All great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented that the result is a complex mystification. Continue reading
Category Archives: Spirituality
Knights of Light
Without that guiding light, a knight stumbles in the darkness or wanders aimlessly like a lion on the savannah. Ahriman is the supreme bureaucrat, who strives to organize everything to keep it in its place, to subdue it, to confine it to logic. Artificial intelligence is his dream and our nightmare. Continue reading
Journey to the Center of the Mind
The spiritual adepts were inner-world adventurers of the highest daring, the Tibetan equivalent of our astronauts—I think it is worth coining the term ‘psychonaut’ to describe them. They personally voyaged to the furthest frontiers of that universe which their society deemed vital to explore: the inner frontiers of consciousness itself, … Continue reading
Serotonin and Values
Once you can survive, once you have achieved some consistency in your life, then what is your best life? Are you driven by the desire to think, to know, to understand, to serve the Good? Or do you prefer to “feel good” by increasing your serotonin levels? Continue reading
Life in the Noosphere
To speak with spirits and angels was also common on this earth in ancient times, and for the same reason, namely, because they then thought much of heaven and little of the world. But that living communication with heaven in process of time was closed, as man from internal became external, or what is the same, as he began to think much about the world and little about heaven. Continue reading
Journey through the Planets
All things are in pairs, each the opposite of the other, but nothing the Lord made is incomplete. Everything completes the goodness of something else. Could anyone ever see enough of this splendor? ~ Sirach 42:24-25 Continue reading
The Two Hands of God
God brings us blessings but He also brings us tribulations. They each require a different response. We need to feel gratitude for the good time, but patience and acceptance for the bad times. On the contrary, we usually take the good times for granted, as if they are normative rather than the exception. Continue reading
Reaching your full Potential
The attainment of these faculties of the Lesser Mysteries completes the evolution of the possibilities of the human state, lifting the being to the Primordial State. It is by this evolution that animal man can overcome Adam’s Fall, can become a spiritual man, and so be initiated into divine wisdom. Then he is prepared for the Greater Mysteries. Continue reading
Diotima Unveiled
His intellectual life becomes so fascinating and pleasurable, the memories of sweet love begin to fade. Instead, he longs for a higher connection. His desire is to share ideas on music, literature, poetry, history, metaphysics, and the like. Procreation reappears as intellectual creation at this stage. Continue reading
The Path of Courtly Love
Contemplation of God without formal support is not possible… Since therefore some form of support is necessary, the best and most perfect kind is the contemplation of God in women. ~ Ibn Arabi Continue reading