Sri Yukteswar Giri |
The division and manipulation that Matthew and SaLuSa are referring to are not born of the Truth itself but of a desire to control. Paramahansa Yogananda explained that religions may argue with each other but “men of realization who have the common knowledge of the same truth do not contradict one another.” It is not they who create dissension. “Their disciples of limited understanding create differences and establish different cults with varying beliefs.” (3)
Having seen the Truth of life, the masters searched for words to describe it to the people of their time. The Truth that lay beyond words and beyond religions has been called the “perennial philosophy” or “ageless wisdom.” One group called it the “divine wisdom” or theosophia. Another called it the “eternal law” or sanathana dharma.
Paramahansa Yogananda’s guru, Sri Yukteswar Giri explained it this way:
“There is an essential unity in all
religions; … there is no difference in the truths inculcated by the
various faiths; … there is but one method by which the world, external
and internal, has evolved; and … there is but one Goal admitted by all
scriptures.” (4)
“Only a few specially gifted persons can
rise superior to the influence of their professed creeds and find
absolute unanimity in the truths propagated by all great faiths.” (5)Aldous Huxley devoted his life to an explication of it. In one of his statements of it, he developed the notion:
Aldous Huxley |
“Rudminents of the Perennial Philosophy
may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every
region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in
every one of the higher religions. A version if this Highest Common
Factor in all preceding and subsequent theologies was first committed to
writing more than twenty-five centuries ago, and since that time the
inexhaustible theme has been treated again and again, from the
standpoint of every religious tradition and in all the principle
languages of Asia and Europe.” (6)
“In Vedanta and Hebrew prophecy, in the
Tao Teh King and the Platonic dialogues, in the Gospel according to St.
John and Mahayana theology, in Plotinus and the Areopagite, among the
Persian Sufis and the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance — the Perennial Philosophy has spoken almost all the
languages of Asia and Europe and has made use of the terminology and
traditions of every one of the higher religions. …
“The records left by those who have known
[the pure state described by the Perennial Philosophy] make it
abundantly clear that all of them, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Hebrew,
Taoist, Christian or Mohammedan, were attempting to describe the same
essentially indescribable Fact.” (7)
“Enlightenment has been given many names.
… St. Paul called it ‘the peace of God that passeth understanding’ and
Richard Maurice Bucke named it ‘cosmic consciousness.’ In Zen it is
satori, in yoga it is samadhi or moksha, in Sufism it is fana, in Taoism
it is wu or The Ultimate Tao.
Gurdjieff labelled it ‘objective
consciousness,’ Sri Aurobindo spoke of the Supermind, mystery schools
and occult paths speak of ‘illumination,’ ‘liberation,’ and
‘self-realization.’
Hazrat Inayat Khan |
“The perennial wisdom is unchanging;
truth is one. That is agreed on by the sages of all major religions and
sacred traditions, all hermetic philosophies, genuine mystery schools
and higher occult paths. Enlightenment is the core truth of them all.
“Even more broadly, it is the essence of life — the goal of all growth, development, evolution. It is the discovery of what we ultimately are, the answer to the questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What is life all about?” (9)
“The Masters have been numberless since
the creation of man; they have appeared with different names and forms;
but He alone was disguised in them who is the only Master of eternity.”
(10)
“If the Masters were not the same in
mortal garb, yet in spirit they were one; if it were not so, how could
one and the same truth be disclosed in all?” (11)
“Their messages differ from one another
in their outer appearances, each message being given in accordance with
the age of man’s evolution, and also in order to add a particular part
in the course of divine wisdom. Certain laws and principles were
prescribed by them to suit the country where the message was given, the
climate, the period, customs, manners and requirements.” (12)
“The soul of a man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit.
“The principle which gives life dwells in
us and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or
seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.
“Each man is his own absolute lawgiver,
the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the decreer of his life, his
reward, his punishment.” (13)
“The main spiritual verities of religion may be summarized thus:
“i. [There is] one eternal infinite cognizable real Existence.
“ii. From That, the manifested God [unfolds] from unity to duality, (14) from duality to trinity. (15)
“iii. From the manifested Trinity many spiritual Intelligences [guide] the cosmic order
“iv. Man [is] a reflection of the
manifested God and therefore a trinity fundamentally, his inner real
self being eternal, one with the Self of the universe.
“v. His evolution [proceeds] by repeated
incarnations, into which he is drawn by desire, and from which he is set
free by knowledge and sacrifice, becoming divine in potency as he had
ever been divine in latency.” (16)
“At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines.
“First: the phenomenal world of matter
and of individualized consciousness — the world of things and animals
and men and even gods — is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within
which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they
would be nonexistent.
“Second: human beings are capable not
merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also
realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive
reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is
known.
“Third: man possesses a double nature, a
phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit,
the spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he
so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the
Divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
“Fourth: man’s life on earth has only one
end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to
come to intuitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.” (17)
Kryon also foresaw the fall of the manipulators and the release of the truth.
“There are so many asking this. ‘Is it possible that God is bigger than I was told?’ Thousands
on the planet are awakening to this truth all by themselves. There is
no place on Earth where this is not happening… and it’s profound. It’s
not limited to the esoteric belief systems, either, for many organized
religion campaigns are seeing it as well. Humans are hungry for Spirit,
and are looking for answers that feel good in this new energy. They will
look for love, and a personal God.
“The old-energy
organized religion will suffer greatly, with membership and interest
falling to an all-time low. In the next years, there will be a new Pope
who will attempt to revitalize his church by finally creating something
that fits into what humanity is feeling. He has to, or he will lose a
2,000-year-old dynasty.” (19)
SaLuSa describes how a spiritual flowering will lead us on to Ascension:
“When you are given the full truth of
your spiritual heritage there will be an appraisal of your beliefs. Much
that is false will fall away and thus allow for a coming together as
there is but the One Creator, and not the many Gods you have envisaged.
“You will recognize the Light within all
souls, and that will lead you towards Ascension as the one great
civilization that you are. Seek to know the common ground between each
other’s beliefs, and you will begin the process of re-integration and
comradeship. You have been separated for far too long and it is time to
bring everyone back into the fold.” (21)
Footnotes
(1) Matthew’s Message, Sept. 11, 2010, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm(2) SaLuSa, Feb. 15, 2010, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm
(3) Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ. Dallas: Amrita Foundation, 1979-86, II, 10.
(4) Sri Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1984, 3.
(5) Ibid., 4.
(6) Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, vii.
(7) Aldous Huxley, “Introduction” to Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 11-2.
(8) John White, “Introduction” to his What is Enlightenment? Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1984 xvi-xvii.
(9) Ibid., xi.
(10) Hazrat Inayat Khan, Way of Illumination. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988, 31.
(11) Loc. cit.
(12) Ibid., 33.
(13) Ascended Master Hilarion, channelling through Mabel Collins, medium, The Idyll of the White Lotus. Wheaton, IL: Re Quest, 1974; c1952, 114.
(14) Various religions will interpret the expansion from one to two differently. Some will say that it means the evolution from the Transcendental Forml;ess only to the Transcendental Formless plus God in form. Some will say it means the creation by the Holy Father (Allah, Brahman, Buddha Nature) of the Divine Mother (Shakti, the Holy Spirit, Dharma). Others will say it refers to the creation by the Father of the Christ (Child, Atman, Original Face).
Since God with form and the Mother are in the last analysis the same, the models can be reduced to just two: Father and Mother or Father and Child.
(15) The trinity refers to Father, Mother and Child (Father, Holy Spirit and Christ or Brahman, Shakti, and Atman).
(16) Annie Besant, Besant, Annie, The Ancient Wisdom. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972; c1897, 5-6.
(17) Huxley in “Introduction” to BG, 13.
(18) Diane of Sirius, Oct. 24, 2008, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm
(19) Kryon, “The Shift is Here,” Oct. 20, 2008, at http://www.kryon.com/k_channel08_Chile.html
(20) Matthew’s Message, May 19, 2010.
(21) SaLuSa, Feb. 15, 2010.
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