Blessed be you if you can lay eyes on any one of the luminaries for your karma will change and your path will be straightened.
Great blessings if you dedicate yourself to serve a luminary for the karma of many future lives will be changed and the Way will become clear to you.
It is not easy to know when you meet one of these. They do not remain in one place for too long and they are elusive, deceptive to your understanding of holiness, and incongruous to human understanding. Did the Lord announce his Christhood? Did he say, call me Master? Did the Lord live in palaces or monasteries? Did He own many horses, gilded camels, and bright robes? Did priests and kings elevate the Lord as the Great One the luminaries have talked about for so many years? I say to you, only the silent eastern masters knew him and kept him.
But for a few hundred spirits abiding in simple lives the world did not know him until it was too late to serve Him hand and foot. Moreover, did the Lord ask for hand and foot servants? Did the Lord admit or deny it when asked whether He be the Blessed One? Even the greatest Incarnation in human history went along all over the world, mainly unrecognised.
How precious your chance to happen on a luminary, but how little faith. Never cease to expect one at a most inopportune time, place, and shape and remain ready to serve should you be awake at that moment. Remain alert, and do not be deceived by worldly values.
How easy to follow a charlatan!
See in your mind-s eye a meeting of seniors possessing great powers, great wisdom, but are falling in error and seek only satisfaction of selfish desires.
364) Armed with magic tricks of low value these dark ones set out to deceive children of lesser ability.
How easy for children to look upon these as gods or teachers. How easy for children to be in awe of tricks, robes, gilded camels and palaces.
Such is the nature of the purpose of life, to learn the difference between truth and falsehood, reality and illusion.
- And this teaching: Good and evil are realities exclusive to human souls, being those souls granted the powers of free will. …………………..