SAYINGS OF THE WISE


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Spiritual Human Nature

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.


Spiritual Science and the Web of Natural and Cosmic Connections

“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

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


Stars, Planets, and Elements

"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 


Stepping Out

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

From the Sayings of the Book of the Wise


Symbols

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


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Teachers

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


Teachers of Virtue

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


Temple Wisdom

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 Beast and the Man

I meet a man with a hungry tiger in him-her , and was pretending to follow me, and allure me.

I thought this is a beast, a tiger appeared in my thoughts and then I thought and heard:
The tiger can only beat a man by ambushing, but a man can beat a tiger with good intelligence.


What did this mean? I heard;

Talk to the man with the beast in him-her breast:
Friend, I said, A beast cannot win against a man who knows a beast is there.  Cast out the beast within you and come and walk beside me. The man-beast was now afraid and called out : forget me, and say no more words to me, say you never knew me.

The Spirit said within me, say to the man:
Have no fear of me, I will never hurt you. No man can hurt another man; a man can only hurt himself.  

Hearing this the beast-man went away. But it was still hungry, and sought easier prey. 

The lesson to learn: the tiger symbolizes an invisible beast. A man can walk beside another man, but if the man is really a hungry beast, they cannot walk together, for the man will be killed and eaten for food.

From the Book of the Wise
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