“Act as a true human being. And that’s your legacy and gift, the practical sacrifice you make back into the planet.” Cynthia Bourgeault

“What is required of us at this point? I believe the highest work that we can undertake with full confidence is to sow into the earth, to sow into the cosmic memory, the living presence of the highest we can muster of what it has meant to be a human being. We have to radically sow at least World 48, and those that can do World 24, 24, and those that can do World 12, World 12. And that it won’t be lost from the memory bank of the planet. And because the long arc of evolution does bend towards consciousness, it will not be wasted. So I believe that is our chief work. I learned this powerfully at Tintern Abbey in 2016 on the night of the U.S. presidential election that delivered Donald Trump. Tintern Abbey, I’d only heard about in the past because of Wordsworth’s famous poetry. I didn’t know what it was. And when my host on a trip to Wales took me out there, I said, oh, this is a Trappist monastery. You know, a Cistercian monastery that I could tell the arches anywhere. I said, huh, I didn’t realize that England had any Cistercian monasteries, and I learned that, well, Tintern Abbey was an extraordinary powerful, it was a powerhouse of spiritual activity. And for 400 years, it was generating and pouring out into the planet these virtues, all the Trappist truth, goodness, kindness, humility, Christic love, squashed in one night. 1534, King Henry’s, whatever it’s called, the deconstitution of the monasteries, he was out to sack everything Catholic. And they fell upon it burned the roof, carted off the sacred vessels of the altar, killed the poor monks, sent the wealthy into slavery. One night, 400 years of practice obliterated as a tsunami of coarseness and violence overtook everything that had been achieved there. And as I was drawn in spite of myself closer and closer to the high altar, which has this blank space where a stained glass window used to be, and this green carpet where the stones used to be, and I found myself prostrating myself, full prostration before the high altar on this green grass, I heard something say, you have to have the guts to face that. If you can’t face that, you can’t live in the world. 

“You know, that the lower can take the higher at any second, and it’s all over. But, she says, look, we called you now, and you’re responding. Notice? What made you lie down in this grass? She says, take the lesson. Do what you can here. Act as a true human being. And that’s your legacy and gift, and in some ways, I think more and more in the planet now, the practical sacrifice you make back into the planet. To live as a human being when people are capitulating to mass terror, mass violence, mass flight. To live as a human being, compassionate, open, caring, trusting, vulnerable. Seeded into the planet.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Relearning Trust Sept 2022, 1:21:44 RT 04 Eve Teaching Q&A.

“Tradition can only live—as with all other living organisms—when it is a complete organism of mysticism, gnosis and effective magic, which manifests itself outwardly as Hermetic philosophy. This means to say simply that a tradition cannot live unless the whole human being lives through it, in it, and for it. For the whole human being is at one and the same time a mystic, a gnostic, a magician and a philosopher, i.e. he is religious, contemplative, artistic and intelligent. Everyone believes in something, understands something, is capable of something and thinks something. It is human nature which determines whether a tradition will live or die.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p43-44.

“The will-to-serve underlies the fundamental Hermetic attitude. Instead of putting forward the hand to take, the human being opens his mind, his heart and his will to receive that which will be graciously bestowed upon him. The inspiration, illumination and intuition that he seeks are not so much conquests accomplished by his will; they are rather gifts from above, preceded by the efforts of the human will endeavoring to become worthy.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p68-69.

“Human beings, as the animal species endowed with the most developed brain, are children of the serpent. Now, it is necessary to add that as beings aspiring to the ideal of the good, the beautiful and the true, human beings are children of the light. Because, whatever may be said in the contrary sense, there is no reason—nor is there anything given in the whole domain of biological evolution culminating in the formation of the human brain—which explains and makes the human aspiration towards truth, beauty and goodness appear necessary. Every monastery and convent is, moreover, a direct contradiction to the thesis that mankind is only the product of biological evolution.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p251-52.

Logion 39
Yeshua says...
Your scholars and religious leaders
have taken the keys of knowledge
and locked them away.
They have not used them to enter in,
nor have they allowed those desiring it to do so.
You, therefore, must be as subtle as serpents
and as guileless as doves.

Logion 8
 Yeshua says...
A true human being
can be compared to a wise fisherman
who casts his net into the sea
and draws it up from below full of small fish.
Hidden among them
is one large, exceptional fish
which he seizes immediately,
throwing back all the rest without a second thought.
Whoever has ears let them understand this.