Samael Aun Weor states that he is delivering the Doctrine of Synthesis because it provides a clear and precise doctrine that syncretizes an extensive variety of teachings that study the human condition. Although, he drew extensively from different sources, he always expressed the teaching in his own words and made sure to include the revelation of the Great Arcanum which those authors usually missed for it was forbidden to reveal it under penalty of death. He seldom quoted an author verbatim and so gave very little credit directly to these different sources, specially Eliphas Levi, Blavatsky and Gurdjieff. In revealing the Great Arcanum, he quotes Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller and gives him credit for that enigmatic sentence written in Latin; "Inmissio membri virilis in vaginam sine ejaculatio seminis".
Wrong work of the sex function implies a waste of valuable energy that should be transmuted into higher being bodies. To conserve the semen in the human organism does not mean to lead a monastic life rather it means to practice the Arcanum A.Z.F. under the auspices of the Perfect Matrimony. No fornicator can ever achieve Self-Realization. Beware for much of human suffering stems from the wrong work of the sex function. Practice Sex Magic as true men and women in perfect matrimony but never ejaculate the semen. Use instead the power of Eros, Cupid and Psyche to regenerate the human species. The conservation of seminal energy strengthens the physical body and prolongs life.
- Religion vs spiritual freedom
Religions are viewed as idiosyncratic expressions of immutable and eternal values. Religions are said to be born and die in time, yet their spiritual values always remain eternal. When a religious form has fulfilled its mission, it begins to degenerate and dies, then a new messenger appears and delivers a doctrine appropriate for that culture. Different cultures require different doctrines for their development and this results in a vast difference of religious doctrines. Nevertheless, if one understands their core values, all religions naturally support each other.
Weor stated many times that schools and religions can become cages of the mind which impede the reception of truth, yet he also delivered a massive doctrine and states that every religion and sect is necessary, that “all religions are pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.” However, the practice of the Great Arcanum is the most important practice. A possible resolution is found when one understands that just as a cage can protect one who is bewildered by the unknown, so can it become an obstacle for the realization of truth. Ultimately the teachings call for the student to acquire his own gnosis, or self-knowledge, and the teachings are only a means to that end.
Anthropology
Weor's 'Gnostic Anthropology' is in contradiction with Darwin's scientific theory of evolution. Instead of man ascending from the monkey, the monkey descends from man. 'Gnostic Anthropology' is to be understood by following the trend of thought that appears first in the Biblical story of Genesis and the fall of man, H. P. Blavatsky's
Anthropogenesis, followed by Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy and the views of P. D. Ouspensky expressed in
A New Model of the Universe. Its main idea is that man's present condition is the result of a process of degeneration which began ages ago.Weor stated that today's so called "humans" have their origin from the time when the degenerated humans from the continent of "Lemuria" copulated with beasts which gave birth to the "intellectual animal". This event is linked to an event in Genesis 6:1-7, which led to the destruction of mankind, except Noah. Noah would be Noah-Ra from Atlantis who brought out the Chosen People before the continent sank under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean as narrated by Samael Aun Weor in his book
The Revolution of Beelzebub.
According to Weor's work
The Social Christ, Bulganin, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union approved the experiment to inseminate Russian women with the semen of chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas. The results are known as the Bulganeans, Bulganin's children, the ape-children of the Soviet Union. In a later text he is asked: "Q- Is it true that Russians are inseminating women with the semen of monkeys?A- Those Russians are performing these stupidities because they want to make a race of degenerates that could take charge of physical labour; then they would be able to dedicate themselves to other studies, "apparently" high science, high ethics, etc. This is only a heap of clumsy experiments carried out by those Russians."
Normal sex obeys the animal instinct of procreation. According to Aun Weor, as long as humans are exclusively engaged in the process of animal procreation without practicing Scientific Chastity (Sex Magic) in Perfect Matrimony, they are prone to degenerate.
Samael Aun Weor Christian Gnostic Church of Brazil presents Cosmogenesis and Anthropogenesis as Arcanum Number Two while Arcanum Number One is the manifestation of the great Pleroma from the immaterial Absolute to the relativity of the material world.
Praxis
Samael Aun Weor emphasizes that his doctrine is experiential, and must be put into practice for it to be of any value to the student. Likewise, throughout his works there are hundreds of techniques and exercises that supposedly are of help in the development of psychic powers e. g. leaving the dense physical body at will (astral projection) in order to be taught in the schools of the "Higher Worlds." The techniques are always combined with meditation and sexual transmutation, and the perfection of such powers may take more than one lifetime.
- The awakening of consciousness
It is stated that if a student is successful in awakening consciousness, he or she will eventually experience a continuous state of vigilance not only during the day but also while the physical body is sleeping, and most importantly after death. This is significant because Samael Aun Weor states that those who have a sleeping consciousness are not aware of their postmortem condition just as they are not aware when they are physically sleeping. The awakening of consciousness allows a student to continue to work regardless of their physical state.
- The illuminating void
Samael Aun Weor emphasizes the need to take the great step to achieve the great liberation and be happy. In
Self-Knowledge Didactics, Samael Aun Weor writes: "... This is a very complex world, a world of ever present duality, associations and multiple combinations, the eternal struggle of contradictions, the struggle of opposites. Under this circumstances, no happiness is possible... If we really want to enjoy true happiness, we must take the Great Step and land in the Illuminating Void where there is no duality whatsoever... The right answer to the question, "What would one become if the entire universe becomes one?" is found in the Illuminating Void. No form of formal logic can deliver the right answer.
Psychology
The basis of Samael Aun Weor's Practical Work is of a psychological nature. He states in many of his books that the purpose of his doctrine is to effect a psychological change. The terms Gnostic, Esoteric or Revolutionary Psychology are used to describe the psychological methods taught, and are said to be synonymous with the psychological teachings of religion.
A fundamental axiom presented is that an ordinary human being is not really human at all, but rather an intellectual animal (a rational animal) with consciousness asleep. According to Samael Aun Weor, a true human being is someone who has no psychological imperfection, an image of God, as in Jesus' saying, "Become perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Samael Aun Weor writes of the awakening of consciousness as being very similar to the traditional Buddhist understanding, and throughout his works he describes many analogous processes as they are spoken of in different religions.
- The annihilation of the ego
Global International Webcaster LaRouche's Konstandinos Kalimtgis falsely attributes the authorship of
Keys to Mental Dynamics as "... the infamous Gnostic brainwashing Manual" to Samael Aun Weor.
Dope Inc. attributes the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to Samael's Gnostic teachings in the Thule Society, unwittingly forgetting that Samael was then in 1919, a fallen angel; according to the same publication, Gnosticism is flourishing in Bulgaria with the doctrine of "the path of light and truth." According to a Radio Free Europe Report of March 24, 1983, in the Xth century of the Christian Era, Bulgaria became the cultural center of the Bogomils or Cathars and Albigenses, a Gnostic sect whose influence reached the people to such an extent that even today, Bulgaria abounds in seers, clairvoyants, telepathists and spiritual healers even more so than any othe country in the world.
In 1984 Luis Gustavo Morales Sierra (1940-2006), a former Gnostic student of Samael Aun Weor's disciple Julio Medina V. (known as the Master Gargha Kuichines), assumed the name of Master Kelium Zeus and established the Colombian Tao Sect Sakroaquarius teaching secretly among other things that Victor Manuel Gomez R. was in fact the illegitimate son of the aristocrat Leandro Gomez (1889-1965), former president of Colombia from 1950 to 1951. In 2004, Sakroaquarius which had a following of more than 2,000 members was completely destroyed by a military force of more than 1,000 soldiers.
With the technique of awakening Kundalini, and here he parts company with Gurdjieff who considers Kundalini as something undesirable and unnecessary for man, he taught the doctrine of the annihilation of the ego. He taught that one’s ego is really not one but many, or a multitude of independent, contradictory desires. Likewise, each person's ego is said to actually contain many "I’s," many "egos," many "aggregates" and even demons. Each desire is an "I" and each "I" has its own specific causes and conditions that lead to its personification at a particular time. This is the mechanism behind what is commonly called "changing one’s mind" (metanoia) because when one "I" changes to another a literal exchange of personified psychological aggregates has taken place. This "doctrine of the many", the Plural 'I' or Pluralized Ego, is the same as that taught by G.I. Gurdjieff and his disciple P. D. Ouspensky and is one of the reasons Samael Aun Weor was sometimes accused of plagiarism. To this he responded that Gurdjieff was not the author of this doctrine and that its origin is found in Egypt and Tibet.
- Consciousness
Consciousness is described as a state of being, very closely related to God. The consciousness within the normal person is said to be 97% asleep. Consciousness asleep is consciousness that is subconscious, unconscious, or infraconscious, which are various levels of psychological sleep. Psychological sleep is a way to describe the lack of self-awareness, meaning that the common and ordinary person is not aware of 97% of what constitutes the ordinary state of being. A consciousness asleep is caused by what Samael Aun Weor calls identification, fascination, or the incorrect transformation of impressions (all three are essentially the same thing). It is said that to awaken consciousness one must understand consciousness asleep, which implies that one must begin to understand every impulse, action, thought and movement one makes, a feat that is said to be accomplished through meditation and self-observation. It is stated many times that the awakening of consciousness is the only way to acquiring gnosis and achieve a true and radical change by removing the spurious psychological aggregates that cause unnecessary suffering. The awakening of consciousness goes hand in hand with the transmutation of sexual energy. No higher states of consciousness could exist in the absence of sexual energy transmutation.
- Psychological aggregates
The purpose of the psychological work is to dissolve all the psychological aggregates one has accumulated. The term "psychological or mystical death" is often used to describe the process one must undergo in order to reach liberation."Psychological aggregates" are commonly known simply as aggregates in Buddhism, yet it is taught that other religions used a more veiled or less sophisticated method to describe them, such as: the
Legion of Satan that Jesus is described as removing from a man in in one of the alleged
Miracles of Jesus; the killing of the "unbelievers" in Islam; Moses escaping the tyranny of the Egyptians; Arjuna fighting against his own blood (the ego); the demons of Seth that attack Osiris; Jesus throwing the merchants out of the temple; the archetypal death and resurrection of the "Solar Hero" exemplified in the stories of Jesus and Osiris; the descent to Dante's Inferno (representing our unconsciousness) or Paradise Lost Pandemonium in order to accomplish a great task, such as those performed by Hercules or Orpheus; the archetypal Dragon (ego) that must be slayed by the Knight, etc. Samael Aun Weor states that this specific paradigm is called "The Doctrine of the Many" and has been taught in esoteric schools and religions since the beginning of time. The anatomy of the pluralized self being the divine spark imprisoned within hundreds of psychological aggregates.
In order to achieve psychological transformation, extensive methods of meditation, self-observation, and sexual transmutation are taught and recommended to be practiced on a daily basis. The goal of psychological work is the awakening of consciousness and ultimately the state of Paramarthasatya or Adi-Buddha Yoga.
Physiology and sexology
Indeed, sexual energy is without a doubt the most subtle and powerful energy normally produced and transported through the human organism. Everything that a Human Being is, including the three spheres of thought, feeling and will, is none other than the exact outcome of distinct modifications of sexual energy.
Basic physiology is studied, mostly endocrinology and the hormonal influence of primary and secondary sexual characteristics. It is taught that there are three fundamental nervous systems: cerebrospinal nervous system, grand sympathetic nervous system, and the Parasympathetic nervous system. These nervous systems are referred to as the "Three Brains" or three centers of the intellectual animal, and are named Intellectual Center, the Emotional Center, and the Motor-Instinctual-Sexual Center. Each center is studied in relation to the types of energies or "occult hydrogens" that animate them, the frequency at which each center operates (sexual center being the fastest, then emotional, then intellectual), and how psychological aggregates form and act within each center: psychological aggregates that are expressed through the intellect one way and through the emotions in a different way, etc.
The three centers are directly related to the Trinity, Trimurti, or threefold-ness of creation, the intellect being related to the Father (Kether, Affirmation, Positive), the emotion related to the Son, (Chokmah, Denial, Negation), and the sexual center related to the Holy Spirit (Binah, Reconcile, Neutral). The primary energy of the intellectual brain (Father) is the air, which is then placed in the bloodstream which is related to the emotional brain (Son), and lastly the final condensation of blood is found in the semen or sexual hormones, which is directly related to the Holy Spirit: that which impregnates or manifests creation, Shakti, etc.
Samael Aun Weor teaches that psychological aggregates form in one of these three centers; therefore, it is said that there are three fundamental defects: the demon of the mind related to the intellectual center, the demon of desire related to the emotional center, and the demon of evil will related to the motor-instinctual-sexual center. They are collectively referred to as the "Three Traitors", and many references to religion are found that are held to symbolize them, for example: Judas (desire), Pilate (intellect), and Caiaphas (will) who crucify Jesus; Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum who murder Hiram Abiff ; Seth, whose homosexual inclinations and actions are well known, in the form of the serpent Apophis and its two monstrous helpers Sebau and Nak murders Osiris; the three furies who attack Orestes; the three daughters of Mara who attack Buddha and who are conquered through right Thinking (Intellectual Center), right Feeling (Emotional Center), and right Action (Motor-Instinctual-Sexual Center) (see Noble Eightfold Path).
Occult medicine
Without examining psychiatric malpractice Dr. Jean-Marie Abgrall, a psychoanalyst and leading figure in France's anti-sect movement, writes against Samael Aun Weor's remedies, which he discovered while living with a primitive Indian tribe in the Colombian Amazon. He wrote down all his discoveries in his book on Occult Medicine.
Occult or esoteric anatomy and physiology is also studied, which refers to the study of the supra-sensible bodies of minerals, plants, animals (rational and irrational), and human beings. It is said that everyone contains seven bodies, closely related to the Theosophical septenary, which Samael Aun Weor calls: physical, vital, emotional (astral), mental, causal, buddhic and atmic. Aun Weor differentiates between an intellectual animal and an authentic human being through the differences in the vehicles of emotion (astral body), mind (mental body) and will (causal body). Intellectual animals (ordinary man and woman) are said to contain the Lunar Astral Body, the Lunar Mental Body, and the Lunar Causal Body, each referred to by different names in different schools of Occultism. It is stated that these lunar bodies are the result of mechanical evolution through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms and therefore, they are of an infrahuman or animal quality. The only true difference between the rational animal and irrational animals is the intellect, which gives the former the ability to become human, or as Samael Aun Weor states, the intellectual animal has the "seed" or potential of a human latently existing within its sexual organs.
What are called authentic human beings, although physically appearing identical, have crystallized the Solar Bodies: Solar Astral Body, Solar Mental Body, and Solar Causal Body. Lunar bodies are vehicles that receive the energy of creation (that is, God) at the level of an animal, while the solar bodies permit the reception of a much greater voltage allowing greater levels of wisdom and superior emotion to be incarnated. Samael Aun Weor states that the solar bodies are collectively referred to as vehicles of the "soul".
Samael Aun Weor states that the solar bodies are formed in the same manner that physical bodies are formed: through use of the sexual function. In order to form the solar bodies, sexual transmutation is taught via the hetero sexual magic of married couples engaged in coitus without orgasm or seminal ejaculation. Sexual magic is the arousal of sexual energies through the act of coitus between husband and wife, but instead of expelling those energies through orgasm they are transmuted into higher octaves of energy. Each successive Solar Body is the result of the saturation of transmuted sexual energy at its respective octave: first, the "Christ Astral" is formed by transmuting the sex energy into a second octave; second, the "Christ Mind" is formed by saturating, condensing or crystallizing the sexual energy into a third octave, and the causal body or "Christ Will" is formed by transmuting the sexual energy called "Hydrogen SI-12", into a fourth octave. The "birth" of the solar bodies is what Samael Aun Weor states is the true meaning of being "born again." It is taught that the solar bodies are referred to in the Bible as the three sons of Noah or the three Christians in the (alchemical) furnace of Nebuchadnezzar.
- The three forms of sexuality
The topic of sexuality is approached from a very stern point of view, and it is indeed the crux of Samael Aun Weor’s entire message. He states that there are three fundamental types of sexuality: suprasexuality, which is the sexual functioning of someone like Buddha or Jesus, who naturally transmutes all their energy perfectly; normal sexuality, which is defined as those who have no sexual conflict of any kind whatsoever and who transmute their sexual energy or use it to procreate the species; finally, the two spheres of infrasexuality: Nahemah's sphere of influence which includes fornication, adultery and prostitution and Lilith's sphere of influence, a category which includes homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, bestiality, sado-masochism and any other "abuse" of the sexual energy. The Dalai Lama and other religious leaders including the Pope have expressed similar views. In fact, on September 19, 2003,
The New York Times reported "... the Dalai Lama explicitly condemns homosexuality, as well as all oral and anal sex."
Soteriology
Soteriology the study of salvation is presented in the light of every notable religion yet usually with special differences not held by orthodox interpretations. There are many degrees of salvation generally accomplished by paying one’s karma, removing the psychological imperfections and finally creating the solar bodies. The idea held by many religions that belief in God alone achieves salvation is categorically rejected.
Many different levels of salvation are explained, each depending upon the willpower of the individual accomplishing it. For those who do not remove their psychological imperfection (ego) — which is the cause of karma and the suffering of humanity — after approximately 108 rebirths they will have their ego removed forcefully through mechanical devolution within the infradimensions (Hell). Here it is said that "Mother Nature" mechanically pays out one’s accumulated karma through a great deal of suffering over thousands of years until one is returned to the state of an innocent elemental, or Essence. This is said to be a state of being that is total happiness, yet not cognizant happiness and therefore not complete happiness. It should be noted that Hell is not taught as a place of eternal damnation, just a place to pay one’s karma, and in fact it is seen as a part of God's grace because if the ego is not removed forcefully, these souls would continue to suffer indefinitely. It is held that after Hell, the elemental is reinserted into the mechanics of evolution in order to once again attempt to gain conscious happiness: They are first inserted at the basic level of existence (minerals), and through millions of years, transmigrate through increasingly complex organisms until the state of intellectual animal is reached again.
For those who do work on themselves, depending on the degree of perfection, happiness and wisdom they wish to attain, two distinct paths emerge: the Straight Path of the Razor's Edge (full of dangers inside and out) and the Spiral Path (the easy way out). The Spiral Path involves reaching a state of relative enlightenment by choosing the enjoyment of the Higher Worlds, Heaven or Nirvana), and occasionally returning to a physical body in order to pay out a little more karma and help humanity in the process. Samael Aun Weor refers to these as the Pratyeka Buddhas and Sravakas, and that the vast majority who reach this state choose the Spiral Path because it is very easy and enjoyable. The dangerous Straight Path of the Razor's Edge is the Path of the Bodhisattva who renounces the happiness of the Higher Worlds (Nirvana) in order to help humanity. In the doctrine of Samael Aun Weor, the Bodhisattva has a very specific definition, as it is not merely someone who has taken the Bodhisattva vows. It is the physical (Malkuth), vital (Yesod), astral (Hod), mental (Netzach) and causal (Tiphereth) vehicles — in other words the human soul — of a self-realized spirit, (Geburah-Chesed) who has chosen the extremely dangerous Straight Path of the Razor's Edge in order to incarnate the Christ (Kether-Binah-Chokmah). In other words, the Bodhisattva is the "Son" of a self-realized God who is trying to return to the Absolute or 13th Aeon.
- The cosmic Christ
Christ is viewed as the savior but not as traditionally understood by contemporary Christianity. Instead, Christ is an impersonal force or intelligence that emanates from the Absolute and is also referred to as the Cosmic Christ. Christ is said to be before Jesus, and is represented in different traditions with names such as Thoth, Ormuz, Ahura Mazda, Krishna, Osiris, Zeus, Jupiter, Quetzalcoatl who achieved Self-Realization by practicing
Aztec Magic of Christification, Okidanokh, Kulkulcan, Khristos, Chrestos, Christus, Messiah, Baldur, Mahavatar Babaji and Avalokitesvara. It is held that Christ enters into and exalts any individual who is properly prepared, which denotes the complete annihilation of the ego, the exhaustion of all karma and the birth of the solar vehicles, the latter is necessary to handle the super high voltage of Christ. Samael Aun Weor writes that only those who choose the previously mentioned Straight Path of the Razor's Edge can incarnate the Christ because the Spiral Path is not a path of total sacrifice. Likewise, any true Bodhisattva has incarnated the Christ or is in process of doing so. It is said that in history Christ incarnated in Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, Moses, Padmasambhava, John the Baptist, Milarepa, Joan of Arc,Fu Xi, Ramakrishna as well as many others now forgotten by time e. g. Zanoni
It is important to notice that some of these individuals represent Christ as an impersonal force e. g. Jesus, meaning that although he was an individual Christ, he taught the doctrine of the Cosmic Christ, intentionally molding his physical life after the psychological processes that one undergoes to incarnate the Christ. As with Buddha, Jesus is seen as a Bodhisattva who came to help humanity. Jesus is viewed as the Savior of the World because he is a Paramarthasatya (an inhabitant of the Absolute) that physically incarnated (a very rare occurrence) specifically for the sake of poor suffering humanity. According to Samael Aun Weor, Jesus purposefully played out physically the internal or psychological struggle one must undergo in the path of Self-Realization; thus, the Gospels are a mixture of reality and kabbalistic, initiatic symbolism.
According to Samael Aun Weor, there is the historic Christ as depicted in Christian Churches; then, there is the Christ of Transubstantiation to be known exclusively through the Gnostic Church; and finally, there is the Apocalyptic Christ who is to come with the New Jerusalem, after the Great Fire Cataclysm that will consume the world. This is all explained in ''The Aquarian Message'', an interpretation of the [[Book of Revelation]] by Samael Aun Weor. "...there will be a new heaven and a new earth."
Eschatology
Eschatology deals with the things that are to come. Samael Aun Weor wrote a tract titled
Yes, there is a devil; yes, there is a hell; yes, there is Karma depicting what may actually happen to the individual. In regard to the world at large and what may surely happen there, he wrote
The Aquarian Message. In
The Aquarian Message, Samael Aun Weor does not give any specific date for the end of the Aryan race that is to be consumed in a final holocaust of fire. However, rumor circulates among members of Samael Aun Weor Christian Gnostic Church of Brazil that the year 2043 is the year of the Great Tragedy.
According to Samael Aun Weor, Maitreya Buddha, Kalki Avatar of the New Age of Aquarius, "...Prostitution of solar energy exists in the hydrogen bomb." This is the worst kind of Black Magic whose outcome will be total devastation and the decline and death of all living matter in a scale totally unheard of.
In
The Aquarian Message, Samael Aun Weor mentions the existence of the planet Hercolubus or Planet X, a planet many times the size of Jupiter which is approaching the Earth and as it gets ever nearer, it will cause terrifying cataclysms such as the change of the earth axis and the surfacing of the molten core at the center of the planet.
- The promised land
After the final Great Cataclysm, there will be a new heaven and a new earth. The elect will be the seed of a new race. The New Jerusalem is built upon the cubic stone (sex). There is the Jerusalem of the Son of Man, the Jerusalem above or the Higher Worlds and the Jerusalem below or future earth of the Coming Race, the Sixth Race. The Twelfth Arcanum or twelfth Trump Major of the Tarot is the foundation of the Heavenly Jerusalem. The Twelfth Arcanum represents Sexual Alchemy. The birth of the Son of Man is one hundred per cent sexual. When the sleeper wakes, he can see the New Jerusalem in the Higher Worlds. The New Jerusalem means happiness, peace and love.