by William Britten | Consciousness, Attention, Being, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Kingdom of Heaven, Meditations on the Tarot |
“These laws of the Work cannot remain forms of blind external obedience but become things that you acknowledge and understand and eventually will for yourself.” Maurice Nicoll The True Nature of Obedience “Obedience means ob-audere, listen to the depths, or...
by William Britten | Wisdom Teachings, Cynthia Bourgeault, Meditations on the Tarot, Reciprocal Feeding |
“It’s not the nature of the Divine providence to lay on us more than we’re really willing to bear. You won’t be able to hear what you’re not yet able to live.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Revelation “No real truth in the world has ever...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Being, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Meditations on the Tarot |
The idea of justice on this Earth is illusion. All of sleeping humanity belongs to a tiny planet which is a kind of lunatic asylum. There is no justice, no spiritual justice. The Classical Understanding of Justice “Plato’s four cardinal virtues: wisdom,...
by William Britten | Reciprocal Feeding, Cynthia Bourgeault, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Gospel of Thomas |
“The idea of reciprocal feeding is very central in the work of Jesus. And this wonderful mirror that Gurdjieff gave us really allows us to go back and look at the teaching of the head of our own particular wisdom stream to hear it with a fundamentally different...
by William Britten | Good, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Meditations on the Tarot |
“The Gospel of John is written from the marriage of Good with Truth. For this reason at the very beginning of John’s Gospel, the grace and truth of Jesus Christ are contrasted with the Truth (the ‘law of Moses’).” Maurice Nicoll The Nature of Grace and Truth...
