The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
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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“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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When I was a young child I had a vision in which I saw angels around me. It created a magical higher state and a feeling of lightness that I can still remember. Growing up, a few questions often surfaced in my mind. Why do we need to have a physical body? Why do we […]
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Birth on Earth as a human being is a blessing granted only to a chosen soul from above. Yet within this life lies both faith and a choice—the choice to return back to the Source from which our journey began millennia ago, or to continue moving forward in an infinite journey. At every stage of […]
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There is a famous Greek paradox known as the Ship of Theseus. The Greek hero Theseus has a ship that he has sailed on the seas for many years. From time to time, a mast breaks and must be replaced. A worn sail is torn by a strong wind and wood in the stern has […]
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Since I was a little child, I remember sensing a guiding inner force that I really wanted to define. Growing up, I am impressed by the information that the human entity is divided into three parts: the cellular body, the etheric soul, and the divine essence spirit. I need to find a mental thread to simultaneously connect all […]
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As a contemporary spiritual teacher assures us, essence is more real than personality. Dimensions of essence are one’s center of gravity[1], body type, and alchemy, the degree of refinement of the impressions[2] one takes in. Essence is the part in us that can grow into presence, or self-remembering. Alongside essence, each one of us has a […]
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Quanawi: Perfect Man is the bridge, the mirror, without which nothing of the cosmos would receive the divine energy of joyful union, because of the lack of interpenetration. Meister Eckhart: The eye with which I see God is the very eye with which God sees me. Zen master Sokei-An: The Buddha said that there is […]
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Scientifically, light doesn’t need matter to exist, though it often interacts with it. It’s the same with divine light. It exists and does not need anything to exist. But sometimes it interacts with us, our souls. Illumination literally means light, and here we are referring to illumination as the divine light or consciousness. It has […]
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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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