THE WAY OF THE DISCIPLE

 

The Way of the Disciple is:

        a)      The Way of Release. Detachment is the keynote.

        b)      The way of Loneliness. It leads to and through the “dark night of the soul.”

        c)       The Way that leads to the Mountain Top of Isolation – a cutting loose from all form and all that   

                 hold the disciple to the world.

        d)      The Way that leads to the place of Initiation.

        e)      The Way of Purification that leads to the removal of all worldly desire and all hate.

 

These are the “Five Ways” that the disciples of the Lord of the world must go. They are those strong souls who consciously and knowingly enter into the realms of spiritual force and take thence that which they need and that which they choose [working intelligently], so that there may be a subsequent wise distribution of force within a chosen area of service.

Strict adherence to the “Five Ways”, above mentioned, that represent a scientific formula, will definitely change the serious disciple in ways that will equip him to be of tremendous service in the world work of the Hierarchy and the New Group of World Servers.  

let’s take a look at them and see how the one leads to the other to form one path:

The Way of Purification and the Way of Release:

Here the keynote, after cleaning the physical body, is Detachment to clean out the emotional body. Detachment helped me to see reality. I went to a very tough emotional experience in my life that made me see that all the things in my life up to then, did not mean a thing and that I can easily give everything up. I do not need anything accept the most basic things in live that I need to live day to day.

 

DETACHMENT

We are not only attached to things physically

But also things psychologically
It can be a thing or a person or a place
Your self-image, belief system or your race

This can block out all new truths and reality

Where analysis becomes a distorted actuality
Seen through your own historical perspective 
And an imagination that stays ineffective

The emotional body develops likes and dislikes at random    

Some come easily and are easy to abandon
Other attachments become central to one’s life
And are not easily relinquished through strive

Attachment is related to form and create      

A non-fluidic, non-growing, static state
Where evil works against evolution
And detachment becomes the solution

Detachment is related to consciousness.

And moving away from a distorted mindfulness
Through separation from form 
To where better judgement is the norm

In the first condition above we have an emotional focus

That is corrected most often through a mental focus
Where mental clarity is the hammer
To smash emotional glamour

In the second condition we have an attachment totality

Of the physical-emotional-mental bodies of personality
That is rectified through soul focus
That knows the real from the bogus

This is not the detachment of self-isolation

Aloofness or self- fortification  
But soul detachment which works from higher perspective
That makes everything in life more attractive   

Seeing everything in life and the goal

Through the light which streams from the soul
Regarding everything from the standpoint of eternity
And related to the Holy Trinity

When the disciple reach the point where nothing hols him in this life, what is he Living for? ……He is living to be of service…..that is his main driving force and motivation in life, accept the need and will for self-betterment and development to be eventually of even better service.

 

The way of Loneliness:
This works mostly on the mental body and it leads to and through the “dark night of the soul” towards liberation.
Loneliness in my case as it worked out for me helped me to dedicate all my time to service and to try and better myself while I still can. I have nobody and nothing in life that glamours for my attention or that might become a hindrance on my path. Sometimes I feel the loneliness when I think of lost family members but I know that it is all for the better and time moves on. In my case now all that remains is service. I am happy alone and in spirit, and out there in nature, I am never alone. I would not be able to do what I am doing now if I was not alone. For me it is a blessing and I can appreciate the following words of Master DK in his writings:

·         Nothing is left to him but to become his own guide and find his own way home alone.  In the loneliness which is the lot of every true disciple are born that self-knowledge and self-reliance which will fit him in his turn to be a Master.  This loneliness is not due to any separative spirit but to the conditions of the Way itself.  Aspirants must carefully bear this distinction in mind.

 

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