by William Britten | Third Force, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll |
To be present in third force is to unite the opposites. “The primary opposites were called by an ancient Mediterranean school love and hate—or attraction and repulsion. What was meant was that there is a force that unites and an opposite force that separates and...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Imaginal Realm, Meditations on the Tarot |
Time and consciousness, time and attention. “I’m more and more persuaded that attention is the new time in Gebser’s Integral [structure of consciousness].” Cynthia Bourgeault Traditional Views of Time “Time creates nothing; it only combines and recombines that...
by William Britten | Kingdom of Heaven, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Parables |
“We are coming into a new aeon, a new age. Aeons lasts about two thousand years and then its truth wears out. Then it is necessary to find new truth whereby to live, with new meaning, because the old meanings no longer conduct any force.” Maurice Nicoll...
by William Britten | Consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot, Non-Identifying, Wisdom Teachings |
He who aspires to authentic spiritual experience never confounds the intensity of the experience with the truth that is revealed. The Nature of True Spiritual Experience “An important rule of ‘spiritual hygiene,’ namely, that he who aspires to...
by William Britten | Conscience, Being, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gospel of Thomas, Meditations on the Tarot |
“The Quakers taught a practice of welcoming that inner light of conscience when it entered, standing still in it, submitting to it.” The Nature of Conscience as Inner Light “Direct communication between intelligence and wisdom is, truth to tell, only the...
