The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
What do we mean by ‘impressions’ and the fluidity of impressions? Fourth Way authors describe the human machine as a chemical factory subsisting on three types of food: Food and drink, air, and impressions. We can survive about a month without eating, and a few minutes without air. However, should we lack impressions, whether internal […]
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When a man begins to be aware, in a dream, that he is asleep and that what he sees is a dream, he awakes. In the same way, a soul, when it begins to realize that all visible life is but a dream, approaches awakening.
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Higher influences are invisible. It needs courage and faith to verify their existence. “God in his kindness to man, has placed a race of superior spirits above him to guide him.” – Plato The lower self doubts the existence of higher influences and tries to pull us away. It is also very easy to drift […]
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Influence C, or higher forces, is simply a non-religious term for what has been called angels. In its undifferentiated aspect, it is the invisible higher energy that fills the universe since before its creation. In a differentiated aspect, it refers to those who awakened from sleep, became immortal, and returned to help other mortals accomplish the same task.
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It is surprising how personal spirituality is. It can’t be proven because it exists in the heart of the seeker. During our lives, we collect odd moments of heightened experience that seem to exist outside of normal time. The Fourth Way indicates that these moments collect to form a magnetic center, a spiritual center of […]
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Probably the main aim of higher forces is to lead a soul to the Creator. And the aim of humanity is to learn to hear, to recognize the signs of higher forces and not give up.
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Conscious influence can only pass from one person to another by means of oral transmission. – P.D. Ouspensky
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When I stop the chattering of the mind, I start listening to my soul. When I give up my longing, stillness appears. Only when I have appeared is an angel in the room – my higher self. Then, I understand I am a spiritual being experiencing a human existence.
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To become free, we ourselves need to search for the sacred knowledge that will change our way of thinking, and lead us towards the change of our being. We must embark on the adventure from today’s sleep to consciousness.
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Freedom is the base of consciousness. Freedom from negative emotions, judgment ‘I’s, mechanics, identification, and imagination creates a clean slate for higher centres to establish themselves. Avoiding identification with one’s activities is freedom. Freedom from one’s own likes, dislikes, desires, passions, and beliefs helps reduce identifications. Freedom from one’s own physical existence and actions is […]
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