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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive

– C. W. Leadbeater Esoteric science is the science of what takes place esoterically, in the sense that it is perceived not outside in nature but where one's soul turns when it directs its inner being toward the spirit. Esoteric science is the opposite and counterpart of natural science.

– Rudolf Steiner Believing themselves to already know everything, there are skeptics do not accept what is said this book. They believe to already contain the whole of wisdom concerning “God” and “religion.” They believe that they have knowledge, or the method to gain the knowledge of the whole of creation, of the infinite. Regardless of their statements, in reality they only have empirical knowledge.

Materialists may laugh when we state that the esoteric philosophy is a science. Every science contains empirical knowledge but many do not believe what the esoteric philosophy states because they do not accept pure knowledge – which is precisely the esoteric science’s distinguishing characteristic.

Skeptics say that occult powers such as traveling in the subtle body, clairvoyance, telepathy, the power over the elements, remembering previous lives, reading the history of nature, etc., are nothing more than the fantasy or mental illness of religious cranks and charlatans. There is a degree of truth to these because most who claim these powers are either mistaken or is attempting fool others.

Nevertheless, it is unfortunate that these former types – so-called

“merchants of souls” – are unjustly grouped together with luminaries such as St. Paul, Joan of Arc, or Emanuel Swedenborg.

The one who gains occult powers, in the true and healthy way, does so by awakening consciousness, through intense efforts of charity, sanctity, and chastity (transmutation). Clairvoyance is nothing more than clear consciousness, awakened consciousness purified of desire. People who are looking for attention, someone looking to gain power over others, are not awakening consciousness.

Usually these people who claim to have such powers are full of ego, and if they truly have powers, they have the power of the awakened

ego, not the awakened consciousness. The people who actually contain such powers are humble. It is interesting that some skeptics are convinced that such powers do not exist simply because there is a monetary prize offered to display such powers. This is the kind of idiocy that criticizes the esoteric science.

H. P. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

Blavatsky actually demonstrated her powers to many people, and through incredibly erudite works such as Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine the Theosophical Society was globalized. The genius of Blavatsky is quite outstanding. Albert Einstein’s niece stated that a dog-eared and greatly annotated The Secret Doctrine was the book beside her uncle’s death bed. Nevertheless, many materialistic scientists claim that Blavatsky was a crank. In fact, there exist entire books to “prove” that she was a charlatan. Nevertheless, statements in The Secret Doctrine concerning the dual nature of light preclude, by several decades, the official acceptance of the same fundamental idea in the sphere of exoteric science.

Lamentably, Blavatsky is still very much surrounded by the rumors and slander of her critics. There are modern Buddhists scholars who totally dismiss Blavatsky’s works of Buddhism. They must ignore that she was the first person to give access to the west portions of the sacred and profound Kalachakra tantric literature. It is obvious that Blavatsky had access to the occult doctrine. Blavatsky was a scientist in the fullest sense of the word and her books are the outcome of something far superior to what we understand as empirical observation. Perhaps critics do not know that the 14^th Dali Lama himself states about her work The Voice of the Silence: “I believe that this book has strongly influenced many sincere seekers and aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the Bodhisattva Path.”

C. W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant were other clairvoyant Theosophists surrounded by controversy. Leadbeater’s critics constantly slander him, stating was an abuser of children and taught them masturbation. In reality he taught them a technique of sexual transmutation called the Vajroli Mudra, which is the opposite counterpart of masturbation. Leadbeater’s action led to so much controversy that he was forced to leave the Theosophical Movement.

He certainly paid dearly for teaching something what could not be taught publicly at that time. Few people even today can understand the true meaning of transmutation, in the previous centuries the public was simply not ready for it in the former, Piscean Era. Luckily Besant reinstated Leadbeater to the Theosophical Society some years later.

Pure knowledge comes from that space which exists beyond the mind’s thoughts and reasoning. It is beyond what we commonly call mind itself. Nevertheless, that which is experienced can be brought into the mind. The esoteric philosophy states that pure knowledge is attained through methods of synthesis yoga. Unfortunately, official science has mostly rejected this notion. Today the university student is forced to sip from the pungent cup of theories. These theories make their creators unbearable, self-sufficient, they feel as if they really have knowledge, when they really have nothing of value at all.

They boast of sapience inside their Temple of Theories, calling it a University, but in no way does the contemporary university contain the wisdom of the universe. Theosophy, especially today, is also filled with people who know nothing but theories. Most Theosophists do not practice synthesis yoga because they believe their mystical theories will evolve their consciousness in a mechanical fashion.

Many Theosophists (like the students in many other highly regarded spiritual schools) hate sex. They find sex to be crude, animalistic, disgusting, etc. The topics of tantrism and sexual transmutation frighten them. This is the unfortunate outcome of the Piscean Era. In this previous Era of the Fish the topic of sex was intensely hidden. The methods of the Piscean Schools are to stay single, meditate on the ego, and devote one’s self to a spiritual life.

The sexual teachings were hidden to all but the most adept. The Aquarian Era is upon us now, and the Aquarian Era is entirely sexual.

Today, in the Aquarian Era, we can speak of sexual transmutation publicly, and we can work with transforming our sexual nature by using the sexual act itself. The unfortunate outcome of this Era is the profound sexual degeneration found today.

The reason so much controversy surrounds Theosophy is unfortunately because these clairvoyants, although possessing superior facilitates, where not perfect. There are many mistakes made by Leadbeater and Besant, but perhaps nothing was more profound than the Krishnamurti case. Leadbeater found a boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, with an outstanding aura on a beach in India. Because of his beautiful and pure aura, believed that Krishnamurti was the reincarnation of the Lord Savior and the Society publicly heralded him as such. Lamentably, Leadbeater and Besant did not understand what Krishnamurti was: although he was a man of a high degree of awakened consciousness, he was not the Lord Savior Christ of the Word. The Theosophical Society had already partitioned itself, but this incident in particular caused Rudolf Steiner to start a new movement called Anthroposophy.

Although Krishnamurti was not the Savior of the World, a profound wisdom flows from his writings that in no way could be feigned. Thus Leadbeater indeed found a spiritual teacher, but he did not correctly interpret his sight and made a terrible mistake (however it was Besant that was mainly responsible for the pompous announcement). According to Samael Aun Weor, if Krishnamurti had not been traumatized as a boy (by being heralded as the Second Coming), he would have given an even more profound doctrine for us to study. Krishnamurti made mention of occult powers but never made the mistake of H. B. P. in displaying them to others.

Let us conclude this story with two transcendental axioms:

1. Great power arrives with great responsibility.

2. Great exaltation is preceded by terrible humiliation.

Rudolf Steiner did not agree with Leadbeater and this was a principle reason for his departure from the Theosophical Movement.

Steiner is another certifiable genus and clairvoyant. Rudolf Steiner’s works have a Christian esotericism, while traditional Theosophy contains a Buddhist and Hindustani esotericism.

Samael Aun Weor was physically incarnated from 1917 to 1977.

He was born with an awakened consciousness of a high degree of objective reasoning, and therefore understood that it was necessary for him to develop a strong intellectual culture in order to deliver a doctrine of synthesis in order to help humanity. Thus, he states in his work The Three Mountains that in his youth he studied entire libraries of occultism, religion, philosophy, ancient wisdom, etc.

This, in complement with his study of his previous lives and the entire history of nature he provided unfathomable resources of wisdom. He began his public life in 1950 with the initial printing of The Perfect Matrimony, which is the first ever truly public teaching of sexual magic and sexual transmutation. The reaction polarized those who read it into either great veneration or contempt for the author, with the latter population arising from a variety of factors. Firstly, the Catholic Church denounced the book entirely, and at one point even incarcerated Samael Aun Weor for “healing the sick without permission.” Secondly, those occultists who jealously guarded the Arcanum A.Z.F. (sexual magic) did not want the public to have the knowledge due to their Piscean traditions. Third, the many infra-sexuals who exist that hate the idea of sexual magic because they either cannot accept anything but fornication, or because they reject sex altogether as something animalistic and disgusting.

Samael Aun Weor delivered the most potent and practical doctrine to acquire direct knowledge: gnosis. In fact, there are so many different practices and techniques the student is given that he can easily become overwhelmed. Samael Aun Weor writes about many different fantastic things, yet, he asserts that the real function of the doctrine is only manifested when the student directly experiences them. He clearly stated that he was not looking for believers or followers, just people to awaken their consciousness and experience the transcendental realities normally unknown to mundane existence. Entire droves of students would flock to his presence, and just as many would leave his movement because they did not like to hear what he was actually saying. This is because Samael’s doctrine is very radical, very direct, and very potent.

Unfortunately, some students of Samael Aun Weor felt it was necessary to proclaim that they were the successors of his doctrine.

Many “Masters” have appeared, claiming to teach his doctrine, but in reality they distort it and fool their students. Therefore, the reader must be very careful, for merchants of souls exist that will take advantage of those who are naïve. No “successor” of Samael Aun Weor is needed, because Samael Aun Weor is still very active in the internal worlds, guiding his students and helping anyone who asks for it. Any student who learns how to consciously project themselves in the astral body can speak to Samael Aun Weor face to face.

Anyone who wishes to be aided in their spiritual pursuits can ask for help, and they will receive it if the supplication is sincere.

We can divide the public exposure of esotericism into three categories. First, the introduction to the general public of fundamental concepts such as: karma, reincarnation, Kabbalah, alchemy, the superior worlds, and the fundamental principles that unite all religions. One must understand that prior to Theosophy, karma and reincarnation were topics virtually unknown to the western world. Theosophy was the introduction of these topics, and is therefore its application is mostly intellectual. Later, schools such as Anthroposophy and The Fourth Way appeared that taught the basic methods of how to apply this wisdom. They are good and necessary schools; however, ultimately, they are incomplete because while they speak much about the mind and the heart, they say very little about the sex, and what they do say is quite ambiguous.

Therefore, the doctrine Samael Aun Weor delivered is just the culmination of what began in the 1800’s.

It is interesting to contemplate that even though all the material produced by these schools fills many walls of bookshelves, all of it is

merely “esoteric kindergarten,” it just the crumbs of the true bread of wisdom. Real esotericism is found in the internal worlds. This is where pure knowledge, objective knowledge reigns, and all the contradictory theories wash away into a unified, living reality.

It is not science that the esoteric philosophy opposes for as we have already mentioned the esoteric philosophy is science. Rather, the problem stems from materialism. There are philosophical materialists and practical materialists. The former are more difficult to find today, yet the latter are found everywhere. They claim to be religious, to be spiritual, yet in their practical lives they live according to materialism. To believe in spirituality is meaningless if one lives materialistically. To live materialistically is not qualified simply by owning many things, it is whether or not one is attached to these things. Someone poor with few material items can still be materialistic.

Materialists have formed a very scintillating logic that hypnotizes many people into firmly believing that all phenomena begin with physical matter. Materialists have a very firm belief that the mind is within the physical brain. Materialistic science teaches that consciousness arrives from the functions of the brain.

Unfortunately, this is because materialistic theories, especially those ultra-modern, degenerate views of sexuality discussed throughout this book, certifiably destroy the brain and all the nervous systems.

A degenerate brain has a limited empirical scope, a skeptikos: thus they become a “skeptic.” A degenerate brain cannot observe the superior worlds. Someone who cannot observe the subtle dimensions can only believe in them. When a belief contradicts what has been observed the outcome is a rejection of that belief, especially when the observer does not know his own ignorance.

Today’s skeptic is usually one who has done a lot of reading, someone who is “smart,” someone who has the “scientific”

explanation to everything. They are pleased when they bedazzle one with their use of scientific jargon. They believe that by identifying and labeling something that they have understood it.

Obviously, there have been in history many intelligent people who did not abuse the intellect. The problem begins when confusion between intelligence and intellectualism exists. Let us be perfectly clear when stating that the intellect in itself has no intrinsic value.

Intellectualism is just a product of the personality, a product of conditioning, of memories and of time, a way of speaking, a way of acting, a way of opining, repeating, mannerisms, etc. Authentic

intelligence is not any form of conditioning or learning, it is absolutely conscious, effortless and divine.

Skeptics become increasingly refined at their trade with the more theories they know. Then, they can speak and write a lot about theories, spend time debating, comparing, etc., etc. Skeptics never accept anything when one presents it as the truth, because the skeptic knows that he can never approach truth. The skeptic indeed has never understood truth because skeptics only know their antithetical opinions. Skeptics lack discrimination, they have no idea of objective realities, only what is logical, what can be argued, what can be justified. Skeptics even enjoy being called a skeptic, as if it is a virtue!

Skepticism, the battle of antithetical ideas, breeds nothing but confusion and ultimately insanity. A brain stuffed full of undigested ideas breaks down and degenerates. An undigested idea is confusion:

a Thesis and its conflicting Antithesis with no resolving Synthesis.

Comprehension is the synthesis or the reconciliation of opposites.

A concept cannot solve a problem. A theory cannot resolve other theories. How can we manage a way out of our labyrinth of theories with more theory? Theory leads to more theory, confusion, complication, mechanization, suffering, that is all. The antidote to suffering is knowledge, but not intellectual knowledge, not knowledge from the mind but direct knowledge. Intellectual knowledge is the knowledge of the subject, and it therefore subjective and fallible but objective knowledge is the knowledge of the object and it is perfect.

Being trapped within the subject (the mind), the skeptic only has the idea, the theory, the concept of objective knowledge in which by virtue of their own ignorance he ultimately rejects.

Believing that the intellect is the Self, the skeptic takes intellect far out of its proper place. In reality, the intellect is not the Self, and even if it sounds impossible, the “I”, the ego, or what we commonly view as our identity is also not the Self. In order to gain a glimpse at what exists beyond the mind, there is a specific science one must follow in order to gain direct knowledge. The first step is to completely give up the notion of being perfect, ineffable, or a “good”

or “normal” person. Glancing at all the books he has read, the skeptic believes himself to be wise and accomplished; remembering all the time spent in school and the degrees and titles earned, he stupidly believes himself to be important and worthy of praise.

Humility is impossible for the skeptic.

Skeptics believe that through time they will become wise, intelligent, but in reality they only become wretched intellectuals, who nurture themselves from the bitter cup of theory and doubt, who are unable to see anything without comparing and contrasting it with other theories stuffed in their heads. It is better to drink the manna of God, to achieve divine inebriation by sipping from the cup of meditation. This is only possible with a total transformation, a complete revolution of the consciousness.

Accepting or rejecting any doctrine or concept reveals a lack of mental maturity.

When we reject or accept something, it is because we have not understood it.

Whenever understanding exists, accepting or rejecting is unnecessary.

The mind that believes, the mind that does not believe and the mind that doubts is an ignorant mind.

The path of wisdom does not lie in believing, not believing or doubting.

The path of wisdom consists in inquiring, analyzing, meditating, experimenting.

Truth is the unknown from moment to moment. Truth has nothing to do with what one believes or stops believing, neither does it have anything to do with skepticism.

Truth is not a matter of accepting or rejecting, it is something to

Truth is not a matter of accepting or rejecting, it is something to