29. About you: Chapter - Loss of unity (4)

 

At about the sixth century before the time of our Initiating Master, is the historical era, where we can approx. place the beginning of the crisis and breakdown of truth of our One and Only. René Guenon calls this age the beginning of the Kaliyuga, the Dark Age, or the Iron Age, which is the final phase of human history. The Greek equivalent of the Hindu Kaliyuga is the kanon, marking the period when tradition and order broke down. An order, where the arts, myths, science and knowledge were still a unified concord. Since then, the world has lived in an age of unbalanced unity, i.e. an age of lies within the natural sciences, music, mathematics and thought. The erosion of unity has continued ever since. At that time Lao-tze from China, Zarathustra from Iran, Pythagoras and Heraclitus from Europe, have once again summarized the knowledge and tradition reminiscent of the authentic existence, all in the hope of trying to stop the spiritual erosion and avoid crisis. As we known, the experience failed.

Heraclitus taught, that for the uninitiated and non-spiritual man living in the so called life, society, and surrounding nature, the world is nothing else, but a constantly changing, astoundingly dazzling dream. The world of the latent, non-awakened man is unreal. Reality can only be seen by an awakened, initiated man, who recognises the stable, permanent order, freedom, truth and duality of the One and Only, which is everlasting and unalterable. Thus without awakening , it is not possible to understand, that the altered is in the unaltered, the motion is within the motionless, i.e. the two as duality can be considered as one. Therefore life and existence is one entity, as neither can be without the other. Life can not be renounced for existence’s sake, because we would reach the same status, as the times of medieval physical punishment and erroneously known asceticism lead us . But on the contrary, neither can existence be renounced for life’s sake, for it would result in the status quo we are in nowadays. In both cases, we deal with a false life, as well as a false existence. Both are lies. To separate life from existence and vice a versa can only be done by costly lies.

In the third and fourth centuries faith was converted into religion, and state religions have been introduced, followed by the start of the permanent crisis of the new Christian church, giving way to other arising crises in the forthcoming centuries. With newly appeared state religions and it’s adherence to written script have allowed clerical powers to have seen to it, that less and ever more less of our Initiating Master’s teachings may reach the general public’s conscious mind. We see many inadequacies, due either to ignorance or deliberate act, by omitting of e.g. the need of reason based knowledge, love’s cycle and sacredness, and apocalypse’s- new beginning’s- order restoration necessity. Communications to religious communities of all these were either abstract, vogue or in a negative sense. Church leaders Pharisaic and materialistic attitudes lead to the ignorance of religious communities, making the church of nowadays are neither mystical nor educational, but rather charitable, celebratory, socially and politicly active. The church is no longer contemplative, for it’s reflective spiritual leaders, the meditators - with  their secure knowledge of believing without seeing and having to see with faith- have died. Our Initiating Master has taught us the need of establishing order, to retract to old Christianity. Instead the church has developed it’s own powerful, convenient, institutional, dogmatic system, in which it still feels comfortable, notwithstanding the need of change.