From Moses to John the Baptist: Spiritual Instructors and Initiatic Traditions

2nd MEETING: from Moses to John the Baptist First we talked about Abraham and the Covenant that God made with Abraham. Now in the Gospel of Luke we read that with the birth of John the Baptist the promise made to Abraham was remembered: "Thus he granted mercy to our fathers and remembered his holy covenant, the oath made to Abraham, our father, to grant us, freed from the hands of enemies, to serve him without fear, in holiness and justice in his presence, for all our days." But what was this promise and how could it be remembered? The reference is to a specific moment in Abraham's life: "When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said to him: 'I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be perfect; and I will establish my covenant between me and you and will multiply you greatly.'" Genesis 17:1. So here we have that God appears to Abraham at 99 years old, that is in full initiatic maturity and appears to him as Almighty God. This divine name SHADAI, by gematria equals Metatron, the Angel of presence for which it is said that this vision to Abraham occurred through this angel, or - as we read in the apocalypse of Abraham - through the Angel Jahoel. This is an important name that we will find again. The name Jah-el is in fact equal to the name El-jah an important name in relation to the prophets of Israel. Before proceeding further let us make a summary of some fundamental concepts seen previously. First of all we have seen that there are spiritual forces, man is as if he were a transformer, he manages to realize spiritual forces on earth and what we must understand is that a spiritual force acts and is therefore real only if it is realized, embodied by a person. If it remains unexpressed it is as if it were an unspoken word, therefore something that is not real, cannot act, has no real action. A word has an action only if it is pronounced and a spiritual force only if it is embodied in someone, however this someone cannot be born out of nowhere there must be preparation work, a process and ecological conditions that allow someone to embody these spiritual forces. There are characters who throughout history embody these spiritual, divine forces at the maximum level. That is beyond every limit, characters who have nothing more to learn and who therefore having nothing more to learn but to teach are called Instructors. Tradition hands down some such as Fo Xi, these instructors are always associated with a character and an initiatic center, they are never separate. A character who is the founder of an initiatic center. For example Fo Xi emperor of Chinese antiquity but clearly is also an initiatic center. In the same way we have Hermes Trismegistus, Zarathustra, some fundamental characters including Moses. So an instructor we have said is first of all a character who realizes the maximum degree of a certain spiritual force and therefore from a certain point of view he has exhausted his task, it is as if he incarnated for the last time, he has no more reason to incarnate in a physical body to realize that force that he has already realized in a physical body. Obviously unless there are particular reasons. The Instructor has now already realized on earth what is his mission and therefore continues from the outside to inspire and support people who instead must continue to manifest this force. But what does he leave? He leaves his legacy. His legacy is his own life, because having realized this force in himself he becomes like a model for all those who want to follow this path. Moreover he also leaves like a body, that is an energetic aggregate of those energies that he in some way has used and transformed and that therefore manifest at maximum this aspect that he represented. Why is this useful? Because we will see that precisely in the case of Moses let's say an instructor when he realizes a certain condition he has realized but all the others have not, the others are exactly at the same point as before and therefore it is necessary that a work of diffusion of transformation takes place and that in some way extends the conquest of this character to all the people. Meanwhile let's see who Moses was. Of Moses we have two genealogies, both significant. The first with which he appears in Exodus is the evocative one in which he appears from the banks of the Nile, however in Exodus 6:20 it is said that Moses and Aaron are sons of Amram. "Amram took as wife Jochebed his aunt; she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of Amram's life were one hundred thirty-seven." Exodus 6:20. The name Am-Ram means "coming from Ram", and the number of years that is 137 means "Qabbalah", that is "reception", "tradition" thus letting us understand a filiation on Moses' part from Ram. Conversely in the first chapter of Exodus we have that Moses is born from the Nile, or rather is left by his mother on the Nile and is found by Pharaoh's sister. This story certainly wants to indicate something to us. First of all an Egyptian filiation and formation of Moses is highlighted. And we speak of the birth of Moses that is the Initiation of Moses, a "child" born from the Waters, that is an initiate who has experienced this event of rebirth from water and spirit, that is the "initiatic Baptism". The name Moses derives from mesh, means like "reborn" therefore is he who has lived these mysteries of rebirth. The Nile in ancient Egypt was associated with Osiris. Osiris was depicted in green like the regeneration brought by the waters of the Nile and thanks to Isis, Sothis, the star Sirius, Osiris - killed by his brother Seth exponent of the forces of chaos - was reborn and gave rise to a son Horus, the falcon whose eye...