Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor was born on the 6th of March, 1917 in South America, in Bogota (Colombia). At a young age, he was interested in many transcendental aspects of life – he wanted to know who we are, where we come from, and what is the purpose of life? He began to search for those answers in the different metaphysical schools of those times. He studied Theosophy, Masonry, the systems of Gurdjieff, the Gnostic-Rosicrucian tradition, he practiced yoga, studied Krishnamurti etc.

By the age of 17 he was giving lectures at the Theosophical Society and became a member of the Ancient Rosicrucian school (founded by Dr Arnoldo Krumm-Heller / M. Huiracocha) at the age of 18, which served to educate him in practical esotericism.

But after all that he felt something was missing. He became tired of so many theories and yearned to investigate, to awaken, and to enter into the path of initiation. In his very first book, called The Doorway to Initiation or The Perfect Matrimony (1st edition) he explains that after many, incredible efforts, he found the key—or the Great Arcanum–that would allow him to prepare what the alchemists called “the sacred fire of the philosophers” and this granted him the fortune and immense happiness of beginning his process of genuine spiritual initiation. This occurred in 1947 and in 1948, the formation of a small organisation began, which soon after became an international one.

It was his book The Perfect Matrimony, at first—along with so many other written works in the 50’s and 60’s—that most identified the formation of the International Gnostic Movement. And from his second residence in Mexico, he wrote many other treatises about anthropology, psychology, philosophy, art, science, mysticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, medicine, etc. He wrote more than 60 books and gave hundreds of lectures. In essence, Master Samael taught the “Fifth Truth” or in other words sacred sexuality – as the synthesis of all religions, esoteric schools, cultures, civilisations, and races.

“Thus, I am a man and an angel. My angel works in the Cosmos, he is the horseman of chapter XIX of the Apocalypse, and I, his Bodhisatva, live as a man amongst men. This is the mystery of the double personality, one of the greatest mysteries of occultism: the Bodhisatva of a Master is made of all the animic, igneous and etheric extracts, who are something like the substratum of the inferior bodies.

The Bodhisattva is the human soul of the master. We have two souls: a divine and a human one. The divine soul is the Spirit-Soul or Buddhic body of the Master, and the Human Soul is animic, etheric and igneous extract of the causal body of man, together with the animic extract s of the inferior vehicles.

In synthesis, I could say that all these animic extracts of the human SOUL, expressing themselves through the mental, astral and etheric bodies, is what we call the BODHISATVA of a Master, who lives as a man amongst men when he is incarnated in a physical body. It is said that the Buddha, after going into Nirvana, sent his Bodhisattva to finish his work and his Bodhisattva finished the work in a marvellous manner, under the direction of an internal instructor called SANKARACHAPYA. “SANKARA” was a ray of primitive light, he was a flame. 

In this way, my humble worthless person is the Bodhisattva of the Master of the White Brotherhood SAMAEL AUN WEOR, and as it is logical, I must be a good citizen, fulfilling all my obligations.”

– VM Samael Aun Weor

Here are Japanese and English translations of the Spanish texts written by Master Samael about Gnosis. Please freely download and read. For clarification, understanding and practice, we recommend however to attend an in-person class to benefit from the teachings. This method of mouth-to-ear follows all traditions that pursue the Truth.