All great initiates in spirituality who have attained self-realization avoided being labelled as masters. They may eventually direct his disciple to a path that leads to self-knowledge and later self-realization, but the master is just an arrow on this pilgrimage. Therefore, it is up to the disciple to filter both experiences and thus follow its journey.
The purpose of the so-called master is not to take the disciple with it indefinitely, but to give it full autonomy and autocracy so that, someday, the disciple can follow its path with perfect clarity and absolute security, without the master. And then the external master became an internal master, inherent in the disciple. The greatest triumph of a true master is to become superfluous because the master who never becomes superfluous has not fulfilled its mission. Therefore, the true master ends up being everyone's disciple.
Jesus, the greatest cosmic genius known to humanity and who achieved the greatest self-realization, said: "Call no one your father or your master. One is your Father..." and each one is the master of itself.
What leads a pseudo-enlightened person to present itself as enlightened is the ambition for prestige, the greed for money and pride; with that, stealing the key to the knowledge of the kingdom of God.
This key is an inner experience not conditioned by external formality; power comes from within, and weakness comes from outside.
"The letter kills - but the spirit gives life".
Ritual gives external prestige – the spiritual gives inner strength.
Whoever exercises the ritual without possessing the spiritual is a false prophet; it stole the key to the knowledge of the kingdom of God. Deceived, deceive others. Blind, it leads other blind people; it is not a conductor but a seducer.
Ignorance of the spiritual world is darkness – experience is light.
It can only give the wisdom of the light, one who has been enlightened.
It can only give to men who have received from God.
It can only distribute to men those who possess the treasures of the deity.
The spiritual guide must comprehend that the only possibility to guide others lies in letting itself be guided by God and that no church or sect can give it this experience. All churches and denominations are like so many arrows placed on the side of life's path, at doubtful, uncertain crossroads; whoever stops at the foot of these landmarks or is content only to look in the direction indicated by the arrows will never reach the end of the journey.
The soul of Christianity is not something that can be taught or learned intellectually, as in a theology course, in the so-called sacred texts, sermons, etc. It must be lived and felt and even suffered in profound silence and fruitful solitude. Others can, at best, guide me to the threshold of the sanctuary, but I alone can cross that threshold and meet God face to face.
The most glorious day for the true master is the day when it becomes superfluous and expendable, the day when the soul guided by it no longer needs guidance, having become spiritually autonomous and independent, to walk securely and steadfastly in the pilgrimage to the highest.
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