When the disciple is ready, the teacher appears, because the disposition is within us and the mastery is within us ...
This notion is common to Zen, where it is simply said that "when the student is ready, the teacher arrives", an organic synchronicity of the spiritual process. And in fact to most of the esoteric traditions, among them alchemy, where the beautiful myth of Elías The Artist, the immemorial alchemist, patron of hermetic art, who legendarily obtained the philosopher's stone and with it the immortality - linked to the prophet Elijah who is said to have been taken to God without having to die unlike what happened with Moses. This mysterious alchemist visited the adepts who had reached the maturity of their art and who had the moral integrity to receive the gift of universal medicine or the dust of projection. While this story may be symbolic - since Elijah can be the universal internal adept that exists within all beings, in the same way that all metals are said to contain the seed of gold - in any way it illustrates the point that expresses then Manly P. Hall in his text The Alchemist's Primer: Fundamentals of Esoteric Transformation:
When the disciple is ready, the teacher appears, because the disposition is within us and the mastery is within us. When we have reached a point where we deserve the next level, it is always transmitted to us, usually by an archetypal symbol, or sometimes through a new point of view. We have read a sacred text thousands of times, we have examined a scholarly work a hundred times, but suddenly, when reviewing this text a thousand and one times, the meaning is illuminated in us, and this enlightenment of meaning is what Jacob Boehme called "The Aurora", the dawn of the meaning is the reward that the individual receives having taken the experiment right to the lower level of what that dawn represents. When it reaches the level at which the dawn must be the next, then it arrives; and this is the crown of the adept in alchemy. Then he has the secret and by extension he can use the secret in the way he sees fit; but before he has achieved it, he has discovered integrity, and for that reason he would be incapable of wasting, corrupting or compromising the wisdom he has received.
Thus we have the double understanding of why the teachers always arrive at the exact time. Not only because otherwise we could not understand the teachings, also because true wisdom is responsibility, goodness and commitment to a higher life. It is not only that the wise person does not act in such a way that he abuses his power, but rather that the wise person is incapable of acting in an incorrect way - this is what his wisdom and superiority consist of.
