Glorian Podcast

The Eightfold Path is experienced through comprehension of the power of speech, and how to use our words for the benefit of humanity. "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" - James 3

How to act properly while on the Eightfold Path.

The three primary types of suffering and the basis upon which they can be overcome: the correct understanding of the Absolute, the Emptiness. "It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, and the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the extinction of suffering." - Buddha Shakyamuni Read the lecture transcription.

Train the mind and consciousness to overcome the causes of suffering. Lecture quote: "The Gnostic Dharma is a science of practical knowledge that must be experienced to be understood. In order for us to really understand what Dharma is, and what Gnosis is, we have to practice. That is why we talk about practical teachings, practical methods that we ourselves can use. The Gnostic Dharma does not exist just for us to think about it or to theorize about it, or to believe in it, but to use it: to experiment. And that experimentation is something that we have to do inside, in our own mind, in our own heart, in our own consciousness. When you look at the Dharma or the teachings from this point of view, you can understand that if a sincere person is really applying the variety of Gnostic techniques in him or herself, practically, really working with them, then it does not matter what they believe. It does not matter where they are from or who they are. Anyone can experiment with Gnosis, with Dharma, and arrive at similar conclusions, because the truth is universal. Just the same way, on whatever part of the planet a child is born, when they start to grow they will universally experience the law of gravity. Every child who is born and begins to grow has to learn to work with that law, to learn to control their physical body in relationship with that law, and this is universal. But there are additional laws, other phenomena in nature, that are also universal, that any person, anywhere, any time, can learn how to work with, consciously, in order to navigate their life in a better way. So, this is the point. Gnostic Dharma rests upon this basis." Read the lecture transcription.

More than 2,500 years ago, a man decided to find out why there is suffering, and how to overcome it. He succeeded, and became known as "The Buddha," which means, "One who is awake." Over the centuries, many details of his life and his teachings have been lost, distorted, or confused. Yet by comparing what remains with the teachings given by other men and women who reached similar development, his full teachings become very evident. Many biographers have presented his life story with twelve essential stages. The twelve stages of the life of Buddha have deep symbolic importance that has rarely been revealed. By comparing these twelve stages with the esoteric knowledge of Gnosis, the meanings of the events of the life of Buddha Shakyamuni are made brilliantly clear. This lecture has been expanded into an entire course, which you can read here.

A profound, advanced lecture about the heights of the path to heaven and the development of objective reasoning within the superior realms of the Bodhisattva. Pertains to the Initiatic process of Resurrection, the complete psychological death of the ego and perfection within the world of Yetzirah. Also moves into the process of Ascension through the Kabbalistic worlds of Briah and Atziluth, whereby the Resurrected Master enters more elevated realms of consciousness until attaining complete and absolute liberation. Lecture quote: "When we read about the ascension of Jesus in Luke 24:51 and Acts 1: 9-11 regarding how He went to heaven, we read in Greek “Ouranon Poreuomenon” - Ouranon or Uranus meaning heaven and Poreuomenon which means a psychological initiatic development that the Initiate has undertaken. This means that the Bodhisattva - through initiation - went to a place where no believer can go; the Bodhisattva went to those spheres that in Kabbalah are named Sephiroth within the world of Yetzirah, that are hidden from the eyes of the flesh or to that which is earthly, tridimensional." Read the lecture transcription.

Anastasis, or the process of Resurrection within the Initiate. The two types of Resurrection: with the physical body or the Body of Liberation, as well as the Ordeal of Job. Lecture relates to Binah, the Holy Spirit. Lecture quote: "There are many people who think that because they believe in the Bible or because they belong to a certain religion, especially one of the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity), that they will resurrect. They disregard what Jesus said: "God is not a God of the dead, but the God of the living." Read the lecture transcription.

Prajna is the transcendent wisdom of the emptiness, the Absolute or Void, which the Bohisattva enters through the previous Paramitas. The fulfillment and expression of Generosity, Ethics, Patience, Action and Meditation, the direct experiential knowledge by which the spiritual aspirant can overcome and understand suffering. Lecture relates to the Sephirah Chesed, the world of Prajna or inner wisdom. Lecture quote: "By Prajna we do not mean the simple insight or simple wisdom that our intellect generally conceives, or attributes to that term "wisdom." We think of wisdom as something that an old person gathers or has, a wise old person, having gained wisdom through experience. This is not the kind of wisdom that we are describing. This kind of wisdom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with time. It cannot be acquired; it cannot, because it exists already. We are starting to enter into something very profound. In order to understand Prajna, we have to move beyond the realm of the intellect." Read the lecture transcription.

The descension and development of the Pneuma (Spirit) in relation to the Bodhisattva. The process of crucifixion within any Initiate upon the Mount of the Skull; the work of the dissolution of the ego in the Second Mountain. Lecture relates to the Sephirah Chesed, the Inner Spirit. Lecture quote: "The path of the cross is the path of the bodhisattva. This is why we stated that we are not the first ones to teach this, just as Jesus was not the first one who took the cross and was crucified on the mount of the skulls. There were many initiates who did it before, because this is an alchemical process in which you have to work with the spirit of God." Read the lecture transcription.

Dhyana, or meditation, as the fulfillment and unfoldment of the previous Paramitas. The importance, practice and science of meditation, the methodology by which the aspirant may comprehend their own suffering. Lecture relates to the Sephirah Geburah, or the Divine Consciousness. Lecture quote: "When we talk about meditation, we are talking about the cultivation of a particular kind of conscious attitude. The word meditation is really misused in the West. When the teachings from Asia began to arrive into Western world, the people who were involved with translating that knowledge and bringing that knowledge to the Western mind used this word 'meditation' in place of a whole variety of words from Tibetan on Sanskrit. So, because of that, Western students who have adopted concepts of Yoga or Buddhism or Hinduism have in their mind "meditation" in a very imprecise way. There is not a clear understanding among Westerners, even Gnostics, that we need to analyze the actual terminology and experience it. We have to arrive at our own experience of the differences between all the terms states of consciousness because our very development is dependant on it; our own liberation depends upon us understanding our own consciousness." Read the lecture transcription.