by Andy Bell
Tantra Vi
The Law of the Mount
The Tantric lives on the Mount & fulfills the Law of the Mount. Therefore comes to him Wisdom, Grace and sovereign power, transcending anything his uninitiated fellowmen can yet conceive. His standards are high; aesthetic, moral & ethical. He is there to see that the world does not fall into greater corruption than its present state.
Initiates are the salt of the earth, the light of the world because without their leavening presence, the world would sink into greater corruption than it at present suffers. It is his Wisdom and knowledge which balances the evil and sin of this world.
His light and life is given to balance here
The dark account of mortal Ignorance !
The Initiate is he in whom a higher law hath been revealed. His aim is the Absolute Self, which is the Via, the Veritas and the Vita ( The way, the Truth, the Life ). He has to reduce his Ego and control his desires, lest the negative aspect in him becomes the dominant player. For erasing the Ego, he indulges in selfless service. His desires are controlled by an indomitable Will power.
In the inital stage of Tantra one can feel that some mighty force, not situated in the body but possessing it, is thinking for him and feeling for him and that his entire body is moved by that great force and not by himself. When he progresses in Tantra, he rises in Awareness to the highest Cosmic level and becomes one with the Universal Consciousness. the popular world cannot come upto the Law of the Mount, the Mount of higher ethical and moral values, but then he has to set an example for others to follow. He becomes a personification of the principle “