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Models of Reality
And I think this was present in the first two centuries of Christianity and it’s a central theme of Christ and his disciples, this birth into human consciousness of the Christ principle of the soul, of the divine. And then, as you know, in the early years of the church the bishops made a decision to ban esoteric practices and it got lost. It’s still present in some of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity but it was banned by the church, they wanted worldly power rather than spiritual experiences and then the Inquisition finally delivered his death blow. There were the Cathars and people who had some of these esoteric practices.
the Sufi say you have to be a bit crazy to go here, it is about the complete transformation of the human being, it is about the awakening into human consciousness of the consciousness of the soul: ‘ I am he whom I loved, he whom I loved is me’.
…Now, to be clear: If you read the Katha Upanishad, written two-and-a-half thousand years ago, it tells you about it. And it tells you how to bring the soul, the Atma, into consciousness…the Masters, the great ones — those who look after the spiritual destiny of humanity — have given practices and techniques to enable this to happen. And it could be found in ashrams in India. There were the Cathars and people who had some of these esoteric practices.
