Essential teachings from Maurice Nicoll, whose wartime talks in England became the Wisdom classic, Psychological Commentaries of Gurdjieff.
The laborers in the vineyard parable, with commentary from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll. The parable: But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out...
The Good Samaritan parable, with commentary from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll. “To a certain extent everyone asks for Good, as when a man puts an extra coal on the fire if it is cold. He does not expect any reward save the Good of the action. But nothing is...
The Beatitudes: Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. “The idea that a man can receive inner help or comfort by going against himself is not easy to grasp. Yet if there be a higher level from whence bliss proceeds with which communication...
The Beatitudes: Blessed Are the Meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "Now I will turn to the Sermon on the Mount. Amongst other things it says: Blessed are the poor in spirit—(those who do not identify) Blessed are the meek—(those who are not resentful) Blessed are...
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...
You have to find something in yourself that already lives beyond death and begin to live out of it now: Second Body, Kesdjan Body. Cynthia Bourgeault The Essential Definition “You have to find something in yourself that already lives beyond death and begin to...
The Beatitudes Explained by Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll: Pure in Heart. Singleness "This may well be the most important of all the Beatitudes. But what is purity of heart? In Wisdom teachings, purity means singleness, and the proper translation of this...
The strange idea that men are differently sown into the earth, in the light of the Parable of the Sower. “You must realize that all the parables in the Gospels are about the Kingdom of Heaven and the parable of the Sower is the first. It is the starting−point of...
“Wholeness means the integration of the masculine and feminine within you so that you transcend and embrace the opposites." Cynthia Bourgeault “When you realize that the two are one, and that each of us in our own minute particularity is living the archetypal story,...
What does Blessed are the poor in spirit mean in terms of finding the place between opposites? “We must realize that we live on this planet between the Opposites. Our whole lives, ordinarily, are governed by the Law of the Pendulum. We all swing to and fro. When you...
"Sometimes, it takes the complete collapse of every outer paradigm for you to realize you've just touched the pearl of great price." Cynthia Bourgeault “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great...
Maurice NicollAmwell HouseNOTE AT CHRISTMASTIME 1948 Throughout known history, various attempts have been made to awaken Man to the mystery of his existence. So strong, however, is the external man, the man formed by contact with external life via the senses—in short,...