Chapter 11: Beyond Doubt The Urgency of the
Teaching A talk by Da Free John DA FREE JOHN: If you want to learn about Truth when Truth
has become corrupted, then go to an Adept. Go to one who has
Realized the Truth. Go to one who has already fulfilled the
process completely. If you live in a moment in time when
there is no Enlightened Tradition, when all the cults are
corrupt, you can be certain that somewhere on Earth an Adept
is alive. Such a person appears under exactly those
conditions, when Truth is no longer visible in the cults,
and when religions have become so corrupted by history and
fetishism that they are about to become extinct. The religious traditions in our time are about to be
smothered by a mechanistic, political, and scientific world
view, only because the cults are in doubt. They have held on
to their fetishes so tenaciously that they have lost their
association with the Living God. They do not even know the
Living God anymore. Most people who belong to conventional
churches, religions, and spiritual societies have no
unqualified connection with the Living Reality. There is no
true devotion in them, and, therefore, no Realization. Their
association with God is only words and hopefulness.
Therefore, they do not represent a living force in the
world. They have nothing to offer that is Alive. Only the
Adepts, who are God-Realized, through whom the living Power
of God manifests, can make a difference in human time. Such
individuals are the instruments for the acculturation of
humanity. Periodically, such individuals must appear, and they must
be influential. There is a notion that Adepts should be
hiding in caves in the wilderness. This is not true. If the
Adepts do not speak, the only voice that will be heard is
that of ordinary people who are not God-Realized. The Adepts
are the Sources of spiritual life. Such individuals must
therefore enter into the stream of society, to purify the
culture and reestablish the process of God-Realization. If
they do not speak and become influential, there is no hope
at all for humanity. We exist in a moment in time when the cults are
universally corrupted. Thus, it is a time for Adepts and
true devotees to reappear if there is to be any hope for the
future of human beings. We are about to be swallowed up in
anti-cultism, anti-Godism, anti-religion, anti-spirituality.
The impetus or force behind this movement against the true
culture of Man, which is a God-Realizing culture, is largely
the reaction to cultism. The cults, which should be a means
for establishing people in a right relationship to the
Living God, have become frozen in their idolatry, fixed in
their association with their historical peculiarities and
limitations, and they do not represent a window to the
Living God anymore. They represent a piece of mind frozen in
the form of words and imagery and histories of all
kinds. Intelligent people cannot find God in such a mass of
idiocy, so quite naturally they look for satisfaction
elsewhere. Thus, people are preoccupied with all kinds of
political and scientific idealism, as if politics and
scientific and technological progress were the Way of Truth.
They are absolutely not the Way of Truth. They never have
been the Way of Truth. They are no more the Way of Truth
than sex or any other satisfaction or fulfillment of
function. None of that is the Way of Truth at all. It is the
ordinary impulse of the ego, glamorizing itself by great
enterprises. If this trend toward political and scientific obsession
is to be broken, some light must be brought to the whole
affair of spiritual and religious understanding. The
conventional, exoteric cults must be purified. They must
give up their primacy. Their legitimacy must come into
doubt. Then the Teaching of Adepts, the Sources of Truth,
will again become available, and the Living Reality will
again become obvious, obliging human beings to a different
way of life than the ego proposes. If not, the world will be overwhelmed. It is almost
inevitable now that it will be overwhelmed in any case. The
world, even the Realm of Nature as a whole, is founded on a
righteous Principle. Therefore, the world will be purified,
without a doubt. The Force of the Divine pervades
everything, and, therefore, It also purifies everything in
one way or another. If human beings, while they have the
benign capacity to enter into God-Communion, will not do so,
but instead create a corrupt culture, a subhuman order, then
the purification will not occur within the ordinary and
benign course of natural processes. It is then no longer a
matter of some Adepts saying a holy word or speaking the
Truth whereupon everybody changes his or her approach to
life. It would be good if as many as possible could hear the
universal Teaching of Truth and respond to it. But if the
Teaching alone is not sufficient, then great upheavals
necessarily occur. That is how the righteous Law works. It
is not just that we pay our dues for past activity. A
righteous Principle is positively at work, constantly to
purify and to reestablish order. Thus, there are periods of great negative upheaval in the
world, including natural disasters, wars, and conflicts of
all kinds. On the one hand, during these periods, the world
pays its dues for failing to live by the Law. On the other
hand, these times of upheaval are the evidence of a
continuous process of purification. They are themselves a
demonstration of the Law. At the end of these periods, the
Law is reestablished in righteousness. It is very likely that we are entering into such a time
of upheaval, because of the extent of the failure of human
culture. There is simply no light abroad in the world today.
There is nothing but corruption, nothing but the failure to
accept the Way of God. There is absolutely no sign of the
Way of Truth, except in rare instances of individuals and
small groups of people. The Truth is essentially hidden and
secondary. There is a long history of corruption in every
area of human life, and the entire social structure of the
world is devoted to subhuman ends and forms of
self-indulgence. There are no signs of an imminent Golden
Age in the disposition or condition of humanity at large.
Rather, the signs are of the necessity for a great
purification, a great reestablishment of order, a righteous
readjustment of the whole world.
