Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 46 of 100 · Part III

Part III · The energy

What the kept energy builds

The books teach that the energy, kept and raised, builds new inner bodies, much as it can build a child.

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What nature lends, and what conscious work builds.

The creative energy can make a child. The books teach that it can also make something within you.

Here is the teaching, simply. Every person has a physical body. Every person also has finer layers: a vital layer that keeps the body alive, a layer of emotion and a layer of thought. But the books say that in most people these finer layers are given by nature, loose and borrowed, like clothes handed down. They are not yet truly ours.

The tradition teaches that the kept energy, raised day after day, builds new ones: an astral body, a mental body and a body of conscious will. It calls them the solar bodies, because they are made by conscious work rather than handed out by nature.

A seed opening in dark earth, long before anything shows above it.

This is one reason the energy matters so much in this book. Part IV is about the night and the astral body. A person who keeps the energy tends to have clearer nights, and remembers more of what happens there.

You do not need to accept this teaching in order to practice. You can test the near end of it. After a few weeks of keeping the energy, notice whether your dreams are clearer, your attention steadier and your feelings less scattered.

The far end, the books say, is a person truly born within, no longer only nature’s.

Try this

  1. Tonight before sleep, do ten rounds of the breath from page 38, sitting up in bed.
  2. Then lie still and feel the warmth that remains in the body.
  3. Ask inwardly: What did I keep today, and what did I spend?
  4. Fall asleep with the question, not with a screen.

Words on this page

The solar bodies
The astral, mental and causal bodies built by the kept energy. Christified — the books’ word for made whole by the inner Christ, a subject of Part V.

In the old words

“Making the creative energy return inward and upward germinates; a marvelous child is born within us, a Christified astral body.”

The Perfect MatrimonySamael Aun Weor
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