This chapter is entitled 'No bridge exists between natural and spiritual man' In this chapter, Jan van Rijckenborgh explains that we have a threefold...
Jan van Rijckenborgh's identification of the three 'I's seems very practical to me: I have been able to identify these three consciousnesses that he refers to...
This chapter is entitled 'Gravity and Liberation' 'One of the most important aims ... is to bring the norms, principles and aspects of this new human...
It seems to me that Jan van Rijckenborgh sets himself the most difficult task when he tries to explain to people what the gnosis is, and how to awaken that...
This chapter is called 'The folly of the Cross' I found this chapter very difficult to summarise - what should I leave out? - so I have quoted quite...
Jan van Rijckenborgh sketches a rough outline of the structure of the cosmos in this chapter, and bases his explanation upon it. It can be quite difficult for...
Apologies for replying to my own post, but someone's got to do it :-)
Well, actually, this seemed to be very relevant to this chapter, and I didn't come...
I wrote this after writing a chapter discussion for the Summa Scientia Group, and it seems best to post it to both groups. So here it is:
I used to think...
Chris wrote: As each person goes the path of liberation, they stop going endlessly round and round on the wheel of death and rebirth and they start going...
Cathy:
>Well, I don't think Jesus nor Buddha "no longer have the basic materials with which to communicate with the people going round in circles that they...
... Loveday: Not having looked at the Summa Scientia site for a while I was pleased to discover the Quote from C.G. Jung's "Seven Sermons to the Dead." Since...
Hi, Loveday! It's great to see you back again. It was getting to be a bit lonely here! I, too, am hoping that people will post texts and links to texts that...
... pleased to discover the Quote from C.G. Jung's "Seven Sermons to the Dead." Since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library of Gnostic scrolls there has...
When I first began to despair in this world, it was because I realised that I would never attain what I wished for. But since then my view changed completely. ...
Chrissy Such a heretic is a fool, a nonsense-talker, one gone astray: he is absorbed in the folly of the cross; and this foolishness only makes eminent and...
It was just wonderful when Michael tracked this down and posted it. It seems to me to be a real treasure. It couches the language of liberation in such modern...
Loveday wrote: I would appreciate acknowledgement of texts other than J.van Rijckenborgh's on the Summa Scientia site but understand that not everyone...
If you stay linked to the 'Other One', then all around you the fire rages, but it does not consume. If you identify with the 'I', you effectievely choose death...
In this chapter, titled 'God - Archetype - Man', Jan van Rijckenborgh discusses the relationship between God and man, the archetype. 'The Ideas of God, as we...
– The First sermon To the Dead by Basilides "Hear Ye: I begin with nothing. Nothing is the same as fullness. In the endless state fullness is the same as...
Once again, I found this chapter hard to praphrase without losing important aspects of its meaning. Even then, I missed a couple of parts out that particularly...
After having read numerous literature about the path of liberation the basis of all teaching lies in the fact that we, in our present state of being, live in a...
Chris wrote on HPFS's List: "And I'm just beginning to realize just what happens when you seriously ry to explain it to anyone else. It's impossible, it just...
I was reading a philosophy textbook for a recording for the blind organization that I volunteer for, and the section I had was on Socrates. The book gave this...
In this chapter, titled 'Divine alchemy and ourselves', Jan van Rijckenborgh talks about Divine alchemy and relates it to our current condition. Jan van...
This chapter meant nothing at all to me when I first read the book. It was something I just had to put to one side. It all seemed very unlikely, but as I did...
Basically everything that exists is made of atoms. In the Big Bang theory scientists say that the universe began with the hydrogen atom. The Hydrogen atom is...
Dear Friends, I have been in touch with the Theosophical Society, and I'm pleased to announce to UK members that members of Summa Scientia will be able to...
Chris <christinanihill@...> wrote: When I came to this chapter to write a summary I had a real struggle with it. I wrote down the parts I understood and...
This chapter is titled 'Man, Know Thyself'
In this chapter, Jan van Rijckenborgh reaches into the heart of transfigurist philosophy. I have reproduced it in...
