Lesson 8: Life and the Path / Lesson 9: The Level of Being

Horizontal line:

Vertical line:

It is the level of our being.
Everyone of us has a certain level of being.
Internal states belong to the vertical line.
It is related with the “being”.
Ethics belong to the vertical line. (are related with the Consciousness)

Belongs to Time:
It goes towards the future, from birth to death.
Personality develops on this line, according to the experiences and the stimuli it receives from life.
The end of this line is the inevitable death.

Each one of us, is at a certain level of being.
e.g. the level of being of a Saint is totally different from the level of being of a murderer, the level of being of an honest man is different from the level of a liar, the level of being of a chaste woman is different from the level of a whore, etc.
The different levels of being are like a stairway.
- Each one of us, at a certain moment, stands on a certain stair (step).
- In every moment, there is a superior level above us and an inferior level below us.
The exterior is a reflection of the interior.
- Our level of being attracts the external events.
- When we change the level of being, our life changes.

In order to change our level of being, we need to change ourselves (what we are).
The Path is: a conscious endeavour that we do on the vertical line, in order to raise our level of being.
This Path is for the few.
We walk this Path by exercising the 3 Factors of the Revolution of Consciousness.
- “If anyone wants to come after me, let him renounce himself (death), and lift up his daily cross (alchemy) and follow me (sacrifice).” - Luke 9:22

The horizontal and vertical lines unite at the point of their intersection: at “Now”.
- We have to learn to Live “Now” because, life is only an eternal moment.
From the centre of the cross, we can consciously manage internal states and external events.

The key to success in life, is to properly combine external events of life with internal states.
People, when they remember their lives, think that life consists only of external events.
- But, in reality, every event is accompanied by an internal psychological state.
- This internal state can be right (in harmony with the external event) or wrong.
As good as an external event may be, if we are not in the proper internal state, it will not benefit us, at all.
Every external event must be consciously combined with the appropriate internal state.
- Even unpleasant or dangerous external events become harmless or even useful when combined with the proper internal state.