02-26-2008, 12:01 AM
Silence and secrecy in occult affairs has reasons acording to different scenarios:
In a cult of half-baked, pompous occultists the silence and secrecy obbeys a self-defense mechanism (aboid persecution and the eye of the public in the cult affairs). Also, the silence and secrecy give the cultist an air of mistery that atracts gullible and/or greedy seekers to be exploited by the cult leadership (including money, sex and free labour).
The half-baked leadership will have some knowledge and shallow experience in a number of spiritual traditions and will justify their "rare" (unethical) actions by saying that they are "crazy wisdom actions" to teach or "test" the naive seeker.
No need to give examples... they are abundant.
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In the case of real individuals it's very different. A true perfected or advanced individual will have spiritual power (unlike the half-baked, that may have little or none), a rather discrete teaching place (or none) and will not accept disciples that are spiritually inmature. He will be mostly evasive and test in many ways the potential would-be disciple until sincere aspiration is demostrated. After that he will initiate, empower and guide his disciple in a deep and secret spiritual practice.
Secrecy and silence are, in this case, to aboid the interference of the spiritual mission of the teacher and to protect the spiritual development of his disciples. If a teacher has to deal with inmature persons all the time he can't help those who will actually take his teaching to the full extent to become teachers themselves.
True teachers are very rare indeed.
In a cult of half-baked, pompous occultists the silence and secrecy obbeys a self-defense mechanism (aboid persecution and the eye of the public in the cult affairs). Also, the silence and secrecy give the cultist an air of mistery that atracts gullible and/or greedy seekers to be exploited by the cult leadership (including money, sex and free labour).
The half-baked leadership will have some knowledge and shallow experience in a number of spiritual traditions and will justify their "rare" (unethical) actions by saying that they are "crazy wisdom actions" to teach or "test" the naive seeker.
No need to give examples... they are abundant.
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In the case of real individuals it's very different. A true perfected or advanced individual will have spiritual power (unlike the half-baked, that may have little or none), a rather discrete teaching place (or none) and will not accept disciples that are spiritually inmature. He will be mostly evasive and test in many ways the potential would-be disciple until sincere aspiration is demostrated. After that he will initiate, empower and guide his disciple in a deep and secret spiritual practice.
Secrecy and silence are, in this case, to aboid the interference of the spiritual mission of the teacher and to protect the spiritual development of his disciples. If a teacher has to deal with inmature persons all the time he can't help those who will actually take his teaching to the full extent to become teachers themselves.
True teachers are very rare indeed.