The peacemakers scripture from the Beatitudes: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
The Foundation: Purity of Heart as Precursor
“When your heart becomes pure, and one of the ways that your heart becomes pure is by working to domesticate your animals. And then blessed are the peacemakers follows out of that one, because a being that’s been domesticated, a heart that’s pure, freed of envy and need, is able really to be a peacemaker without inducing into the equation a hidden agenda of self-righteousness, self-meritoriousness, or judgment, or wanting something back in return, to be really, really free so that you have nothing to get in any situation.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Divine Exchange, 02:00 Divine 03-09.
Inner Work: Making Peace Within
“To make peace in oneself is to be free from inner disharmonies, inner disturbances, inner contradictions. To make peace with others is to act always from what is Good and not to take hold of differences of opinion or argue about different viewpoints or theories, which always produce disagreements. If people acted from Good and not from divergence in theories and viewpoints—that is, from their different ideas of Truth, they would be peacemakers.” Maurice Nicoll, The New Man, p152
The Natural Consequence: From Single Heart to Unified Vision
“This beatitude follows as the logical consequence of all that has been laid out so far. When our hearts are gentled and single, when we’ve tamed the animal instincts, we become peacemakers. We are no longer wielding the sword of the binary operator that divides the world into good guys and bad guys, insiders and outsiders, winning team and losing team. When the field of vision has been unified, the inner being comes to rest, and that inner peaceableness flows into the outer world as harmony and compassion.” Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus, p46.
Practice: Aware Service as Path to Peace
“The more you can become aware in a serving way of everything that’s going on around you, the more you will move as a peacemaker.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Boehme for Beginners, 06:30 14 Track 2-14.
The Calling: Sons of God and the Hermit’s Path
“‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God’ is what is said in the Sermon on the Mount for those who refuse to take sides in the face of partial truths and prejudices, being dedicated to the cause of the whole truth which unites the world and bears peace to it.
“The itinerant Hermit—with his mantle, his lamp and his staff—is a ‘travelling salesman’ of peace. He makes his way from opinion to opinion, from belief to belief, from experience to experience—and traces his route so that he traverses the way of peace between opinions, beliefs and experiences, being always equipped with his mantle, lamp and staff. Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head, (Matthew viii, 20)
“It is the Master whom all itinerant hermits follow and serve. No, one need not take pity on the Hermit. Although, like his Master, he has nowhere to lay his head, he is already blessed with the good fortune that the Master promised to those who are peacemakers. He has the good fortune to participate in the work of the Son of God, in taking part in the solitude of the earthly life of the Son of Man.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p223.
The Paradox: Unity in Diversity
“Those who are peacemakers—hermits—do not in any way procure peace ‘at any price’ and without distinction in kind. For one can achieve peace in various ways. Peace is unity in diversity. There is no peace where there is no diversity, and there is no peace when there is only diversity.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p223.
Logion 86
Yeshua says...
Foxes have dens and birds have nests,
but the son of humanity
has no place to lay his head and rest.
Logion 48
Yeshua says...
Should two make peace in one house,
they could speak the word,
"Move!" to a mountain,
and it would obey them.
Read more Impressions on the Beatitudes.
Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus, Shambhala Publications, 2008
Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll’s The New Man refer to Martino Fine Books, Eastford CT, 2019
Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)
Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985
Read the Impression on Meditations on the Tarot.
Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.
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