WELCOME
LETTER
Dear
Searcher,
Although
we have not met, let me convey to you a warn welcome on behalf of the
association I represent as well as in my own name.
You have not reached us by chance and for this sole fact you deserve to know
more about the motives that drove us to establish this site.
Our
association is based on the most secular and practical work on oneself,
renouncing to humanitarian scopes in favour of humanistic ones.
We tend to experience, to the comprehension and to the conservation of a
compound of techniques functional to the formation of human beings worthy of
this name.
We
do not create treasures, albeit we care for those already extant for others to
retrieve them. Such wealth can only be revealed to those who have eyes to see.
As a result, there is no peril of stealing.
However,
a certain degree of caution against blind profanation is nonetheless necessary.
Our
scope is to pass on, but to do so comprehension is needed and it is for that
that practice must go hand-in-hand with theory, emotions with cultivation,
wisdom with knowledge.
Every
form of search ought to drive human beings to look both upwards and inwards,
discovering thus the universal principles as well as one’s individual parts.
SO
HIGH, SO LOW.
We
are not an esoteric society nor are we a martial arts school. That slightly
snobbish flavour we show is meant to ward cowards and small-minded people off.
We do not even possess any hierarchical order, although it is true that the
sharing of knowledge and method lead close to an initiation condition.
We
are interested in the investigation and preservation of a System in its
wholeness, though we are aware that the universe is founded upon multiplicity.
We talk about investigating and keeping, not about propagation, for we cannot
teach anybody anything and, less than ever, should we teach others to do
something they can only do by themselves, namely how and why we live!
The
method we have developed does away with mental passivity while it tends to
create contents in addition to the scanning of forms. Doctrine and practice,
thought and action, sword and pen.
We
serve the ideals of good taste and common sense, but we are also the defending
warriors of an ethics that is on its way to extinction. A human being may be
said to be NOBLE when he/she places the “right thing” before the “ordinary
thing” and when the present attains such concentration that “here and now”
becomes stronger than “always and everywhere”.
There
are human beings more interested in comprehending things than in owing them.
The market is not interested in such beings because they are few and ungraspable.
Because they aim at quality, they are natural enemies of a time based on
quantity. Isolated and fought against, the number of Noble Human Beings tends to
decrease below the threshold under which their culture will no longer reproduce
itself.
For
this reason we have felt the need to establish a natural reservation for this
endangered species, for all the individuals who share qualities not spoken of
and defects that society does not want to be aware of any more.
More
than 20 countries are linked to this site mostly in Italian, countries where the
seeds of the system headed by Patrick Kelly of New Zealand had been sowed.
Patrick Kelly, as well as myself, studied with Grand Master Huang Xiang Xian in
the Malaysian Borneo. He studied with Huang for 20 years, with Sheik Abdullah
Isa Dougan of the Naqsbandi Sufi system until his death and with Indian guru
Mouniji Maharaji of Rajasthan.
What
you will find in this site is not yet complete, neither in its structure nor as
to matters. Some among the things that you will see here will endure like the
stones of a castle; others will change under the push of their immediate goal to
reach. Our work follows methods linked by a leading thread which creates a
system rather than representing a Teacher or a dead Teaching.
Quite
voluntarily, our system has not been designed to appeal to the masses, but to
individualist, mature and adult people. The whole system rests upon a humanistic
conception based on ethical values, which we do not hesitate to define as “Ideals”.
For that reason, they do not reflect the ataraxy of the “politically correct”.
They simply ARE.
The fact that you may herein find Taoist, Sufis or Hindus teachings brought
together does not mean that we are mixing all we have found in the
vegetable-garden to make up a tasty soup to offer. The deception of duality,
consisting of changing the doctrine of Unity into that of multiplicity, dooms
Man to dwell in the realm of confusion and division, unable to overcome an
entirely philosophical antagonism, which is not at all initiation.
Duality
is the common root of the perversion of any current of thought which, originally
esoteric, ends up degenerating through an effort to exteriorize itself by
turning somehow into a “religious system” indiscriminately offered to all.
By these means, it ends up supplying the prop to the overthrowing and to the
disguising of the Tradition, something of which we cannot say we can appreciate
all its consequences yet. This is particularly true as far as a whole Gnostic
current is concerned, which, not by chance, still conserves its esoteric backing.
Every
time the psychic is mistaken for the spiritual, it will turn into a parody of
spirituality, even better, a back-to-front mock so that we find ourselves, at
all effects, before some kind of “spirituality in reverse”.
That is what the “spiritual revival” is in reality. A revival of which
someone, possibly unawares, insistently proclaims the next advent together with
the new era present-day mankind is forced in by all means.
When people are prepared to blindly grant the utmost faith to any divulgation of
any “medium” only because sustained by some “wonder”, how could we be
surprised if the allurement is going to be almost general?
This is why it will never be sufficiently emphasized that “phenomena” by
itself prove absolutely nothing with reference to a doctrine’s or whichever
teaching’s truth, and why this is just the field par excellence of the
“Great Delusion”, where all that looks like a sign of spirituality may
always be counterfeited by the game of inferior forces… But, how do we get our
contemporary fellows’ mentality to catch on this when such mentality, after
having been manipulated by the “scientific viewpoint”, finally becomes one
of the features that may contribute most to the success of the “spirituality
in reverse”?
The deriving neospiritualism and pseudo-initiations are a partial prefiguration
of the “spirituality in reverse” also from another standpoint: i.e., the
aforesaid use of at first authentically traditional elements swerved from their
true meaning to be placed at the service of the error. Such deviation is, in
short, a complete overturning.
Festina Lente
Tiziano
Grandi