On the example of the past, when there were the revelations of Moses and of Hermes Trismegistus, also the Christian revelation of the first centuries was sealed by the law of silence, in accordance with the warning of Jesus to His disciples: "Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before the swine, so that they do not trample them under their feet and, turning on you, they rend you" (Matthew, 7: 6). Words truthful and always present!

 

The silence, besides being a defense against the profanations and false interpretations of the unenlightened, is a force, and like all forces serves to make an initiatic movement stronger. But even if the divulgence of a divine revelation and of the results of certain archeosophical experiences, that is the Mysteries , is an imprudence, because of the possible thoughtlessness of some followers, also the silence has its negative aspects.

 

Especially today as humanity enters in an acute crisis, certain truths cannot be still kept hidden, because the salvation of many depends precisely on the knowledge of these truths. After all, to become Initiates and Children of God requires so much force, tenacity and intelligence, that the way to the understanding of the Mysteries becomes, for some, a road without an exit.

The exaggerated silence causes the loss of the key of the science of the Mysteries. Jesus said to the Scribes and the Pharisees: "You have usurped the key of the science, and you did not enter, and you have impeded those who were entering there" (Luke, XI, 52).

 

Now, from the time of the first Apostles, by dint of silence, we have arrived at an absolute muteness concerning the Mysteries. Who knew have passed to another life, hit by persecution or yielding to old age, so that of the integral Christian Tradition only the rind or the shell of a sapiential seed is left.

 

The Gnosis, that of Clement of Alexandria, has been filtered to such an extent that it has disappeared completely. Therefore, extremism is never constructive. The ecclesiastical history can tell us much.

 

Many things we know, but frankly we ask ourselves, not without perplexity: how many ears are ready to listen to us? How many good intellects to understand us? Ecclesiastes says that: "to every thing there is a season, and a time comes to every purpose under the heaven ...... a time to be silent and a time to speak" (3: 1-7).

 

Is today the time to speak? Can we develop our program? How many will appreciate our sacrifice?

Tommaso Palamidessi

excerpt from "TIME TO BE SILENT AND TIME TO SPEAK THE INITIATIC SECRET AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE ARCANE"

from the 4th Booklet