stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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ing to his ... visionary plans for the Greater Germanic Reich
in the third millennium....
Ravenscroft adapted the materials of Rudolf Steiner ...
to the mythology of occult Nazism.
Nor was that the only relevance of Eastern metaphysics to the
Nazi cause:
Savitri Devi, the French-born Nazi-Hindu prophetess, described
Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu and likened Nazism to
the cult of Shiva with its emphasis on destruction and new
creation....
[She] was sure that Hitler had realized he was an avatar
while still a youth (Goodrick-Clarke, 2003).
Overall, truly believing that you are “enlightened and can do
no wrong”—as every “messiah” and nearly every “meditation master”
has role-played himself into believing—gives you unlimited
license to mistreat others “for their own good.” Indeed, it actually
places your conscience farther out of reach than if you were knowingly
manipulating them purely for your own selfish benefit, as a
simple con man (or woman).
As Professor J. H. von Dullinger insightfully observed over a
century and a quarter ago:
All absolute power demoralizes its possessor. To that all history
bears witness. And if it be a spiritual power which rules
men’s consciences, the danger is only so much greater, for
the possession of such a power exercises a specially treacherous
fascination, while it is peculiarly conducive to self-deceit,
because the lust of dominion, when it has become a passion,
is only too easily in this case excused under the plea of zeal
for the salvation of others.
For that primary reason, among many secondary others, the
“guru game,” even when enacted by “genuine masters” (such as the
swooning Ramakrishna, the Force-ful Aurobindo, the casteconscious
Ramana Maharshi, the non-healer Meher Baba, and the
firewalking Yogananda) is more dangerous than is any secular
power-play or con game.
Even when performed with integrity and sincerity? Yes. In
fact, doubly so: