Spiritual heart, eye of the heart, as the gateway to higher realms.

“Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that confusion and disturbance resonates throughout one’s whole being. It is for this reason that I told you to find contentment at the level of the heart, and if you are discouraged, take heart in the presence of the Image of your true nature. Those with ears, let them hear this.” Yeshua’s last teaching in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene: Dialogue One

“We have subtle subconscious faculties we are not using. Beyond the limited analytic intellect is a vast realm of mind that includes psychic and extrasensory abilities; intuition; wisdom; a sense of unity; aesthetic, qualitative and creative faculties; and image-forming and symbolic capacities. Though these faculties are many, we give them a single name with some justification for they are working best when they are in concert. They comprise a mind, moreover, in spontaneous connection to the cosmic mind. This total mind we call heart.” Kabir Helminski, Living Presence, p205

“Our mind, giving itself to the Divine mind, receiving the Divine Mind, giving itself  back—that total thing—is heart.  Heart is the process, heart is the flow of the union between the realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal Wisdom School 2020 Wednesday am teaching 43:00

“What it means to enter the Imaginal realm is to bring our higher mind and higher heart into alignment with a causality and reality that’s moving far faster, more intensely, and more coherently than our own fragmented world. And that this world is not only real, but it is causal with respect to ours.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal Wisdom School 2020, Sunday Eve 54:00

“Your heart knows much more about you than your head does.” Maurice Nicoll, p1659

“The object of esoteric teaching is to produce a profound change in the level of Being. There are many things in the Work that you cannot understand with your head but only with your heart. It takes two Centers to understand anything.” Maurice Nicoll, p627

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Logion 69
Yeshua says...
Blessed are all those who are persecuted
down into the depths of the heart.
Only there will they come to know
their true Father and Source.
Blessed are the hungry ones.
Their inner longings will be satisfied.

Logia 28   
Yeshua says...
I stood to my feet in the midst of the cosmos,
appearing outwardly in flesh.
I discovered that all were drunk
but none were thirsty,
and my soul ached for the children of humanity,
for their hearts are blind.
They cannot see from within.
They have come into the cosmos empty,
and they are leaving it empty.
At the moment you are inebriated,
but when freed from the effects of wine,
you too may turn and stand.

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See related Impressions for this topic.

See other writings on the Imaginal Realm

Kabir Helminski, Living Presence: a Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self, (TarcherPerigree, 2017)

Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise. 

All quotations from the Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Mary Magdalene are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.