and scorns and envies and is jealous of the child he loves; tomorrow he has risen above his carnal self Now spirit loves the pure, the good, the true; the body of desires extols the selfish self; the soul And blessed is the man whose spirit is triumphant and whose lower self is purified; whose soul is cleansed But, as in other lands, in Persia priests arose imbued with self and self desires, who outraged Force Elihu encourages us to learn to know this self-centred ego, to understand it and, having become fully

It describes how the Absolute Being manifests through the union of Spirit and Matter, resulting in self-aware The Divine Self Read more... Love Read more... << >>

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as all that thou perceivest breathes in thee; to feel thyself abiding in all things, all things in self At the end of the second fragment of ‘The Voice of the Silence’ (II:88-92) we read: ‘Thou hast the knowledge He or she who becomes a Pratyeka-Buddha pays tribute only to his own Self. pain The fourth golden key, indifference toward pleasure and pain, appears when man – based on inner knowledge Thou shalt attain the seventh step and cross the gate of final knowledge but only to wed woe — if thou

The inner knowledge of the Christ power, that was made available for mankind through Jesus, has been Knowledge of the mysteries, in earlier days meticulously hidden within mystery schools, is now within The flaming triangle of knowledge, love and action illuminated his whole life, which was far from easy Some master builders of the cathe- drals were initiates and possessed extensive esoteric knowledge. of magical knowledge.

And you will give a knowledge of salvation unto Israel; and you will preach the gospel of repentance The other part of our consciousness is related to our ‘True Self’. Wisdom brings us knowledge and guides the movement of the soul to its origin. experience of ‘not being the one who you essentially are’ – and the desire to fully express that higher Self

drawn into the light of revelation, and humankind is being confronted with the reality of its own inner self

Through the application of the fivefold Gnostic path – insight, longing, self-sacrifice, a new mode of

giving the reader a deeper insight into themselves and the path of the surrender of the egocentric self

as a small world, as a microcosm, becomes creative again, and becomes a creator of the all-good, a self-creating