It is said that when you know yourself, you know God. That is not because of human effort. Rather, God is the mirror in which you see yourself in your perfection because you can never see God, just as you don’t see the mirror when you look at your reflection. Continue reading
For the second phase of Gornahoor, I have listened to comments and suggestions. So instead of reprising the same topic in different contexts, I will have a few core topics which will be updated and corrected as necessary. They will be the foundation for everything else. Continue reading
Traditional doctrine states that we have wished all relevant events in our life before birth. Continue reading
The philosopher will read that there is a form of knowing, called “Intuition”, that is superior to what the rational mind can achieve. This is the case in metaphysics from India, to Greece, to Egypt, to Arabia, to the Scholastics. Yet the veil blocks his understanding so he ignores it. Intuition is akin to “seeing”, not to “thinking”. Continue reading
The corporeal world is, in Tradition, composed of five basic elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. That means that the world was understood in a qualitative, not quantitative, sense. As such, they represent the different densities of matter. Continue reading
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
Redemption is the restoration of the status quo ante before the Fall. That means the state in which there is the awareness of God’s presence in the life body; nature itself has been changed. But just as the Serpent was in the Garden, Lucifer is still present among us, not as Lord, but as tempter. He has no power over us unless by our consent. Continue reading
The fact is that people too often tend to think that if a symbolical meaning is admitted, the literal or historical sense must be rejected; such a view can only result from unawareness of the law of correspondence which is the very foundation of all symbolism. … For this reason the laws of a lower domain can always be taken to symbolize realities of a higher order. Continue reading
This describes the descent of the unconditioned Self through all the states of the human being, from the Buddhi, through the Manas, Causal Body, Ego, Subtle Body, and Gross Body. Continue reading
Know, truly, that I have never written a word in my books except under the direction of the Holy Spirit. In all men is found, by the same nature, a triple unity which, among the righteous, is moreover supernatural. ~ John of Ruysbroeck Continue reading