 |
QUIMBY AMENTI FOUNDATION |
|
QUIMBY AMENTI FOUNDATION
Introduction
|
CONTENTS |
There is increasing recognition that to respond effectively to life and to
today’s challenges, we need a radical change in the way we think. External
events pressure us to awaken to a deeper level of spiritual and psychological
integration. The pressure for change is also felt as an internal phenomenon. As
if a timer went off within us, we feel a soul impetus to awaken and embrace our
holiness as the central theme of our existence. We may feel this impetus as a
sense that there is more to life, as a call to service or spiritual awakening,
as realization that we can make a difference, a deeper appreciation of life and
its beauty. |
Our evolution is a means of making our physical reality congruent with spiritual reality. We might say that the imperative of our creation is to actualize "heaven on earth" by transforming our "earth" into "heaven." To accomplish this, we must awaken and rely upon our soul faculties.
What is a mystery school?
In the cosmology of the ancient mystery schools, the self was holy, the natural link to the universal holiness that contained and nurtured all life. Students were presented with wisdom and practices that awakened the senses and cognition of the soul. Trials and tribulations provided the purification that transformed psychological distortions, limiting beliefs, and blockages that inhibited the creative flow of spiritual energy. Various initiations provided direct linkage to transcendental sources of understanding, healing and grace. Life itself was their textbook, revealing the mysteries by reflecting the inner worlds through the metaphor of living, and the change of relationships. This cosmology is also true today.
The mystery schools formed the milieu out of which the great religions of the world developed. The great teachers such as Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tze, Hermes, Quetzalcoatl, Melchizadek, Rumi are examples of individuals who had merged with the universal Holiness to varying degrees. They each were part of the mystery school tradition, renewing and transforming the schools into which they were born. Each had a differing mission, some as world teachers and messiahs, others to preserve the teaching or to prepare the way.
Understanding the deeper mysteries requires a degree of preparation and development. For that reason the schools presented an inner and outer teaching. This left each lineage vulnerable to political influence. Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist teaching, for example, retain a degree of their depth. Christianity, though profound in its inception, divested itself of its mystery school associations at the Council of Nicea in 320 A.D. This did not end the Christian mystery school. It merely split the school into a political, official church and an esoteric underground. Gnostic enclaves preserved some of the teachings.
The mysteries are meant to be the auspices of the Divine, not the tool of politicians. However, the initiated politician is a blessing to humanity. The Holy Spirit opens ready hearts and minds to its ways. Initiates in one lifetime reincarnate, to teach again in a new life. The truth, in all its variations, cannot be stopped, because it is in the fabric of life and in the souls of humanity. The Quimby Amenti Foundation provides an environment and teachings that enable individuals to participate in and become agents of this spiritualization of human culture.
