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Theology of the Secret Teachings of JesusThe Esoteric TeachingThere is one God: the eternal, transcendental, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient Supreme Being. He is the original cause of all other causes; in other words, He is beginningless and endless, all-knowing and all-powerful, and He has no cause other than Himself. He is a transcendental person, the original source of all energies, creations and other personalities, and He is the Supreme Controller. Every living being is created and maintained by Him, and consciously or unconsciously serves Him alone with all his thoughts, words and actions. In the beginning of the material creation the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord of all, saw in His perfect wisdom that the living beings in the material world were suffering because of ignorance of Him. Therefore as a responsible and loving Creator, He impregnated the Celestial Christ, the soul of the universe, with perfect Absolute knowledge about Himself: the Esoteric Teaching. This Teaching was then passed down from spiritual Master Teacher to disciple for a very long time—since the world began—according to the system given in the Teaching itself. In the vast span of time since the creation, this knowledge has been changed and lost again and again due to the envious, speculative mentality of imperfect human beings. The singular defect in our character, namely that we loathe accepting any authority, makes us humans poor caretakers of any sort of Absolute knowledge. We feel compelled to introduce changes into everything, and even admire it as ‘creativity.’ Thus over time the Lord’s original transcendent Esoteric Teaching, whose purpose is to show us the way out of all our suffering, was degraded into thousands of competing mundane sectarian religions, and its original purity and purpose were lost. Nevertheless, just as there is one Supreme Godhead, there is one Supreme Absolute Truth about Him. This is the Esoteric Teaching or the original spiritual knowledge revealed by the Lord Himself. There is no scope for personal opinion, speculation or negotiation regarding spiritual Truth; either one understands and accepts the Lord’s version of the Absolute Truth and reaps the benefit, or one does not and suffers accordingly. Either we are rebellious and ignorant, or surrendered and enlightened. Our most significant problem in approaching this Truth is that we have experienced so many different interpretations and alterations of the original Absolute Truth that to our materially conditioned vision there appear to be many conflicting religions and philosophies. When mere human beings alter the original Esoteric Teaching, they do so because they have some interest or motivation separate from the Lord. God is all-good. Whatever He declares to be Truth is meant for our ultimate benefit. But human beings are notoriously selfish. Thus people introduce changes in the Lord’s clear Teaching to justify establishing a separate competing sect—of which they, of course, become the master and proprietor. This may be good politics or good business but it is very bad epistemology, ontology, philosophy and theology. Thus the effects of human ambition and self-motivated endeavor over time have almost completely obscured the original Absolute Truth from our comprehension. Actually, only God knows Himself. We humans are in no position to originate or edit spiritual truth. When the soul resides within the material body, many layers of material energy cover his original spiritual consciousness. Only the rare fortunate human being who has come into contact with a true Master Teacher of the Esoteric Teaching and received the boundless mercy of the Lord can really know the Absolute Truth. These are the great saints, self-realized spiritual Master Teachers and founders of great religions. Even so, their spiritual knowledge begins not from direct perception but by hearing from those who know, as the Absolute Truth of the Esoteric Teaching is carefully passed from Master to disciple by the process of disciplic succession. Therefore from time to time when human meddling and the intervention of the ignorant have modified or lost the Esoteric Teaching, the Lord sends His empowered representative to us, or even appears Himself to re-establish the Teaching. When the Lord appears and mercifully speaks the original Esoteric Teaching again for our benefit, His representatives record and transmit it to fortunate and faithful people all over the world. In this way the Lord restores His Esoteric Teaching to its original potency, and it remains a powerful force for the upliftment and salvation of misdirected human society. Unfortunately, our knowledge of spiritual affairs is very limited; therefore we cannot recognize the Lord when He appears in human society. We think He is an ordinary man and disrespect Him, wrongly thinking He is teaching another relative sectarian version of spirituality. His representatives fare no better, being scorned by their own families and countrymen, often persecuted and even murdered by their political and ecclesiastical competitors. Nevertheless our only path to tangible salvation is found through the auspices of the eternal Esoteric Teaching, and not in any sect that has an origin in finite time and space. How can the path to eternity be manufactured here, from the mud of temporality? No, the pure spiritual knowledge must descend from above. Only the Lord can save us; our own efforts to achieve the truth will end only in further confusion, speculation and obfuscation. Yet sadly, this is the story we see repeated again and again in the pathetic, frustrated lives of the people of the world. Everyone knows that this world is a place of suffering, yet few are willing to accept the authority and mercy of the Lord, which are the only way out. There is one God, and His Truth is also one. Any different opinion is a product of human frailty, and must be rooted in illusion and inundated with error. We have free will, granted by the Lord. But if we misuse it we transform this great boon into a curse. The mundane processes of sectarian religion, empirical philosophy and speculative theology will not help us put an end to human misery. Only the original Esoteric Teaching can help us find our way home to our eternal shelter at the feet of our Beloved Lord. Approaching the Esoteric TeachingThe Esoteric Teaching is the essence of spiritual knowledge, extant in the universe from the beginning of time. When the Lord appears in the material world to deliver the Teaching, the great sages who hear it carefully transcribe it and pass it down to their disciples in an unbroken chain. The Esoteric Teaching has thus been preserved in the Scriptures of the esoteric tradition at the core of all religions. The oldest religious Scriptures in the world, such as the Upanisads and other Vedic literature, are some of the best and purest expressions of this hidden Teaching. Veda means spiritual knowledge or Absolute Truth in Sanskrit, the world’s oldest and most perfect classical language, and Eastern culture, being very traditional, is generally better at maintaining the original meaning of such important literature. This edition of the Esoteric Teaching draws heavily from the tradition of the Vedas and Upanisads. Of course there are many translations and commentaries on the Vedic literature in English, but we must question their accuracy since almost all of them were produced to bolster someone’s academic ambitions or justify sectarian deviations from the original Esoteric Teaching. Not only in the West but also in India, practically none of them are strictly in the line of the original Teaching because the commentators express their own opinions without touching the original spirit of the Teaching. Also, it is very difficult for contemporary people to enter into the understanding of these ancient esoteric works. It is time again to renew the lineage of the Esoteric Teaching by presenting its original spirit in a new edition in contemporary English language. Therefore we have chosen to portray the revelation of the Teaching in the life of Jesus, the Christ, the powerful son of God who sacrificed himself to spread the Esoteric Teaching in the Western countries.
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