Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00086)

Jake, I'd like to question the assumptions behind your comment
that we have the teachings, therefore don't need adepts, at least
99.9% of people don't.  While you and I would have drastically
different readings of the term adepts, let's compromise and think
of them as "the most highly spiritually evolved humans" leaving
aside how we'd recognize that or what it means.  Although it may
be true that only one tenth of one percent of people "need" to be
in a formal guru/chela relationship, I'd say that 100% of
humanity needs the visible presence of holiness in such beings in
the world.

The idea of "teachings" as an elaborate and systematic cosmology
and esoteric psychology etc. being what we need from adepts seems
to me to be anachronistic.  Science can give us those and is in
the process of unfolding the mysteries of the universe and the
human mind/body.  What science cannot give us, and spiritually
awakened humans can, is a moral example, a call to our spirits, a
beacon shining upon our future possibilities.  And while to some
extent you can get that from 19th century books, there really
needs to be a visible presence of holiness in the world NOW.

Don't you agree?

Paul