About This Book:

A Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology

"With good reason we can solemnly declare that 'what is exterior is a reflection of what is interior.'  When a person changes inwardly and that change is radical, then what is exterior—circumstances, life—also changes."    (Samael Aun Weor)

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In 1974, after nearly a quarter century of teaching, writing and directing the Gnostic Movement from the foundation his own progressive experiences along the Path of the Razor's Edge, the Path of the inner Self-Realization, Samael Aun Weor wrote this book, his Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology. 

After having finished it, Samael gave it to his personal secretary to read, who the very next day told him how wonderful it was and Samael, surprised, asked him if he had really already read the whole book.  His secretary assured him that he had, to which Samael replied, "How could you read in a day a book that took me my whole life to write?"

Unless we take care, we could easily read over the surface of this book and miss out on its depths.  Reading this book well requires some care and reflection, or else we may end up misunderstanding the greatest of its virtues: its simplicity and its directness.

About its simplicity:   This book is a distillation of the very essence of the universal and scientific Gnostic psychology of all ages.  It is written by a man who through decades of the study of himself and work on himself has stripped away from his own mind and consciousness all of the inner fragmentation and contradictions that normally characterize us as human beings, and whose only purpose in writing this book is to try to illuminate for us how we can safely and securely do the same.

That is why the book is so direct, but just as we don't like it very well when our friends point out our character defects to us, we may decide that we don't like the tone of some parts of this book, because while this book is not at all pessimistic, it does start off by pointing out to us that if we want to know and be reunited with what is the Highest in us, we must first take a good look at our false, lower nature and the fruits that it has wrought.  However, due to our identification with that lower nature, we easily mistake such positive and revolutionary wisdom as being negative.