SPIRITUAL DEVIATION - SPIRITUAL DECEIT
396. Deviatology, the study of deviations is an inherent part of paradoseology, the knowledge of tradition.
397. It is out of the question that all non-materialistic trends should ally with one another against materialism. There are trends that seem to be spiritual, but actually they are attached to even darker tendencies than materialistic atheism.
398. Those who come from India, and recently even from Tibet, both to Europe and to America where they provide some sort of spiritual help (which helps nobody) to Western men who have sunk into materiality, rather accomplish a comprehensive, dark and demonic mission.
399. The modern world has no initiation, and no spiritual path belongs to it, since the modern world has extinguished the old mysteries, and no new mysteries can come up in this world. All that can be spiritually manifested in this world can only be realised against the modern world, and against its forces.
400. As authentic initiation withdraws from the world, pseudo-initiation and contra-initiation take its place. As initiatory centres disappear, so multiply by tens of thousands pseudo-initiatory and contra-initiatory centres.
401. This age does not create new mysteries like certain contemporary pseudo-spiritual trends proclaim; it rather produces new deviations in an inexhaustible manner.
402. In the past, superior men were searching for decades to contact an initiatory centre. Today posters of advertising pillars offer half a dozen gurus simultaneously.
403. All the conditions that lead and keep one astray are in place today.
404. As light magnetises certain insects, so spiritual darkness attracts the overwhelming majority of people.
405. Darkness can not be recognised by its declaring itself to be dark. Things can not be accepted at their nominal value. Most things are not what they say or what they show about themselves.
406. There is no ab ovo protection against being led astray spiritually. The only way one can avoid spiritual errors is with one’s own spiritual awareness.
407. Each school that builds not on conscious inner activities is a dark one without exception.
408. The easily accomplishable tasks ordained with merciless rigidity show the pseudo-spiritual schools’ obvious hypocritical nature.
409. It is not sure whether schools that focus on transferring doctrine rather than teaching praxis stand on the side of the light, but those who teach only praxis are definitely on the side of the false light, or that of darkness - representing either imposture or »satanicity«.
410. Today, those who beyond the contingent conveying of doctrines also teach elements of praxis - virtually everyone - cannot be real masters: they must be impostors or pseudo-gurus representing deliberately satanic forces. Tertium non datur.
411. (Pseudo-spirituality) The more diligent someone is, the greater the trouble he gets into.
412. Most contemporary spiritual doctrines are collections of commonplaces: sentimental bundles of banalities.
413. Initiation cannot be transferred like chewing-gum, since both its transmission and its reception requires quasi-super-human qualifications, a lack of which in either hinders the transfer itself. Most often there is a lack in both.
414. The false supposition that eventually everybody can meditate and does not do so only because of certain reasons - e.g. he is lazy -, is made in the very frequent cases when man is called upon to meditate.
415. One who says that he is practising yoga (and the expression itself is already repellent) almost certainly has nothing to do with yoga. Yoga is the asceticism of spiritual transmutation.
416. It would be favourable if degenerate people had no ambitions. Unfortunately, many of them - and a quite significant number - have ambitions, more over they suffer from ambition-hypertrophy.
417. (Spiritism) The spiritual goal of man is to take the Absolute as its aim by transcending himself into the super-human state of existence. It is not his goal to transport different entities from other states of existence into the material state.
418. Happy end is a common characteristic of occultism penetrated with evolutionism: everybody progresses, though with drawbacks and tumbles here and there.
419. (»Reincarnationism«) During their incarnations, people are sorely tried and seriously jeopardised, they almost fail, but in the end, like in a movie from Hollywood everything turns out very well.
420. Every force roused inadequately, that is, not pervaded with spirit, functions as a force of death.
421. Finally, it is laziness, i.e. a defect, that often saves the followers of pseudo-spiritual paths from winding up in mental catastrophes.
422. Not only true spirituality withdraws continuously; spiritual deviations also decline quickly, which makes them even more faulty and dangerous.
423. Der Teufel ist Gottes Teufel: »Devil is the Devil of God«.