Lupelius - The School for Gods

School for Gods’. The result was a genuine masterpiece: a fine leather bound edition withpages of vegetable parchment identical in every detail to Lupelius’ original work. I kept thatcopy with me at all times. At night I kept the book under my pillow as Alexander used to dowith the Iliad. It was a present for the Dreamer and I could not wait for the time to comewhen I would be able to give it to him. I knew that day by day, every small advance I made inmy understanding of His principles brought me closer to Him. I was often overcome byuncontrollable enthusiasm which sometimes culminated in moments of real ecstasy at thethought of the wonderful outcome of my enterprise, at the limits of the impossible. I had‘miraculously’ found Father S., I had found the original manuscript of ‘The School for Gods’and I had met two students who, with boundless devotion, were working on the translation. Ihad no doubt that I would soon find the Dreamer again. For the moment, nothing existed forme other than immersing myself in the manuscript, delving into King Solomon’s mines everyday, going down those venerable tunnels and ceaselessly digging to extract ‘precious matter’.In order to choose life, we must choose the thought that death is not invincible. And so, we must findthe principles of aliveness, longevity, and eternity in our being.This and other rules which I learned from Lupelius’ manuscript would one day become thecornerstones of all my future activities and the fundamental principles of many enterprises inthe world of international business.An enterprise is only as vital, rich and long lasting, as the ideas and principles of its founder.For Lupelius the real inequality between men, the root from which every other visibledifference arises, is that they belong to different levels of inner responsibility. Differences inthe quality of thought places men vertically on different levels of the ladder of being. Thereexists an inner hierarchy that no war or revolution can ever erase because the true differencebetween men does not depend on wealth, creed or race. It is a difference in states of being. Itis a psychological, vertical, evolutionary difference of rank. For this reason, it can only beovercome by a radical change in the way a man thinks and feels.A real improvement implies a change of being. A real improvement means evolution or growthtowards unity of being which is the result of a new way of thinking and the abandonment of the old,mortal mentality…Only a change of being can raise a man to a higher level of freedom, understandingand happiness.10 Mea Culpa20