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Just as a coil of rope is mistaken for a snake, so you are mistaken for the world. Holy scriptures play an important role in many religious and esoteric traditions. These scriptures are therefore often expressed in poetry – intended to be recited or sung – rather than prose The scripture begins with a genuine and profound question that Janaka poses to the wise Ashtavakra.

And strangers took the little one and wrapped him in the dainty robes that Mary had prepared and laid Three persons clad in snow-white robes came in and stood before the child and said, “All strength, all And when the child of promise came, a man in a snow-white robe appeared to them, and they fell back in How else should we be able to cross the inner sea and find the entrance to the inner passage?

Jesus said to her, “Your brother sleeps and he shall rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he shall rise again at the resurrection on the last day.” The Jews which were with her in the house and comforting her when they saw Mary rise up hastily and go But precisely because of these dynamics and constantly losing the magnetic force of the broken unity, An entirely new stream of thoughts and insights rises up within a human being on the spiritual path.

Alchemical Wedding - A Return Without End Volume 27 nr 4 July/August 2005 Introduction Seven times a rope The candidate has with his weight to withstand seven weights; seven ships, showing seven flames, sail across

heaven refers to the domain of the soul, the pure astral world of the concrete archetypes and worlds rising A tree is a living and breathing being, through which water and nutrients rise up from the soil, through Likewise there is a continuous rising and descending of light forces in the renewed human soul. In earlier days, initiation often involved letting the fiery force in the root centre rise up through Rituals, prayers and songs play a significant role as well in many Kabbalistic traditions.

Reflection: Reflection 6, for 27 December: Your magic gifts Your magic gifts The sun rises in the east If the ‘great nostalgia’ was like a fog full of unborn forms, then the rise of the inner sun is the beginning priests come from the East, from beyond the Euphrates (literally ‘the land of great fertility’), from across Coming from ‘across the river’ or from ‘across the sea’ is a veiled reference to ‘coming from another

The Pâramitâ heights are crossed by a still steeper path. These Portals lead the aspirant across the waters on “to the other shore”. These Portals lead the aspirant across the waters on “to the other shore”. Thou shalt attain the seventh step and cross the gate of final knowledge but only to wed woe — if thou

But the time comes when darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people, and the enemies The living physical body plays a key role on the spiritual path, because it enables us to gain experiences Usually one of the three aspects is predominant, which gives rise to the occurrence of the thinking type The old serpent dies and a new serpent rises.

the stake where he was being executed, he shouted out: ‘They will roast a goose now but a swan will rise In the light of God, their talents will blossom like roses and hand in hand they will write through their

reasoning power – the spirit of thought, or the mind, which is part of the earthly personality-soul – but rises personal, shining garment of the soul has been woven: the shining garment (the soul) and the golden robe called iddhi, or siddhi) are, therefore, no measure for spiritual development, and identifying with them poses The mythical firebird, the phoenix, must first burn before it can rise from its ashes, renewed, in full