Different Teachers

Different teachers do different things for you. To have a really good teacher though, that teacher must be able to show you the way to passage through life learning from everything, and hopefully, the end result will be a unified and integrated single human being. When we reach that stage our soul and our spirit merge and when we die, if we die, our soul and our spirit remain together eternally as one distinct individual force. And as it says of this in the book of Revelations, chapter 3 verse 12, "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out..." In other words there will be no further need for reincarnation, for coming back to the world, because he/she has overcome it.

But in order to do this, one must know how, and that requires a teacher. It doesn't, in and of itself, require a savior who sheds his blood for us, except in a metaphorical and metaphysical way. It does require that we follow the path. In China, this was called the Tao, or Dao. In the west, there was once Gnostic Christianity. There message in its deeper meaning was pretty much the same, east or west. Buddhism would fit into that category too, of teaching the way, as I am sure would many other so called religious beliefs. They aren't really religious at all, they are spiritual and in a scientific sort of way.

In the past I have had a number of teachers, but they were only able to take me so far, or things happened that I was taken away from them early, or whatever. Nevertheless, I did get somewhat of a basis. Now my teacher is no longer a person, it is the cosmos itself, and the cosmos speakes to me through passages of the sacred literature, mainly The I Ching, the Tao Teh Ching, and the Bible. Put them all together and you have quite a piece of literature. Add to that the gnostic texts found in the dead sea scrolls and elsewhere. They paint a picture much different than we have heard in the last 20 centuries. But then, we had Rome to contend with.

There has always been an earthbound element that is bound and determined to enslave mankind, and the first way to do that is to destroy, or at the least, ridicule the sacred scriptures. For if man ends his/her incarnations, who is left to enslave. They wanted a race that was aware, yet not too aware, not aware of their spiritual heritage. For if man found a way out, he could no longer be a slave. A man who's books I used to read avidly, as long as he was writing them, was that of U.S. Anderson. They had quite an effect on me. One of his characters that he met along the way made this statement. "In order to break out of prison, one must first realize he 'is' in prison." What do each of us realize? Do we have any idea our true spiritual heritage? I think not.