Previous Gnostic Questions

Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor and the magazine.

What does sacrifice represent in Gnosis, and why is it so important?

Whoever wants to change needs to sacrifice something. Many sacrifices are needed for radical change. Everyone has something to sacrifice, except those who are definitively lost; these cannot even be helped anymore.

To change, it is necessary to know; to know, one must learn; and to learn, one must make great sacrifices.

In reality, the individual only appreciates that which has cost them sacrifice. Radical change without sacrifice is absurd; all radical change requires sacrifice. That is the law: everything costs; nothing is given to us freely. Each person can only achieve what they have given for it.

There is no other path to achieving radical change; Conscious Sacrifice is the only path.

Is it a small thing to sacrifice lust? Pride? Laziness? Gluttony? Envy? Anger? Greed? etc.?

Only through sacrifice can we achieve radical change. History repeats itself, and the ego always returns to repeat its same mistakes and its same story. Everything repeats itself with the precision of a fine clock, and it is only possible to change this order of things by creating new causes.

If we truly want new causes, we urgently need supreme sacrifices. Only in this way can we achieve radical change; only in this way can we change this order of things to break free from the vicious cycle in which we are fatally trapped.

Samael Aun Weor. Excerpt from the book: The Social Christ. Chapter XXVIII: Radical Change.

Answer from the magazine "The The wisdom of the Being.".

Sacrifice clearly means the deliberate choice of a higher good in preference to an inferior one, as when coal is sacrificed for the sake of fire. Sacrifice is a transmutation of forces. There is a psychological and cosmic mechanism at work in every act of sacrifice, through which it is transformed into spiritual energy. This energy, in turn, can be applied to various other mechanisms and reappear on the planes of form as a type of integral force entirely different from what it originally was.

For example, a man might sacrifice his emotions to his career, or a woman her career to her emotions.

Some people are willing to sacrifice their earthly pleasures for spiritual joys. However, it is very rare to find someone willing to renounce their own suffering, to sacrifice it for something higher. For example, by sacrificing the supreme, very natural pain that results from the death of a loved one, a terrifying transmutation of forces will occur, the consequence of which will be the power to become invisible at will.

As for sacrifice for humanity, the purest sacrifice is performed according to divine commandments, focused on worship, solely for the sake of worship, without expecting results. The sacrifice called tamasic desires the fruits; it is done out of fear or temptation, and the inferior sacrifice is performed without faith, against the commandments, without charity.

The law of the solar logos is sacrifice. Sacrifice for humanity is Christ-centeredness.

The Magazine "The Wisdom of Being" 107: "Sacrifice."