There is an unfortunate misuse of intelligence. The promise of near universal education should have led to the rule of the best, a truly meritocratic state. Instead, this new elite was trained to despise the very people over whom, presumably, they were educated to rule. Continue reading
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
Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jacob Boehme, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Vladimir Solovyov and Nicolas Berdyaev, for example, show in their works a progress which is very advanced in substantially bringing together intelligence and the intuition of faith. ~ Valentin Tomberg Continue reading
In the ancient sense, Chaos does not represent the destruction of the ordered physical world, but rather the unmanifested Void that is the principle of heaven and earth, male and female. So behind the physical world, there is a principle that represents the unity of Being. For Heraclitus, there is one Logos, one reason for everything, throughout “the one cosmos which is the same for all.” Continue reading
By concentrating and stilling the mind, an opening is prepared for the appearance of Being, or divine inspiration. This may also appear as a creative force to an artist. Continue reading