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. Herewith its teachings:
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