Imprints Transformation
Samael Aun Weor

   Instituto Cultural Quetzalcoatl de Antropologa Psicoanaltica, A.C.
   www.samaelgnosis.net   y www.samaelgnosis.org
    

Imprints Transformation
   Todays subject is related with the question of ourself transformation. In our previous talks, much was said on the importance that life has in itself; we also said, that a man is his life and that this one is like a movie, that when de-incarnate, we take it to live it again (in retrospective form) in the astral world, and we come back, we bring it to show it again physicals world floor. 
   It is evident that the law of the Recurrence exists and that the facts are repeated, that all really happen again as it was before, plus the good and bad consequences; that is obvious.
   Well, the important is get the transformation of the life, and this is possible if one deeply proposes it.
   Transformation means that one thing changes in something else. It is logical that everything is subject to changes.
   There are very well understood material transformations; that nobody would refute them, for example, that the sugar transforms into alcohol and that the alcohol (in turn) converts into vinegar because of action of the ferments (this is the transformation of a molecular substance in other molecular substance). One knows, due to the new chemistry of the atoms and elements, that the radius, for example,   slowly transforms into lead.
   The alchemists of the medieval spoke about  transmutation of the lead into gold however, they don't always allude it to the merely physical metallic matter. Normally they wanted to say with these words, the transmutation of the  lead  (this one of the personality) into  gold of the spirit. So then, it is advisable to think about all these matters.
   In the GOSPELS, the idea of worldly man (compare to a capable growing seed), has the same meaning, as it has the idea of the rebirth, of a man that  reborn . However, it is obvious that if the grain does not die, the plant does not sprout; in all transformation exists death and birth, or death and resurrection.
   Already one know that in the Gnosis, we consider the man like a three floor factory that normally absorbs three foods. 
   The common food, normally corresponds to the factory base level (matter related to the stomach). The air, naturally, is in the second floor, because it is related with the lungs and the imprints, indubitably they are closely related to the brain, or third floor (matter related to OBSERVATION, really brothers?).
   The food that we eat, suffers successive transformations (this is unquestionable). The process of the life in if same, by itself is the transformation. Each creature of the universe, my honorable brothers, lives by the transformation of a substance into another. A vegetable, for example, transforms the air, the water and soil salts, in new vital substances, in useful elements for us, as of, for example the nuts, the fruits, the potatoes, or the lemons, the beans, the peas, etcetera. Then, because all is TRANS-FOR-MA-TION.
   Because of the solar light action, we obtain the various ferments of the nature. It is unquestionable that the sensitive life film, that normally extends on the earth face, carries all the UNIVERSAL FORCE towards the inside of the planetary world in that we live.
   But each planet, each insect, each creature (the same intellectual animal mistakenly call man), absorbs, assimilate definite cosmic forces and later it transforms and rebroadcasts (unconsciously) to the previous cloaks of the planetary organism. 
   Such forces, transformed, are intimately related with the economy of this planetary organism in that we live. Each creature, according to its own specie, transforms definite forces that then rebroadcasts to the inner of the earth, for the world economy. Also, the other creatures, the different species (the plants, etcetera.), they fulfill the same function.
   Yes, in all exists transformation. Thus, then, the earth epidermis is an organ of transformation.
   When we eat the food, so necessary for our subsistence, this it is transformed (of course, stage after stage) into all those vital elements, so indispensable for our same existence. 
   Who makes, within us, that process of transformation of substances? The instinctive center! How wise it is such center! Really, we were astonished of the wisdom of this center. 
   The digestion in itself, my estimables brothers, is transformation. All can see that the food taken by the stomach (that is to say, the inferior part of this three floors factory, that is the human organism) is transformed. 
   If a food for example, pass through the stomach and it does not transform, the organism could not assimilate his principles (its vitamins, its proteins); that would be, simply, an indigestion. Thus, then, meanwhile we are thinking in this matter, we will understand the necessity to pass through a Transformation. 
   Clear it is that the physical foods are transformed; but there is something that really invites us to think: an appropriate imprint transformation (for example) does not exist. For the objective of the nature, itself, there is no necessity that the intellectual animal mistakenly called man, really transforms the imprints. 
   But a man can transform his imprints, by himself, if he has (naturally) the core esoteric knowledge, and understands so that of that necessity (it would turn out wonderful to transform the imprints). 
   Most of the people, in the land of the practical life, think that this physical world is going to give to them, exactly, which they yearn for and they look for, and I have there, my estimables brothers, a tremendous mistake. The life in itself, enters us, in our organism, as of mere imprints. 
   First that really we must understand is the meaning of this esoteric work, related intimately to the matter of imprints. That we needed to transform the life? It is true! And one could not really transform its life, if he does not transform the imprints that arrive to his mind. It is urgent, then, that those that listens to this seminar, think in which here we are saying... 
   Such thing does not exist, really, as the external life (and you see that we are speaking of something very revolutionary, because everybody thinks that the physical is the real thing; but if we go just a little bit more to the bottom, what we really are receiving constantly, every moment, are merely Imprints). 
   We see a person that we like or dislike, and first thing that we obtain are imprints of that nature. Truth? We cannot deny this. 
   The life is, we said a succession of imprints (and not as many illustrated ignorants belief: a solid, physical thing, of exclusively material type): the reality of the life is their imprints, clear is that the idea that we are broadcasting through this recording, is certainly difficult to capture, to learn; it constitutes an arduous intersection point. 
   It is possible that you who are listening to me, have the certainty that the life you have exist like so, and not as its imprints. You are so influenced by the physical world, that obviously you think like that. 
   The person that we see sitting, for example, in a chair (there, with such-and-such color suit), that one who smiles to us beyond, that one who go so serious, etc., it is for us real thing, right? but if we meditated (deeply) in everything what we see, we reached to the conclusion that the real thing are the imprints. 
   These, as already I said, arrive at the mind, through (clear is) the windows of the five senses. If we did not have, perhaps for example, eyes to see, neither ears to hear, nor tact to touch, nor sense of smell to smell, or not even taste to please the foods that enter our organism, would exist, for us, this that is called physical world? Clear that no, absolutely no! 
   Therefore, the life arrives to us in form of imprints, and is there, where the possibility of working on us exists. 
   First of all (if that is what we want to do), then, we need to understand the work that we must do. If we would not make that work precisely, how we could achieve in ourselves a psychological transformation? It is obvious that the work that we are going to perform on ourselves, must be done on the imprints that we are receiving constantly, every minute.
   And unless this is learned, or captured, etc., never nobody would understand the meaning of which in the work the FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK is called. 
   The SHOCK is related to those imprints that are everything when we know the outworld, that we are receiving, that we took as if they were the true things, the true people. 
   We need, then, to transform our life, and this is INTERNAL. While trying to transform, then, these psychological aspects of our life, obviously we needed to work on the imprints (that enter us clear this)... 
   Why we called the imprints transformation work, the FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK? Because of a reason, my dear gnostic brothers, because of a single reason: because, simply, it is something that in someway could carry out in a merely mechanical form. 
   This never happen mechanically, a self conscious effort is required.
   It is clear that an aspiring gnostic who starts to understand this kind of job, obviously (by such reason) also stops being a mechanical man that serves, exclusively, to the interests of the nature; an absolutely slept creature, who simply is nothing more that a maid of the nature, for the economic aims of the nature, which do not serve, in anyway, to the interests of our own Intimate Self-realization. 
   If you now begin to understand the meaning of all what is taught this cassette,  if you think now about the meaning of all whatever is taught you to do, by means (we said) of the own effort (beginning with OURSELF OBSERVATION), you will see without a doubt, my dear gnostic brothers, that in the practical side of the esoteric work, everything is related to the transformation of the imprints and what it (naturally) results from the same ones. 
   The work, for example, on the negative emotions, on the anger mood, on the related matter of the IDENTIFICATION, on the self-consideration, on the SUCCESSIVE egos, on the self-justification, on the excuse and on the unconscious states in which we were, it is related (in everything) to the transformation of the imprints and what results from it. 
   Thus it will agree, my dear gnostic brothers, that in certain way the work on ourself can be compared to the dissection, in the sense that this is a transformation. I want that you deeply think in this, that understand, then, which is the FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK. It is precise to built a TOOL OF CHANGE in the place were the imprints get in (do not forget it) 
   
   If by the understanding of the work you can accept the LIFE LIKE A WORK (really esoteric), then you will be in a constant state of REMEMBERING OURSELVES. This state of consciousness of OURSELF, will took you (naturally) to the living land of the imprints transformation, and thus normally (or supra-normal, better we said), to a different life, in which concerns to you naturally. 
   That is to say, that life will not work on you anymore, my dear brothers, like it did before; you will began to think and to understand in a new way, and this it is the beginning, naturally, of your own transformation. Because if you continue thinking the same way, taking the life in the same way, it is clear that no change will be in you.
   To transform life imprints, is to transform oneself, my dear gnostic brothers, and only an entirely new way of thinking, can carry out it. All this work, then, goes towards a radical form of transformation. If oneself does not transform, nothing achieves. 
   You will understand that life demands us (continuously) to react. All those reactions form our life, our personal life. To change our life, is not to change the merely external circumstances, is to really change the own reactions. 
   But if we do not see that the outer life arrives to us like mere imprints that incessantly force us to react (in a form, we said, more less stereotyped), we will not see where the point that really makes possible the change starts, and where it is possible to work. 
   The responses, that form our personal life, are almost all negative. Then our life will be negative as well, will not be but that a successive series of negative responses, that occur like incessant answers to the imprints that arrive at our mind. 
   Then our task consists of transforming the imprints of the life, so that they do not cause that type of negative responses to that we are use to. 
   But, to achieve it, it is required to be all the time SELF-WATCHING US, moment by moment. Thus the imprints do not mechanically arrive; this is equivalent to start living more consciously. 
   An individual can allow the luxury that the imprints arrive to him mechanically, but if one does not commit such error, if it transforms his imprints, then start to live consciously. For that reason it is say that this is the FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK. 
   The FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK is based, precisely in the transformation of the imprints that arrive at the mind. If one is able to transform the imprints that arrive at the mind, at the precise moment of their entrance, one always can work in the result of them. Clear it is that, when transforming them, we avoided their mechanical effects, that always usually are disastrous inside our psiquis. 
   This demands a defined feeling, a defined vibration of the work, a valuation of the teachings, which means that this esoteric work must be taken until the point, so to speak, where the imprints enter, and from where they are distributed (mechanically) to his usual place (by the personality), to evoke the old reactions. 
   I want that you understand a little bit more. I will try, we said, to simplify, in order that you can understand. I will give an example: if we threw a stone into a clear lake, in the lake we will see that imprints will be taken place, and this is the answer to the imprints given by the stone (they are the reactions). 
   These are show in waves that go from the center to the periphery, right? Good, now my dear Gnostic brothers, take this example to your mind. Imagine it for a moment, like a lake. Suddenly, the image of a person appears. 
   	
   That image, we said, is like the stone of our example: it arrives at the lake of the mind, and then the mind reacts (the imprints are those that produce the image that arrives at the mind; the reactions are the answer to such imprints). 
   If you throw a ball against a wall, the wall receives the imprint and comes the reaction, that consists in returning (unconsciously) the ball to whom threw it. Good, it is possible that the ball does not arrive to him directly, but of all ways the ball bounces and that is reaction, is not? 
   Well, there are not very pleasant imprints. For example, the words of an insultator are not, by the way, quite as good that it is said, is not? Clear that we could, I said, to transform those words of the insultator. 
   But if the words are like that, then that we could do? transform the imprints that such words produce to us? If, that is possible, and the Gnostic  education teaches to us to crystallize the SECOND FORCE (that is to say, the Christ in us), by means of a postulate that says:
   "IT IS NECESSARY TO RECEIVE WILLINGLY THE AWFUL DISPLAYS OF OUR FELLOWS." 
   There it is, then, the way to transform the imprints that produce, into us, the words of a insultator: "TO RECEIVE WILLINGLY THE AWFUL DISPLAYS OF OUR FELLOWS.
   This postulate will take us, naturally, to the crystallization of the SECOND FORCE (that is to say, the Christ in us), will cause that the CHRIST comes to take form in us. It is a sublime, esoteric postulate in a one hundred percent... 
   Well now, if from the physical world we just know the imprints, then (properly) the physical world is not as external as the people belief. With right reason Emmanuel Kant said: "the outside is the inside". Thus, then, if the inside is what it counts, we must transform the inside (the imprints are internal) 
   Thus, then, all the objects, things, everything what we see, exist in our inside in form of imprints. If, for example, we did not transform the imprints, nothing changes in us. Lust, greed, hatred, pride, etc., exist as imprint forms (within our psiquis) and vibrate incessantly. 
   The mechanical result of such imprints, has been all those inhuman elements that we took inside, and that normally we have called them egos (egos, that as a whole constitute the myself, the itself, right?) 
   Let us suppose that an individual, for example, sees a provocative woman and he does not transform his imprints. The result will be that the same imprints (of naturally lusty type), demand in him, then, a desire to have her. 
   Such desire comes to be the mechanical result of the received imprint, and it is molded, it comes to crystallize, to take form in ours psiquis, it becomes another aggregate, that is to say, in an inhuman element, in a new Iust ego that appends to the sum (already existent) of inhuman elements that, in their totality, constitute the EGO, the myself, the itself. 
   But we are going to continue thinking... In us anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness and gluttony exists. Anger, why? so that many imprints arrived at us, to our interior, and we never transformed them. 
   The mechanical result of such imprints, it was the anger, was the egoes that even exist, they live in ours psiquis, and that constantly, then, makes us feel angry. 
   Greed. Undoubtoubldy, many things woke up in us the greed: the money, the jewels, the all types of material things, etc. Those objects arrived at us in form of imprints. 
   We made the mistake that not transforming those imprints, for example in something different: in an admiration by the beauty, or in altruism, or joy by the owner of such or as things, in aim... and that? thus such non-transformed imprints, naturally became greed egoes that now we carry inside. 
   With regard to the lust, already I said that different forms of lust arrived to us in form of imprints, and arose (inside our mind) images, we said, of erotic type, whose reaction was the lust. 
   As it was that we did not transform those lusty waves, those lusty vibrations, those imprints, that lusty feeling, that UNHEALTHY EROTISM, either not properly understood (because if its well understood, I said that the erotism is healthy), naturally that the result did not wait: it was completely mechanic, new Egos were born within ours psiquis (clear it is, of morbid type). 
   Thus, then, nowadays we need to work on the imprints that we have inside and on its mechanical results. Inside, we have anger, lust, greed, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc., imprints (and so forth). Also we have, inside, the mechanical results of such imprints: a bunch of troublemaker and screaming egoes that now we needed to understand and E-LI-MI-NA-TE. 
   All the work on our life, turns then in knowing how to transform the imprints and also in knowing how to eliminate, we said, the mechanical results of the imprints non-transformed in the past.
   The outer world, properly does not exist; what exists is the internal. The imprints are inner, and the reactions (with such imprints) are completely inner. Who could say that he is seeing a tree in if same? No, it will be seeing the IMAGE Of the TREE, but not to the tree. The THING IN IF, as said by Emmanuel Kant, nobody sees it; the image of the thing is seen, that is to say, the impressions arise in us about a tree, about a thing. 
   These are internal, are from inside, are from the mind. If oneself, for example, does not modified its own internal imprints, the mechanical result is not delayed: it is the BIRTH OF NEW EGOES that come to enslave, our essence even more, our conscience; that they come to intensify the dream in which we live. 
   When oneself understands that, really everything what exists in ourself (in relation to the physical world), is not more than imprints, also understands the necessity to transform those imprints, and when doing it, a total transformation of oneself takes place. 
   There is nothing that hurts more, for example, that the CALUMNY, or the words of a insultator; but if one is able to transform the imprints that such words cause on us, those words stay as a check with no funds. 
   Certainly, the words of an insultator do not have more value than that given by the insulted. If the insulted does not give any value to such words, those words do not have any value (I repeat, although me it makes tiresome: they stay as a check with no funds). 
   When oneself understands this, then transforms the imprints of such words in something different, for example: In love, in compassion to the insultator, and that (naturally) means TRANS-FOR-MA-TION... 
   Thus, then, we needed to be transforming (incessantly) the imprints, not only the current ones, but also the past ones. Within us a lot of imprints exist (that in the past we committed the mistake, of not to have transformed) and many mechanical results of them, that are such "Egoes" that now we need to eliminate, to destroy, in order that the conscience become free and awake. 
   
   I want that you they think (deeply) in which I am saying: the things, the people, are not more than imprints inside you, inside your mind. If they transform those imprints, your life will be transformed. 
   When there is, (for example) PRIDE, it has as a basement the ignorance. Of what a person can feel proud of, for example? Of its social position, its money, of what? But if that person, for example, thinks that its social position is a merely mental matter, is a series of imprints that have arrived at its mind (Imprints on its social status, or its money). 
   When it thinks that such state is not more than a mental matter, or when it analyzes, then, the matter of the money and realizes that only exists (in the mind) in form of imprints (clear is, the imprints produced by the money). 
   If he analyzes this thoroughly, if he understands (really) that the money and the social position (and others) are not more than internal mind imprints, just by understood that they are mind imprints only, there is a transformation of the imprints,  then the pride falls by itself, it collapses, and humility, born in us in a very natural form. 
   Thus continuing with these imprint transformation processes, I will say something else. For example: an image of a LUSTY woman arrives at the mind, or arises in the mind. Such image is an imprint, obviously. 
   We could transform that lusty imprint, by means of the understanding. It would be enough we thought that the mentioned image is perishable, that such beauty is (therefore) illusory.
   If we remembered, by moments, that woman has to die and her body will become dust in the cemetery; if with our imagination we will see her body in disintegration state, within the grave, this would be more than sufficient to transform that lusty imprint into CHASTITY. Thus, transforming it, no more lusty Egoes would arise (in the psiquis). 
   Thus, then, it is agreeable that by the understanding, we transform the imprints that arise in the mind.
   I believe that the honorable brothers are understanding that the outer world is not as outer as normally it is believed. It is inner, because everything what it arrives to us from the world, is not more than internal imprints. Nobody could put a tree within its mind, or a chair, or a house, or a palace, or a stone. 
   There everything, in our mind, are not but imprints (that is all), imprints of a world that we called "outside", but which is really not as outer as we think.
   It agrees, then, that all of us will be transforming the imprints by means of the understanding. If somebody praises to us, for example, How we would transform the VANITY that so flatterer could cause in us? Obviously, the praises, the flatteries, are not more than imprints than arrive at the mind, and this one reacts as vanity, but if such imprints are transformed, the vanity becomes impossible. 
   How would the flatterer words will be transformed, those praise imprints, how? By means of the understanding! when oneself really understands that it is no more than an infinitesimal creature in the corner of the universe, in fact transforms, then, such praise imprints, or flattery, in something different. 
   It turns such imprints, we said, in which they are: dust, cosmic cloud of dust, because oneself understands his own position. 
   We already know that our planet earth is a sand grain in the space. Let us think about the Galaxy in that we lived, consisted of thousand and million worlds... What is the Earth? It is a miserable dust particle in that infinite. And what about us? Organisms (we said) thus, microorganisms, within that particle... Then that ? What we would obtain with these thinkings? TO CHANGE (it is clear) and this, obviously, would create an imprints transformation that are related to the flattery, the praise, the adulation and we would not react (as a result) with pride, is not?. 
      As much as we think in this, we see more and more the necessity of a complete imprints transformation
      Everything what we see (external), is inner. Then, if we did not work on the interior, we will take the wrong way, because we would not modify our life. If we want to be different, we need a total transformation, and if we want to transform, we must start to transform the imprints. There it is the key for the radical individual transformation. 
      In the same sexual transmutation, there is imprints transformation. Transforming the animals, beastly imprints, in devotion elements, then the sexual transformation arises (in us): the TRANSMUTATION. 
      I believe that you have understood me and for today we will arrive until this part, then, of our speech. I hope that those that listen to this tape, have the kindness to analyze it, to understand it... 
      Samael Aun Weor
      
   Instituto Cultural Quetzalcoatl de Antropologa Psicoanaltica, A.C.
   www.samaelgnosis.net   y www.samaelgnosis.org
    

