Buddhism is silence.
Christianity is the Word.
Gnosis is knowledge, insight, direct knowing. This is a universal teaching that is the essence of all religions, philosophies, the inspiration of art, music, and within science, scientifically wanting to understand ourselves and the world we live in.
The Inner Teachings
The word esoteric means the inner. Esoteric teachings are meant to provoke an internal transformative process. Esoteric teachings are for our essence. The essence is our true nature, the beautiful light that we carry within our hearts and our minds, the intelligence of the body is the Essence.
Our capacity for compassion, caring, understanding, wisdom, intuition, free will, generosity is the true self. The essence is also called consciousness, and it is not entirely free in our current state. The essence is conditioned by material life, by our upbringing, our culture that does not value the spiritual. Instead of acting, thinking, feeling from our essence, we act, think, feel from the ego.
The Essence
The essence is divine, free, light, unity, but by nature when it enters into creation it becomes subject to more conditions, rules, laws, forces, and fractures, it is divided and not unified.
The ego is multiplicity, we want and we do not want, we cannot decide, we look back and cannot understand why we acted that way, we feel misunderstood by others, we have the best intentions but we hurt other people, we have addictions, vices, habits we do not like about ourselves etc. etc.
The Purpose of all Religions
The purpose of all religions and true spiritual teachings is to help us to unify ourselves, to remember God, to see God in others.
The purpose of all philosophies to to discover that curiosity or inquietude that searches for meaning.
The purpose of art, great art and music, is to inspire our hearts to go beyond thoughts to access higher emotion.
The purpose of science is to investigate the world we live in, including our inner, psychological world, with attentiveness, inquiry, and rigor.
Gnosis teaches us that God is within, but so is the ego. We need inspiration, imagination, intuition to move our hearts toward the divine and renounce the ego over and over.
We need a psychological, scientific work, meditation and mindfulness practice, best elaborated in the Buddhist tradition.
And we have to understand the teachings of Christ. Understood esoterically Christianity carries within it the mysterious keys to internal and individual Christification.
Essence of the Christ
Christ, in the form of many different masters, teaches us mercy, compassion, forgiveness, intimate communion with God. Most importantly Christ teaches us how to die, to be reborn and to sacrifice for love of humanity, known as the three factors for the revolution of the consciousness.
The essence of Christianity is the Christic force that redeems and saves by descending into humanity and working with people at every level of being, expressing the Word of God, a revolutionary force.
Essence of the Buddha
The essence of Buddhism is the science of meditation and awakening within ourselves, non-attachment to material reality. Going inwards, elevating from human to divine.
The value of silence, the void nature, renunciation. Buddha is a title that means “enlightened’. It means that the spiritual aspirant has reached a level to incarnate their inner Buddha, uniting the Human and Divine soul.
Christ is a title that indicates the Christ force has been born from this union.
Buddha is a Christ and Christ is a Buddha
“Buddha is someone who became divine. As a man he grew and achieved the Buddhic, divine state. Christ is the divine that comes to us, he descends to the Earth and becomes human in order to comprehend; the divine is the descent of Christ. [ ] They are two conditions that converge; one needs the other. Buddhism is the power of silence and illumination of the Buddhic state. Christianity is the power of the word, to transmit a message to humanity.
They do not oppose one another, they need each other; they are not enemies. On the contrary, a Buddha is a Christ, and a Christ is a Buddha, there is no conflict between the two. It is important for us to be able to see the union of these two aspects, because they converge in our interior.
In our interior there is a Buddhic consciousness that has to awaken, and in our interior there is a Christ that must be born, with his capacity for sacrifice and his compassion. He offers himself to others in order to find himself. Buddhism closes the external path in order to find itself internally. It is said that in the Golden Age the religion will be the best of Christianity and the best of Buddhism.”