The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
“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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“By observing himself, a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. By observing himself he throws, as it were, a ray of light onto his inner processes which have hitherto worked in complete darkness.” — Gurdjieff, In Search of the Miraculous Interestingly, this mirrors a truth found in quantum mechanics: […]
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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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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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Spread yourself without hesitation and look differently at your pain and joy. Become lawless like raindrops and indifferent to your opinions. Where do we start? You are excited about the decision to transform your life and become a spiritual being. You have started reading transformative books, meditating in the morning, eating healthier to feed your […]
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If we are fortunate enough to attract higher influences, we may discover the change of state that comes with being helped ‘from above.’ A true school serves as a conduit for higher energies, higher forces. When we work on ourselves in the Fourth Way, it is surprising to see how higher forces work with us, […]
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