107. The third eye: Chapter 6 - The voluntary ignorance

 

Our ignorance signifies the abandonment of unity, universality, the whole and the single reality, our distancing from the One and Only, followed by our renunciation of the One, and later, the loss of the One. It represents the voluntarily chosen individualization and our despair. When we speak of bodily, mental, and spiritual well-being, of completeness, it is necessary to distinguish between the health of our body and the health of our soul. If the unity or health of our body is lacking, then we are sick. If the unity or health of our soul is lacking, then we are mentally ill, misguided or, at a higher level, insane. On the spiritual level, unity and universality are about finding the One (our universal self) that always resides within us. It is up to us, or more precisely, up to our free will, whether we choose individualization, moving away from the One, or whether we move closer to the One and Only, to find ourselves. We also have to ask ourselves whether we will teach our children, grandchildren, or others to follow this path or we give up. 

Our thinking, speaking, and actions should reflect our bodily, mental and spiritual health and our shared unity with the One, because unity is one, tradition is one, reality is one, and our heritage is one. This single heritage, this tradition, this unity, could be called archaic Christianity, as everyone is born into the intersection of space and time, into the task entrusted to us, into returning, into the circle of love. The unity of humanity, its tradition, its heritage, its Christianity, is therefore a fact. The representation of this unity by many people (its quantity) should be called humanity. But this is not the case. What seems to undermine this unity is ignorance of one another, individualization, fear and anxiety, the manipulation of religious power, loneliness, and the use of concepts and mass opinions that support division. If we look at the past two thousand years, for approximately fifteen hundred years in Europe, concepts like original sin, salvation by grace, bodily resurrection, forgiveness, etc., were erroneous concepts. Some of these still persist today. In the last five hundred years, other concepts and ideologies have emerged that fragment unity, such as comfort, profit, success, money, utility, progress, and development. Why does profit and utility not serve life or our happiness? Our individual despair has not changed across different historical periods because certain human traits are constant. For instance: 

1) Our lost awareness: Our sleepwalking occurs when our eyes are open, but we do not see; when our ears do not hear and our minds do not grasp what is being said, and our mouths remain silent in confessing our universality and our returning. Yet, the One creates all people for happiness, awakening, awareness, sacrifice, and love. Why do we not acknowledge that we have all the abilities needed to testify to our awareness, our love, and our happiness? Because in our souls, according to our individual self, we live in fear and anxiety and fall victim to power manipulation. When we are sleepwalkers, we do not live in the present, in the NOW, but rather in the past or the future. To live in the NOW means to be awake, conscious, open, honest and meaningful. To live in the NOW does not mean "live for today", but rather the correct version: "live in the present". The teachings of our Initiation Master are also about awareness, finding ourselves, and becoming conscious, helping us to find the spiritual path that leads back to the One. His teachings urge us to live not according to the dogmas and rules meant for the masses, but according to the law of love, awareness, and happiness, which stems from the perfect truth, order, and love of the One — that are, from the one reality. 

Additionally, the teachings urge us to live not as sleepwalkers, not as living-dead material beings, but as spiritual people, only then can we become mature. As the experiences of past centuries prove, we still refuse to understand the teachings and messages of our Initiation Master. As material beings, we tend to believe in material well-being, comfort, the religious power of money, interest, profit and the dogmatic letter. The world's rulers, the manipulators (the deceivers) teach us that we cannot renounce interest, profit, money, the letter, dogma, or ideology, but instead we should renounce our lives. It would be wise for us to take stock of what tradition — whether material or higher, spiritual — we, the people of the early 21st century, will pass on to the future generations. 

In what we leave behind, how much is in line with the order, truth and freedom of the One? How much spiritual teaching does it contain to help us take on tasks, live in the NOW, and how much in sleepwalking, sinking into materialism, ignorance and wasting life? Ortega y Gasset used the term "obsolescence coefficient" to illustrate this duality, expressing how awake we are, how we recognize our tasks, live in the present, or how much we are sleepwalkers, postponing the tasks entrusted to us. Those with a high coefficient almost always justify themselves by saying that the times are bad and how much better it was in the past. With this nearly stereotypical behaviour, they try to craft virtue and superiority over those who live in the NOW. This is the dream world of the ignorant, the sleepwalking, when the mind of an adult person is stuck. Comfortable, materialistic people lag behind in awakening, but they are in the front of sleepwalking, those who hold their rationality in high regard, believing that accumulating material wealth, indulging in excess, and piling up money and profit gives them some form of perfect knowledge. They consider their comfort and principles inviolable. They operate on the "give and take" principle. If we are awake, spiritual initiated, there is nothing for us to envy them. After all, what can we envy from a soul crippled person, no matter how materially rich they may be? What could we envy from the spiritually crippled, the deaf or the blind? If we were to envy them, it would mean we agree with them. What we can do, is either awaken them from their sleepwalking or feel pity for them, perhaps even pray for them. 

2) Our deviation: Our deviation from the golden path begins when we fail to recognize the connections between the One and our spiritual freedom, order, because, for example, we practice moral behaviour instead of gaining understanding through intellect. It is no coincidence that non-material religions teach moral behaviour, while material religions teach instinctive behaviour, such as overconsumption. Morality divides universal duality and focuses on good and evil, sin and innocence, lies and truth. In the Christian Gospel — not in the institutionalized religion — are the teachings that can end our deviation and allow us to return to the One, provided we have fulfilled the tasks entrusted to us, such as creating, struggling, and restoring order. 

The Gospel shows to the very points of deviation that involve our bodily and spiritual distortions and degenerations. Our Initiation Master Gospel — the teaching of the possibility of returning available to everyone — has undergone significant changes over the centuries. Today's historical and institutional Christianity, compared to the new Christianity that first heard the good news, unfortunately represents a mutant version. This is because someone, around the 4th century, transformed faith into a power religion, a dogma, a system, which allowed them to rule power in Europe for about 1500 years. Originally, the initiation teaching of Christianity taught liberation from the corruption of life, from deviation, from the individual self, and a gradual approach to the One and Only. It taught how to move from life to existence. Our Initiation Master showed us how to return to the One. 

He revealed the secrets: "I declare what has been hidden since creation," that everything may be illuminated, that all teachings may be clear, understandable, and transparent to us, and to understand the necessity of the soul's apocalypse and renewal. The pathway for returning, opened by him, is available to us since two thousand years. It is also our task to restore order, and correct our deviations in thought, word, and action. We must understand that our soul's entry into existence is not the fault in the earthly life, but by the earthly life. He showed us the first steps of restoration, which is why we can call him the first restorer. He also showed us the possibility of timelessness, which is why we can call him the master of time. We too can be disciples of restoration and timelessness.