... When I observe, I come up against some fixed beliefs in myself: not many of them, but they exist. These do not dissolve when I turn away towards the light....
Dear Friends, I have written a welcome letter to new members. As soon as new people join they will receive this automatically. As none of you have received...
I've been poked into saying something.... Just a quick insight.... One thing that has struck me on the "journey" is the need to constantly reflect upon...
... My name is Alonso and I live in the northern part of Puget Sound, in Washington state.  Hans: Hi Alonso, I'm very pleased to meet you. One of the...
Dear Alonso, It was such a pleasure to read your introduction. Thank you for sharing your discovery of JVR's writings with us. I have read several of his...
Welcome to the group, Alonso! When your post came in, I was at work in a city office, and I as I read, it was as if trumpets were blowing in my ear: suddenly...
I would like to post an excerpt from a translation of the chinese 'Book of Purity' by Ko Juan (AD 222-272) that appeared in a recent copy of Pentagram, the...
Also from a recent edition of the Lectori:um Rosicrucianum magazine Pentagram, a quote from Zuang Zi:
Upstairs, Duke Huan was sitting in his reception hall...
When the Sophia unites with the mental body, rebirth becomes a fact. The person of ordinary nature lives and exists out of the astral substance of the nature...
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At one time (only about 2-3 years married) I described the feeling as having walked through a stone-lined tunnel all my life- one that barely...
Imagine a person who has just approached the gnostic mysteries for the time in his life. He has just discovered that the development of gnostic consciousness...
I have another question. In the chapter The Matrix of Rebirth', Jan van Rijckenborgh writes: 'Throwing yourself at gnostic philosophy with the nature-born ego...
When, through God's mercy, as Hermes Trismegistus puts it, you have attained the birth out of God, leaving behind your orientation towards material things, and...
... To /do/ the actions without /knowing/ the reality... apparently doing all the right things but not truly /being/ what it takes. Many things look like Love...
found this great article, I wonder how much it resonates with the Lectorium's views. I like it quite a lot. Sorry if its too long etc... The Doctrine of the...
... In the chapter The Matrix of Rebirth', Jan van Rijckenborgh writes: 'No-one in this state of being could possibly understand the mystery or react to the...
Chris' question arrives at the moment I had just read the following passage in Rijckenborgh's Pistis Sophia : The choice you need to make is this: you must...
I used to do Soto Zen meditation, for many years. Through it, I experienced how the world continuously unfolds from a single point. I stopped doing it when I...
Hans: < I think he's referring to the idea that the whole dialectical hierarchy in the invisible half of the world ("reflection sphere") is based on an ...
Marianna wrote: < To do the actions without knowing the reality... apparently doing all the right things but not truly being what it takes. Many things look ...
Alonso said: < Chris' question arrives at the moment I had just read the following passage in Rijckenborgh's Pistis Sophia ... Chris: Once I promised to follow...
... What is the Reflection Sphere? And are any 'Christians' then 'born again' into it? Â Hans: Thanks for that question, Chris. The discussion is just...
Are you saying that it is not just the place we go to after death, then, but also the place we go to when we fall asleep? Is it the place we go to when we...
... Are you saying that it is not just the place we go to after death, then, but also the place we go to when we fall asleep? Is it the place we go to when we...
... What are your views on meditation? Â Hans: I'd like to approach this from what we've learned from Alonso: there is no salvation possible except through...
What I'm really asking is: if we're functioning in all those spheres at the moment, even if we aren't awake in them, then we're not really reborn into them at...
... if we're functioning in all those spheres at the moment, even if we aren't awake in them, then we're not really reborn into them at all, are we? instead we...
It reminds me of those myths and fairytales where the simple and pure-hearted hero or heroine starts out with nothing but derision, and ends up having...
So that's why people like Max Heindel form occult groups and do exercises so that they can wake up in the astral plane at night - so they can see what they...
