In every religious teaching, the external layer is penetrated to reach the internal one.
Religious systems on the one hand describe the external image of the fulfilled human being (such as Christ or Buddha), but on the other hand they do not provide concrete tools for reaching the corresponding state of consxiousness. Christianity says that we must love others but does not say how to do it; Buddhism says to empty the mind but does not say how to do it; and so on. Every religious institution says how we must be, but almost none says what we must concretely do to become that way.
In fact, simple personal will is not enough, and every effort based on a partial truth risks creating only forcing destined sooner or later to collapse, obscuring orientation and aspiration.
It must therefore be considered that within every external spiritual doctrine there is contained in a more or less hermetic form a more intimate and profound teaching, which in order to be deciphered and activated requires an uncommon receptivity and specific interpretation keys provided by oral transmission – from mouth to ear – which makes them visible through a process that is not only informative but mainly formative and applicative one.
Traditional teaching is able to fill the gaps present in conventional religions, revealing the meaning of a path that is generally described only in its appearance and rarely in its true Essence.
Everyone is given the freedom to discern between one path or another.
“Initiation is not communicable in the same way as that of a professor who in profane teaching communicates to his students formulas taken from books, formulas that they will only have to store in their memory; it is something that, in its very essence, is properly incommunicable, since they have been to be realized internally.”
Carl G. Jung
