Spiritual Traditions of the Past
“Not all teachings point to the highest truth, just as not all seekers seek the highest knowledge and realization. Traditions of enlightenment reveal varying levels of understanding, as they reflect the particular intelligence and capacity of their founders…”
“We may wonder why teachings of non-duality founded by seers of the highest order and expressing extraordinary depth have repudiated the existence of a personal essence. It is not that the conclusions of these masters sprang from incomplete realizations, but rather that their perception of reality was conditioned to express their experience in a purely impersonal way. The traditions we are referring to were created in times when humanity was not yet ripe enough to embrace the consciousness of the soul. They may have been revolutionary in their time, but from the viewpoint of the now, their spiritual vision is outdated. At its conception, any new tradition of enlightenment naturally reflects the unconscious evolutionary needs of the contemporary collective mind, otherwise it is rejected and forgotten. It is in fact the will of the divine cause to express truth at a level in accordance with the evolutionary capacity of humanity at any particular stage of its development. Traditions of the past were not designed to reflect the subtle dimension of the soul; their objective was the strict realization of impersonal peace and freedom. It’s not that their teachings were incorrect, only incomplete – and not in their time, but from the present perspective of the expanded potential of human consciousness.”“Even though enlightenment is a timeless realization pointing to the changeless principle of absolute reality, insight into that reality eternally evolves as the subject of illumination becomes increasingly whole. Ancient questions about our true identity and the nature of self have to be revisited in order to unravel the ultimate mystery of me within. In spite of the fact that the majority of seekers and teachers find their sense of security in conforming to past definitions of truth, it is the responsibility of our human intelligence to honestly probe the reality of self until it is seen for what it truly is, as it is.”
~ Anadi (Aziz Kristof)
