What one has known and understood about oneself is offered to one's neighbor

There is a doubt that often haunts all those who hear the requests for help that come from the humanity around them, and which can be summarized in this question: "It is right that io portray me in myself, portray me from other men who seek my help, or is it more right that I dedicate myself to them with all my strength? "
What we often tell you seems to be said on purpose to add to your confusion, but it is not; sure, we tell you "know yourself"
and at the same time we speak to you of brotherhood, of helping others, of offering help to those in need, to those who request it, overriding your own needs; then you often turn your gaze to the words of ancient Masters looking for an answer to your doubts, but - as often happens - remain anchored to those words, making yours only what suits your needs at the moment.
As I usually do, I intend to present to you, in my own way, the stories of some Masters, with the hope of making you understand that between their words and ours there is not such a big difference as, at first glance, it could appear but that - simply - it happens that you, turning to those teachings, receive the words and not the example given by the life itself that those Masters have led.
All the greatest Masters at a certain point in their lives began to go among the people to spread their doctrine; in short, to bring help to their brothers.
But I say to dwell on the period before this expansion of theirs, because that is the teaching that they have given, not with their words but with their own life.
The Avesta, the sacred text of Iran, says that Zarathustra, when he was thirty, exclaimed at one point: "To which land must I go to escape, where must I go to be alone with myself?" and he yearned for the desert, thus anticipating the retreat of Christ by several years.
Zarathustra (or Zoroaster, if you prefer) before preaching went, thus, to seek his own spiritual death and to pursue his rebirth, at the conclusion of which he was able to say to his disciples: "Listen as best you can with your ears and meditate with a clear mind. open, since the decision between good and evil must take place within each man and has value only for that man ”.
Even if very little of Hermes Trismegistus has come down to you for certain, I guarantee you that death and the consequent spiritual rebirth, in a man who has surpassed himself, were an integral part of his doctrine. It is enough to recall the initiation that is said to take place inside the pyramids, where the initiate was left alone and in complete darkness and at the mercy of his fears; so that, in the end, either he was able to overcome himself and the fears he had in sé, or was pulled out of those places completely annihilated.
Gautama himself, the Buddha, needed to meditate in solitude for some decades, even though he realized that this had been excessive, so much so that he affirmed that "worldly life and total asceticism are only unnecessary extremes, but it is thanks to the middle way made up of faith, courage, right thought and right knowledge that leads to beatitude ”. And this even though he openly declared that "meditation in solitude is a necessary step to improve oneself".
Another great personage - that mythical Orpheus, whose "mysteriosophy" greatly influenced the thought of later ages and thinkers of the caliber of Pythagoras and Plato - is narrated that one day he said: "From man you became God, but to do so you must tear like me from the Maenads ", which, symbolically, meant that before becoming God, just and good to everyone, it is necessary to tear oneself apart in order to know oneself, in order to be able to reunite one's fragments into something more harmonious and complete.
And maybe that Moses, from one moment to the next, thundered towards the Jews his teachings and his visions of escape from Egypt? Not at all, dear creatures: before doing this he withdrew from the court of Egypt in the temple Midian, and certainly not to hide; indeed, his intent was precisely to reveal himself to his own eyes.
Thus Pythagoras of Samos; before founding his school and stopping in Crotone, he traveled for a long time in solitude in search of his inner reality of him, and only when he found it did he work to communicate it to others.
Again: it is enough to think of these words of Plato to realize what he had done, since it would be malignant to think that he preached good and scratched badly: "The thought of man must first have himself as an object, abstracting from his body that it is an impediment to him, and only when the inside is clarified can the thought be turned outside, fruitfully for oneself and for others ”.
And what about Christ? I think you are all familiar with the fact that, before beginning to preach his message of human brotherhood, he fasted for forty days in the desert, and I do not think I need to explain that the temptations he suffered were certainly not the work of the devil but came from the intimate, the last glimpses of his unconscious that he had to face, know and resolve before he could truly be able to teach others what he had understood. Scifo