Temples – A Bridge and Meeting Place – (2652)

Bridge

Each temple is like a bridge, a bridge between the outer and the inner.

In the physical world, a temple can be seen from afar by everyone, though what it holds inside it remains concealed to all.

If ever a person wanted to find the mysteries, he or she would have to seek out a temple.

To enter a temple is always to enter into the ‘inner’. The doors and threshold of a temple are a bridge that one walks across to enter into the inner.

It is said that the self-realisation is to enter a temple of the Divine Mother.

A temple is more related to the ‘Mother’, to the feminine.

Housed within the temple are the inner teachings and mysteries of the temple’s founding spirit.

It seems that always the mysteries are housed in a temple. All that holds a mystery is guarded by a temple. As each mystery is something profound and sacred.

To enter the path is to have entered into the temples of the mysteries. Each stage of the path is an entrance into a new chamber of a temple.

To enter a temple is no easy task. There are the guardians of the temples which guard the way into its mysteries.

One must have the merits to walk into a temple. Even into one’s own heart temple.

Our own heart temple too is a bridge from our outer personality to our inner layers and deeper mysteries.

Meeting Place

A temple is where those allowed entry, meet in order to receive instruction, guidance and participation in the spiritual activities of the order and to participate in one’s own particular spiritual strengthening and realising.

It is a place where we hope to meet the guru, the masters, that is, those with the wisdom and force to advise, teach and strengthen us. If we can not find the masters and the guru in the temples where else would we find them I wonder?

The same applies to our heart temple, where within it, is a meeting place for the various parts of our Being and it is where we find the advice, the answers, and strength of our inner Master, our inner guru - our inner Being. We must love our guru as well, as Master Samael says, as our guru (other than our inner Being) is the one who is the architect of the superior parts of our Being. 

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