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Introduction I am a teacher, sometimes known as the Tibetan, who is attempting to convey to a group within humanity a body of teachings which will help them take the next evolutionary step forward.
Let me state it plainly. The purpose of these teachings is to achieve liberation from the three worlds for those souls who come in contact with them. The teachings are NOT designed to build a body of knowledge upon the mental plane. The development and training of the mind is a prerequisite for liberation and not an end in itself. The mind must be reoriented so that it is able to penetrate equally into the inner and outer realities, but it is not the mind to which these teachings are ultimately aimed. It is to the soul—the dweller in the mind, the director of experience—that we address ourselves.
Just as the causal body is a temporary abode for the soul and a means by which it can complete its redemptive mission in the three worlds, just so these esoteric teachings form a causal vehicle within the higher mental plane of humanity. The current teachings form the third or inner petals in its threefold expression. The causal body, when complete, is not preserved in perpetuity like some frozen museum exhibit. It is the fruit of a process and this fruit serves a purpose in its ripening, but the ripe fruit does not linger long—it is destroyed, and in this destruction another pathway is opened in the planetary web.
All esoteric teachings given out as formulated thoughts and ideas that can be written down in books, form part of the great illusion. The time will come when humanity will operate free of the mind and the process of direct transmission through the cosmic etheric body will be registered as an ordinary part of human experience.
Once the human soul is freed from the mind it naturally finds its place within Hierarchy
and has access through direct transmission to whatever ‘teaching’ is needed in order for it to perform its function within the greater whole.
Members of Hierarchy may be Masters of the Wisdom (from the perspective of humanity—for they do not consider themselves as such) but this in no way means they are Masters of All Knowledge—they merely have the key to all knowledge. Let me explain this statement. Wisdom is an emanation from the worlds of Being. It has its roots in that which is unchanging. Knowledge is an accumulation from the worlds of Becoming. It has its roots in that which is ever changing. Wisdom is archetypal. Knowledge is particular. Wisdom is developed in the soul. Knowledge is accumulated by the personality in incarnation.
Knowledge is the dough, wisdom the yeast. The reason that the Wisdom teachings continue to make their expression throughout time in human experience is because the knowledge aspect of humanity is becoming more and more refined and is therefore able to form a better and better vehicle for spiritual revelation.
Proponents of the divine science must therefore know what to hold onto as unchangeable wisdom and what to let go of as outdated knowledge. Perhaps the best advice in this regard is to be willing to continually offer all knowledge/wisdom into the fire of evolutionary transformation in the sure awareness that spirit will never be harmed by the flames. An increase in Wisdom is not the result of knowing more and more but a gradual realisation of the unknowable. The neophyte to the Wisdom tradition seeks, as early scientists sought, to find an orderly divine world where all the planets turn in perfect circles around the sun. He seeks to find ultimate answers to the troubling questions of existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt. He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to. Helena Blavatsky had this to say about an approach to her own inspired work—The Secret Doctrine:
existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt. He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to. Helena Blavatsky had this to say about an approach to her own inspired work—The Secret Doctrine:
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Occult Cosmology by Bruce Lyon and Chic Cicero presents key insights from the Tibetan Buddhism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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