The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
“Eternity requires perseverance and endurance.” – Bernard of Clairvaux Once I heard a story regarding a teacher at the beginning of his school. He was asking students what they thought was needed to build a school. Students gave several answers, like making efforts, having aims, etc. The teacher listened to all of these answers, and at […]
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I remember, in my preschool years, a child in the neighborhood who had crafted a boomerang and threw it high. The boomerang, spinning on itself, traced an elliptical trajectory in the air and returned to its operator. The child would stretch high or gather low to successfully catch it again, and I wondered what forces brought about this […]
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“‘Know thyself.’ These words, ascribed to Socrates, actually lie at the basis of many systems and schools far more ancient than the Socratic.” – George I. Gurdjieff “Schools have the privilege of making the effort in the right place. They create space for the deity within, one’s own presence.” – Robert Burton “When I met this […]
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What are key elements of a school of awakening? A real school provides a doorway to an objective method of awakening. Methods for achieving higher consciousness have lasted in forms compatible with each age for all of recorded human history. One challenge of a real school is to develop a contemporary approach to its presentation. This can vary, […]
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… Come, come, Come swirling like snowflakes Into rain-darkened hills. Set your pristine footprints In Time’s well-trodden stream. Let your eyes be filled with white. Come where the singers who yearn to, With eyes skyward focused, Become the singers of light. – – Hurl, hurl, Hurl all you think is you Into crackling bonfires. Let […]
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I used to keep two diaries, one about my normal everyday life (college, friends, relationships, career) and one about the spiritual and mystical life (higher influences, awakening and understandings about it). Last month, while writing in my everyday diary I ended up writing about a spiritual understanding. And then I understood that I cannot keep […]
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… So do not doubt it, this exists as clearly as you exist, As clearly as what is before you right now, As clearly as the day of your birth and the hour of your death, As clearly as night is followed by day. Here now with your tapestry of knowing, together in the Light. […]
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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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