Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 92 of 100 · Part VII

Part VII · Living it

Night

The last minutes before sleep shape the night. A journal within reach, an intention, and one sound or prayer to carry you down.

Read to me

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A journal, a pen and a small lamp on a nightstand, the bed turned down.

Part IV taught the night in full. This page gathers it into a few minutes before sleep.

The journal

Put it within reach: paper and pen, or your phone with the journal open. Read the last few nights you wrote. It tells the deep mind that the night is worth keeping (page 53).

The intention

Say once, and mean it: I will remember. Or, if you are working toward it: Tonight I will see my hands (page 58), or I wake on the Island (page 60).

The sound or the prayer

Let one thing carry you down. The sound FARAON, with the pyramids in mind (page 56). Or the prayer for a good death (page 62). Or simply the long breath.

Then let go, and sleep. Do not lie there checking whether it is working. The intention has been set. The rest happens on its own.

On the nights you wake in the small hours, you may try the crossing then (page 57). On other nights, simply sleep well. Rest is part of the work too.

Try this

  1. Tonight, put your journal within reach and read the last few nights you wrote.
  2. Say once, meaning it: I will remember.
  3. Sound FARAON inwardly, or say the prayer, as you drift toward sleep.
  4. In the morning, before you move, ask: Where was I?

In the old words

“Listen to, or read over your experiences from the past few days every night before sleep.”

Beyond DreamingGene Hart
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