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<p class="MsoNormal">First off, a big thanks to all at Gnostic Teachings for their great efforts in making this tremendous knowledge available to the World.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m currently listening to the Transformation of Energy audio lecture. In this lecture, the instructors, more than once, state that it is not possible for an individual (bachelor), working in the Great Work, to raise the Kundalini.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This statement contradicts what I believe to have understood in other texts and the life accounts of Self-Realized Masters (ie: Daniel, Paracelsus) who, to me, seem to have done the Great Work solo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some examples of the texts in question are:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em>“32,25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 32,26 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. 32,27 And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.' 32,28 And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And be said: 'Jacob.' 32,29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'”</em> - Torah (Law), B'reishis (Genesis)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“He arrived at another place and he rested. He sat on a stone and there he placed his hands. He then looked at Tula and began to cry.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">He cried in great sobs. Drops of water ran from his eyes, forming a double stream of tears. His falling teardrops pierced the rock.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">As he leaned on his hands against the rock, the tears were imprinted on it, as if the rock were made of mud. His hands as well as his buttocks were thus engraved on the rock. A clear imprint remained in the place where he sat. The imprint of his hands can still be seen in the place called Temacpalco.”</em> – The Secret Doctrine Of Anahuac – Samael Aun Weor</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First off, a big thanks to all at Gnostic Teachings for their great efforts in making this tremendous knowledge available to the World.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m currently listening to the Transformation of Energy audio lecture. In this lecture, the instructors, more than once, state that it is not possible for an individual (bachelor), working in the Great Work, to raise the Kundalini.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This statement contradicts what I believe to have understood in other texts and the life accounts of Self-Realized Masters (ie: Daniel, Paracelsus) who, to me, seem to have done the Great Work solo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some examples of the texts in question are:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em>“32,25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 32,26 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. 32,27 And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.' 32,28 And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And be said: 'Jacob.' 32,29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'”</em> - Torah (Law), B'reishis (Genesis)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“He arrived at another place and he rested. He sat on a stone and there he placed his hands. He then looked at Tula and began to cry.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">He cried in great sobs. Drops of water ran from his eyes, forming a double stream of tears. His falling teardrops pierced the rock.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">As he leaned on his hands against the rock, the tears were imprinted on it, as if the rock were made of mud. His hands as well as his buttocks were thus engraved on the rock. A clear imprint remained in the place where he sat. The imprint of his hands can still be seen in the place called Temacpalco.”</em> – The Secret Doctrine Of Anahuac – Samael Aun Weor</p>