Divine love, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday.org

Divine Love

  Before we address ‘divine love’, let us look at the one syllable, one-word state we call ‘love’. There are probably more paintings, music, poetry and artworks created that have love as their theme than almost any other emotion. However, because the machine is naturally subjective, when one person utters this word they mean one […]

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Verification as a foundation, FourthWayToday.org, Fellowship of Friends

Verification as a Foundation

One of the foundational pillars for work in the Fourth Way is verification. You are not to accept or reject anything until you can verify it for yourself. This is part of what makes the Fourth Way a journey to self-knowledge and conscious life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the 18th century statesman, poet, and scientist, […]

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The two worlds, Rembrandt, Living in Two Worlds, FourthWayToday, Fellowship of Friends

The Two Worlds

What do we mean by living in “two worlds”? The second state is the world of the lower centers. Our lower functions: sensations, movement, ideas and theories, and feelings. These all occur with little or no awareness. In this state, the four lower centers react to various stimuli in the environment. In the state of […]

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