A 17th-century German cobbler who became one of Christianity’s most profound mystics. He saw how struggle is the very means through which Divine Love manifests.
WB: This Impression is a very deep, rich, and advanced curation of Cynthia Bourgeault’s synthesis of three massive cosmological systems (Boehme, Gurdjieff, Teilhard) around a single fundamental question in spiritual work: What is the energy of love? A previous...
“Spiritual sacrifice means to make holy. Make holy means to make whole.” Cynthia Bourgeault Three Sacred Vows “It is a matter of sacrificing the three powers of the soul to heaven. This sacrifice is nothing other than the three traditional and universal...
The single eye unites two ways of seeing: the inner eye gazing into eternity and the outer eye engaging worldly wonders, creating unity of vision. "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine...
“Stand firm, do not bend, is exactly what the tradition is talking about when they say surrender.” Cynthia Bourgeault God’s Protection and Timing “You know, you’ll be undone by a revelation, but your Heavenly Father knows you’re inside and knows at this point that you...
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 Boehme is...
The Gurdjieff Law of Three in the Trisagion Hymn. Agios O Theos (O Holy God), Agios ischyros (Holy, Strong), Agios athanatos, eleison imas (Holy, Immortal, have mercy on us) “What if Holy God is first force, Holy the Firm is Holy denying Second Force, and Holy the...
The Gurdjieff idea of Making Moon is an illustration of being steadfast. “Making Moon in myself is really about making sure that consciousness is not left unattended.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Rebuilding Trust WS 3.2 Crucible of Struggle 02:25 “To behave as you always...