The Master Agreement

In conventional knowledge, humans try to know the whole from the parts, the perfect from the imperfect, the high from the low, the pure from the impure, truth from falsehood, the Soul from Nature. The Infinite from the finite.

In the Yoga of Integral Knowledge, the law is exactly the opposite. The parts are known from the whole, the imperfect from the perfect, the low from the high, the impure from the pure, falsehood from truth, Nature from Soul. The finite from the Infinite.

Hence to start from the highest teaching is not an ego-trip, but a necessity, an evolutionary imperative. Any teaching of intermediary stature, as a goal, will not suffice, and may even distort and derail.

As long as we create agreements in the terms and the province of Nature, we will never know the truth. By default, we will, therefore, remain in suffering. In the province of nature, pleasure-slavery goes hand in hand with misery-addiction. A perpetual football toss.

For Soul to master Nature, we have to operate in the province of the Soul, on the terms of the Soul. Nothing less will do.

All agreements we execute with human beings are traps of agreement with Nature, in one way or another. Because all humans are part of Nature, as we stand today.

The only agreement or relationship that will deliver is the unconditional Soul agreement/relationship with the Supreme, the One Infinite in His various relations with the finite. This is the Divine Law, and the Master Agreement. All other agreements, if any, have to be addenda to the Master.