Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 65 of 100 · Part V

Part V

The one who lives in you

Behind the selves, and behind the nights, there is someone. These fifteen pages are about the one who lives in you: what the tradition calls the Being, and the ways it has always been reached.

Here stand the old maps: the Tree of Life, the bodies, the chakras, the tarot and the zodiac. Each gets one page. A map is useful only if it shows you where you are, so each page ends with something to do today.

The one who has never been asleep

Behind the selves there is someone who has never been asleep. The tradition calls it the Being.

Read to me

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Very still at dawn, with a quiet light in the chest.

Everything in this book so far has been about what is not you. The machine, the selves, the borrowed face, the dreams they play out at night.

Now the book turns to the one who is. The tradition of Gnosis calls it the Being, or the Innermost. It is your deepest self, deeper than the personality and deeper than any self. It has never been asleep, and it has never been angry, greedy or afraid.

It cannot be described, and every description gets it a little wrong. A picture of the Being is not the Being. An idea of it is not it either. That is why the books stay so plain about it. The Being is the Being.

You have tasted it, though. Perhaps in a moment of deep calm in nature, or holding a newborn child, or when a fear simply fell away and something steady was left. That steadiness was not something you did. It was something you were, for a moment, with the selves quiet.

The whole work exists for this. When a self dies, a little more room is made for the Being. Waking up means, in the end, the Being waking up in you.

You do not need to believe this. You only need to look for it.

Try this

  1. Sit quietly for one minute with your eyes closed.
  2. Notice your thoughts, your feelings and your body, one after another.
  3. Then ask, without answering in words: Who is it that notices all this?
  4. Wait. Do not reach for an answer. Rest in whatever is there.

Words on this page

The Being
Your deepest self, beyond the personality and the selves. The books also call it the Innermost.

In the old words

“The Being is the Being and the reason for the Being to be is to be himself.”

Dream YogaSamael Aun Weor
On the next pageYou have already met another part of your Being three times in this book.66. The Mother, again