Living from Good
The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names in different writings. In the Gospels, it is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. Jesus's Central Teaching "Jesus said, I have come that you may have...
“I Am is the formula of revelation in the world of the existence of the divine essence of Jesus, such as 'I am the door’, 'I am the true vine’.” Meditations on the Tarot The Kingdom Vision: No Separation "Jesus was talking about the kingdom of heaven as a state of...
“John the Baptist represents the side of Truth—that is, the law, without its grace. Christ is the union of Truth with Good. Good is above Truth. All Truth must lead to good." Maurice Nicoll A Bridge Between Two Worlds “Jesus Christ could not come into another milieu...
Teachings from the Gospels of Thomas and Philip on ripening and coming into being. Here for RipeningThere is a season of unripe fruit. Unclarified, unfinished, still incoherent.After the tilling, the sowing, the waiting,harvest comes.We are here for ripeningWhat...
“To walk through that eye of a needle and come out on the other side, what we’re immediately released into is a freedom to do the right thing, to follow conscience.” Cynthia Bourgeault Psychological Richness as Barrier “A person who believes in himself, in his virtue...
“Stay present in the moment. Let your feet and your breath and your willingness return you to the moment. And remember that it's at the moment of return that the real spiritual work is done." Cynthia Bourgeault The Portal of Awakening "What they call the unitive or...
“It is said: ’Forgive us of our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything. You hold back yourself and you hold back the other person.” Maurice Nicoll The Spiritual Balance of Forgiveness "It is the balance whose one scale...
“Unless you cancel your debts, nothing in you can grow. It is said in the Lord's Prayer: ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything.” Maurice Nicoll Debts and Debtors The Heaven-Earth Balance Grace operates...
“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...
"The higher creates the lower on every successive level in the Great Chain of Being.” Maurice Nicoll Recognition of Higher and Lower "All esotericism begins with the idea that there is something higher. Exoteric systems, such as religions, say that this something...
“The vow of poverty is to live as much from the word which comes from the mouth of God as from the bread which enters the mouth of man.” Meditations on the Tarot The Foundation: True Poverty as Receptivity “The vow of poverty is the practice of inner emptiness, which...
The single eye unites two ways of seeing: the inner eye gazing into eternity and the outer eye engaging worldly wonders, creating unity of vision. "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine...