Exotericism Pseudo Esotericism Esotericism

Exotericism, Pseudo-Esotericism and Esotericism

The objective of this conference is for the student to learn to distinguish an Esoteric school from a Pseudo-Esoteric one — and to attain the comprehension of his position in the Knowledge, when he began the living experience of the Esoteric Work.

Exotericism

It means exterior knowledge. This knowledge is received through books or courses in the external world, through the personality.

We all receive the Knowledge in the physical world as exoteric knowledge. When we find the Secret Path in the exterior world — if such is given, for “of a thousand who seek it, one finds it,” and rare are the fortunate who find it — two paths open:

• The Path of the Believer, who admits and believes what he was told but does nothing to verify it by himself; he accumulates knowledge (information).

• The Path of the Practical Man, who experiences what he has been taught until he verifies it by himself. He enters into a Mesoteric stage that shall lead him to the Esoteric Work. Here the phrase is fulfilled: “of a thousand who find it, one follows it,” for the majority of those who find it take it as one more knowledge for the intellect.

Pseudo-Esotericism

It means false interior knowledge. In all cases it is received by the personality and, therefore, not by the Consciousness.

Undoubtedly, in these times it has multiplied exorbitantly. Pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist schools abound everywhere. The trade of souls, books, and theories is frightful; rare is he who, among the cobweb of so many contradictory ideas, truly succeeds in finding the Secret Path.

Never has the world been so materialistic as today, and yet so frivolously and cowardly psychistic. Fortune-tellers, hypnotizers, mediums, spiritists, suggestion-mongers, sorcerers, witch doctors, charlatans of every type, swarm everywhere. One sees them as much in slums as in palaces, as much in public as in secret. The absurd is believed, the fantastic, and a strange collective madness runs from side to side across the planet.

Certainly, “sorcerers, witch doctors, and black magicians abound like the bad weed; however, those are not saints, nor prophets, nor adepts of the white brotherhood.” The gravest of all this is the intellective fascination; there exists a tendency to nourish oneself strictly in intellectual form, with all that arrives at the mind.

The vagabonds of the intellect no longer content themselves with all that subjective library of a general type that abounds in the book markets; rather now — and what is worse — they also stuff themselves and become indigested with the cheap pseudo-esotericism that abounds everywhere. The result of all this jargon is the confusion and the manifest disorientation of the rascals of the intellect.

Really, what is important is to know oneself profoundly in all the levels of the mind…

How to distinguish Pseudo-Esoteric Schools:

• They charge for the Knowledge.

• They do not teach the Three Factors of the Revolution of the Consciousness.

• They say that all roads lead to Rome.

• They insinuate or declare that the Esoteric Knowledge can be learned in books. They are intellectuals.

• They give teachings of ineffable appearance that lead to no place.

• They give teachings that confuse.

• They teach many things — distracting elements from Esotericism.

• They mix forces.

• They teach practices of the Black Lodge. They teach to awaken powers.

• They teach to manage candles, cards, crystals, pendulums, etc.

• They teach diverse forms of healing.

• They teach parapsychology, spiritism, and mediumism.

• They teach witchcraft and manipulation of Elementals.

• They teach Black Tantrism.

• They do not teach chastity.

• They do not teach to Die truly.

• They do not teach that karma is paid in cash, nor that it can be negotiated, nor how to negotiate it.

• They do not teach that one must seek Self-Realization, and that one must attain it in a single existence.

• Many relate Esotericism with the sale of perfumes, essences, talismans, candles, books, philters, minerals, brews, tunics, etc. Without having anything to do with it, they deceive the people who do not know.

The principal difference between a White Magician and a Black Magician is the quality of his knowledge. When we read the book of a black magician — even though we may not know it — we are invoking him.

When one mixes forces, the original force goes on being lost, while there arises a third force, which is destructive. Pseudo-esotericism manages the lower psychism, puts the Kundartiguador organ in activity, and makes us slowly lose the sincere desire to self-realize. Little by little, the confidence in one’s own Being is lost, and one ends up confiding in foreign elements.

Esotericism

It means Interior Knowledge or Hidden Knowledge. True Esotericism seeks the Knowledge of Oneself, which can only be found in our Interior World. This knowledge is for the Consciousness; it is not possible to obtain this knowledge in any external place — in no manual of conduct, books, or center of study of the exterior world. This knowledge is received in the internal worlds.

The Esoteric Knowledge is only arrived at through the Three Factors of the Revolution of the Consciousness, which are the only Three Objective Works that one has to do: Psychological Death, Spiritual Birth, and Conscious Sacrifice for Humanity. The object of the Esoteric Knowledge is no other than to Self-Realize the Being.

The Esoteric Knowledge is received interiorly. To the measure that we liberate consciousness, each liberated spark receives the knowledge that pertains to it according to its vocation.

When we receive the Esoteric Knowledge in closed books, it is a knowledge exclusively for our Being. It cannot be revealed in the external world; for this one must know how to keep silence. But if it is received in an open book, it can be delivered to our students.

Each Being has its own Knowledge. To the measure that the Consciousness awakens, and one enters into harmony with nature, the wisdom that we had long ago is given to us.

The practical man goes on verifying with the Three Factors and the diverse practices learned. He undergoes his Initiations of Major Mysteries, until he ends the First Mountain.

When he initiates the Second Mountain, he gives hope for the Esoteric Knowledge; when he passes through the process of Resurrection, he enters as an adept into the Esoteric School of his ray. On integrating the Three Forces into one, fused with his Father, he becomes converted into a true Esotericist. At that moment he arrives at the first step of Universal Wisdom.

The majority of students commit the error of feeling themselves Esotericists when they are just now listening to the conferences. To feel oneself initiated without having begun to practice Supra-sex. To feel oneself holy without having eliminated the first I. To feel oneself practical without beginning to practice. All this is because of the false sentiment of the I.

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This knowledge is received through books or courses in the external world, through the personality.