by William Britten | Poems in Song, Attention, Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Poems-Benedictions-Intentions |
Short life poems based on Cynthia Bourgeault’s teachings. The first is grounded in the everyday practice of love. The second is based on the cosmological teachings of Boehme, Teilhard, and Gurdjieff. Love’s Yielding Gesture This motion lives in my first...
by William Britten | Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Thomas, Poems in Song |
From the book of Philip: None can see themselves in water or in a mirror unless there is light. Water alone shows nothing. What is needed is a second immersion. See Yourself See the heavens and earth, without becoming them. See the everlasting reality, and become like...
by William Britten | Good, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Third Force |
“Real Will comes from above, from a higher level. … Real Will means great meaning and great understanding and great flexibility.” Maurice Nicoll A Force That Draws Things Together “Real Will is a force that draws things together into an enlargement of meaning.”...
by William Britten | Being, Attention, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas |
“Wait in patience until light arises out of darkness and leads thee. And light does arise out of darkness somewhere in the soul.” Cynthia Bourgeault Mother of Will “Gurdjieff said: ‘Patience is the Mother of Will.’ That is, Will, passing through patience as Third...
by William Britten | Self-Remembering, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Meditations on the Tarot, Self-Observation |
First, sly and clever, then steady and wise, on the path to spiritual development. The Nature and Definition of Sly Man “There are many different forms of Self-Remembering, and Sly Man was once defined as he who knows how to remember himself in different ways at...
