Great students who came into this life took
the journey to find their teacher. They had to
make the journey and traverse continents,
cross raging rivers, be a part of villages,
indigenous peoples, highwaymen, robbers,
deceivers, and be afraid of shadows at night.
People speak with absolute certitude about something
them as destiny to the master's house. In the mind of the
they know nothing about. They say, 'You are never going
master, the master picks up that cord and knows they are
to make it. You are going to go there to India or to that
coming. Then the initiation is happening to the student
great mountain. You are never going to make it.' Their
who is going through all these perils and overcoming the
world-view is based upon that house. The moment they
fears of their mind, their world-view, and their thoughts.
take a hundred steps away from their father's house, their
How they thought things were isn't necessarily the way
world-view is about to change.
they are at all. Their father's house has now disappeared.
Great students who came into this life took the
By the time the student arrives, the student's greatest
journey to find their teacher. They had to make the
celebration is that he has found his master teacher and
journey and traverse continents, cross raging rivers,
the master teacher accepts him into the class. A whole
be a part of villages, indigenous peoples, highwaymen,
different work can now begin because the student is
robbers, deceivers, and be afraid of shadows at night.
already here and the deconstructing of his world-view or
What allowed them their connection to find their master
his personality was overcome, which started a hundred
teacher in the great school hidden in the mountains at
yards from his father's house or the hovel he left behind
the roof of the world was abiding that silver cord that
to make the solitary journey to find the Great Work and
kept their mind arriving at their master's house at the
the school.
end of the journey. When they were afraid at night, all
The greatest of our students then would be those who
they thought about was that door opening and entering
really have worked on deconstructing and mastering the
to begin the work of the higher order, the Great Work,
concepts of who they thought they were and changing
to understand themselves in a deeper, more meaningful
in their mind to become who they are. Their ideas don't
way. They are initiates of the Great Work. When their
have to go through the personality anymore. They are
minds went to that imaginative door – not knowing what it
simply ideas that are taken, initiated upon, the body
looks like but knowing that it opens and they get to come
then experiences them in life, and now we have a whole
in – they were able to have a world-view that transcended
different perception. We are two hundred yards outside
the campfire in Turkey outside the forests and being
of our father's house, and we will make it. We will make
robbed, or indigenous people asking where y