Distinctions Between an Outer Teaching and an Inner Spiritual Path
Many seekers have become disillusioned, delving endlessly through the labyrinth of religious, philosophical, New Age, and metaphysical literature and practices without any appreciable, lasting expansion in consciousness. But the sincere seeker, far from extinguishing the spiritual flame, always preserves an intuitive knowledge that the path to Self and God Realization is not far away. MasterPath offers the following distinctions to those moving ever inward, in search of soul, true knowledge, and pure love embodied in Sound:
| Outer Teaching | Inner Spiritual Path | |
| Outer | ..... | Inner |
| Entering Heaven after death | ..... | Entering Heavenly states of consciousness while living |
| Being saved | ..... | Saving oneself |
| Worship of outer personality | ..... | Worship of Spirit within the individual |
| Forgiveness of sin | ..... | Resolution of karma |
| Only one Saint for all time | ..... | Multiple Saints throughout time |
| Only one life to live | ..... | Many lifetimes lived in soul |
| Second coming – futuristic event in time & space | ..... | Inner transformation within one's own body |
| Mind, intellect, ego, personality | ..... | Soul |
| Knowledge | ..... | Realization |
| Illusion | ..... | Truth |
| Universal mind power – light | ..... | Consciousness – Sound Current |
| Dead or ascended Master | ..... | Living Master |
| Baptism | ..... | Initiation |
| Savior crucified | ..... | Disciple's lower nature crucified |
| Moral dictates | ..... | Seeing the one truth in all experiences |
| Prayer | ..... | Contemplation |
| Conscience | ..... | Consciousness |
| Reason, logic | ..... | Knowing, being, and seeing (direct perception) |
| Pseudo guru | ..... | Living Sat Guru |
| Books | ..... | Personal inner experience |
| All practices below the 3rd eye | ..... | Practices that orbit within and above the 3rd eye |
| Glorifies the mind through knowledge | ..... | Adorns & arouses the soul through realization |
There is a distinct polarity between the outer teachings and an inner spiritual endeavor that will never be resolved by the mental senses, for by its very nature, the mind created all external doctrines. Only soul can ultimately resolve this purposeful enigma. For more information about MasterPath, the Divine Teachings of Light and Sound, please visit www.masterpath.org.