Discipleship/es

Condición de hallarse adherido al Cristo y a las enseñanzas de la Gran Hermandad Blanca; proceso de alcanzar la automaestría a través de la autodisciplina en las iniciaciones del Buda, los Instructores del Mundo y los Maestros Ascendidos.

Estadios iniciáticos en el discipulado de la Palabra Viva:

(1) Estudiante: Durante esta fase el individuo se instruye, se convierte en estudiante de los escritos y las enseñanzas del Maestro. Es libre de ir y venir dentro de su comunidad, gozando de la compañía de los seguidores del Maestro y de los frutos de su dedicación pero sin haber declarado ninguna responsabilidad en particular a la persona del Maestro. No ha adquirido ningún compromiso, sino que más bien está estudiando para «presentarse aprobado» y poder ser aceptado como siervo, o coservidor (conocido también como «chela»), compartiendo el gozo de la misión del Maestro en el mundo.

(2) Disciple (chela): The individual desires to enter into a bond with the master—to be taught directly by the master rather than through his published writings alone. The disciple answers the call of the master to leave his nets of karmic entanglements and worldly desire and follow him: “Come leave your nets, I will make you fishers of men.” The disciple receives the initiations of the Cosmic Christ in the course of his service to the master. His heart, mind, and soul have begun to unfold a greater love as appreciation and gratitude for the teachings received in the previous level of student. This love is translated into action as self-sacrifice, selflessness, service, and surrender to the Person of the Christ, the Sun behind the Son of man of the master; when this step has been accelerated to the level of the “acceptable offering,” and the chela is engaged in balancing his threefold flame and his karma, he may be considered for the next step.

(3) Friend: Those counted as friend of the master enter by invitation—“Henceforth I call you no more servants but friends”—into a relationship as companion and co-worker, bearing increased responsibilities for the master’s path as world saviour. The friend bears the cross as well as the burden of light of the master; he demonstrates the qualities of friendship as in the life of Abraham and other chelas who have risen to a level of understanding the very heart and the experience of the master—providing comfort, consolation, advice, and support out of loyalty to both the purposes and the person of the master.

(4) Brother: The degree of brother is the level where the oneness of the Guru-chela, Alpha-Omega relationship is complete through the horizontal figure-eight exchange heart-to-heart; the Guru has actually made his disciple a part of his own flesh and blood and offered to him the full momentum of his attainment and portions of his mantle and authority in preparation for the master’s ascension and the disciple’s assuming of the part or whole of the master’s office. This is the love relationship exemplified between Jesus and John, his Mother, Mary, and perhaps his own flesh-and-blood brother (or cousin) James.

(5) Christ, or Christed one: the Anointed of the Incarnate Word.

To be the available instrument is one of the great keys in the path of discipleship. The disciple is the disciplined one who is always ready.

For more information

Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons: For Those Who Would Teach Men the Way, chaps. 25–30.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Saint Germain On Alchemy: Formulas for Self-Transformation