METAPHYSICAL PRAXIS I - ATTITUDE
187. Metaphysical doctrines are for those who, existentially speaking, are at the crossroads. It does not necessarily mean a strained situation, but rather a range of possibilities, where a considerable number of people exist. Yet the majority of people choose a downward path, which is not necessarily a declared choice, but takes place for example in the manner of putting off transmutational steps: »It is enough to deal with this later.«
188. Concerning metaphysical realisation every »must« refers only to the man who wants to do something with himself. The one who does not intend to do anything with himself, does not have to do anything.
189. Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a self-correction should take place.
190. In times past, one school, one sacred book, even one sentence of such a book was enough: through that everything could be reached. Today, if one wants to get back to the spirit, one has to surround oneself with several traditions, schools and trends.
191. The spiritual path even two thousand years ago was called the »narrow path«, or was compared to the edge of a sword. However, this path is not simply narrow, but is also getting narrower and more impassable. The »wide path«, on the contrary, which many people follow quite happily, is indeed a wayless way; a wide path, which is not a real path: it leads nowhere, to nothing, to death...
192. The getting-back to the origin is no one’s fate or condition: it is beyond the contexts of fate, beyond the domains of conditions.
193. It is never the circumstances which are really determinants.
194. Whatever a man wants to reach he reaches. If it should not happen, it is because he is unable to want it.
195. He who wants to awake, awakes.
196. Not gaining initiation is never due to the fact that a man could not find an appropriate initiatory centre, but because he is not mature enough for initiation.
197. Man can go through his life in such a way that he honestly says to himself and to others that his goal is this and that, while his goal is absolutely not that, but something totally different.
198. That which is spiritually positive, is absolutely without the purpose of offering a shelter to different psychic diseases.
199. Spiritual paths are not the paths of the psychically ill, of the escapers, of those who long for safety because they could not find it in their life. Spiritual realisation is the path of the dominant type of man.