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That's lovely. I'm hoping, though, that perhaps Mara is making a mistake here. That piece of truth, shining up out of the dust, is just the start of the...
Chapter 4, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 4 This Chapter is titled...
In 'The Nuctemeron of Appollonius of Tyana', Jan van Rijckenborgh describes what happens when we try to make that piece of truth into a belief. He describes...
There is a lovely quote of Mahatma Ghandi's, painted on a hoarding in St. Mary Axe in the City of London, that I pass by every day on the way to work. It...
... describes what happens when we try to make that piece of truth into a belief.< Michael: I think that the main problem of becoming dogmatised arises from...
My glimpses of meaning consist in moments of recognition of the underlying archetypal structure within the phenomenon that I am experiencing. The path itself...
The Buddha's Enlightenment This is from `The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon', translated from the Pali, selected and arranged by Bhikkhu ...
Hi Chris, Thank you for posting this on the Buddha's Enlightenment. I've been very interested in how the teachings of the Buddha which I've benefited from fit...
I received a question from someone new to the Teachings of Liberation who was going through quite a struggle deciding whether or not to continue going the Path...
Chapter 5, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 5 This Chapter is titled...
Dear Hans, Your post on "storms" while following the Path of Return is so helpful to me. As you know from my past postings, I have been filled with ambiguity...
Cathy <SnowyHome@...> wrote: Dear Hans, Could you and Chris respond to this question. I ask because you are both so committed to the Path. The question is:...
... Dear Hans, Your post on "storms" while following the Path of Return is so helpful to me. As you know from my past postings, I have been filled with...
Cathy: This ambiguity is like an open wound. Chris: If it's like an open wound, then it is a powerful focus for change. The gnosis affects us like that, it...
One of the biggest difficulties on the path of liberation is related to the fact that we are trying to become something but when it really comes down to the...
I watched a BBC documentary on the life of Buddha this weekend, unsatisfactory but it struck me how similar the life of Buddha is to the Gnostic journey. The...
I have benefited very much from the responses to my question on storms on the Path and the question on believing the teachings. It helps me not to dismiss the...
Of course I meant these responses help me "to dismiss the option of giving up." I wrote the opposite by mistake. If "not" is removed from that second...
Michael wrote: "The storm that we have been talking about in the latest posts are all a result of the ego trying to become something that it cannot be, and in...
dear Cathy no, that quote was from Kabir, a hindu muslim (yes both) mystic/poet The Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl is to be found in the Acts of Thomas... The...
Michael wrote: "Our ego must be dissolved. It cannot be destroyed, or cut off and thrown away." Yes Michael, that is why I used the term neutralize the ego as...
There is a short biography of Jan van Rijckenborgh in the last chapter of Rosicrucians through the Ages. The following is from a book about the Lectorium by...
From Chogyam Trungpa's Commentary on The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo The Message of the Book There seems to be a fundamental problem when we...
Chapter 6, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 6 This Chapter is titled...
I have been posting various excerpts of books to the Summa Scientia list over the last few months, as I read them. What they all have in common for me is that,...
De Mysterio Magno OF THE GRAND MYSTERY THAT IS Of the Manifestation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence The First Chapter ...
Excerpt from the Francesca Freemantle's Introduction to Chogyam Trungpa's Commentary on The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo It is noticeable...
Good Evening. Small group it seems, but they often tend to be more polite and communicative than big ones :- ) Liberation; now there is a thing is it not. And...
The only problem with Transcendent Mystical Experience (TME) which reaches that ground of our being, that one-ness beyond the perception of time and space, is...
Hi Dick welcome to the group and thank you for your interesting views. I just want to ask a question : - You said that : - "I am an AS IS person, that is to...
