Course XXXI - Teaching 14: Initiatic Tradition
Solar Initiates of First Category are those who convey the Revelation of the Idea-Mother of the entire Race.
This Revelation was conveyed in the beginning of the Aryan Race.
The Teaching cites three names of Solar Initiates of First Category: The Manu, Teti and Noah. But by lack of an absolute history certainty, the identification of these Initiates demands to use always the name of Manu, which means divine lawgiver, and this way the said name takes a general character.
It is out of question that the Solar Initiates dictated the genuine Revelation of the Aryans, but this Revelation was entirely conveyed by only one of Them, and simultaneously repeated by Others.
Solar Initiates of Second Category adjusted the Revelation but did not distort them to those peoples that they had to guide; this transmission was oral, not by writing.
Lunar Initiates, who were disciples of these Solar Initiates, wrote and commented the Revelation in a historic and dogmatic form.
It is totally false that the Revelation was imparted obscurely in the beginning, as certain schools of rationalistic Theology want to state, and that this Revelation was more and more clarified and defined throughout the evolution of peoples and by mental development of men.
The Tradition of the Aryan Initiatic Revelation was conveyed entirely pure by disciples; just further afterwards it grew weaker and was adulterated under pressure of human values, against real values of the early Aryan spirit.
Solar Initiates of Third Category constantly preserved the Tradition and still preserve it. Also they are custodians on the Earth of the secret place where the graphic proof of the Revelation is kept. This is one of the most genuine and ancient teachings and beliefs of Hes’ Sons, that there is a proof of this Revelation, which is unknown to all men.
Solar Initiates of Fourth Category have the mission of renewing and proclaiming the Revelation on Earth. They have to take it out of the debris where false human doctrines buried it, and again they introduce it to the world in its clear, accessible and divine forms.
Sometimes, Great Solar Initiates of Third Category, or their disciples, convey the Revelation or certain aspect of this Revelation, to certain extraordinary souls in a supernatural way, for instance as an astral vision, or intuitively through infuse science.
These Revelations are imparted when they are necessary for Society, for a Work or for a Soul to develop certain mission. Always they are imparted to teach what cannot humanly be known, and to clarify certain obscure points or to further vivify faith and love to God.
Of course, these Revelations are genuine when and if they attest clearly and visibly to the truth, and this is in fact by premonition or by clarifying a formerly unknown idea that later was totally clarified, with no rational analytical deduction.
Rationalistic Theologians deny the value of the Revelation because they say God did not need it to guide the human destinies when already a priori He had pre-destined every event, and God as early as in the beginning of the Eternity had pre-established what had to be done. But this concept would deny immediately, if accepted, the existence of freewill in man, who by Law of Consecutive Predestination has certain field of consciousness in which he alone can determine and make his adaptation possible to the Race, or to his evolution toward a better Race.
So, the Initiatic Tradition of the Revelation is extremely useful to men, and indispensable to achieve the divine plan in the Aryan Race. It is so indispensable that this Aryan Race is in charge of the entire animal destiny and at the same time has a free consciousness of infinite spiritual chances, which even affects both his physical body and his very nature.
Man quickly adjusts himself to extant forms of life by means of the Revelation, and is not subject to slow adjustments of the species.
This Natural Revelation of the Aryans will be strengthened by the Supernatural Revelation that brings immediately man –who is self-conscious– into contact with the Mother-Idea and fundamental deriving ideas through the hereditary gift of brain adjustment, which is racially conveyed by educating the child and by symbolic, cosmogonic and religious teachings that go along with the awakening of consciousness in an Aryan being, avoiding the long process of knowing things by himself alone.
So, any man is morally obliged to know, love and practice the Divine Revelation, and this Divine Revelation, known to him through Tradition, has to lead any man whishing his spiritual liberation.