I am going to break the quoted material into paragraphs for easier analysis-Corboy
Note the spelling and grammatical errors. I dont know if these are in the original text or not. Its interesting that some of the UM members who replied to the journalist articles also generate spelling and grammatical errors. Not all of them do this but enough that it is interesing.
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From Concerned Partner:
On that note, I have seen a document from 2009 outlining the levels of initiation- the penny has dropped.
I now realize why anything we say is a conversation with ourselves and why the students rage in blind defense of UM and Serge.
The details can come later, but the short of it is:
As you climb the initiation levels ( which you know yourself, but Serge apparently graded them on anyway) you have to put aside emotion, your personality ( which is spirit/prana)
Sadness, strong feels, things that hold you back ( ie, relationships built on the 'wrong foundations') to get to level 2 initiate. You then spend a long time clearing Karma. You will have people, feelings, emotions ( prana, bad things) trying to pull you back but you must resist.
Then after a long time ( maybe lifetimes) you reach level 3 where you are emotionless but lazy, and could drop back to level 2 or even 1.
If you can go beyond that, you become in line with the fiery plan and can beat off the lords of form and astral/pranic attacks.
You need to help a certain amount of other people reach the next level, and then you can proceed in levels 4.1, 4.2 and so forth ( how do you count it- only Serge would know) till you get to level 5 where you are here to teach the world and reflect the light of the fiery plan and are in touch with everything...ie, Serge.
Look at the contradiction.
"As you climb the initiation levels (
which you know yourself, but Serge apparently graded them on anyway) you have to put aside emotion, your personality ( which is spirit/prana) "
After reaching level 3 you "
need to help a certain amount of other people" reach the next level, and then you can proceed in levels 4.1, 4.2 and so forth.
How can one
'help other a certain amount of other people' if one has
'put aside emotion and personality'?
If one is not to come across like an emotionless robot (which would give a very bad impression on those you're trying to 'help', maybe the solution is to create a mask personality--reject the pranic emotions and construct a fictional mask .
You relate to the public from behind this mask, a mask that is all gentleness---the better to attract other people to "help."
With the discord you generated at home, its going to take a lot of effort to present as 'gentle' to the outside work--but thats more strife that proves your worthiness and makes you feel you are working hard as an aspirant climbing the initiatic ladder.
Hmmm....
'help a certain amount of other people'?
So could this be the reason why UM believers simultenously reject family members emotionally and sexually (
to ensure their own progress up the ladder of initiation) and at the same time think they are 'helping' by turning into ESO coaches at home--imposing changes on diet for the entire household, ordering their non UM partners to give up activities that partner prefers because it brings bad energy into the household?
All this 'helping' is ultimately selfish--to keep moving up the initiatic ladder.
Other people are treated as means to an end
*If they oppose you, other people generate opposition, which proves how special you are and gives you opportunities for UM heroism and brownie points on the intiatic ladder.
* If people obey your orders and submit to letting the household be turned into an ESO environment, you gain points as a magician by exorcising bad energy from your household.
*If you recruit other people into UM by using the gentle mask facade, you get mega points and go up the initiatic ladder.
But all this reduces other people, even your UM companions, to means to an end.
You, the UM initiate risk being used as a means to an end, too--by your UM buddies.
Other bad gnostic systems abuse other people.
For comparison here is what Carlos Castaneda did.
Here is an essay on Erasing Personal History and Other Sorceric Techniques, written by someone who survived being a member of Castanedas group.
The entire thing is well worth reading.
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