For at få en grundlæggende kort indføring, kan man læse nedenstående artikel:
http://www.share-international.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_ttintro.htm
Indledning
Der er passende at indlede med en beskrivelse af ordet glamour.
Glamour er overtro.
Overtro fylder meget og paradoksalt nok er "New Age" , esoteriske og okkulte grupper mest overtroiske af alle i følge den tibetanske mester DK, som skrev i Alice Bailey bøgerne. Dette er Benjamin Cremes opfattelse af glamour:
http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/aw_bcglamour.htm
"In New Age circles there is a great deal of talk about the subject of glamour. New Age groups, the esoteric and occult groups, fondly imagine, of course, that they are
without glamour. They tend to see themselves as the most advanced groups in the world, above and beyond the glamours which beset ordinary humanity, and as particularly fitted to guide the rest of us into the same, blessed, glamour-free state in which they
happily reside. This is one of the biggest glamours of these groups. The Tibetan Master DK, who gave the Alice Bailey teachings to the world, has written that the esoteric and occult groups are the most glamoured of all the groups. And, I must say, that is
exactly my experience." (Citat fra ovenstående link fra indledningen.)
Se
1. http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/aw_bcrequire.htm
2. http://www.share-international.org/books/?d=AWT
3. http://shareno.net/boker/boker.htm#Norske_b%C3%B8ker
Henviser til nedenstående e-bog, som også findes i papirudgave. Letlæst introduktion til den tidløse visdomslære på engelsk (gratis), findes også på norsk, men
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The AgelessWisdom Teaching
An introduction to humanity’s spiritual legacy
Benjamin Creme
SHARE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
Hvornår er man klar til at betræde den spirituelle vej?
Sri Chinmoy, som
var et meget venligt og elskeligt menneske, og som ved sin død havde opnået 4. indvielse, og bl.a. arrangerede marathonløb siger følgende: "How does one know whether he is ready for a spiritual path or not? (Hvordan ved man, om man er klar til at betræde den spirituelle vej?)
How does one know whether he is ready for a spiritual path or not?
When you are hungry you know that you have to eat. Your hunger compels you to eat something. In the inner life also, when you are hungry for peace, light and bliss, at that time you are ready. When you have an inner cry, then you are
ready for a spiritual path. When you feel the need, you are ready. If you don't have the need, then you are not ready,
Sometimes it
happens that the seeker is ready and the Master is available, but attachment to the ordinary life prevents the seeker from looking sincerely enough. The other day somebody told me that she has been looking for a Master for nineteen or twenty years. I was so
surprised, because I was positive that her Master is alive. If she had really been searching sincerely and crying for her Master, then she would have found him. If the aspirant is really sincerely crying for a path, then his path will present itself before
him. If he really cries for a spiritual Master, either the Master will come to him or he will be able to go to the Master. No sincere effort ends in vain. If someone makes a sincere effort, then I wish to say that his inner life and outer life are bound to
be crowned with success."
Indvielse er en stadig tiltagende oplevelse af sig selv som sjæl, og denne oplevelse tiltager fra 1. til
4. indvielse.
Ved den 4. indvielse overføres sjælens erfaringer , visdom etc. til monaden, og mennesket behøver ikke mere at komme tilbage til jorden, men kan hvis
han ønsker det.
Det er denne forståelse af menneskets 5 indvielser, som man regner med vil blive til den nye verdensreligion. Denne nye "verdensreligion" vil ikke - regner
man med - træde i stedet for de religioner vi kender så godt i dag, men giver en dybere forståelse af menneskets evolution og midlerne til at fremme denne evolution - såfremt det måtte ønskes.