55. Fidelity to the letter

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According to the teachings of the old scripture, tradition signifies the fidelity to the letter, to the long-written, now dusty texts that life has surpassed for millennia. Anyone who has not come to this realization has allowed themselves to be misled as a sleepwalking. The tradition of the One, the transcendence, is different from the tradition of the letter because it is the tradition of Christianity, the tradition of awareness and love. Tradition is necessary for a person to be able to see beyond the meaning of the text and to guide his/her life back to existence. There is a chosen, sleepwalking nation, who have had more than six hundred rules written down (two prohibitions for every day) and strictly enforced even to this day, because they have become so lost and so respectful toward the letter. 

Yet, they only need to follow one law—the law of love, which our Initiation Master left for us. He was the one who abolished outward forms, the Pharisee behaviour, the shallow moral obligations, who separated light from darkness, the external Pharisee from the spiritual person. The inner person, or the true and normal person, is the one putted in order through the transcendence of the cross, the one who knows the meaning of his/her life, who can participate in fulfilling their fourfold vocation. The outer person, independent of all these inner certainties, serves materialism and suffers through life trials. The outer person believes they know the world, for to them, the world is what is tangible, visible to the eye, or perhaps audible to the ear. 

As we will elaborate more in the chapter on doctrines/dogmas, the Christian religion applies doctrines and revelations, presenting them as the manifestations of the One. In contrast to Eastern worldviews, there is no need for personal experience here—only oral or written declarations, and everything depends on whether the believing listener/reader accepts the truth of these declarations. Religion has always been preoccupied with the precise transmission of texts from original sources, with eradicating deviations from the letter, sola scriptura, which at times escalated into obsession, such as during the times of heresy and the burning of witches. But why should the Christian stop at rules and laws, rather than allowing themselves to immerse in the flow of love, which constantly flows from the One, the love of life, into the Trinity? Why can’t everyone experience the teachings of our Initiation Master and perhaps receive a gift of grace? Who decides who can have such an experience and who cannot? To understand the new revelation means to become aware that we come from the One and must return to it after our earthly testing. 

What do we owe to the literal interpretation? That by the third or fourth century, they turned the Christian tradition into a religion, equating sin with religion and man, and using religion for forgiveness (redemption), asserting that only religion, or its representative, the Church, can absolve a person from sin. As if the human being, the image and identity of the One, were not necessary. Everything is done by the absolving service. The matter was further complicated by reducing faith in the One to the level of moral behaviour, and even pronouncing every new-born infant as sinful. For them, there is original sin. The reason we don’t recognize original sin is that we can no longer commit it. However, they do not tell us that sin is nothing other than sleepwalking, ignorance, individuality, and deviation—when the spirits degrade into matter. Moreover, they do not explain that the invention of original sin was necessary in order to manipulate people. Sin was confused with original sin. Our Initiation Master expressed deviation from the path of the One, straying, in terms of ignorance, sleepwalking, individuality, and Pharisee behaviour. He never used the term "sinful," only "ignorant." 

Fidelity to the letter does not speak of the law of love, the dynamic faith, where and when the hidden reveals itself, when darkness becomes light, when the observer comes to the centre of attention, when the viewer becomes the vision, and the illusion becomes reality. It is the law of love, not fidelity to the letter, that directs the human being, in the physical world, from a dormant (material and spiritual) state to manifestation (spirit), towards light. For a person, the things of the invisible world are hidden, and only the law of awareness makes the unknown and invisible world visible, and can turn the illusion of the physical world into spiritual reality. In other words, it reveals the manifestation of the creative One. This law makes it possible for the three components of reality—spirit (observer), soul (process recorder), and body (object of observation)—to become one, for all originates from the One, exists through the One, and is for the One. In religious terms, through Him, with Him, and in Him. For spiritual people, through us, with us, and in us.