by William Britten | Being, Conscience, Gospel of Thomas, Imaginal Realm, Meditations on the Tarot, Reciprocal Feeding |
Exploring one of Plato’s four cardinal virtues: Wisdom, Courage, Temperance (sobriety or hygiene), and Justice. [The image: The higher vessel exchanging with the lower, or perhaps the reverse—an unbroken circuit of transformation. Gurdjieff might call it a depiction...
by William Britten | Law of Three, Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Intentional Suffering, Jacob Boehme, Third Force |
The Law of Three: from the primordial ground of arising to accepting the tensions of daily life. “Third force has its genesis in bearing the tension of emergence.” Cynthia Bourgeault Origins of Manifestation “Tensioning both for Teilhard de Chardin and for...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot, Wisdom Teachings |
“It’s very, very good to be a hanged man vis-a-vis a spiritual discernment, because the head is going to be the last to catch on.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Spiritual Discernment “An exploration of Plato’s Four Cardinal Virtues: wisdom...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot |
“The states or stages of the soul corresponding to concentration, meditation and contemplation are those of purification, illumination and union.” Meditations on the Tarot The Nature of Contemplation “What is the gnostic sense? It is the...
by William Britten | Conscience, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot |
The Angel and the Lion constitute the other pair of opposites on the cross of man’s instinctivity. The Angel’s moral conscience unites with the Lion’s moral courage. The Nature of Courage “Exploring Plato’s four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage,...
