“It’s the chance to play beyond your death in the Communion of Saints and still be a conscious participant. The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout the realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault
The Nature of Sainthood
“Saints live the light, warmth and life of heaven. Celestial gold, blue and white radiate into their lives and through their lives. … Saints do not aspire to cosmic thought, to a comprehension of the totality of things, but rather to divine life.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p263
“When TS Eliot says to live at the intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of a saint, what he failed to mention in the fine print is the saint is simply a shorthand term for a real and authentic human being. A saint is simply one who’s managed to stabilize a World 24 presence in this world and thus is in a position to be of cosmic service and to render the world and speak to the world and on behalf of the world in and through conscience.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Imaginal Wisdom School 8-2020, 36:00 0818 IWS TuesdayPM Q & A.
“Almighty and powerless, both at once—this is why miracles of healing in human history were able to be accomplished by saints whilst bloody wars and disasters raged around them!” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p84.
The Practices of Saints
“In your spiritual path, if you always open, relax, yield, soften inwardly, no matter what situation comes your way in life, if you don’t let anything push you into brace, harden, tighten, panic—the more you learn how to do that, the more transformed you will be. And if you could go through one day, and for the whole day, you yielded all day, you’d be a saint by the end of the day.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Conscious Love, 3:45 disc 1 track 10.
“Surrender is more like allowing things to roll off your back. So these two skills, attention and surrender, are what spiritual teachers work on over and over and over again with to help you learn the gentle act of being present. So as you practice it, you begin to discover that you have a little joy machine right inside you and that you can make your own happiness just like people make popcorn or ice cream. You really can do it. It’s the secret the saints have learned. … So, Saint Anthony in the third century, said, keep your attention in yourself.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Awakened Mind Awakened Heart, 7:19 Disc 1 Track 5.
“Saint Anthony, once asked what the monk’s journey was, the great Abba Anthony. And he says, oh, we fall down and we get up again. We fall down and we get up again. We fall down and get up again.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil Feb 2024 CA, 13:00 Day 4c Evening Session.
Saints in the Christian Wisdom Tradition
“Saint Benedict, whose rule put together so beautifully in the 5th century, has served as the basis of Christian transformational practice for up 1500 years. And which is still actively observed in the rhythm and structure of our schools. His wisdom, the psychological as well as the spiritual maturity and forgiveness that goes through the rule of Saint Benedict, has made it a stable guide for wisdom transformation and a foundation of our work.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Points Five through Eight on the Wisdom Way of Knowing Wisdom Lineage, 30:00
The Role of Saints in the Cosmos
“While we are awake, working on developing being and authority, should we call on saints, World 24 beings for help? By all means, by all means, if you’re comfortable with that. Yes, one of the things that precisely makes people saints, the saint is really kind of the Christian equivalent of what in other, in Asian paths would be called the bodhisattva—a person who, while having achieved a state of enlightenment sufficient that would have gotten him or her out of this whole human rat race, because of love, continues to look gently toward the earth and the people that live here to offer help, wisdom, and perspective. And it is specifically the saints that we work toward, that we work with in unimaginable partnerships, World 24 partnerships. … Every really live saint practice, if it comes authentically to you, increases the strength and the personal connection between the realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil Feb 2024 CA, 3:16 Day 4c Evening Session.
“I believe that each soul has a signature vibration and that it lasts beyond this realm. It lasts out for a while into the, what’s called in some of the inner maps, the Imaginal realm. And it’s exactly the basis of sainthood and praying to the Saints as we understand it.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer-Knowing Without Knowing, 2:29 disc 3 track 11.
“It’s the chance to play beyond your death in the Communion of Saints and still be a conscious participant. Only at this time, instead of being the one down there saying, Lord, have mercy, you’re the one extending that mercy. The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout these realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont Oct 2019 Gurdjieff-Teilhard, 31:04 11 – FRI PM Teaching.
Logion 50
Yeshua says...
Suppose you are asked,
"Where have you come from?"
say, "We have come from the Light at its source,
from the place where it came forth
and was manifest as Image and Icon.
If you are asked, "Are you that Light?"
say, "We are its children,
and chosen by the Source, the Living Father."
If you are questioned,
"But what is the sign of the Source within you?"
say, "It is movement and it is rest."
Men's curiosity searches past and future
And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint—
No occupation either, but something given
And taken, in a lifetime's death in love,
Ardour and selflessness and self-surrender.
TS ELIOT from The Dry Salvages, (no.3 of the Four Quartets)
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 introducing the Gospel of Thomas.
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