"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 quality of your transformed work, your striving, your sincerity, your generous heart in being willing to offer yourself this way is indeed food for the angels.” Cynthia Bourgeault Divine Nature as Generosity "You're awake, but awake to what? You don't know....
Maurice Nicoll outlines the internal and external relationships of Sun-Earth-Man in Gurdjieff’s cosmological map of reality, the Ray of Creation: The Sun in the Cosmic Order "Different levels in the external Universe are representations of different levels of...
“What may be called the ‘astral body’ is obtained by means of friction, by the struggle between yes and no in man.” Ouspensky The Nature of Divine Love "Divine love is not about sentimentality. It is fire. And when it touches you, it transforms you." Cynthia...
"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...
“What if attention is the new form of time in the fourth dimension? That time gets converted into attention, which yields Jean Gebser’s intensification of consciousness.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Intensification "One of the things that Gebser insists about as...
To be present in third force is to unite the opposites. "The primary opposites were called by an ancient Mediterranean school love and hate—or attraction and repulsion. What was meant was that there is a force that unites and an opposite force that separates and that...
Time and consciousness, time and attention. “I’m more and more persuaded that attention is the new time in Gebser’s Integral [structure of consciousness].” Cynthia Bourgeault Traditional Views of Time "Time creates nothing; it only combines and recombines that which...
“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...
He who aspires to authentic spiritual experience never confounds the intensity of the experience with the truth that is revealed. The Nature of True Spiritual Experience "An important rule of 'spiritual hygiene,' namely, that he who aspires to authentic spiritual...