The Awakening is processed in Stages

Awakening of consciousness works in several directions: Vertical; horizontal; upward and downward. The awakened consciousness expands, perceives in different directions. It can perceive the third dimension (direction of Horizontal axes); it can perceive the superior words (direction of upward Vertical axes); and it can also perceive the abyss (direction of downward Vertical axes).

If we want to awaken consciousness in the upward Vertical axes, we need to know how to eliminate all the inhuman elements that pull us into the abyss. This process is called liberation of the Essence (Consciousness). It is impossible to awaken consciousness unless we liberate the essence trapped inside the inhumane elements (egos).

There are four fundamental stages of awakening consciousness:

1) Liberation.

2) Awakening.

3) Use.

4) Fusion with the Being.

In order to liberate the essence trapped in the inhumane elements (anger, hate, greed, lust, laziness, envy, etc.,) we first have to separate it from the subconsciousness.

When Masters of any spiritual practice talk about awakening consciousness they do it in two different dimensions. One is related to liberating the trapped Essence, and the other is related to awaking the free Essence.

So, in reality it is the Essence that needs to be freed. The Essence is the most valuable, most decent and most dignified of our Being. It is the best that we possess. The Essence is Consciousness (another name we can use is Soul). It is the Essence that should be free because it is already relatively free. ''If the Son (Chokmah) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.'' - John 8 verse 36

So the first step to awaken the Essence is to separate it from the subconsciousness, isolate it from the ego and mind. This requires effort and continuous practice. The practice becomes the path. The key to maintain the Essence free and awaken it both in daily life and meditation is to keep it outside of the 6 factors (values of ego): like - dislike; accepting - rejecting; past - future.

Ego is a part of our subconsciousness that we need to annihilate if we wish to free the Essence. To isolate the Essence from the ego is one of the basic steps to awakening consciousness. It means to maintain the function of the Essence beyond the reach of ego.

For that purpose we need intense alertness and diligence. We need to become competent investigators of ourselves. We need to see how ego operates in us through the 6 factors: like; dislike; accepting; rejecting; past; future. In that way we can eliminate the ego through self-comprehension, and at the same time illuminate our true natural state of Being.

To eliminate the ego we follow the steps:

1) Renounce the values and benefits of the ego we want to eliminate

2) Separate the ego we want to eliminate from the subconscious.

Master Samael says something that is supremely important in the process of eliminating the ego is to realize that each ego or ''I'' is a small function of our psychology. In other words we give our ego certain roles in our life. Each ego we have in our constitution fulfills an important function in out lives.

SO renouncing the ego means dissolving the function we have created for it to exist. When we detach our consciousness from the role that the ego plays in our psychological structure, then the ego will become absolute - - then our Divine Mother will dissolve that ego (empty shell) for us.

Until we do not separate ourselves from the benefits we get in the unconscious role of ego, ego will continue to be present in us. It will continue to play its role and our attachment to its function will make it impossible to dissolve.

The method is simple, but not easy. In each practice of ''Psychological Death'', meaning renouncing the values and benefits of ego, we are profoundly sacrificing our internal inhumane elements.

As we continue to perform this act relentlessly within ourselves, the many inhumane elements start to lose their psychological grip on the Essence; and we liberated ourselves in the Essence little by little. Our Essence becomes liberated. This is the difference between ''Having'' and ''Being''!

May Christ Consciousness increase in you always.

(SoG:SA)