The World Of Relations

The World of Relations

The world of relations has three very different aspects that we need to clarify in a precise form.

1. First

We are related to the planetary body — that is, with the physical body.

2. Second

We live on the planet Earth, and by logical sequence we are related with the exterior world and with the matters that pertain to us: relatives, businesses, monies, matters of trade, profession, politics, etc., etc., etc.

3. Third

The relation of man with himself. For the majority of people, this type of relation has not the slightest importance.

Unfortunately, people are only interested in the first two types of relations, looking with the most absolute indifference at the third type.

Food, health, money, businesses really constitute the principal preoccupations of the “Intellectual Animal” mistakenly called “man.”

Now then: it turns out evident that both the physical body and the affairs of the world are exterior to ourselves.

The Planetary Body (physical body) is at times sick, at times healthy, and so on successively.

We always believe we have some knowledge of our physical body, but in reality not even the best scientists in the world know much about the body of flesh and bone.

There is no doubt that the physical body, given its tremendous and complicated organization, is certainly far beyond our comprehension.

As regards the second type of relations, we are always victims of circumstances; it is lamentable that we have still not learned to originate circumstances consciously.

There are many people incapable of adapting themselves to anything or to anyone, or of having true success in life.

On thinking about ourselves from the angle of the Gnostic Esoteric Work, it becomes urgent to ascertain with which of these three types of relations we are in default.

It can happen in the concrete case that we are mistakenly related with the physical body, and as a consequence of it we are ill.

It can happen that we are badly related with the exterior world, and as a result have conflicts, economic and social problems, etc., etc., etc.

It may be that we are badly related with ourselves, and that as a sequence we suffer much from lack of interior illumination.

Obviously, if the lamp of our bedchamber is not connected to the electrical installation, our chamber will be in darkness.

Those who suffer for lack of interior illumination must connect their mind with the Superior Centers of their Being.

Unquestionably, we need to establish correct relations not only with our Planetary Body (physical body) and with the exterior world, but also with each of the parts of our own Being.

The pessimistic sick, tired of so many doctors and medicines, no longer desire to be cured; the optimistic patients struggle to live.

In the Casino of Monte Carlo, many millionaires who lost their fortune in gambling committed suicide. Millions of poor mothers work to sustain their children.

Innumerable are the depressed aspirants who, for lack of psychic powers and intimate illumination, have renounced the Esoteric Work upon themselves. Few are those who know how to take advantage of adversities.

In times of rigorous temptation, dejection, and desolation, one must appeal to the intimate remembrance of oneself.

In the depth of each one of us is the Aztec Tonantzin, the Stella Maris, the Egyptian Isis, God-Mother, awaiting us to heal our pained heart.

When one gives oneself the shock of the “Remembrance of Oneself,” there really is produced a miraculous change in all the work of the body, in such a manner that the cells receive a different food.

The Four Relations

Interior World — Our Being.

Exterior World — Physical Body.

Exterior World — Others and the planet.

• How do I relate to the Physical Body?

• How do I relate to others?

• How do I relate to the Planet?

• How do I relate to the Being?

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The World of Relations The world of relations has three very different aspects that we need to clarify in a precise form.