This document discusses the "Call of the Friend" which leads people out of tension towards achieving authentic individuality. The Call can come from within oneself or be echoed by someone further along in their journey. Answering the Call involves going before the "Court of Conscience" where one's inauthentic self is accused. With the Friend acting as advocate, one pleads guilty and promises to work on becoming more authentic. Keeping this promise allows one to be released from "Death", maintaining one's integrity.

1. The Esoteric Teaching
Call of the Friend 1: The Call

2. Call of the Friend
•Foundation Series:
•Becoming Genius:
•Being in the World:
•Call of the Friend:
Process of Becoming
Learning how to Learn
Ontological Analysis
Achieving Authenticity

3. The Call of the Friend can happen
to everyone. It is a potential that can
occur at any moment, due to the
inherent tension of Being in the World.
The Call of the Friend leads us out of
this tension towards a resolution
based on achieving our authentic
individuality.
Call of the Friend
Being in
the World
Call of
the Friend
Resoluteness
Resolution

4. The Call of the Friend can be heard
from within ourselves. It also can be
echoed by someone outside of us—
someone who is further along in the
process of regaining their authentic
Being.This is a special kind of friendship,
not based on attachment or seeking
reward, but on regaining and maintaining
one’s individual integrity (wholeness).
Call of the Friend
Being in
the World
Call of
the Friend
Resoluteness
Resolution

5. When we hear the Call of the Friend
within us, we seek external confirmation
of its silent message. If we are fortunate,
there is someone near us who can echo
that Call, summoning us to the Court of
Conscience in the Hall of Silence within
our hearts.This opens up the possibility
for actualizing authentic Being.
Call of the Friend
Authentic
Friend
Inauthentic
Self
Awakening
Call of the Friend

6. In the Court of Conscience:
•We are the accused.
•Our Friend is our Advocate.
•Authentic Being is the judge.
•Death is the bailiff.
Call of the Friend
Authentic
Being
Inauthentic
Self
Accusation/
Judgment
Court of Conscience

7. The Court of Conscience accuses us of:
• Being inauthentic
• Destroying the unrealized possibilities of
authentic being and action within us
• The irresponsibility of making the Other
the cause of our actions
As soon as we open our mouth in self-
defense,“Your Honor, I...” we declare our
guilt.What can we do but confess and take
refuge of the mercy of the court?
Call of the Friend
Authentic
Being
Inauthentic
Self
Accusation/
Judgment
Court of Conscience

8. Our only hope is the promise of our
Advocate, the Friend, that “Your Honor,
the Defendant will engage himself in a
remedial program to recognize his
mistakes and revive his authentic Being. I
will see that he enrolls in the school of
Being Integrity.”
The Judge will silently approve and close
the proceeding, warning that it can be
reopened at any time.
Call of the Friend
The Friend
Inauthentic
Self
Pleading/
Promise
Court of Conscience

9. Our guilty plea and resoluteness, our commitment to
regenerate our authentic Being is the bail bond that
earns us temporary respite from Death, the Bailiff of the
Court of Conscience. Our release is conditional—
contingent upon our keeping our promise and actually
doing the work advised by the Friend.
Knowing that the world will fight and try to deceive us at
every turn, we still must keep our word as promised by
our Advocate.This is the measure of our integrity, the
price of real and lasting freedom and dignity.
Call of the Friend