Thomas interpreteth the seventh repentance from Psalm XXIV

From the Pistis Sophia:

1. O Lord, unto thee have I lifted up my soul, O my God.
2. I have abandoned myself unto thee; let me not be put to shame and let not mine enemies mock at me.
3. For all who wait upon thee shall not be put to shame; Let them be put to shame who do iniquity without a cause.
4. O Lord, show me thy ways and teach me thy paths.
5. Lead me in the way of thy truth and teach me, for thou art my God and my Savior; on thee will I wait all day long.
6. Call to remembrance thy mercies, O Lord, and the favours of thy grace, for they are from eternity.
7. Remember not the sins of my youth and those of my ignorance. Remember me according to the fullness of thy mercy because of thy goodness, O Lord.
8. The Lord is gracious and sincere; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.
9. He will guide the tender-hearted in the judgement and will teach the tender-hearted his ways.
10. All the ways of the Lord are grace and truth for them who seek his virtuousness and his testimonies.
11. For thy name’s sake, O Lord, forgive me my sin, [for] it is exceedingly great.
12. Who is the man who feareth the Lord? For him will he establish laws in the way which he hath chosen.
13. His souls will abide in good things and his seed will inherit the land.
14. The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and the name of the Lord belongeth to them who fear him, to make known unto them his covenant.
15. Mine eyes are raised ever unto the Lord, for he will draw my feet out of the snare.
16. Look down upon me and be gracious unto me, for I am an only-begotten; I am wretched.
17. The afflictions of my heart have increased; bring me out of my necessities.
18. Look upon my abasement and my woe, and forgive me all my sins.
19. Look upon mine enemies, how they have increased themselves and hated me with unjust hatred.
20. Preserve my soul and save me; let me not be put to shame, for I have hoped on thee.
21. The simple and sincere have joined themselves to me, for I have waited on thee, O Lord.
22. O God, deliver Israel from all his afflictions.

We must lift up the Soul unto the Lord.

We must completely deliver ourselves to our interior profound God.

The enemies that mock us are within ourselves.

Whosoever works on himself, waiting upon the Intimate Lord, shall not be put to shame.

It is obvious that the interior enemies who commit iniquity shall be put to shame.

The Intimate Lord will show us the ways and the paths.

There exist four paths:

• 1. The Direct Path;
• 2. The Nirvanic Spiral Path;
• 3. The path of those who are separate from the Cosmic Scenario, without having reached the level of Adept;
• 4. The path of those who fail.

The Direct Path is the most magnificent. However, the sufferings are great, therefore the triumphs are also great.

On the Spiral Path, the triumphs are minor, therefore the sufferings are minor.

The inhabitants of Nirvana are rarely reincarnated.

The inhabitants of Nirvana live in constant happiness. When they take a body, they take one step ahead, and they return into happiness.

Those who renounce cosmic manifestation become submerged within the Universal Spirit of Life following the dissolution of the ego. Yet, they submerge without having built the existential superior bodies of the Being.

Nevertheless, some of those who renounce cosmic manifestation will return in the Golden Age of the future Sixth Root Race. Then, they will enter into the Mysteries and they will convert themselves into Adepts.

The fourth path, the ones who fail, are those who after having accomplished three thousand (3,000) cycles or periods of manifestation did not attain the level of Adept.

Each cycle of manifestation contains the processes of passing through the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms.

108 lives are assigned to each Soul while in the human kingdom.

It is ostensible that when the 108 human lives in each cycle is concluded, then the time to move downwards into the infernal worlds, into devolution until the Second Death, arrives. The infernal worlds are situated within the interior of the Earth, in the submerged mineral kingdom.

Following the Second Death, the Essence emerges again to the surface.

When the Essence has emerged again, then new evolving processes begin which repeat themselves from the lowest step. The lowest step is the mineral kingdom.

Each time the cycle is repeated through the mineral kingdom, it is performed in a higher spiral, in accordance with the spiral of life.

The laws of evolution and devolution of life constitute the mechanical axis of all of Nature.

Those who fail in all of the three thousand periods of manifestation submerge themselves within the ocean of the Great Light, converted into simple elementals of Nature. This is after they have followed the Second Death in their last human life of the three thousandth cycle or period.

Obviously, such failures lose all opportunity.

Nevertheless, these types of elementals know good and evil due to their lived experiences.

The fortune for those elementals is well gained, due to the infinite pain through which they had to pass in their peregrination through matter.

The laws of evolution or devolution have nothing to do with the inner Self-realization of the Being.

The path of the revolution of the Consciousness is the inner Self-realization of the Being. It is the path of the Great Rebellion.

Only our Intimate God can lead us to the experience of the Truth.

The favors of grace are from the Intimate Christ, and come from all eternity.

The Great Merciful One can have pity on us and help us.

The secret way is taught by the Merciful One, who resides within our Being.

The Intimate Lord will guide our steps if we are bountiful and tender hearted.

The virtue and the testimonies that we seek are found in the ways of the Lord.

We need to be forgiven for our sins, which are exceedingly great.

The laws of the interior, profound Lord are perfect, and they must be established in the heart.

However, it is necessary to love and fear the Lord.

Fortunate is the one who remains in the Light.

The Intimate Lord is the strength of all powers.

The Name of the Lord, the Verb within us, the real Being of the Being, belongs to those who possess it.

Only the Christified human beings possess the incarnated Verb, the Word, the Name of the Lord.

Only the Lord will draw our feet from the abyss of perdition.

Each one of us is an only-begotten and is wretched. Only the Lord can save us.

Only the Lord can liberate us from our miseries, and give us a precious balm in order to cure our painful heart.

The enemies of the Soul have increased themselves within us.

Only the Intimate Christ can save us and take us from the pain.

Only the one who knows how to be serene, to work and to be patient can be saved.

Only the Intimate Lord can deliver Israel, which means, deliver all the independent and Self-conscious parts far away from all afflictions.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to dissolve the psychic aggregates before arriving to the Port of Supreme Happiness..

Excerpted from The Pistis Sophia Unveiled by Samael Aun Weor.

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