Mystical enthusiasm

Dearly beloved readers:

I am very pleased to send you this document that I wrote many years ago, when we were beginning our doctrinal expansion. We have entitled it…

…MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM

1. Mystical enthusiasm is a basic ingredient in the permanent search for the BEING.
2. It is such enthusiasm that opens to us the doors of ideas, superior archetypes, the COMPREHENSION of the Gnostic work and the corresponding continuity of purposes.
3. In order to find mystical enthusiasm it is necessary first of all to have “LONGINGS TO BE” and such longings must become the secret spring of every action, thought, desire.
4. PESSIMISM is the fundamental enemy of MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM. Such pessimism is the product of countless defeatist thoughts, frustrated yesterdays, projects not continued, ambitions not fulfilled, etc. Pessimism feeds itself day after day, subconsciously adding to our impoverished psyche new recriminations of a fatalistic and one hundred percent DEFEATIST kind.
5. When the devotee of an esoteric or metaphysical path has too much SELF-ESTEEM, he is an easy prey to defeatist thoughts, since he has always been “self-enclosed” in dreams of glory, power, fame, prestige, etc., even in the spiritual field.
6. The student who learns the technique of CONSTANT DENIAL of himself, makes a shield, a hermetic seal before which neither praise nor reproach can penetrate.
7. Behind all vainglory there is a false mystical enthusiasm that does not come from the BEING but rather from the desire for power, protagonism or EGOCENTRISM, characteristics of the hunting mind.
8. Authentic MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM is profound and does not demand external recognition from others, but rejoices in its own inner bliss and often covers itself with the garb of silence.
9. It is necessary to understand that every pessimistic thought or desire has three stages of operation:
   • a. APPEARANCE OF THE THOUGHT in itself because of an unpleasant untransformed impression
   • b. Connection of such THOUGHT with other states of mind related to their nature, for example: memories of similar situations that occurred some time ago, self-love wounded by this new impression, feeling of guilt, of inadequacy before others, etc. It is at this moment that this egoic bundle becomes stronger and seeks to project itself into action through words, blows, signs of anguish on the face, displeasures, suicidal desires, etc., etc. Usually, every person gives his strength, will and firmness to this mental representation and, as an inevitable consequence, takes for reality what is basically a tremendous UNREALITY.
   • c. GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE of the control of the EGO over us after having sucked the energies of our organic machine from us. Possibly, if we have not identified much with such a bunch of psychic aggregates, it is nevertheless replaced by other, apparently more interesting impressions.
10. The most important thing is, above all, to recognize in the face of a pessimistic state the banality of everything that happens with regards to what we call LIFE.
11. To profoundly and constantly recognize that only that which we call THE BEING possesses SUPREME REALITY. This also means to absolutely not give any importance to what is normally attributed exaggerated value or which is insubstantial.
12. From this recognition, little by little, the primordial love for the divine springs forth, and in the search for that which is divine, the words, thoughts, actions, desires take on another nature, and an authentic inner and outer metamorphosis begins to be felt in the devotee.
13. Thus the mystical enthusiasm is nourished by the force of actions, and it is this primal force that really constitutes the superior ethics and the supreme will of the aspirant to the Light.
14. We can then summarize:
    • a. There is no MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM if there is no longing to Be.
    • b. True MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM is not external but internal, although it is reflected in the continuity of purposes.
    • c. MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM is maintained and nourished every day by the constant transvaluation of the teaching practiced by the aspirant.
    • d. Authentic MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM is extracted from the firmness that we can maintain in the face of the hurricane of egoic illusion.
15. With MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM we accept every process to which we have to be subjected.
16. To live in plenitude means to keep the heart, the mind and our organic machine tied to the CHARIOT of MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM. This is possible by never losing sight of the capital factor for which we came into existence and which comes to be to stop being EGO so as to REACH THE BEING.
17. In the constant intimate surveillance of our mental functionalisms, we discover the tremendous force of the EGO working from within, always seeking our abandonment of the REAL PATH.
18. 18. The real Man is the fruit of the tremendous determination of renouncing himself in order to integrate himself with the divine. This renunciation involves many things:
    • a. His ordinary and mechanical concepts.
    • b. His prestige as a “know-it-all”.
    • c. To be the center of his home, office or circle of friends.
    • d. The values of his personality.
    • e. The overconfidence in his material possessions.
    • f. The egoic self-justification, whether verbal, mental or in action.
19. Now we can understand why, in the apparent absence of material goods and comforts, many mystics achieved their goals, managing not only to elevate spiritually, but even to levitate physically. This was the product of the infinite mystical ardor that consumed them intimately, a factor connected to the development of the heart chakra.
20. In this flow of TRANSCENDENTAL MYSTICAL ENTHUSIASM, the BEING unfolds His different energetic aspects, and the mystic becomes a poet, philosopher, artist, religious and a scientist. BEHOLD THE SUPERMAN IN ACTION…..

I now send you some sentences that I consider interesting to reflect on, let us see:

“Fear is natural in the prudent, and to know how to overcome it is to be courageous.”
Alonso de Ercilla

“Christian courage consists in disdaining death, Chinese courage consists in disdaining life.”
Chesterton

“A pound of courage is worth more than a ton of luck.”
Bretón de los Herreros

“True courage does not seek dangers, it faces them.”
Plutarch

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”
Shakespeare

VIVERE MILITARE EST.
─’To live is to fight’─.

KWEN KHAN KHU