The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
Illumination implies a wordless state. For light to enter, a vessel must be clear and empty, or at least transparent. How does this connect with spiritual evolution? Thoughts comprise our inner world, known in the Fourth Way as the many ‘I’s. Not all ‘I’s are thoughts. We register many emotions, movements, and bodily sensations as […]
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“Reality spontaneously shines throughout, with no “I” or “they” — one need not seek it thought after thought.” – Zhang Boduan The sun does not choose where to shine. It simply shines. It belongs to another realm. When the sun shines on the worlds below, it touches everything. It is quite astounding that even shadows obey the […]
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Enlightenment means the experience of your life has crossed the limitations of the physical, Tapping into a new dimension of wordless Divine Guidance, Too beautiful for words, moment to moment, So that though you use your mind, you are not it. Though you live in the world, you are not it, or in other words, You […]
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The following quotes on illumination come from the Fourth Way and Sufi traditions, Indian, Chinese, and early Christian writers, among others. “Lumen de Lumine.” (Latin) “Light comes from Light.”) – Eusebius of Caesarea “Four thousand years before God created these bodies, He created the souls and kept them beside Himself and shed a light upon […]
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“Heart, you cannot see me but you know when I am here. Never doubt it. The almost nothing. Sudden companion. Breathing together. Never doubt it is me.” Looking back over one’s journey on planet Earth, presence today recognises itself throughout one’s life. The soul, higher centers, the divinity within, whatever name one prefers to use, […]
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Does change ever stop? It has to do with movement. Transformation shapes the land and our inner landscape. It may accompany destruction and renewal, like floods and fire. Water 💦, for example, when it goes through transformations, boiling, condensing, cooling, freezing, and melting, is at its purest, because these processes erase its heavy elements. So, too, […]
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Everything needs to go through suffering to become something higher, just as a caterpillar needs to be in a cocoon in order to become a butterfly. “Not all storms come to destroy your life; some come to clean your path.” – Seneca Suffering is given for us, not to us. We can use it for our […]
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Transformation implies change. In our case, a transition from the lower self, or the machine, to the higher self, third eye, or worlds 6 and 12[1]. Third eye is blessed by seeing things as they are. This the supreme reality Meher Baba[2] spoke of. If we are sincere, one of the first realizations in spiritual evolution […]
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In the widest possible sense, our work to achieve a permanent connection to higher centers is fueled by our day to day transformations. These transformations, together with our work to be present and remember ourselves, create the two shocks that can change not only the way we think and feel, but also the energetic and spiritual […]
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Mechanical and Conscious Perspectives on Transformation Transformation can be viewed from two perspectives, one mechanical and one conscious. Mechanical transformation occurs when one’s original nature fragments into a multitude of temporary identities—the many ‘I’s. A newborn baby has yet to acquire these ‘I’s, but they develop rapidly. The moment the baby realizes it can learn […]
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