Issue of Mystical Pride

Issue of Mystical Pride - (4180)

Mystical pride is a little scary how it can close the path off for a person. To the point where the person themselves will close the door to the path they so yearn for.

To feel that we know it all already, and that we shouldn't have to wait to receive the advanced teachings that we yearn for. To feel that we are ready now and we should be in the advanced classes already because of what we know from other studies, that are not Gnosis, is mystical pride.

It would be so simple... Apply what has been taught and exercise patience which is everything in every place of life and requires deep self-knowledge, would be all that is required to overcome the first layer of mystical pride and get what one yearns for...

Many newcomers to Gnosis face this obstacle in some way or another. It seems the more knowledge or data rather, the newcomer has the more difficult it is.

To think that the age old tradition of neophyte, chela, apprentice, initiate, master, guru and so on, no longer applies for the path is mistaken.

All one has to do, is to look deeper into the knowledge they are receiving and apply it. Applying it sets it all right!

Mystical pride mixed with the doctrines of many modern day 'spiritual', 'healing' and psychic beliefs creates a mixture (Kalkian personality) which is mistaken and impedes us from seeing our own reality.

Coast off Madeira

End (4180).

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