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One does not reach High Initiation with the intellect, but with the heart. Consequently, there are true Masters of the White Fraternity who do not know how to read, nor to write. Nevertheless, they are great illuminated sages. The intellect never attains Initiation. Only the heart attains the Golgotha of the High Initiation. The majority of people have their heads filled with absurd theories and ancestral prejudices; they do not open their minds to anything new.
the Vestibule of the Sanctuary By Julio Medina V. “The truth is like a tempest: it causes wreckage. “The common man is pleased with praise and displeased when told the truth, because his best buddy is deceit. “People delight more when they hear talk of fallacies than truths. They are fascinated with falsity and astounded by the truth.
The man of the city has become an idolater of the “Golden Calf,” in other words, of money, which is an invention of the same man. He classifies and justifies everything by means of money; in synthesis, money has become the utmost aspiration of this present civilization.
It is not possible to welcome pleasure without greeting the presence of pain, its twin brother; and on the other hand, the fact is that, as
Thus, comfort is what has made the man cowardly; this is why he is afraid of life, death, tomorrow, and what people might say. Thus, the courageous man evades comfort because he is not afraid of life, death, tomorrow, and what people might say.
Ignorance causes man to look for happiness from without and not from within himself. The present man thinks that he can attain and obtain everything with money, yet money can only offer him pleasures, never happiness.
The mind of man will have to become free from the ties of desire, fear, hunger, the soft life of anxieties of accumulation, egotism, because all this hypnotizes the mind and incapacitates it to discern between reality and illusion, the mutable and the immutable, the useful and the useless, as well as between the most useful and the least useful.
Our thought must integrally flow, without the process of “options” that divides the mind into opposed opinions. Our mind must flow calmly, integrally, with the sweet flow of thought, guided solely by intuition, which is the voice of the Innermost, the flower of intelligence; straight action,
straight effort, and perfect fullness are the outcome of it. The evocative flame of the new era is the light of thought.
It is urgent to affirm that during such a maha-samadhi (ecstasy without end), we (the Monadic waves) penetrated much more deeply, and thus we arrived to the Father, Brahma, the Universal Spirit of Life.
AI Summary
The Revolution of Beelzebub by Samael Aun Weor presents key insights from the contemplative 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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