The Mistery of Belicena Villca
That was what I did uselessly in those days in Egypt , going over various Spiritist Centers and interviewing with numerous Mediums .
The disappointment could not be greater because , in most cases , the Medium was a person of low intellectual capacity , unable to explain clearly the nature of the wonders he starred in , or on the contrary , the Medium was a rogue , too clever to explain and rather willing to surround himself with a halo of " mystery ".
The conclusion I drew from these explorations was summarized in that when the subject was the real protagonist of a Mediumistic phenomenon , he could not exercise any control over it , being in most cases a " moron ". The Writing Medium was not aware of what he was writing , abject situation that nevertheless filled with joy the witnesses who affirmed that this constituted the “ proof ” of the veracity of the prodigy . The same could be said about the other classes of Mediumship .
The Talking Medium , totally " possessed " by the Spirit or " disembodied entity ” – according to Spiritist jargon – spoke , laughed , roared , or contorted before the contemplative ecstasy of the acolytes , as ignorant as foolish . And the Hearing Medium , who aroused my particular interest , heard , not one but a concert of voices . And they invaded him at all times , ordering , requesting or pleading certain actions , often dishonorable or rude . Something depressing that had nothing in common with my superior experience .
Convinced that in this way I would only find the sick or fanatics , I did the most logical thing one can do in such cases : I set out to look for a solution to my problem by using myself , my own analysis and experience .
In this way , rigorously reviewing the psychic processes that culminated with the appearance of the Voice , I verified that the key did not lie in the mental interrogation , in " asking " the Voice this or that . In my confusion , to which contributed , not a little , the contact and the observation of the spiritists , I believed that the Voice was responding to questions posed in my conscience during the meditation . Arbitrarily taking this belief for a truth I concluded that it would be possible to consciously interrogate the Voice , that is , that I would ask and the Voice would respond : Big mistake ... as you will see immediately .
Meditating on all this allowed me to understand that the " interrogation " is an intrinsically rational attitude ; that is , it is only possible to interrogate starting from that ordering that we call reason . Of all existing creatures only man interrogates and does it to know , to obtain knowledge . An expression of his miserable ineptitude and the drama of his ignorance , the interrogation , starting from reason , from his logic , allows him to make inferences , propositions , and establish judgments . But the knowledge obtained exclusively from reason , by questioning the reality of the world , entails a violence and a covered rebellion . The interrogation implies the possibility of the answer and in this implication there is something superb and arrogant . Questions the one who proudly " knows " that he will be satiated in his knowledge . This rebellion , this pride , this arrogance , in short , this violence that underlies the interrogation is , of course , totally useless , since it does not facilitate the liberation of man from its chaining to the illusory forms of matter .
The moral error of the interrogation as a " means of knowing " is evident in all its absurd contradiction when man affirms the " right " to ask , that is , when he establishes that it is legally and morally licit to get knowledge by interrogation . Because if it is licit and even advisable to practice interrogation , without limits or moral fences towards the questioned thing ( no taboos ), we will soon see the man fiercely standing face to face with God questioning him , an absurd possibility that inevitably leads to the denial of God ( atheism ), to confess the impossibility of this question ( agnosticism ) or to the most disturbing hypotheses that are just that , probable answers but not true answers .
The Gnosis , a philosophical current that Belicena Villca referred to quite a lot , affirmed the possibility of " being saved " through knowledge ( gnosis ), but this " knowledge " should not be obtained rationally . As Serge Hutin said : “ The gnosis , possession of the Initiates , is opposed to the vulgar pistis ( belief ) of the simple faithful . It is less a ' knowledge ' than a revelation , secret and mysterious ”. "... The gnosis constitutes , once it has been reached , a total , immediate knowledge that the individual possesses entirely or which it lacks at all ; it is the ‘ knowledge ’ itself , absolute , that encompasses Man , the Cosmos and the Divinity . And it is only through this knowledge --and not by means of faith or works-- that the individual can be saved ”.
There exists then another way to " know " and , although an obscurantist conspiracy has erased Gnosis and its Initiatory Wisdom from Official History , it was in the " gnostic " way that I found the solution to communicate with the voice .
It is that indeed there is a way to obtain knowledge " beyond " reason , without falling into the mechanics of the question and the answer , of the comparison and conclusion , of analysis and synthesis , in short , of dialectics . And it is extremely simple . It consists in disposing the Spirit to
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