The seven obstacles for beginners

THE SEVEN OBSTACLES FOR BEGINNERS A great battle is to get rid but take place within ourselves.

It's the Great Battle that mentions the Bhagavad Gita and the Great Holy War spoken of the Koran.

The effort must be made now for each: the Law of Life.

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KNOW THE PRIDE OF UNHOLY

What is this? The lady refuses the knight kneeling with a strong kick and he, in the meantime, has turned his glass ...

She is the Wisdom Tradition, Initiation same that rejects the rationalist who approaches him swelling with pride and secular learning.

He has a book in his hand, holding it carefully think your treasure is vulgar and materialistic science but has neglected the most valuable, turning the cup containing the nectar of spiritual wisdom. His pride and miss and dismiss sufficiency. Thinks he knows everything and actually knows nothing. His humility is sincere and begs on his knees even when he is abruptly rejected. Nobody fools Lady Wisdom and she knows he has poured the nectar of immortality, refusing to know himself. The latter inspires much fear of such a subject as dreads facing his manifold weaknesses. It is but a usurper mocked and clinging to the letter that kills, rejecting and ignoring the spirit that gives life.

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SELF-DESTRUCTION OF FOOL No doubt we are facing here a suicide, but not in the ordinary sense.

This man sacrifices his higher nature, because for him ignoring his lower nature is all that counts.

Disdains the best of himself to serve only their material needs and their vices.

Delays the call of the spirit to come hastily to matter.

His attitude is summed up in two words: FOLLY and NEGLIGENCE. He deceives himself saying, sometimes, that attitude will change later, but neither he believes this.

His life dissipates and goes in little without undertaking the search for the truly great. This is because a small being only covers the bottom of his person.

His will and desires do not go beyond the material. His time has not come yet.

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SELFISH GREED Here we are facing a greedy, slave of material goods.

His expression reflects the misery of his soul. "Where your treasure is there is your heart." He also denies the higher possibilities of human nature, which does not really concern you in the least.

Neither this sad character and above have the virtue of Patience. This is what enables the initiate to support the weight of the world without falling apart. The Charity also outside his greedy soul. It's only extreme materialism and BLINDNESS. Ignore this character that matter is only matter, as he is a prisoner of the illusion, which prevents you from the path of return to the true home of man. The false values darken their thinking and make his face grim. Rejects the true life and accumulates causing him die, choking him.

What good would this man to ponder the words of Socrates in Athens market: "What things in here that I do not need!"

Therefore it is necessary to rid, shed base metals to enter the temple to seek the spiritual gold. Just overcoming greed for material goods, sordid avarice can be transmuted into spiritual glory. The real and highest alchemy is the philosophical gold producing gold and vile. This alchemy is communicated to the disciple worthy when the Master sees it ready. No doubt this is why the Grand Masters are compared, Esoteric Tradition, mountains of gold to illuminate the world. But its transmutation is inside. The terms of your physical and subtle matter becomes first glorious (Esha - or Kalyani - Prakriti) and then divine matter (Dalvi - Prakriti).

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THE LIES OF ORGANIZED RELIGION IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION Fanaticism Here are the small idol fan who thinks he owns the truth. He sticks to his beliefs and sectarianism no wish to go further. The only believes but does not know. Well you would know that only believes, instead of foolishly believing only he knows. Well, who really knows, no need to believe. The belief and ignorance are inseparable sisters. Never understood a being so limited, and the foolishness of his dogmas nor that there are truths and orders of the higher reality that escape him completely. Lives prisoner of his creed, as in a house without windows.

Initiation Wisdom and have not been made for him. His attitude distorts your mind and makes him a slave to forgers who, coating alleged spiritual authority actually aspire only to the temporal power. Let him alone with limited false doctrines with which he claims to have total and definitive truth. It is a blind man who does not want and can not see. Mal could apercibirse of the signs that God has placed in the world, because with Salustio be said "The world is a symbolic object". In fact it is necessary to match well with Jules Le Bele in that each object is expressed naturally and sensitive sign of truth in the metaphysical order.

But none of this is for fans idolaters. Who has too much attachment and confidence in their own ideas, whatever they may be, is unable to discover the truth. Well said Antonio Porchia "If I were a rock and not a cloud, I think, which is like the wind, I would leave."

But perhaps the most terrible thing is what is clearly depicted in this relief of Metz Cathedral. It is small and despised the idea of God with these fanatics. Its design is so rude and mean and not actually worship a god but a demon.

Already said magnificently Girolamo Savonarola, martyr of ignorant fanatics, these immortal lines.

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GOD

The embalming atmospheric air,

"They say I do not understand Your Existence, that the fire of the damned I burn my tongue incessantly blaspheme

beings sap increases and the fire that feeds worlds Your Exalted name are proclaiming.

and do not understand the word God. Unbreakable Will You, They say I look and I implore

the Eternal Good, Powerful Virtue,

Not Your Greatness endless see,

inexhaustible source of Truth

They say I have the heart of an atheist because Reason.

And I curse my lip. NO!

The Universe is the august temple

you

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Universal

In his terrible stupid man

where you look is absorbed,

forges a God unworthy of praise,

the Sun is a lamp hanging

intoxicated with hatred, anger and revenge,

that sheds its light upon Your altar.

terrible and bloody like him.

There I adore you because Your Name among the stars shining bright

Sometimes they pretend in their madness

and spirit bend the knee

a God who hides effeminate,

Your Goodness quietly worshiping.

voice that the believer does not respond

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if there is an altar lace and tinsel.

For it is the Universal Providence.

Inner Voice, Inexhaustible Source, Fertile Light, Invigorating Essence

That's not God! The God I can not believe I have the ambition of gold, The Goodness God, the God whom I adore It does not change His Bounties of metal! "

The basis of Your Temple is the awareness and Your High Priest is Love

His Spirit is not hidden giant

I know you exist Immutable, Large,

In the narrow grounds of a shrine;

I believe in Your infinite Goodness

The entire universe is His Sanctuary

Well, on earth and in heaven see Shine word: GOD! "

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VANITY AND MENTAL LIMITATIONS

Behold the vain mirrored happy and satisfied with themselves, because they think that everything they do, know and speak and do not aspire to anything else. They are, for all this, certainly daring fools and generally unbearable ignorance and Initiatory Way company.

Everything discussed and rejected, as claim to reduce life to the narrow mold of his stupidity. The Master must block their path to achieve unique energy because only desecrate the sanctuary and disturb other neophytes.

All learning is an act of humility and who lacks this virtue, will not achieve one step forward on the path. A fools of all kinds have to discourage you from the beginning and thus makes them a good.

Never make them achieve authentic initiated at best mediocre but arrogant. The vain you look at yourself in the mirror of life (speculum, hence comes Speculare, speculate). He prefers this to contemplate the universe. If it emerges to know would be in the right track. But only do it to boast, in stupid and unjustified act of self-admiration.

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COWARDICE The world is full of cowards and the Initiation is only for the brave and determined.

Many boast of their drive but end relief as the gentleman who dropped his sword and flees before the appearance of a rabbit.

They are invisible doubts assail the profane and yet the initiate, which constitute the second guardian of the threshold, even more terrible than the first.

The timid do not serve us in the Milky Initiation, as prisoners of their fears, are unable to face the least risk even when prior flaunt their future and hypothetical feats. Their fears are of many types. Fear of losing status or material benefits. Fear of losing prestige in any terrain. Fear of bad luck. But the worst fears are generated in silly and irrational beliefs of a religious (fear of the devil, hell and damnation, sin, the Holy Office and other friars).

It is easy to deter such people. Bastan few small initiatory tests to flee in terror.

And it's better that they do so, leaving harbor delusions about their own value and worth. It is better to repeat to make it clear: not enough to possess sword to be a true gentleman. Well Sufi initiates repeated that "He who aspires to heaven and hell is afraid incapable of the least performing in the order of initiation."

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CLUMSINESS, INDOLENCE And laziness Here is the incompetent, indolent, lethargic and careless. They are unable to develop a prolonged effort. Life itself soon Iniciรกtico trail away naturally. No one needs to do or say anything about it. These beings have no real motivations and soon forget their good intentions, those who are merely declamatory.

But here's a note symbol. The knight and the horse are both asleep.

The horse is a traditional symbol of lower and instinctive nature of man, of the Prakriti as it is called in the sacred texts of India. The rider asleep, symbol of the higher nature still do not claim your Divine Heritage, makes this symbol resembles the already seen in the second degree.

No search terms to the highest man can aspire. But the horse asleep indicates that there will not search for the material, including his own livelihood. It is simply laziness and sloth at all levels of existence.

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