The study of the esoteric requires knowledge of its fundamental principles. These only have value if they lead to the right kind of action and to the experience of hidden realities that are not perceived by the five senses.
The study goes beyond words and even thought. Although it can involve the learning of symbols, processes or deeds, and their teaching, it actually goes further to the acquiring and transmission of wisdom and personal experience. If it doesn’t go further, it’s of little value.
Fine religious teachings exist that contain valuable information, but the study of information is not an esoteric study, as that requires personal experience.
Esoteric experience is of the hidden knowledge of life. It is unseen to the human eye and yet it is fundamental to knowing the nature of existence and the purpose to living.
The esoteric has been studied through symbols, myths, religions and esoteric schools throughout the history of humanity. These lead a person to actual knowledge, but in themselves they are not it.
Central core principles exist in all religions; this is why there are so many similarities between them. These principles must be understood and their practical aspects used if profound spiritual development is to be successfully achieved.
An effective spiritual study has at its root the knowledge of the secret journey to enlightenment – it contains all the information and practices necessary for awakening.
With this knowledge obscure meanings in religious and mythological teachings become apparent and understood. Without it their meanings are lost in time and believers stick to that which does not lead them to the secret journey to awakening.
Religious believers may learn the teachings of religious figures by heart, proclaim this as knowledge and clamor for more, and yet be far from understanding the messages of their teachers.
This is why the paradox of worship and violence by religious practitioners exists. They can fanatically defend the teachings and figures they hold dear while attacking those who appear to contradict or threaten them.
Love is the opposite of this, and in reality so too is the study of esoteric.
If someone does not know how to acquire wisdom, they cannot progress spiritually. All spiritual progress involves change in what the person actually is inside, in thought, feeling, emotion, will and spirit.
It’s possible, even likely, that someone who knows what the techniques of inner change are, will not change in a meaningful way. Change involves sacrifice and humility and that is too high a price for most to pay.
Knowledge of spiritual things is seen and is easily transmitted in the world, whereas wisdom is not. Wisdom is subtle, hidden, usually despised and is transmittable only to those who are prepared to receive it, at the level at which they are capable of receiving it. The wise use knowledge.
Whoever wishes to be a student of esoteric wisdom must be able to see things as they are. This most cannot do since to see things as they are, one must be able to see oneself as one truly is.
A study of the mundane limited to the five senses is an external study; conventional psychology falls into this category. Esoteric study goes beyond the five senses into the multi-dimensional, the hidden and the inner.
Esoteric study takes one to esoteric places, beyond the physical body, to teachings with divine beings, teachings given at a level that the individual can meet, but no more.
The study of esoteric goes hand-in-hand with progress on the esoteric path, with each degree of initiation earned, a degree of wisdom is earned.
This wisdom is only open to those who meet the required standards.
Wisdom requires preparation – preparing oneself to meet the standards required for it. To study the esoteric one must learn how to study for it.
A true teacher imparts wisdom to another and understands how to impart it.
A true esoteric school is a repository of wisdom, not only of knowledge.
A true seeker of wisdom is not a passive smiling bystander but a revolutionary warrior of light.
Belsebuub
