The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
When you examine the spiritual authenticity of your life, you know that only your verification can make it true. “There is a vast, enormous difference between words and reality.” – Robert Burton I meditated in a cave with a saintly hermit in the Himalayas, had dinner with a conscious being in California, and was struck […]
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In this work, human senses are used by something higher, beyond the normal human machine, according to the state of one’s work in the present moment. As these states grow, with reality around them, the more a student experiences higher states.
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These quotations on freedom come from a variety of sources, including Fourth Way authors, as selected by our editors. The sweet bondage which is freedom’s self. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last human freedom-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Viktor […]
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The way to experience eternity is to change one’s awareness from the passing of time, or from having no awareness of time at all, to awareness of the moment. Because one soon forgets this kind of awareness and is pulled back into identification, esoteric traditions use a method to enable one to keep one’s focus on the present moment.
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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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Higher forces come to dispel our vaporous ordinary state into something extraordinary. This is the battle we must wage in order to attain the stillness of our soul.
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The third state of consciousness~ self-remembering, or self-consciousness, consciousness of one’s own being-constitutes the natural right of man as he is, and if a man does not possess it is only because of the wrong conditions of his life. In the fourth state of consciousness, objective consciousness, a man can see things as they are.
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I will always know that the state in which I experience the infinitude within, that depth in the vastness of all, is my soul being present.
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Identification with our thoughts, emotions, pains and sufferings diminishes as the scope broadens. Acceptance and humility overtake any resentment and self-absorption. The manifestations of the lower self can actually serve as fuel to this state. Transforming these into presence can propel a higher state into even greater heights.
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