In these studies, before anything else, we must begin with the intellectual and emotional centers. We need to truly change our way of thinking; otherwise, we will march on the path of error…
Of what use would it be for you to attend these classes, but to not change your way of thinking? Here we give you many esoteric exercises and you are guided in the doctrine, but if you do not change your way of thinking, of what purpose is all that you are being taught?
You are told that we have to dissolve the ego, that we have to sacrifice ourselves for humanity. You are told that we need to create the superior existential bodies of our Being, but if you continue thinking like before, with the same mental habits you held previously, of what purpose is all that you are being taught, that you are listening to right now?
You are told that you have to disintegrate the ego, but you continue with your old mental habits, with your senile forms and systems of thought. Therefore, of what use is all this information that you are being given?
The sacred scriptures clearly speak about this, when Christ talked about the old wine and the new wine, precisely after the disciples of John the Baptist asked saying:
“How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often (abstain from all kinds of food or drink, especially as a religious observance), but your disciples do not fast?” —Matthew 9: 14
Christ said:
“Never do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” —Matthew 9: 17
Therefore, for new wine we need new wineskins…
The great Kabir Jesus also said:
“No one putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.” —Matthew 9: 16
It is unthinkable to tear apart a new suit in order to mend an old one; that would be absurd, would it not?
In the same way, this new teaching is like a new wine, thus, it needs a new wineskin. What is this wineskin? Indeed, it is the mind…. If we do not abandon our senile forms of thought, if our habitual way of thinking continues being the same we once had, then we are simply wasting the time.