Advise for Students of Shamanism of Light.
“He that wants to officiate in the great temple of wisdom has to know how to command the elemental creatures of the plants”
p.18 treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, Samael Aun Weor. (Translated from original Spanish version)
Gnostic Shamanism is, precisely, the study and practice of of such wisdom.
“Each elemental of each plant has its own ritual, mantras and its hours in order to deliver itself to the doctor who knows how to command it with love and impose upon it with tenderness…”
VWSAW, Treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic.
The person that works with these rituals and mantrams is a student of the ancient art of elementotherapy. The term Shaman is a word coming from Siberia meaning Medicine Man or Priest-Doctor and refers to the people that divine and cure with the elementals of the plants. This term has been coined to describe the persons of all Indigenous cultures that perform this sacred function.
Any Gnostic Student can study the book Occult Medicine and Practical Magic and he/she will discover that VM Samael speaks with great respect of the Masters of the Mayan Ray and the wisdom of the Green Snake (Shamanic Wisdom).
It is clear that this Master studied, practiced and shared the profound wisdom of Mother Nature in company with the Shaman Priests and Priestesses of various Indigenous peoples of Colombia.
In one of his books called “The Diary Notes of a Guru” he explains how, whilst living in a small house in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia he was visited by such and Indigenous person and he explains how this person, who had learnt to read, had understood the gnosis completely and profoundly just by reading one of his books and in this he gives the indication that if the person has the right level of consciousness they can understand the wisdom easily and put it in practice. This clearly demonstrates the level of this kind of Shaman.
The VM Samael wrote many books and spoke of many elements in the study and practice of Ancient wisdom, including Yoga, Buddhist Meditation techniques, Shamanic Medicine, Kabbalah, Egyptian mysteries, Celtic Mysteries, Aztec and Maya initiations, Christian Esoterism, Sufi wisdom and so many more. He covered all the planet and for this reason he is the Avatar of Aquarius.
For every person there is something, for each person there is a note that he can relate to. There are many mantras that are given by the Master and we can select that which we feel attracted to and which resonates with us.
For this reason we, as students, should respect the wisdom of the distinct rays.
We, as students of Gnostic Shamanism do not claim to be the “only inheritors” of the Gnostic wisdom or that people should only study Shamanism in a rigid sense… we say that Shamanism is underlying all traditions, yes and that it is part of, for example, Hindu, Tibetan, Japanese, even Christian and Muslim traditions, if, that is, we can understand that Shamanism in essence is communication and interaction with the intelligent spirits, devas, elementals, genies and regents of Mother Nature.
The Hindu had their legends of SOMA the mysterious magical potion that helped them enter other dimensions. The Celts had their legends of a Magic Potion that enabled the shaman magician to shape shift (Story of Taliesin), The Japanese spoke of the KAMI the nature spirits to whom they made shrines and sacred groves. In the ancient times when those traditions had their day there was no division between religion (i.e. communion with God) and the practice and use of plant medicine, the perception and communion with Natures spirits. All was ONE and so in this new age of Aquarius all will gradually merge again into a continuous interplay of energy, consciousness and divine wisdom.
We do not oblige or force any person to enter these studies. We prefer that any person that comes to visit us with the express purpose of studying this wisdom is a person that is clear in their purpose, whether that be to be healed of some ailment, psychological, or otherwise, to learn about plants, shamanism and the spiritual life, to explore community living and the opportunity this gives for self knowledge and so on. The important is to have a CENTRE OF GRAVITY, to have a purpose and not to be swayed by the come and go the thoughts that one day say “I want to study Shamanism” and tomorrow say another thing.
The work with the elementals requires commitment, discipline and decision. Very different to the tendancy of the modern sub cultures that have profaned the sacred plants, trying to use the elementals as drugs and vice in order to escape themselves or believing that they know better than the Ancient Cultures.
It is so typical of the emptiness of modern people that they pronounce against Shamanic Disciplines and traditions as superstitious as though they were wiser and as though the ages have given us enlightenment. Again we see as in other cases the fear of deep and authentic tradition.
We do not advise the abuse of the elemental neither in practice or in word. We must learn to discern and comprehend. We know that there are charlatans who try to deceive young people by presenting themselves as shamans.
We also know that there are shallow people that believe they know it all about Gnosis or Shamanism and who speak in elevated and mystical tones, acting as if they were wise men of great standing, but who, in reality are no more than vain and conceited products of a vain and conceited society that looks down upon the Indigenous peoples as if they were mere primitives who are just emerging from the mud in the process of evolution.
Poor ignorants those people and they will cry bitter bitter tears when they realise the falsity of their intellect and their “tower of babble” crumbles to the ground with the civilization upon which they sit so smug and satisfied with the “knowledge” that they have stolen and appropriated for themselves without real vocation.
The true student of Shamanism much cultivate great humility before the secrets of Mother Nature, he must learn to see himself as but a small child standing in awe at the gates of the Universal Mysteries, he must throw away all his preconceived ideas and concepts, all his prejudice and learn to be meek and listen with great care in order to become sensitive to the voices of Natures Spiritual beings. He must realise that he is only beginning to enter into another world… the real world of multi dimensions and in order to tread those worlds he must purify his mind of doubts and his heart of envy and resentment.
This is the true way of Shamanism Of Light and its only a small approximation that we make here about a subject on which mere words are inadequate.
