School Notebooks - #5 : Inner Religion - H. van Doren
Notebook #5 : INNER RELIGION

A.-

“… Then, in order for them to serve as an example, those figures can be allowed in the sanctum.

“A man without knowledge will be driven to confuse those objects with ritual artefacts. However, they are clavicles of the inner road.

“Although this danger is very possible, opportunity is here given to the more advanced ones to have their places assembled as it was prescribed. Neither the clefs of the sanctum nor the circle, the tree or its fruits in the centre place can be ignored by abstention or restraint; neither the five colours, nor the stone table.

“This Table, which is not the sacrificial one of the philistines of the external circle, is Cathedra of the Lord for Major Knowledge and base for the operations, whichever be the chosen path…

“From there is sustained and materialised the inner temple which is in no place but in the supramental plane. The keepers of the temple have their place assigned that they use for union with the hidden temple… Of many religions, they had at their disposal to unite prayers with the supermental plane, and likewise their cult objects were treated to gather the energies of the devotees and materialise the Form.

“The important work, that of the Table, shows our traces in all altars. It is thanks to the altar that the energy of the Form was always returned purified to the believers, sometimes by means of sacraments.

“Similar effect has been produced in the Egyptian and Chinese precincts and amongst the mountain peoples; in the Ark of Alliance, in Christian and Pagan altars and in the Stone of Kaaba. In warm climates, the woods themselves, and if islanders, the sacred island have served the same purpose.

“The keepers have attended the union of all the altars with the supermental plane and even those central places around which multitudes gather, for whichever the reason… This union must be about completion for the salvation of humanity, and real descent of the city of God.

“This city, of pure crystal, will be in the world when installed in each man, and the Form begins to unite from the centre of each man, from his inner altar. To that purpose, the keepers explain according to the understanding of each one, how the union with the Form must be, and how to receive from it all its force for the benefit of all.

“Widening the circle up to the most external of humanity and uniting in the keepers all the points of the suns of God the supermental Form will materialise. For this, they will have to understand the compassion that leads to the salvation of all humanity and of all living creatures. Every creature, human or not, is sacramental and in his liberation helps to materialise the mental plane, to divinise Creation.

“… The manifestations of the supermental plane are those of light.”


B.-

The former is a manner of explanation and this one is also valid.

The inner temple has nothing to do with cult sites. Neither is the precinct of low consciousness. It is the luminous precinct of a crystalline consciousness not disturbed by reveries. There, one and All identify.

To enter the precinct is necessary the condition of inner purity. To say “inner purity” is to say: no reverie, no apprehension, peace with oneself.

Without purity, all effort to enter is futile.

Once purity is obtained as a state of awakened consciousness and in accord with itself, one can begin to visualise a translucent sphere within the chest. This is a representation and not a Transcendental Form but it connects with the latter thanks to those who dedicate their efforts to unite all the crystalline spheres with the transcendental plane.

The imagined sphere within the chest is ‘charged’ in moments of happiness and wellbeing, in such a way that in bad moments is again visualised so that it ‘returns’ its positive energy. It is like a sort of internal accumulator that returns as much as it received. Now, this would not go beyond the simple psychological plane of representation if the spheres were not, besides, actually connected with a major plane by means of other forms and of other acts of higher purity that some effect to their own benefit, and that of the others.

Therefore, it is not enough that anyone wishing it visualises within the chest the sphere to work with it in the prescribed manner to obtain real results. Certainly, some psychological results may be obtained, but they will not be objective ones. For the latter to be achieved, it is necessary that at one time, the ‘force’ is communicated to him or the contact with the transcendental plane is transferred to him. The individual must register this operation of the passage of the force with a real internal eruption not due to simple psychic phenomena but to a real contact with a source of higher energy.

Thus, the contact can be passed on from one to another, but for this it will be necessary that the person passing it had previously received it from somebody (remember the ‘laying on the hands’, ‘sacraments’, etc., that in almost all religions allude to this subject). Now, the energy obtained by personal transference returns to the transcendental plane because of the ‘charge’ added to it by each one whom receives it, when they refer to their personal sphere in a positive manner.

This supermental, transcendental ‘accumulator’ is not placed anywhere and is not mentally representable although it can be registered as a pure transcendental act, as an energy vortex.

The more the personal sphere is charged, the better results can be obtained when the energy is requested. When human multitudes (who have received de Force or the contact) gather, the supermental Form is of an enormous energy.In different epochs, the external religions collapse by secularising and losing contact with higher planes. Prayer, then, has only a ritual character and faith fades away.

This situation creates a vacuum in human consciousness, which in turn permits again to re-establish contact, but by means of new forms that supersede the worn out ones of previous stages. In this way mankind progressively betters itself, gaining in consciousness-of-self, gaining in liberation.

A simple, positive, and conscious meditation can be performed utilising the translucent sphere to accumulate and receive energy when necessary. Those who work in more complex ways of connecting the transcendental plane with the psychological one, act as ‘bridges’ between both levels (in ‘pontifexes’ and messiahs of the external religions this principle appears in a deformed manner).


C.-

The truth of the Inner Religion is experienced as personal reality and not according to priests or cults, influences of idolatry and external religions.

The Inner Religion is merry and profound. It loves the body, Nature, humanity and the spirit. It renounces sacrifices, guilty feelings and threats from the beyond.

The Inner Religion does not oppose the temporal to the eternal but understands them as processes of the same divine existence.

The Inner Religion is Religion, Science, and Art.

Religion, because it connects us with God-Universe.
Science, because it gives us understanding.
Art, because it allows us to make ourselves and to create.

Herewith its teachings:

  1. To go against evolution is to go against oneself.
  2. When you force something towards an end, you produce the opposite.
  3. Do not oppose a great force; instead, recede until it weakens and then advance with resolution.
  4. Things are all right when they march in unison, not in isolation.
  5. Things are all right when they march at the same time, not when some advance and others retard.
  6. If to you the day and the night are both all right, then you have overcome contradictions.
  7. If you pursue pleasure you enchain yourself to suffering.
  8. As far as you do no harm to your health, enjoy yourself without inhibition when the opportunity arises: in this way, you liberate yourself.
  9. If you pursue an end you enchain yourself.
  10. If everything you do is done as if it were an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
  11. Conflicts disappear only when they are understood at their roots, not when one wants to resolve them.
  12. When you do harm to others you enchain yourself but if you do not harm anyone, you can freely do whatever you wish.
  13. When you treat others the way you want them to treat you, you liberate.
  14. It does not matter in which band events have placed you; what is important is that you understand that you have not chosen any band.
  15. Whichever your position, opinion or band, there is not the complete truth or liberation; there it is the reverie. The complete truth and freedom surge when you realise that your position, opinion, or band is to you, reveries.
  16. When you find a great force, happiness and kindness in your heart, or when you feel free and without contradictions, immediately thank your inner god. When the opposite occurs, ask your inner god, and that thankfulness that you previously accumulated will return to you converted and amplified in benefit. However, you cannot ask your inner god if you have not made contact with him, happily giving him your thankfulness and your kindness. The more important your thankfulness, the more benefit will return to you when requested. In this simple manner you will realise and experience that your immortality and your evolution depend on the growth of your inner god.
  17. Never ask your inner god something opposed to this teaching, because you will receive according to your request and then, you will begin to enchain yourself.




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©Translation by H. van Doren

© Translation from the original
Spanish "Cuadernos de Escuela",
first published in Santiago de Chile, 1973
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The printing of this book was completed on
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