“You really see this in the ‘blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness’. Because as so many of those great parables say, the yearning that you have for the divine is already the yearning that the divine has for you.” Cynthia Bourgeault

“To exalt oneself or to abase oneself, to specialize oneself in order to gain temporary advantages or to be moved only by the hunger and thirst for truth, beauty and goodness, to build a tower or to grow ‘sleeping and rising night and day…without knowing how’—here is the choice that every human being, every community, every tradition or spiritual school, must make.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p449.

“One should know how to ask and one should dare to ask, whilst forgetting one’s humility and one’s presumption. Children know how to ask and dare to ask. Are they presumptuous? No, because each question that they pose is at the same time an avowal of their ignorance. Are they humble, therefore? They are in so far as they know and sense their ignorance, and they are not in so far as they are driven by hunger and thirst to know and understand to the point of forgetting themselves—including all humility and all presumption in them.” Meditations on the Tarot, p394.

“The essence of vertical respiration is the alternation between prayer and benediction or grace. These two elements of vertical respiration manifest themselves in all domains of the inner life—mind, heart and will. Thus a relevant problem for the mind, which is not due to curiosity or intellectual collectionism, but rather to the thirst for truth, is fundamentally a prayer. And the illumination by which it may be followed is the corresponding benediction or grace.” Meditations on the Tarot, p100.

“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6

“The fourth Beatitude refers to those who long to understand what is that goodness of being and what is that knowledge of Truth that leads to the higher level. They are those who, feeling their nothingness, their ignorance, feeling they are dead in their inner being, long to be taught what Truth the higher Man must know and follow and what Good means at the level of the Kingdom of Heaven. They hunger for Good and thirst for Truth, for the union of these two in a man makes him have the inner harmony called righteousness.” Maurice Nicoll, The New Man, p150-151.

“You really see this in the ‘blessed are the poor’, or ‘blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness’. Because as so many of those great parables say, the yearning that you have for the divine is already the yearning that the divine has for you.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Divine Exchange, 3:19 disc 3 track 8.

“The Gospel puts the peacemakers in the same list as those who are poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, and those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, assigning them another blessing than that of which they are deprived. ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God’ (Matthew v, 9) 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.” Meditations on the Tarot, p222.

“He who does not have attention in himself cannot be poor in spirit, cannot weep and be contrite, nor be gentle and meek, nor hunger and thirst after righteousness, nor be merciful, nor a peacemaker, nor suffer persecution for righteousness sake. In other words no attention in the heart, no Beatitude life.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Kanuga Nov 2015, 13:25 Day 4.2c Morning Teaching Part 3 of 3.

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Logion 2
Yeshua says...
If you are searching, you must not stop until you find.
When you find, however, you will become troubled.
Your confusion will give way to wonder.
In wonder you will reign over all things.
Your sovereignty will be your rest.

Logion 11
Yeshua says,
The sky and all that lies in the dimensions above it
will cease to exist.
The dead know nothing of life, and the living will never die.
When you consume that which is already dead,
you are turning it back into life.
So, then, when you too re-emerge into the Light,
what will you do?
For on the day when you were created one,
you also became two,
but when you come to realize your twoness again,
what will you do?

Logion 49
Yeshua says...
Blessed are those chosen and unified.
The Realm of the Kingdom is theirs.
For out of her you have come,
and back to her you are returning.

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Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll’s The New Man refer to Martino Fine Books, Eastford CT, 2019

Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.