Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 41 of 100 · Part III

Part III · The energy

If you are alone

You do not need a partner to keep and raise the energy. The breath, the vowels and a watchful imagination are enough.

Read to me

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Alone by a small fire, and not lacking anything.

This page is for adults, and especially for anyone without a partner.

Being single is not a lesser path. In some ways it is an easier place to begin, because you learn to hold the energy with no one else’s needs in the picture. The books give single women and single men the same practices.

The tradition asks three things of a single person.

Do not spend the energy alone

Masturbation and pornography spend it in the quickest way there is, and they feed lust with pictures. If you have relied on them, do not hate yourself for it. Begin today, and begin again after every slip.

Do not fight the body either

Arousal is natural, sometimes even in sleep, and it is not a sin. It is energy asking for a direction. When it builds, give it one: the breath of page 38, the vowels of page 39, a walk, honest work, something you love.

Watch the pictures

Lust lives mostly in the imagination, and the energy follows the picture. When a picture arrives, notice it and do not feed it, as on page 24.

Some people have dreams in which the energy is released. This is common in the first months. It is not a failure, and it tends to pass as the practice deepens. Ten rounds of the breath of page 38 and a short prayer before sleep help.

Many find that the energy, once it stops leaking, turns into enthusiasm, clarity and a softer heart.

Try this

  1. The next time you feel aroused and alone, stop before any picture is fed.
  2. Sit upright. Gently tighten the muscle you would use to stop the flow of urine, hold it for a breath, and let go. Do this several times.
  3. Then do ten rounds of the breath from page 38, imagining the warmth rising up the spine to the heart and the head.
  4. Notice where the energy goes, and what it becomes.

Words on this page

Mula bandha
The yogis’ name for tightening and releasing the muscles of the pelvic floor, which helps to hold the energy. Many people know it as a Kegel exercise.

In the old words

“Our single female disciples must perform the same practices of sexual transmutation that we have given to our single male disciples.”

Igneous RoseSamael Aun Weor
On the next pageThe kept energy wakes a fire. Who raises it?42. The fire, and the Mother who raises it