Love also comes out of the night, hidden by darkness, so it is a surprise when it suddenly appears. It lights up knowledge. Then there is the knower and the known. Esoterically, knowing is the same as being, so in cosmic love, the knower and the known are One being, entangled throughout time and space. 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
The celibate path embraced by the monk frees him the strongest attachment to the world. As Nicolas Berdyaev puts it:
Man is greatly dependent, sexually, on woman: he has a weakness for the other sex, a radical weakness which may be the source of all his weaknesses. Continue reading
Man, in order to feel himself free and individual, will overcome isolation and egoism, and will return to an organic, living, religious connection with the totality, realizing the mystical meaning of history as the reciprocal self-revelation and self-generation of man to God. Continue reading
The myth of Atlantis may serve as a warning to us. Rather than being the pinnacle of human evolution, modern man is more likely the degenerate, fallen, and weaker product of something much greater. Continue reading