The Experience of the Truth Through Meditation

“The experience of the Truth through meditation proves to be prodigious. When we have experienced the Truth, we feel the strength to persevere in the work on ourselves.

Brilliant authors have spoken about the work on oneself, about the “I,” about the “myself.” It is obvious they have done well in having spoken in this way, but they have forgotten something— the experience of the Truth. As long as we have not experienced what’s real, we do not feel encouraged; we do not feel we have enough forces to be able to work on ourselves, on the “I myself.” When we have truly passed though such a mystical experience, we are different and nothing can hold us back in our yearning for liberation. We will work tirelessly on ourselves to be able to truly achieve a radical, total, and definitive change.

Now you will comprehend, my dear friends, why the Meditation Chambers are so indispensable. Frankly, I feel quite sad when I see that even though I have written so much about meditation in different “Christmas Messages” of previous years, still in the South American and Central American countries, Meditation Chambers do not exist when they should already exist.

What has happened? There is indolence. Why does it exist? It exists because of a lack of comprehension! It is indispensable to understand that the poor “intellectual animal” mistakenly called “man” needs encouragement, needs something to encourage him in the battle: stimulus for the work on himself.

I know that the poor “intellectual animal” is weak by nature and finds himself in a completely disadvantageous situation. The ego is so strong and the personality is terribly weak. Left alone like that, he is hardly able to walk. He needs something to encourage him to work, he needs an intimate help. This is only possible through meditation.

I do not want to say that everybody will experience the Illuminating Void in one single go. Obviously it is necessary to arrive at that experience through different degrees. Each time, the devotee will feel the intimate impulse of the Being more. He will have different, more or less lucid experiences, and finally one day will arrive at having the best of experiences—the direct experience of the Great Reality; then he will receive the Tao.

May those who listen to this cassette weigh my words well, reflect on them. It is not enough to simply listen; it is necessary to know how to listen, and this is different.

But ‘anyone who listens to the word and does not do what it says,’ says the Apostle James in the Universal Epistle, ‘is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, ...[then turns his back and] goes away...’

It is necessary to make the word within ourselves! It is not enough to listen to this cassette; it must become flesh, blood, and life if what we want is a radical transformation. It is necessary to persevere.

That is all for now. Paz Inverencial!” Samael Aun Weor

Final section from the lecture “The Illuminating Void”

“Practice; do not lose heart! Please, I beg you, practice! It is urgent that you all practice so that you can see, touch, and palpate the realities of the superior worlds.

It is necessary to abandon theories and get to the point, to the facts, to the practice; to the practice—I repeat—my dear brothers!

The majority of brothers have wasted time theorizing, theorizing, and nothing more than theorizing. Huge libraries and for what? Thousands of volumes and, nevertheless, the poor students do not have faculties, they do not know how to ‘travel in the astral,’ they have never spoken with a Master; they have not been able to converse with an Elohim face to face. The state in which they find themselves is very sad, heads full of theories and confusion, and that is all.

It is necessary for you to be practical, my dear brethren. Theory? No, it’s a useless waste of time. Be practical, have a lot of faith, do not get tired of these exercises that we have given you.”

Samael Aun Weor “The Practical Sense of Universal Gnosticism”