Difficulty and a Helping Hand
November 14 , 2023
Difficulty and a Helping Hand……..
The path to self-realization is sometimes represented as a difficult journey in solitude. This is however decidedly untrue, for it is only one side of the matter. It is so depicted by workers such as Krishnamurti, because they found that countless people cling in a negative way to authorities, authorities on the horizontal plane only, who themselves do not fulfil even the most elementary requirements of the true life.
Christ’s words: “If anyone goes with Him one mile, He shall go with them two miles”, elucidate most clearly the two sides of the one truth. By completely standing in self-realization, by spontaneously going the path without regard for the outcome, without worrying about consequences and difficulties, we invoke that absolute help from all who have been received into the gnosis circle. From them and through them the powers of the faculties, offices and tasks stream towards us.
As a saying from the Sermon on the Mount expresses: ‘But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well’. The human being who, by going the path, gives proof that he truly seeks the Kingdom of God will find that the entire light of the gnosis, in all its various radiations, will become his or hers; at first transformed by others, as we shall explain, then directly and absolutely at first-hand. And what is thus received benefits the entire microcosmic system, and thus likewise the physical body.
As understood by this nature, our microcosm is ill. That is why we must all follow the path of sanctification. Sanctification means becoming whole, being healed, recovering. We would like to speak about this sanctification, this healing in its practical application. The human being who goes the path, goes the way of the cross, the way of eternal and absolute recovery. And the power he receives is equal to the cross he bears.
Extract from Chapter III-3 “The Gift of Healing”
Jan van Rijckenborgh