The Rebel Eagle  (V.M. Rabolu)

DETAILS AND DEATH IN ACTION

Question:  We have a person in phase B… he comes and goes.  What happens is that when he comes there’s an re-entry period, and he adjusts normally but he still doesn’t have things clear, about the elimination of the ego or things like that and the practices… I think that’s what’s obstructing him.

VM Rabolú:  The thing is that in the elimination of the ego, there was a conflict or it was almost impossible as Master Samael gave it to us.  Let’s put it like this, look: this is a tree with many roots, right?  It has the main root and it has a bunch of very small roots that come out of it, like this.  OK, let’s say that this is an ego, of anger, of pride, any ego.  It’s impossible for us to get to comprehending that ego if it has all these offshoots of itself that become the tree’s food.

A tree, for example, whatever tree it might be, has its main root, which is the one that holds the tree up to keep it from falling, and it sends out other thick ones to the sides which help hold the tree up so that the wind doesn’t knock it over.  But from those thick roots, these ones, come thousands of little roots which are the ones that feed the tree.  The other thick roots don’t do anything but hold it there, but it’s fed with all of those root offshoots that it sends out, which go towards the surface of the earth, pulling in the vitamins, the sustenance, that the tree needs.  So that happens exactly the same way with the ego, or egos, in us.

We have the ego of anger, but many, many come out of that which are the ones that feed it.  The ego is sustained by all of those roots, all of those little offshoots, which are the details.  The ego is alive because of the details.  If we start to get rid of the roots, it starts to get malnourished and to die.  We can’t do it otherwise.  So, as the Master says, “Put an end to the ego of anger,” but how many egos of anger or manifestations does that entity have? So how do we comprehend it?  We can’t comprehend it.

So then if one begins to take away the ego’s food, then one does begin to comprehend and it starts to lose strength.  That is inevitable.

The Master talks about this in other terms than the way I’m explaining it.  He used other words: “It is necessary to die from moment to moment, from instant to instant.”  I didn’t understand that phrase and I said, “But how?  What is going to die from instant to instant, from moment to moment?”  He’s referring to these little manifestations that we don’t even think are defects at all, and that’s the food that’s feeding the defect, through all of those little roots.  They keep feeding and feeding the defect.  So, if we start to get rid of that, the defect dies, or better said the ego dies; it begins to decay once and for all because it’s fed by all of this.  So that’s its life.  If we start to take that away, the result is death.

Look, when I started dying it was with the details.  What I’m telling you about the details I’m not telling you from theory.  I’m saying, that’s the way I did my work since I started Gnosis, with these details.  But I didn’t know that that was dying, just that through those details you go, for example, you go to receive an Initiation, they call you to give you an Initiation that you’ve earned, and all of these little details come at you on the way and because of one of those details you can lose an Initiation, a degree.  So I started because I was doing badly internally when I was going to receive a degree.  Because of one of those details I was staying where I was, so what I earned was a big reprimand from the Masters and then I came back here [to the physical world] because they tell you, “Go to school to learn, you know nothing,” but reprimanding.

So I came back to work hard on those details, and I started, and then I did well in the tests that they threw at me, because these are tests that they throw at you.  So then I received my degree, what they were going to pay me.   And so I began to work with the details since I started Gnosis, but I didn’t know that it was death, but it was so that I would do well in the summonses that they sent me in order to make a payment to me, because in order to make a payment they call you, but first, before you get there, the little details come at you.  If you found a coin, you picked it up.  Well, that’s a detail.  Like that, insignificant things that you don’t think are tests, those are the details.  So if you start there the ego keeps dying, it keeps getting malnourished and it keeps dying; that’s inevitable.

That’s the Death, truly, the way I found deeper into it, because the way the Master taught it… he talked about dying from instant to instant, from moment to moment, which is related to this matter of the details.  He didn’t clarify it more so that it could be understood, but that’s what he was talking about.  The Master Judas calls this work “polish, polish, polish and polish.”

Question:  Can that also be done the same way with thoughts?

VM Rabolú:  With everything, everything.  Apply death in action right there.  One of those details comes up: “My Mother, disintegrate that defect,” right away, right away, not waiting for tomorrow or the day after, but right then, instantly, so the Divine Mother with her power—since these are details, they’re not so strong—easily disintegrates them.

Question:  But always at night also do an analysis of it, or not?

VM Rabolú:  No, during the day do the death in action, do it.  Don’t keep wasting more time, but do it from instant to instant, from moment to moment and you’ll see.

Question:  Is that “whitening the brass?”

VM Rabolú:  Whitening the brass so that the light can shine.

Question:  Master, sometimes maybe there’s a lack of will to work with that inquietude, with that desire.  What can we do to activate that will, for that rebelliousness?

VM Rabolú:  Stay on top of yourself.  When we forget ourselves we make mistakes.  Always be on top of yourself.  Otherwise you forget and then you make a bunch of mistakes.

So then, do you all understand what death in action is and how it keeps eliminating the ego, keeps taking away its power, its strength?

Question:  Maybe there’s an error or something that we’ve had a long time, and during the day there’s been insufficient work and we’ve wanted to leave it all for that night.

VM Rabolú:  No, no, no, this is from instant to instant as Master Samael says; that’s a truth.  Stay on top of yourself, and what happens?  You keep awakening consciousness right away, you don’t forget yourself.  It’s a very good exercise.

Question:  So that means that this will take the place of the work of the death of the ego that we’ve always done?

VM Rabolú:  Look, this really got my attention, because I think a lot about humanity, how to work to motivate them.  That made me do a lot of investigation, because everyone talks about the death and wants to die, and why hasn’t anyone died?  So this really made me think.  Of course!  It’s a lack of applying this work, because way that the Master gave it, raw, “Put  an end to anger, to pride,” no!, no one’s going to put an end to it, no one’s going to do away with it like that.  How can you comprehend anger or pride if it has thousands of tiny manifestations that you think are nothing, but yes they are, because that’s where the ego is feeding itself.

Question:  And do we have to know where a detail comes from—if it’s anger or pride—or does that matter?

VM Rabolú:  It doesn’t matter.  You ask the Divine Mother instantly, “Disintegrate this defect for me.”  That’s it!

Question:  Does one have to imagine it, Master?

VM Rabolú:  After the manifestation of the detail, you ask the Divine Mother.  You don’t have to imagine where it comes from or where it’s going… That’s it!