Which Road to Take?

There is an old IQ test question.

You come to a fork in the road: one path leads to safety and the other leads to danger. Standing at the fork are two brothers—one who always tells the truth and one who always lies—but you don’t know which brother is which. You may ask only one question to figure out the safe road. What single question can you ask so that, no matter which brother you’re speaking to, you’ll still learn the correct path? The question is: “Which road would your brother tell me to take?” After hearing the answer, simply take the opposite road.

Whilst this is a fun riddle that tickles the intellect, behind it is hidden the innate and intuitive burden of the seeker. He may wonder to himself, “Is the method I have chosen to pursue the truth going to help me to arrive there?” This is part of drives many to become a kind of follower.

The compiler of the Gnostic Instruction—Samael Aun Weor—has said:

“I do not follow anyone, nor do I want anyone to follow me. What I want is for each one of you to follow his own Self.” — Inside the Vestibule of Wisdom, Samael Aun Weor

“We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.” — Major Mysteries, Samael Aun Weor

So from this we understand that to become a follower of ANYONE, including a master, is to miss the chance to discover our own Gnosis—the voice of our own BEING—that which we truly are deep within; we discover this BEING, by gradually clearing all the societal conditioning, layers of ego and programs to come to our core—our ESSENCE.

As long as we are busy following a person, a doctrine, a method, without beginning to WAKE UP, to truly perceive and know, we will remain confused, secretly doubting which road to take.

"Let The Kings Be Kings and Let The Slaves Be Slaves" — Pistis Sophia, Jesus So be it.

We need to remember most have no chance to awaken. We cannot judge them for their level of understanding.

Many universes ago, perhaps we were there.

“Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way,”

— Matthew 7:13-14, Master Jesus

There is only One path and we each must find it ourselves in our own unique way. There is no method that can make us self realize. Teachings can guide us but, we must find the internal path ourselves.

This is similar to the different wavelengths of light. If we wear blue spectacles, everything appears blue, and if we wear red we see everything as that color.

Although HE—Source, Unity—is White Light, seen from the outside, each one of us will view him through the psychological glass through which we are looking. For this reason, people looking at him do not see him.

“Obviously, from the path of the razor’s edge, multiple paths diverge which lead to nowhere. Some of them take us to the Abyss and to despair. There are paths which can transform us into the majesties of this or that zone of the universe. However, they can never return us to the bosom of the eternal universal cosmic Father.⁠”

— The Great Rebellion, Samael Aun Weor

“Among thousands of men, perhaps one strives to reach perfection; among the strivers, possibly one achieves perfection, and among the perfect, perhaps one knows me perfectly.”

— Bhagavad Gita 7:3

This article has been adapted and edited based on a Discord comment from the instructors at Gnosis East Village.