Esotericism, science of redemption

  • 2017

THE PAST, The origins

No initiate of the planet can identify himself with the consciousness of that Identified Being who, in the Bhagavad Gita, says, "Having merged the entire universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain." Christian theology names the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, speaks of God in terms of Person and uses the pronouns He and the possessive. Should we infer from this that we refer to a prodigious Personality called God and, therefore, belong to that school of thought called anthropomorphic? Buddhist teaching does not recognize a God or a Person. Therefore, from our point of view and approach, is it wrong or correct? Technically when man is understood as a divine expression, in time and space, this mystery can be revealed.

Both schools of thought are correct and in no way contradict each other. In its synthesis and fusion, the truth, as it really is, can begin - although tenuously - to appear. There is a Transcendent God who decrees: "I remain." There is an Immanent God whose life is the origin of all activity, intelligence, growth and attraction of all forms in all the kingdoms of nature. Similarly, there is in each human being a transcendent soul who, when he has begun and finished his life cycle on earth and the period of manifestation has passed, becomes again unmanifested and amorphous, and can also say: “I I remain. " When it manifests and takes shape, the only way in which the human mind and brain can express their recognition of the conditioning divine life is to speak in terms of Person and Individuality.

Deity is dual in its presence: existential and experiential. The Father, the Son and the Spirit are existential beings, in the past, the present and the future. They are eternal. The Supreme Being is experiential, it is being updated in the evolutionary universe, it is the correlator and synthesizer. The Supreme Being provides the technique, the divine synthesis of all multiple transactions. God the sevenfold allows mortal man to achieve the presence of God. Children of God are those who present the various attributes and divine qualities, but three of them have reached such a degree of perfection that they have not been overcome. Hercules, the perfect disciple, Buddha, the perfect initiate who attained enlightenment, Christ, the absolutely perfect expression of divinity and, consequently, the instructor of angels and humans. Man, know yourself is the powerful key to the knowledge of Deity and the action of divinity.

In this article we will define esotericism as the science of redemption, through a dialogue of knowledge between Djwal Khul, Mircea Eliade and Michel Foucault. Based on the foregoing, they will realize that it is a question of clarifying the meaning of the word "esotericism" and indicating the extremely practical and scientific nature of the company in which all the esoterics have embarked.

THE PRESENT, the current ones.

Djwal Khul: The "process of becoming" that leads to "being" is a cosmic fact, which includes all forms, and no child of God is still exempt from that mutable process.

Mircea Eliade: In the act of Creation, the passage from the unmanifest to the manifested or, in cosmological terms, from Chaos to Cosmos, is fulfilled.

Michel Foucault: Etopoiesis is something that has the quality of transforming the way of being of an individual.

Djwal Khul: Three times the call comes to all the pilgrims who are in the way of life. "Know yourself" is the first great mandate, then comes the "know the Self" and finally "know the One."

Michel Foucault: The restlessness of yes is undoubtedly the foundation on which the imperative of conceive yourself is justified.

Mircea Eliade. Therefore, to the extent that the liberation of man is proposed, all metaphysics and all Hindu techniques seek the annihilation of karma .

Djwal Khul: The course that follows the spirit can be divided more or less into three parts which lead to a fourth: trinity, duality, unity, causality. The great Jewish seer tried to explain these three stages with the words, I-I-That-I-I am .

Mircea Eliade: That God of the Jewish people is no longer an Eastern divinity that creates archetypal feats, but a personality that intervenes incessantly in history, which reveals his will through the events (invasions, sieges, battles, etc).

Michel Foucault: According to a historical perspective and linearity, we could say that the Hellenistic and Roman precept of the conversion is the primary root of all those practices and knowledge that will be developed in the Christian world and in the modern world.

Djwal Khul: The history of evolution is the history of consciousness and the growing expansion of the principle of becoming conscious.

Mircea Eliade: Historical events have a value in themselves, insofar as they are determined by the Will of God.

Michel Foucault: With the Greek novel we find the appearance of the theme that life must be a test, a formative test of the self.

Djwal Khul: Christianity is the religion of the transition period that links the era of self-conscious existence with the era of a world that has group consciousness.

Mircea Eliade: The Christian liturgical year is founded on a periodic and real repetition of the Nativity, the Passion, the death and the resurrection of Jesus, with all that that mystical drama implies for a Christian; that is, the personal and cosmic regeneration by the actual actualization of the birth, death and resurrection of the Savior.

Michel Foucault: Great conflict through Christianity, from the end of the 5th century until the end of the 17th century. During those twelve centuries the conflict did not occur between spirituality and science, but between spirituality and theology.

Djwal Khul: Theologians have lost the mind that is in Christ, and the need for the church to abandon theology, discard all doctrine and dogma and direct the world to the world is imperative. light that is in Christ, to demonstrate the reality of the eternal experience of Christ, the beauty and love that can reflect the contact with Christ, the founder of Christianity but not ecclesiasticism.

Mircea Eliade: The myth of the primordial paradise, evoked by Plato, perceptible in Hindu ceremonies, is known both by the Hebrews, and by Iranian and Greco-Roman traditions.

Michel Foucault: The Stoics, with their strong call "to nature and conscience" had prepared Rome, even better to receive Christ, at least in an intellectual sense.

Djwal Khul: Esotericism is a science - essentially the science of the soul of all things - and has its own terminology, experiments, deductions and laws. When I say soul I mean the animating consciousness that is found in the whole nature and in the levels that are outside the area that we generally call nature.

Michel Foucault: The soul, the breath, is something that can be agitated, on which the outside can have an influence. And you have to avoid the soul, the breath, the pneuma is dispersed. Avoid exposing yourself to external danger, something or someone external to make a dent.

Mircea Eliade: Reality manifests itself, for the archaic mentality, as strength, efficacy and duration. By that fact, the real par excellence is the sacred; For only the sacred is in an absolute way, works effectively, creates and makes things last.

Djwal Khul: The whole issue of esoteric training can also be considered as a process by which we learn to live both vertical and horizontal life simultaneously. To do this, we must live in the center where the vertical current of energy that descends from the soul and the numerous forces coming from the long circle of the horizon meet and cross.

Mircea Eliade: The "Center" is thus the area of ​​the sacred par excellence, that of absolute reality.

Michel Foucault: Spirituality is the experience by which the subject performs in himself transformations necessary to have access to the truth.

Djwal Khul: There is a difference between "spiritual life" and "esoteric life." The spiritual life is related to the horizontal, to the service, but the esoteric life is related to the vertical, the subjective, the Divine Presence.

Mircea Eliade: The classic example of Abraham's sacrifice admirably highlights the difference between the traditional conception of the repetition of the archetypal feat and the new dimension, faith, acquired by religious experience.

Djwal Khul: From the angle of esotericism, which deals with the soul aspect of life, time is simply the sequence of states of consciousness recorded by the physical brain.

Mircea Eliade: In Christianity, time is eternally current and accessible to anyone, at any time, by metanoia. As it is a totally different religious experience from the traditional experience, since it refers to "faith, " the periodic regeneration of the world translates into a regeneration of the human person.

Michel Foucault: The movement from memory to meditation went from Plato to St. Augustine and from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern age, finally, until the 16th and 17th centuries, the trajectory was different, from meditation to method.

Djwal Khul: Seen from this angle, esotericism is the science of redemption, and the Saviors of the World constitute His exponents and the enduring symbol. To redeem the substance and its forms, the planetary Being manifested itself, and the entire Hierarchy with its great Conductor, the Christ, could be considered as a Hierarchy of Redemptors experts in the science of redemption.

Mircea Eliade: It was necessary to wait for our century to re-sketch certain reactions against historical "linearism" and arouse some interest in the theory of cycles: thus, we assist in political economy to the rehabilitation of cycle notions, of fluctuation, of periodic oscillation; in philosophy Nietzche puts the myth of the eternal return back on the agenda; In the philosophy of history, a Spengler, a Toynbee are dedicated to the problem of periodicity, etc.

Michel Foucault: We find in conversion the first form of what could later be called spirit sciences, psychology, consciousness analysis, psykhe analysis .

Djwal Khul: What is required is spiritual esotericism and teach students to create a line of light between them, circumstances and problems.

Mircea Eliade: For the traditional man, the imitation of an archetypal model is a restatement of the mythical moment in which the archetype was first revealed.

Michel Foucault: “Saving oneself” cannot be reduced at all, in terms of its significance, to something like the dramatic nature of an event that makes it possible to commute the existence of death to life, of mortality to immortality, of Bad to good, and so on.

Djwal Khul: The esoteric study, together with a way, of living esoteric, reveals in due time the world of meanings and leads opportunely to the world of meanings. Esotericism uses the forces of the third aspect, that of the intelligent substance, as receiving the energies of the two higher aspects, and in doing so saves the substance.

Michel Foucault: The aspect of enlightenment, the aspect of fulfillment, the moment of the transfiguration of the subject by the "kickback effect" of the truth that he knows about himself, transfigures his being.

Mircea Eliade: For the modern, man cannot be a creator except to the extent that he is historical ; in other words, all creation is forbidden, except that which is born in its own freedom ; and therefore he refuses everything, except the freedom to make history by making himself.

THE FUTURE, the potentials.

Divinity is the characteristic, unifying and coordinating quality of Deity. Divinity is understood by creative beings as truth, goodness and beauty, it is correlated by personalities such as love, mercy and ministry; revealed in the impersonal as justice, power and sovereignty. The Divine encompasses the past, the present and the future, therefore, that which makes us aware of all that IS, contributes to the development of the Divinity.

The constructivist principle, according to which what exists is a product of what is thought, can be traced back to Kant, who was the first to fully develop it, and constructivism in no other discipline is more motivating than in the psychology of art and creativity. . Emanuel Kant raised the concepts of the Immanent God and the Transcendent God and cybernetics would come to give us the concept of the contingent: the design and planning that allows us to merge the immanent with the transcendent.

Esoteric psychology describes the seven creative builders, the seven rays, as the personification of seven types of force that manifest the seven qualities of the deity, four attribute rays as exceptional and universal spiritual values ​​of the triple aspect. It defines history as the evolution of consciousness and the growing expansion of the principle of "becoming conscious."

Djwal Khul invites us to follow the path of redemption, since the human race will achieve greater perfection than that achieved by the Exponents of divinity. He presents the initiations as expansions of consciousness through which the disciples gradually graduate their divine energy. The first graduation relates it to humanity as a center and to Hercules as a divine messenger. The second graduation relates it to the Kingdom of God and the Christ-Buddhist. The third graduation relates it to Shamballa, where the Will of God is known, and to the Avatar of synthesis.

Mircea Eliade goes to the metaphor of eternal return, to contrast the concepts of historicity and historicism. Historicity focuses on authenticity, on historical factuality, while historicism considers all reality as the product of historical becoming. It presents Christianity as the "religion" of modern man and historical man, from whom he has simultaneously discovered personal freedom and continuous time .

Michel Foucault questions the way in which relations were established between the two elements of the historian's analysis: "subject" and "truth", for this he contrasts "know yourself" with "self-care". It invites us to a hermeneutic of the subject, trying to make the truth learned, memorized, progressively implemented, a quasi subject that reigns sovereignly in us.

The inner creativity contributes to ennoble the character through the integration of the personality and the unification of the self. Actuality is what man seeks in the mystical elevation, potentiality is what man develops in that search. Originality is what makes possible the coexistence and integration of the current, the potential and the eternal. Esotericism fundamentally constitutes the sense of synthesis (systemic thinking); it involves the ability to live consciously in the subjective world of meaning (semiotics); thus becoming an interpreter of life and events (hermeneutics) for those who cannot live there yet.

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