Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 89 of 100 · Part VII

Part VII

Living it

A hundred pages read once change very little. The same pages lived change a life. These last twelve pages turn the book into a day, a week and a life: what to do on waking, through the day, in the evening and at night.

They teach almost nothing new. They gather what you have already learned into a shape you can keep. Where a practice was taught in full, the page sends you back to it.

Morning

The first ten minutes of the day decide much of what follows. Begin awake, and the day remembers.

Read to me

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Someone opening a window onto a garden at sunrise, light falling across the room.

Most people begin the day already asleep. The alarm, the phone, the news, the worries. By the time they are dressed, the selves are running the day.

The tradition offers a different first ten minutes. They need no special place and no equipment.

First, the night

Before you move, ask: Where was I? Catch what is left of your dreams and write it down (page 53).

Then the body and the sun

Greet the day with Fa (page 76), or sit and breathe the long breath of HAM-SA for a few minutes (page 38). Either wakes the body and gathers the energy before the day starts spending it.

Then the intention

Choose one thing to remember today. It may be the door question, Am I here? (page 5). It may be one self you are watching. One is enough.

Then a moment of stillness

A minute with eyes closed, feeling yourself here, before the day begins.

That is all. On a rushed morning, do one of the four. On a free morning, do them all, slowly. The point is not to perform a routine. It is to begin the day awake, so that waking up is not left to chance.

Try this

  1. Tomorrow, keep the first ten minutes for this.
  2. On waking, do not move. Ask: Where was I? Then write it down.
  3. Do Fa at the window, or the long breath for three minutes.
  4. Choose one thing to remember today, and say it to yourself once.
  5. Sit for one minute in stillness before you open anything else on your phone.

In the old words

“When we get out of bed, with immense happiness we must salute each new day”

Magic of the RunesSamael Aun Weor
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