Easy to Institutionalize Mummery – Inadvertently

 

 

I hope you all also have some understanding of how my circumstance is like that of Raymond Darling and what is the nature of your devotion and of your participation in the culture of Adidam and how you as a culture and institution and so forth relate to Me.

How is it like Raymond being confined by Evelyn and the members of Saint-and-Ear? This of course is fundamental to the lesson in The Mummery Book. It is a Revelation book of Mine that I call on devotees to take seriously on many levels and relative to countless matters, including everything about the relationship to Me that you actually live, and that you presume culturally, and that you maintain through various institutional means.

You are listening to My Perfect Practice Teaching, in some sense illegitimately, as Evelyn receives the Teaching on the Perfect Way from Raymond by approaching Him secretly at the state mental facility where Evelyn and the others at Saint-and-Ear are keeping Raymond. What kind of circumstance is that for someone calling himself or herself a devotee, to approach one he or she calls Master?

And how is that situation like the one in which you are approaching Me in which you are effectively confining Me, in fact. What are the circumstances in which YOU are receiving My Teaching? What rightness of relationship to Me do you actually live and uphold as an individual, as a culture, collectively, and as an institution with many different modes of responsibility?

What does it actually amount to? What is the circumstance in which you are receiving this Blessing, this Revelation, this Teaching? Is it right? Is it legitimate? Can you rightly claim to be My devotee? Are you relating to Me rightly, correctly, through gifts, appropriately. Or are you like a member of Saint-and-Ear?

I call you to consider this very seriously, even as a basic fundamental consideration of this culture, this gathering, on a constant basis because the errors of egoity as they may be enacted on Me as your declared Master, those errors are always at hand. If you enter into some kind of collective indifference or agreement that corresponds to those errors, then you have institutionalized falsehood and wrong relationship to Me.

So these Five Issues with Me and so on are about correcting yourselves and not indulging in falseness in relation to Me. Even though you may be false in relation to Me you still have access to My Perfect Teaching and to Me, and you may claim to benefit from this access, from this reception of Instruction.

How much of it is true? And what of it is not true? You should consider this and inspect what you do in relation to Me, because it’s easy to create a prison for Me here by coming into some kind of collective agreements that inadvertently institutionalize Narcissus and call it Adidam. It is easy to institutionalize mummery, which is what Narcissus makes when he becomes many. And mummery is a prison house, a state mental facility for Me. I can’t live with it, and I can’t get away from it.

So if you’re having access to Me and to My Teaching including My Perfect Practice Teaching and you’re doing so on the basis of similar, in any respect, similar to what is going on at Saint-and-Ear in The Mummery Book, or what is going on in this text I’ve begun to introduce to you, in the secret meetings wherein Evelyn exploits Raymond and His imprisonment, an imprisonment enforced by Evelyn himself—if there’s anything about this that is true of you, that is factual about you, you must correct it.

Among the things you must correct, then, is false views about yourself altogether. You can, by simply listening to My Teaching, all its modes, including My Perfect Practice Teaching, enter into a kind of presumption that you are actually realizing this Truth—that you are somehow, because the mind is operative and the statement is clear to your understanding, it’s easy to imagine that somehow it’s just true of you.

And you may not make speeches to others or speeches to Me in making claims of that kind, or you might. It’s been done. But you may think that way, imagine in your inner room that it’s true of you, that Realization is true of you, that you are far, far beyond the beginning, you don’t have to fulfill the conditions of the beginning, the conditions of right devotion to Me, right discipline according to My Instruction, and so forth. You can somehow bypass that and yet something about ultimacy is true of you, you may imagine. Something is spiritually true of you, something is true of you in the Perfect Practice sense, the Perfect Realization sense.

The ego-I, Narcissus, is of such a nature, is of the nature of mind and is easily convinced of its own illusions of virtue and of Realization.