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204. WHAT IS THE PATH?
Greetings and welcome, my friends. Blessings for every one of you. In this lecture I would
like to discuss what this path is and what it is not.
First, I should like to say that this path is not new: it has existed in many different forms for
as long as human beings have lived on this earth. The forms and the ways must change as humanity
evolves, but the fundamental path remains the same.
Before I begin to explain what this path is, I want to ask you, my friends, do not be concerned
with the phenomenon of this communication as such. The only thing important to understand at
the beginning of such a venture is that there are levels of reality which you have not yet explored
and experienced and about which you can only theorize at best. Theory is not the same as
experience, and letting it go at that for the moment will be so much better than trying to force a
definitive conclusion. Do remember that this voice does not express the conscious mind of the
human instrument through whom I speak. Furthermore, take into consideration that every human
personality has a depth of which he or she may as yet be unaware. At this depth, everybody
possesses the means to transcend the narrow confines of his or her own personality, and receive
access to other realms and to entities endowed with a wider and deeper knowing.
This brings us to the whole question of what this path is. Let us first state what it is not.
This pathwork is not psychotherapy, although aspects of it must necessarily deal with areas
psychotherapy also deals with. In the framework of the pathwork, the psychological approach is
only a side issue, a way of getting through obstructions. It is essential to deal with confusions, inner
misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions,
and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy also attempts to do and even posits as its ultimate
goal. In contrast, the pathwork enters its most important phase only after this first stage is over.
The second and most important phase consists of learning how to activate the greater consciousness
dwelling within every human soul.
Often the second phase overlaps with the first phase that is concerned with overcoming the
obstructions because the second phase of the pathwork is helpful and even essential for truly
executing the first. The first part of the work cannot truly be successful unless contact with the
spiritual self is regularly cultivated and used. However, when and how this may be done varies
greatly and is dependent on the personality and on the predisposition, prejudices, and blocks of the
individual entering this path. The sooner you can use, explore, and activate the inexhaustible
fountain of strength and inspiration within, the easier and faster will you deal with the obstructions.
It is thus quite clear in what way this path differs from psychotherapy, although some of the
emphases and, at times, even the methods may be similar.
Nor is this path a spiritual practice that aims a priori at reaching higher spiritual consciousness.
There are many methods and practices which attempt realization of the spiritual self. Though using
valid methods to force-fully reach this goal, many spiritual disciplines do not pay sufficient attention
to those areas of the ego self which are steeped in negativity and destructiveness. Any success thus
achieved is always short-lived and really an illusion, even though some of the experiences may be
genuine enough. But a spiritual state reached in such a one-sided way is not solid and cannot be
maintained unless the total personality is included. Since human beings shy away from accepting
and dealing with certain parts of themselves, they often seek refuge in paths which promise that one
can avoid facing these problematic inner areas. If you think of a spiritual path as the practice of
meditation for its own sake, or for the sake of reaching blissful cosmic experiences and
consciousness, then this path is not your way.
The temptation to use spiritual practices to grab happiness and fulfillment, and to avoid
already existing negativities, confusions and pain, is great. But this attitude defeats the purpose; it
comes from and leads to further illusions. One illusion is that anything that exists in you can be
avoided. Another illusion is the belief that what is in you needs to be feared and denied. No matter
how destructive it is, any inner aspect of you can be transformed. Only when you avoid what is in
you does your illusion truly become detrimental to you and others.
Let me recapitulate what I have said so far. This path is neither psychotherapy, nor a spiritual
path in the usual sense of the word: and, at the same time, it is both. It will be helpful if you
remember the following three points as you consider the possibility of entering into this particular
pathwork.
First, the phenomenon of this transmission, whether you are interested in it, believe in it or
not, should be considered of secondary importance. Keep your mind open for many possibilities
which you do not yet understand. Understanding and deep enlightenment will come as you go
deeper into your own depths and experience your inner wealth and connectedness with the universe.
Second, by entering this pathwork, you do not enter therapy. You embark on a voyage leading
you into the new territory of your inner universe. Whether you have had therapy -- satisfactory and
successful or not -- or whether you are deeply troubled and need help in order to live your life in a
fulfilling way, you will still need for quite a while to pay attention mainly to those areas within
yourself which are negative, destructive, and in error. You may not like to do so, but if you truly
wish to find your real self, that core of your being from which all good stems, this focus is necessary.
"How long will it take?" you may ask. The time is indicated by your own state of mind or
feeling and by your outer life manifestation. When your inner negativities are overcome, this state
will be expressed in your life: there will be no doubt. Your path will organically bring you into
other emphases and concerns. The aim of this path is not to cure you of an emotional or mental
illness, although it does this very well and it is bound to do so if you do the work. But you should
not enter this path for that purpose.
Third, do not enter this path if you expect that it will make you forget your sadness and pain
or let you gloss over those aspects of your personality you like least or even dislike outright. Your
dislike may not be "neurotic." You may be quite right to dislike these aspects, but you are not right
in believing yourself hopelessly bad because of them. So this path must teach you to face whatever
is in you, for only when you do this can you truly love yourself. Only then can you find your
essence and true Godself. But if you wish to attempt to find your essence but under the guise of
following your spiritual inclinations refuse to face whatever is in you, this is not the path for you.
Now, let us go into a fuller description of what this path entails. Every human being senses
an inner longing that goes deeper than the longings for emotional and creative fulfillment, although
these are, of course, part of the deeper and more essential desire. Perhaps the most accurate
"translation" of this longing would be a feeling or sensing that another, more fulfilling state of
consciousness and a larger capacity to experience life must exist.
As you translate this longing into conscious terms, you may become involved in some
confusion and contradiction. Confusions and apparent contradictions come from the dualistic
consciousness permeating the state the human mind is in at this time. The dualism is always present.
For humans perceive reality in terms of either/or, good or bad, right or wrong, black or white. This
way of perceiving life is at best only half true. In this way one can only perceive fragments of reality;
the full truth can never be found in the dualistic way. Truth always comprises more than what the
dualistic way of seeing reality can grasp.
One confusion might be: "Am I longing for something unreal? Would it be perhaps more
realistic and more mature to give up this longing and accept that life is just this flat, dismal, gray
place? Do we not hear over and over that acceptance is necessary in order to be at peace with
oneself and life? Therefore I should really abandon this longing."
The way out of your confusion can only be found when you take a step beyond the dualism
implicit in this dilemma. It is true that you must accept your present state. It is true that life, as it
manifests, cannot be perfect. Yet this fact is not what truly makes you unhappy, rather it is your
demand that life should be perfect and be handed to you in its perfection. If you go deeply enough,
you will inevitably discover that there is a part of you which denies pain and frustration; a place
where you are angry and spiteful because there is no loving authority present who will eliminate
these undesirable experiences for you. Thus it is true that your longing for this utopian kind of
happier state is unrealistic and should be abandoned.
But does this truly mean that the longing per se stems from immature, greedy, or neurotic
attitudes? No, my friends, it does not. There is an inner voice telling you there is much, much more
to your life and yourself than you are capable of experiencing at this time. How then can we find
clarity about what is real and what is false about your deepest longing?
The desire is false when your personality wishes love and fulfillment, perfection and
happiness, or pleasure and creative expansion without paying the price of strictest self-
confrontation. It is false when you do not assume the responsibility for your present state, or the
state you long for. For example, if you feel sorry for yourself because of your unfulfilled life, and if
you in any way blame others for your present state, no matter how wrong those others may be,
whether your parents, your peers, your associates, or life as a whole, then you do not assume
responsibility. If this is the case, then in some way you also wish to receive the new and better state
as a reward. You may try to be a good little obedient follower of a powerful authority figure in
order to be rewarded. Since the reward in reality can never come from the outside, no matter what
you do, you must feel disappointed, resentful, cheated, and angry and you will resort again and again
to your old, destructive patterns that are in fact responsible for the state that creates your unfulfilled
longing.
The longing is realistic when you start from the premise that the clue to fulfillment must lie in
you; when you wish to find the attitudes in you that prevent you from experiencing life in a fulfilled
and meaningful way; when you interpret the longing as a message from the core of your inner being,
sending you on a path that helps you to find your real self.
However, when the inner message of longing is misinterpreted by the negative, greedy,
ungiving and demanding personality, confusion sets in. The longing is then put into channels of
unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulfillment is supposed to be given to you, rather than
attained by you through the courage and honesty of looking at yourself as you now are, even at areas
you would rather avoid. If a life situation is painful and you defend with rage, complaints, and other
defenses against cleanly experiencing this pain, you are not in truth about your present state. But if
you just let the pain be and feel it without playing games like, "it will annihilate me," or "it will last
forever," the experience will release powerful creative energies to increasingly work for you in your
life and open the channels to your spiritual self. Feeling the pain will also yield a deeper, fuller, and
wiser understanding of the connections between cause and effect. For instance, you will see how
you attracted this particular pain. Such insight may not come immediately, for the more you force it,
the more it will elude you. But it will come if you stop the inner fighting and resisting.
Do not abandon the longing per se. Take it seriously. In fact, cultivate it and learn to
understand it, so that you will follow its message and take the inner path to your core; go through
that part which you want to avoid, but which is the real culprit, solely responsible for your less than
fulfilled and joyful state.
Do not abandon the longing that comes from the sense that your life could be much more,
that you could live without painful tortured confusions and function on a level of inner resilience,
contentment, and security. It is a state of experiencing and expressing deep feelings and blissful
pleasure, where you are capable of meeting life without fear because you no longer fear yourself.
You will, therefore, find life, even its problems, a joyful challenge. If your inner problems can
become a challenge that gives spice to your life, the ensuing peace will be all the more sweet. The
tackling of these problems will give you a sense of your own strength, resourcefulness, and creative
ability. You will feel the spiritual self flowing through your veins, in your thoughts, in your vision
and your perceptions, so that decisions will be made from the center of your being. When you live
this way, occasional outer problems are the salt of your life and become almost pleasurable. But the
times of outer problems will become less frequent, and peaceful, joyous, creative living will become
the norm.
Right now, the saddest part of your longing is that deep inside you know how your own body
and soul are not even capable of accepting and sustaining intense pleasure at this time. Pleasure
exists on all levels: spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental. However, spiritual pleasure, separated
from the levels of everyday functioning, is an illusion, because true spiritual bliss encompasses the
total personality. The personality must therefore learn to endure a state of bliss. This it cannot do
unless it learns to endure whatever is locked inside the psyche now: pain, meanness, malice, hate,
suffering, guilt, fear, terror. All these must be transcended. Then, and then only, can the human
personality function in a blissful state. Your longing to experience more pleasure is a message for
you to embark on a road that affords you the possibility of being in bliss.
The state of existence I described need not be given up as unrealistic or wishful thinking. It
need not be given up because you will earn it and make it your own by going through whatever in
you prevents you from experiencing it. This state already exists as a dormant potential within you.
It is not something that can be given to you by others, nor is it something that you can acquire
through learning or effort. It unfolds organically as a byproduct of your going through the dark
spots within you.
Make no mistake: this is not an easy path. But the difficulty is not a fixed reality, a given fact,
an immutable condition. The difficulty exists only to the degree the personality has a stake in
avoiding aspects of the self. To the degree the commitment is made to be in truth with the self, to
face every particle of the self, the difficulty vanishes. And what first seemed a difficulty now begins
to become a challenge, an exciting journey, and a process that makes life so intensely real and
wholesome, so secure and fulfilling, that you would not want to give it up for anything. In other
words, the difficulty exists exclusively by dint of a false belief: the belief that facing one area of the
self may imply a verdict about the whole self that cannot be tolerated and accepted. For example,
you might conclude that if a certain negative attitude is true, then all of the self is bad. Such a belief
makes facing the self difficult or even impossible. Hence it is necessary to ferret out the underlying
beliefs behind any strong resistance or revulsion to go into the dark areas of the self.
This path demands from an individual that which most people are least willing to give:
truthfulness with the self, exposure of what exists now, elimination of masks and pretenses, and the
experience of one's naked vulnerability. It is a tall order, and yet it is the only real way that leads to
genuine peace and wholeness. Once the investment in pretense and hiding is given up, it is no
longer a tall order but rather an organic and natural process.
So this path is simultaneously the most difficult and the easiest. It merely depends from what
point of view you look at it and choose to experience it. The difficulty can be measured in terms of
your truthfulness with yourself. To the degree you want to be in truth, the path will appear neither
too difficult, nor will it appear as if it dealt, in the words of some of its critics, "too much with the
negative side of life and self." For the negative is the positive, in essence. Negative and positive are
not two aspects of energy and consciousness: they are one and the same. Whatever particles of
energy and consciousness in your self have turned negative must be reconverted into their original
positive way of being. This cannot be accomplished without fully taking responsibility for the
negativity in you.
The reluctance to be truthful with oneself applies to even the most honest people. A person
may be noted for his or her honesty, truthfulness, and integrity on one level, yet there can be deeper
levels where this is not so at all. This path leads into the as yet concealed more subtle levels which
are difficult to pinpoint but certainly ascertainable.
How can you gauge whether or not this untruthfulness on a deeper level exists in you? It is
really extremely simple. There is an infallible key which, if you choose to use it, will give you faultless
answers. This key is: how do you feel about yourself and about your life? How meaningful,
fulfilled, and rich is your life? Do you feel secure with others? Do you feel comfortable about your
most intimate self in the presence of others, or at least with certain people with whom you have a
goal in common? How much joy are you capable of feeling, giving, and receiving? Are you plagued
with resentments, anxiety, and tension, or with loneliness and a sense of isolation? Do you need a
lot of overactivity in order to alleviate anxiety? Actually, the fact that you do not consciously feel
anxious by no means proves that you are without anxiety. Many start out on the path without
awareness of their anxiety, but they feel dead, numb, listless, and paralyzed. This may be a sign that
the anxiety was overcome through an artificial deadening process. This path cannot skip the step of
making you first feel your anxiety and then feel whatever the anxiety hides. Only then can real
aliveness come.
Exhilaration, enthusiasm, joyousness, and the unique blend of excitement and peace which
connotes spiritual wholeness are a result of inner truthfulness. When these states are absent, then
truthfulness must be absent. It is as simple as that, my friends.
If you demand of your life, and therefore of any path you contemplate entering, to bypass
feeling your anxiety and your pain, to avoid owning up to your dishonesties, your cheating, your
spitefulness, your games, and your more or less subtle pretenses, then it might be better for you not
to start on this path. But if you expect a real effort and are prepared to embark on the journey into
yourself to find, acknowledge, and bring out whatever is in you, if you summon all your inner
truthfulness and commitment for the journey, if you find the courage and humility not to appear
other than you are even in your own eyes, then you have indeed every right to expect that this path
will help you realize your full life, and fulfill your longing in every conceivable way. This is a realistic
hope. You will increasingly know it to be so.
Little by little you will begin to function from your innermost center, which is a very different
experience from functioning from your periphery. You are now so accustomed to the latter that you
cannot even imagine how else it could be. Now you are constantly dependent on what happens
around you. You depend on appreciation and approval from others, on being loved, and on being
successful in terms of the outside world. Whether you are aware of it or not, you inwardly strive to
make sure you will obtain all this so as to have peace and fulfillment.
When you function from your center, security and joy spring from a deep well within you.
This does not by any means imply that when this happens you are condemned to live without
approval, appreciation, love or success. This is another dualistic misunderstanding where you think,
"Either I experience my center and then must forfeit all love and appreciation from others and be
alone, or I must forfeit my inner self because I cannot contemplate such a lonely life." In reality,
when you function from the liberated center of your innermost self, you attract all the abundance of
life to you, but you do not depend on it. It enriches you and is a fulfillment of a legitimate need, but
it is not the substance of life. The substance is within.
In the healthy life of every human being there must be exchange, intimacy, communication,
sharing, mutual love, mutual pleasure, and the giving as well as the receiving of warmth and
openness. Also, every human being needs in healthy proportion recognition of what he or she does.
But there is an enormous difference between wanting this recognition in a healthy way and
depending on outside recognition to such an extent that you are unable to do without it at all times.
In the latter case, the self begins to sacrifice its integrity in tragic ways that cost much too much.
Then the real self is betrayed and the seeking of recognition defeats itself. This path is geared to
finding this center, this deep inner spiritual reality, and not some illusory religious escape. Quite the
contrary, this path is immensely pragmatic, for the true spiritual life is never in contradiction to
practical life on earth. There must be a harmony between these two aspects of the whole.
Forsaking everyday living is not true spirituality. In most cases, it is merely another kind of escape.
For many it is easier to sacrifice something and chastise themselves than to face and deal with their
dark aspects. The guilt for the latter is constantly atoned for by self-deprivations which are
supposedly doorways to heaven. Yet this guilt cannot be wiped out unless the personality deals
directly with the darkness within. Then sacrifice and deprivation become not only unnecessary but
even contradictory to true spiritual unfoldment. The universe is abundant in its joys, pleasures and
bliss: human beings are supposed to experience them, not forsake them. No amount of forsaking
will wipe out the guilt for avoiding purification of the soul.
I would like to mention another specific feature of the inner obstructions that must be met so
they can be transcended. It is necessary to first understand that all thoughts and feelings are
powerful agents of creative energy, regardless of whether the thoughts are true and wise or false and
limited. Likewise, whether the feelings are loving or hateful, angry or benign, fearful or peaceful,
their energy must create according to their nature. Thoughts and opinions create feelings, and both
of them together create attitudes, behaviors, and emanations which in turn create the life
circumstances. These sequences must be connected, understood, and fully recognized. This is an
essential aspect of the pathwork.
Your fear of your negative feelings is unjustified. The feelings in themselves are not terrible or
unbearable. However, your beliefs and attitudes can make them so. This process is constantly being
verified by those who follow this path, because they find that the deepest pain is a revivifying
experience. It releases contracted energy and paralyzed creativity. It enables people to feel pleasure
to the degree they are willing to feel pain.
The same applies to fear. To experience fear in itself is not devastating: once experienced,
the fear instantly becomes a tunnel through which you travel, not letting go of the feeling of fear
until it carries you to a deeper level of reality. The fear is a denial of other feelings. When the
original feeling is being accepted and experienced, the knot dissolves. Thus, it is never the feeling
itself that is unbearable. However, your attitude to it may make it so.
Fear of your feelings makes you cut them off. Thus you cut yourself off from life. Your
spiritual center cannot evolve and manifest and unify with your ego self unless you learn to fully
embrace all your feelings, allow yourself to be carried by them, and learn to take responsibility for
them. If you make others responsible for your feelings, you will be in a bind because you will either
deny them or act them out destructively against others. Neither one of these two alternatives is
desirable or can bring any solution.
Your spiritual self cannot be freed unless you learn to feel all your feelings, unless you learn to
accept every part of your being no matter how destructive it may be right now. No matter how
negative, mean, vain, or egotistical you may find a corner of yourself to be -- contrary to other more
developed aspects of your personality -- it is absolutely necessary for every aspect of your being to
be accepted and dealt with. No aspect should be left out or covered over in the wishful hope that it
would no longer matter and would somehow just go away. It does matter, my friends. Nothing that
exists in you is powerless. No matter how hidden a dark aspect might be, it creates life conditions
that you must deplore. This is one reason why you must learn to accept the negatively creating
aspects in you. Another reason is that no matter how destructive, cruel, and bad it may be, every
aspect of energy and consciousness is in its original essence both beautiful and positive. The
distortions must be reconverted into their original essence. Energy and consciousness can become
creative again in a positive way only when the light of cognizance and positive intentionality are
brought to bear on them. Unless you do this, you cannot come into your creative core.
This is basically the pathwork. This path is therefore difficult only because people with their
vanity have false ideas of how they should already be. The only difficulty is your illusion about how
you are and how you should be, and your illusion that you could not and must not have certain
problems and attitudes. Unless you give up these illusions and take stock of whatever is in you, you
must remain alienated from your own spiritual essence. That essence is constantly self-renewing; it
is constantly conciliating apparently insoluble conflicts. Your spiritual essence furnishes you with all
that you could ever need for living your life and for completing the task you came to fulfill through
your birth. It is your divine center. You are thus an expression of all that exists -- the all-
consciousness. You remain disconnected from it because you are too afraid of giving up your little
vanity. Therefore your longing can never be fulfilled, for no matter what is being promised you,
there is no panacea that can give you what you need and rightfully wish for without taking the path
into and through your own darkness. Spiritual practices alone can not fulfill your longing, no matter
how much you sit in meditation and concentration.
Such practices can only be helpful tools when used in addition to or in conjunction with the
self-confrontation which you want to avoid at all costs. Unless you accept that self now in its
nakedness with all its possible ugliness, together with your already existing beauty, you cannot
discover how you already are the beauty you are not yet conscious of but which you long to connect
with, to realize and to express.
This, then, is the pathwork, my friends. Very, very few people on this earth are willing to
undertake this path. Even fewer follow it through all the way. Most people wishfully think that they
may find another way to reach fulfillment, one that will lead them around their dark spots. They do
not want to know that it is those dark spots that render them unhappy and lonely. Some make
beginnings, but when they approach those dark spots they pull back in self-revulsion and turn all
their destructive energy outward against those who help them find their way. They do not wish to
take a chance on themselves or on finding the way through their own darkness.
But for those who have the courage to go all the way, relentlessly and patiently, what glory
awaits them in their innermost center!
Those who refrain from going all the way are usually obstructed by the fallacy that if they are
not their illusory perfection, they are hopelessly bad. This error should be challenged, examined,
and worked with. If you do this, you will eliminate an important stumbling block. Make room for
the possibility that these are not the only two alternatives. Be open to find the way from within that
enables you to be totally honest and see the worst in yourself without losing faith in yourself.
Though this seems like a miracle, it really is quite logical. It will come to pass that precisely because
you have faced and admitted the worst, you will find your true value.
Anyone entering this path should be prepared for this miracle to happen. You are not as
perfect as you want to be. No matter how much lip service you may pay to the theory of your
human limitations, you have a great stake in seeing yourself in a certain perfectionistic way. This
tendency has to be questioned. Then you need to face the fear of experiencing certain feelings: it is
perhaps your implicit belief that you will perish if you experience some of your deeper feelings
which are, in effect, your life-blood. This fear must be challenged. If you are willing and prepared
to discover all of yourself, you are indeed embarking on a journey of immense beauty, though not
beauty in the sense that all is easy. The temporary pain and struggle will turn out to be your most
valuable gateway to light and fullness of living.
The path is glorious when you have progressed beyond the initial stages where you battle with
your own false ideas that always create two unacceptable alternatives. When the path opens up from
within you, you begin to experience, maybe for the first time in your life, your own potential of
being, your own divinity. You will feel your potential for pleasure and security, awareness of
yourself and others, and therefore your infinitely greater power to relate to others, comprehend and
be with them without fear.
The initial decision to enter a path such as this must be made realistically if it is to work. Are
you willing to give up your illusions about yourself and your expectations -- which come from your
resistance to giving up self-delusions -- of what others should do for you. Are you willing to shed
your false fears about what feelings you should or should not, could or could not experience? If you
make your commitment to yourself to fully accept everything you now are and to proceed to get to
know yourself where you do not yet know yourself, you will find it is the most exciting, significant,
and meaningful journey into your own depth. You will have all the help you can possibly need, for
no one can undertake this journey alone.
When your spiritual center begins to manifest, your ego-consciousness integrates with it and
you begin to be "lived through," as it were, by the spirit. Your living becomes a spontaneous,
effortless flow.
QUESTION: In what way was this path different in former eras and cultures?
ANSWER: Humanity's development in former times necessitated a different approach. For
example, people in the Middle Ages were apt to act out their cruel impulses. They were not capable
of separating themselves sufficiently from their impulses in order to identify them, own up to them,
and assume responsibility for them. They felt compelled to give vent to them and became wholly
enveloped by them. Therefore people required strict authority from the outside to keep their lower
natures in check. Only when the human personality became capable of using self-control could the
next evolutionary step be taken. The over-control must now be loosened up.
In former times the average person was too far removed from his or her core to seek spiritual
life from inside; it had to be projected outside. This inability to assume responsibility for the self
then led to the creation of an outer devil who would possess an individual and an outside God who
would help.
Now all this has changed. For example, today humankind's greatest hindrance is egotistical
pride. People have accomplished much with the powers of the ego. They needed to develop these
powers so as to no longer be irresponsible, helpless children. But these powers must now be
exercised from within by one's spiritual center and not be ascribed to the ego. The pride of the ego
makes this difficult. Questions arise such as: "What will others say? Will they think me naive,
stupid, or unscientific?" It is everyone's task today to overcome this pride and this dependency on
the opinions of others. How often do individuals betray their spiritual truth by mouthing what is
supposed to be intelligent without ever even daring to let their divine selves inspire them! These are
the criteria for the path today.
Every stage in the evolution of spiritual consciousness necessitates a different approach, but
the aim is always the same. However, there is one exception. In every era there always was a small
minority of people who were developed way beyond the scope of the average person. For them the
path was always the same. These few formed secret societies which were unknown and not in the
least popular. A group such as yours can therefore not be a popular movement either, for even
today there are very few people either capable or willing to follow such a path. But there are
certainly many more today who could do so than in former times; many could, but few will.
I will withdraw now from this instrument through which I am allowed to manifest. A great
spiritual power protects this group. This may seem incomprehensible or a primitive belief for some
of you, yet it is a reality, my friends. There is a whole world beyond the world you know and touch
and see. Only as you explore yourself and go into your core will you meet this world, and then it
will reveal itself in its stark reality and utter glory. This world exists within and around you and it
will inspire you from its own complete wisdom as you reach for it.
Be blessed, every one of you. Those of you who want to make the commitment to your inner
being, and want to avail yourselves of the help this particular path can give are blessed and guided in
all your moves; and those of you who do not yet wish to take this step or who are drawn elsewhere,
they, too, are being blessed. Be in peace.