False masters

The Xmas legend

Sometimes I wonder if there is something like a false master.

In the bible there is the devil, Satan who tempts the people and leads them astray. But at a closer look and I do not recall having it read in the bible, the devil is a fallen angel. Actually he is the second in command of the creation. Its Latin name is Lucifer often translated as the light giver, light bringer or similar translations.

Of course this was its angelic name!

Let us leave the mystic aside and have a closer look and modern times. Almost any church, sect or cult has either a bad "guy" who tries to mislead the followers, or the followers are warned not to leave the proper way or they would pay with damnation. For some time I was thinking that this is necessary to have followers or else no one would follow a "master" who says "I only can guide you on a short way".

On the other side in business and crafts/vocations we know that we need different masters to really learn a craft. In school we find it normal to have several teachers until we reach a certain level of knowledge.

But look at our religious options. What is offered to us? Ask yourself!

No modern sanitation, not modern transportation, no modern communication. We follow a path where the Promised Land is less developed that the least of our least developed countries in this world. (No wonder we all are scared to die).

We follow a teaching which teaches us to be meek to be like sheeps, following the one in front of us.

I understand that a religion, cult or sect has to be for the people, the teaching has to be understood! I also understand that this could mean that a religion only covers one page in the big book of life.

This is not necessarily bad. If we learn a craft we start by learning one technique a time. This is more or less also how I see our spiritual education. I am not a master and I understand that I am not ready to serve as a master. But I also can see that our ego likes to think it is ready and that it deserves to be recognized.

I admit to be able to gather followers is a step on the way to mastership, and everybody who runs a facebook or Google+ page knows that is not an easy step.

But should we be busy finding followers or should we be busy exploring the fastness of the spiritual reality?

To be continued...