Letter to Kapilnathji of 8 July 1989

Please Note: This post from the Open Door category, “INO Schism” contains the views of Shri Gurudev Mahendranath regarding a schism within the INO which culminated in the appointment of a new leadership in 1989. This category is included in our archives as testament to the specific issues and time line of events. These posts are critical of the views and behavior of several people and do not reflect the uplifting concepts and ideals of the INO as a whole. Read on only if you are seeking accurate and reliable information regarding the specific issues involved. A document clearly explaining these issues is under development and will use these letters to validate its accuracy and time line.

Dearest Kapilnathji,

I loved your letter (30 June) and all the valid information about Mike’s syndrome stimulated by my blessings. The panic is on and it may be more advantageous than churning the ocean. The true facts are that Mike wrote to me in May confessing mistakes & blunders but he added—as if he wished to continue the No. 1 mistake—and revive AMOOKOS. I wrote to him suggesting he concentrated on the Naths & put AMOOKOS in cotton wool for 3 years, partly to formulate the rituals which have been neglected and to give AMOOKOS the power it needs when he has a much bigger ION to support it…

The short Opening Ritual for when the mages meet or the second called the Motivation Ritual to radiate their magick power have never yet been performed. 4 or 5 years ago I asked Mike to prepare the Sword Ritual and he could get Lucien M. to help him in this. This has never matured.

I think he has made the coffin nails by recruiting inferior people. Needless to say, I have never suggested or hinted at the end of AMOOKOS. But I now suspect he himself sees the adulteration and the inevitable failure of restarting AMOOKOS and wants to blame me.

I have never given Mike any orders but I have only and always made suggestions. I have never written any words to imply that it is my wish for AMOOKOS to discontinue. I suspect that something has been said and Mike has misread or given it a different meaning. Mike is not my slave and I have tried so very hard to get him to think for himself. So if he had a letter from me and did not like the suggestion, a match could have ended the matter. Instead he has paniced and phoned many people—long distance—and written to others and only given publicity to a mistake which could have been ignored…

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