The Rosenkreutz School of Spiritual Light

A good discussion needs some conflict to get it going. Warmth is also tension, and too much spoils the food. A female touch of kindness is welcome, but so is the strength and power of the male. Each has to take on the challenge of truth, sincerity, kindness, boldness, or forgiveness, each in turn and at the right time. It is the dance, one should not be afraid of it. But the skill is owned by the artist, where others will fail and must fail for lack of temperament and skill. I like to think like this: the greater the tension, the better is the feeling which comes from resolution. It helps in all tight situations - and it's message is this: keep working towards the goal of resolution, keep your heart alive and speak what is there, and feel how wonderful everyone will feel when the Whole-ness of Spirit has resolved the parts.

If you go far enough in your Western World of thinking,

You come to the Dawn of the New Day,

and can already see the opening buds of the morning flowers....

The student asked: What is the difference between the two?

Teacher:

The main difference is that modern man has a power of thought today that wasn't present in ancient times.  And this power of thought will continue to increase in strength and power.

The so-called black magic of ancient times too has changed as well.  Previously it had to do with pro-creativity, today it has to do with the fertilizing power of thoughts in the soul.  Everything is now shifted to focus on the consciousness.

From the Book of the Wise

May the spirit of peace and inner tranquility be with you today and seed your dreams tonight for a better tomorrow

Today is a Day of beautiful love...be and share!

Treason, as between men, is considered worse than theft;for even thieves despise it. He who betrays his country is considered fit for death.

But I tell you:he who betrays his own soul has no longer any link with honesty, and there is nothing sure concerning him, except that he will go from bad to worse.  And evil grows little by little; he who is faithless in small things will ultimately lose all honor.

Therefore, strive eternally to keep faith, not telling secrets nor inquiring uninvited into those of others; for the Great Offense is grounded on an infinite variety of little ones -- exactly as Great Merit is the total of innumerable acts of self-control.

-- FROM THE BOOK OF THE SAYINGS OF TSIANG SAMDUP. "

When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.
My heart has become capable of every form:
it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Kaa'ba,
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take,
that is my religion and my faith."
Ibn Arabi

This church has no membership, save those who know they belong
It has no rivals as it is noncompetitive.
It is not self seeking–it seeks only to serve.
It knows no boundaries, for divisions are an illusion.
It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of love.
Those who participate, practice the truth of love to the best of their ability.
It seeks not to teach but to be, and by being, enrich.
It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us, because we are that way.
It recognizes that the whole planet as a being of which we are a part.
It recognizes that the time has come to shift from separation into oneness.
It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice, but in the subtle realms of loving.
It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path.
It admits no hierarchy, for no one is greater than another.
Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being, and by their eyes and no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.
It has no reward to offer, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.
Each shall seek to advance the cause of understanding, doing good by stealth and teaching only by example.
They shall heal their neighbor, their community and our planet.
They shall know no fear and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.
It has no secret, no initiation, save that of true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change, but only if we want to change.
All those who belong, belong; they belong to the church of love.

Cathar Church Declaration of 1012

We are here in life for but one reason- to learn to climb through ascensions of consciousness into the true Selfhood which is within us-the Selfhood which is our real nativity, our home in God’s spirit. 

Flower Newhouse.

"The reason why the Universe is Eternal is that it gives life to others as it transforms" Lao Tzu

The power of learning spiritual knowledge is to be able to know the soul in the light or darkness, as these are the substances the soul weaves around itself.

Just as the doctor of today must know how to navigate inside the living body in order to preserve the integrity of the body, so the soul too has an even greater and more delicate mystery to understand. 

Thoughts in relationship to time, and subtle substance changes of atmosphere, heat and cold and atmospheric pressures, speak another language to the student of the spirit.  It is this path of warmth and light in the cosmos that leads to the living spirit.

For the student of the spirit, his will is to seek and find the living spirit in and through nature. Only the light and the darkness of the world can reveal the truths of the soul in this living way. It is the greatest task set before the students. In accomplishments, the soul sheds layers upon layers of its thickened nature.  It must understand these as they fade in the cosmic world.

Knowledge becomes love.  The riddle is answered with 'how?'.

As the student must come to ponder the creation of man, he sees there the mystery of will and desire for creation. And like a candle made by a candle maker for the light it holds, so the souls of men are formed by the unknown and unseen power that creates it. But to know the creator of the candle, is the greatest of all mysteries to behold. 

Deeper wisdom await those who dare to cross the line of conventional thought.

From the Book of the Sayings of the Wise

The student asked: Teacher, I now see flashes of globe shaped light bodies in my spiritual eyes, where do the shining globes of light come from? How are they formed? What are they? They seem to have inner voices and sounds?

Teacher: You are learning to see true life. It is the path of men.  What you love you will become. Do you love what you see? Then follow it and learn to hear what your soul is saying to the light. Your soul knows what it sees and why, and then you will understand it.

That is the way of your soul transformation and its becoming. When the will of the soul is the spirit, then the spirit lights the up the path of your past, and illumines the path of your future.

Avoid the path to the past, it is the moon, the moon points to it. As with the Sun globe before you, you also see yourself of the future! Follow it and others will follow behind you. The world will become underneath you, and a world will grow there. It always starts with a globe of light. A small one, like yours.

"But I will tell you another thing, son of the all glorious Maia and Zeus who holds the aegis luck bringing genius of the Gods. There are certain Holy Ones, three sisters, born of a virgin with winged heads besprinkled with white meal, and they dwell under a ridge of Parnassus. These are the teachers of Divination apart from me....From their home they fly now here, now there, feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass. And when they are inspired through eating yellow honey, they are willing to speak truth; but if they be deprived of the gods' sweet food, they speak falsely, as they swarm in and out of each other. " 

Homeric Hymn 4, from line 550, translation by Hugh Evelyn-White

Please turn your thoughts to the great and wonderful spirit that seeks to lift all of us upwards to a vision of a new world. There is is only this One Spirit in Nature that we are bound to, it needs no prophet but your awakened heart, and no church but the trees and flowers, fields and streams, even just your inner eyes seeing the place of light within you. Go there and be comforted that the strength and power is this spirit that shines in front of you that it will appear to all that will to see it. This spirit is peace, and goodness, and love, and wisdom, and the true teacher who comes to all that will to have this spiritual life within them. It is our Lord in the Spirit today. If you will to be healed, then ask this spirit to be in you and come to be healed through the spirit of love.

You can lie to a liar,

Steal from a theif for it is easy,

Be quick to set a trap for a man that traps others, and he is yours,

But beware of him most that has no axe to grind.

From the Book of the Wise

When a man is born, what is called the 'personality' arises in the life of the soul. It inserts itself in the gaps found between darkness, ignorance, innocence and love. He now grows to self consciousness. He learns how to destroy and set his own image on the throne of being. All things within are his personal creations. But his personality is not his true being. He must search, meditate, and surrender to the second 'self' which dissolves the first self, and also itself, to peel away the skins, like peeling the banana, until one comes to the fruit of the Spirit, the seed and kernel of new life. "Come says the goddess, come! Who would not give away his life, for the vision of the truth of eternal becoming? Come!"

"Tides in the ocean of stars and the infinite rhythm of space; Cycles on cycles of aeons adrone on an infinite beach; Pause and recession and flow, and each atom of dust in its place In the pulse of eternal becoming; no error, no breach

But the calm and the sweep and the swing of the leisurely, measureless roll Of the absolute cause, the unthwarted effect -- and no haste, And no discord, and nothing untimed in a calculus ruling the whole; Unfolding; evolving; accretion; attrition; no waste.

Planet on planet a course that it keeps, and each swallow its flight; Comet's ellipse and grace-note of the sudden firefly glow; Jewels of Perseid splendor sprayed on summer's purple night; Blossom adrift on the breath of spring; the whirl of snow; Grit on the grinding beaches, spume of the storm-ridden wave Hurled on the north wind's ice-born blast to blend with the tropic rain; Hail and the hissing of torrents; song where sapphire ripples lave The crest of thousand-fathom reefs upbuilt beneath the main.

Silt of the ceaseless rivers from the mountain summits worn, Rolled along gorge and meadow till the salt, inflowing tide Heaps it in shoals at harbor-mouth for continents unborn; Earth where the naked rocks were reared; pine where the birches died;

Season on season proceeding, and birth in the shadow of death; Dawning of luminous day in the dying of night; and a Plan In no whit, in no particle changing; each phase of becoming a breath Of the infinite, Karma of all things; its goal, evolution of MAN."

- Talbot Mundy

"Whenever you think God has shown you other people's faults take care: your own judgment may well be at fault. Say nothing. And if you do attribute any vice to another person immediately and humbly look for it in yourself also. Should the other person really possess that vice he will correct himself so much the better when he sees how gently you understand him and he will say to himself  whatever you would have told him." St Catherine of Siena.

I have now reigned above 50 years in victory or peace... Riches and honour, power and pleasures have waited on my call nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In  this situation I  have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to 14. O man!  Place not thy confidence in this present world.

Abd-al Rahman III, Caliph of Spain, AD 912-961

Fire Is Coolest at the Center

Be the truth - Be the Love - Forgive and Live

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Mark Twain

There are so many that spend their time on old things, when the Fresh New World Is Before our Eyes and the Past Is Just a Memory

I feel my fate, my fate finds me 
I feel my star, my star finds me
I feel my goals, my goals find me
My soul and the world are one.

Rudolf Steiner

The blessings of God can heal all that is within and bring about the changes without. God is love.... I am within his love as man, and I bring my soul as a gift to join with his perfect love, then I am healed.

From the Book of Love

A simple thing like the spirit of goodwill is pleasing to others and makes any perceived evil to become an artistic creation. Many people forget how important it is to look for good-will in others too, or to plant the seed of goodwill in everyone we meet so the spirit of good-will is like a garden we grow in each other.

"Angel of God who is guarding me
Be Thou a bright flame before me
Be Thou a shining star above me
Be Thou a smooth path below me
Be Thou a kind shepherd behind me.

What seems hard today will be easier tomorrow. 

Our wisdom must create peace not strife, nor competition, nor helplessness.

How? says the student of the spirit?

It must feel exactly like 'the other', and know well how it is to thirst, or hunger, and then to find water and food.

A hungry soul looks dangerous because it is in pain and grief, worry, and suffering, for hunger is real.

When a brave student can rise to the task of knowledge, the side which feds, must have learned first from the spirit of wisdom how to approach those in need and get past the claws, and the fangs, to the eyes that speak louder than all.

"How" says the student again to the spirit? and she says, "Look and learn how I approached you."

From the Sayings of the Book of the Wise

A Manichaean Psalm

I am in all things.

I carry the skies.

I am the Foundation.

I support the earths.

I am the Light that shines forth,

that gives joy to the souls.

I am the life of the world:

I am the milk that is in all trees:

I am the sweet water that is beneath the sons of matter...

i bore these things until I had

fulfilled the will of my father:

the First Man is my father

whoese will I have carried out ...

O soul,

raise your eyes to the height

and contemplate your bond ...

look, your Fathers are calling you."

We have a destiny in the earth, and so we are born, this marks a time and a beginning, the beginning of the quest for the source, the source is not answerable to anyone but the spirit, a man that discoveries this, discovers a path to the truth, truth delights the soul and stirs it inwardly to action, he goes back to the world but looks again through everything, and cannot see the spirit there, why?  The spirit is before the world was, and so man grapples again with this, and cannot determine it except in his own seeing and hearing, and so he learn faith, trust, hope, and surrender, and that every word from his mouth is his body and his truth to share and give and ponder the meaning.  And if he comes to the pure spirit again, and the spirit sits with him, and holds his hand, he will know what all men of spirit know - that love is the beginning and the answer to the search for meaning, purpose and being.  I am that i am.

More radiant than the Sun,
Purer than the snow,
Finer than aether
Is the Self
The Spirit in my Heart.
This Self am I,
I am this Self.

Saying by an Eastern Sage, (and quoted by Rudolf Steiner)

To ignore the presence of spirit is ignorance,

To assume the material is ignorance,

To not see the hidden is blindness,

To hear the silent is tranquility,

To move with the Cosmos is not to move at all,

The light is gone away into the shadow to rest O students of the spirit,

Walk gently lest you wake her in her dreaming.

Sit and be silent O students of the spirit, so you can feel her spirit being in you.

From the Book of the Wise

"Following the trail of illusions is good to reveal the truth about ones' desires. He knows most when he knows when he has had enough for his soul. Then he looks for truth. To know truth is the same as knowing illusion. The fool thinks he knows, and the wise man sees truth everywhere and no-where. But he looks further into the spirit, for the revelation about his being. If he can see nothing, then he knows that he knows nothing true about himself. What is more important, the world of truth without being, or a being which has no truth? "

From the Book of the Sayings of the Students of the Spirit.

THE MAGIC INCANTATION OF SAN-FUN-HO

Lords of evolving night and day! Ye spirits of the spaceless dreams! O Souls of the reflected hills Embosomed in pellucid streams! Magicians of the morning haze Who weave anew the virgin veil That dews the blush of waking days With innocence!

Ye Rishis , hail! I charge that whosoe'er may view This talisman, shall greet the dawn Degreed, arrayed and ranked anew, As he may wish to have been born! Prevail desire! A day and night Prevail ambition! Till they see They can not set the world aright By being what they crave to be! Be, time and space, and all save Karma is stilled! Grant that each secret wish may be fulfilled!

Instruction for Students of the Spirit

Good things are not always good!

Imagine your disappointment whenever you find something you think is good turns out to be sour!  This is a colossal experience! All through our learning years imagine how everything you thought was good turned into its opposite. Now, the condition of the soul is trained to be suspicious of all 'good things', and these include love, and relationships.

As you get stronger and more focused because of your Rosicrucian Meditation Exercises,  you must notice there is a wisdom that comes from life, and especially around things of the desire body. 

In our Course 003 on the Astral Body you are instructed to fill the soul with higher aspirations such as higher art,  poetry, and music, and also the Higher Thoughts of Humanities Teachers, Poets, and Artists.  These all are the result of even Higher Spiritual Beings!  In the book The Secrets of Eden there we find lots more detailed instructions for higher spiritual development.

As the soul turns around within itself, it does not want to condemn everything, and so there a feeling comes to every student of a wandering in a lost sea without any horizon!  But one can reflect on our teachings, and feel comforted for it is temporary, and will pass. It even has a name (it is so famous among the students of all Ages) it is called 'the neither word'.

Keep your calm, and use your time to balance and focus. Your goal is still ahead, and it is a beautiful goal you are seeking!  One day it will appear and you will be amazed at the beautiful world of Spiritual Nature.

Instruction for Students of the Spirit

Practice Focus of mind, thoughts, and feelings. Combine everything into a bundle of color, light, and sound. Create your song, thoughts, and control your dreaming. This brings balance between the heart and the mind, the heaven above and the earth below, the past and the future, all one.

Thoth, who won the Light of the Moon made 5 Children with Nut the Sky with the moon-light. He became the new God of the Moon, and his 5 Days of the Moon-lit nights are remembered in the Mountains of the Moon where Isis and Osiris were born. The Eye of RA could not see them there, as there were beyond the Days the God of the Sun had made. 

When Isis wandered the world weary and hungry, she came to the House of Glory, but Glory would not let her in because of her protecting animals which accompanied her. These creatures were made from Oblivion, and so out of Oblivion, Isis had spun the creatures of the Cobra and the Scorpions to assist in hiding her, and protecting her. The scorpions went back to the House of Glory and entered her house and stung the child of the mother of the house of Glory, and he died. 

The mother mourned her child and Isis came to her and told her the reason for the death was she was shut out of the House of Glory, but if she let her come in, then she would say the words and the breath of life would come back into her dead child. The mother let her in, and Isis commanded the spirits of the poisons to come out of the Body of the Child and they obeyed her, and the Child arose from his Death.

The mother praised Isis, and Isis from that time comes to mothers, and others too, that have need of her healing powers and words of wisdom.

Each individual is a potential vessel of Cosmic Spirit and the World. Each opens according to his karma.

From the Book of the Wise

A student asked his teacher:

What is Karma?

A good place to start is to establish the unique form of the human soul, and ask How? Where did it come from? Then take a stone or piece of wood, anything all the way up to the animals, and we can trace them to something earthly. With man you come to yourself, and the self is the cause of your being, even in so far as the space you have live in within your self is your own and separate from the world. So now, what is the foundation of all other things, is not the same for a human being. So then start with the soul and work from that to the source of itself, and you come to the same source as the world was before the world was a world. This world man carries about with him, but he cannot see anything external that tells him anything of his inner world. If nature too, as spirit, approached the creations of the world and came to a man as an external being, she too would not be able to say why he thinks, or what he is thinking for that is within him. But when a man has befriended this same spirit by shaping his Karma so as to develop himself, then the world spirit joins with his soul. If this is a man's karma, then he is a spirit man, but if the man looks for his self as a body, then he is a man where only earthly karma is visible in him. He must train himself to look correctly for that which is spirit in him and in the world.

Life is an open book for you to read it, you need to know the language,
For you to write in it, you need to know truth.
For you to know it, you need to be able to grow in the language and thoughts it presents.
To feel, you need another to know you as you are, and to see yourself you need love to guide you to the consciousness of your true being, and how it touches and fills others with life.

It is a flame which kills but gives new life,

unless a man-woman loses his life he cannot have a New Life,

what man would put new wine in an old skin.

Take off the old skin, and underneath is the new fresh skin and in that seeing

you will know you are a god.

"As light shines into darkness, darkness tries to find itself but cannot for the light. But Light has seen, is silent, and knows."

From the Book of the Sayings of the Students of the Spirit

"A Leader who knows how to lead, knows well; that which is best to follow..."

From the Sayings of Students of Wisdom

To tell a lie, a liar must use the truth. If he sees a truth, the more wonderful the truth appears, the greater is the temptation to demolish it with craftily formed lies and corruption.  The man that knows the truth loves to follow the liar to discover his ingenius methods to conceal.

From the Book of the Wise

"Ever since the light began to shine into darkness, darkness tries to find itself but cannot. It wanders in through the World seeking the source of its own being.  And only light knows the secret and has never revealed it."

From the Book of the Sayings of the Students of the Spirit

The color illumined nature, finds the path of the light-ego.   

"Brooding heat prepares the lightning strike": an inward turn and Will roots us to the spot!

When the spiritual world starts to grow, one feels like 'ran is coming'  before an oncoming downpour, it may thunder and crack with lightning, making fertile the ground and opening it,  and then the quiet as the drops appear one here and then there, and it crescendos and bursts ! Then the earth, the soul opens and is like a womb we have never experienced before this, and we may walk into it -if she allows us to follow, and invites us into her, to feel her magical and invisible power now visible for mortal eyes!

And there on some favorable days when warmth surrounds us: and we forget whatever we were, and feel being born anew! as a spirit-child with the mothers all around - in the trees, and the drops of rain, the light - all are her hands, and maidens and limbs working.

To listen for the calling of the spirit is a challenge. To answer the call is another thing.

Little advancements in one person add up when everyone is gripped by the spirit of accomplishment. Spirits of Fear and anxiety will ultimately wear down the soul and leave it it in a state of will-less-ness and weakness. One needs a keen eye to see these things and assist in the work of nature - even on human nature.

It is no surprise the man of wisdom overcomes his fear of death.

He remembers well how much more difficult it was for him to enter into the physical world.

The man of spirit finds joy in work as a creator. Going back into the spirit is a celebration for it comes after his work on the earth as a man of wisdom.

He sees ahead how the good and wise spirits of heaven welcome him.

‘Love…is the highest and vastest freedom. All exists through love. Spiritual love is a drunkenness and a balm; those who are anointed by it rejoice.’ Gospel of Philip

Knowledge finds meaning through love,  knowledge without love has much more to know.

From the Book of the Wise

May your day be filled with Wisdom today, May your words express the wisdom of the spirit,

May your eyes, ears and hands touch the source of all that is good, and dispel any hindrances to the Wisdom of the spirit that seeks to express in your world.

Fill this Wisdom with loving thoughts so as to brighten the light that shines about you and others who may see the wonder of your love in being.

Magic is the universally accepted name for those phenomena whose noumena are unknown to the ordinary herd. But magic is of two kinds, which, however, have this quality in common: they receive their impulse from the will of the magician, somewhat in the way that ripples on the sea receive their impulse from an oar; and if his will lack strength, or if his understanding fail him, he must receive the effect of his magic hurled back on himself with force redoubled by the impulse of his adversary.

He who is known as a white magician—he, that is, who takes the right-hand way and whose knowledge is exerted solely with a beneficial and unselfish purpose—need not dread that repercussion more than fish need dread the sea, because he is employing Life itself—the very Life in which he lives.

But the black magician—he who takes the left-hand way, whose purpose and whose power are malevolent—is not so fortunately situated. Death is his employer and employee, so that the greater his immediate success, the more certain is his ultimate annihilation.
—Fragment from The Diary Of Olympus.

The student asked the teacher:  The universe , all matter , is the furthest away from the divine. Can you explain?

The material universe and all that is contained there-in is the closest to the Divine as possible without being it.

How shall we understand this?

Human beings are beings of perspective. Because of mathematical knowledge we have discovered that perception is 'subjective' and perhaps fits the concept 'distant from the divine'. What supports this concept is the assertion that matter is 'atomic' and that the weight of 'atoms' is a number. Thus we arrive at this idea: atoms are mathematical, and mathematical is an abstraction (as point line or cube) of reality. So now we have this question: is mathematical perception actual, does it fully embrace all reality, or is it a 'part' and being part then it has a relation of 'far' or 'near' to the divine? If math is nearest to the divine, then matter is nearest too, to the divine. If mathematics is 'external' to the spirit, then it is not calculable, and there-for it is true of all that uses mathematical calculations i.e. atoms, mass, etc, are abstractions of another reality that is not expressed. Please notice this separation: matter is not atoms, nor mass, it has an unexpressed relation of quality above that which is calculated - and this makes it closer in relation to the divine as it represents that which was acted upon, but it is now 'frozen' or immobile. When the time element is added to our concepts, then we can discover this: what is frozen was once mobile, fluid, and perhaps alive. So now we have the amazing contradiction of New and Old - of dead, and potential - of matter and anti-matter as inseparable aspects. Without time, dead, with time - it is definitively imponderable i.e. you see it when it is not, and when it is, then you can't see it. And that is the closest to the Divine as possible without being it.

Brooding heat prepares the lightning strike

Reading without meditation is dry. Meditation without reading is subject to error . Prayer without meditation is lukewarm. Meditation without prayer is fruitless. Prayer with devotion leads to contemplation whereas contemplation without prayer happens rarely or by a miracle.

The Ladder of Monastics - Guigo II

The four moments of prayer associated with Lectio Divina.

The immoral complain often about the immorality of others, but the moral complain not at all, but they listen, for to them it is like a fish that hears what others say about the ocean in which he swims.

From the Book of Olympus

The nature beings are one great help for growing students. They are the 'surprize' and blessing of the soul. They work in the lighted substances that are formed through inspirations and enthusiasm when we balance with cosmic forces and nature beings, and nature spirits that begin to flow above and around the lotus-chakra developments.

The student asked the Teacher; How do I make New thoughts?

Old thoughts die, or disappear, or move into elements.  Thoughts begin as a seed you may plant in your darkness, as a little star or island of knowing in the vast unknown. The thought knows itself in the seed, and feels it there. The seed tastes, and discovers all that is new for it. At first fear - but the mother of it touches it from afar. The mother has a knowledge it activates in the seed. The seed has intuition! And the thought eats the darkness around it and becomes illumined and shines in the soul it is born.

From the Book of Sages

Love is the sweetest gift of heaven to man,

If we use with wisdom,

Peace is ours.

Sayings of the Wise

Peace and goodness will happen because we know and act through the spirit of wisdom. The study of wisdom leads to good thoughts, then to good contemplation, then good practice, good words, and then good deeds - then harmony, health and wellbeing.  If it is not that, then back to the beginning and start over.

From the Book of the Happy Buddha

Love that forms between the soul and the spirit in man forms over time a Self-consciousness that feels more and more to be growing in an invisible spiritual stream of light.  This self-discovery itself in itself and forms thoughts, ideas, and moves between realms of time and space to the imperishable and incomprehensible. 

It is here and there. It is the source of anxiety in those that are called by it. By understanding it, nurturing it, and loving its power, one is by degrees led into the higher realms above the world below.  

To create from it new time, new space, new vitality, is also to discover it is self propagating, and forms the basis for perpetual love and knowledge. 

You cannot be a scientist if you merely interpret nature; you have to investigate the very tool which you use for that interpretation - this tool is thinking.

Rudolf.Steiner

Wisdom makes the opportunity for us to hear spirit poetry play up within us and to sing beautiful thoughts as a breath of life into our inner atmosphere.

From the Book of Wisdom

Make my soul Thy temple!
Make my heart Thine altar!
Make my love Thy home!

We do not think in terms of boundaries but in taking them away...whether in religion or politics, or families and friends, small groups or large groups, the spirit of our work is to shine the light of Wisdom, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, balance, and to bring these into focus for our inner self and help others to operate under the same light of the spirit.

To do this in as loving a way as possible is the sacrifice demanded of us as modern students of the spirit, and through persistence we know we achieve the goal of our work when others respond to us with kindness, and with joy at the gifts we bring and share with all who seek Wisdom with us together.

May your soul be filled with ever new insights into the Realm of Living Wisdom.

The Queen of Sheba came to Solomon from the ends of the earth, from the periphery, to question him of wisdom, to which he provided every answer to her satisfaction, but for her life and love remained directed towards the Chief Architect -for Hiram Abif! and of the science and word by which the temple may be built, and so with the wisdom of the starry world the path is sought, in time and space, as our soul also descends into the depths of matter: – For she is "dark but comely". 

Why Hiram and not Solomon?

The answer: Solomon's wisdom was old - as he said, Wisdom increased suffering! The Queen wanted excitement and joy! The work was certainly not done! Even if Jehovah had said: My work is 'completed', for her it was not! And so she needed a Co-Creator, and that was one that could comprehend her soul, and that was the gift of love that streamed between them. It is human: and God said to Eve in the Garden: 'it will take a long time', and so it did take a long time - and we are the children, all of us are the children of the 'long-time'.

Generally speaking, all those who live long are altruists and optimists. They know neither hatred nor envy. In addition to their practice of periodic fasts and their fine diet of natural foods they also know the value of a good diet in thoughts and emotions.

E Szekely in The Essene Scieince of Healing.

From the Book :
'Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians "

Ignis Philosophorum Invisibilis & Secretissimus Occultatum.

The students asked the teacher:

I cannot see auras but I feel the warmth or coldness of people. Why is that? Do you understand what I mean?

The teacher answered:

Oh yes, I understand. perfectly. The auras will become visible at the right time.

It will arrive like a baby through the wonderment, for in loving kindness is the greatest treasure, and being occupied with it without 'seeing' is the sign of our true faith . It is how we conquer our insecurity that counts towards our capacity to see wisdom working ahead of us with inspirations as a gentle and perfectly forming misty rain that reveals our true thoughts and true willing to us. Our feelings come from within.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

~ C.G. Jung

Seek with this expectation: expect nothing, but create the space of the spirit in you, and all that can be added to you, will be added to you.

The the Book of the Sayings of the Student of the Spirit

The World has the Shape and Measure of Your Own Mind....

From the Book of the Wise

"The spirit is joyful for us in our dedication to the work of the spirit of wisdom. Our sharing in the earth gives further joy to all beings joined by the spirit of wisdom."

From the book of the Students of Spirit

"One of the biggest misconception is that simple mined people don't ask questions, but in truth the simple minded ask the most questions. There-fore the learned man who doesn't ask questions must reform his consciousness so that he may regain the mood of soul of the simple minded soul that still asks and ponders."

Sayings from the Book of the Students of the Spirit

Peter asked the interpreter of the Teacher, What is sin? Mary answered him, there is no sin, but that which you act according to your own corrupted nature.  

From the The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Its the small deeds of kindness and love that count the most, for the greatest is in the least. No matter where you are, you have the seed of the spirit life in you, use it wisely, but also, use it. No matter how small the deed appears to you, it may change the life of another.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living”

Rudolf Steiner

Every puzzle created must have a solution.

A Proverb of the Wise

Who is as heavy as we, or as strong?

Ho! but we trample the shambas down!
Saw ye a swath where the trash lay long
And tall trees flat like a harvest mown?
That was the path we shore in haste
Ripping the branch and bough to waste
Like rocks shot loose from a mountain side!
Therefore hear us:

(All together, stamping steadily In time.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall humble the will of the Ivory Folk!

Once we were monarchs from sky to sky,
Many were we and the men were few;
Then we would go to the Place to die—
Elephant tombs that the oldest knew,—
Old as the trees when the prime is past,
Lords unchallenged of vale and plain,
Grazing aloof and alone at last
To lie where the oldest had always lain.
So we sing of it:

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall govern the strength of the Ivory Folk!

Still we are monarchs! Our strength and weight
Can flatten the huts of the frightened men!
But the glory of smashing is lost of late,
We raid less eagerly now than then,
For pits are staked, and the traps are blind,
The guns be many, the men be more;
We fidget with pickets before and behind,
Who snoozed in the noonday heat of yore.
Yet, hear us sing:

(All together, ears up and trunks extended.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Have lessened the rage of the Ivory Folk!

Still we are monarchs of field and stream!
None is as strong or as heavy as we!
We scent—we swerve—we come—we scream—
And the men are as mud 'neath tusk and knee!
But we go no more to the Mountain to die,
For the blacks head us off and the guns pursue;
Bleaching our scattered rib-bones do lie,
And the men be many, and we be few.
Nevertheless:

(All together, trunks up-thrown, ears extended, and stamping in slow time with the fore-feet.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall humble the pride of the Ivory Folk!

- Talbot Mundy

Once we accept 'bodies' as having a soul then we begin to contemplate re-embodiment. We look for evidence, or signs of this. Everyone and anyone should be able to determine the fact that it is naive to think the material has the intelligence - even though we say for instance that metals have a sort of memory etc, but aside from these, what else deepens our understanding enough to look for the soul in the spirit? And that means the material has some kind of specialization that comes from a source that is continuous, and also, as in fertilization, it can impregnate material substance with dynamic force building power. 

By contemplating in this way we add to our knowledge a foundation upon which to build up our ideas so that we eventually can come to perceive the working of creative spirits. So can we come to believe in such a way that we can begin to predict the workings of invisible powers that do in fact also seek to work with special physical substances, shall we say, proteins or other specialized gases. Invisible though they are, they are the source from which 'bodies' come. 

The densest parts of a man come from the water within the body, and so the densest parts of the world have also come from the finer parts. Now we have a consistent pattern that can speak well of re-embodiment. Our bodies, no mater how material they become, It doesn't start from the beginning with materiality, it start in the finer and end again in the spiritual, and so one can ask? How does the coarse and denser material come into being? How are they there? The answer: they are a a bi-product of the activity that has preceded it. And we can call this activity 'Astrality'.

So we have materiality and astrality, the material and active spirit, and between them, holding a balance so to speak is the aetheric.

Now one can ask this question, how do they work together in me and the world? What is my role in all of this?

Soul-life Wisdom is the substance that holds all moments together and harmonizes all thoughts, moods and emotions towards the goals of the life and being nature in each. Wisdom comes and teaches every individual soul what it needs and feeds it by sending rays of pure life-filled light.  He who listens to soul-life wisdom and follows what she teaches will find everlasting life and harmonizing peace.

Where there is will, then we make it happen~but nothing is more impossible than to expect the gods to do for you what you must do for yourself, from your own free will - spiritual development is also the way to know how to love our soul and its manifestation in us. 

It seems impossible to us at first, for the soul sees our physical self as "a bag of tricks" and a waste of good spiritual power - for the soul may chose to work in the spirit too! And so it is the first and last stages of our unfolding is to bring forth that power which is impossible when you understand how it has to work...from the impossible to the manifestation.

Tazo

Spiritual Human nature is invisible and unfathomable.  It is time and space beyond time and space. The soul is both the portal and the foundation, the temporal and the eternal. Just as one's soul knows like soul, so the soul in knowing nature confirms itself and seeks further the powers of its own creation. The forming of the I of creation is at the same time the I of destruction. Why? Because this I is ever dying, and loves death in that it becomes again, as it discovers its unfathomable nature.

And so the wise have said, the souls that seek love will find it, the soul that seeks knowledge of itself will find the fields of the soul being nature.

“Humanity has no other alternative before it today than either to learn again about the whole web of natural and cosmic connections, or to let both nature and humanity degenerate and die out. As in the past it is imperative that our knowledge should penetrate to the actual structure of Nature.” —Rudolf Steiner, Koberwitz, 1924

Seek The Web of Natural and Cosmic Connections through Our Platonic Spiritual Science

Spiritual wisdom is more ancient than anything present in the physical for it comes from the Time before the world was made.

Only a person with an awakened soul can know this as a truth.

From the Book of the Wise

"As there are stars in the heavens, so there are stars within man, for there is nothing in the universe which has not its equivalent in the microcosm." (the human body). In another place Paracelsus says, "Man derives his spirit from the constellations (fixed stars), his soul from the planets, and his body from the elements." Paracelsus 

It takes courage to step out from the pack and seek your own destiny.

From the Sayings of the Book of the Wise

Symbols are the language of Master Teachers. Why? The world is a symbol where once stood gods and goddesses. Masters converse with gods and goddesses where others see only the symbol and speak with nothing.

From the Book of the Sayings of Wise

God sends his  teachers unto every age,
To every clime and every race of men,
With revelations fitted to their growth,
And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of TRUTH,
Into the selfish rule of one sole race:
Therefore, each form of worship that hath swayed
The life of man, and given it to grasp
The master key of knowledge, REVERENCE,
Enfolds some germs of goodness and of right.

J.R. Lowell

Virtue is not found in the world, it is wrapped up inside the soul and needs to be unfolded. To' save the soul' means to save the seed of virtue for the time, and place where the spirit reveals it to you. To understand it leads you into the heart of all the teachers of wisdom since ever this germ was found and fanned into life. Teachers are then called 'gardeners' of the soul, and teachers of the Way of the Spirit.

From the Book of the Sayings of the Wise

With the light of wisdom provided by the cultivation of spiritual wisdom in our group of friends and students, we seek to permeate into the cultures of the world with spiritual love.

Temple Osiris Motto

The ancients sages knew the body and created the foundations of all knowledge we build today. No knowledge has been more consistent than the sciences that came from our spiritual teachers. OM Meditation builds prana, spiritual chanting builds prana and inspires creatures of nature too, and prana goes through flowers and fills the air with fragrances and innocent and simple people breathe in the spirit-infused air. 

Sun beams with invisible hands of angels fill chalices of prana-breath and drink it in invisible feasts of nature spirits who taste and inspire sleeping prophets, musicians, and poets. Who knows how to listen to them will learn the greatest secrets of healing - truth and goodness that fills the soul is a lighted and colorfully rich soul candle seen best when the darkness reveals it everywhere as human stars shining into the same eternity we ponder from the other side.

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go to the desert at night and look at the stars. This should answer the question." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Because we are a Friends group, the intention of our friends group is to meet each other and give the gift of friendship. The world is always better through our extensions of love, appreciation, and friendship. Love is the deepest forms of knowledge we have. A great teacher becomes the friend of all...and rays back to those that follow him the color, the fragrance, the life of the place ahead. The goals of all development is to forget all that one treasures as learning so one can hear the souls of those that are students, and need to be heard. The space in the soul of the teachers is cleared through training in how to empty the soul and heart so that it can be filled again and again.

The self is a relation which relates to itself… A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity… A synthesis is a relation between two terms. Looked at in this way a human being is not yet a self.

Despair is the imbalance in a relation of synthesis, in a relation which relates to itself.

Kierkegaard from The Sickness Unto Death

This work shows how much people are in love with suffering and being alone!!! 

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Teachers and Leaders who disguise their evil will turn their evil designs on their followers who reflect the shame of seeing the truth, for followers of evil men have a common flaw - it is weakness of soul - which appeals to the designs of the stronger power that seek to corrupt the designs of good men.

Everything looks very funny to seers who know, and no matter what pride or proudness of thought prevails, the animal nature is still the only visibly completed form of man, and of the higher form he only dreams about it and it causes him pain, torment and suffering.

But this changes when one seeks a method of spiritual development that works in the modern conditions of the soul. It must also be a development in perfect harmony with higher powers of nature which are guided to mankind to appear in his karmic path, out of love, and for no other reason, by the higher spiritual beings in harmony with the next stages of human development.

The soul is the flame of the body; therefore do not worry about the perfection of your external appearance, but rather the scent, fragrance, and light you give,

From the Book of the Wise

The lotus lords of the flames of wisdom descend on those who make their body a Temple to house it.

The lords of the flames of wisdom descend on those who make their body a Temple to house it.

Breathe in the life of the Wisdom of the Spirit and your eyes will see in two worlds.

Do not be confused, and spread confusion, seek truth and know the Way.

The foot will walk steadily and with courage.  For all who look and seek to know will see with understanding, and follow the path through the darkness to the light.

True understanding leads to true being. All evil seizes and changes to good and service. The darkness holds the light for all beings.

It is through understanding that barriers of consciousness dissolve and stagnation changes to flow, to blood, the blood of love...

From the Book of the Wise

I use my flute and charm the rocks, and the trees, the sirens voices have I calmed, and I received my tortoiseshell flute from Ino of the sea, my gold flute from Apollo, my silver flute plays the light of the moon into veils of musical waves, My soul fills with and breathes out the words of Aphrodite, and Athena whispers songs in my dreams.

I am Orpheus and Homer, St.Mark too, as I too speak of Helen upon her bed. Stars descend and ascend into the place where music lives as real as the trees of the forests, and flows too, as the rivers of light from eternal places to be heard in that nature creation where heaven lives within finely woven earthly aethers streaming beauty.

She is the footstool of heaven

"Venerable ancient," said Fable. "Eros has need of your sword. Gold has given him a chain, one end of which reaches down to the sea, whilst the other winds about his heart. Take hold of it with me, and lead us into the hall where the princess rests."

Novalis

From Novalis' Fairy Tale

Look up O Children of the Earth and see! 

All things go back again and again. Rise upwards in each turning round and come to the heaven above where is infinite time and space for amazing and endless creations.

The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul we humans ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity's sake

Above us, and all around us is invisible spirit. But how to comprehend it? Here is a train of thought to contemplate.

To make a ferment in a dough one sets the dough out and covers it. And Into it, like magic, comes the ferment. If one leaves it for a number of days, it will be unsavory, but if you take a little of the unsavory dough, and put it in a fresh dough, then the fresh dough is set out after it ferments again, it can then be baked and is a very tasty bread.
This is an invisible process of nature, and so the spirit to is invisible.
One needs to know how special the soul is to nature to begin the same process of transformation.

The Logos was equal to the metal gold - incorruptible and pure - yet material and visible. Logos is also equated with golden light phenomenon for the same reason. The Logos of the human being rises out of the lower nature as uncorrupted Gold and Light as this is his subtle light body and this body is nourished and fed by even higher and more subtle light bodies. So the soul was not considered as a Logos, but what came from it was - and as a like nature to the same Golden Spirit that arises out of everything with a soul and spirit. So the Sun is considered the abode of the logos and the logoi journey there from everywhere. As the light inspires the growth, so the light goes back and forth to all the spheres of existence.

The lotus lords of the flames of wisdom descend on those who make their body a Temple to house it.

The Student asked the Teacher to explain the mind.  "Some say the mind is one, and there is only one mind. What do you say venerable Teacher?"

Here is your answer. This kind of thinking is reflected thinking, but something is missing from it. Let us use a feeling sense to discover the truth. And on the path of feeling we can feel it is both true and untrue. So now let us follow the paths of the light to represent for us the One Mind, as the same as the One Light of Sun.  Consider how Light and Warmth can be  separated in the Cosmic Bodies of the Sun and the Moon and this affects the natures of all living bodies. This is the way to understand light and warmth and unravel this great riddle of the One Mind. 

 If we follow the light through the world, we see how a plant grows from two kinds of light, the light of the moon, which is the Sun-light. So we can say like this, the light is one light, but we also know from the growth of the life in the plant these lead to a different result. And if we take this into the inner being one can clearly see that the light may indeed be one light, but it has been separated into warmth and light, and just light as in the reflected light of the moon.  So we can say there is indeed One Light, the light of the Sun, and that is even to the Light of the Moon, but the Light at the Source is warm, and the light of the Moon is cold and separated from it is the element of the warmth, so the mind too has elements that it must consider that have conditioned it.  

And so the One Mind must consider its reflections as these have been separated into soul and life. Eventually all reflections go back to the source from which they have come, and so the many minds travel back to the one mind and are refreshed, revitalized, as they rest in the bosom of Divine Light and Love.  

The missing piece in our understanding of our reflective mental nature is that the mind is sterile. It is actually like trying to fly with one wing and other is a reflection in a mirror.

 It all changes when one understands this secret and how and where to look for the missing part.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth The named is the mother of myriad things

Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence Constantly with desire, one observes its manifestations These two emerge together but differ in name The unity is said to be the mystery Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders

Tao Te Ching 32

"THE LAMA'S LAW

O ye who look to enter in through Discipline to Bliss, Ye shall not stray from out the way, if ye remember this: Ye shall not waste a weary hour, nor hope for Hope in vain, If ye persist with will until self-righteousness is slain.

If through the mist of mortal eyes,deluded, ye discern That ye are holier than these, ye have the whole to learn!If ye are tied with tangled pride Know then, your purest thoughts deny the Truth ye never saw! If ye resent in discontent the searchlight of reproof,

Preferring praise, ye waste your days at sin's not Soul's behoof! Each gain for self denies the Self that knows the self is vain. Who crowns accomplishment with pride must build the whole again!

But if, at each ascending step, more clearly ye perceive That he must kill the lower will,who would the world relieve And they are last who would be first, their effort thrown away;

Be patient then and persevere. Ye tread the Middle Way! "

Philosophy is the Love of Learning - do you feel the urge and power of love moving in your thoughts? Blowing like a wind?

Giving freshness and musical spirit song? Say yes to Philosophy and the love of learning!

The student came to the teacher and said : teacher I am weary of this word! What shall I do! I want to go home and fly amongst the stars, and feel the endless light in my soul to take me where my knowledge is pure and whole. What shall I do now? I am tired by the thought of this world.

The Teacher pondered the question, and then smiled, and said;

Dear one, you have discovered only the borders of things.  Only when you awakened your eyes to see the new day have you discovered that you are still tired too. And so you are perplexed,  as all who see are also perplexed, who suddenly discover they have not awakened refreshed!  And have you not seen you have always awakened so? And alas you see the 1st voice of your self that always grows a little afraid for the coming day!  

And consider too this, you have indeed discovered the things you need for this day as it was the day before too! But the soul does not remember it, nor does it know how to apply anything this day, for the world is also different from what it was!  The soul never knows until it comes. And also consider how the darkness seemed so long too! And the soul is also eager to come!  

 As all of these change; and the world wills to change so! She is a spirit and she comes at times to inspire and whisper into souls knowledge and life! Listen for her on your awakening! Trust her, as she who knows the hidden soul. She knows wisdom and how to show you the spiritual path of love.  She is your spiritual soul companion on your path.  She inspires you to find your light, and to discover how to make the light and illumine your soul in the night of your being.  And in your day to see her there as a living soul with you.   

So one can say that one confronts border after border, law after law, rule after rule, and all of these the world presents to the soul until one grow weary as well....and tires from endless borders. A mystery yes! But then, one has already felt the attraction of the something the world wants too. And she haunts the dream and draws you out after your rest - if not before it - and says "come! Come, that we may know more and see and know what it means!  

And so we go out and cross the borders. 1st, one has now to do well and to prepare itself in reflective thought and then to enter again, refreshed into any kingdom, lower of higher. The soul that knows well the elements of fire, earth, air, and water and can make a meal, and turn a strong wind to sail, and a raging fire to a slow cooking stove, a river to a mill, and the parched and barren earth to a garden.

The Riddle of the Ego

As I become less of what I am, I become more of what I was....

“Perhaps there is more understanding and beauty in life when the glaring sunlight is softened by the patterns of shadows. Perhaps there is more depth in a relationship that has weathered some storms. Experience that never disappoints or saddens or stirs up feeling is a bland experience with little challenge or variation of color. Perhaps it's when we experience confidence and faith and hope that we see materialize before our eyes this builds up within us a feeling of inner strength, courage, and security. We are all personalities that grow and develop as a result of our experiences, relationships, thoughts, and emotions. We are the sum total of all the parts that go into the making of a life.”
― Virginia M. Axline, Dibs in Search of Self

The search for wisdom should keep us at the edge of our seats! Yet in the spiraling and spinning of the riddles of Lucifer we must remain poised and balanced in our center point, suspended in perfect calm between all that appears before us until spirit vision changes from tempter to willing guide. Then the door opens quite on its own. Entering as light you breathe thoughts.

A student asked the Teacher,

I am troubled with the images of my past lovers, now that I am on a spiritual path what should I do?

The Teacher answered,

What you once loved impressed itself in your aura, and since you had many lovers, you have also many images.

Student

Can't I ever get rid of them? Can't I erase them?

The Teacher answered:

This image (of love)  will always be there, it has many sides, and they all relate to your own projections.  Think of a nut, or an egg, or a seed with its 'shell'. You crack open the seed, and cast the 'shell' right?  So as long as you or anyone deludes yourself about the fundamentally invisible forms in which things are ALSO, then you believe in a naive and habitual way - you do whatever worked for you before your spiritual training began.  And that means the teachings you absorbed in the beginning - there are shells remaining now - but the seeds are gone, and those seeds are no longer going to germinate (Germain is the same as 'Germinate'). You can't live on the shells, but they haunt you. Ask your self 'why' are they there? Because you will remember when they once germinated - but they can't now - they had there time.  So, out of your good karma, and drive, and will to find a source where the seeds could be obtained that didn't just 'grow fast' or were 'choked by weeds' or came on 'dry soil' , your soul said to your EGO - you get the right seeds now, we did the three that one:  were rocks (physical) two: choked by old memories that interfere with your present, and you spend all your time weeding them (aether body) or three: dry ground:  the sin of wrong desires that 'grow fast' but have no roots (we all know this right) and the associated and resulting  ghosts of fear etc (the astral body).

In the Parable of Jesus, the Sower has to throw the seeds over all four Soils, and only the 'soil' provided by the Ego has the power to sustain the germination. From that tree comes the Seeds for the next planting and becomes St Germain.

-Friend-

The Holy Grail symbolizes the senses of a human being which when purified through the powers of intelligence.

The eye is purified and made clear by the inner activity of the Ego-self working from Cosmic Realms of Being downwards into the physical form.

Then, and only then can the eye know the truth about itself and see upwards to the light that is looking for it.

This is the forming of the union of the soul to cosmic being and the path of truth

The seven  gifts of the Holy Spirit :

Wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord

A Sikh warrior asked his Guru,

How shall peace come to the world Oh Wise Master?

The Guru said,

Consider this truth All bullets will return to their guns, and arrows to their slings, words to the mouths that spoke them. Beware lest you harm yourself and others in ignorance of the laws of the world. Peace is the gift you bring, honor it by serving it, lest you become that which you would destroy.

From the Book of the Wise

A great start means makes the goal lots more fun and tantalizingly dangerous - like a slalum skier, it is more balance, and more speed, more speed, more mind, more mind, more control, more control, more power of the elements, then the elements reverse and begin to circle back and push you from behind! The goal will be a swish of light through the finish line! You found the power and the power found you.

In our search for the spirit, as we look and mature ourselves through union with spiritual powers of nature, it is essential to bring up the question Who Is My Father, and Who is 'The Father' of all?  As a preparation for this: It takes purity of soul , the soul must cleanse itself of all earth illusions. The method is not to reject the layers of color and the soundings of the human world, but to understand, and penetrate through each layer of consciousness as it presents itself, until one comes to a pure space where the consciousness is felt no longer within one's self, but that the self has disappeared too, and this is no insignificant thing,  for one perceives that it is now all sides from everywhere .... this soul of us is now mingled with the spirit of nature.  If one is true to one's path of development, then the spirit is rebuilding itself just as always before when in the beginning it descended into earthly veils of substance, color and light.

It is the will of the light to show and teach the way through the darkness. With the light we are always in the light. When the light is not present outside, then we must have learned from the Teacher three important things, to be calm and to listen to hear the voice of the Teacher, or Two ; to know the Way, and Three, to Shine from within for our self or others that call to us in need, if there is need for our light. For this, our Spirit Bodies have descended out from the Light. We have no more Father and Mother, nor brothers and sisters, that have birthed us or grew up as kin. We are freed from matter. We ascend and are reborn as Children of Light.

Use Reason to tame your Dreams of the Spirit -Life-Nature.

By concentrating on the spiritual part of the heart one can follow it to ancient Lemuria, for the head one comes to Atlantis and the solar plexus leads to the Hyperborean age.

From the Book of the Wise

The path of consciousness must become, over time, inadequate to describe what later replaces it as spirit-life. If one accepts the development of a spiritual soul nature (for some hitherto ultimate and unknown reason assuming this is the will of the being nature), then the template, of that which was before, and that which it became, and as it wished once to become, is consumed and is replaced by an interceding spiritual aspect of a superior nature to the previous and reforms it into self and participates in a higher spirit nature. 

Thus consciousness is an illusion of itself which as soon as it forms must dissolve it again, just as the breath breathes in and out, so does the spirit nature fill the emptiness of the soul and is consumed. 

When the nature reaches a higher level it creates another body out of it. This higher form is an aetheric man. Man is currently learning how to create a higher nature from his thoughts, feelings, and drives. These must be transformed into a spiritual form - thoughts, feelings, and drives which anticipate his higher spiritual form. 

Into a child is poured all the substances of the old spirit nature which is all 'will' into the aether body of the child in his 1st years of life, gradually then into his later life into thoughts from this thinking. His thoughts ponder over the aetheric substances of the previous years. 

These thoughts, unknown to the man, have a cosmic origin just as his will at birth is also from an unknown spiritual realm. These he must awaken to search for in his own nature. All of external nature can speak of these paths or portals, but hey are only found by developing the soul to see itself. 

Long-time ago in the Animal Kingdom, a sheep was passing and saw a lion crying inside a cage trapped and the lion begged the sheep to save him with a promise not to kill and eat it but the sheep refused. After much persuasion and for the sheep's gullibility it opened the cage for the lion.

A Woman asked the Teacher this question: 
How can I know of my past-lives? Who was I? Why do I think the way I do?

The Thriae (the Fates) Watching over the World feed on Spiritual Consciousness. If you feed them truth, them they will speak truth to you, but if you feed them lies, they will speak falsely back and bring with them a hive of torments.  - Proverb from the book of Wisdom

Translated by George W. MacRae

I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me.
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
And do not banish me from your sight.
And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!
Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am <the mother> and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one
and many are her sons.
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband.
I am the midwife and she who does not bear.
I am the solace of my labor pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my father
and the sister of my husband
and he is my offspring.
I am the slave of him who prepared me.
I am the ruler of my offspring.
But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.
And he is my offspring in (due) time,
and my power is from him.
I am the staff of his power in his youth,
and he is the rod of my old age.
And whatever he wills happens to me.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name.

Why, you who hate me, do you love me,
and hate those who love me?
You who deny me, confess me,
and you who confess me, deny me.
You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,
and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.
You who know me, be ignorant of me,
and those who have not known me, let them know me.
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
Give heed to me.
I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.
Give heed to my poverty and my wealth.
Do not be arrogant to me when I am cast out upon the earth,
and you will find me in those that are to come.
And do not look upon me on the dung-heap
nor go and leave me cast out,
and you will find me in the kingdoms.
And do not look upon me when I am cast out among those who
are disgraced and in the least places,
nor laugh at me.
And do not cast me out among those who are slain in violence.
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Be on your guard!
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
In my weakness, do not forsake me,
and do not be afraid of my power.
For why do you despise my fear
and curse my pride?
But I am she who exists in all fears
and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.
I am senseless and I am wise.
Why have you hated me in your counsels?
For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
and I shall appear and speak,
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
For I am the wisdom of the Greeks
and the knowledge of the barbarians.
I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.
I am the one whose image is great in Egypt
and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated everywhere
and who has been loved everywhere.
I am the one whom they call Life,
and you have called Death.
I am the one whom they call Law,
and you have called Lawlessness.
I am the one whom you have pursued,
and I am the one whom you have seized.
I am the one whom you have scattered,
and you have gathered me together.
I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am she who does not keep festival,
and I am she whose festivals are many.
I, I am godless,
and I am the one whose God is great.
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
and you have scorned me.
I am unlearned,
and they learn from me.
I am the one that you have despised,
and you reflect upon me.
I am the one whom you have hidden from,
and you appear to me.
But whenever you hide yourselves,
I myself will appear.
For whenever you appear,
I myself will hide from you.
Those who have [...] to it [...] senselessly [...].
Take me [... understanding] from grief.
and take me to yourselves from understanding and grief.
And take me to yourselves from places that are ugly and in ruin,
and rob from those which are good even though in ugliness.
Out of shame, take me to yourselves shamelessly;
and out of shamelessness and shame,
upbraid my members in yourselves.
And come forward to me, you who know me
and you who know my members,
and establish the great ones among the small first creatures.
Come forward to childhood,
and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
Why do you curse me and honor me?
You have wounded and you have had mercy.
Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have known.
And do not cast anyone out nor turn anyone away
[...] turn you away and [... know] him not.
[...].
What is mine [...].
I know the first ones and those after them know me.
But I am the mind of [...] and the rest of [...].
I am the knowledge of my inquiry,
and the finding of those who seek after me,
and the command of those who ask of me,
and the power of the powers in my knowledge
of the angels, who have been sent at my word,
and of gods in their seasons by my counsel,
and of spirits of every man who exists with me,
and of women who dwell within me.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
and who is despised scornfully.
I am peace,
and war has come because of me.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,
and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.
On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you.
[I am ...] within.
[I am ...] of the natures.
I am [...] of the creation of the spirits.
[...] request of the souls.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.
I am the one below,
and they come up to me.
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I, I am sinless,
and the root of sin derives from me.
I am lust in (outward) appearance,
and interior self-control exists within me.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak,
and great is my multitude of words.
Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.
I am she who cries out,
and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
I prepare the bread and my mind within.
I am the knowledge of my name.
I am the one who cries out,
and I listen.
I appear and [...] walk in [...] seal of my [...].
I am [...] the defense [...].
I am the one who is called Truth
and iniquity [...].
You honor me [...] and you whisper against me.
You who are vanquished, judge them (who vanquish you)
before they give judgment against you,
because the judge and partiality exist in you.
If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you?
Or, if you are acquitted by him, who will be able to detain you?
For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,
and the one who fashions you on the outside
is the one who shaped the inside of you.
And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;
it is visible and it is your garment.
Hear me, you hearers
and learn of my words, you who know me.
I am the hearing that is attainable to everything;
I am the speech that cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.
I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division.
And I [...].
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[...] light [...].
[...] hearers [...] to you
[...] the great power.
And [...] will not move the name.
[...] to the one who created me.
And I will speak his name.
Look then at his words
and all the writings which have been completed.
Give heed then, you hearers
and you also, the angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
For I am the one who alone exists,
and I have no one who will judge me.
For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
and incontinencies,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober
and go up to their resting place.
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
and they will not die again.

James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, revised edition. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1990.

We feel the Spirit of the Cosmos only when we have freed our soul from itself, and all that would bind it to the illusions of the world, and find the work of the making our true body as one that the goddess wove for us in each night that we prayed to find her spiritual power, her being, her community, and wish to be with her beyond all other hopes and wishes of the dream of woman on earth to the woman-female Spirit in nature.

And as she may come and take the student by the hand and give him the experience again to feel and touch the immortal spirit-life body.   When he awakens and rises from his bed and knows and remembers he walks in other worlds too, and these he before dreamed of through many life-times, he now sees again and remembers his home once long ago through her love and wisdom.

E.G. Passofaro

Our work at this school and for our students is everyday. Everything we do is a progression of the whole body of our spirit working in and through us. When we give lectures it is to feel the pulse of the body of the spirit that is invisibly working in us.  That is why we are a vessel of the spirit, for this spirit works and lives in us each day and night according to our merits, or thoughts, our feelings and our deeds, and it needs our truth of heart and mind to express it.  When we share together, it is often to share the tools of clearing and keeping clean the consciousness so that like a glass we can look through our souls to the world of the spirit, and perhaps gain a glimpse of the true world behind this one.  When we see the spirit there, it is important for us to be able to share with our friends the results of our experiences. Not always is it correct or true, therefore we need to help each other with each accomplishment we make in seeing true, and also to add to the knowledge, what is false and a false path, and letting others make up their minds in freedom as to the validity of the Way.

From the Book of the Wise

Be glad if ye know the accursed thing
And know it accurst, for the Gift is yours
Of Sight where the prophets of blindness sing
By the brink of death.

And the Gift endures;
Ye shall see the last of the sharpened lies
That rivet privilege's gripe.

Be still, then, ye with the opened eyes,
Come away from the thing till the time is ripe.
Be glad that ye loathe the accursed thing,
It is given to you to foreknow the end.

But they who the unwise challenge fling 
Shall startle foe at the risk of friend 
As yet unready to endure -
And can ye fend Goliath's swipe? 

The slowly grinding mills are sure, 
Let terror alone till the time is ripe.
Be glad when the shout for the spoils, and the glee, 
The hoofs and the wheels of the prophets of wrong, 
Out thunder the warning of what shall be; 

Be still, for the tumult is not for long. 
he Finger that wrote, from a polished wall 
As surely the closed account shall wipe; 
The accursed thing ye feared shall fall 
To a boy with a sling when the time is ripe.

Talbot Mundy

Abbsaid poet Abu - Ala Al - Ma"arri 

Time perception is one sense that is integral to all things and its measure is extremely well established.

What torments modern mankind today is how he mistakenly is told that spiritual beings are something of a theory for him, when actually they (the so-called theoretical spiritual beings) hear, think, listen and make decisions based upon our thoughts, feelings, utterances, whether in public or private, and they too have every right to avoid men, remove substances of spirit, and also that which would otherwise pour beautiful fresh spirit into us, these beings now choose not to participate and pour into human error their own perfectly good spiritual substances.

As long as mankind looks at the world theoretically, and makes no attempt to study the spiritual, and a spiritual that suites the modern spiritual consciousness, he will continually find his forces are depleting and passing from him, and his consciousness gradually dulls, and dims, and his senses offer nothing but delusions.  Nothing less than the study of the spiritual and finding the concrete form of it, as presented in spiritual science will make it possible for those of a higher intelligence to once again visit our own inner soul world, and seed our spiritual life with fresh new karma can we begin to feel again in a healthy way in the modern age of the world.

Yoda explains the need to unlearn concepts. Why? It is because Joseph Campbell was the inspiration behind the Star Wars Trilogy, and studied the paths of spirituality that we are studying too. The path is clear and easy to understand, and makes life fun and fruitful - avoiding the rules of the path only means a period of wandering and exploration, but can lead to isolation and loneliness too. Rudolf Steiner gave these same instructions and in our work at the school we practice the techniques he gave and we achieve healthy integration skills in our teachers and our students.

We are open to all seekers of Wisdom because the power of Wisdom is a spiritual being and not confined to any church or system. We are all seeking the same goal - which is to be true friends of each other and to be the love we want to receive. Teachers are friends, and students are the lovers of the Teachers of Wisdom. Make someone your Teacher today and tell them you are listening and tell them you appreciate the lesson, then when you Teach someone, and feel love for your Wisdom, then you have made knowledge into Love.

The student looked and pondered a patch of the Sun reflected on the water and thought, the soul must be like a patch of light shining!  And then the student thought, oh how sad if the light cannot drink anything?  It must want to drink the water! But if it does, he will no longer be a patch of light, he will be cooled and colored. 

Then he heard inspired angels voices speaking 

See beloved student how the The water feels the light as the water of itself which it cannot feel without light, and the light sees water as a substance it wants to live in.  Each gives to the other and whirls in a dance of becoming life. 

Wisdom is a very special seed of the spirit. It comes through unknown channels and ways to us, but some teachers say it is here or there, and some are right, but when the seed is not found we are often troubled and believe it cannot come, or it is a myth. 

To obtain the seed and the tree of wisdom one must practice and meditate each day and not give up on oneself. Then one day the light will illumine the place where the real seed of wisdom has sprouted in the heart.  Then, a  New Soul has come! It has sprouted. 

Go oh student and get your water and clear the weeds, and feel how much of this is the miracle of love born in your our being.

From the book of the Wise

To have wisdom requires wisdom. It is a contradiction in a way but when a teacher (Buddha or his Bodhisattva nature) is present then the karma activates a dharmachakra. It bares an esoteric name but is known as a great and beautiful truth but also as a deadly weapon. Ancient man was deeply terrified of this, and so it became more and more hidden, and caused much concern for those who knew of it. And so forgiveness inserts itself between and also grace. "Grace" as in 'time to sort it out'. But it also cycles round and then the time must not have been wasted and the true and good course must have been sought after and found (at least in the trying, new grace will come).

Each soul is actually to form a 'gem' or 'diamond' and the earth turns in a perfection of 'roundness' , so you see the craftsman turning his substance against the 'wheel of the planet' .  

Where does love begin?....the woman. No one blames you....I do not blame you. The hunger for love is in us all. Can we understand how to understand? Yes we can see with hearts and eyes open wide for what is wise, and good, and true. I cannot blame her or anyone. I see the root is in the heart and there too is the soil of the soul in the deepest depth of the body where it mingles with the lowest but fertile substance of the earth. She is dark and beautiful, our primal mother that gives life to us all. And she is the dark, the hidden beautiful, and the fertile. And divine when the light of her lover finds her through the darkness. From that lowest form, it can sprout and spring forth, and break the soil above her form, and push herself above the world below until she is found there, above in the heights of the heavens.

Believe in her power - she is the mother of all living things. Old as the world, and before all religions - she was the desire in the soul and spirit of the darkest and furthest from heaven and the gods. But she knew the way too. How? The same desire that starts afresh in each new love always follows the path back to the source from whence it sprang. So where is the heart? It is in the body of the earth in our soul.

From the Book the Wisdom of the Gods

He who would reform the world must first reform himself; and that, if he do it honestly, will keep him so employed that he will have no time to criticize his neighbor.

Nevertheless, his neighbor will be benefited -- even as a man without a candle, who at last discerns another's light.

-- FROM THE BOOK OF THE SAYINGS OF TSIANG SAMDUP. "