"The states or stages of the soul corresponding to concentration, meditation and contemplation are those of purification, illumination and union." Meditations on the Tarot The Nature of Contemplation "What is the gnostic sense? It is the contemplative sense....
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...
Allow this teaching from the Hermetica—The Key—to settle in the body and soul. The key turns when the will quiets, the senses rest, and the mind consents to be seen by the Good. That’s the path ‘up the mount.’ What follows is a quiet prose companion; a gentle soaking...
The Angel and the Lion constitute the other pair of opposites on the cross of man’s instinctivity. The Angel’s moral conscience unites with the Lion’s moral courage. The Nature of Courage "Exploring Plato's four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance 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...
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...
“It’s not the nature of the Divine providence to lay on us more than we're really willing to bear. You won't be able to hear what you're not yet able to live.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Revelation "No real truth in the world has ever been revealed apart from...
A Wisdom evening blessing for the close of day As this day completes its appointed work and the body prepares for rest,may you remember the eternal Presence that neither wakes nor sleeps—dwelling within these sacred vessels of flesh and bone.May Knowing settle quietly...
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 idea of reciprocal feeding is very central in the work of Jesus. And this wonderful mirror that Gurdjieff gave us really allows us to go back and look at the teaching of the head of our own particular wisdom stream to hear it with a fundamentally different...
“The Gospel of John is written from the marriage of Good with Truth. For this reason at the very beginning of John's Gospel, the grace and truth of Jesus Christ are contrasted with the Truth (the ‘law of Moses’).” Maurice Nicoll The Nature of Grace and Truth "You must...