The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
Time and eternity – how do we experience objective states of consciousness versus the subjective experience of time?
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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The following quotations on time and eternity are from Fourth Way authors and other eminent writers. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”- Marcus […]
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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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If reincarnation and recurrence exist, which seems likely to me, then we will be able to travel to the future and the past. Only first we have to do the work of the moment; we have to be present and use our attention and focus to fashion a lighter and more durable vehicle.
Really, we are all time travelers, and our physical bodies are the time machines that we so badly want to invent.
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A New Model of the Universe In 1914, a year before he met Gurdjieff, Ouspensky published one of his earlier books, A New Model of the Universe. In it, Ouspensky had already gathered many observations on states of consciousness, even though he referred to them by other names. He suggested there are actually three dimensions […]
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When we become aware of ourselves, we create something separate from the machine. The triad is different when we are aware of ourselves. That is what allows us to wake up.
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The Steward creates light, within time, by developing an earthly consciousness that can touch the celestial objective consciousness of our two higher centers.
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