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“How, then, O Lord, to spread Thy Teaching? How, then, O Lord, to find those for whom it is predestined to apply Thy Word for fulfillment?”
And the Lord said in reminder, “A hermit searched for one to whom to entrust the Revelation. And he took the scroll and placed it at the crossroad ....
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 | The Warrior unchanged in joy and in suffering |
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He is so absorbed in his mission that his striving carries him over all obstacles upon the wings of success.
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| Happiness, the negation of suffering |
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Happiness consists of serving the deliverance of the humankind.
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| Suffering in the initiatory Teaching |
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An oriental Master used to teach: "happiness originates from the abandonment of desire". Since unhappiness is the result of ignorance and it creates errors, we can say that suffering is the result of ignorance; on the contrary, happiness is the result of Wisdom.
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 | The Journey through the Great Work /2.5 |
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From Ars Muratoria to Ars Pontificia, solving aspect for all the issues raised by Mystic Cosmogony
So far we have outlined the contents shared by any Mystic Cosmogony; aspects of languages and emotions that every man experiences during his psychological childhood as an answer to wonderful things and in his search for the fleeting sense of life.
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| The magic of ephemeralness |
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I would like to broaden the boundaries of the frequent pseudo-scientific or pseudo-initiatory inconsistencies that so often we face and ... rule out.
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| For the first time in history an explorer into the terrible passes of Central Asia has had as his weapons an easel and brush instead of the implements of a hunter or scientist. Professor Roerich, the world-renowned artist, who is now on an art expedition into Central Asia, has just crossed the passes of Karakorum, Sasser and Kardong, perhaps the most formidable passes in the world. |
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 | From knowledge to mental liberation, stage 11 |
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| «Evil dims the Truth like dust dims the light on a mirror »; «Cosmic Evil is the matter, namely the condensation of the spiritual energy».
One of the main aspects of esoterical research is the interpretation of symbols and allegories. Evil as well is an old allegory; it exists, but not in the forms which it is represented with. It is the great antagonist of Good; all philosophical and religious doctrine originated from the conflict between light and shadow. |
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| Ars Muratoria - «Architectonic tables» of the Great Builders |
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| The work of art is the symbol of the artist; the sacred Work is the symbol of great Builders. Among the great works, perhaps architecture is the Art which has best represented sacredness; it has built spaces where purity of forms has inspired thinkers, artists and ordinary people. |
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 | Qualifying one's own thought |
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Q: Perhaps our inner journey is carried out inside the heart (Heart = Soul = Sun) and not in the head (Brain = Spirit = Moon)?
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| Salmon and Water – an initiatory trial |
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| The Salmon must ‘return’, viz. ‘go back’, which means to go ‘inside’ and if it ‘returns’ it is only to ‘generate’ … What else but the New Man?
Why do you use a fish to represent ‘the metaphor of the conscience that re-ascends (transcends) itself to find itself’? A fish that with difficulty re-ascends the water towards the Source (The Light of the inner God)?
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| The School of Whys |
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| We need to ask: who is (or what is) an advanced student? By which criteria we can call him that? What has an ‘advanced’ student done or what ‘mechanisms’ has he started? And if this is the case, what originated them? |
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