Among the Tenets of our Teachings We hold....
...that the God-man, Joshua Emmanuel, the Christ, was offered directly by His Father to
us, as a pure embodiment of the Logos. As Yohannan states in His Gospel, Christ is,
"the real light which enlightens every man...coming into the world" John 1:9).
Unlike the human Masters who have blessed us with their presence (with wisdom garnered
through cycles of incarnations), Christ and His Divine Teachings are cherished in our work
as direct, universal and timeless. As such, in our Teachings, our beliefs and behavior are
an attempt to reflect the Wisdom and Love of Christ. The Teachings of Christ, as preserved
in the New Testament, offer indispensable guidance in the exultation of consciousness.
...that each Spirit Soul is enhanced and
edified through a series of incarnations. Furthermore, we conduct our lives and our
experiences by vehicle of a Holy Monadic form, the human form. There are billions upon
billions of forms composing worlds of the material and the less tangible. Each form is
contained within its particular Cycle of Possibilities and Probabilities, demarcating a
range of attainable expressions and experience. Transmigration between forms would be an
impossible violation of Divine Law. Humans are always humans and cannot be rendered into
animals nor any other forms.
...there is but one Self extending from the
present-day personality to the Spirit-Soul Self. Division within the Selfhood, with a
layering of levels of consciousness, arises as the Spirit enters the worlds of separation
and relates to the varying realms and worlds of reality. Each expression of our self is a
mark on a continuum of which one pole is our 'Beingness' and the
other our 'existence', with each expression vital to the Self as a whole. This Selfhood,
after completing its sojourn into the worlds of separateness, is assimilated to its Real
nature and with the Absolute Beingness in Theosis. In Theosis the more rarified elements
of the identity remains preserved and Self-conscious.
The human form
is higher than than the angel form. Man is the highest
being in Creation because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda