In those days, those who had the direct connection with the spiritual worlds, not through psychic means but through direct mystical channels, were often called prophets. We think of a prophet as someone who warns or prophesizes, maybe about a future event or pending danger. Yet in the mystery school tradition, a prophet meant “one who knows,” meaning one who had that direct communion with the Divine.
Prophets didn’t work alone. They were part of a group or mystery tradition, such as at the school of the prophets that flourished during the time of Elijah in Israel. Prophets were honored members of society, because the mystical tradition itself was revered. In his mystery school at Crotona, Pythagoras taught the path of attainment, yet took a humble approach to spiritual evolution. He used the term philosopher – “one who seeks to know” the direct experience of the inner, mystical life.
From the metaphysical perspective, philosophy is not just an intellectual pursuit, which is a noble undertaking by itself. Philosophy deeply engages the intellect yet is primarily a spiritual pursuit. Today, we call those who walk the spiritual path metaphysicians. Yet, if you are seeking a greater, direct knowing of the inner life through your metaphysical studies, you are a philosopher in the very best sense of the word.
Two key tools in your spiritual journey are seeking truth and the acquiring of wisdom. The revelation of truth eventually leads to wisdom and the direct spiritual experience. A spiritual philosopher seeks truth in all things: the truth about oneself as well as the truth about the world and how it works. In the aura, the spiritual energy of truth comes through as a rich royal blue light. It’s no coincidence that this spiritual energy also reflects the attributes of loyalty, devotion, and dedication. Those who are seekers of truth are not first thinking about themselves. They are striving to open their eyes. When you are discovering truth, it’s a revelation of something you had not thought of before, not understood before, not experienced before. That makes the path of the spiritual philosopher exciting, because new things are being revealed and experienced. Yes, the philosophic path will challenge you, but nothing worthwhile is achieved easily. It is through effort that we succeed.
This is a golden age for the pursuit of spiritual philosophy. We have more opportunity than ever to understand the divine operations of life. Pythagoras was not only a great mystic he was a brilliant mathematician. In his eyes, the mystical and the mathematical were two arms of the same thing. The things we are discovering about the physical world are expressions of deeper spiritual operations, because the physical and spiritual are part of the whole of life. What’s more, the physical is born of the spiritual. The pursuit of our understanding of the physical world is eventually leading to a spiritual conclusion. Imagine, if the physical is but the expression of the spiritual, and with all we’ve uncovered about physical life, what wonders of the spiritual life are yet to unfold?
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