[Helpers] mystery schools essay.

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

Mystery Schools
  Judging Occultism as an inferior path is showing lack of faith in Divine 
Will.  Limitless manifestation needs every kind of people, Witches and 
Buddhi both.  All roads lead to Rome, because K. is stronger than any 
temporary beliefs in limitation.  Brainwashing doesn't work, on Kundalites, 
in the long term.  Attempts to persuade only bring up Karma to be washed 
away, and then you have a shiny clean brain that sparkles with light.
I tend to think some of what is labelled "occult" mysticism tends to get a 
bad rap because it is taken out of context and misunderstood.  "Occult" is 
just another word for "secret", and folks usually keep secrets because they 
expect to be misunderstood.  They will be too, because most Kundalites 
know, the words of religion are codes for experiential knowings that cannot 
really be described in words, only approximately pointed at.  The Infinite 
is bigger than all of our ideas about it.
It is really only the workings of the lower chakras that fit readily into 
"Teaching", the higher ones are indescribable...  yet in my comparative 
studies of world religions, it really does seem like "All roads lead to 
Rome".  The paths may be different, but the destination is the same.
When the Student is ready, the Teacher appears.  Students choose their 
teachers, and attract to themselves the experiences they need.
In typical Mystery Schools, the novice student is taught a lot of signs and 
symbols, where each candle goes or the proper way to recite the mantras, or 
approach the book or wave the incense.  Students always make easy things 
hard, and faith is at first built by experience.
If the students already believed in themselves, they would not be attending 
a Mystery school.  So, at the first level faith is placed in externals, 
rituals and Gods.
The steps of thought-word-deed are taken and various manifestations are 
created, so the student begins to believe in Magic.  The veil begins to 
thin.  At this level, entities and Old Gods are revered by the student, but 
are also used as "Astral Baby sitters" by the teacher.  They are chosen in 
resonance with the student's personality type, or they present themselves 
and are tested.  Because astral entities live "close to home", they are 
able to get the student's attention in the physical and support them with 
positive reminders 24/7 where a human teacher in linearity cannot.
Contact with them is good ESP practice, and a sharpening stone for 
fledgling discernment.  Students keep a diary of the contact and share it 
with the Teacher, who monitors it, and checks intuitively to make certain 
the entities are being good baby sitters and not playing too many 
pranks.  Interpreting the information for the student.  Lessons and pranks 
taught by entities are always reflected of the student's own issues, and 
thus they can be very instructive in bringing out the student's weak points 
and Karmic issues to be resolved.  The student is learning to navigate the 
astral realms, and the entity plays tour guide and bodyguard.  The astral 
is the playground where personal issues are manifested to be resolved, just 
as some Kundalites experience a lot of their process thru dreams.
Better there, than in the "real world".  They learn to focus the power of 
their free will into manifestation, and they learn to surrender to higher 
guidance.  By that combination, they learn "be careful what you pray for", 
by observing their results.  The monkey mind ego is given a supervised 
chance to play with the power of manifestation, so it can understand 
experientially that it's not smart enough to do that, and life works better 
if you let the Infinite Mind make the decisions.
At the initiation to the second Degree, the student is told that most of 
the dogmatic stuff from in the first level no longer matters, and it 
doesn't matter where the candles go...  they can forget it, because it was 
only scaffolding to build faith, and now the faith is built, the 
scaffolding can be dismantled as much as the student is comfortable 
with.  The focus is turned towards the student's own inner light and 
wisdom, which at this point is manifesting more strongly than their self 
doubt.  The balance of faith has been increased, and insecurity has 
decreased.
The Old Gods and archetypes are universal on the collective level of the 
unconscious.  An second level the Students understand that they are equals 
with the Old Gods and relate to them differently...  getting to know many 
of them, to understand the aspects of consciousness they represent, as 
reflections of themselves.  They still treat them with respect, as a 
teacher one has graduated from...  they are continuing to learn respect for 
all creatures, good manners and spiritual responsibility...  but they are 
now "above" the entities, in that they recognise that the entities have 
limitations that an embodied human spirit does not have.
Attaining third degree may take many years, but the initiation is 
essentially a recognition that the person has become a vessel of the 
Divine.  The ritual generally includes a ritual death, which may be simply 
a change of name, or something more elaborate.  The ritual death breaks a 
lot of attachments, and generally serves to clear most of the remaining 
Karmic issues, or at least to turn them loose, and synchronous life events 
will bring them up to be resolved within the year or so, following.
A Master is considered worthy to start their own Mystery School or Ashram 
or Coven or type of Yoga, because they have become a clear vessel of Divine 
Will and wisdom.  They are free to use or discard what they have been 
taught, as Spirit moves them.  They are not bound by the rituals and dogma 
that were the crutches of faith to get them to surrender themselves.
"Occult" Mystery Schools have their own explorations of polarity, and 
duality.  Generally they teach students the power of their own free will, 
first, to get them past the cultural victim attitudes and into a healthy 
self-confidence.  Most students who would attend an "occult" Mystery School 
are not necessarily seeking enlightenment.  More likely they are seeking 
power.  However, Goddess always wins...  power is a carrot, that draws them 
in, but they find surrender pretty quick when they get a taste of power, 
and discover what goes around comes around.  Then, they learn the wisdom of 
surrendering the choices their free will would make, to Divine Will.
As I say, it is only the lessons of the lower chakras that can be 
taught.  Once an individual has healthy self confidence.  awareness of the 
power of thought and perception, and is grounded in the wisdom of 
surrender, they are well prepared to have the K-fire itself carry them thru 
the wordless mysteries of the higher knowledge.
I try to speak to people in words and paradigms they can 
comprehend.  According to what is in their path, as best I can "read" it 
with my intuition.
Kundalini has often been compared to Schizophrenia, and the therapy for 
Schizophrenics is to support them in their process, give their impulses and 
delusions approval and validation so they remain in a positive state, and 
not judge them or try to change their passing obsessions with aggressive 
intervention.  Their own unconscious knows what it is doing, better than a 
hundred psychiatrists, and with gentle support the process completes itself 
and an old damaged ego is gently traded for a shiny new whole one.
I think it is the same with K.
Kundalites are generally led to the list by synchronicity, and that same 
synchronicity will always make sure they get whatever their process needs, 
in the moment.