The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
What is freedom, for someone awakening? Is it an aspect of consciousness? Indeed, what is “freedom”? How do we understand this word? For a person who is awakening, external meanings of this word cease to exist. The focus becomes only its internal, spiritual meaning. For anyone not trying to awaken, the meaning of freedom connects with something material. […]
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Freedom from ‘us’ is the freedom to truly be. Psychologically we are like a well-worn deck of cards. And some cards are more worn because we play them all the time. It’s a flat horizontal system. Over time, we study ourselves and learn our habits of mind, heart and body. This is like fanning out […]
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What can we do in our inner work to achieve an open flexibility towards consciousness? It is true that… *..Developing sequentially our “being”… *..Watching the “I’s” springing from each part of our four lower energy centers… *..Connecting our will to our “heart of hearts”… *..Eliminating any negativity from our “queens”, “kings” and “jacks”… *..Surpassing our inner “steward” and following our awaken soul’s […]
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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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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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As articles in this issue show, students of the Fourth Way rarely find stillness possible among the lower centers, our thoughts, emotions, movements, instincts.
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A Hidden Axis There is a hidden axis that goes through my inner world, an axis of love. It is a column of timeless and subtle energy that has always remained there, although often I do not perceive it. Usually my thoughts, and my thoughts about my thoughts, create a kind of vibration that, when it is more intense, inevitably removes me […]
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