“The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.” – Samael Aun Weor

We feel confident when expressing that human beings were not created in order to live in fear and anxiety. It is not our natural state. In fact, fear prevents us from experiencing our true nature. Ironically, the things human beings fear doesn’t really matter at all and the things human beings doesn’t seem to fear, is of a great importance. In the sense that we should fear something, then loosing our connection with our divine nature is something we arguably should take seriously. However, this really doesn’t seem important to human beings when contemplating todays society, where many things divine in nature are being subject to mockery. Most of the fear that uses our energy and makes us sick are completely useless and not based in reality. It is instinctive and emotional reactions based on subjective mental and emotional identifications with the three dimensional physical reality. Fear is indeed the great destroyer of harmony and one of the biggest energy thieves one can ever encounter. Fear will make you waste your energy shamelessly. Fear will make you waste your mental capacity. Fear will exhaust your emotions. Fear will drain your vitality and may eventually make your physical body ill. Fear creates havoc on society and the individual and it sets people up against each other. Fear is the precursor of wars, violence and aggression. Either you can give into fear and become identified with it, meaning you will give it your focus and energy. Or you can observe the fear as something external to your true nature, because that is what it is. Fear is inhumane and belongs to the animal kingdom. It is not a quality of the Being and our true nature. Lets briefly examine what could be defined as our true nature.

Our true nature

Upon observing the kabbalistic tree of life, we need to familiarize ourselves with all of its sephiroth. This map is essentially a map of consciousness. We will briefly explain from the triangle we can call the Monad, or the spiritual triangle down to Malkuth, the physical world or third dimension. The Monad has three aspects; Chesed is the spirit, the innermost, the flame, our internal Being. The Being never falls, he is always pure and comes into creation to realize himself. He is the son of the Solar Logos and he is our real Father who is in secret. Chesed is the Being and the reason for the Being to come into creation is to be the Being itself. Sometimes when the term “Being” is used it is meant as a collective term for the Monad or spiritual triangle. Geburah is the divine soul and is related to divine consciousness. If Chesed is the flame then Geburah is the alabaster lamb which contains the flame. This is the Divine feminine aspect of our Being, our Divine mother of which everyone has their individual one. They are the eternal bride and groom and relate to our divine Father and Mother and their son is our human soul. The Being is Chesed, its the spirit, and he has his divine consciousness, represented by Geburah. So if we talk about our true nature then, it would be that of the spirit and his divine consciousness, not emotion, thoughts or personality. Tiphereth is the human soul which generally a human only has a fraction of incarnated. This then relates to the soul essence which constitutes our level of free consciousness. It is generally said that human beings have about three percent free consciousness as the rest lies bottled up within the inhuman elements constituting the “I”, the “Myself”. Tiphereth is related with willpower and our divine essence which relates to our free consciousness that is not asleep. The other two spheres contained in the Monad (Chesed and Geburah) are not incarnated, but will (should) eventually become incarnated if one takes up and walks the path of the self realization of the Being. The great work of the Alchemists. All the sephiroth on the tree of life are within each and every person at any given time, but some exists only in potentiality due to our current state of consciousness. As the Monad descends into what we call creation, it still carries with it its divine attributes and consciousness. However, the consciousness or divine essence of the being gets trapped by the psychic aggregates that we collectively call the ego structure causing human beings to have their consciousness asleep. Thus, we conclude that human beings have and originates from a divine nature, but it is asleep. There exist ways in which the divinity in man can be awakened, but it requires sacrifices from our egoical structure. From the creation of the spiritual triangle, the ray of creation descends further creating the lower 5 sephiroth of the tree of life in the following manner, namely:

Tiphereth, the Causual body related with willpower

Netzach, the Mental body related with thought

Hod, the Astral or emotional body related with emotion

Yesod, the Vital or ethereal body related with vitality/sexuality

Malkuth, the Physical body, the container of all the forces, the laboratory of the Alchemist

These four bodies below Tiphereth are called the four bodies of sin. This is because they are the bodies where our unclean elements are found. These bodies contain certain psychological aggregates which we can call egoes. These psychological aggregates have a will of their own, a will of their own in contrast with the will of the Being. As we are identified with one of these aggregates or egoes, we do the will of the ego instead of the will of the Being or the Father. Therefore, the psychological aggregate which in reality is only a dark shadow of a given value of the Being, steals and misuses the energy for its egotistical purpose. The big shift and really the start of self mastery relies on putting the power back towards the will of the Being. Our will is currently conditioned to do the will of our egos for the most part in a varying degree according to each human being. Also, certain egoes are stronger in some persons than others, this is easy to see. However, on a large scale, we can argue that the willpower, related to Tiphereth is under the control of our egoes, subjectivity and the four bodies of sin. The road to self Mastery and eliminating fear depends on us using our willpower to put our will back at the service of our Being. Simply put, that our Being controls our willpower to dominate the four lower sephiroth instead of the other way around.

Direct experience gives faith

V.M Kwen Khan Khu says that fear is a result of lack of faith in the Being. A lack of faith in the Being is a result of lack of direct experience with the Being. The question then becomes how can we get direct experiences of our Being, our internal God, Father and true nature? So our true nature is the spirit with his divine consciousness. This is that spot in each and every one of us that allows us to perceive, it is pure and unconditioned. For us to have a thought or an emotion, there needs to be a consciousness present first in order to perceive the thought or emotion. That consciousness is the pure consciousness of the Being and every time we are distracted or fascinated by something, we become identified with phenomena and the purity of the consciousness gets bottled up. If we pay attention to our thoughts for example, we can identify that there is an aspect inside of us that is merely perceiving, observing the thoughts. If this is the case and it most surely is, why do we then get so distracted by the mind? Why is the mind so persuasive? We lack experience, direct experience of being fully awakened in the consciousness without any interference from the mind or lower emotions. This is why meditation is so important. Try to sit down and let it all go, pray to your being and ask to be shown, relax you whole body by breathing fully and simply let go of the mind more and more. Just remain conscious as your body, emotions and mind becomes more and more relaxed and simply just be. Be in the presence of just being, without any mental concepts of any kind. And then, with persistence, you might directly experience your own spiritual faculties in a direct manner. This is pure bliss and goes way beyond the walls of time and space. Moreover, this gives one faith in the Being by the thousands. Without direct experience, the being or the consciousness becomes just another mental concept we may or may not believe in. It is important to break free from the mind, of the battle of opposites, thesis vs antithesis. When we allow our mind to settle, to simply observe it, the consciousness can penetrate it and direct experience will come as a result. We must observe our emotions and thoughts every day and try to self remember. We must above all remember that we are not our emotions or thoughts, but they are rather something we are experiencing in any given moment. Fear is more than a simple emotion, it goes way deeper. Fear is instinctual. It is a primal instinct of survival and it is felt in the instinctual/motor center first, then in the emotional center, and lastly in the mental center.

The horizontal line of life

Fear is basically something we are experiencing due to an identification with the horizontal line of life. The horizontal line is that of time and is the mundane world. Everything on the horizontal line of life will be born and be dead with time. The horizontal line of life is apartments, jobs, diseases, health, money, no money etc. When The horizontal line of life is where we seek security, we are easy targets of fear. We cannot deny that we all need a security in the sense that we need a place to stay, a job that pays our bills etc. However all those things will pass and are subject to change. They are impermanent and thus our psychological relationship to them must reflect that fact.

When we identify ourselves with things of impermanence such as a job, a house etc, pain is inevitable because they can be taken away from us. Or even more importantly, we can worry ourselves sick of loosing some of these things as they are of an impermanent nature. We do not fully grasp the opportunities and doors that will open to us and thus we fear the unknown. To have direct experiences of the Being is so important as it allows us to build a foundation based on the eternal values of the Being in contrast to the fake concepts of the ego which belongs to time. At any given point, we are always at the point of the cross below where we have an opportunity to travel the vertical line of the being, or the horizontal line of time. Fear is constantly traversing the horizontal line of life. It is almost constantly in the future, dreading for some scenario to occur that we want to avoid. There is basically only an eternal now. If we awakened our consciousness, it would be harder for fear to trap us in the horizontal line of life, because of our state of being. We will all physically die one day, but our consciousness cannot be destroyed. Energy can only change form as Einstein said. Therefore, if we can put ourselves at work during our lives, in order to work upon ourselves and to experience the attributes within us that are of eternity, then fear isn’t really something we can give into. Because it just isn’t real, and it belongs to the horizontal line of life, it has a beginning and it has an end. So if it has an end, why waste our energies and give it so much importance? If we manage to unidentify with the pains and suffering of the mundane world, we escape fear.

“Therefore, from moment to moment, we find ourselves before two paths: the horizontal and the vertical. It’s clear that the Horizontal is a very cheap way to go; traveled by every Tom, Dick and Harry. It is evident that the Vertical is different; it is the path of intelligent rebels, of revolutionaries. When one remembers oneself and works upon self-development, when one does not become identified with all the problems and sorrows of life, it is a fact that one is travelling along the vertical path.” – V.M. Samael Aun Weor

To defeat fear suggests a psychological transformation in the present moment in which we find ourselves in. The key to dissolving fear lies within us right here and now. It is the consciousness, it is indeed the point of the cross where the horizontal line of life meets the vertical line of the being. That point is always in the now, never in the future or in the past. When in a given moment, we watch some news or are presented with a scenario that instill fear in us, we have the choice of identifying with the fear or to transform the impression. We can either traverse the horizontal line of life or the vertical line of the being. Fear is so persuasive, and it hits our instincts which can make it very hard for us to avoid a mechanical reaction. However, we must never cease combating fear and thus, we must endeavor to apply our willpower, and consciousness in order to transform the impressions correctly, and traverse the vertical line of the Being. Jesus said let the dead bury the dead. The horizontal line of life is mundane life. We must be conscious about the amount of energies we spend worrying about things that will eventually come to an end at one point in time anyway.

“For example, a person who is desperate about some sentimental, economical or political problems has obviously forgotten his Inner Self. If such a person would stop for a moment, observe the situation, try to remember his Inner Self and then try to understand the reason for this attitude. If he would reflect a little and think that everything passes away, that life is fleeting, illusory, and that death reduces all the vanities of the world to ashes. – Samael Aun Weor

Fear as a means of control

Fear is one of the key elements of controlling human beings. The agenda of fear is always propagated in order to bring about changes to society, but also to subjugate people. There exist in this world today, certain groups in power which uses fear against people for all its worth. These groupings are dead scared to loose their earthly powers and feels the need to instill a greater fear into people than what they themselves have. Look at any daily National newspaper in any Western country, it is nothing but a brochure of horror and a leaflet of dread. These people know very well how the human machine works and they manipulate it mercilessly. Modern newspapers have degraded into vehicles of pure black magic. There always seems to be something that we must be afraid of, be it a virus, unemployment, a terrorist group etc. Sometimes it can feel like it doesn’t matter so much what concerns us, as long as we fear something. In the present world we are experiencing, there are many people who deeply fear a virus. On the other side of the coin, there are people who fear vaccines and fascist laws imposed on society. Both sides have one thing in common; fear.

Fueled by life force (sexual energy), fear kicks in in the instinctual center and produces emotions, which leads to thoughts. If we do not take action and utilize our willpower to self remember and be in the moment, fear will mechanically produce negative emotions and negative thoughts. This will in turn not only waste our emotional, vital, physical and mental energy, but it will also tune us into the frequency that is fear. When we are on that frequency of fear, we will tune in with other people, places, situations which are on the same frequency, and the result can be chaotic to say the least. When we are on the frequency of fear, we automatically exclude ourselves from many other, higher frequencies and this is exactly the point. We can easily waste our entire lives worrying, being in fear, always trying to mentally solve all kinds of future scenarios before they have even happened. We stated before that fear is basically a result of lack of experience or faith in the Being. The Being is equal to love and compassion which is the opposite of fear. Any identification with fear then, automatically shuts down our capacity to tune into the higher (love) frequencies of the Being. This is how destructive fear is, and this is why it must be fought against, on an individual level as well as a collective one. Fear is highly contagious also and is always accompanied by aggression and stress. When fear is felt everywhere around you, in the supermarket, in cafes, on the street etc, people are cautiously looking around everywhere they go, it is hard not to get infected with this virus. However, we must make a decision not to give into fear. We must totally renounce to fear in its entirety. All individuals must take responsibility to fight fear in themselves with the higher purpose of not allowing society to be poisoned by it. A society which is infested with anxiety, fear and aggression on every street corner must be the worst disease we could ever have, thus it simply cannot be an option. A simple smile, laugh, joke to someone we encounter during the daily routine of everyday life can do wonders.

Above all, we must meet the people who are in fear with courage, understanding, love and compassion. This is the only way to diffuse fear. We must never allow ourselves to become aggressive or fearful even if they attack us on these parameters. Sometimes, the person infected with fear will become aggressive towards the people who do not share his emotional orientation towards the external world, because it bothers him. An absolute orientation towards the Being, patience, understanding and respect is key parameters when dealing with individuals of such nature.

Energy flows where attention goes

In order to not contribute to fear on a collective level, we need to cease identifying with it on an individual level first. This does include a responsibility regarding what and where we choose to focus and invest our energy in. We wrote about this aspect of self mastery in the last article. When we put attention or focus on something/someone, it is like we are giving energy to the thing we are focusing on. So for example, if we watch the news, even if we say we don’t believe in them or that we don’t get scared, there is still an energetic exchange that takes place. This exchange goes both ways. We direct our focus on a news headline and the headline with its letters burns itself into our psyche, emotions and instinct. Given that fear is such a brutal force, it hits our instincts so emotions are harder to resist as a result. If we become conscious of the fact that we are being attacked by fear, we can take deep breaths and relax the body and shift our focus towards the Being. When we have a deep emotional connection with someone and that someone is in a state of fear and anxiety, they can infect us pretty easily. If we are going to have an encounter with such an individual that has a lot of fear and are likely to infect us, we must stay focused, present in the moment and breathe deeply throughout the entire interaction. You might be able to feel the fear of the other person in your solar plexus, try to observe it rather than engaging in it. Just look at it for what it is and let it pass, breathing, relaxing the physical body and focus on the Being is key. The other person might get upset that you will not take their fear anymore, but you should not care about that! When people see you are not reacting with fear when being exposed to it and they respond frustratingly by hurling even more fear at you, you know you are doing something right. When we daily expose ourselves to the news and the mainstream media we become easy targets of fear, because their agenda is to spread fear. As such, daily news updates from mainstream media will only infect you with fear and make you waste your time and energy. It is better to turn off the phone or tv and go read a nice book, listen to some music, meditate or just observe an animal or nature. Just try to contemplate if you from today going one year back didn’t read a single news story, would you have missed out on anything? Unlikely. You have everything to win on dropping mainstream news outlets and everything to loose by engaging with them. Even if we say we just like to “see what’s going on” and that “we don’t believe in the news”, they will still affect us. But even still, we must constantly self remember and become conscious about where our focus presently is, no matter where we are or what we do. We also feel that it is of great importance to add at this stage, that the harnessing and transmutation of the most potent force human beings have access to, will be a huge catalyst for cleanliness, experiences of the Being and elimination of fear. If you feel that you are suffering from fear, we would recommend applying as many points from the following list to your life:

• Meditate
• Pray
• Play with children
• Reduce any intake of alcohol or drugs and pills to a minimum
• Avoid pornography and any lustful activities
• Physically exercise
• Do not read news from the mainstream media
• Limit contact with people who are full of fear if you are not able to be with them without getting affected
• Be in nature
• Eat healthy food, avoid sugars, breads and starch
• Paint or write a poem, express your emotions
• Listen to or play music of elevated nature
• Bathe daily
• Keep your living space clean, neat and take out trash
• Meet good friends
• Laugh

Overall, we recommend to meditate, and then to meditate, and then to meditate some more and to simply pray to our divine being, the innermost and ask him to awaken our consciousness, to experience our true nature, and to help us stay in self remembrance of that true nature, so that we do not become victims of this virus of fear. The inner work sparks positive movements on the vertical ladder of the Being which directly weakens fear. If we should ever feel overwhelmed with anxiety and fear, there exist this prayer which should be chanted mentally or out loud, it has a substantial effect and can be used by anyone at anytime, The Angel Aroch taught this conjuration to Master Samael Aun Weor for protection against negative forces. It should be sung:

Belilin… Belilin… Belilin…
Amphora of salvation.
I would like to be next to Thee;
Materialism has no power over me.
Belilin… Belilin… Belilin..

Wishes of profound peace and love to all beings, may no one be in fear