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The roots of these teachings go back thousands and thousands of years. However, we will explore this System for the Research of Truth, as recently brought forward by Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis of Cyprus also known as Daskalos. Before beginning the research in to these teachings we should have a clear idea of what is our aim. There is a direction to our approach. Yet inherent with any aim or direction is an expectation of what is to come. The problem is that our expectations color and limit our experience of Reality. Historically, the common approaches to God, the Absolute Infinite Reality, was a solitary path or through an organization or religion. Addressing these approaches the 10th century Sufi mystic and poet, Niffari, wrote: “If you cast yourself into a sea, without any guidance, this is full of danger, because man mistakes things which arise within himself for things arising elsewhere.” This is a danger in approaching the Absolute Infinite Reality alone and with no real idea of where we are headed. Niffari continues: “If, on the other hand, you travel on a sea in a ship, this is perilous, because there is danger of attachment to the vehicle.” This is a danger in approaching the Absolute Infinite Reality via the vehicle of an orthodox religion or organization. Niffari concludes with: “ In the one case, the end is not known, and there is no guidance. In the other case, the means becomes an end, and there is no arriving.” Alternatively, the teachings of the Researchers of Truth offers a system by which each one of us can approach and experience Truth directly. This is a system and not an organization you join. In this system rather than a hierarchy of teachers and gurus what you will find are loving brother and sister guides to help you along your way. These guides never stand between you and God. Instead they stand at your side during the great, great journey of awakening. Their help never attempts to dominate or limit your free will, which is one of the most important gifts from God. These guides are both on earth and in the worlds beyond. The service they offer to all human beings in the Worlds of Existence addresses the triadic nature of human existence. These three natures are the physical, emotional and mental - the expressions of our personalities. No one person or system can claim exclusivity to the Truth. The truth belongs to all and all belong to the truth. There is no prohibition in the research for the truth and we are free to learn from other systems. By comparing what other enlighten masters declared we can draw closer to the truth. Yet within this system you will find everything contained in other systems and much more. Initially as a Researcher of Truth, we learn to work within ourselves to restore and maintain the health of our material body. We work to calm emotional distress and to clear our mental confusion. We work to cleanse and harmonize ourselves physically, psychically and noetically. This restores balance and purifies our personality. Balancing ourselves we are then better able to assist those in need around us. Healthy and balanced expressions of body, emotion and thought is truly a wonderful achievement. Yet, this is not the full aim of this system. The real aim of our system is Self Realization. By Self Realization, we do not mean just realizing our present-day personality, our little self and its transitory expressions in the Worlds of Existence. This is a necessary beginning but not the real aim. By Self Realization, we mean the full and complete awareness of our Self as Spirit-Soul. Our approach to the Truth engages us fully in both the esoteric teachings and the esoteric practices of our system. The esoteric teachings provide a theoretical framework and suggest a way to approach the Absolute Truth through the relative truth. While the esoteric practices empowers our movement along this pathway. Both are necessary to reach our aim of Self Realization. In future lessons, we will begin our work with both the teachings and the practices. However, before moving directly into this work, here is a little background on the linage of the Researchers of Truth. Our roots could be said to extend some 3300 years into the past when Monotheism (Belief in One God) was first introduce on Earth by Pharaoh Ankhenaton and his hierophants in Ancient Egypt. Yet the Truth behind all Earthly expressions of Truth is, was, and always will be - Eternal. The direct linage of the Researchers of Truth is traceable back 2000 years. Long before Christ was born, Buddha in India told his disciples, ‘I am not God but God himself will be born five hundred years from now’. Five centuries later the Maharaja Ram Touaivahan, a king in India, aware of this prophecy, began to follow the coming of Christ and the location of His birth through clairvoyance. So certain of the coming of this incarnation of God, the Maharaja Ram left his kingdom to his brother and with his friend Chekitana departed India to find the Christ child. On their way, they passed through Armenia. In Armenia, Ram meet one of its kings, Kaspar (Caspar or sometimes called Gasper) who decided to go with the Ram on this sacred pilgrimage. Later in the desert, they met Baal Das Oaussar (Balthasar), an Arab astrologer and king of one of the nine nomadic Bedouin tribes. Baal Das Oaussar also joined Ram and Kaspar to search for the Christ child. They eventually saw the bright star of Bethlehem and found the stables and became known as the three wise men, the three kings or the three Magi as mentioned the Bible. “The three kings, Ram, Kaspar and Oaussar paid homage to the Christ child, Joseph and Mary. Maharaja Ram knelt before the child, removed his outer purple and golden cloak and laid it at the Christ child’s feet, revealing his inner white garments. He drew his sword, pressed it over his leg breaking off the end. He placed the un-pointed sword before the Child God and said, ‘At thine immaculate feet O Logos, be all authority’.
After Ram broke the sword and presented it to the Christ child he also spoke, ‘Ham El Khior’ which in his Sanskrit language meant ‘We see God’. From that point, the Maharaja Ram became known as Ham El Khior (Melchior). The Epiphany (Greek word meaning ‘appearance’) as celebrated in the Western churches commemorates the revelations of Christ to the Gentiles as portrayed in the coming of the three Magi. The Eastern churches celebrate Epiphany, also called the “Twelfth Night or Twelfth Day”, on January 6 - The is the commonly accepted date of the visit of the Magi to the Christ child. The celebration of Epiphany is much older than the celebration of Christmas as it dates back to around 194 AD. The three Magi presented their gifts as mentioned in the Bible, returned to their homeland, and founded the Circles for the Research of Truth. This lineage, although called by others names in the past, has been initiating sincere seekers of truth into these circles from that time forward. From then until now these circles have carried forward the teachings of Esoteric Christianity through the ages. Warm wishes for the holidays! Love to all,
Daniel
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"How can we, as human beings now, find our real nature? Isn't our real nature (the Spirit-Soul-Self) able to make us understand our real Self? How can the boundless be limited? How can the imperishable become the perishable? "It is the Present-Day-Personality that must open up, extend and develop that little self-consciousness to the levels of its real inner nature and reach, what we call, Self-realization. "Many make the mistake (and this mistake was made even by some pupils of our system, the Researchers after the Truth) to think that Self-realization means knowing the Present-Day-Personality as it is. They made the mistake to think that their Self is only their personality (the material, psychical and noetical bodies). When I say Self-realization I don't mean that. Of course, you must start from this point - to analyze and know your Present-Day-Personality. "But then, step forward and say "I am not only that. I am something more." This means - After becoming the master of my material body, the master of my emotions (psychical body) and my thoughts (noetical body), I must break the mirror in which I see myself reflected and see that I still exist and I still AM - without seeing my image in the mirror. Who am I then? Then you will find who you are! "You are making the mistake to consider you are the reflection of yourself in a threefold mirror of matter (physical), emotion (psychical) and thought (noetical) where you see your real Self distorted very much. You have to get rid of the images in the mirror." - DASKALOS
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©12.2001 Daniel Joseph
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