Silence of Secrecy
Dr.M.Jeyabal
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Beloved followers in Christ, I do Evangelism for the past 18 years. I expect others to do Evangelism with the Spirit of God, in order to achieve the Kingdom of God. To be a Perfect evangelist in front of GOD, I have some suggestions for the SARC members all over the world. This document is a caution notice for the evangelists who want to spread the gospel all over the world with high concern and respect for the glory of GOD. Those who are really interested may follow up this article with care and try to understand the importance of spiritual mysteries. Our Scriptures, spiritual lectures and notes have hidden information about Spirit of God and His ministry. Once you know about this information you should conceive properly and safeguard the secrecy till the end of your life. Before you split these information to others please be conscious, with whom you can share. Jesus said “ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.’’ (Matthew 7:6).
Please find below some of the literature collections that explain why to conserve the secrecy and how it is important in the spiritual life.
From Orpheus, the first initiated Adept1 of whom history catches a glimpse in the mists of the pre-Christian era, down through Pythagoras2, Confucius3, Jesus, Apollonius of Tyana4, to Ammonius Saccas5, no Teacher or Initiate has ever committed to writing for public use. Each and all of them have invariably recommended silence and secrecy on certain facts and deeds, from Confucius, who refused to explain publicly and satisfactorily what he meant by his “Great Extreme,” or to give the key to the divination by “straws” down to Jesus, who charged his disciples to tell no man that he was Christ [Matthew, 16: 20.] (Chrestos), the “man of sorrows” and trials, before his supreme and last Initiation, or that he had produced a “miracle,” of resurrection.[Mark 5:43.] The Apostles had to preserve silence, so that the left hand should not know what the right hand did; in plainer words, that the dangerous proficient’s in the Left Hand Science – the terrible enemies of the Right Hand Adepts, especially before their supreme Initiation – should not profit by the publicity so as to harm both the healer and the patient. And if the above is maintained to be simply an assumption, then what may be the meaning of these awful words:
Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but unto them that are without all these things are done in parables; that seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted and their sins should be forgiven them. [Mark 4:11.]
Exoteric and Esoteric Teachings
Exoteric: Not confined to an inner circle of disciples or initiates;
Esoteric: Intended for or understood by only a particular restricted group;
Unless interpreted in the sense of the law of silence and Karma, the utter selfishness and uncharitable spirit of this remark are but too evident. These words are directly connected with the terrible dogma of predestination. Will the good and intelligent Christian cast such a slur of cruel selfishness on his Savior? [It is not evident that the words: “lest at any time they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them” – do not at all mean to imply that Jesus feared that through repentance any outsider, or “them that are without,” should escape damnation, as the literal dead- letter sense plainly shows – but quite a different thing?
- A highly skilled person; an expert
- Greek philosopher, mathematician and founder of religious movement called Pythagoreanism
- Chinese thinker and social philosopher
- Greek Neopythagorean philosopher, from the town of Tyana
- Philosopher, founder of Neo-Platonism
Namely, “lest any of the profane should by understanding his preaching, undisguised by parable, get hold of some of the secret teachings and mysteries of Initiation – and even of Occult powers? “Be converted” is, in other words, to obtain a knowledge belonging exclusively to the Initiated: “and their sins be forgiven them,” that is, their sins would fall upon the illegal revealer, on those who had helped the unworthy reap there where they have never labored to sow, and had given them, thereby, the means of escaping on this earth their deserved Karma, which must thus re-act on the revealer, who, instead of good, did harm and failed.]
The work of propagating such truths in parables was left to the disciples of the high Initiates (A highly skilled person; an expert). It was their duty to follow the key-note of the Secret Teaching without revealing its mysteries. This is shown in the histories of all the great Adepts. Pythagoras divided his classes into hearers of exoteric and esoteric lectures. The Magians6 received their instructions and were initiated in the far hidden caves of Bactria7. When Josephus declares that Abraham taught Mathematics he meant by it “Magic,” for in the Pythagorean code Mathematics mean Esoteric Science, or Gnosis.
The Essenes of Judea and Carmel made similar distinctions, dividing their adherents into neophytes, brethren and the perfect . . . . Ammonius obligated his disciples by oath not to divulge (To make known) his higher doctrines, except to those who had been thoroughly instructed and exercised [prepared for initiation]. [New Platonism and Alchemy, 1869. pp. 7. 9.]
One of the most powerful reasons for the necessity of strict secrecy is given by Jesus Himself, if one may credit Matthew. For there the Master is made to say plainly:
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine; lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you (Matthew 7:6).
Many are those in our own age, and even among us, who have been forcibly reminded of them – often when too late. [History is full of proofs of the same. Had not Anaxagoras enunciated the great truth taught in the Mysteries, viz., that the sun was surely larger than the Peloponnesus, he would not have been persecuted and nearly put to death by the fanatical mob. Had that other rabble which was raised against Pythagoras understood what the mysterious Sage of Crotona meant by giving out his remembrances of having been the “Son of Mercury” – God of the Secret Wisdom – he would not have been forced to fly for his life: nor would Socrates have been put to death, had he kept secret the revelations of his divine Daimon8 ]. Even Maimonides recommends silence with regard to the true meaning of the Bible texts.
This injunction destroys the usual affirmation that “Holy Writ” is the only book in the world whose divine oracles contain plain unvarnished truth. It may be so for the learned Kabalists; it is certainly quite the reverse with regard to Christians. For this is what the learned Hebrew Philosopher says:
Whoever shall find out the true sense of the Book of Genesis ought to take care not to divulge it. This is a maxim that all our sages repeat to us, and above all respecting the work of the six days. If a person should discover the true meaning of it by himself, or by the aid of another, then he ought to be silent, or if he speaks he ought to speak of it obscurely, in an enigmatical manner, as I do myself, leaving the rest to be guessed by those who can understand me.
The secret meaning of the Gospel is again openly confessed by Clemens when he says that the Mysteries of the Faith are not to be divulged to all.
But since this tradition is not published alone for him who perceives the magnificence of the word; it is requisite, therefore, to hide in a Mystery the wisdom spoken, which the Son of God taught. [ Stromateis, xii.]
6.A follower of Zoroaster
7.Ancient Greek name of central Asia
8.An attendant spirit; a genius
Origen on “Genesis”
Not less explicit is Origen9 with regard to the Bible and its symbolical fables. He exclaims:
If we hold to the letter, and must understand what stands written in the law after the manner of the Jews and common people, then I should blush (shame) to confess aloud that it is God who has given these laws; then the laws of men appear more excellent and reasonable. [See Homilies 7, quoted in the Source of Measures, p.307.]
And well he might have “blushed,” the sincere and honest Father of early Christianity in its days of relative purity. But the Christians of this highly literary and civilised age of ours do not blush at all; they swallow, on the contrary, the “light” before the formation of the sun, the Garden of Eden, Jonah’s whale and all, not withstanding that the same Origen asks in a very natural fit of indignation (anger):
What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon, and stars, and the first day without a heaven? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, like a husbandman, etc? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which a hidden sense lies concealed. [Origen: Huet., Origeniana,167: quoted from Dunlop’s Sid. p. 176.]
When Paul’s unequivocal statement in Galatians 4: 22-25, that the story of Abraham and his two sons is all “an allegory.” and that “Agar is Mount Sinai” is added to this, then little blame, indeed, can be attached to either Christian or Heathen who declines to accept the Bible in any other light than that of a very ingenious allegory.
Rabbi Simeon Ben-“Jochai,” the compiler of the Zohar, never imparted the most important points of his doctrine otherwise than orally, and to a very limited number of disciples. Therefore, without the final initiation into the Mercavah, the study of the Kabalah will be ever incomplete, and the Mercavah can be taught only “in darkness, in a deserted place, and after many and terrific trials.” Since the death of that great Jewish Initiate this hidden doctrine has remained, for the outside world, an inviolate secret.
Tananim10, the wise men said there were those who taught the secrets practically and initiated some disciples into the grand and final Mystery. But the Mishna Hagiga, 2nd Section, say that the table of contents of the Mercaba “must only be delivered to wise old ones.” The Gemara is still more dogmatic. “The more important secrets of the Mysteries were not even revealed to all priests. Alone the initiates had them divulged.” And so we find the same great secrecy prevalent in every ancient religion. [Isis Unveiled, ii. 350.]
What says the Kabalah itself? Its great Rabbis actually threaten him who accepts their sayings verbatim. We read in the Zohar:
Woe to the man who sees in the Thorah, i.e., Law, only simple recitals and ordinary words! Because if in truth it only contained these, we would even today be able to compose a Thorah much more worthy of admiration. For if we find only the simple words, we would only have to address ourselves to the legislators of the earth, [The materialistic “law-givers,” the critics and Sadducees who have tried to tear to shreds the doctrines and teachings of the great Asiatic Masters past and present – no scholars in the modern sense of the word – would do well to ponder over these words. No doubt that doctrines and secret teachings had they been invented and written in Oxford and Cambridge would be more brilliant outwardly. Would they equally answer to universal truths and facts, is the next question however.] to those in whom we most frequently meet with the most grandeur.
- Greek theologian, one of the Fathers of the Church. Probably the son of a Christian martyr, Origen studied philosophy in Alexandria and served as head of its catechetical school for 20 years
- Rabbinical sages
It would be sufficient to imitate them, and make a Thorah after their words and example. But it is not so; each word of the Thorah contains an elevated meaning and a sublime mystery. . . . The recitals of the Thorah are the vestments of the Thorah. Woe to him who takes this garment for the Thorah itself . . . . The simple notice only of the garments or recitals of the Thorah, they know of no other thing, they see not that which is concealed under the vestment. The more instructed men do not pay attention to the vestment, but to the body which it envelops. [ iii. fol. 1526, quoted in Myer’s Qabbalah, p.102.]
Ammonius Saccas taught that the Secret Doctrine of the Wisdom-Religion was found complete in the
Books of…………., from which both Pythagoras and Plato derived their knowledge and much of their Philosophy; and these Books were declared by him to be “identical with the teachings of the Sages of the remote East.
This is very probable. Only the “divine utterances” have never been, so far, understood by the profane.Philo Judaeus, a non- initiate, attempted to give their secret meaning and failed.
But Books of Bible, Vedas or Kabalah, all enjoin the same secrecy as to certain mysteries of nature symbolised in them. “Woe be to him who divulges unlawfully the words whispered into the ear of Manushi by the First Initiator.”
The “Dark Sayings” of the “Testaments’’
Who that “Initiator” was is made plain in the Book of Enoch:
From them [the angels] I heard all things, and understood what I saw, that which will not take place in this generation [Race], but in a generation which is to succeed at a distant period [ the 6th and 7th Races] on account of the elect [the Initiates]. [ i. 2.]
Again, it is said with regard to the judgment of those who, when they have learned “every secret of the angels,” reveal them, that:
They have discovered secrets, and they are those who have been judged; but not thou, my son [Noah] . . .thou art pure and good and free from the reproach of discovering secrets.
The Biblical glyphs have nearly all a triune foundation; those of the Eastern books are worked on the septenary (seven). They are as closely related to the mysteries of Physics and Physiology, as to Psychism and the transcendental nature of cosmic elements and Theogony; unriddled they would prove more than injurious to the uninitiated; delivered into the hands of the present generations in their actual state of physical and intellectual development, in the absence of spirituality and even of practical morality, they would become absolutely disastrous. Evidently civilized society is still but half prepared for the revelation. Hence, the Initiates will never give out the whole secret, until the bulk of mankind has changed its actual nature and is better prepared for truth.
Clemens Alexandrinus11was positively right in saying, “It is requisite to hide in a mystery the wisdom spoken” – which the “Sons of God” teach. That Wisdom, as will be seen, relates to all the primeval truths delivered to the first Races, the “Mind-born,” by the “Builders” of the Universe themselves.
Glory to JESUS July 2011
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