In the path through life, human beings ignore almost everything. We neither know who we are nor where we are coming from or what is the purpose of our existence.

 

We are manipulated by unconscious forces that through publicity they impose us customs, vices, desires, etc. Our purpose is to help human beings to be able to known themselves and can be liberated from this false and illusory world in which we live and where no one is happy.

 

There is no need to discuss the effects of alcohol at length. Its name in Arabic (the same as the Algol star which represents the Head of Medusa cut off by Perseus) simply means the Demon...

Whether in fact it is a demon or a malefic spirit when it possesses man, its effects are clear and easily demonstrable from the drunkenness, the delirium tremens and the madness, with forms of paralysis and other hereditary defects passed down through descendants.

 

Unquestionably, alcohol has a vibratory tendency to disintegrate, dissolve and destroy, being a product of destruction which also originates in our organism and which is eliminated through the skin.

 

It dries our tissues and destroys nerve cells, which are gradually substituted with cartilage.

 



It is manifestly clear that alcohol tends to eliminate the capacity for independent thought and calm judgment since it fatally stimulates fantasy. It also shockingly debilitates ethical sense and individual liberty.

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers. It is also well known that with a state of intoxication you can make someone accept any suggestion and carry out deeds which are contrary to their sense of decency and morality.

 

The influence of alcohol on crime is notorious, so much so that it is unnecessary to stress the fact.

Hideous alcohol climbs the precipice and tumbles into the abyss of perdition; it is the malignant substance, which intimately characterizes the "Infernal Worlds". Abominable Algol turns incessantly within the vicious circle of time.

The abominable vice of alcohol has left behind itself hundreds of died people, idiot children, rancor and families completely abandoned for its cause. The alcohol have stultified and degenerated the human race.

 




.: Stages of alcoholism.


This vice has three perfectly defined aspects:


INITIATION:


The society has a false concept of manhood. The adolescent that is initiated into this horrible path does it because he wants to feel like a complete man. He believes that being a man means to be a drunkard, smoker, fornicator, adulterer, etc. The youngster reaches the crude vice of alcoholism, seduced by his friends believing that they are true men. However, the true man is the superman, which are the Initiates that have eliminated all their defects, have achieved the transmutation of the water in wine and became apostles. Men are: Krishna, Budha, Jesus, the 12 Apostles, Samael Aun Weor, etc.

Because the alcohol cannot be transformed in the stomach, the human organism rebels against the first drinks by vomiting and upsetting stomach because at the beginning the organism is not yet intoxicated.

Little by little the humans obligate and teach their cells and atoms the necessity of alcohol.

The alcohol pass directly to the circulatory system and from there to the brain cells producing intense excitement and euphoria. In this stage, the man look like a peacock because he peacocks and imagines himself that people are looking at him but once the intense excitement of the brain cells has passed, the cells become drunkard and the individual losses control upon movement and mind.


INTOXICATION:




The human organism strongly rejects the harmful ingredient of alcohol to which it is not accustomed, but because the human wants to get drunkard and destroy himself, he obligates its own body to drink, later the organism ask for more and more drink. Thus, little by little the alcohol affects the nervous system generating the loss in the capability to coordinate the movements, imbalance and sometimes falls, if it is abused it can produce the locomotor Ataxia which is a paralysis proper of alcoholics.

The alcohol produces depressive effects and an apparent sensation of heat due to the expansion of the blood vessels but really what happens is a loss of heat from the organism. In this stage of drunkenness the alcoholic looks like an ape, he has the rudeness proper of an ape, he becomes clown, dancer, figther, wins the love of somebody else’s wife and many of them give kisses to their friends. When they loss the complete control of movement they look like pigs crawling in the mud and dirt throwed in any street of the city or town.

On arriving at this second phase, the organism no longer feels well without alcohol. The intoxicated doctor can no longer carry out a surgical operation without his favorite drink; his pulse shakes, and if he carries out the operation, the results are very bad. The businessman can no longer do business without alcohol; he feels timid, nervous and fails. The worker is already incapable of working without his drink, he feels weak. Alcohol becomes a necessity for the intoxicated organism. The intoxicated one drinks and drinks, and becomes a human machine whose only thinking and purpose of existence is the alcohol.

DEATH.


Every alcoholic intoxication concludes with death. Death can result from an ulcer, hepatitis or cirrhosis of the liver, or generally from any bad aspect of the liver, stomach, etc. and nobody can guess right what is causing the death: would it be the heart, the cirrhosis, a car accident, a violent death as a consequence of an emotional or mental imbalance, internal hemorrhages, etc.? But the death of a drunkard in general is horrible and those who drink and do not eat while drinking are practically suicides.

 

The alcohol is the cause of 70% of the accidents and of the majority of homicides. The alcohol produces excess of hydrochloric acid, which together with alcohol damages the tissues of the stomach walls, and the blood vessels generating ulcers and hemorrhages…the excess of hydrochloric acid produces alcoholic gastritis.

The liver has 5 important vital functions, among which it neutralizes the toxic substances and produces several vital substances to have a healthy body. The alcohol interrupts all of these functions and this is the principal cause of death in the alcoholic persons.

The death of a drunkard is very horrible. They become very nervous in clinics and hospitals due to the lack of alcohol, they clamor, shout, and demand the bottle of alcohol; their desperation is frightening. Some die vomiting blood, others with terrible bloody diarrhea, etc.

The alcohol burns the tail of the sperms, which originates stupid children. The alcoholic with the time will be suffering of high blood pressure and heart diseases. The most serious problem is that the alcohol for its depressive effects produces premature sexual impotence and this is very painful. We know numerous cases of people younger than 30 years old sexual impotent and sterile caused by alcohol.

Psychology of the Drunkard.


The totally intoxicated drunkard spends everything on the vice; when the drunkard does not have any more to spend, then he becomes a beggar, thief, swindler, or in the best of cases, nothing more than a simple slave of alcohol, a beggar of alcohol. The intoxicated loses all concepts of honor, dignity, responsibility, etc., and only one thing in life interests him, drinking. Alcohol becomes a vital, fundamental necessity for the intoxicated; that is all.

The serious things of life do not have any value for the drunkard; he is completely irresponsible. The intoxicated alcoholic is immoral in the most complete sense of the word. Dignity, word of honor, virtue, etc., have absolutely no importance for the intoxicated alcoholic. The hard-hearted drunkard laughs at all those human qualities, and even feels infinitely superior to his fellowmen.

.: Campaign against alcoholism.


The true, effective campaign against alcohol is achieved by explaining, with every detail, the three defined aspects of this horrible vice. These three aspects of the path of alcohol: initiation, intoxication, and death should be pointed out at home, in school, at the university, in academies, etc. Only creative comprehension can save people from falling into this horrible and frightening vice.

Really, the real education begins at home. The parents that drink give bad example to their children and lead them to the fatal path of the abyss. In home, children should be taught what is this horrible vice. This kind of teaching accompanied by a good example is radical in warning new generations against the vice of alcohol. Whatever is learned well at home is never forgotten. The bases of the young are found at homes, at school and in the streets.

The youth raised upon the base of the Fundamental Education results in fact edifying and dignifying…the youth raised upon false bases is by logic consequence a wrong path. The excess of the youth are letters drawn against the oldness, payable with high cost interests.

Without Fundamental Education, the youth results in a perpetual drunkenness: it is the fever of the error, of the liquor and of the animal passion.

The gnostic science teaches the fundamental psychological techniques that lead to the self-knowledge, to the perfeccionism and to a better life. The gnostic science fights for the human regeneration, to recuperate and raise the moral and spiritual values scorned at the moment by the atheist intelectualism. Moreover, it teaches the 3 factors of revolution of conscience and the inner self-exploration by means of the self-observation to know the causes and eradicate from us error and pain.



MESSAGE FROM SAMAEL AUN WEOR: "Listen very well gnostic students, in the light of the Sun or of the Moon, of the day or of night with the demon Algol you must be radicals. The alcohol is very traitorous and sooner or later gives us a stab in the back".

Our purpose is that the human beings know themselves and can liberate from false and illusory world in which we live and where no one is happy.