Esoteric Knowledge vs Esoteric Philosophy
Esoteric philosophy and psychology are not easy to understand as there are many blinds that prevent an individual from seeing some truth until one is ready to see it. Many aspirants to the path get upset with the thought that they are not yet ready to receive Esoteric knowledge. The reason the Masters of Wisdom or advanced Initiates create veils or blinds is because they know the true workings of human psychology.
In the West we view psychology only from the point of view of our present life. Psychologists study the family, the household situation, and the community environment, such as education, and peer group influences to help get a grasp of the personality development of any individual.
But an Initiate or true Master of Wisdom’s vision penetrates beyond our temporal life, and sees the quality of substance that has been built up in the “mind stuff” (chitta – Sanskrit) over many rebirths of the same Soul. They can see what is latent in the deeper recesses of one’s being that may awaken and cause great difficulties, and even dangers if too much Esoteric knowledge is given. Added to this equation is the assumption that the words that express an esoteric concept are the same, just the words, like you find written in any school or university textbook. There is a big difference, and that’s what makes it a mystery. It is this difference that enables the mysterious quality of an esoteric blind to function.
Esoteric knowledge is of a different substance, quality, and voltage than regular scholastic knowledge. You have to be sensitive to feel this difference, and even if you can’t feel it, it can in time have an effect. An example of this would be the teaching on the ‘duality of the Soul’. So many spiritual people claim they know their soul, but yet when asked to describe it, they say it can’t be put into words, or they describe the virtuous aspect of their personality. This is because they don’t really know or understand, not only their own soul, but what the Soul is.
The knowledge of “Essential Nature” (svarupa - Sanskrit) as one aspect of the duality of the Soul is a major Esoteric concept that even those few who are taught about it rarely grasp its magnitude. There is very little in writing about this fact.
One brief description is expressed in a couple of chapters in the book Treatise on White Magic given out by the Master DK through the writings of AAB. The Master D.K. calls it the soul in-incarnation, the reflection of the Soul in manifestation. In Discipleship in the New Age, Vol.2 we find,” The true spiritual man….”to live consciously in the center…I am not here talking symbolically but literally (Pg. 116)
In the West we view psychology only from the point of view of our present life. Psychologists study the family, the household situation, and the community environment, such as education, and peer group influences to help get a grasp of the personality development of any individual.
But an Initiate or true Master of Wisdom’s vision penetrates beyond our temporal life, and sees the quality of substance that has been built up in the “mind stuff” (chitta – Sanskrit) over many rebirths of the same Soul. They can see what is latent in the deeper recesses of one’s being that may awaken and cause great difficulties, and even dangers if too much Esoteric knowledge is given. Added to this equation is the assumption that the words that express an esoteric concept are the same, just the words, like you find written in any school or university textbook. There is a big difference, and that’s what makes it a mystery. It is this difference that enables the mysterious quality of an esoteric blind to function.
Esoteric knowledge is of a different substance, quality, and voltage than regular scholastic knowledge. You have to be sensitive to feel this difference, and even if you can’t feel it, it can in time have an effect. An example of this would be the teaching on the ‘duality of the Soul’. So many spiritual people claim they know their soul, but yet when asked to describe it, they say it can’t be put into words, or they describe the virtuous aspect of their personality. This is because they don’t really know or understand, not only their own soul, but what the Soul is.
The knowledge of “Essential Nature” (svarupa - Sanskrit) as one aspect of the duality of the Soul is a major Esoteric concept that even those few who are taught about it rarely grasp its magnitude. There is very little in writing about this fact.
One brief description is expressed in a couple of chapters in the book Treatise on White Magic given out by the Master DK through the writings of AAB. The Master D.K. calls it the soul in-incarnation, the reflection of the Soul in manifestation. In Discipleship in the New Age, Vol.2 we find,” The true spiritual man….”to live consciously in the center…I am not here talking symbolically but literally (Pg. 116)
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