T.N.G. SIGNS OF THE TIMES - N.M. September 17, 2001 (#99)
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Selected comments from the Teachers on Ignorance and the Inability of Disciples to Understand.
This subject is so important to the Hierarchy that it will also be addressed in several upcoming newsletters.
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Go forward knowing that though few listeners hear and few see; yet Space sees and hears. Thus proceed.
The trouble with ignorance is that it doesn't know its ignorant.
Each Teacher rejoices at the limitless beauty of the far-off worlds and suffers over the stunted stupidity of incarnated bipeds. Beyond this stony load of stupidity they must still pass the venomous slime of doubt and the terror of self-conceit. Then a great log shall fall on the napes of their necks; and, tumbling down the stairs, these snails will dream of clinging at least to the lowest step.
Whoever loves precise knowledge must know how to receive it. Many talk of their devotion to precise knowledge, but in practice they clothe each fact in the motley rags of prejudice. They do not sense the unreality of their own premises. They would revolve the Universe according to the digestive state of their own stomach. They reject the most apparent manifestation if it does not conform to their mood.
There is a tendency to regard esoteric teaching as necessarily abstruse and indirect. Yet the more advanced the teaching, very frequently the more simply is it expressed. Abstruseness is related to the ignorance of the student - not the mode of presentation of the teacher.
It is not possible for anyone under the degree of accepted disciple to find out much.
Few people care to face the actual truth, for it involves; eventually, the abandonment of the beloved glamour and the ability to recognize error and to admit mistakes.
In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
People do not want knowledge. What they seek is satisfaction with their own system of thinking.
What is known to be undesirable to the wise man may appear to be justice to the ordinary man.
Life, State, society, family, all surrounding powers seem to be in a league to lay their yoke on our spirit, compel us into their molds, impose on us their mechanical interest and rough immediate convenience. We become parts of a machine; we are not, are hardly allowed to be in the true sense, souls, minds, free children of the spirit empowered to develop the highest characteristic perfection of our being and make it our means of service to the race. It would seem that we are not what we make ourselves, but what we are made. All should seek to live in the highest spiritual nature, but how is this possible when in fact we are enveloped in natural ignorance, the soul shut up in the prison of ego, overcome, beset, hammered and molded by the environment, mastered by the mechanism of Nature, cut off from our hold on the reality of our own secret force?
There is no reason to expect that truth, however great, will prevail with large classes of men born and bred in the opposite falsity. They are organic and iron-clad against it. Being well-banded hosts, they support each other with confirmations of multitude and cannot be reached by instruction.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint.
A man often puts a saddle on a cow and later is amazed when others, on horseback, outrun him.
Can you possibly wish to resemble the cardinals who opposed Galileo?
A whole hotbed of disasters is built by the man who gives himself over to the illusion of bad luck.
One must not wait until the Messenger hurts his hand from knocking.
In Kurdistan there is a ruin called "the castle of errors." It is said that the castle was built by error, its location was chosen by error, the owner married by error, conducted wars by error, had councilors by error, gambled by error, fell ill by error, and perished by error. Only a certain amount of errors can be tolerated!
I (the Teacher) visit miracles, but people do not perceive them. I provide new stars, but the light does not alter human thought. I sink countries, but human consciousness remains stilled. I erect mountains and Teachings of Truth, but people do not even turn their heads. I send war and pestilence, but even terror does not impel people to think. I offer knowledge, but people make gruel. I have no further signs to hold humanity from destruction.
Our minds apprehend what they wish to apprehend. All else passes unnoticed. The mind perceives only those things which conform to the hue of its karma. The rest remains unseen, even though close at hand. .
Do not confuse child-minds with abstract thoughts.
The Teacher cannot be insistent where the eyes are near-sighted.
Few are ready to refine their consciousness.
The average reader objects to being forced to recognize wider points of view than his own.
Don't play for the people - play to those who know.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs. Cast not your pearls before swine. Give not the children's bread to the dogs.
Mysteries made public become cheap and things profaned lose their grace. Cast not pearls before swine nor make a bed of roses for an ass.
I (a Teacher) have many things to say, but ye cannot bear them now.
Another's mind apprehends only what it wishes to apprehend.
Because of the way our unconscious beliefs influence our perceptions, it is less accurate to say "I believe when I see it" than to observe "I'll see it when I believe it."
The true teacher must deal in truth and in sincerity with all seekers. His time is too valuable to waste in social politeness or in refraining from making critical comment where a good purpose would be served. He must depend thoroughly upon the sincerity of those whom he teaches.
As I work with you I shall not wrap up the truths for you in such a way that they cannot hurt. I shall not consider your personality feelings - I count on your sincerity of purpose. It is not a negative thing to point out a fault or error. If you are depressed, irritated or hurt by such revelations, it indicates a basic lack of dispassion and proves attachment to personality and the opinions of others.
The general mental equipment of the average aspirant and disciple is inadequate to the task.
If Our (the Teachers) advice is poor, you can return later to breeding your cockroaches.
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