The Light of Conscious Beings
The Light of Conscious Beings
Every true teacher must have eyes like the shooting stars and be able to kill a person’s false self without blinking an eye. — Yuanwu Keqin, Buddhist Monk
The esoteric schools of Moses (Judaism), Christ (Christianity), Muhammad (Islam), Confucius (Confucianism), Buddha (Buddhism), Lao Tzu (Taoism), Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (School of Athens) were all schools which originated from the influence of conscious beings. Many of the world religions were sown by the seeds of ancient conscious teachings. Each conscious teaching was fundamentally designed to “Know Thy Self” and produce conscious states in their members, whose methods were passed from teacher to pupil in an oral tradition.
Only when the mind is utterly quiet are the words of the teacher rightly comprehended. — Yoga Vasishtha
The names for conscious teachers vary in different cultures: guru, master, spiritual leader, mentor, guide, mystic, shaykh, lama, but the message is the same. Perhaps the most widely known lineage of teachers in the western world is Socrates (the teacher of Plato); Plato (the teacher of Aristotle).
The lineage of the Fourth Way begins with G.I. Gurdjieff, a conscious Teacher, who traveled and gathered ancient esoteric knowledge from the East. His pupil, P.D. Ouspensky became conscious and codified and published the eastern esoteric teachings of Gurdjieff. Rodney Collin was a student of Ouspensky and became conscious. Toward the end of Ouspensky’s life, Collin reconstructed the teaching that he received from Ouspensky in the book called, “The Theory of Celestial Influence.” Each of these men were taught from someone who had achieved consciousness or enlightenment before him and who shined a lamp to lighten their way.
Each teacher reveals the truth in his own special way, and then he disappears. — Attar
My conscious Teacher comes from the lineage of Fourth Way teachers, and he has expanded the techniques and methods of awakening that were begun by Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Collin and others. Each conscious teacher builds upon and adds another hue or story to the ancient teachings. Yet each is dependent upon the recognition of Influence C or Conscious Influence, which is the ultimate source of knowledge, whose names vary with titles such as God, Divine Being, Celestial Being, the Absolute, etc.
A teacher can only realize himself by sincerely sharing objective knowledge that has been given by higher school. — The Teacher
Teachers pass along their influence in their own unique way, adjusting to their time and place, and guided by what they envision as their task in the world. They themselves are servants to Higher Centers and impart their wisdom from Higher Influence to their students. The objective is the same: to “Know Thy Self,” become unified, and awaken Higher Centers.
They are always inventing new methods, new practices, suitable to the time and conditions in which they exist, and when they have achieved one task which was set them they pass on to another, often changing their name and whole appearance in the process. — Rodney Collin
Recognition of a conscious being does not come from watching them perform miracles or seeing a visible sign of higher consciousness. The irradiations from the transmitter (the Teacher) are perceived by the receiver (the student) from a point of awareness, called the magnetic center in the Fourth Way. Magnetic is a particularly descriptive word to communicate the experience of being drawn to a conscious teaching.
No teacher ever brings a new message, in any galaxy. In Schools, one does not look for different answers, one looks for the same answers. — The Teacher
The experience of recognizing a conscious being is invisible, a perception of resonance with their consciousness, which in turn evokes a higher state. Many study the outer forms that conscious beings leave behind, such as the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the writings of Shakespeare, or the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. Their remarkable legacy, which we perceive through our five senses, had its genesis from conscious influence, and received its sustenance through Higher Emotional and Higher Intellectual Centers. Living in an awakened state was the inspiration for their work and their response to receiving this gift was gratitude shown through their art.
The end crowneth the work. — Queen Elizabeth I
G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky
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