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The guru's "getting" and self-enhancement are masked by images of enlightenment and selflessness and thus are made unconscious. Once his purity and hence superiority are taken for granted, it is assumed that he deserves to be "getting" precisely because he is thought enlightened. He can thus reprimand his disciple for the very activity he was involved in on a far grander scale without it seeming hypocritical. Who gets and who gives is never questioned because "spiritual" values mask what is really going on.
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The Ascended Master (AM) can get some (businesses, donations, cash, material goods, servants, adoration, obedience) because the AM is "above it all" and thus incorruptible. Only the guru WL continually lived within the veil, everyone else was at best occasionally there, and then often only 'positionally'; i.e. because we were 'under the covering' of the AM.
But the AM was 'dispositionally perfected', as it were, able to live 'in spirit' continually. Even the Bible occasionally was written by fallen humans, according to their concepts of right and wrong, but the AM's teachings were always of revelatory and oracular status.
Once this is received uncritically, and made unconscious, then the would-be guru can lead you down the primrose path. They've got the hook in you, and can pull you wherever they want you to go. And you never see it, because you don't see the hook.