Diplomacy

Esteemed reader friends:

I share with all of you these clarifications hoping that they will help everyone in this interesting question of…

…DIPLOMACY

Hello, dear Master.

For days I have wanted to ask you the following:

1. Would it be possible that one day you would give us all guidance on what Diplomacy is as a value of the Spirit?
2. It strikes me very much that, precisely, the Father of the V.M. Samael has sent him to this world to develop that value, that virtue in particular.
3. Above all, I feel that we need clarification in relation to the differences between true diplomacy, as a superior value, and:
   1. Hypocrisy.
   2. Falsehood.
   3. Dissimulation ─which the Master says is a crime─.
   4. The appearance of things.
   5. Or when, because we want to be sincere, we come and tell everyone the truth to their face, thus falling into intolerance and lack of understanding and respect for our fellow men.
4. It would also be interesting if you could shed light on:
   1. How should or can diplomacy be expressed between a Master and his discipleship?
   2. How should it manifest itself between an instructor and his students, or between the instructors themselves with their colleagues?
   3. How can we gauge this?
   4. What parameters should we observe to know if we are deviating towards the extremes?

I think it is very important that all instructors are very clear about this.

Thank you very much, Master. Hopefully, in due course, you can help us with this issue.

Answers:

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1. Diplomacy is certainly a virtue that prevents the expression of pride, arrogance, anger, intolerance and self-love.
2. The BEING of the V.M. Samael sent him to this world to learn diplomacy ─he told us─ because he knew that in this world it is a non-existent virtue. The current politicians of our world are simply LIARS and DECEIVERS and that is what they call DIPLOMACY. Let us remember the experience that our Patriarch had physically in the time of the inquisitor TORQUEMADA, when, for wanting to show him his state ─of the Master─ of disgust due to the attitudes of Brutus ─reincarnated in the Middle Ages─ and the ineffectiveness of the church as a corrector, then TORQUEMADA ordered the Master to be apprehended, tied to a post and burned alive in that bonfire.
3. Diplomacy has nothing to do with the usual actions of the “I” in terms of DECEPTIVE DISSIMULATIONS, STATES OF FALSEHOOD BEFORE OTHERS, such as when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and there was talk of wanting to seek DEMOCRACY for Japan. That is false. All the Americans wanted was to show the world that they were more “powerful” on the battlefield.

   HYPOCRISY is not diplomacy, because it is based on trying to deceive others with a pose, with a gesture, with phrases that we do not feel in our hearts, etc., etc.

   The APPEARANCE OF THINGS is also another way of cheating/gulling/defrauding our fellow men. Example: When the dictator Ceausescu, in Romania, knew that Western people were going to visit his country ─Romania─, then he had thousands of houses decorated with paintings that gave the impression that the country was doing well, when in fact everyone was suffering from terrible hunger.

   Likewise, SAYING pseudo-truths TO THE FACE OF A FELLOW MAN under the pretext of wanting to appear SINCERE to them is a form of SELF-DECEIT but it is not DIPLOMACY. Human beings love SELF-DECEIT but it is very difficult for them to refine themselves to be careful of the word, thoughts and actions.

4. A Master with his disciples must sometimes be diplomatic so that they do not get burned. Example: On one occasion the Master, in a superior chamber, said to those of us who were there: “I am going to tell you your defects but I will use the names of characters in history because I do not want to offend you.” Then he began to say: “Here we have a Justinian, who is always trying to justify his worst actions against others; we also have a RASPUTIN, who is always looking for sexual opportunities wherever he goes…”, etc., etc., etc. And he went on to name tremendous characters in history.

   However, if a Master has to shake a disciple harshly, he will have no choice but to appeal to the strength of Geburah ─ rigor ─, and probably alone or in front of other disciples he will scold him strongly so that he does not go astray.

   Instructors must be patient and diplomatic with their students. This is achieved when the instructor includes himself as one more who is wrong and warns of the consequences of the error. Why? Well, because the instructor remembers that he has committed these or those mistakes that his students are doing.

   Instructors must be diplomatic with their colleagues, for they must always remind themselves, through self-observation and self-remembrance, that internally the Elder Brothers are thousands of times more diplomatic with all of us.

   These things we can calibrate by expanding self-observation.

   The parameters that we must use to measure ourselves and realize that we are going to extremes are PRUDENCE, PATIENCE, PRIDE, MYTHOMANIA, MEGALOMANIA, ANGER. When we begin to fall into these egoic states it means that we are losing the compass of the inner work.

That is all, dear readers.

I will now give you a few sentences for reflection:

“Diplomacy is the art of winning with elegance and losing with dignity.”
Saavedra Fajardo

“The best diplomat is the one who speaks and says less.”
Oscar Wilde

“The important thing is not to listen to what is said, but to find out what you think.”
Donoso Cortés

“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.”
Bacon

“The better part of valor is discretion.”
William Shakespeare

HIC ET NUNC.
─’Here and now’─.

KWEN KHAN KHU