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Confucius

Confucius est le hiérarque de la Retraite royale du Teton et il sert sur le deuxième rayon de la sagesse divine. Il a succédé à Lord Lanto en tant que hiérarque de la Retraite le 3 juillet 1958.

L'héritage de Confucius

Bien qu'il ait incarné à maintes reprises le service de la lumière, Confucius est surtout connu pour sa contribution au mode de vie chinois. Connu sous le nom de K'ung Fu-tze (« philosophe K'ung » ou « maître K'ung ») par ses contemporains au Ve siècle avant J.-C., il a préparé le terrain pour l'unification et l'administration de l'empire chinois. Brillant philosophe social, économique, politique et moral, Confucius a posé les fondements théoriques qui ont permis à la Chine de devenir l'une des plus grandes civilisations de tous les temps. Malgré l'ascension et la chute des dynasties, l'État confucéen a prévalu et, finalement, grâce à la diffusion de la culture chinoise, ses idées ont été acceptées dans toute l'Asie orientale. Rarement un seul homme a influencé autant de personnes sur une période aussi longue.

Confucius est considéré comme le plus grand maître de Chine et vénéré comme un grand bodhisattva, ou futur Bouddha. Il croyait que le paradis pouvait être créé sur terre grâce aux rituels et à la musique. Ses disciples étaient connus sous le nom de Chevaliers des Arts, car ils maîtrisaient le tir à l'arc, la poésie, les mathématiques, l'histoire, la danse, les rituels religieux et l'étiquette.

Alors que les générations suivantes ont mal interprété Confucius et l'ont considéré comme un bureaucrate guindé, Confucius avait une spiritualité et une vision profondes. C'est pourquoi il était si pragmatique. Confucius enseignait : « On ne peut s'écarter un seul instant du Chemin. Si l'on pouvait s'en écarter, ce ne serait plus le Chemin. » Malgré les efforts déployés pour purger ses enseignements, les paroles de Confucius telles que « Les exigences d'un gentleman s'appliquent à lui-même ; celles d'un petit homme s'appliquent aux autres » et « Les prudents se trompent rarement » font toujours partie intégrante de la pensée du peuple chinois.

Hall principal du temple de Confucius à Qufu, en Chine (lieu de naissance de Confucius)

L'héritage de Confucius

Confucius est né en 551 B.C., à une époque marquée par de grands troubles et le chaos. Son père, un soldat âgé, est mort quand il avait trois ans. Bien que sa famille fût pauvre, il a réussi à s'instruire. À l'âge de quinze ans, il savait déjà qu'il voulait devenir érudit. Il a travaillé comme greffier au temple commémoratif du duc de Chou, l'un des plus grands hommes d'État de l'histoire chinoise.

Cinq cents ans plus tôt, le duc de Chou, son père, le roi Wen, et son frère avaient renversé la dynastie corrompue des Shang et fondé la dynastie des Chou. Il apporta au peuple chinois une nouvelle conception de Dieu et du gouvernement divin. « Je ne me soucie que du Ciel et du peuple », avait-il déclaré.

Confucius croyait que le duc de Chou lui enseignait des choses dans ses rêves nocturnes. En fait, Confucius affirmait qu'il n'était pas lui-même un innovateur, mais qu'il ne faisait que rétablir les normes et les principes du duc de Chou. (Le duc de Chou était l'incarnation du Seigneur Lanto, et on croit que Confucius s'est incarné à l'époque du duc de Chou et l'a aidé à mettre en œuvre ses idéaux.)

Confucius presenting the young Gautama to Lao Tzu (Quing Dynasty)

Inspired by the Duke of Chou, Confucius edited the six Chinese classics, which had been written by King Wen. These were the Book of Poetry, the Book of Rites, the Book of History, the Book of Change (I Ching), the Book of Documents and the Book of Music. The Book of Music, unfortunately, has been completely lost.

Today Confucius has a reputation for being stiff and reserved. But he was not without sensitivity. The story is told that he was once so moved by a performance of ancient music that he remained in a stupor for three months. When he finally came out of the trance, he said, “I never imagined that music could be so sublime.”

We do not know much about Confucius’ life. He was married when he was nineteen and had a son and a daughter. He studied under various teachers and eventually gathered a group of students around him. For a time, he held a job as justice minister but was forced to abandon it and go into exile. Although Confucius had seventy-two disciples and more than three thousand students, he never realized his dream of becoming a prominent ruler in China.

During this time, the Chou dynasty was on the verge of collapse. The Chou government had degenerated into chaos, and brutal warlords continually fought with each other. “Confucius was the first to formulate a systematic response to this crisis in values,” writes Robert Eno, scholar of Chinese thought. “And the depth of his achievement is reflected by the fact that China’s first philosopher remained throughout its history its leading philosopher.”

Confucius believed that ritual, or li, could transform one’s identity, one’s mind, one’s very being. “The program of study begins with the chanting of texts and ends with the study of ritual li,” Confucius explained. “Its significance is that one begins by becoming a gentleman and ends by becoming a Sage.” Through disciplined cultivation of li, one attained jen, which Eno describes as “the selfless ethical responsiveness to others.”

Although Confucius traveled throughout China, he never found a suitable job in the government. He felt like a failure and started to lament: “Extreme indeed is my decline. It’s been a long time since I dreamt about the Duke of Chou.”

Confucius did not realize it at the time, but his spirituality was far more powerful than his resumé. He wandered about looking for work, but what he was really doing was anchoring his spiritual flame of wisdom in every corner of China. That flame inspired and sustained Chinese culture for many centuries.

Confucius

His service today

As an ascended master, Confucius still dreams of making a heaven on earth through divine government. While he has not been able to work this dream in China, he sees himself as the grandfather of America. With practical wisdom and deep love, he inspires and guides his disciples who have embodied in the United States. Lanto explains that the practical side of the culture of America comes from the causal body of Confucius.

The ascended master Confucius has a profound understanding of family as the vital unit for building community and a new society in the Aquarian age. He shows us how to take etheric patterns and use them in tangible ways to improve our everyday lives—patterns of self-reliance in God, of the sacred family and of God-government. We tie into the etheric patterns and precipitate the etheric ideals through beauty, harmony and order in the physical octave. This is why the flame of precipitation is the main focus of Confucius’ Royal Teton Retreat. This flame is Chinese green in color, tinged with gold, and it burns on the main altar of the Retreat.

Confucius wants us to regard him as our loving and supportive grandfather. And like a grandfather, he also desires to pass on his dreams to us that we might fulfill them in his name. He longs to build a society on the foundation of love, wisdom and the will of God in the individual and in the family.

In 1976, Confucius said that many souls from ancient China have reembodied in America. He called them “the quiet Buddhic souls, the diligent ones,” the ones who have a spiritual mission to lay the foundation of the family in America. He points out that they understand the “basic loyalty of the family, the code of ethics, the gentleness, the sweetness and the desire for learning as the means to God-awareness.”

Furthermore, Confucius said, “They have come for an embodiment that their wisdom might be fired with freedom, that they might assist America” as she enters the twenty-first century. Their aim is to turn around a “false materialism” and to manifest instead “an etherealization, a spirituality, a conquering of self, of society and of the energies of time and space.”

Confucius is very much concerned with the affairs of civilization and with the destiny of America:

I am concerned on the one hand with the activities of the masculine ray as that ray has been perverted in China today and as its perversion has also led to the perversion of the feminine ray and the manifestation of the family.

I have seen the corruption in government. It is the same corruption that I witnessed twenty-five hundred years ago—the same corruption, mind you, the same corruptible ones. For the lifestreams who are focusing the energies for the disintegration of the light and of the golden age of China today are the lifestreams who thwarted the cosmic purpose of the Virgin thousands of years ago when my feet touched the earth and the streams of that beloved land of Chin.

I have noticed also that those who are the corruptible ones who have corrupted Saint Germain’s promise for America have come again and again. It is they who were the rats in the granary of Rome and Greece, India, the Middle East. There are always the betrayers.

Confucius has said:

It is only cosmic justice that a balance should be made for the expenditure of every ounce of energy. Through the aeons and aeons of creation, this great law has never been violated with impunity. And those who think they can violate divine statutes have quickly found out upon the cosmic screen of life that the scales of divine justice do act, and that they act wisely and well.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Confucius.”