Light a candle in the centre of a dark room and your vision will be as clear as possible. The light won’t do you any harm and will help you see the room as a whole.

Now focus only on the candle and gradually approach it. Your overall view will be affected. The room is getting smaller and smaller.

You have almost reached the centre of the room. Gaze at the candlelight without blinking. Now make your way back to the ends of the room. The light is still in the centre and illuminates the room. But does the light still help you see the room like in the beginning?

More than likely because of your fascination with the light and your desire to be far too close to it, to know it, your vision is clouded. Now you realize that if you had merged with the light, the blindness could have been permanent, and you would have lived your whole life in darkness.

From the moment we enter the Illuminati we are told that we must always remain seekers of the light. Not perfect Masters, or any of the rest of the higher privileges.

What is an Illuminati new member and what is a Master?

We explained in a previous article [Memento Mori – Reflections upon death] in the First and the Third Degree some of what it means to be an eternal Illuminati member in terms of the life-death and life-cycle. And why being an eternal Master is not a solution.

A new member is a member of the Illuminati Grand Headquarter whose experience is based on Understanding. He is the youngest. The new number has received a part of the light but he does not know it. He has the role of understanding it. And he understands by hearing, seeing and asking questions.

The Master is one whose experience is based on knowledge. He has experienced all the Illuminati way of life and has received the full light. He sees, hears and he is always active in the lives of other members. He understood the light perfectly.

But isn’t the Master the new number who grew up and hastened to understand? And thinking he understood he didn’t really understand anything? Isn’t it the Master the one who, being fascinated by the light, wanted to know it, not to understand it? The one who merged with it and now lives his whole life in darkness, imagining that he is enlightened?

What exactly is this blinding Light or this Perfect Light people rejected?

Isn’t this Perfect Light our very Ego? And what is the Ego but the adversary?

Of course, for the Illuminati Master who have not understood anything, the Ego or the adversary can turn into a saviour. Isn’t it written in the Volume of The Sacred Law that the adversary can disguise himself as an angel of light?

Remember who you saw in the mirror on the day of your initiation and who is the adversary or false light against whom you must fight.

Only then will you be able to understand later that in fact the Rough Light is perfect in all its imperfections, and the Perfect Light is imperfect in all of its perfection. Your goal is not to become a Master but to master your Understanding, always remaining a true seeker of the light and understanding.

Reflect on understanding and knowledge and you will realize the distance you must keep so that the light does not blind you. Do not seek more light than you really need.