We cannot know anything about the soul and Spirit when we do not know ourselves. The four conditions that are needed to be a magician are the following: To know how to suffer. To know how to be silent. To know how to abstain. To know how to die. - Tarot and Kabbalah
It is stated that silence is golden. We state that there are criminal silences. It is as bad to speak when one must remain silent as it is to remain silent when one must speak. There are times when to speak is a transgression. There are times when to remain silent is also a transgression.
We cannot know anything about the soul and Spirit when we do not know ourselves. The four conditions that are needed to be a magician are the following: To know how to suffer. To know how to be silent. To know how to abstain. To know how to die. - Tarot and Kabbalah
We all have wanted at sometime to investigate, inquire, find out the “why” of so many [pandemics] sorrows, troubles, struggles, and sufferings, yet unfortunately, we always seem to end up caged within some theory, or within some opinion, or within some belief, or within what the neighbor stated, or within what some decrepit old fogy told us, [or what we read on the internet or saw on youtube] etc.
Thus, since we have lost our true innocence and the peace of a tranquil heart, we are incapable of experiencing the truth [of the pandemic] directly, in all of its harshness, given that we depend on what others might say; so, because of this, we are obviously on the wrong path.
Capitalist society radically condemns the atheists, those who do not believe in God, whereas the Marxist-Leninist society condemns the theists, those who do believe in God; nevertheless, in essence, both beliefs are the same, a matter of opinions or caprices of people, their mental projections. Not credulity, incredulity, or skepticism signify the experience of the truth. [Similarly, corporations, media, and the profit-based medical establishment condemn the anti-establishment anti-vaxxers, and vice versa: nevertheless, in essence, both beliefs are the same, a matter of opinions or caprices of people, their mental projections, which are all based on sensory perceptions and intellectualism.]
The mind can give itself the luxury of believing, doubting, of forming opinions, conjecturing, etc.; however, these are not experiences of the truth.
The blind can also give themselves the luxury of believing in the sun or not believing in it, and even doubting about its existence, nevertheless the king star will continue to give its light and life to everything that exists, without giving the slightest value to their blind opinions.
Many shades of false morality and many mistaken concepts of false respectability are hidden behind blind beliefs, behind incredulity and skepticism; the psychological “I” strengthens itself within those shadows.
Capitalist society and communist [or pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine] society each have—in their own manner and according to their caprices, prejudices, and theories—their special type of morals. Thus, what is moral within the capitalist [or pro-vaccine] society is immoral within the communist [or anti-vaccine] society, and vice-versa.
Morals depend upon customs, upon the place, upon the epoch. What is moral in one country is immoral in another country, and what was moral in one epoch becomes immoral in another. Morals do not have any essential value whatsoever; when they are analyzed in depth, they are revealed as one hundred percent stupid.
A fundamental education does not teach morals. A fundamental education teaches revolutionary ethics, and this is what the new generations need.
Since the terrifying night of ancient times, in every age, there have always been those who withdrew from the world in order to seek the truth.
Yet, to withdraw from the world in order to seek the truth is an absurdity, because the truth is found here and now, within the world and within the man.
The truth for the mind is the unknowable from moment to moment; yet, the way to discover it is not by withdrawing ourselves from the world or by abandoning our fellowmen.
To state that any truth is half-truth and thus any truth is half error is an absurdity. The truth is radical: the truth is or is not. The truth can never be half-truth, it can never be half error.
Likewise, it is an absurdity to state that the truth is of time and what was true at one time is not in another time. The truth has nothing to do with time; the truth is not temporary.
Yet, the “I” is time and therefore it cannot know the truth. Therefore, to adopt conventional, temporary, relative truths is an absurdity.
People mistake concepts and opinions for that which is the truth, yet the truth has nothing to do with their opinions or with their so-called conventional truths, because these are only irrelevant projections of the mind.
The truth for the mind is the unknowable from moment to moment; therefore it can only be experienced in the absence of the psychological “I.”
The truth [about the pandemic and vaccines] is not a matter of beliefs, sophisms, concepts, opinions. The truth can only be known through direct experience.
The mind can only formulate opinions, yet opinions have nothing to do with the truth, because the mind can never conceive the truth.
Teachers of schools, colleges, and universities [like us at Glorian] must attain the experience of the truth and thereafter expound the path to their students; they must explain to them that the truth is a matter of direct experience, and not a matter of theories, opinions, or concepts.
We can and we must study, but it is essential to experience—by ourselves and in a direct manner—the truth within each theory, concept, opinion, etc. Yes, we must study, analyze, inquire, but we also need with an unpostponable urgency to experience the truth contained within all the subjects that we study.
The experience of the truth is impossible as long as the mind is disturbed, convoluted, distressed by opposed opinions.
The experience of the truth is only possible when the mind is quiet, when the mind is silent.
Teachers of schools, colleges, and universities must point out to their students the path of profound internal meditation, because the path of profound internal meditation leads to the quietude and silence of the mind.
When the mind is quiet, when the mind is silent—that is, when the mind is empty of thoughts, desires, opinions, etc.—then, the truth comes into us.
Reasoning is one thing and intuition is another. Reasoning only nourishes itself with external sensorial perceptions (by means of the senses it perceives or receives impressions and then produces sensations). Thus, reasoning ends up being negative and limited.
The reasoning person believes that he can attain the truth through the struggle of antithesis, but this struggle only divides the mind and incapacitates its ability to comprehend the truth.
The intuitive person knows how to listen only to the voice of the silence. Thus, within his serene mind, the eternal truths of life are reflected with splendid beauty.
The reasoning person converts his mind into a battlefield filled with prejudices, fears, anxieties, fanaticism, and theories, and his conclusions are always favorable to him. Yet, such a turbulent lake can never reflect the sun of truth.
The mind of the intuitive one serenely and silently flows very far away from the black struggle of antithesis and from the storm of exclusivity.
The mind of the reasoner is like a ship that only knows how to change harbors. From these harbors, which are called schools, theories, religions, political parties, etc., he acts and reacts with already established precepts. A mind like this is a slave of the stagnant energies of life. Therefore, it ends up with complications and pain.
The children of intuition, as rebellious, high flying eagles, soar towards the sun of the great ineffable truths, free from fear, free from the longing of accumulation, free from sects, religions, schools, social prejudices, fanaticism of flags, anxieties, theories, intellectualism, hatred, selfishness, etc.
The mind of the intuitive one serenely and silently flows as a delectable, crystalline fountain of resplendent beauty within the august thunder of thought.
The Mental Body of the intuitive one is a marvelous vehicle of the Innermost. The mind of such an intuitive one only acts under the direction of the Innermost. Hence, from this action emerges right exertion, right thinking, and right feeling.
The human being who only moves himself under the direction of his Innermost in the world is a happy human being because he is far away from many types of complications and conflicts.