The key relationship involved in transcendence is also inviolate

  One hears that the system of initiation via the Guru-chela relationship is a proven process but not an end in itself, the goal being enlightened being, oneness in life.  The motif of near shore, far shore, and boatman across the river with someone so ferried tells the same story.  To carry the boat on your own back after having reached the far shore is not needed, for the boat has its use, its place, and the boat happens to be a sacred thing all right but not a possession of an elite group.  Perhaps a master would explain why that is the case.  

  The key relationship involved in transcendence is also inviolate and so does not belong to an elite group but has to do with a principle called affinity:  things vibrating to the same note more or less “belong to that note” somewhat like a radio frequency.  In this case it is not though a commercial radio frequency with advertising.  Outreach from a certain pure source would have its safeguards—pure water should be safeguarded.       

-r, mt. shasta

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  The depths of the riches of the wisdom of God are not apparent to men who seek to find them solely in idolatrous images fashioned after their own likeness or that of their fellowmen.  Often people select a contemporary or an historical personality and set him on a pedestal as an example of virtue.  This may be a mother, a friend or a well-known figure….A fallen idol brings them to a sense of grinding hopelessness and frustration.  They reason “If this individual be not good, then who is good?”  Jesus’ reply to the man who called him Good Master was “Why callest thou me good?  There is none Good but one, that is, God.”  

-Maitreya:  Overcoming of Fear through Decrees, in Science of the Spoken Word