 88. Jesus (His Truth) |
Jesus of Galilee felt a profound disposition of compassion for people in their ordinary, natural, human condition-not just as subordinates of the Roman State, or as members of an "official" religious institution that was, itself, essentially a kind of political (or, otherwise, social-activist) entity. Jesus stepped out of the spheres of both the power of State and the power of "official" religion-and, basically, he taught everyone else to do the same.
Jesus of Galilee extended his Blessing-Regard to all- as shown through the reported incidents of his healing work. By this means, Jesus taught people to understand that "true religion" is not merely a set of prescriptions for "right behavior". Rather, "true religion" is Communion with the Divine by means of moral (or "right-life") disciplines, and by means of devotional (or "right-heart") disciplines, and, above all, by means of Spiritual (or TruthWorshipping) disciplines. According to Jesus, "true religion" is the life-practice of turning to the Spiritual Divine "with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength".
Such was the teaching of Jesus of Galilee. Such was his state of Realization. Jesus of Galilee was a Realizer (or Spiritual Master), who taught a moral, devotional, and Spiritual "method" (or practice-"technique") of Divine Communion. That "method" included the Transmission of Spiritual Blessing from Master to devotee, within a school that accepted only rightly prepared people into its "inner circle" (or esoteric domain).
It seems that the continuity of the original esoteric school of Jesus of Galilee was broken up at some point. That school did not survive-or, perhaps, it became (even immediately after Jesus' death) so entirely secret that it was never publicly heard from again. In any case, there is no evidence of a Spiritually active esoteric order of devotees of Jesus that has existed continuously from his physical time of life.
There are, of course, teachers, teachings, traditions, and schools that, even now, perpetuate paths that are virtually identical to the esotericism of Jesus of Galilee. The esoteric tradition of Jesus of Galilee is, therefore, still alive. It is, however, not wearing a "Christian" face. All esoteric Spiritual traditions are, essentially, the same-because the teachings conveyed within all such esoteric traditions are based upon the root-structure (or psycho-physical anatomy) "that is common to all human beings. Thus, all Spiritual esotericism is about direct psycho-physical Communion with the Divine Spiritual Reality Itself, completely apart from myths, and mere ideas, and all the institutionalized "concretions" of "official" exoteric religious language.
Even all that is true and Truth is "alive and well"-regardless of the "official" concepts of the times. And all that is true and Truth will continue, so long as there is continuity in the depth of human existence, and the discovery of it, generation by generation-and so long as it is not lost in the illusions of superficial-mindedness, and mere egoity, and the reductionism that confines all and everything to the materialistically-"objectified" (or naively "concretized") view and to the exoteric earlier-stage-of-life myths about Reality and life.
