The factors for the being-impulse of your conscience lie in the sorrow of our creator. The tears of God, to put it in metaphoric form.” Cynthia Bourgeault

The Divine Origin of Conscience

“[Cynthia quoting Gurdjieff in Beelzebub’s Tales]: ‘The factors for the being impulse of objective conscience arise in three brain beings from the localization in their presence of particles of the emanations of the sorrow of our all-loving and long-suffering endless creator. That is why the source of manifestations of genuine conscience in three center beings is sometimes called the representative of the creator.’

Do you hear what he just said there? That the factors for the being impulse of objective conscience lie in the sorrow of our creator, of our common father, of our God. And this is the origin of objective conscience in us. The tears of God, if you want to put it in metaphoric form.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2020 Oct Gurdjieff-Teilhard II, 29:50 013-Outside of Gurdjeffs Pessimism.

“Your conscience is actually the closest thing you have in you to a direct element, the direct substance of the being of God as it incarnates in you.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil April 2023 NC, 39:45 05b-Thurs am Teaching Evil.

Conscience as the Driveshaft of Evolution

“We’re going to see how awakened conscience is really the driveshaft of everything—the driveshaft of evolution, the driveshaft of emergence. But you’re not going to take away suffering even from God. Because it’s part and parcel of the continuing engendering of this holy being impetus.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2020 Oct Gurdjieff-Teilhard II, 34:34 013-Outside of Gurdjeffs Pessimism.

Calling Forth Hidden Conscience

“[Cynthia recounting the myth from Beelzebub’s Tales: ]”He discovered that the conditions of being were so abnormal in the planet that the sacred impulses of faith, hope, and love could no longer get any traction in their being. They’d forgotten, they had lost conscious touch with these things. But he says the being impulse of conscience still existed in their subconscious and could be called forth with the right formation occasions. So it wasn’t a matter of convincing or persuading, but creating containers in which beings could be reformed so that conscience could move out of a vestigial origin in their subconscious into the actual guiding light of their souls,.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil April 2023 NC, 16:01 03b-Tue am teaching Evil.

The Nature of Conscience

“Conscience is the ability to feel from and for the whole. It’s essentially the genius of the the feeling center. It’s it’s what you would call the equivalent in the moral realm to a strong sense of ascetic symmetry in in the aesthetic world—to feel the whole of the picture, to feel when something is out of balance and to make the action that brings things back into balance again, irrespective of one’s personal safety or needs.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil April 2023 NC, 03c-Tues pm Teaching Evil.

“Ouspensky once said, if consciousness is the ability to think everything at once, conscience is the ability to feel everything at once.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil April 2023 NC, 1:08:30 05b-Thurs am Teaching Evil.

Conscience and the Heart

“Conscience is fundamentally a sense of moral unity, that the oneness, the coherence of a picture will be broken if you act in other than the way that conscience aligns you with. If you drop conscience out, you’ve lost the heart. Period. You cannot proceed on the way of the heart without it being in tandem with a deepening conscience, which calls you to action, which calls you to self-correction, which calls you to step beyond even personal risk for the sake of the unity.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Introductory WS May 2025 CA, 23:43 Fri am Attention in the Heart 5-30-25.

“Your conscience should be clear so that it denounces you in nothing. Conscience is really the eye of the heart. Your conscience is the perfected lens, the retina, if you wish, of the seeing with the eye of the heart.

“When you get in a position where your conscience is in variance with you … this is the human condition. This is basically God’s number one tool for making us grow. But the bad news is that while you’re caught in this trouble, you are essentially sidelined to practice attention of the heart. Your conscience is short-circuited because it’s needed to align what it does spontaneously within the divine heart.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Introductory WS May 2025 CA, 1:10:20 14 Fri am Attention in the Heart 5-30-25.

Conscience and Real I

“Real I is the home of conscience in the second body, and it’s this that commands the mountain to move into the sea, and it moves.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Encounter With Evil April 2023 NC, 46:30 05b-Thurs am Teaching Evil.

Voluntary Suffering and Conscience

“When you consciously accept an intentional suffering on behalf of what your conscience tells you or compassion tells you, you won’t be diminished. It’s the voluntary acceptance of conditions, even if they’re awful, out of a greater charity, out of a greater willingness to bear your part in a whole, that will protect you. … So don’t fear. If conscience tells you you must do something some way, and this Logion says, it’s going to cost me my soul, and you say, I will pay the cost, you’ll be okay. You’ll be okay.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Introductory WS May 2025 CA, 1:02:30 06 Tues pm Gospel of Thomas 5-27-25.

Building Capacity for Conscience

“When higher insight, energy, when objective knowledge, objective conscience begins to download in a human system, it will have a tendency to fry at sockets. Basically, what happens is you pass out, you become a gibbering idiot. the system is not strong enough to hold it. You leak it, you throw it off so you don’t get shocked to death.

“What happens in monastic discipline, properly understood, or inner work properly understood, is you begin to build and purify a physical structure that can contain it lucidly without passing out before it. And this is done by bringing sobriety and balance to your whole bodily being. Engaging as we’ve talked about in our group’s three-centered awareness so that your body is also carrying it, your moving center, your emotional center so that you can bear the beams of love. And still remain conscious.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystery of Death 2021, 18:15 01 Tuesday Morning Session Mystery of Death.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“Conscience thus offers intelligence as vast a world of inner experience as does the empirical world for outer experience. Intelligence can therefore develop itself and grow in two directions simultaneously—in the direction of the outer empirical world, thanks to the senses, and in that of the inner empirical world, thanks to conscience. Conscience is the door—the sole legitimate and healthy one—to a world at least as vast, and much more profound, than the world that we perceive with the senses. And it is the decision of intelligence to become ‘the servant of conscience’ … which opens this door.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p511.

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Logion 6
His students asked him,
“Do you want us to fast?”
“How shall we pray?”
“Should we give offerings?”
“From what foods must we abstain? “
Yeshua answered,
“Stop lying.
Do not do what you hate,
because everything here lies open before heaven.
Nothing hidden will remain secret,
for the veil will be stripped away
from what lies concealed behind it.”

 Logion 106
Yeshua says…
When you are able to transform two into one,
then you will become a “Son of Humanity,”
and it will be possible for you
to say to a mountain, “Move,” and it will move.

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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)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.