The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, speaks of a transcendent, inward ‘seeing.’ From one of Rilke’s letters to a friend: Though you may laugh if I tell you where my very greatest feeling, my world-feeling, my earthly bliss was, I must confess to you: it was, again and again, here and there, in such in-seeing […]
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“Die before you die, so that you do not die when you die.” – Sufi saying – Many spiritual traditions speak of abandoning one’s old life, to begin separating the real from the unreal. The Fourth Way does not require abandoning external situations. In the Fourth Way, we work to minimize personality in favor of […]
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Sensitivity to light distinguishes all forms of life: plant, animal, and human, too. Indeed, what the Fourth Way calls the “magnetic center” can be seen as a sensitivity to light, an impulse searching out higher energies, higher hydrogens. A way to live differently, as described by other authors featured in this issue on illumination. Over […]
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Transformation of suffering is called the ‘second conscious shock’ in the Fourth Way. Some call it advanced work. It is a magical opportunity to break down the results of the incoming impression into finer fuel, higher hydrogens, that teach us about the nature of reality.
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A man or woman who can bring their instinctive and moving functions, emotions, and thoughts into a harmonious balance can begin to love objectively. This unconditional love begins with a man number four.
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At eighteen, I hitchhiked through Scotland and England, with a friend I met while visiting the Scottish Findhorn commune. My interest in mysticism was all-consuming. Some of those who offered rides wanted to know more about who we were. I described the high states I was after. One driver asked a question, and I paused, and […]
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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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The fifth dimension is an endless line or loop of time, and the sixth a cube or sphere of all moments. This sixth dimension contains all choices, spreading out and infinitely repeating in eternity. This may be the true meaning of free will. All that we can conceive and do is contained in the sixth dimension. Any choice we make is valid, and any choice we did not make, any line we did not take, exists also. Extending into infinity.
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As articles in this issue show, students of the Fourth Way rarely find stillness possible among the lower centers, our thoughts, emotions, movements, instincts.
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Do we know more than we can use? “If knowledge outweighs being a man knows but has no power to do. It is useless knowledge. On the other hand if being outweighs knowledge a man has the power to do, [but] the being he has acquired becomes aimless.” “And knowledge and being must not diverge […]
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