The Great Work Samael Aun Weor

THE GREAT WORK

The poor intellectual animal is only a chrysalis, a germ, in where the man has to be
formed and developed.

The Solar Fire is certainly what it is needed in order to develop, within ourselves the
availability to the man.

Fohat is the generatrix force, the central, alive and philosophical fire, that can originate
inside of the cosmos biology of the rational animal, the legitimate and authentic mutant,
the real and authentic man.

Dear brothers: What the Great Work is? Many can listen about it, but if they do not make
the Great Work, are losing their time.

It is not enough to have faith. It is clear that the faith without works on oneself, is a dead
faith. The Work is justified with the faith and the faith with the Work. What really counts
is the Great Work.

If somebody listen to us and has faith in our words, but does not do the Great Work, is
like the man that observes himself in a mirror, turns his back and go away, that does not
do anything, that lost his time. The faith is marvellous, but without work is dead faith.
The faith has to be backed by the Work.

In the work on the Great Work, it is necessary to think in many things. First of all, we
have to control the tongue. In any way we have to excuse ourselves of what Koot Hoomi
Lal Singh (Kout Humi) says: "The gossip moves away the Gods and the occultism from
us..."

Let us remember a prase that in an ancient existence, I put in one of my books: "I am not
more when I am praised, nor less if I am vituperated, because I am always what I am..."
Then, my name was Thomas Hemerken of Kempis, and I wrote "The Imitation of
Christ." I was a member of an esoteric society, I was a monk, but in the monastery in
where I lived, they did not know that.

Usually, also great initiates used to live in the mo nasteries of the middle ages, some of
them even very likable. It is the case of the famous Rabelais, that wrote very interesting
books, a bit jocose. Anyone that read them "as dead letter," could believe that Rebelais
was a clown.

One just laugh when reeds Gargantua and Pantagruel, and the gnostic if reads those
books, can see that are witty. However, when one knows to capture their profound
meaning, realizes that Rabelais, certainly was, a Great Initiate. He wrote in that style to
save himself from the Inquisition's bonfire, and he did it miraculously.

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In certain occasion, in the church, he took the place of the statue of Saint Francis, there he
looked like as an statue. When he was in the line up, he used to behave a little bit like a
clown. In certain occasion, was taken, among with other monks, and put in the dungeon
with bread and water for several days, but he kept in that way, because he always had to
be an humorist, and even thought he behaved in that way, to be alchemist almost cost his
life in the bonfire.

Well, many initiates, worked during the middle ages intensely in the Great Work, and
they even lived in the very monasteries of the roman catholicism, identified, mixed with
the clergy. However, in silence, at determinate hours of the night, the y had their esoteric
meetings. All of this is very interesting, is in it?

What really counts if the Work, my dear brothers, that is what really import. But is
necessary to have an strong moral resolution, we do not have to have preferences with
anybody, to treat in the same form the reach and the poor: because many times we treat
with lot of love the reach and despise the poor.

Undoubtedly, we are not prepared to the Great Work. The tongue, for example, is a very
small organ, is in it?, but, how big forest can fire! He that reach the control of the tongue,
controls the sex, because both are the poles of a same journey.

Many people suffer of the sexual problem; to them we say: controlling the tongue, the sex
and the body in general is controlled.

Let us observe a horse: even if is very vigorous, with a bridle in the mouth one can mount
and to control it. The tongue is same: if we control it, all the body is under control. So, it
is very interesting to know to control the tongue. In reality, to do so is necessary, is
indispensable to the Great Work.

All the sisters, all the brothers of the Gnostic Movement, are preparing themselves to the
Great Work. Are in the beginning naturally, and they cannot be demanded to walk in Jinn
states, but I do believe that is fundamental to them to control the tongue, to attain the
necessary qualities to finally, one day, they could enter in the Great Work.

Anyway, it is clear that the Great Work is related with the most advanced levels of this
path, is in it? Especially, yo u are, we would say, elaborating the fire, preparing the fire.
One day, you will have reached the complete preparation of the fire; then it will be the
moment in which you will be able to begin the Great Work.

Speaking from the alchemic point of view, I would say (about the brothers and sisters that
are working in the Forge of Cyclops) that you have what in alchemy is called the Green
Lion. Obviously, when you begin working in the Great Work, you will have at that point,
the Red Lion.

But, what the Green Lion of the alchemy is? It is the incipient fire, the fire that does not
have internal development. What the Red Lion of the alchemy is? The Fire already

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absolutely developed; the Sulphur, we would say, that symbolizes the Fire, already totally
mixed with the Mercury and that finally is crystallized.

It is clear that only through the developed fire, through those powers symbolized by the
Red Lion, one can reach the alchemic transmutation of the Red Fire, one can transform
the Existential Superior Bodies of the Being, in pure gold. But those are very advanced
level of the internal development. You, at this point just work with the personal work,
with the Green Lion, and in this form you will be preparing your fires to the Great Work.

In this state of preparation, you have to make a balance of yourselves, in order to know
what you have of inhuman and what you have of human. It is necessary the elimination
of the inhuman elements and to develop the human elements. That is indispensable.

Unfortunately, and this is painful, the actual humanity or speaking in exact form: the
humanoids that live on the face of the earth, certainly do not have anything of human,
because if we see a human machine or humanoid, we will find inside of it, a Vital
Organic Base, and this is it. Much more further of the physical and the vital bodies (that
is the base to the life), we find the Ego, the "I," the myself.

Obviously that Ego, is not beautiful, it is only an addition of psychic aggregates that
personify our errors. Those aggregates, rather have animal forms. What is most
unpleasant, is to know that the Essence, the Consciousness, is trapped, bottled up,
inclosed among those animal forms, among those aggregates that in their conjunct are
what we could call the myself, the "I".

Now you can see that the state in which we are is very unfortunate, that we are just
machines, controlled by the different components that forme the Ego, the "I".

Did we come to the world! Perfect! We had a father, a mother, and as a result of it we
came to this world. It is very interesting to see how we were formed inside of that body,
inside of the maternal body, that is to say, how our material vehicle or planetary body,
unfolded and developed, mixed with the maternal one.

Obviously, it was a germ what penetrated in the maternal organism. That germ was
developed and unfolded and born in its opportune moment; it is a product of the sex.
Later, after its birth, that germ kept growing and developing: we passed through the
stages of childhood (in the process of development), after through the adolescence to then
reach the youth.

It is interesting to see that all those processes, beginning by the simple conception, has as
cause causorum the sexual union of our father and our terrestrial mother. All that
metamorphosis, for which the fetus pass inside of the maternal womb, obviously is
something extraordinary.

Now, with the birth, it did not finish the process of development in that germ, and this is
obvious. Many people believe and this is very unfortunate, that an adolescent, can already

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have sexual relation, and there is not doubt that the adolescent of our epoch, copulate
before of the determined age.

That is monstrous, is not it? Because, if the germ does not finish its process of
development and is already copulating, it is out of any doubt something criminal; not
having waited the full age.

Only from the 21 year on, it is possible to have sex. Before that age, the result of that
copulas, of that copulation before time, out of any doubt is disastrous to the posterior
stages of life.

In ancient times any adolescent used to copulate. Today the sense of moral responsibility
is lost: people believe that because is in the adolescence, the development of the human
germ is already fulfilled, and it is not.

If you pay attention, and follow with serenity my dissertation, you will comprehend what
I want to say.

Once the development of that germ that one day penetrated in the maternal womb
finishes, then the copulation is possible; that is clear. Anyways, the basic foundation of
all the processes of development, the root of all of those metamorphosis, the cause,
obviously it is found in the sexual act of our parents.

How interesting is to see that everything is related in the time: a lovely mother and very
small germ that pass through multiple processes of development or metamorphosis.

It the copula of our parents would not have been existed, undoubtedly we would not
exists in this world. That copulation is the base of our existence.

In the mother, in her dark ma trix, during the pregnancy, she pass through multiple phases.
Her body prepares itself from the beginning, to feed the creature that will born; her hips
become widen and all her organism, undoubtedly pass through several marvellous
changes.

The child born and begins to grow happily with all his forces. During the first seven year
of life, it works the first testicles' stratum; it produces certain necessary cells to the
existence. Then we live under the lunar influence.

From the seven to the fourteen years of age, we live under the regency of Mercury. The
child starts going to the school, goes to study, it becomes a naughty boy, etc. Then, when
he reaches the fourteen years of age, the second testicles' stratum starts to work. It
produces certain hormones that define the sex.

From the fourteen to the twenty one, the third testicles' stratum becomes active. It is clear
that from the fourteen to the twenty one, we live under the influence of Venus. That is the

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age in which the young people fall in love, it is the age in which the girls fall in love, etc.,
etc., etc.

The third testicles' stratum elaborates the sperm and them obviously, produce many
intellectual inquietude. The sperm bring new ideas, a new intellectual capacity, new
forms of thought, etc., etc., etc.

Unfortunately this youth is so mistakenly educated, that the sperm that should be
correctly saved to the own development, are eliminated in absurd form. When we reach
the twenty one years of age, we believe that we have already finish all our development
and we consider ourselves as full aged people "without God not government," and then it
comes the unfortunate, fatal act of fornication.

The thirst testicle's stratum will always be producing sperm, at list in the young and
mature people. The ancients, have unfortunately wasted, the capital of spermatozoids.
Then, in advanced ages, the third testicles' stratum does not work. Yes, some of them
produce spermatozoids but between long intervals, and after, it comes the impotence.

The ancient waits until the third testicles' stratum has produced a good quantity of
spermatozoids, to go to eliminate them. His wife has to wait fifteen, twenty days, one
month, two, three months, until the ancient's organism elaborates his spermatozoids, but
the truth is that he only elaborates just a few.

What the difference is, between young and old people? One! What one? That in the
young people the third testicles' stratum works and produces spermatozoids, these
spermatozoids give to him certain revolutionary inquietude, some different form of
thought, etc., meanwhile in the ancients, because the third testicles' stratum does not work
already, there are not enough spermatozoids, then they do not have those revolutionary
inquietude, do not accept the truth, they remain with what they have learned in the youth,
with the doctrines that in that time they deposited in their intellect, in their memory; they
become backward elders, ancients than do not want to go one step forwards and that see
the young people with disdain and contempt.

The difference that exist between the men of the "old wave" and the young men of the
"new wave," is based exactly in that. Because the backward ancients already cannot
elaborate spermatozoids, they remain stagnated, petrified in the past. The young men are
different: because they are producing spermatozoids, have revolutionary ideas, are open
to the new, are in search of something superior.

But the ancients do not accept this, the elders get annoying with the way of thinking of
the young men, they dislike their behaviour, they want the young people to walk through
old ways; they do not have nothing to give.

So, observe the cause of the fights between the old and new wave.

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Well, the life, develops and unfolds because of the sex. Because of the sex we could have
this physical body. It is clear that through the sex we could transform ourselves. If our
parents, if nature created us to certain point, we can re-create us, to complete, we would
say, that creation and to carry it forwards.

To give to our own organization, new forms of being, to promote in us something great;
to make of us authentic divine creatures it is possible using the force that leaded us
through all those processes.

Through the transmutation of the Sacred sperm, we can create a new organism, inside of
the one that we already have. That organism is the Astral body. That body has its own
laws, its principles, its forces, its alimentation, etc.

One knows that has an Astral body because can use it, can travel with freedom through
the space, in the same form that one knows that has legs because it can move them, that
has hands because it can use them, or that has eyes because it can see.

Transforming that sperm in energy, we also can crystallize that energy in the form of a
Mental body. That Mental body also has its laws, its principles, its forces, its powers, etc.
One knows that has a Mental body because can use it, because can capture or apprehend
with it, all the wisdom of the universe.

With the transmutation of the sperm in energy, we can create the body of the Conscious
will, or Causal body. When that vehicle has been created, through the sexual
transmutation, then we can incarnate in ourselves that something called Human Soul and
to become then authentic men, legitimate, real; men with soul in the most transcendental
sense of the word.

All of these things belong to the same force that created us and that have made us to pass
through multiple processes. Our parents, I repeat, contributed with the germ that has
passed through so many and many processes. Nature has done what it could, but we can
continue with the sexual processes, in transcendent and transcendental form, to reach the
point that we can transform ourselves in something divine.

Obviously the force that created us, has to be utilized to destroy the inhuman elements
that we have inside; the psychic aggregates of what I have already talked.

If we, for example, make good use of the power contained in the sex; of that Sacred fire,
that Ray that emanated from the chaotic matter, that exists in our seminal system and that
is called Kundalini by the Orientals, we can very well to disintegrate with that ray all the
inhuman elements that we carry inside.

Observe, that double aspect of the creative energy: it is use to destroy the inhuman
elements and to create the human elements.

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So, that germ that arisen from the sexual glands of our parents and that later finished its
development, can continue that development posteriorly. That germ will be unfolded
later; it can receive, we would say, some vehicles that actually does not have; it can have
an Astral vehicle, a Mental and a Causal.

But we have to go forwards because that development it is not made by nature; she made
what it could. Now it is our turn to continue forwards with this germ: do not allow it to
petrify, to make it to pass through successive developments, more advanced
developments and the result has to be to become Gods; that is the result.

So, my dear brothers of South America, I want to remind you that the Alchemy is the
base, the foundation of the Great Work. The Great Work would be impossible without the
sexual transmutation.

To create the vehicles, is the first obviously; after, it is necessary to recover them, I say,
with the different parts of the Being. Because one thing is to create the Astral body, for
example, and another is to lead it to the perfection.

One thing is to create the Mental body, through the transmutation of the Sexual Hydrogen
SI-12, and another is to perfect it. One thing is to create the body of the Conscious will or
Causal body, and another is to perfect it.

What do we understand by perfection? When the Astral body, for example, has been
transformed in a vehicle of pure gold, it is said that is perfect. But in order to transform
the Astral body in a vehicle of pure gold, it is necessary to transform what this body has
of imperfect: to eliminate the inhuman elements, to do a work of Alchemy.

The great alchemists say that the raw material has to be transmuted; that is to say, the
inhuman elements that penetrate and pervade that Astral that we have created, have to be
dissolved.

In the work of dissolution, there are extraordinary things: we have to use the Universal
Dissolving, as the alchemists say. That dissolving is just the secret and philosophical Fire.
That is to say, with the power of Kundalini we can dissolve, to disintegrate the inhuman
elements.

And if one does not have that power, what can one do? Because if one does not have the
power of Kundalini, how could disintegrate the inhuman elements? In this, the colours
have a great role.

When one begin disintegrating the inhuman elements that have taken possession of the
Astral body, they take a black colour and in alchemy are symbolized by the Black Raven.

That black colour is the foundation, the base of any transmutation; that is why it is said
that the raven has to be whiten. This means that after to have burned, disintegrated the
Putrid Matter, the inhuman elements, the Astral body already have a natural white colour.

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Finally, it is said that the raw matter has to take a red colour. That is to say, reaching this
highs, we can already know that the Astral body has been transformed in pure gold, in a
vehicle of pure gold. That is why it is said that we carry the gold inside, the Dual Gold.

In this form, the Astral body transformed in an vehicle of gold, is devoured by the
serpent. When the Astral body is devoured by the serpent, it is obvious that then is
recovered by the different parts of the Being, it is transformed in a Body of Perfection.

A very same work would have to be done with the Mental and Causal bodies, and much
more later it is necessary to transform, in pure gold, the Buddhic or intuitional vehicle.

Only when our vehicles are pure gold, when are really resplendent, they can be absorbed
by the Third Logos. In this form is how the Logos comes to the existence. He resurrects,
raises from his sepulchre, to appear here in the physical world (it is the Dead's
Resurrection).

So, my dear brothers or the one that is listening or is reeding it, here and also in South
America, not only it is necessary to create the Existential Superior Bodies of the Being,
but we also have to perfect them, and finally they have to be recovered by the different
parts of the Being.

So, I am talking about how it is possible to utilize the sexual energy, in order to make
that very small germ, that one day went into the maternal womb, could finally be
transformed in a Solar Man, in the Adam kadmon of the Hebrew Cabbala.

To transform the lead in gold, is the fundamental. We have to reduce to coal all that
matter, all those inhuman elements that we carry inside, so in its replacement could
appear in each one of us, the Solar Man.

In this form, my dear brothers, as I said: it is necessary to prepare the fire to the Great
Work. The Great Work itself, begin to be made when one starts to transmute in definitive
form, the created vehicles, that is to,say, when one begin to transmute the Existential
Superior Bodies of the Being in Bodies of Gold.

When one eliminates the scraps, what we have of inhuman, and only remains in one the
Solar Fire, then one is at the doors of the Great Work.

I am speaking in synthesis, because if I start giving details about all of this, we would
have to write a book about alchemy. To speak about this alchemists processes, I can
assure you, that it would not be possible in this night; we would have to stay here months
and even years.

What I wanted is to put emphasis in the process of the Germ; in how it has passed
through multiple processes of development, also that we do not have to remain in the
state in which nature left us, in that we have to do our best now, and to think that it is
necessary to create that germ, making it each time better, transforming it, recovering it

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with the Existential Superior Bodies of the Being, etc., and eliminating the scraps, to
finally transform it in a Solar Man.

The foundation, the starting point, was the sexual act of our terrestrial parents. The form
of how we can achieve a superior grade of development, is through the same sexual force
that created us. If that extraordinary force brought us to existence, obviously that force
can help us to keep making that transformations of the germ, to the point to get from it,
not a simple improvement, but something great: to get from it, the formation of the Solar
Man.

What really counts is to continue with the processes of the germ, not to stop them, to
finally, after the successive sexual transformations, could appear the Authentic Man, the
Solar Man, the Saint Christopher.

Do you know who is the Saint Christopher? Christo-Pher, Christ-Goes: the man that
carries Christ inside, the Christified man. The name Cristoforo, comes from a root that is
same that the Saint Christopher's root, the one that carries the growing gold. That
growing gold, results of the ascension of the Mercury of the Secret Philosophy. That
Mercury is the Ens Seminis.

Cristofor, the one that already achieved, we would say, "the firm for the volatile," using
an uncommon language. "the firm is the Sulphate, the Sulphur, better to say, the Fire of
the Secret Philosophy. For the volatile means, we would say, the Spiritual Mercury. The
Sulphur is represented by the Fire, by the Serpent, and the volatile is represented by the
Eagle. The Sulphur is the Fire, the Divine Mother Kundalini and the volatile is the
Mercury, that is to say, the Third Logos.

When the Divine Mother, the Serpent, has already been devoured by the Eagle, the Third
Logos, then it is the feathered serpent of the mysteries; then we already have the Saint
Christopher: the man that carries the Christ inside of himself.

That is what we need: that each one of us could be transformed in a Saint Christopher.

So, I send the message to all the brothers of South America, and invite yo u to continue
with the process of development of that germ, to go forwards, not to allow it to go
backwards, to keep transforming it, to finally only last the Solar Man.

Here there is a brother that wants to ask a question.

** Master, in other occasions you have said that when the man reaches fifty years of age,
stop producing spermatozoids, that is to say, the impotence appears. What happens with
that germ then?

*** Well, it is clear that the third testicles' stratum, in certain advanced age, commonly
stop working, it produce very few sperms, and it is precisely when it comes the
Menopause in the man, between the age of forty nine and fifty years.

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The same happens with the woman: she has her critic age, she also has her menopause.
But if the person is working with the Maithuna, with the Sexual Alchemy, that critic age
is transcended. That is possible if we continue with the marvellous processes of the sex,
to finally make of that germ that one day entered into the maternal womb, something
new, something different: a Solar Man.

INVERENCIAL PEACE

Samael Aun Weor

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