sufferings, they succeeded in reducing to cosmic dust all that ensemble of inhuman elements that lived in their interior. Unquestionably those Saints Christified themselves and returned to the original point of departure after having suffered much.
Above all, it is necessary, it is urgent, unpostponable, that the Magnetic Center which we have abnormally established in our false personality be transferred to the Essence; thus the complete man can begin his journey from the personality to the stars, ascending in a didactic, progressive form, grade by grade, by the Mountain of the BEING.
While the Magnetic Center continues established in our illusory personality, we shall live in the most abominable psychological dens; even though in practical life we may be magnificent citizens.
Each one has a Magnetic Center that characterizes him: the merchant has the Magnetic Center of commerce, and therefore he develops in the markets and attracts what is congenial to him — buyers and merchants.
The man of science has in his personality the Magnetic Center of science, and therefore he attracts to himself all the things of science — books, laboratories, etc.
The esotericist has in himself the magnetic center of esotericism, and since this kind of center turns out to be different from the questions of the personality, indubitably for this reason the transference happens.
When the Magnetic Center is established in the Consciousness — that is, in the Essence — then begins the return of the total Man to the stars.
The Psychological Country Unquestionably, just as there exists the Exterior Country in which we live, so also in our intimacy there exists the Psychological Country.