The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
When I become present to what exists in this moment, the connection is immediate and profound. I become aware of my own existence as well as the existence of what is in front of me – the visible and the invisible. This awareness of myself and of what surrounds me creates an interaction with reality that seems a perfectly coordinated dance and communion.
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When we talk about freedom, we’re speaking about the work an individual to achieve freedom from unnecessary laws. In order to understand this, it is first necessary to see man as a microcosmos. Man is a microcosmos because, like the universe, he has within him layers of realities. What this means is that man’s inner life […]
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A dear companion died after a long illness, a year ago, in my home. Finally he was free of the pain and suffering, the many I’s, the illusion of a body. In the days before he left us, he was wry, wise, and strangely light-hearted. Seeing my cell phone in my hand as I sat by […]
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What is freedom, for someone awakening? Is it an aspect of consciousness? Indeed, what is “freedom”? How do we understand this word? For a person who is awakening, external meanings of this word cease to exist. The focus becomes only its internal, spiritual meaning. For anyone not trying to awaken, the meaning of freedom connects with something material. […]
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“Just to stand up with presence is liberation.” Robert Burton Freedom for someone on a spiritual journey is not the liberation to do–but not to do. Awakening starts with the profound realization that I do not have to react to external stimuli. My only freedom is to remain unattached to anything going on in or […]
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Freedom from ‘us’ is the freedom to truly be. Psychologically we are like a well-worn deck of cards. And some cards are more worn because we play them all the time. It’s a flat horizontal system. Over time, we study ourselves and learn our habits of mind, heart and body. This is like fanning out […]
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What can we do in our inner work to achieve an open flexibility towards consciousness? It is true that… *..Developing sequentially our “being”… *..Watching the “I’s” springing from each part of our four lower energy centers… *..Connecting our will to our “heart of hearts”… *..Eliminating any negativity from our “queens”, “kings” and “jacks”… *..Surpassing our inner “steward” and following our awaken soul’s […]
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These quotations on freedom come from a variety of sources, including Fourth Way authors, as selected by our editors. The sweet bondage which is freedom’s self. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last human freedom-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Viktor […]
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ur efforts are in time, with the purpose to arrive at the timeless present. We who are in this work use time to create moments of presence. This is the grand proposition of the universe – to create new consciousness along the line of time.
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The way to experience eternity is to change one’s awareness from the passing of time, or from having no awareness of time at all, to awareness of the moment. Because one soon forgets this kind of awareness and is pulled back into identification, esoteric traditions use a method to enable one to keep one’s focus on the present moment.
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