Conference A23
FANATICISM AND MYTHOMANIA

Both fanaticism and mythomania are two selves that it is urgent to eliminate from our psychology in order to advance in Objective Work.
Fanaticism
The fanatic is the person who shows too much zeal for a belief. Fanaticism is a disease of the mind. It is believing that being a believer in something already makes you safe.
When Knowledge is received and you know what you have to do, two paths open up: the path of the believer and the path of the practitioner.
The believer believes that knowing is enough, and from that day on he dedicates himself to pretending that he is a saint. There is already the fanatic, who will not let us progress at all. We all have something inside us called the false feeling of self. It will make us believe that we are doing very well and will not let us progress.
First of all, this knowledge is revolutionary and can only be achieved through works. On this path, one only advances through works. If there is no psychological death, there is no liberation of Consciousness; if one is not born sexually, there will be no Existential Bodies; if one does not sacrifice for humanity, there is no Love or progress; if one does not practice, one cannot verify.
The practitioner understands this and begins to show their works. This totally bothers the fanatics, who, moved by the defects of laziness and envy, hope to self-realize without working. Fanaticism is what buries us, makes us useless, mediocre forces, unserviceable beings.
What we want is for everyone to revolutionize themselves, to advance like a true soldier on the battlefield, without fanaticism, united to see real results, achieved through each of us. Fanatics settle in as instructors and managers within groups, trapping people who come seeking liberation to put them on the path of the fanatic, and if they rebel, they look for ways to remove them from the groups.
This ego does not let us see that we have all the living subjective elements, that we have not eliminated them, that practice makes perfect, that we have not created the Existential Bodies of the Being, that to awaken and raise the Kundalini we must stop being traitors disguised as harmless people, that the work is yet to be done, and that the worst mistake is to believe and feel oneself to be good.
Details of Fanatical Behavior
Let's reflect a little on these details of the fanatics:
The first fanatic to have been overcome is not known. This is because they do not like the practice.
They don't like to check.
They think that Esotericism is something that is achieved with little effort.
They are followers of people.
They always want to have a teacher.
They do not follow themselves, they are imitators.
They live with the experiences of others.
They affirm things that they do not know, that others told them.
They talk about the experiences of others without understanding them.
They do not like people who want to show works.
They always appear criticizing their colleagues.
The fanatics begin to attack the practitioner to take away their strength.
They are delaying elements within the groups, they originate entropy in them.
They are the worst enemies of an organization.
They look within the groups to put themselves in positions where it seems that they work.
They are imitators and like to pretend they work.
They teach to practice and do not practice.
They talk about dying and do not die.
They talk about being born and are not born.
Being able to sacrifice themselves more for humanity, they do not; they settle for little.
They believe that with what they know they are safe.
They believe that because they have reached knowledge they are already saved.
They always think they are doing very well.
They think they are doing better than everyone else.
They consider themselves the most knowledgeable because they have so many years in knowledge.
They follow the books to the letter, they read a lot.
They are informed in great detail. They are very intellectual.
They want to show that they know a lot.
They always end up twisting knowledge and its objective of serving humanity.
They look at others as condemned because they do not accept knowledge.
They want to turn knowledge into fanaticism.
They want to turn knowledge into a religion.
They are fond of rituals.
A fanatic is a victim of the abyss because he neither does nor lets do. And when someone starts working, doing something, they are the first to fall on him and point him out. Because they do nothing nor do they want anyone else to do anything.
They are not good for good or bad.
They waste their time miserably in conversations and social gatherings.
They always repeat the same thing.
They are always willing to start a controversy, they are divisive, they like to argue and debate.
They affirm that you have to enter the temples with a specific ritual because the opposite is incorrect. Incorrect is what they have inside themselves.
They affirm that women cannot lead chains of force because they are passive.
They act like prophets and affirm things that they did not verify.
They live talking about tragedies and cataclysms.
They are generators of fears.
They have the apocalyptic self.
They always end up pointing out other fanatics because they see the defect through the mirror.
They do not listen to suggestions, they are proud.
They are like unwanted elements, they are found everywhere.
It is important to delve deeper and draw conclusions from all this and self-observe ourselves so as not to let the fanatical Self act.
Mythomania
Mythomania is a very marked tendency among people affiliated with various metaphysical schools. Apparently very simple subjects, overnight, after a few hallucinations, become mythomaniacs.
Unquestionably, such people with a subjective psyche almost always manage to surprise many unsuspecting people, who in fact become their followers.
The mythomaniac is like a fragile structure, a slight push is enough to crumble it.
The mythomaniac believes that this occultism is something that is achieved with little effort, and from one moment to the next he declares himself a Mahatma, Resurrected Master, Hierophant, etc.
The mythomaniac usually has impossible dreams, invariably suffers from what is called delusions of grandeur.
That kind of character usually presents themselves as reincarnations of Masters or fabulous, legendary, and fictitious heroes.
However, it is clear that we are emphasizing something that deserves to be explained. Egoic centers of the animalistic subconscious, which in exchange relationships follow certain mental groups, can provoke through associations and fantastic reflections something like spirits, which almost invariably are illusory forms, personifications of the pluralized self.
It is therefore not strange that any psychic aggregate assumes the form of a venerated figure to dictate false oracles. Any of these entities, which together constitute what is called the Ego, can, if it so wishes, take the form of a Mahatma or Guru. Then the dreamer, upon returning to the waking state, will say of himself: "I am self-realized, I am a Master."
It should be noted in this regard that in any case, in the subconscious of every person there is a latent tendency to take sides, to personify.
This is, therefore, the classic reason why many Asian Gurus, before initiating their disciples into transcendental magic, warn them against all possible forms of self-deception.
It is not possible to awaken Consciousness, to objectify it completely, without having previously eliminated the subjective elements of perceptions. Such infra-human elements are formed by all that multiplicity of quarrelsome and shouting egos that together constitute the Ego, the Self.
The essence, bottled up among all those subjective and incoherent entities, sleeps deeply. The annihilation of each of those infra-human entities is essential to liberate the essence. Only by emancipating the essence can its awakening be achieved, then its illumination comes.
I believe that the sincere mistaken person, the sleeper who dreams of being awake, the mythomaniac who believes himself to be super-transcended, the hallucinated person who describes himself as enlightened, can truly and usually do much more harm to humanity than someone who has never in their life entered our studies.
We are speaking in very harsh language; however, you can be sure, dear reader, that many sleepers and hallucinated people, upon reading these lines, instead of stopping for a moment to reflect, correct, and rectify, will only look for a way to appropriate my words with the evident purpose of documenting their madness.
The worst kind of madness results from the combination of Mythomania with hallucinations.
When studying this chapter, this kind of subject attributes my words to others and thinks of themselves as having already dissolved the Ego, even though they have it extremely strengthened.
We have been able to see very ugly things; it is appalling to see the mythomaniacs, the hallucinating sleepers prophesying madness, slandering their neighbors, calling others black magicians, etc.
From here they go out to found new pseudo-esoteric schools, shine briefly and end up fading away, confusing and leaving their followers in the greatest disorientation, who establish the false esoteric identity within their psyche, as well as the recurrence.