All of the experienced spiritual masters of mankind warn that the great revelations or inspirations that God gives to certain men should be kept secret so that they do not lose their brilliance. They are like precious essences in a container which, when opened, quickly volatilize - or giving rise to interpretations contaminated by the human element.
Just as life in matter is sacred, divine, spiritual life is even more sacred and divine, and so it must be shrouded in mystery, especially its fragile and delicate origin. The encounter of the human soul with the Creator is a kind of marriage, like all sacred books testify; the soul "conceives" an offspring by virtue and fecundation of the Creator and this divine-human nuptial must be shrouded in mystery and surrounded with prudence. So great is the sacredness of the spiritual life that even the slightest desecration amounts to sacrilege.
Therefore, Jesus warned his disciples: "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
When the spiritual man reveals to the profane the pearls of his experience with God, what happens? The profane do not understand this profound mystery, because they do not yet have a developed perception, and worse, because as a rule they understand the sacred things inside out and, instead of accepting them, despise them and take them into account of illusion and abnormality. To the profane, the man initiated in the things of God is a sick man, a madman, a freak.
When we throw a handful of precious pearls to a pig, the pig, expecting to receive an ear of corn, eagerly advance and puts its paws to eat them; but shortly thereafter, verifying the mistake, rages and, disgusted at being deceived, lashes out at those who have given it only indigestible pearls rather than sweet, juicy corn cobs.
What value does an hour of spiritual meditation, silence or a moment of fervent conversation with God, have for the profane? What value does he give to self-knowledge, the study of divine messages, or the mystical intuition of the Supreme Reality? These pearls are for him tasteless, inopportune, indigestible things - if only a handful of banknotes, a night of banquets and sexual orgies or the election to a lucrative public office! ... These things are of value to him because they satisfy the hunger of his human ego, while those things which refer to the yearnings of the divine Self are insipid and absurd. It is that each one thinks and acts according to the measure of its knowledge or ignorance ...
Therefore, the wise spiritual master does not reveal to others what God has revealed. Carefully measure one's ability to understand ... knows which ones are advanced, and which ones backward, esoteric or exoteric. He often speaks in parables and allegories, so that each one interprets material symbols according to their evolutionary level and perceives from the spiritual symbolized precisely what corresponds to that level. "To those of you who are still infants in Christ", wrote Paul to the Corinthians, "I gave them milk to drink, but to those who are adults in Christ I have given them solid food."
"The master versed in the things of the kingdom of God – said Jesus – brings from the treasures of his heart old and new things". Many knows how to assimilate "old things" of secular tradition, knows how to ride safely on the paths of the past, where millions pass - but few know how to take advantage of the "new things" of spiritual evolution, few know how to orient themselves through the unknown ways and the narrow paths of the mystical experience, where very few pass and progress in solitude and silence ...
Truth is food for some - and poison for others ...
Therefore, the master of the kingdom of God must know how to use the truth which he conveys to his disciples, so that the "sacred things" and the "pearls" reach the souls of those who can receive and assimilate them.
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