Samael Aun Weor speaks to you from this Patriarchal See.
Dear Gnostic brothers: today we are going to talk about Man and Reason.
Objective Reason vs Subjective Reason
Most human beings who currently inhabit the face of the Earth only possess Subjective Rationalism; they have not yet developed Objective Reason within themselves.
It’s important for you to understand that SUBJECTIVE REASON IS BASED ON SENSORY DATA. It develops its content concepts using data provided by the senses.
It is urgent that you understand that OBJECTIVE REASON IS BASED ON THE DATA OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Subjective Reason proves too impoverished, completely trapped by the five senses. The concepts of content developed through external sensory perceptions are too limited; Subjective Rationalism can know nothing about reality, about life, about death, about that which is Truth.
If the concepts of content can only be elaborated by the data provided by the external senses, it will undoubtedly always have a circle within which it will move; this vicious circle is Euclid’s Three-Dimensional World.
How could Subjective Reason know anything about Reality, about something that does not belong to the external senses? In what way could it know Reality? What can Subjective Reason know about the Mysteries of Life and Death, about the Soul, about the Being?
Emmanuel Kant, the philosopher from Königsberg, clearly demonstrated that Subjective Reason can know nothing about God and about Truth, and it is obvious; if its rationalism is based on the data provided by the senses, unquestionably, it has to move within the orbit of the senses, it could never get out of that orbit.
If someone wants to know more, if someone tries to know what Truth is, if someone wants to know the Mysteries of Life and Death, that which is beyond the Three-Dimensional Region of Euclid, it is clear that they will have to develop Objective Reason in their inner psychic constitution.
Therefore, those who listen to this cassette should reflect carefully. Those who do not possess objective reason are merely automatic machines tasked with assimilating, transforming, and retransmitting planetary energies to the Earth’s inner layers; however, those who already possess objective reason escape this law and become, in fact, sacred individuals.
The Essence
Objective Reason bases its functionalism on the data that the Essence provides… It is good to know that in the Essence are the particles of pain of our Father who is in secret; if these particles are used wisely, we can, through them, awaken Consciousness.
In the Essence lies Religion, Wisdom, the Buddha and in general, all the information we need to guide us on the Path of the Revolution of Consciousness.
When Objective Reason has developed, these facts can then be fully understood by the Human Personality. Those who have not developed Objective Reason are, in themselves, also incapable of understanding the facts contained in the Essence.
Thus, it is convenient to know that Objective Reason is certainly fed by the data of the Essence and by the intuitions that come from the Higher Worlds.
In ancient times, the Lemurians possessed a highly developed form of Objective Reason. Many people in Atlantis also possessed this type of reason. The people of the Polar Age and the Hyperboreans, obviously, possessed Objective Reason. It is lamentable that in this dark age of the Kali Yuga, very few have developed Objective Reason within their inner nature.
Subjective Rationalism is in vogue; it’s what predominates these days. Subjective Rationalism shapes Kalkian Personalities; by “KALKIAN PERSONALITIES” I mean those pseudo-esoteric, pseudo-occultist personalities, those pseudo-scientists of the modern age spouting all sorts of nonsense and drivel. Never before has there been so much darkness as in this Kali Yuga.
Those few who have developed Objective Reason do, in fact, have access to PURE SCIENCE. Distinguish between the Pseudo-scientific thinking of this Kali-Yuga era and Pure Science. Kalkian Personalities, the know-it-alls of the Tower of Babel, the geniuses of Subjective Rationalism, would never have access to Pure Science.
Pure Science
As an example of what Pure Science is in stark contrast to ultramodern Pseudo-scientific thinking, consider the following: The scientists of the “Tower of Babel” launch their ROCKETS (terrible contraptions) into space, propelled by liquid fuel, and performing circus-like feats, the so-called “astronauts” finally manage to land on the Moon. Therein lies the product of purely Subjectivist Rationalism.
An example of Pure Science: we have INTERPLANETARY SHIPS powered by Solar Energy, these ships do not need liquid fuel, they travel at speeds faster than that of light, from galaxy to galaxy, nor do they need circus-like adventures like those of the famous astronauts (Russian and American), or anything of the sort, this belongs, as I already said, to Pure Science and Objective Reason.
Looking at this, then, in the midst of a logical confrontation, we see (on the side of Subjective Rationalism) circus rockets, and on the side of Pure Science and Objective Reason, we find the spaceships of extraterrestrials. When one speaks of extraterrestrial ships that travel from galaxy to galaxy, many skeptics smile incredulously. However, a renowned NASA doctor was already taken aboard one of these ships and wrote a book that is currently in circulation. What we are saying, therefore, has full official confirmation…
The proponents of Subjective Rationalism aim to invent serums to extend their lives, but they have never succeeded in immortalizing anyone. Men as famous as Eisenhower, Stalin, and many others died surrounded by great scientists and doctors; these are the miracles of Subjective Rationalism.
In contrast, the men of Pure Science, the Great Alchemists of the Middle Ages and of all times, through their famous Philosopher’s Stone (so misunderstood, so misinterpreted by ultramodern people), have achieved and continue to achieve the famous “Elixir of Long Life,” with which they can truly live for millions of years…
We are stating something that will naturally make the people of Subjective Rationalism laugh.
Such people could never accept such claims, could never allow them into their minds, precisely because they are trapped within the vicious circle of subjectivist reasoning. To admit these kinds of ideas into the mind, one needs to have truly escaped from that bottle of purely subjective reasoning.
Thus, by simple Logical Confrontation of Being, we see the TWO TYPES OF REASONING: SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE, in clear opposition.
It is also clear that there is merely formal Logic, pertaining to Subjectivist Rationalism, and Higher Logic, the latter duly codified by Ouspensky in his famous book entitled “Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought.” Higher Logic could never be accepted by the followers of Subjective Rationalism, yet it is based on the very data of Consciousness.
Seven Kinds of Men
When we analyze all these aspects of the Mind, by simple logical deduction we have to accept the various Levels of Being; there will be people who will understand these ideas and there will be people who have never understood them and never will.
Clearly, on the path of existence there is everything, we could never deny that there are SEVEN LEVELS OF BEING, that there are Seven Kinds of People, Seven Kinds of Men, using the word “Man” in the first four cases in a merely conventional way and so as not to hurt sensibilities.
Just as there are INTELLECTUAL, EMOTIONAL, MOTOR, INSTINCTIVE, and SEXUAL Centers, so too are there different kinds of men; some will have their center of gravity in Instinct, others will have fixed it in the Motor Brain, or Motor Center, others in the Emotional Center, and some more in the Mind, etc., etc., etc.
The Instinctive Man
There is no doubt that the purely instinctive subject moves in a quasi-one-dimensional way, we might say, going from pleasant to unpleasant, and that’s all. These kinds of people obviously don’t like anything that might disrupt their comfort; they only crave their pleasant pleasures.
The Emotional Man
The second level can be found in completely emotional people; these people clearly operate in the world of lower emotions, they do not understand reasoning, their life is too sentimental.
The Intellectual Man
The third class of people belongs to the purely intellectual level; their center of gravity is in the brain, in the intellect. They possess subjective reason but have not developed objective reason, and they would find it difficult to break the vicious cycle of the intellect. They want to subject everything in the Universe to syllogisms, enthymemes, or prosyllogisms, to deductive and inductive methods, to analytical processes based exclusively on the mystical-sensory realm.
They would never understand anything that falls outside the circle of subjective conceptualism.
Since their reasoning is based on data provided by the five senses (which are touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste), they obviously require that all information that reaches them be based on the external senses; when some information reaches the intellectual center devoid of external sensory data, it is simply rejected by the very fact that it is not understood, if their activities are fixed on the center of gravity of the Intellect, it is not possible for them to understand things that do not belong to the Intellect.
The Balanced Man
A Fourth Level of man is different. At the Fourth Level of man, we find the perfect development and harmonious balance of all the centers. At the Fourth Level, we find perfect harmony and rhythmic concordance in the functioning of the Five Centers of the Machine.
To reach the Fourth Level, all centers must be fully developed. No one could develop the Five Centers of the Machine if they rejected all the activities that exist in the world.
It is clear that everything in the world contributes to the development of each part of the centers. It is also worth noting that each of the Machine’s Centers comprises several parts:
- The Sexual Center works harmoniously and develops in a harmonious manner. through the transmutation of Creative Energy.
- The Instinctive Center doesn’t need any educational regimen; it can educate us for thst matter, for it is what keeps us alive, what regulates all the body’s activities and directs them wisely. When we try to teach the Instinctive Center, we risk losing our lives or becoming ill. It’s worth remembering that the heart, liver, and kidneys would never function if we didn’t possess the Instinctive Center within our nature.
- The Motor or Movement Center is cultivated through harmonious habits, carefully reviewing all our habitual behavior, eliminating certain habits, adopting others, discarding those that are not beneficial, selecting and learning new habits that are beneficial, practicing specific exercises or simply healthy sports, and taking walks outdoors. It is also developed by learning activities related to manual work, whether in mechanics, driving cars or bicycles, or simply horseback riding, swimming, etc.
- The Emotional Center can be developed to its fullest potential through the cultivation of the arts. It’s always beneficial to learn to play a musical instrument, listen to Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, appreciate aesthetic beauty, learn how to paint, and so on.
- The Intellectual Center can be developed through the study of botany, astrology, medicine, simply by studying esotericism, etc., etc., etc.
Undoubtedly, no one could, for example, become “Man Number Three” without having gone through the intermediate levels.
- Men 1, 2 and 3
If someone is at the merely instinctive level and wishes to become a higher man, to leave the merely instinctive state, that is, “Number 1”, to become the Emotional Man who is Level 2, he would have to realize that his instinctive life totally absorbs the activities of his existence, that he only lives according to animal instincts, he will be able to understand all that and then intelligently develop the emotional aspect in his nature.
Thus, the first Man is Number 1, the Instinctive; the second, the Emotional ; the third, the Intellectual. Whoever wishes to fix their center of gravity in the intellect will have to study, analyze, understand, and once we have developed these centers, we must find harmonious balance among them.
When one carefully analyzes the Five Centers of the Machine, one can realize that the “TOWER OF BABEL” is FORMED BY MEN Number 1, 2, and 3. It is in that “tower” where the confusion of languages exists, where no one understands anyone, where all wars are fought, where all conflicts of the human species are formed.
Observe carefully the activities of the human race, observe the wars and problems of all kinds, it is logical, in the “Tower of Babel” all the problems of humanity have been forged.
Beyond that tower are the Men of the FOURTH LEVEL; the people who already have THE FIVE CENTERS OF THE MACHINE IN TOTAL BALANCE; the people who no longer have their center of gravity fixed exclusively on the Intellect, or on the purely Emotional Mechanical part, or exclusively on the matter of Instinct.
Men of the Fourth Level seek, they want to know more, they yearn, they need to inquire, to investigate, they aspire to know the meaning of life; they sense that life must have some significance, that all of this must have some meaning, and in their desire to know, they are not content with merely intellectual concepts, these do not satisfy them; these are the ones who are searching here, there, and everywhere.
Men of the Fourth Level are, therefore, the hope of tomorrow.
The Fifth Level
There are also people of the Fifth Level; they are few, but they exist. These Fifth Level individuals have had the luxury of creating an astral body for their personal use.
Undoubtedly, the creation of an Astral Body is a luxury that very few can afford.
It is not essential for life to possess an astral body. The physical body, being endowed with an organic life force, clearly possesses within itself all the principles necessary for existence.
The Astral Body is different; one knows one has an Astral Body when one can use it, like hands, like feet; when one can travel with that vehicle outside the Physical Body, when one can transport oneself to any remote place on Earth or to infinity with it.
To create the Astral Body, it is necessary to transmute the Exiojejarí, that is, the Sacred Sperm, into Creative Energy; obviously, such energy, in itself, is the famous Sexual Hydrogen Si-12.
When this hydrogen crystallizes in our cells and inside our organism, it takes on the wonderful and extraordinary form of the Astral Body.
- The Hambledzoin of Being
It is worth emphatically stating that this Sidereal Vehicle also has its own blood and functions. The Hambledzoin of the Being, that is, the very blood of the Astral Body; the particles of the Hambledzoin are contained in the blood of the Physical Body.
The Hambledzoin of Being is made with the magnetic vibrations that come from the planets of the Solar System; such magnetic vibrations are assimilated in us through breathing and through the pores, they undergo different combinations within us until finally they become the famous Hambledzoin of Being, the very blood of the Astral Body, that blood that circulates through the veins of said Sidereal Vehicle, but as I said, the Astral Body must first be made.
Many pseudo-occultists and pseudo-esotericists believe they possess such a vehicle, and they are mistaken; those who have reached the perfect awakening of Consciousness will be able to see for themselves that the majority of humanity does not yet possess such a vehicle, and that those who truly have it are very rare.
To speak in a language accessible to those who listen to me, I can tell you that those who do not yet possess that body, outside the physical body seem like ghosts, but those who possess the Sidereal Vehicle, outside the physical body, are seen clothed in a defined Personality.
Thus, it is wonderful to create an Astral Body. The Men of the Fifth Level have obviously had to struggle greatly to create such a vehicle; only, I repeat, through the transmutation of the Sacred Sperm is it possible to create such a vehicle.
The Astral Body itself is a precious organism regulated by 24 Cosmic Laws.
Whoever has had the luxury of creating the Sidereal Vehicle needs to feed it; it is only possible to feed that vehicle through the transmutation of Hydrogen-48. All external sensory impressions, if properly transmuted by us, become Hydrogen-24, which serves to feed the Astral Body.
External sensory impressions are Hydrogen-48 and we have already explained this before.
One can transmute Hydrogen-48 into 24; when one learns to control purely mechanical reactions, one is transmuting 48 into 24.
Learning to accept with pleasure the unpleasant manifestations of our fellow human beings, therein lies a key to transmuting Hydrogen 48 into 24; overcoming temptations from the sensory world, from the Physical World, therein lies a system to convert Hydrogen-48 into 24; never reacting violently to impacts from the outside world, thus we also convert Hydrogen-48 into 24, etc., etc., etc.
The Men of the Sixth Level
Beyond the people of the Fifth Level, there are the Men of the Sixth Level. By MEN OF THE SIXTH LEVEL, we mean those who have developed within themselves Objective Reason, those who possess an individual MENTAL BODY.
The mistake of many pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists lies precisely in believing that everyone possesses a Mental Body.
Anyone who has truly awakened fully in the Higher Worlds of Cosmic Consciousness will be able to directly and personally witness, through their own Spatial Sense, the stark reality that people do not possess a Mental Body. Indeed, only Sixth-Level Beings possess such a body.
The Mental Body, the Body of Objective Reason, is something wonderful.
- Many Minds – Many Egos
People do not have a single Mind, but “many minds.” Since each of the psychological defects we carry within is personified by an I, it is obvious that we possess many I’s, and each one has its own judgment, its own way of feeling, and its own way of acting.
Each of the I’s that inhabit our interior is like a different person; that is why we have clearly stated that within each individual there are many persons.
Now you will understand why we emphatically affirm that the humanoid is merely a machine, that human beings are machines.
What we will also now understand is why there are so many contradictions within each person: one is the person who swears eternal love, and another is the person who says that such a vow has nothing to do with them; one is the I that swears loyalty to Gnosis, and another is the one that has no interest whatsoever in Gnosis. And all these persons, all these I’s, each possess their own Mind.
Thus, within each person there are as many “minds” as there are I’s.
But the Individual Mind is possessed only by those who have created the Mental Body. This body is developed, crystallized, and taken form through the transmutation of the Sacred Sperm.
Whoever has become Person Number 6 has obviously had to create the Mental Body. That vehicle is fueled by Hydrogen Number 12.
He who learns to transmute the impressions of the Physical World, which are Hydrogen-48, obviously elaborates Hydrogen-24 with which he feeds the Astral Body; the excess of said Hydrogen becomes Hydrogen-12, with which the Mental Body is fed.
Whoever possesses a Mental Body can use it to travel from planet to planet. Whoever possesses an individual Mental Body also possesses Objective Reason.
Man Number 7
Far beyond Man Number Six, there is MAN NUMBER 7, THE CAUSAL MAN, the Man who has fabricated the Body of Conscious Will or CAUSAL BODY, the Authentic Man.
Now many esotericists will understand why we emphatically affirm that the Causal World is the Temple of the Great White Lodge; that is logical, that is the Region of the True Man, it must also be, by antonomasia, the Temple of the Hidden Brotherhood.
The Masters of the Great White Lodge have their center of gravity firmly established in the Causal World and from there they project themselves towards the Mental or the Astral or the Physical, but their specific center of gravity is established in the World of Natural Causes.
The Man of the Seventh Level, therefore, is the Causal Man, the true Man, the real Man, the authentic Man.
To create a Causal Body, one must transmute the sacred sperm; only in this way, through manipulations with Sexual Hydrogen Si-12, is it possible to create such a vehicle. Obviously, this body is nourished by Hydrogen 6. It is clear that the excess Hydrogen-12, which served to nourish the Mental Body, is transformed into 6, which nourishes the Causal Body.
In the World of Natural Causes we find the authentic Men, the real Men, the Men of Spirit; they work in those regions helping humanity, from there they project themselves towards the various worlds to assist those who suffer and to work in favor of the Great Cause.
The Causal Man has within himself embodied his ANIMIC AND SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES.
Thus, Man Number 7 is the authentic Man, the Man who has crystallized Soul, who possesses Spirit and who has the Superior Existential Bodies of Being, the Man who can truly merge with the Divine.
Nahuatl traditions say that “the Gods made Men from wood and then merged them with the Divine”; these old Mexican codices also emphatically state that “not all Men manage to merge with the Divine”…
It is therefore urgent to understand that to be a True Man, one must have created the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being…
But that is not all, those who do not merge with their own Inner Logoi, with their own inner Divinity will fail, they will have to devolve in the Submerged Worlds until the Second Death, to begin a new evolutionary journey.
Therefore, it is not enough to create “Men”; it is necessary that they INTEGRATE THEMSELVES INTO THE DIVINE, and that is very important…
The Hanasmussen
When a Man does not merge with Divinity, he becomes a Hanasmussen with a double center of gravity, and these Hanasmussen inevitably have to enter the submerged involutions.
There are four classes of Hanasmussen, namely:
- First Class
First, there are those who ONLY POSSESS A PHYSICAL BODY; these are people dedicated to evil. The Ego within them produces a certain substance that makes them Hanasmussen. They are usually sorcerers and practitioners of Black Magic. Fortunately, this class of Hanasmussen is not immortal; since they do not possess the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, after death, whatever Hanasmussen remains in them is lost.
Those who haven’t even created an Astral Body, after death are nothing more than a bunch of demons, a bunch of egos that operate here and there, functioning freely, moving in all directions, lacking a true reality; they are people who haven’t achieved Immortality. When these egos return, a new Personality is formed to exist.
- Second class
Those who possess an astral body are different; however, despite having achieved immortality, they dedicate themselves to black magic, thus deviating and becoming second-class Hanasmussen.
If this type of Hanasmussen does not eliminate what they have of Hanasmussen in new existences, certain dark substances, something fatal, then they will have to return in animal organisms and devolve with animal bodies, until they eliminate what they have of Hanasmussen.
- Third
The Third Class of Hanasmussen is made up of those who created ALL THE EXISTENTIAL SUPERIOR BODIES OF THE BEING, by True Men, in the fullest sense of the word, but who did not dissolve the Ego and who went down the Path of Darkness; such Hanasmussen, if they do not eliminate that fatal something of the Hanasmussen, will have to devolve within the bowels of the Earth, within the Infernal Worlds until the Second Death.
- Fourth Class
Finally, there is a Fourth Class of Hanasmussen, comprised of those who attained the states of angels, archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, thrones, cherubim, etc., etc., seraphim, and much more. If they do not eliminate what is Hanasmussen within them—that fatal aura formed by black magic or sorcery—they too will have to devolve into the bowels of the Earth until the Second Death. These are the black angels, archangels, principalities, etc., etc., of whom Dante speaks in the “Divine Comedy.”
Concrete examples of this last class of Hanasmussen can be found in the following characters: Andrameleck, Moloch, Nahemah, Lilith, etc.; such creatures reached higher angelic states. Moloch, for example, was a Throne and is now an inhabitant of the Infernal Worlds; he is a Hanasmussen in the fullest sense of the word, belonging to the Fourth Class of Hanasmussen.
Thus, a Hanasmussen is nothing more than a failure of the Cosmic Mother, an abortion of the Divine Mother. Those who are constructing the Higher Existential Bodies of Being, if they do not wish to become Hanasmussen, will have to struggle greatly against themselves, eliminating the “inhuman elements” they carry within, that is, disintegrating the I of psychology, reducing to cosmic dust all those elements that constitute the Ego, the “me,” the “I”. Only in this way can they save themselves from the danger of becoming a Hanasmussen with a double center of gravity.
That concludes today’s discussion. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on this cassette; they will be answered.
Well, since I’m not taking any questions, I’ll say goodbye: Peace be with you, dear Gnostic brothers and sisters who listen to this cassette!
Inverential Peace!
Samael Aun Weor.
