Fasting is a very interesting spiritual practice that I have benefitted from in many ways. I've been studying Glorian's teachings for about a year now and have read a few of Samael's books and haven't come across any teachings related to fasting. Are there any gnostic teachings or resources on fasting that someone could point me toward?
Accepted Answer
The book Aztec Christic Magic provides some meditations that involve fasting. Samael Aun Weor mentions fasting in a few places.
From Questions About the Path:
From Questions About the Path:
Student: Master, are you vegetarian?Study also the following resources:
Samael Aun Weor: I have reached the conclusion that such a system of eating is useless, so I am not vegetarian. I consider that animal proteins can never be replaced by vegetable proteins. We could eat foods like avocado (since Yogananda stated that it replaces meat) and we will convince ourselves that indeed avocado does not replace meat. Nonetheless, I am not stating that we have to be one hundred percent carnivores, because that would be absurd. We need a diversified diet; we need, at least, twenty-five percent of meat in our diet. Thus, we will live well. But if we continue with the vegetarian system, we will inevitably fail. That is my answer. [Learn more: Healthy Spirituality Course]
Student: Master, fasts of thirty or forty days are advisable and good for our health, or not?
Samael Aun Weor: Fasts of forty days are only for masters like Jesus of Nazareth. Any run-of-the-mill person who will try to endure a fast of forty days may die, and it would be regrettable to have to sing before their time the "Requiem In Pace" to our wretched Gnostics brothers or sisters. Therefore, it is not advisable. However, there are times when one can perform certain fasts, but the maximum would be nine days with the condition of having a proper health after medical examination. That is all.
Student: Could fasting be done at an appropriate time, with a suitable method? That is, could we properly fast?
Samael Aun Weor: That's right, but that is a luxury that few can afford.
Student: But is not fasting a method for detoxifying the body?
Samael Aun Weor: Yes, that is true.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
Accepted Answer
The book Aztec Christic Magic provides some meditations that involve fasting. Samael Aun Weor mentions fasting in a few places.
From Questions About the Path:
From Questions About the Path:
Student: Master, are you vegetarian?Study also the following resources:
Samael Aun Weor: I have reached the conclusion that such a system of eating is useless, so I am not vegetarian. I consider that animal proteins can never be replaced by vegetable proteins. We could eat foods like avocado (since Yogananda stated that it replaces meat) and we will convince ourselves that indeed avocado does not replace meat. Nonetheless, I am not stating that we have to be one hundred percent carnivores, because that would be absurd. We need a diversified diet; we need, at least, twenty-five percent of meat in our diet. Thus, we will live well. But if we continue with the vegetarian system, we will inevitably fail. That is my answer. [Learn more: Healthy Spirituality Course]
Student: Master, fasts of thirty or forty days are advisable and good for our health, or not?
Samael Aun Weor: Fasts of forty days are only for masters like Jesus of Nazareth. Any run-of-the-mill person who will try to endure a fast of forty days may die, and it would be regrettable to have to sing before their time the "Requiem In Pace" to our wretched Gnostics brothers or sisters. Therefore, it is not advisable. However, there are times when one can perform certain fasts, but the maximum would be nine days with the condition of having a proper health after medical examination. That is all.
Student: Could fasting be done at an appropriate time, with a suitable method? That is, could we properly fast?
Samael Aun Weor: That's right, but that is a luxury that few can afford.
Student: But is not fasting a method for detoxifying the body?
Samael Aun Weor: Yes, that is true.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
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