Chapter 1: The Level of Being

​​Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we living for? Why are we living? Unquestionably, the poor intellectual animal mistakenly called man not only doesn’t know but also doesn’t know that he doesn’t know.

The worst of it is the strange and difficult situation in which we find ourselves; we ignore the secret of all our tragedies and yet we are convinced that we know it all.

Send a rational mammal, one of those who claim to be influential in life, to the middle of the Sahara Desert; leave him there far away from any oasis, and observe from an airplane what occurs. Facts will speak for themselves; ​the intellectual humanoid, though he boasts he is powerful and believes he is a real man, turns out to be frightfully weak. 

The rational animal is one hundred percent foolish. He thinks the best of himself; he thinks he can develop his potential via kindergarten, good manners, elementary and
secondary schools, diplomas, universities, the prestige of the family name, etc. Unfortunately, in spite of so much education, good manners, titles, and money, we know very well that any stomach ache saddens us, and that deep down we continue being unhappy and miserable. It is enough to read universal history to find out we are still the same barbarians of the past, and instead of improving we have become worse.

This twentieth century with its spectacle, wars, prostitution, worldwide sodomy, sexual degeneration, drugs, alcohol, exorbitant cruelty, extreme perversion, monstrosity, etc., is the mirror in which we must see ourselves, so then there is no good reason to boast of having reached a superior stage of development. To think time means progress is absurd; unfortunately, the learned ignoramuses continue being bottled up in the dogma of evolution. In all the black pages of black history we find the same atrocious cruelties, ambitions, wars, etc. Nevertheless, our super civilized contemporaries are still convinced what we hear about war is secondary, a fleeting accident that has nothing to do with their much lauded modern civilization.

Certainly, what is important is the way of being of each person. Some people will be drunkards, others will be temperate, some honest and others shameless; there are all kinds of people.

The mass is the sum of all individuals. What the individual is, is what the masses are, what the government is, etc. 

So then, the mass is the extension of the individual. Transformation of the masses and of nations is not possible if the individual, if each person, does not transform himself.

No one can deny the fact there are different social levels. There are churchgoing people and people who go to brothels, there are farmers and there are businessmen, etc. In the same way, there are different levels of being. Whatever we are internally – generous or petty, selfless or stingy, violent or peaceful, chaste or lustful – attracts
the various circumstances of life. The lustful person will always attract scenes, dramas, and even tragedies of lasciviousness in which he will become involved. It’s
obvious that a drunkard will always attract drunkards, and will find himself in bars or saloons.

What will the usurer attract? The egotist? How many problems? Jail? Misfortunes?

However, tired of suffering, frustrated people want to change, to turn the page of their story. Poor people! They want to change and they don’t know how, they don’t
know the procedure, they are stuck in a blind alley. What happened to them yesterday happens today, and will happen again tomorrow; they always repeat the same errors and even a loaded gun against their head will not make them learn life’s lessons.

Everything in their lives repeats itself. They say the same  things, do the same things, and complain about the same things. This boring repetition of dramas, comedies, and tragedies will continue as long as we carry in our interior all the undesirable elements of anger, covetousness, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc.

What is our moral level? Or better said, what is our level of being?

As long as our level of being does not change radically, the repetition of all our miseries, scenes, misfortunes, and mishaps will continue.

All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within us. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare the external is the reflection of the internal. When someone changes internally and the change is radical, what is external – circumstances, life –
also changes.

Recently [1974], I have been observing a group of people that invaded a neighboring piece of land. Here in Mexico those people receive the strange name of parachutists. They neighbor the Campestre Churubusco district and are very close to my home, which is why I have been able to study hem closely. Being poor can never be considered a crime. The serious problem is, rather, in their level of being. They
fight among themselves daily, get drunk, insult each other, become murderers of their own companions who share their misfortunes, and live in filthy huts in which hatred reigns instead of love. Many times I have pondered on the fact that if any of them would eliminate hatred, anger, lust, slander, drunkenness, cruelty, egoism, calumny, envy, conceit, pride, etc., from their interior, they would please other people, and by the simple Law of Psychological Affinities would associate with more refined and spiritual people. These new relationships would definitely bring about an economic and social change. This would be the system to allow that individual to get out of the pigsty, the filthy sewer.

And so, if we really want a radical change, the first thing we must comprehend is that each one of us, (whether black or white, yellow or red, educated or uneducated, etc.), is in one level of being or another.
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What is our level of being? Have you ever reflected about that? It will be impossible to reach a different level if we don’t know the one in which we are. 

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