For everything the understanding can grasp, and everything desire demands, is not God. Where understanding and desire have an end, there it is dark, there does God shine. Continue reading
Category Archives: Spirituality
Christian Gnosis: Meister Eckhart
Eckhart, with the possible exception of Dante, can be regarded from an Indian point of view as the greatest of all Europeans. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy Continue reading
Thriving in the End Times
The ancient Romans and Greeks, for example, kept a hearth fire burning for their ancestors and they expected future generations to do the same for them. They are a dim image, as though through a glass darkly, of postmortem states. Continue reading
John of the Cross, the Rumi of Spain
The fact that St. John of the Cross was so open to said influence is a proof of the fact that he was an initiate in the esoteric path and of the ecumenism typical of all true mystics. If Rumi is the St. John of the Cross of Persia, then St. John of the Cross is the Rumi of Spain. Continue reading
Gasping for Air
So the solution to the lack of gnosis is not to read another book or study a philosopher on-line; these are pointless without restraining passions and overcoming evil habits. The Fathers described eight provocations that keep us in bondage: gluttony, lust, greed, anger, depression, boredom, vanity, and pride. Continue reading
Psychology of Mystical Experience
The Intellect tends toward the assimilation of Being as known, or, Absolute Truth. The Will tends to the possession of Being as absolute Good. The two tendencies converge on the direct vision of God. However, insofar as the soul is restricted to the plane of creation, there must also be an initiative from God that expands the intelligence and reveals himself. Continue reading
Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
Esoteric teachings have to do with changes in man’s interior life, not with unusual events in the space-time world. More specifically, the esoteric teachings require a change in the way one lives life. Continue reading
The Image and Likeness
This is an alchemical process that transforms the base human into the image and likeness of God through “sublimation”. In Hermetic initiation, penetrating into the depths of consciousness to awaken to the primordial Adamic state of the image and likeness. Continue reading
Meditations on the Good Life
Death, when understood by men, is immortality; but not being understood by the ignorant it is death. This death should not be feared; what should be feared is the perdition of the soul, which is ignorance of God; for this is terrible for the soul. ~ St Anthony the Great Continue reading
Unknowing and True Will
First and foremost, I will tell you who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion you shall have in it. If you ask me who shall work thus, I answer you—all who have forsaken the world in a true will. ~ The Cloud … Continue reading