It is with great pleasure that I address you all. You are here to listen to me, and I am here to speak to you. The purpose of this conference is to explore what we call “man.” Undoubtedly, in addressing you, I do so with the desire to guide you positively toward self-knowledge.
It is necessary to know man as fully as possible, with his limitations and possibilities. If we see a man, we think we know his physical appearance, but in reality, we don’t truly know him.
The physical body is not everything. The physical body is composed of organs, organs of cells, and cells of molecules; molecules of atoms, and if we break down an atom of the human organism (of starch, iron, or albumin, etc.), we will release energy. Ultimately, the organism can be summarized as different types and subtypes of energy.
So, in reality, the body is both determined and determining energy; determined by old patterns or undulations and determining new undulations…
The Self is a knot in the free flow of cosmic energy, a knot that must be untied. The Self, the I, in itself, is not something exclusively homogeneous; I mean, emphatically, that it is heterogeneous.
I said this morning that death is a subtraction of fractions, and it’s true. Each of us is a mathematical point in space that serves as a vehicle for a certain sum of “values.” Obviously, once the physical body dies—that is, once the mathematical operation is complete—the only thing that continues are the values (these are energetic). In reality, the values continue within the unknown dimension; the values themselves continue to be processed within the psychological space.
We could destroy the physical organism, but we could never destroy energetic values, for physics has taught us that energy cannot be destroyed. It can be modified, yes, or transformed, but never destroyed. No scientific procedure is known, to date, that allows us to destroy energy. We can untie the energetic knot of the “Self” so that energy can flow freely; we can dissolve psychological values, but the energy will continue in another form, with other modes of cosmic movement.
So, in reality, death itself, I repeat, is a subtraction of fractions. Energy values, however, are sooner or later reintegrated, they continue in a new organism, and that has been proven.
Within us, there truly exist energetic and psychological values that once existed within another organism. These values are inherent to Nature, and there are negative values and cosmic values. It would be incredibly fortunate if we possessed, for example, within our own psyches, the values of a Hermes Trismegistus or a Quetzalcoatl, but in reality, we do not yet possess those same values. The values of a Nietzsche, for instance, are very different from the values of a Buddha (that much is obvious) or those of a Jesus of Nazareth.
Within each of us lie values that once belonged to some individual in the past. That individual may have been a genius or a mediocre person, but values are inherent in Nature, and we possess them. If they belonged, for example, to a carpenter, a doctor, a craftsman, or an astronomer, they will obviously manifest in our human personality sooner or later. In any case, I want you to understand that these values continue upon death; I want you to understand that these values return, they are reincorporated into a new organism.
We are present here, but the energetic values are not readily apparent. Undoubtedly, they belonged to someone else in the past; they have all lived among us for some time now, and if we want to know anything about these values—that is, about our own lives—we must undoubtedly undergo many changes and gain self-knowledge…
An organic machine is a fascinating machine, and therefore worth understanding. The human body, in and of itself, has its own biology, anatomy, pathology, and so on, and each area of the brain undoubtedly holds many vital powers in reserve.
There are three brains we cannot deny: first, the intellectual brain; second, the emotional brain; and third, the motor brain. There are energetic values in the intellectual brain (the values that Nature has placed there). For example, criminals possess mediocre intellectual values, and when we have magnificent development, there is no doubt that these values are then expressed through us, through our own intellectual brain, because, I repeat, these values are from Nature.
The emotional brain is also very important. The emotional brain is located in the heart and specific nerve centers of the sympathetic nervous system, as well as in the solar plexus.
Emotional values are extremely important in life. Without emotional values, we wouldn’t get excited about an idea, we wouldn’t feel joy at a sporting event, and life would unfold without all the different elements it entails, with a dreadful indifference.
If we existed without emotional values, even within the realm of art, for example, if a pianist or a famous singer appeared on stage; lacking emotional values, we would not truly feel any interest; or we would appear in public completely indifferent, we would not applaud the artists, the spectacle would not bring us joy…
The motor cortex, located at the top of the spinal cord, is also extremely important to us. The neurons in this cortex allow us to walk, move, and go from place to place in different directions: to play baseball, basketball, do gymnastics, and so on. If we didn’t have neurons in our motor cortex, we would have virtually no interest in sports, walks, excursions, or anything related to movement.
So, in truth, all three brains are extremely important. Now, when we try to learn sports by overdoing it, the motor brain’s capabilities are obviously depleted permanently.
And if in the gym we consider that the emotional brain and the motor brain are something that we have to be relating at all times (hitting, gesturing, shouting, arguing, etc.), there comes a natural moment when the values of the motor brain are exhausted, and under those conditions such a brain has to die.
Many people in mental health facilities, that is, asylums, are there because they have exhausted their intellectual capacity. Many people in a comatose state have depleted their vital energy (a fatal consequence of living an unhealthy lifestyle).
There are others who have exhausted the vital resources of their emotional brain. Consequently, they suffer from palpitations and nervous disorders; in other words, they tend to have heart problems, so without a doubt, a heart attack will come to them sooner or later. Heart attacks are very common among sports fans and artists; among the emotional and sentimental people who have depleted the resources of their emotional brain.
And what about the motor brain? As we’ve already said, it allows us to play a little, to play soccer, baseball, etc., but if we overuse the motor brain, sooner or later it will die, and then, obviously, we will have diseases like stroke, paralysis, etc.
Death always occurs in thirds. For example, some time ago a friend of ours fell ill; he had overused his intellectual brain. This man rarely experienced emotions, and one day he began to feel unwell. He had dedicated himself exclusively to his intellect, and one day he suffered a stroke. We observed the case, investigated it, and when we visited him, we found that his intellectual brain was unable to coordinate his thoughts. Days later, his motor brain died; then it was obvious that he could no longer move. Finally, his emotional brain died; he had a heart attack. So, death always occurs in thirds, and that has already been proven. All of this is serious and, in some way, is closely related to the intellectual brain, the emotional brain, and the motor brain.
There are some scientific experiments on the subject, such as those carried out by a Brazilian doctor.
What has been determined, especially regarding the motor brain, is extraordinary. However, that’s not all. To live a long and harmonious life, it’s essential to learn to manage all three brains in perfect balance.
There is a Buddhist religious community in Central Asia; this community is very interesting: its members have learned to manage their three brains with perfect discipline, never abusing them. One moment they might be skiing or running together, while others are dedicated to cultivating their bodies, activating their motor brain. At any other moment, we see them engaged in art, whether it be music, sculpture, dance, or something else. Because they keep their three brains balanced, these Buddhist monks live to ages of 300 or 400. They don’t exclusively use just one brain (remember that we humans are triune). So, they are intelligent enough to manage the three brains of the organic machine alternately…
Undoubtedly, what is harming us is the abuse or overuse of the intellectual brain; we abuse the intellect too much, we waste the vital values of the intellect.
So, frankly, what could we compare someone to who lives only within the realm of intellectual pursuits, someone who doesn’t exercise, someone who never listens to pleasant music, who isn’t moved by anything in life? I think we could compare them to one of those strange creatures, one of those that live these days at the bottom of the oceans…
A person like that never develops as a man, in the fullest sense of the word. It seems to me that we must begin with the harmonious development of man, and that would only be possible if we learn to manage the three brains in a balanced way.
If you’re feeling intellectually exhausted, if you’ve been studying a lot, get out of the building for a while. Go for a bike ride, watch a soccer game, or listen to some good music. Go see an art exhibit, see a play. In short, do something that engages your emotions. If we manage these three parts of our brain (sometimes the emotional, sometimes the physical, sometimes the intellectual) in a balanced way, we can assure you that you’ll achieve wonderful health and live a very long life. Remember what I just told you about those Buddhist monks who live to be 300 or 400 years old…
Well, we are merely “intellectual animals,” that is, we gave instinct an intellectual form; the natural instinct of the various animal forms is now rational in us.
Or rather, to put a little more emphasis on this point, we are “intellectual bipeds”.
But there are several kinds of creatures in the Universe. There are one-dimensional creatures, creatures of a single dimension. For example, an insect that only lives for a few hours in summer has only one brain: the instinctive one. There are two-dimensional creatures, that is, creatures that possess two brains: the instinctive and the emotional. Such creatures are the higher animals: the horse, the elephant, the dog, the cat, and so on. And there are also creatures that have three brains: the instinctive, the emotional, and the intellectual. Obviously, such species acquire higher forms of development. Undoubtedly, I am referring to the “intellectual animal” mistakenly called “man.”
There is a vast difference, or a very large gap, between the “intellectual animal” (which can correct its sensations and perceptions) and the two-dimensional creature. A horse, for example, or a donkey, or a lion, cannot correct its sensations and perceptions; that is obvious.
Now, every creature existing in this extremely thin film of organic life plays a significant role in the economy of the Universe. Undoubtedly, each creature captures specific types of universal energy. For example, one-dimensional creatures can perfectly capture certain types of energy from planet Earth, transform them, and transmit them back into the Earth for its own use.
Two-dimensional creatures capture other types of energies that they can perfectly transform and then retransmit to the previous layers of the planetary organism, and three-dimensional creatures will capture other types of energies that come from the Cosmos, and will then be able to transform them and retransmit them to the previous layers of the planetary organism.
Obviously, the Earth lives off all those types and subtypes of energy that different animal organisms transform. It is also very true that plants fulfill a great function, even though some of them only transform the Earth’s own energies, and then retransmit them within the planetary organism. There are plants that capture energies from Nature and the Cosmos and transmit them within the world; and finally, there are plants that capture energies from the infinite, coming from the Megalocosm, and then transform and retransmit them within the world.
With all these types and subtypes of energy, I repeat, the vital energies of planet Earth are sustained…
Of all animals (one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional), the “intellectual animal” is the most important. One-dimensional animals, for example, could never transform the energies coming from the Cosmos. Do not forget that the three primary forces of Nature and the Cosmos are fundamental to the various sustenances of life. These three forces are positive, negative, and neutral. A one-dimensional animal perceives only one type of force, nothing more. A two-dimensional creature perceives two types of forces, but only “intellectual animals” can perceive all three types of forces, which is why they are the superior animals of Nature.
Therefore, we need to understand how our bodies can perceive the higher forces of Nature and the Cosmos. To do this, it’s helpful to remember that Cosmic Consciousness is present in everything that is, everything that has been, and everything that will be.
The ancients worshipped the Sun, and this is something well worth knowing in full.
So how can we explain that such cultured peoples as the Maya, the Nahua, the Zapotec, and others worshipped the Sun, yet all their practices belonged to a highly developed civilization? It wasn’t our sun, the physical sun, that they worshipped, but rather cosmic energy and the Sacred Absolute Sun. The idea of Quetzalcoatl worshipping a physical sun would never occur to me; nor would I ever imagine Manco Capac worshipping a material sun.
The ancient Egyptians (as evidenced by their archetypal ideas and solar architecture) also did not worship a physical sun. Clearly, the Egyptians worshipped Ra, the Midnight Sun, the Sacred Solar Absolute. All the vestiges left by the Egyptians confirm this…
From the Absolute Sacred Sun emanates the sacred and active Okidanock (omnipresent, omni-penetrating, omniscient); emanates the Great Breath, profoundly unknown to itself.
Undoubtedly, the Great Breath, that is, the active Okidanock (omnipresent, omnipervasive, omniscient), emanated (at the dawn of this creation) from the Sacred Absolute Sun, and must unfold into three fundamental ingredients in order to create: first, the positive force; second, the negative force; and third, the neutral force. If these three cosmic forces (positive, negative, and neutral) did not converge at a given point in the Universe, any kind of creation would be impossible. That is why these three forces (positive, negative, and neutral) coincide at a given point, and where they meet, creation arises.
Let’s take man as an example: he, on his own, could not create a child, and a woman alone could not conceive. It is necessary for man to unite sexually with his wife in order to create. The positive pole (man) unites with the negative pole (woman), and the neutral force reconciles them both; then the creation of a child takes place.
Just as it happens here below, it happens in the infinite Cosmos: the positive force unites with the negative force and the neutral force reconciles the two opposing forces to bring about some creation.
So, my dear friends, thanks to positive, negative, and neutral forces, we all exist in the world. It would be interesting to be able to crystallize, within ourselves, the three superior forces of Nature and the Cosmos.
In ancient psychology, the positive force was called “Holy Affirmation,” the negative force was called “Holy Negation,” and the neutral force was called “Holy Conciliation.” These three forces are the cause-cause of all creation.
We must learn to manage these three forces, so that they crystallize in our organism; we need to know how they are processed at a given moment (the three primary forces) in the three brains: the intellectual, the emotional and the motor-instinctive-sexual.
If we, for example, were to learn to wield the third force, we would undoubtedly be able to crystallize it within ourselves; but we would have to study the doctrine of a Quetzalcoatl, a Hermes, a Jesus, or some Gnostic teaching. We would also have to study Dr. Krumm Heller, a Medical Colonel in the Mexican Army and Professor at the University of Berlin, who wrote very interesting data on the transmutation and sublimation of creative energy.
If we possess the willpower to transmute sexual libido, we would undoubtedly embody the third force within ourselves and acquire extraordinary faculties that would manifest in our human organism. These sublimated forces, this transmuted creative energy, already imply the manipulation of the three forces, but in any case, the sublimation of libido develops extraordinary faculties within us and leads to the crystallization of the third force within ourselves.
It is also necessary to cultivate within ourselves the second force, that is, the “Holy Negation.” This is possible if we learn to accept with grace the unpleasant manifestations of our fellow human beings; that much is obvious. Not long ago, in another discussion, we were talking with the brothers about the “Main Psychological Trait” of each of us. There is no doubt that if we work on this “Main Psychological Trait,” on this basic or fundamental “element” that characterizes us, we will succeed in eliminating the Ego of experimental psychology; it would be easier to eliminate all other psychological defects. So, whoever is interested in annihilating their psychological defects, in eliminating them, must learn to accept with grace the unpleasant manifestations of their fellow human beings.
We could not crystallize the second force, which is the “Holy Deny,” by taking a different path.
And finally, whoever wishes to crystallize the first force, which is the “Holy Affirmation,” must learn to speak the truth, must learn to obey the highest parts of their own Being. It is worth clarifying that deep within ourselves reside the highest parts of Being, which are entirely divine. Whoever learns to obey the highest parts of Being will undoubtedly, sooner or later, crystallize within themselves the first force: the “Holy Affirmation.” If someone manages to crystallize within themselves (thanks to the three brains) the three principal forces of Nature and the Cosmos, they will undoubtedly become (truly) a Superman, in the fullest sense of the word.
Undoubtedly, between intellectual mammals, man and Superman, there are enormous differences. There is a need to create Man within ourselves, before the Superman is born within us. That is obvious.
Samael Aun Weor
