Langage des Mystères
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Mystères (Langage des). Le jargon sacerdotal secret employé par les prêtres initiés, et utilisé exclusivement lorsqu'ils discutaient des choses sacrées. Chaque nation possédait sa propre langue des "mystères", inconnue sauf de ceux qui étaient admis aux Mystères.
(source : "Glossaire Théosophique" d'Héléna Blavatsky)
Le Langage des Mystères (leçon 87).
« Une des règles de l'initiation à un haut degré de la Grande Loge contient les paragraphes suivants :
"Ceci est un secret qui donne la mort ; laisse ta bouche close de peur que tu ne le révèles au vulgaire ; comprime ton cerveau de peur que quelque chose ne s'en échappe et en tombe à l'extérieur."
Une autre exhortation est ajoutée à la première :
"Ouvre grand ta main afin que les gouttes de sang de tes veines ouvertes puissent tomber du bout de tes doigts pour donner la vie aux décédés. Ouvre ton coeur que son temple le plus profond puisse se refléter sur l'écran du monde par les rayons du Soleil Central, afin que l'homme puisse savoir qu'il existe une parole plus haute que les mots."
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Since mindless man was overshadowed by the Sons of Light, and Higher Manas was born in the human race, the shades of the lower mind – animal instincts – have fought to regain and hold their former supremacy, and to strike out all the "thou shalt not's" from the commandments, issued as guides to higher evolution, by the Sons of Light. The Decalogue is no modern invention of a few thousand years ago, given by a God through a single leader of the jewish race, as is generally supposed. Each paragraph outlines the final result of aeons of experience, lived out by countless numbers of seers and sages, and graven on "two tablets of stone", i. e., on the two lobes of the lungs, the air transmitters, the double organ which renders speech possible to man. [226] But there are many more of these "thou shalt not's", graven on similar stones or organs, by the same methods, and to similar ends, by the same seers and sages in more fully developed bodies, and among them is the following : "Thou shalt not take the children's bread and give it unto the dogs" : meaning, "Thou shalt not take the secrets of initiation and give them to the world in general." In many instances, where this commandment has been disobeyed, death indeed has resulted – death of the soul of the one who imparted the secret and the one who received it. For when certain great cosmic truths have been given to the unprepared – the uninitiated – the soul and body have been destroyed by lack of power to control the cosmic forces generated, owing to the fact that it was impossible to impart instructions as to safe and right methods of manipulating the forces generated by the use of said truths, which alone could be imparted "mouth to ear" by the Hierophant of any degree, to a neophyte of the same degree, and no man or God in such a position could possibly be induced to give such instructions to the weak or unworthy. Before the utter disintegration of such "dead" forms, the latter had become temples of black magic more or less consciously – instruments for the use of evil spiritual forces in form. And the same great crimes, with their terrible after – effects, are occurring in this age even more frequently and with greater power for evil than ever before, for it is the age of the anti-Christ, and there is no place, no centre, on the earth where the spiritual currents of the White Lodge have been directed for the amelioration of the ills of mankind, the betterment of existing conditions, and the spiritual advancement of the human race, that there has not entered into it the conscious satanic emissaries of the Black Lodge to take up their dwelling place in some man, or woman, who selfishly or ambitiously begins to use the knowledge acquired from close association with the disciples of the White Lodge, for the disruption and dissociation of the body with which he or she is connected. The same forces, the same character of weak, unstable and drifting souls – vehicles of those forces – are with you now, as they are with every like centre where a link with the Initiates has been forged, and are fulfilling the same cosmic service, i. e., acting as testing stones for the individual members of the centre. In many cases such individuals ignorantly believe "they are doing God's service", while in reality they are striking at the very foundation of Faith, Hope and Courage. In other instances they are consciously bringing upon others all the evils human flesh is heir to, in the form of suffering, loss, and disease ; while [227] posing in their black lined white garments as benefactors. The Initiates are thus greatly hampered in their efforts ; and often incapacitated for imparting the methods hinted at in the above mentioned Rules, hindered from, opening the hand that the droppings from the finger tips – the rules of the Mystery language – may fall on mankind' ; i. e., may reach the intelligence, and so make possible the regaining of the powers and privileges now lost ; the possibilities of which are taught and explained in that language alone. In every instance, so far, that an attempt has been made to teach this language to the laity, and even before the first principles had been fully understood, those to whom the requisite knowledge had been entrusted have been compelled to stay their hand and wait for the replacing of some recreant from a seven fold group before they could continue ; for such a seven-fold group is an essential. Other disciples wonder and puzzle over the cessation of, or change in, some line of esoteric instruction, the cause for which cannot be explained at once by their teachers without breaking some law of discipleship by which they individually are bound ; and they often jump to the conclusion that the teachers are untrue or have reached the limit of their knowledge. You must know these things if you are to meet them and be prepared "to stand in the furnace" by the side of those who must bear the strain of such conditions, and so make possible the resumption of any interrupted course of instruction, or the holding of a centre against the powers of evil that have gained entrance. If you cannot do this, "Your hour has not yet come." You have not yet gained the power to "lie still on the horizontal bar of the balanced cross, while the perpendicular spear passes through your vitals, to raise the vibrations of the Solar centre and enable you to win the reward of crucifixion." Distrust the man or woman who tells you he or she is a Templar and then strikes at the heart of your Order. You are facing an emissary of the Brothers of the Shadow every time. Fly from the man or woman who offers you the gold of Spiritual knowledge in a cup made of the heart of a co-disciple. Your own heart's blood will eventually fill that cup, if you accept it. He who appeals to the Brothers of Light for the opportunity, at the same moment of his appeal, demands the trial by fire, i. e., he demands an opportunity to prove his fitness for life on higher levels. The law mercifully blinds him to his failures in many instances, but it is his fault alone if he fails in recognizing the presence of an emissary of a black magician in the midst of his Order when the fundamental law of that Order – Inseparableness – is attacked.
(source : Les Enseignements du Temple de Maître Hilarion)