Being has to do with Goodness. With Good in your Being, you will be able to understand and live the Wisdom Teachings and not merely know them.
“Blissfulness is the state of the human being where spirit, soul and body are united in a comprehensive rhythm.” "What is joy? What is it in its deeper sense? "Seen in the light of the Arcanum 'The World'—the Arcanum of rhythmic movement or dance—joy is the harmony of...
Benediction and Blessing for those who walk the ancient road. 🌿 Benediction for the Way May you find yourself gatheredinto the hidden chamber of silence,where thought falls awayand the eye of the heart opens.May the Light be born in you anew,so that you walk as a...
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...
An Evening Prayer and Benediction: Call to Sacred Rest Night falls now like a mercy, drawing its ancient curtain across the day's striving, and in this deepening quiet, we remember what the Hermetic masters knew: that darkness is the secret dwelling place, the womb...
“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 listen...
Evening Blessings as the day draws to its gentle close … Beloved vessel of light,May you stand as the still point between the tides,rooted in the unshakeable ground of I am.In this tender hour between day and night,pause... and remember what you have been today,the...
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, courage,...
"The long arc of evolution bends toward human consciousness." Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Consciousness "Consciousness and Conscience are similar in their respective spheres, one being in the Intellectual Center, the other in the Emotional Center. Consciousness...
“The quality of your transformed work, your striving, your sincerity, your generous heart in being willing to offer yourself this way is indeed food for the angels.” Cynthia Bourgeault Divine Nature as Generosity "You're awake, but awake to what? You don't know....
“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 development...
The more that you have a truly humble spirit in the old monastic sense, the more you become free. “It's the gentle laying down of self, the humble work, the not asking for visions, the not asking for illuminations, not even caring if anybody notices that you exist....
Spiritual intuition results from the intimate and profound alliance of intelligence and spontaneous wisdom. “Time, all our times, are contained in something bigger—a space. The fullness of time becomes space, a vast, gentle wideness in which all possible outcomes, all...