Article: Of the Origin of Esoteric Teachings

by Jean Dubuis, Legate to Europe, The Philosophers of Nature (PON)

Copyright 1998, Jean DUBUIS. All Rights Reserved.

Reprinted from Issue 25 of The Stone

In the experience of the consciousness at the highest level, Experience of the Point,
Cosmic experience, experience of Eternity, etc. the state of consciousness of man
and his access to Knowledge is the same as during the beginning of the Creation and
after the return when the being is "realized". In the first case, man has all the
powers of the creation - which he will lose - but is unconscious of it; in the second
case, he also has the same powers - found thanks to his work - and this time, he is
self-conscious.

What is interesting in this experience of the "Point" is that its occurrence triggers for
the experimenter a source of information - not available from our earthly level -
information on the Origin and the Becoming of Man and the Universe. When the
Contact on Eternity happens through the Experience of the Point, the consciousness
undergoes both an infinite extension of time, of space and of Knowledge where,
immersed in a state of omniscience, the being has the instant knowledge of the
Universe. From there comes all the true esoteric knowledge conveyed in our world.

When, after a first contact, the consciousness of man comes down to the level of the
Earth, be it rapidly or slowly, a strange feeling occurs in which we remember that we
understood everything, that we knew everything, and we suddenly realize that we no
more know anything or nearly so. Yet, it is this "nearly" that we will have to retrieve,
hold, fix. Thus, from a long succession of renewed Contacts we will be able to start
retrieving the elements constituting the Creation.

We explain further that the tentative Contact supposes a taught process. When the
contact is spontaneous or natural, this implies that the beneficiary has an inner
degree of progress that always results from his work. Thus, each one receives the
True Teaching, either through one’s own revelations, or through the revelations of
the men who came before us. After innumerable experiences, these Ancients have
been able to bring back to the Earth consciousness, element after element, the
knowledge of the invisible worlds, including those in the Archives of Nature, an
integral part of the Universe.

When the legends or stories of the sacred books tell, for instance, that Qabala was
brought to men on Earth by angels and archangels, it is an erroneous interpretation
of the origin of the source of information. Properly speaking, it was not angels or
archangels who would have transmitted esoteric knowledge such as Qabala or
Alchemy (chemistry of God) but only numerous mystical searchers after a long
succession of personal revelations resulting from inner experiences.

Each epoch of History expresses itself through its own language, reflecting the
culture of the times, to translate a certain number of phenomenons of nature. Thus
the concept of the angel was probably the best at a certain period of the history of
Humanity to illustrate the teaching brought from an other world. The angels
represented like winged humanoids are not, and can never be zealous instructors
since they do not have self-consciousness. In our modern language, we would
express their function by saying that they are in fact energy sources, like computers,
that ensure the automated work of nature; from these sources it is indeed possible
to gather information concerning the Creation, when one forays in the space-time
they belong to.

The so called "esoteric" teaching was transmitted orally and even fixed in writing,
often in a coded way from the Wise men who made certain that Knowledge did not
become a tool for power and domination. It is said that the library of Alexandria held
numerous such books in which was transcribed the knowledge of men who had had
Contacts. We can only regret such a loss for the human spirit and especially for the
student on the Path. However, let us not lose sight of the fact that the main source
of esoteric teaching still remains the Inner Revelation, which implies a continuous
work. For each era of Humanity, this Inner Revelation must adapt to the Path
already covered and express itself in a new language.

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