You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an altar and worship it. You are depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else… when I say look within yourselves for enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. In what manner has such a belief swept away all unessential things of life? That is the only way to judge: in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every society which is based on the false and the unessential? Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves!…įor eighteen years you have organized, you have looked for someone who would give a new delight to your hearts and minds, who would transform your whole life, who would give you a new understanding for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life, who would give you a new encouragement, who would set you free – and now look what is happening! Consider, reason with yourselves, and discover in what way that belief has made you different – not with the superficial difference of the wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd. To him it was a great act because he said: ‘What will you do afterwards, how will you live? You will have no following, people will no longer listen to you.’ If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient. I do not want these childish discussions year after year.Ī newspaper reporter who interviewed me considered it a magnificent act to dissolve an organization in which there were thousands and thousands of members. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free… I am speaking frankly because I want this settled once and for all. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I’m going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers and I mean this. So that is another reason why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Order, to dissolve it… If an organization be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind… In spite of this, you will probably form other Orders, you will continue to belong to other organizations searching for Truth. You cannot bring the mountain top to the valley… So that is the first reason, from my point of view, why the Order of the Star should be dissolved. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. That is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. That is my point of view and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally… If you first understand that, then you will see how it is impossible to organize a belief. “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. It was an amazing document of the mystical life that cut apart the real from the nonsensical and showed us all where we stood. If there was any spirituality anywhere, it was in this moment. A blazing intensity arose from his heart.
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