Dyskusja:Mistyka, Człowieczeństwo i Kultura

Mysticism, Humanity and Culture (U-42)

(1) The three concepts defined by the words mysticism, humanity and culture are very closely related. Humanity, also known as humanism and culture, are the two legs of what is referred to in a deeper dimension as spirituality and at the top as mysticism or gnosis. Mysticism, the path of the initiated mystic, is an ambiguous term describing a deeply spiritual and religious experience consisting of a direct, i.e. independent of rituals, customs, commandments and ceremonies, the relationship of man with the non-material, extrasensory or cosmic and transcendent reality. Mystical reality is understood differently by individual spiritual, religious-philosophical or hermetic systems. In Christianity, Judaism and Islam, mysticism is identical to the experience of God, the Absolute, the Supreme, and the angelic hierarchies. In Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism, with the extrasensory One, are understood perhaps pantheistically or suprapersonally as the true Reality of the world, as spiritual Sat and Sacrum. At the foundation of mysticism, of this mystical depth, lies the practical experience of the possibility of spiritual communion of man with deity, with angels or with the Supreme God (El Elyon), the possibility of freely knowing these “secrets” of existence through “revelation” or gnosis, etc. Religious mystical experience, in comparison with typical esotericism or occultism, speaks less about specific extrasensory knowledge, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, reception of cosmic energy, white magic, etc., and more about experiencing deity and unity with deity as sacrum.

(2) Mysticism is the search for the most direct experience of God, or a life whose goal is union with God, with Brahman, Śiva-Śakti, with the Eternal Heavenly Tao, with El, Elim or Eloah (Allah). Practical mysticism includes spiritual and religious phenomena consisting of direct communication with God or deities, with angels of God. In a more general and basic sense, mysticism, gnosis, is a religious-philosophical direction, making the possibility of communication with God or deity the subject of certain considerations and investigations. In both cases, the existence of a transcendent, immaterial, or even extrasensory reality of the Absolute, Brahman, is a certainty of faith with the character of a starting assumption, of course, for mysticism because mysticism itself is based on direct experience culminating in revelation, i.e. in gnosis as the peak spiritual-religious experience. When practising deep spirituality, mysticism or gnosis, one should be wary of mental retardation in the form of numerous psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists and psychotherapists based on empty materialism and atheism, who in principle reject spiritual and mystical experiences and gnosis, and therefore are unable to investigate, let alone understand, mystical experience, even if they supposedly engage in so-called transpersonal psychology. Atheistic, and in their essence, godless and demonic researchers and therapists can do great harm to people walking the path of spiritual development, people practising spirituality, mysticism or esotericism. The traditional occult and metaphysical prohibition of taking up spiritual and mystical topics with profane, godless or muggles and the prohibition of revealing mystical experiences and gnostic insights to inappropriate and unprepared persons should be observed in such cases as strictly as possible. The esoteric, mystical, spiritual sphere is for esotericists, not for “scientists”.

(3) The mysterious source of mystical knowledge is already indicated by the Greek etymology: μυστικός (mystikos). In English, the family of this word includes, for example, mist (mist) and misty (nebulous), which suggests mystery, contributing to treating this knowledge as extraordinary, intriguing, and sometimes treated as suspicious because it requires examination by a group of mystical and esoteric elders, a higher spiritual council, examination in terms of consistency with ancient insights and revelations, continuity of transmitted inner teaching, moral principles, etc. The existence of a reality inaccessible to the ordinary mundane senses implies the fact of the existence of beliefs about its existence in at least most religions, but the mystical and esoteric layer exists in every large and solid religious tradition, in every human culture, as Kabbalah in Judaism, as Sufism in Islam, as yoga and tantra in the Vedic, Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions, as qigong in Taoism, and as white magic in the culture of Mazdeism or Zoroastrianism of ancient Iran (Persia). Mystical experiences require one’s own work with the help of the Fifth Element, Aether, the Luminosity of Heaven, and the Grace of God or deities and angels. Mystics try to convey by various means - verbally, but also using images, symbols and all means of artistic expression - what is inexpressible and mysterious in their mystical experience. Regardless of the degree of development of his Humanity, man can only devote, accept and fully agree to God’s action in himself through prayer, contemplation, meditation, feeling, and intuition.

(4) In mysticism and gnosis and at higher levels of humanity, the possession of a soul or self plays a fundamental role, and the cultivation of spirituality in the form known as spiritual development is the purification and enlivening of the soul, the awakening of the soul, to the fullness of spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Kabbalistic Judaic mysticism describes five stages of the soul’s development, and Sufism, as the mysticism of Islam, presents even seven states of purification and sanctification of the soul. Buddhism usually mentions three important stages of awakening and enlightenment, three gates or steps towards the fullness of spiritual realization of the true self. The connection and ever deeper unity of the living self with the soul, and the soul with God, the jiva with Atman, and Atman with Brahman is an image of mystical development in the Eastern traditions originating from the Vedic teachings, the so-called Dharmic religions, Vedic, Brahman, Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Smartian or Sikh. The mystical experience of union with God or deity in earthly life takes place during the process of initiation and spiritual development based on the path of initiation (blessings) and continues throughout the entire process of deification or angelization, bright transformation or transfiguration into a being of light, into a being spiritually awakened, increasingly enlightened. Christian mystics, such as Jacob Boehme, Sufi mystics, Taoist mystics or mystics of the Vedic Sanatana Dharma sought this unique state of unity of the soul (self) with the deity or angel in very different ways through intense prayer, asceticism, contemplation and meditation, through deep spiritual devotion.

(5) Mysticism is a supra-sensory and supra-rational religious experience based on personal contemplation, prayer, meditation and ascetic practices. Mysticism also causes moral development to rise to higher levels of humanity so that there is more and more Man as the Image of the Deity is in the human essence of the practitioner of mystic, the initiated. There is no spirituality, spiritual development, mysticism, gnosis or esotericism if there is no growth of humanity, growth manifested by raising people to higher levels of observance of the Commandments of God. If followers of religion are required to maintain the minimum level of guidelines and principles of ethical life or morality, a mystic is required to do much more, and what is still acceptable among ordinary people and tolerated in Muggle and profane societies is often not tolerated or accepted in spiritual, ascetic and mystical communities, becoming a forbidden evil in esoteric and hermetic communities. Higher morality and lesser licentiousness are the signs of the culture of a spiritual person, a mystic, a Gnostic or an esotericist. Spirituality and higher moral culture are the signs of true mysticism. There is, therefore, no coming to spiritual development, spirituality or mysticism, esotericism, gnosis and occultism to spread demoralization, licentiousness, deviations and perversions or the pathology of psychedelic drug taking of toxic substances causing depravity and degradation of the brain or adapting to the demonic habits of dark beings who have fallen into, for example, drunkenness or consuming what spiritual people and mystics avoid to develop the purity of the aura, ćakras and mind.