Clearing your mind

   What is the mind? The mind is everything connected to your intellectual faculties and psychological functions. The third "mission" of the Initiated is to «clear their mind» in order to experience the POWER OF KNOWLEDGE.

  

   Knowledge of what, I hear you say? Knowledge of yourself, which means discovering your real personality, your true “self", the self that lies beneath the veneer of educational, cultural and social conditioning.

   I can assure you that this "authentic personality" is well worth discovering. The Greek philosopher Socrates (a great Initiate who lived 2500 years  ago) recommended it in the following terms:       

               

« Know yourself through yourself! »

   "Clearing your mind" means clearing your head of all its "mental chatter", its "internal dialogue" (the result of education and conditioning), to see what is inside.

   Think of it in the following way: the true "self" is the part of the individual which is governed by instinct; the part that tends to remain hidden, appearing rarely or never at all. It is a part of the individual that belongs to their life history, their own particular and entirely personal experience of the life cycle: birth, childhood, puberty, maturity and death.

   The basic instincts of human beings are formed by the teaching encountered as they pass through each stage of their life cycle. The person who aspires to be an Initiate must delve into their deep-rooted memories in order to understand how these instincts developed.