Course XXXI - Teaching 4: Dogma

Dogma is a Truth deduced, or a Mystery, because generally man is unable to understand the Truth as Great Initiates and their disciples understand this Truth: “Clare Visa in Deo”.
Great Initiates establish Dogma through the Mastery of Theology.
In an objective way, Dogma is a dark, invariable and certain sentence synthesizing a revealed Truth. The Doctrine on Dogma explains and affirms a revealed and dogmatized Truth. It is an indisputable starting point that, clarified by the Infuse Light of understanding and inter-related reasoning reflection, deduces other secondary verities potentially contained in the sense of the Dogma.
A Dogma is a revealed truth conceptually established; but this truth can be clarified, deduced and enlarged. Moreover, other verities may emerge from this truth, potentially revealed or still non-revealed until now, but with a revelation potentially prepared in the Divine Mind.
To this purpose, the Mastery of Theology takes a revealed Truth and, by the process of a usual theological work, deduces from that Truth other implicit or potentially contained truth in the Dogma itself.
The Mastery of Theology, from a different rational viewpoint, may have several interpretations and discordant ideas that, when they are defined on the light of the Infuse Knowledge by the Assembly of the Great Initiates, clarify another Truth so far revealed and known.
Students of Theology collaborate with the Great Initiates in establishing secondary definitions of a Dogma, because only They establish a Dogma upon the Earth. By means of secondary definitions of a Dogma, a vague and dark definition becomes a different and real definition –based on ordered and continuous methods– and thence, a conceptual Dogma, an accurate Dogma.
The evolution of a Dogma takes place gradually.
A Dogma is dictated and established by the Great Initiates.
A Dogma is taught and explained by disciples of Great Initiates.
Priests convey a Dogma to the people through images, examples and sacramental sentences.
A Dogma takes root in the people through an established feeling charged by the magnetic faith of the faithful.
A Dogma is defended from the attack of unbelievers by the power of feeling and inner magnetism accumulated by the offering of the faithful.