The Kingdom of Heaven is not a physical place but a state of inner transformation: teachings on the divine reality accessible here and now through transformed perception.
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...
Purification, illumination and union represent the universal pathway of spiritual development found across all wisdom traditions. This eternal way creates the rainbow of hope. The Three Fundamental Stages “The three ‘ways’ or stages of traditional...
Inspired by the Hermetic teachings and teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault May you rest knowingthe surrendering you did today—however small, however hidden—was real work.May you trust the exchangethat flowed through you today,between bounded and unbounded,particular and...
“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...
All those who have evolved have left memorials behind them in teachings, parables, and other directions for those still in prison on earth. These constitute the map and compass, the chart, the secret instructions for freedom in spirituality. The Nature of Our Prison...
You can reach a stage in which you begin to have a feeling of freedom from your moods, your emotions, and your thoughts. This is the beginning of inner freedom, spiritual freedom. Maurice Nicoll The Nature of True Freedom "All freedom is gained by rising in the...
"When Jesus said, in my father's house are many mansions, I think that the Great Chain of Being's maps allow us one way to imagine what he's talking about." Cynthia Bourgeault The Universal Teaching of Many Mansions "Virtually all the wisdom traditions of the world...
Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a net, and "is not attainable by everyone in any one particular cycle of time." Mauarice Nicoll Selection in the Kingdom of Heaven "In the teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven and its relation to humanity on earth as given in...
"The flaming sword is always active in the spiritual life of humanity. It calls to seekers and it repulses thieves." Valentin Tomberg Logion 98Yeshua says...The Father's realm is like a manwanting to kill someone powerful.So he draws a sword in his own houseand puts...
“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 Understanding...
"Whenever we remember ourselves in the mechanical sense by remembering our miseries and suffering, we are like Lot's wife." Maurice Nicoll ”No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke IX, 62.) “The tendency in the...
The meaning of the wedding banquet parable: a wedding has to do with conjunctions, and not having a wedding garment means not having any emotional desire to unite with the Wisdom Teachings inwardly. “If you work wisely and well, you develop something which the...