Four elements of human harvest: faith, hope, love … and conscience. Those who sow in winter reap in summer; winter is this world, summer is the world of Openness. Let us sow in the world, so as to harvest in summer. To pray is not to prevent winter, but to allow...
Crafting a song in poetry, from whatever words and phrases arrive during Lectio Divina. Saying 67 in The Gospel of Philip says “Truth did not come into the world naked, but veiled with images and archetypes; otherwise it cannot be received.” This batch of Philip...
Teachings from the Gospels of Thomas and Philip on ripening and coming into being. Threshold of Ripening “It is necessary to work, and to allow growth; to think, and to await the growth and ripening of thought; and that it is necessary for the magical word to be...
"When the heart is aligned with its eternal image, abundance cascades forth from that place of origin.” Cynthia Bourgeault When Yeshua appeared to his disciples in glory on the mountain, he was great, he was not small. It was he who made his disciples great, so...
The Gospel of Philip carries a teaching so old: that death entered the world through separation, and that the wound at the origin of things heals only through union. Philip calls it the bridal chamber. Voices circling from different centuries, different forms,...
A daily poem from the Wisdom teachings of Valentin Tomberg Effort and Grace: a Consent CycleOrientation Grace falls like rain on open ground.Effort is the sash lifted,the curtain billowing. Two currents meet—one rising from below, one descending from above.Wings...
A harmonic Impression on spiritual surrender to Divine permeation. Yeshua says...Whoever drinks what flows from my mouthwill come to be as I amand I also will come to be as they are,so that what is hidden will become manifest.Logion 108, Bauman Divine Permeation...
From the sayings of Thomas: Humanity started poorly, on the path of division. But the path to unity is still open. There are five evergreen trees waiting in paradise. Logion 19 Yeshua says... Blessed are all who come to live at the point of arising — their "genesis,"...
A contemplative meditation on alignment with Good. Good Speaks Like Silence May you hearwhat does not raise its voice. May the Good meet youthe way light meets an open hand—without insistence,without demand. May its warmth gather in youbefore you name it,before...
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Paradox of Finite Being Not sin, but the weight and density of created finite being-ness itself. "[Rafe] was the one who was...
Wise poetry from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault CONSENTI.Unbearable stillness of unredeemed love. Waiting, before consent. Great wealth aching toward poverty.Love with no vessel. Fullness without form. Stuck in dull, dead latency.II.The wilderness. Seven...
A portrait of Yeshua from his own words It is Yeshua, the Anointed One, who has seduced and beguiled us all, and yet he has never coerced or oppressed anyone, and because of this the Blessed Ones become fully realized human beings… he gives rest to those who...