originally compiled and here edited by
D.C.H., M.R.P., S.T.L., Ph.D., A.F.Phys. (I.T.E.C.), D.Sc. (hc)
Copyright © Colin James Hamer 1999
It is hoped that at some date prior to 21 December 2012 a collected edition of all Joan D'Arcy Cooper's writings can be made easily and widely available in agreement -
Meanwhile, as one small step towards and pending completion of all relevant negotiations Colin James Hamer's integrated personal "Index" both to that book and to the remaining four of her available (to those seeking them out personally at Culbone, or requesting them by writing to the Culbone Community Trust, Porlock Weir, Somerset) is with Joan's agreement without prejudice and in accordance with the terms of the Berne Convention now being initially circulated electronically and non-commercially for higher-educational and holistic purposes. Readers of any pages featuring in The Neith Network Library Primordial Wisdom Collection are at all times naturally and especially urged to exercise discretion with respect to all applicable copyright laws and - even more importantly - fully to comply with Mistress Joan d'Arcy Cooper's already sufficiently communicated transparently manifest wishes and intentions in this matter.
Copyright in Joan Cooper's published writings is held by the Culbone Community Trust, Porlock Weir, Somerset, which is continuing her work, and from whom copies of her writings and further information may be obtained.
Joan D'Arcy Cooper, who was born in California in 1927, died in June 1982, and is buried in Culbone. The compilation of this Index was not envisaged by Joan herself; neither was it commissioned by any of the members of the Culbone Community but, after Joan D'Arcy Cooper had in the summer of 1991 been, with the approval of the Whole Earth Policy Committee of the Neith Network, acknowledged as an Ascended Mistress of the Rainbow Programme, the Preliminary LibrArian was directed to prepare a suitable Index to all her published writings so that this might be made freely available as widely as possible.
Although some additional notes have been appended to the text of this Index, many readers may also find it helpful to refer to Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read a Book, originally published as a hardback by Jarrolds of London with a Preface dated 1939 but under a 1940 copyright; the 24th printing was that of the 1st paperback edition issued by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1956. Helen Rhodes Wallace's How to Enter the Silence, the 15th impression of which was published by L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd, Romford, in 1983, is also likely to be of service.
A Culbone Visitor's Appendix of Complementary Readings (Two Book Reviews)
Other on-line documents of interest to Culbone Valley Visitors:
(The main Alphabetical Index follows this.)
Underlined numbers are references to pages in this collected edition; non-underlined numbers refer to pages in the original editions of each work cited. C signals a reference to Culbone - A Spiritual History. D, S, and J prefix references to The Door Within; Corner-Stones of the Spiritual World, and Guided Meditation and the Teachings of Jesus. Bracketed numbers refer to additional and so far unpublished materials, e.g., notes provided by the Preliminary LibrArian. Otherwise, Arabic numerals indicate page numbers in The Ancient Teaching of Yoga and the Spiritual Evolution of Man
BIBLE, Books of the:
CASE, P.F., The Tarot, Macoy, New York 74.
HAPPOLD, F.C., Mysticism, Pelican Books 198.
MOZART, 40th Symphony 143.
NEW ENGLISH BIBLE, 2nd edition, Oxford & Cambridge University Presses J4.
OUSPENSKY, P.D., In Search of the Miraculous, Routledge & Kegan Paul 76.
PATANJALI, The Aphorisms of Patanjali 74, 108, 197.
WOOD, E., Yoga, Penguin Books 74, 142, 198.
Abdominal Contraction, Abdominal Uplift 49
Abstinence 27
Acceptance 16, 99, 106
Action, Personal 16-8, S15
Adam and Eve C31
Adrenals 52
Affinities 68-9, 78, 96-7, 155-7, 162, 186-7, 199, 200, 210, 212
Affirm, re-affirm D55
Africa C12
AGEING D23-7
Aim, Motive, Direction 154
Aim of man 18
Air 57, 109, 134, J47
Akasha, Akashic Records 54, 162
Alcohol 26
All interrelated D19
Allopathic medicine 141
Alphabet C10, 74, 216
Ama 216-7
American Indian D53
Ana 207-8
Angels D30, D437-41, J62-3, J74 and see Guardian Angel
Angels of Light C43, 19
Anguish, Mental D47-8
ANIMALS 75, 85-9, 134-6, 141-2, 149, 154, 172, 211, D35, D56-9, S6
Archetype 175
Ardha Matsyendrasana 49
Art 21, 77, 97, 101-2, 125, 139, 143, 161-2, 165-6, S31
Arthur, King D53
As (personal mind) 206
ASANAS 11, 28, 39-78, 97-100, 206
Ash Farm C35-7
Ashley Combe C37-8
Assessment 15, 54, 68, S15
Athanor see Crucible
Atheism 144
Atlantis C3, C9
At-onement 170, 174-6, 207
Attachments 140
Authority 13, 16, 17, 40-2, 90, 154, 171, 196, S9, S11, S38
Author's personal anecdotes and avowals 7-8, D7-8, D14-5, D31, D37-8
Autism 201
Avebury C9
Awareness C4, 21, 67, 68, 77, 104, 114, 131, 144, D16, D25-30, D45, D60, D62, J33-6, J38-9, J46-7, J64-5
Awareness, exercises in 212-5, S4-36
Balance 14, 20-1, 23, 50, 56, 107, 171, D20, D29, J30
Baptism, Baptismal Font C38
Basic energy substance 118
Beatitudes J12
Beauty 31, 78, D30, S35, J32
Behaviour, Social 15-8, 155-6, 199, S15
Beings, Spiritual see Spiritual Beings
Benedictines C24
Bhagavad-Gita 74
Bhanda, Uddiyana 49
Bhujangasana 47
Biology 85-7, 96, 141-2
Birth before time 137-41, 172, 184, 200-1
Birth, New C17
Black Sea 12
Bliss 180
Blood 55, 78, 108, 128
Boar C25
Boddhisattvas 198
Bodies of man 218
Boehme, Jacob 134
Book 12, 162, D32, S26, J75
Bow, The 47
Brain 51, 100
Breath, Breathing 81-3, 107-15, 126, 159, D21, D33, D36, S26
Breath control 107
Britain C9-17, C28, 7, 11
Buddhism 7, 74, 117, 190, 198, D53
CAPITAL LETTERS, special significance of 9
Caring C17-22, 78, 162, 204-6, 217, S12, S39, J14, J19-20, J23, J34, J64-5, J74 see also Concern
Caspian Sea 12
Caucasus 12
Cause 13, 99, 106, 144, 172, 184-5, 191-2, 200-2, 211, D19, S23
Celtic C21
Censure 15
Centre of digestion 51, 54, 68-9, 73, 75, 111, 129, 130, 134, 147
Centre of elimination 51, 68-9, 73-4, 77, 109, 111, 128-9
Centre of sex energy 52, 54, 55, 68-9, 73, 78, 90-1, 93, 111, 115, 128, 214
Ceremonial D53-5
Chakrasana 47
CHAKRAS 21, 44, 51-75, 78, 91, 110-3, 118, 142, 144
Chaldaea C9
Change C14, C19, C22, C37-9, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 19, 24, 43, 49, 89, 92, 102-3, 105-6, 114, 118, 121-3, 126-7, 131, 143, 149-54, 157, 159-60, 172-4, 206, 209, D44-5, D60, D62, S4, S25, S35-6, J33, J47, J54
Charcoal Burners C32, C35
Charity see Love
Chastity 37
Chela 95
Chemistry 74
Childbirth 61, 75, 76, 137, 144, 155, 199, D20
Childhood D7, S24, S30, S33, J42-3
China C9, 7, 10, D26
Choice 128, 153, 160, S31
Christ see Jesus of Nazareth
Church 122, see also Culbone Church
Circumstances, external 33, 41, 82, 90-1, 106-7
Clairvoyance 59, 77, 180
Cleansing C13-14, C39-40, 24-9, 109-10, 148, 179, 180, 198, 209-11, 214, 216
Clearing the vision 50
Cobra, The 47
Colours C12, 59, 77, 104
Commemoration D53-55
Communication 50, 64, 65, 77, 132-3, 166
Community C5, C11, C22-3, C27-9, C32, 7, 9, S6
Concentration 43, 128, 207-9, D21, D32, J21
Concern 170, 171, 173-6, 200, 206, 217, D19
Conscience 137, 192, S12
Consciousness 53, 60, 68, 131, 149, 150, 161, 213-4, D25, D27, D37, D39, S11-12, S32, J34, J64
Consciousness, degrees of 94, 118, 149, 150, 155, 160
Contemplation 176, 201, D26
Contentment 32-34, 105
Conversation D39
Coordination 135
Core of the teaching C43, 35, 92, J26, J31, J54
Correspondences, Law of Correspondence 68-9, 78, 96-7, 155-7, 162, 186-7, 199, 200, 210, 212
Cosmos 11, 76, 85
Creation 76, 85-6, 101, 136, 151, 154
Creative Activity 166
Creative forces 36, 59-60, 64, 75, 78-145, 154-5
Creative imagination 54, 72-3, 77, 100, 150, 155, 217, J210
Creative mind 55
Creator 85
Crucible 154, 180 see also Distil
Crystals and Gem-stones C5, C12, 149, 163, 177
Culbone C1-43, 8, D8
Culbone Church C12, C23-32, C36-9
Danger 120-1, 127, 195
Darwin, Charles 60
Death 61, 126-7, D7-22, D28-41
Degeneration 60, 119
Degrees of consciousness 94, 118, 149, 150, 155, 160
Déjà vu 97, 157
Demons 103, 151, 155, 190
Desert, wilderness 103-4
Destructive substance 118-20
Devil 123, 145, 190, J37, J76
Devon D15
Devotion 30-31
Dhanurasana 47
Dhar 207
Dharana 11, 89, 207-8
DHARANA, DHYANA, SAMADHI 11, 205-18
Dhi, Dhy 210, 216-7
Diagram of man's bodies 70
Diet 24
Digestion 51, 130
Discarnate spirits 125
Discernment, discriminate, discretion of spirits 14-6, 22, 23, 27-30, D16-8, S9-10, S12, S30, J23, J33-4
Dissatisfaction 18
Distil 211, D12, D63, S35
Distortion C3-4, C39-43, 17, 19, 24, 27, 30, 36, 40, 52-4, 56, 63, 66-7, 78, 84, 88, 91, 103, 108, 112-28, 130, 151, 153, 157-9, 169, 172, 180-98, 200, D17, D19, D40, D58, S3, S9, J31, J40 see, for details: Spiritual levels of distortion
Divine will 208
Dorset C11, J4
Dreams 96, 104, 161, J54
Eden, Garden of C31, 36
Education C3-6, C9-21, C31, C39-43, 25, D7-8
Effort 12-13, 104, 126, 138, 143, 187, 207-8
Egypt C9, 95, 118, D53
Eight exercises of pranayama 111
Eightfold Path 7
Electricity C6, 74, J64
Eleusinian Mysteries 143
Empathy 65, 134
Empowerment C9-10, C15, C18
Endoctrine glands 51
Energy substance 118
England C29, C32, C35, 40
Enneagram 70-71, 143, 198
Enzymes 60
EPILOGUE C43
Equality 107, 143, 197, 203, S3
Esoteric/Exoteric 7, 41-2, 76, 79, 95, 143, 191, 202
Essence 14, 24, 62, 90, 93, 106, 143, 201, 210, D12, D27, D29, D45, S11, S35, J48
Etheric 11, 14, 36, 131, 147
Etheric body C18, 57, 62, 130, D38-9, D49, D57-8
Etheric levels 79-145, 177-203 and see, for details: Spiritual levels
Etheric reality C4, C18, 158, 185
Ethics see Morals, Morality
Eucharist C22, C30
Eve, Adam and C31
Evil C4, 120, S9, S12, S38
Evolution C6, C9, C14, C17-9, C43, 85-6, 89, 130, 137-8, 142, 173, S9, S11
Exmoor C28,
Exorcism 121-2
Experience C4, C10, C11, 7-8, 71-2, 90-1, 135, 139-41, 157, D7-8, D12-3, D30, D37-8, D60, D63, S6, S26-7, S38, J9-80
External circumstances 33, 41, 82, 106-7
Fanaticism 125
Fantasy 17, 19, 65, 67, 77, 83, 91, 95, 103-5, 115, 120, 123, 125, 128, 143, 162, 186
Fasting 27
Fear C4, 17, 55, 123, 125, 126, 216, D19-20, D22, D30, D35-6, D55-8, S33, S38, J27, J29, J31, J43-4, J47, J73
Feeling C43, D7, D23-5, D42-5
Ferment 60
Fish 26, J33
Flame of Caring C17-22
Focus C3, C38, 7, 21, 23, 51, 58, 66, 69, 78, 90, 92, 114, 126, 129, 132, 157, 173, 196, 211, D26, D33, S19, S26, J39, J62-4
Food C36, 24-26, 51, 68, 124, 129, 134, 161, 163, J21, J76-80
Forgetting C21, 72, D9, D47
Formatory mind 21, 30, 53, 66, 101
Fox-and-Hounds C37
Freedom, independence C32, C36, 14, 23, 30, 36, 90, 121-3, 126-7, 152, 167, 171, 172, D59, S32, S39, J19, J30-1, J56, J63
Gem-stones see Crystals & Gem-stones
Giving C19, 30-1, 65, J54-9, J78
Gland (N-gland?) 56, 64, 73, 82-3, 131-2
Glastonbury C9, C17
Gnostic 175
God 31-2, 42, 170, 174-6, 206-7
Good 31, S12, S35
Gravitation C18, 91, 133, 173, 205, 214, D45, J54
Greed 22, 27, 52, 88, 140
Greece, Greek 75, 79, 95, D26
GRIEF 55, D42-52, D57
Growth C17-8, 9, 12, 17, 36, 135, 140, D12, D18-9, D23, D25, S11, J11-23
GUARDIAN ANGELS C11, C18, 31, 33, 36, 77, 172, 193, 200, D7-8, D14-6, D37-8, S29
Gurdjieff, G.J. 71
Guru 95
Hal, halig 12
Ham Hill C9
Hatha yoga 7,39
Head centre 59-62, 64, 66-9, 73, 77, 92-3, 111, 113, 132-3, 137, 147, 170, 214, J15-6, J54
Head Stand 49
Healing C4, C10, C43, 23, 28, 39, 59, 69, 76, 79-82, 85, 109, 124, 127, 131, 141, 144-5, D19, D39-41, D58, S23, J51, J64
Hearing 64
Heart centre 59-62, 65, 73, 77, 78, 111, 133-5, 137, 145, 170, 205, J15-6, J54
Heaven, Kingdom of J9, J55, J57-58, J63
Hebrew 74
Herbs 28
Heresy 123, 145
Hiawatha D53
Hindu 71, 74
Hindu Kush 71
Holy men 10
Homoeopathy 141
Homosexuality 188
Hope 8, 149, D22, J 23
Humanism 149-50, 153
Humility J42
"I", Feeling of 18, 52, 69, 78, 89, 120, 124, 128, 133, 162, 173, 183, 214, D23, D32, D42-5, D62, J12-3, J29-31
ILLNESS AND PAIN D9, D17-22, S23-24
Illumination 72, D7, D9, D27
Illustrations C7, C25, C33, C41, C42, 44-49, 70, D11, D43, D51, D61, S7, S21
Imaginary self 17-8, 36, 91-2, 123, 128, 162, 188, D9, D17
Imagination 81, 124-5, 128, 152, 155, D30, S38, J28, J39, J41
Immoderation 20
Immortality 189
Impulse C17, 73, 88, 134
Independence see Freedom
India C9, C32, C35
Individual C3, C5, C10, C43, 9, 12, 13, 85, 104-7, 142-4, 149, 155, 175, D15, D42-5, D60, D62, S1, S3, S5, S6, S11-2, S37-9, J24, J59, J61, J66-7
Individuated life 85
Initiation C4, C10, C18, C21, 61, 70, 95
Inner Teacher C11, 7, 36, D7-8, S29
Inspiration C5, C13, C15, C31, 7, 10, 66, 72, 77, 102, 105, 111, 114, 132, 156, 214, D13, S29, J15
Instinct 142
Instinctive emotions 55, 58, 83
Intelligence 129
Intermediate body 59
International law 7
Interpenetration 126-7, 130
Interruptions 106
INTRODUCTION 9-12, S1, J9-10
Intuitive faculty C5, C10, C14, 12, 21, 67, 82, 113, 166, 170, D14, D25-7, D31, S38, J12, J15
Inverted postures 48
Invisible physical body 59
Isherwood, Christopher 197
Jairus's Daughter J61-2, J71
James, Saint J17, J61
Jesus of Nazareth C14, C17-9, C22, C27, C30, C43, 11, 96, D16, J9-80
Jewish Law J17
John, Saint J17, J61, J68, J71, J78-9 Joy 30, S27, J44, J47, J60, J74
Judging 15
Kinship J64-5
Kitnor C21-32
KITNOR AND CHRISTIANITY C21-4
KITNOR - A PLACE OF BANISHMENT OR REFUGE C27-32
Knowledge C1, C9-11, C13-7, 9-10, 12-3, 30, 126, 132, 213-5, D14, D16, D27, D31, D55, S29
Krishna dS38 K'sh'b'h C10-22
Kundalini force 91, 117-8
Kundalini sense 90-7, 115, 128
Lack of spiritual development 87, 136-8
Lamasery
42 Latin C11, 143, 144
Laurence D2
Law, international 7
Learning C9, 34-6, 87, 121, 168, D23-4, D26-7, D31, D41, S1, S17-9, S23, S32, J28
Life D60-3
Ligare 144
Light C3-5, C17-9, C39-43, 100, D15, D27, D49, S5-6, S12, S25, S29, S39, J13, J36, J47, J74
Listening 64, 97
Liturgy 125
Logical mind 10, 12, S10
Locust, The 47
Long body 216
Lord's Prayer J19-23, J52, J80
Lotus, The 44
Love C3, 31, 78, 94, S35, J16, J23, J41
Lower etheric levels 181-96
Luke, Saint J28, J61-3
Lynmouth C36
Magic C27, 3, 6, 61, 103, 116, 124, J34, J40, J76-7
Mahamudra 45
Man, New C17
Mark, Saint J64-5
Marxism 144
Matthew, Saint 76, J12-6, J19-21, J24-5, J31, J35-6, J40, J42, J58-9, J76
Meaning 13, 31, 89, 91, 103, 134, 143, 162-3, D31, D55, S3, S12, J21, J31, J32, J38-9
Medicine 29
Meditation C5, C22, 75, 97, 99, 104, 143, 170, 211-7, D22, D26, D31-4, D50, J9-80
Mediterranean J12
Mediums 200
Memory 54, 72, 78, D15, D26, D28, D30
Memory traces 156-7, 198
Metanoia 49
Microcosm 147
Mind 55, 147-8, 154, 157, 178-9, 195-9, 205-18
Miracles S24, J71, J76-7
Mission, transmission C6, C14, C15, C17, C39, 8-9, 67, 68, 72, 77, 144, 171-2, 187
Morals, morality 17-8, 192, J15-8, J50, J54
Mount, Sermon on the J12
Mountain, The 46, S5-7, J73-4
Music 21, 77, 97, 101-2, 139, 143, 161, 163
Mysteries 95, 110, 143
Mystical Experience 72, 94-5, 175, 189, 198-9, S38
Mythology 122 N 74
Natural life 55
Nature 21, 79, 93-4, 161, J45
Naturopathy 28-9, 141
Nausea 56
Neck exercises 44
Negative fantasy 33
New Birth C17, C22
New Man, New Woman C17, 23, 215, J16, J27
Niyamas 11, 13, 23-36
Nourishment 51, 69, S182, J13-5, J20-3, J49, J60, J72, J79 'Now' C1, 8, 30, 32, 57, 104, 127, 129, 216, D34, J40, J52
Objective experience 104, 134, 147, 197-8
Objective knowledge C1, 67, 215
Objective mind 209-18
Objective reality 103, 135, 150-1, 155, 176, 181, 198
Objective truth 104
Observation 16
Obsession 117, 125, 138, 161, 185-91
Occult 125, 191
Old English 12
Only one etheric substance 154
Organic life 88-9, 155
Outer activity 209
Overhead squat 46
Palestine C17, J17
Pancreas 51
Pantheism 94
Paradise 199
Parbatangasana 46
Parents 106-7
Parsonage Farm C35, C36
Paschimotasana 45
Path, eightfold 7
Paul of Tarsus, Saint J52
Peace C4-6, C13, 56-7, 82-3, 127, 131, 195, D28, D30, D33, D48
Pearl of Great Price, Treasure(s) 64, 66, 133, 175, D27, S29, J32, J38
Pelvic, The Supine 46
Pentecostal Movement 144
Perception C1, 21, 50, 72, 78, 211, D9, D25-6, D62, S23, S35, S38, J25, J40
Perfection of man 88, S5
Personal Action 16, S15
Personal mind 206
Peter, Saint J52, J61
Petrification 9
Physical birth/death 61, 87
Physical exercises 42-50
Physical effort 20
Physical mind 53, 55
Pineal gland 66
Plants C5-6, 28-9, 75, 85-7, 119, 134-6, 142, 149, 154, 173, 198-9, 212-4 + passim: J9-80
Plough, The 48
Pneuma 79
Poetry 125
Porlock, Porlock Weir C24, C36, 8, D6
Possession 116-7, 120-3, 131, 138, 144, S38
Postures 43-50, 89
Potential 212
Power C3, C13, C15, C18, 11, 36-7, 52, 91, 95, 115-27, 142, 189, 191-2, D21, J23, J29, J31, J61-75
Power of imagination 124
Prabhavanda, Swami 197
Prana 74, 79-80, 109-12
PRANAYAMA 11, 28, 79-145
PRATYAHARA 11, 28, 50, 104, 147-203, 205
PREFACE C1, 7-8, D7-8
PREPARATION FOR DEATH D28-34
Presence C23, C30, 12, 100, D7-8, D14-5, D30, D37-8, J19, J25, J41-4, J53
Priesthood 40-1, 108, 122
Primus inter pares C11
Protection C29, 7, 17-8, 21, 27, 31, 36-7, 56, 58, 75, 83-4, 117, 127, 131, 143, 172, 200, D50, D60-2, J50-1
Proto-Sanskrit 39
Psychology 7, 11, 23, 25, 96, 113, 132, 154, 189, D157, S10
Purification C13, C21, C39, C43, 24-5, 27, 109-10, 148, 157-8, 179-80, 198, 209-11, 214
Purpose of instruction and knowledge 35
Purpose of spiritual nature 136
Radiation C5, C39, 32, 51, 52, 56, 77, 98, 161, 195, 210, 152, J74
Reality 31-2, 152-3, 155, 157, 185-6, 197-9, 203
Receptive mind 55
Redemption 149
Reflection 15-7, 32-3, 55, 59-61, 63-5, 72, 75-8, 89-90, 93, 99, 106, 123, 129-30, 148-9, 162, 196, 209-11, 213
Reflective mind 177, 179
Reincarnation (Etheric) 55, 66, 78, 87, 90, 97, 133, 152, 156-7, 178-9, 195, 199, 201, S9, S29
Relatedness 19, 20, 32-3, 57-8, 66, 68, 75, 77-8, 103, 107, 112-3, 116, 125, 135, 140, 143-4, 152, 175
Relativity of thinking 152, 156, S36-6
Relaxation C37, 43, 57, 97-100, 109, D20-22, D24-36, D50, S26, J17-8
Religare 144
Religious institutions 122
Rescue Work 126, D41
Resonance C5-6, 196
Responsibility C29, 39-41, 105, 149, 160, 170-1, 173, 178-9, 188, 216-7, S39
Revelation C10, C39, 98
Rhythm, rhythms C22, 20, 43, 107, 109, 198, D20-1, D33, D50, S26
Right thinking 19
Rite, ritual 28, 40, 84, 95, 122, D53-5, J19, J22, J34
Rocks and stones C5-6, C12, 163, 195-6, J45-6
Rome 95
Rudimentary sense C1, C4, C19, 68
Russia 71 S 74
Samadhi 11, 175-6, 206, 216-7
Sanctuary, Spiritual see Spiritual Temple Sanskrit 14, 23, 39, 78, 142, 206-7, 210, 216-7
Sarvangasana 48
Saul of Tarsus J52
Savasana 97-8
Schizophrenia 192
Second act of creation 155
Secrets C10, 11, 95
Self-perfecting force 85
Semitic D54
Separateness 66
Sermon on the Mount J12
Serpent 36-7, 91, J33
Service 31, 166, 168, 205
SERVICES OF COMMEMORATION D53-5
Sevenfold exercise 111
Seventh etheric level 176-7, 179-80, 216-7
Sex, sexuality 52, 91-2, 123, 125, 188, 202
Sex centre 52, 54, 55, 68-9, 73, 90-1, 93, 111, 115, 128, 133, 214
Shambhavi mudra 50
Shoulder Stand 48
Side raise 45
Signatures 134
Silcombe Farm C35, C37
Silence C4, C22, 7, 174
Simple Pose 44, 50
Sirshasana 49
Sixth etheric level 176-7, 179-80, 210, 212-16 Sleep 21, 43, 50, 208, D30, S32, S38, J22
Social behaviour 15-8, 155-6, S15
Socio-cultural context 53, 75, 155-6
Solar plexus centre 55-8, 73, 75, 111, 129-32, 134, 147
Somerset Ciii, C9, C25, C31, 8, D4, D6
Species orientated life 85
Spheres see Spiritual spheres
Spiral 12
Spirit possession 117
Spiritual beings, etheric beings C4, C18, 10, 18, 57, 90, D31, S29, J21, J73
Spiritual companion 172, S29
Spiritual development, lack of 87, 136-8
Spiritual evolution C18-9, 7-218, D38, D60, D62, S1, S3, S5, S37-9
Spiritual growth C18, 17, 30, 36-7, 63, 114, D19, D27, D28, D45, S1, S3, S5, S17-8, S24, S25, S31-3, J9-80
Spiritual history C1-43
Spiritual journey 21, 32, 60, 67, 90, 108, 173-5, 209, D53, S29, J24-44
Spiritual levels, etheric levels, etheric plane C39, 29, 62, 67-8, 84, 94-5, 104, 115, 126-8, 158-60, J9-13, J33-4, J48-9, J52-3, J57-9, J64
Spiritual Sanctuary see Spiritual Temple Spiritual spheres C1, 10, 90, 160-1, 176-7, D30, D39
Spiritual structure C1, C4-5, 125, 137, 147, 152, 155, 162, 167, 192, 199
Spiritual Temple C3-6, C18, C40, C43
Stonehenge C9
Structure see Spiritual structure
Study C22, 34-5, S31
Subjective reality 150
Sukhasana 44,50
Sumeria C9, C10, C11, 10, 11, 35, D53, S1
Summerland 160-7, 172, 179
Sunday C22, C36
Supine Pelvic, The 46
Sussex C38
Symbols C5, C12, 36, 51, 71, 73, 74, 143, 166, 210, 216, D54, J14, J30, J50, J65
Tao 7
Tapas 29-30
Teaching, true 114-5
Temple, spiritual see Spiritual Temple
THE FEELING OF "I" D42-5
THE JOURNEY J202-21
THE LAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS IN CULBONE C35-40
THE MOMENT OF DEATH AND AFTERWARDS D37-41
THE POWER OF JESUS J61-75
THE SPIRITUAL PREPARATION OF CULBONE C2-6
THE SUBSTANCE OF LIFE J75-80
The Tarot 74
THE VISIT OF CHRIST TO K'SH'B'H C17-9
Thinking 18
Throat centre 59-62, 64-6, 69, 73, 77, 111, 113, 132-3, 137
Thunderbolt, The 46
Thymus gland 55
Tibet 190
Tied Cottages C35-7
Touchstone, God as 176
Tradition C36, C38, 7, 12, 42, 44, 107
Trance mediumship 144
Trataka 50
Tree, The 46
Triad, working of the divine C10
Trinity of holy action C10
True memory, true record 54, 162
True teaching 114-5
Truth C1, C5, 34, 67, 103-4, 133, 176-7, 179, S12, S25, S35, J14, J20, J22-3, J25, J36-7, J66-7
Turkistan 71
Twelve Essential Human Types 144
Twist, The 49
Understanding 16, 65, 103, 132, 141, D9, D12, D26-7, D31, S23, S29-30, J25, J28
Unknown, The 217, J25, J73
Vertical Movement 160
Vibration 56-8, 75, 82-3, 91, 116, 118-9, 124, 127-8, 130-4, 138, 147, 161, 198, 212-3
Violence 15-6, 52, 88, 120, 125-6, 171, 186, 189-92, 194, 201, D19, D58, S3, S25
Vocation 33-6
Voice C9, 7, 27, 133, 137, D15, D54, J74
Vrikshasana 46
Vulnerability 19, 115, 127, D13, D19, D42, D45, S10, J14, J51, J58
"Watch and pray" 21, 208
Way, The C1, 7, 8, 30, 42, 217, S5, J21-2, J29, J36, J38-9
Wesley, Charles & John C36
West Country C9, C11, C13, C14, C17, C36, 11
West Germanic 12
Wheel, The 47
Whole mind 55
Wilderness, Desert 103-4
Will 16, 52, 58, 63, 64, 89, 93, 112, 118, 120, 127-8, 132, 135-6, 139, 150, 154, 184-5, 197, 201, 208, 217
Wiltshire C11
Wisdom 141
Witchcraft 190
Withycombe C29
Withycombe Farm C35-7
Word mind 21, 50
Worthy C24
Wrong thinking 18-9
Yamas 13-23
Yearnor Farm C37
Yoga For Health 7, 108
Yoga mudra 45
Yoga, Yoga teaching C9, C15, 9, 7-218, D24, D36
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S12 - "If you are going to evolve in your spiritual uniqueness and individuality of expression, it is essential to become aware of the sharp difference between people (and influences) who nourish and encourage it, and those who seek to limit or even destroy it. It is necessary to discern clearly between good and evil as it affects your own identity. Evil is anything which makes you feel guilty about having a self, that seeks to suppress your individuality, or imposes the belief that the meaning of your individuality consists in giving it up to another person or deity or abstract image, such as 'the people' or 'society'. Anything or anyone that denies, explicitly or by implication, the meaning of every person's uniqueness and spiritual potential is evil. On the contrary, everything and everyone that encourages it, reveals it, helps it to grow and evolve towards the Light of greater understanding and awareness is good."
Note:
157: "The reality a [person] thinks [she or] he sees is in fact the mind [she or] he inhabits... recognising this fact, [let each person take] responsibility for [her or] his mind by questioning every form it contains."
In this tradition, the creative, receptive and formatory aspects of mind are not chakras.
D19 - "Not everything is caused by ourselves. There are accidents and we are vulnerable to other people's actions and states of mind. We are intimately connected with one another, and the healing of everyone's body, mind, and inner being is very much our own concern. 'Innocent people' and children do suffer through the weaknesses of others and through forms of distortion and violence which our societies express or allow. It is important to understand this, for it is a fact that we are all inter-related, and the only real answer to suffering which is inflicted on the 'innocent' lies in the ultimate spiritual growth of everyone."
156, 199, 142, 87 - "For most people on Earth, knowledge about 'eternal life' or spiritual growth through continuous life-expressions does not form part of their mind-structure when they come into physical bodies. They do not bring with them minds which are structured to accept the existence of more than one life - even though they have in fact already experienced numberless forms of life over a vast period of time. Each form of life has constituted for them the only life, either end of which fades into shadowy existence. In between existences, so to speak, in these shadowy wings, there is a fading out of memory so that each 'on-stage' call appears like an original 'first night'. (This applies to both Western and Eastern people, for even those born into cultures that use such terms as karma or reincarnation to explain life do not find ready access to their own personal memory-traces.)
There have been many physical forms into which individual men have incarnated, commencing with the earliest forms of proto-man. These forms represent more primitive stages in man's etheric or spiritual evolution. Man never incarnated in the physical form of plant or animal life. As men evolved spiritually, so the physical forms of mankind progressed as vehicles for his physical manifestation.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, however, an ever-increasing number of people have entered physical bodies that were not suited to their stage of evolution, or into societies whose conditions were inimical to any real learning experience or growth of being - or entered without adequate spiritual preparation themselves for their once-only life on Earth."
9 - "Throughout this book initial capital letters have been given to those words having a clearly defined meaning for this particular yoga teaching."
12 - "There are gaps in the knowledge presented here. Many facts, of different kinds, can only be given orally to particular people, at particular times; they are not for general teaching, for a variety of reasons. There is also a more important reason for the omission of data or knowledge. To present the whole truth (if it were possible to do so), on any one of the subjects discussed in this book, would be to defeat the purpose for which the Yoga teaching was originally devised. It would deprive students of the imperative to make certain kinds of effort themselves: to develop the intuitive faculty, instead of relying on the logical mind; to learn with their beings rather than merely increasing the quantity of knowledge absorbed by their minds; and to bring together and work to create for themselves a whole picture out of separate or partial data. (And this effort to create a whole body of knowledge, as it is understood by an individual, has to be repeated at every stage in his growth of being, throughout the extent of his spiritual evolution.)
Every effort has been made deliberately to discourage the reader of this book from approaching it with his logical mind and to encourage him - or her - to make that kind of effort which results in growth of his own spiritual being. Its 'success' is only measurable in terms of individual evolution which is, in fact, not measurable at all."
195 - "Enlightenment will come ultimately to everyone - not in a flash, but gradually, even to those people who have become like formations of rock in the darkness of the Earth's core. No one is ever entirely beyond the reach of help from the spiritual beings engaged in the rescue of the ones who live in darkness. And if Light itself cannot penetrate to the most distant levels of distortion, the vibration of peace can do so, and it can bring a warmth and radiance akin to sunlight to the ones 'who sit in darkness' - when they are ready to receive it. Until that time comes they do not even know they are in darkness."
149 - "Until the whole of mankind is redeemed and regenerated, so long will all men remain part of and responsible for one another and all that exists in the etheric world."
191 - "All human societies in the latter half of the twentieth century have become increasingly dominated by people who are on the fifth and even lower etheric levels" [of distortion].
10 - "Holy men were 'holy' because they were whole (both words come from the Old English or West Germanic hal or halig meaning 'whole' and 'well') human beings and more highly evolved men than were those who formed the majority of people in the societies in which they lived; they were also 'holy' through the simple and single-minded desire which motivated them to serve God and man without wanting power for themselves."
96 - "The one called Christ* taught that the direction for a man's new growth and wholeness lay within his own being. His real teaching was about the growth of each person's unique being out of his own knowledge and experience and free from any external form of coercion. The essence of this teaching lay in showing each man how to take personal responsibility for himself and his life." [Editor's Note:* Here one finds a significant difference between Joan Cooper's use of "Christ" and that of, e.g., R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, for whom "Christ - 'anointment' by the divine word - is Redemptor for whoever attains that self-realization." Cfr The Egyptian Miracle, Inner Traditions International, New York, 1985, p.146.]
30 - "The word tapas implies also the principles upon which discrimination is based, but these are never absolute principles. The principles of discrimination are never commandments, for the act of discriminating can only exist in the NOW, from moment to moment, and in relation to each particular set of circumstances. The point of sensitivity in each person can provide the basis for this activity of discriminating from moment to moment; it is only the formatory mind which seeks a set pattern of behaviour and absolute principles.
It is difficult to appreciate the degree of mental activity implicit in the practice of discrimination and the kind of inner sensitivity necessary, because such activity of mind is seldom met. It is easier for people to live in relation to a firm structure of attitude or a pattern which defines behaviour in terms of explicit categories - or else to drift from one situation to the next, than to remain open and alert to each new situation. It is also difficult in more complex societies to resist the often subtle external pressures they create and have the strength of will - as well as the inner sensitivity - to take in what is useful and positive in each situation and reject what is harmful or useless for the individual's own particular pattern of growth.
Tapas have as little to do with austerity, self-denial, or total-abstinence, as purification and cleansing have to do with fasting. The discrimination of tapas, and the sensitivity from which it comes, is freeing and joyous and is the expression of a deep spiritual desire to be aware of and exercise control over everything that could enter into a person's being. Through the principles of tapas the Yoga teaching gives every beginner upon the way knowledge that he is able to select what he takes into his being and to reject or deny entrance to anything which would distort or divert him: anything which could needlessly use up or absorb his energies and so waste the time and opportunities which belong to his physical life on earth."
207-10 - "The Old Sanskrit word ana is used in relation to three different stages, As-ana, Dhar-ana, and Dhy-ana. In each of these three stages it refers to the perfection of the particular kind of mind which belongs to the respective stage. In the first case, it has to do with the growth and development of the personal mind. In the second case, ana is concerned with the fullest possible development of the mind denoted as Dhar, which means a focussing upon itself and the development of complete awareness of every experience which has gone into its formation. At this stage the word ana means the learning of total concentration and inner awareness in order that the mind may become completely conscious of itself and of all that has gone into its composition and structuring. This is the aim of the stage or level of man's evolution called Dharana. At the conclusion of this stage a man is in full possession of self-knowledge; he has achieved complete awareness of himself and of all the experiences which, over aeons of time, have contributed to the growth of his etheric mind.
The next stage begins with the state reached by the previous one, which is the mind filled with the light of self-awareness and radiating Truth about its own nature. Dhyana corresponds in most respects to the sixth level of reality and is concerned with perfecting the mind so that it is able to reflect Objective Truth, that is, Truth about the spheres in which a man has his being and that comprise all etheric life to which he is related and for which he has any responsibility.
The Old Sanskrit word Dhy, or Dhi, means the perfected etheric mind, which is a mind cleansed in each aspect and every 'crystal-face' so that it is capable of the perfect reflection of all etheric life. The completed mind, or Dhar, is structured like a crystal of many faces, each of whose facets was formed by a seminal experience in the ages-long history of the particular man. Each crystal-face in his mind is completely structured by the time he has reached the end of the fifth stage and represents, or symbolises, the kind of experience which originally produced it. By the end of this fifth stage, the person has learned the Truth about the nature of every experience he has undergone leading to an understanding of its essence and the formation of a corresponding structure in his own mind. At the sixth stage, the final perfecting of this mind consists in his learning to use each facet to reflect accurately, or truthfully, any similar experience within his own orbit of relationships (which may extend to every point in the etheric world through which he has himself evolved). The perfected etheric mind, or Dhy, in a man is an instrument capable of reflecting Objective Truth."
174-5 - "The desire for at-onement with G-d is the central focus of meaning for all life and all experience on the fifth etheric level. The urgency of this desire for G-d in a person eventually supercedes completely, if only temporarily, both the desire for self-expression and the sense of caring or concern which had formerly existed in him as a dichotomy of opposing wills. At no other stage in the evolution of man is there a spiritual journey of this nature, for at no other stage - on no other level before this one - is man one-centred in his desire or will, purpose, and direction. Religious writings - particularly Christian and Gnostic - and the literature of the mystics contain many descriptions of journeys, but none is the journey of man at this stage in his evolution. Some of them use a sexual imagery which relates to another aspect of life altogether. Many form part of a particular religious tradition, expressing its terminology and structure of belief. But the true spiritual journey, when it takes place at the right moment in every man's pattern of evolution, is contained within no religious form of any kind and expresses no doctrinal beliefs or particular faith; for all religious forms belong at their highest to the fourth etheric level and many belong to an experience of the Summerland or to the lower levels. The spiritual journey is not formal or ritualistic; there is no established pattern for its expression, no archetypal structure for it to follow. Each spiritual journey is unique and expresses within the individual's experience and relationships; and the person derives from this journey a 'treasure' which is uniquely his own.
The life of the person becomes immensely simplified in the course of his journey through the fifth level - and refined or purified of all that is superfluous to his search for G-d. For, in time, this search lights up each experience and every relationship which belongs to the whole of the person's etheric life, and in the process of clarification the irrelevant and the less important gradually disappear."
171-2 - "A move to the fourth level of reality means, in fact, the beginning of a shift in emphasis within the person from the personal to the non-personal. Personal relationships - the personal self and its desires - do not fade away completely at this stage; but the centre of balance for the person on the fourth etheric level becomes in time a new quality of concern for the true nature and potentiality in other people, which in-forms and guides the person's awareness and activities. All missions from this level are self-initiated and stem from both the personal desire and the non-personal concern of individuals at this level, although every help or aid is placed at the disposal of anyone seeking to take responsibility for any kind of mission. There is no 'higher authority' to control them or interfere unless harm is being done in any way to others, in which case the mission would be withdrawn (by persons from a still higher level) and the person responsible would be drawn to the lower level appropriate for acting out his experience and learning the consequences of his actions. Such a removal to a lower level would be in no sense retributive, for there is no such thing as retribution on any etheric level that resembles, in any way, the systems of judgment and penal retribution devised by men on the physical plane. (All conceptions of harsh, retributive justice derive, in fact, from the lower levels and are the invention of human distortion.)"
167 - "All who are in service, although responsible in the first place to themselves and having freedom to express their own wills, are nonetheless under the direction of ones from a yet higher level - but each person in service (like everyone on all etheric levels) has complete freedom of will to accept or reject this direction and even to carry out an activity in his own way. (He is, however, always prevented from causing harm of any kind to another person.)"
69-70 - "There is an eighth centre - which is not a true chakra because it does not of itself possess a 'will' - situated at the vertex of the skull where the parietal bone articulates with the frontal bone. It exists in fact etherically, in the etheric form of man, and is reflected onto his physical body. This 'centre' is like a door which opens inwards onto the etheric being of a person and outwards as well, permitting the entrance of vibrations from beings on another level altogether, beyond the etheric sphere. Although little is known about this 'door', it appears to stand at the outermost frontier of man's spiritual evolution through the etheric spheres and represents new and still obscure possibilities for him. It is thought that the door is opened only through the performance of a special act of initiation, but nothing is known for certain. It represents a stage far beyond those stages of human evolution which the specific teachings and practice of Yoga are about."
Matthew 7: 7-8: "Ask for something, and you will be given it; look for something, and you will find it; knock, and the door will be opened to you. And indeed, everyone that asks receives; everyone that looks finds; he who knocks will have the door opened to him."
MT, 456-9 - "It is death and birth which constantly save human evolution, by acting as the thunderbolt which strikes down and as the wind which blows down. Is it not deeply significant that the spiritual head of the religion of liberation from the wheel of reincarnations is sought - and fourteen times was found - amongst children born immediately after his death?... that Dalai Lamas are found amongst children of the first generation after their decease, through the incontestable facts of concrete memories of their preceding incarnation?... that all fourteen Dalai Lamas are only successive reincarnations of a single soul or entity?...
[Gendun Drubpa, the first Dalai Lama, was a tulku or officially recognized reincarnation of the Nepali yogi Pemavajra, and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama claims there are another fifty or so previous incarnations to be reckoned with.] The Buddhists say that it is mercy which enables the soul of the Dalai Lama to return. [And, indeed,] why could it not be a matter of the wind, i.e., the wind of compassion and mercy, just as the thunderbolt which strikes down towers is the divine love which saves us from impasses? From myself, on my part, I declare firmly that I have no doubt that death, which saves us from the impasse to which our bodily organisation leads, is the action of the thunderbolt of divine love, and that birth, which gives us the possibility of participating actively in the earthly history of the human race, is due fundamentally to the action of compassion for this Earth and for mankind which inhabits it - at least, for a certain class of souls....
The fundamental principle of Hermeticism - as the synthesis of mysticism, gnosis, magic and philosophy - is non-specialisation. For this reason it evolves by avoiding the impasses of specialisation - the towers which sooner or later are struck down by thunderbolts.
Thus, Christian Hermeticism of today has not remained behind in the great spiritual events which have changed factors of the first order in the domain of astrology - which events now play the role of 'the thunderbolt which blasts the tower of astrology'. What I have in mind here is that the planetary influences and the days and hours of these influences have given way to a power of a higher order. It is true that the day Sunday is the day of the Sun with respect to the human psycho-physical organism, but nowadays it is the day of resurrection, with respect to man's psycho-spiritual life. Saturday is still the day of Saturn, but it is so only with regard to the natural, lower part of the human being. For the soul which turns towards the spirit and for the human spirit itself, Saturday is the day of the Holy Virgin. And the influence of Venus has given way to Calvary, to Christ crucified - Friday. Tuesday is no longer the day of Mars - for the soul that aspires to the spirit, or for spiritual personages - it is the day of the Archistrategist Michael. Similarly, with respect to the soul turned towards the spirit and with respect to the lives of spiritual personages, Monday is the day of the Holy Trinity, instead of being that of the Moon... Wednesday is the day of the human pastors of mankind, instead of Mercury... and Thursday is the day of the Holy Spirit, instead of Jupiter.
Consequently, sacred magic of the present day uses formulæ and signs which correspond to the supernatural power of the day and not to the natural planetary influence of the day, although, I repeat, the latter remains valid in a restricted domain - more restricted than in the past - and remains of practical value in this domain. The sixteenth Major Arcanum of the Tarot is therefore a warning addressed to all authors of 'systems', where an important role is assigned to a mechanical ingredient - intellectual, practical, occult, political, social and other systems. It invites them to devote themselves to tasks of growth instead of those of construction - to tasks as 'cultivators and guardians of the garden', instead of as builders of the tower of Babel."
MT, 181 - "The anguish of Gethsemane which gave rise to perspiration of blood was eternal. This night, the night of Gethsemane, was not measured in hours. It was - it is - immeasurable, therefore eternal. It is due to its eternity that he sweated blood, and not because of the temporary, and therefore passing, trial. He knew eternal hell through experience, and as he came out of it, we have the 'good news' that not only death is vanquished by the Resurrection, but also that hell is - through Gethsemane. The majesty of the victory over hell announced by the words 'I am he' caused many to prostrate themselves on the ground, from amongst the band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees who had come to arrest him (Jn 18:50-6). The soul of Origen was also prostrated in the face of the victory over eternal hell and moved by the revelation contained in the words: 'It is I,' spoken by Him who had just come out of eternal hell. This is why Origen himself knew with certain knowledge that there would be no 'damned' at the end of the world and that the devil, also, would be saved."
MT, 582-3 - "The Blessed Virgin is therefore virgin Nature, virgin soul and virgin spirit since the dawn of the world, united and manifesting in a human person - Mary, daughter of Joachim and Anne. The Virgin Mary is therefore at one and the same time a human person and a cosmic entity: Wisdom (CHOKMAH, Sophia, Sapientia) according to Solomon, the 'Virgin of light' of the gnostics Pistis Sophia, the 'Virgin of the world' (Kore Kosmu) of the ancient Hermeticists, and the Shekinah of the Cabbalists. The dialogue between the Archangel Gabriel and Mary at the Annunciation has therefore, outside of human and Angelic significance, a cosmic significance. It was in the name of the divine Holy Trinity that the Archangel announced the Incarnation to come, and it was in the name of the threefold holy Virgin Nature - Mother, Daughter and Holy Soul - that Mary gave the response which was the turning-point of the history of the world: Ecce ancilla Domini, mihi fiat secundum verbum tuum (idou he doule kyriou genoito moi kata to rema sou) - 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word' (Lk 1:38). It was natura naturans and non-fallen natura naturata which gave their reply at the same time that Mary pronounced these words. The eternal dialogue between creative will and executive will - where divine fire becomes light, where light becomes movement, and where movement becomes form - was projected in time and concentrated in the dialogue between the Archangel and Mary!
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was, consequently, neither disincarnation in the sense of separation of the soul and body, nor resurrection in the sense of union of the soul and the resurrection body, but rather the turning above - towards the spiritual world - of the current life comprising spirit, soul and body: the ascent to heaven of the integral entity of the Blessed Virgin.
Thus, it follows from the preceding that the resurrection is the union of the spirits and the souls of the dead with their immortal bodies - their resurrection bodies - which will be awoken 'by the sound of the trumpet' from above, and which will ascend to meet the descending souls. They will unite with the latter, never more to separate from them. Thus the 'eternal incarnation' will begin, i.e., the epoch of cosmic history called in the Bible 'the heavenly city of new Jerusalem' (Rv 21)....
The Resurrection is the final victory not only over death (as the separation of the soul from the body) but also over sleep (as the separation of the soul from the world of action) and over forgetfulness (as the separation of consciousness from the world of past memories). This means to say that resurrection signifies not only the re-establishment of the integral unity of the spirit, soul and body of the human being, but also the uninterrupted continuity of his activity and the uninterrupted continuity of his consciousness - the whole of his memory. Now, the emergence of complete memory of the entire past is equivalent, for consciousness, to the last judgment, where the whole past is reviewed in the light of conscience. It is conscience itself, the soul itself, which will judge itself. And it will then find that it is guilty under all the headings of accusation of divine law which live in the completely awakened conscience. And there will not be a single soul that will justify itself before its own awakened conscience. It is not authorised to justify itself. Justification lies in the realm of the Divine and it is only the Divine that is authorised to justify.
Thus, there will at first be the realisation of the complete equality of all members of the human community in the consciousness of their errors and their faults. This consciousness will be common to great initiates, high priests, heads of nations, and simple workers in the diverse domains of human effort in the past."
MT, 424-5 - “Job's ‘Satan’ and Tobias's demon… are critical spirits, i.e., prosecutors, and one can vanquish them only by convincing them - under ‘laboratory conditons,’ so to say - that the accusations lack foundation… The ridicule which Mephistopheles makes use of [also] has a serious foundation… A journalist, disenchanted with everything… lived simply… But something extraordinary happened to him one day… he produced from inner dictation a series of manuscripts… whose author declared himself to be none other than Osiris… The beneficiary of this prodigious revelation and his wife, enamoured by the grandeur of the revelation and the person of the revelator, looked at the work admiringly with a view to bearing the unheard of revelation to the whole of mankind. And this is how a special publishing house [then] put before the world one volume after another of the revelation of Osiris… Only the revelator is not Osiris but Mephistopheles… [who] actually said:
‘You who hold for very little the scientific endeavour, the world of thought from Plato to Kant, the treasures of authentic witness of the great mystics, the riches of the Hermetic tradition and, lastly, the Holy Scripture, the sacraments, the blood and sweat of Gethsemane, the Cross of Calvary, the Resurrection… take, therefore, what you desire - these volumes of banalities presented in a pompous manner and communicated to you, as you would wish, in an extraordinary way.’ ”†
MT, xi-xii - “The numerous citations of ancient and modern authors which you will find in these Letters are not due to literary considerations, nor to a display of erudition. They are evocations of the masters of the tradition, in order that they may be present with their impulses of aspiration and their light of thought in the current of meditative thought which these Letters… represent… For the links in the chain of the tradition are not thoughts and efforts alone; they are above all living beings who were thinking these thoughts and willing these efforts. The essence of the tradition is not a doctrine, but rather a community of spirits from age to age… Your friend greets you, dear Unknown Friend, from beyond the grave.”
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
Pope John-Paul II quoted in The Tablet (14 October 1995, p.1305).
"Do not be disarmed by malice; disarm malice with kindness."
Romans 12:21.
"G-d gave him largeness of heart as the sand that is on the sea-shore."
I Kings 4:29.
Psalm 81:1-3.
"Now when the seventh month came round - the Israelites being in their towns - all the people gathered as one man in the square in front of the Water Gate, and asked the scribe Ezra to bring the Book of the Law of Moses which Yahweh had prescribed for Israel. Accordingly, on the first day of the seventh month, [i.e., on New Year's day] the priest Ezra brought the Law before the assembly, consisting of men, women and all those old enough to understand. In the square in front of the Water Gate, in the presence of the men and women, and of those old enough to understand, he read from the book from dawn till noon; all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
The scribe Ezra stood on a wooden dais erected for the purpose; beside him stood, on his right, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; on his left, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. In full view of all the people - since he stood higher than them all - Ezra opened the book; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great G-d, and all the people raised their hands and answered, 'Amen! Amen!'; then they bowed down and, face to the ground, prostrated themselves before Yahweh. And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabab, Hanan, Pelaiah, who were Levites, explained the Law to the people, while the people all kept their places. Ezra read from the book of the Law of G-d, translating and giving the sense; so the reading was understood.
Then His Excellency, Nehemiah and the priest-scribe Ezra and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all the people, 'Today is sacred to Yahweh your G-d. Do not be mournful, do not weep.' For the people were all in tears as they listened to the words of the Law.
He then said, 'You may go; eat what is rich, drink what is sweet and send a helping to the man who has nothing prepared. For today is sacred to our Lord. Do not be sad: the joy of Yahweh is your stronghold.' And the Levites calmed all the people down, saying, 'Keep quiet; this is a sacred day. Do not be sad.' Then all the people went off to eat and drink and give helpings away and enjoy themselves to the full, since they had understood the meaning of what had been proclaimed to them."
Nehemiah 8:1-12.
"It is impossible that a pupil should be his teacher's superior, or a servant be his master's superior. A pupil should be satisfied with becoming the equal of his teacher, a servant with becoming the equal of his master. If Beelzebub is the name they have affixed to the master of the house, how much more will they be ready to affix it to the members of his household!
Well then, do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing, however carefully hidden away, that will not be revealed, nothing kept concealed that will not be made known. Indeed, as regards yourselves, you must tell in broad daylight that which I say to you in the dark, and that which is whispered into your ears you must proclaim from the housetops. And one more thing. Do not be afraid of those who put the body to death but have no power of bringing death to the soul. Rather, be afraid of him who has the power of destroying both body and soul in hell.
Is it not a fact that one copper coin buys two sparrows? Yet without your Father's consent not one of them will fall to the ground. As for yourselves, why, the very hairs on your head have been counted. Cease feeling anxious, therefore: there is more in you than in many sparrows.
Well then, everyone who acknowledges me before men I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; and anyone who repudiates me before men I will repudiate before my Father in heaven.
Do not suppose that, if I have appeared, that was to bring peace to the Earth. I have not appeared to bring peace but a sword. Indeed, this has been the purpose of my appearing: to turn a man *against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Moreover, it is the members of a man's household who will be his enemies.
He who loves his father and mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; he who loves his son and daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross upon himself, following in my footsteps, is not worthy of me; He who gains possession of his life will lose it; and he who loses his life will gain possession of it.
He who gives a welcome to you gives a welcome to me, and he who gives a welcome to me gives a welcome to him who has sent me forth. He who gives a welcome to a prophet, because he is a prophet, will receive the reward due to a prophet. He who gives a welcome to an upright man, because he is an upright man, will receive the reward due to an upright man. As for him who offers something to drink to one of these little ones, thought it be only a cup of cold water, and does so because he is a disciple of mine, I can indeed give you solemn assurance of this: he will on no account suffer the loss of the reward due to him."
Matthew 10: 24-42 *with quotation from Micah 7:6.
"The gods are not; truly, you are the G-d who is in hiding."
Isaiah 45:14-15.
"He had a name inscribed upon him known to no one but himself.... The name by which he was known was 'The Word of G-d.' "
Revelation 19:12-13.
"We read in the gospel that when our Lord was preaching, he urged his disciples to share in his suffering through the mystery of eating his body; and there were some who said: 'This is a hard saying', and from then on were no longer of his company. He asked his disciples whether they, too, wished to go away. 'Lord', they said, 'to whom should we go? You have the words of eternal life.'
And so too, my brothers, I tell you that to this very day it is evident that the words of Jesus are spirit and truth to some people, and for that reason they follow him. To others, his words seem hard, and they seek elsewhere a consolation that can only end in misery. Wisdom cries out loud in the street, in the wide and open way that leads to death, seeking to call back those who walk that road.
Again the Lord says: 'For forty years I was among this generation and I said, "They are a people who always err in heart." ' In another psalm you will find it written: 'G-d has spoken once.' Once: yes, because always! For his word is a unity, not changing, but spoken continuously and always.
It calls the sinner back, to return to the heart; it convicts the errors of the heart, for G-d himself dwells in the heart and speaks in the heart. He does exactly what he taught through the prophet in the words: 'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem.'
You can see then, my brothers, in what a salutary way the prophet warns us that when we hear his voice today we should not harden our hearts. Almost identical words are to be read in the gospel and in the prophet. For in the gospel the Lord says: 'My sheep hear my voice'; and in the psalm holy David says: 'We are the people of his' (he must mean the Lord's) 'pasture and the sheep of his flock. O that today you would listen to his voice. Harden not your hearts.'
Listen also to Habakkuk the prophet. He does not disguise the Lord's thought, but he reflects on it with careful and thoughtful consideration. He says: 'I will take my stand to watch and station myself on the tower to look forth, to see what the Lord will say to me, and what I will answer to him who accuses me.' I ask you then, my brothers: let us take our stand to watch, for now is the time for battle.
Let our life be in the heart, where Christ dwells; let us live in wise judgment and in reasoned counsel; but always so that we place no reliance upon this, and do not trust to a weak defence."
St. Bernard of Clairveaux, Sermones De Diversis 5:1-4.
"I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father."
John 15:15.
"There is one who will stand by your side, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send forth in my name. He will teach you everything, and you will call to mind all that I have told you."
John 14:26.
"No need to remember past events, no need to think about what was done before. Look, I am doing something new, now it emerges; can you not see it?"
Isaiah 43:17-19.
"No human being can be found upright at the tribunal of G-d by keeping the Law; all that the Law does is to tell us what is sinful. G-d's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealed altogether apart from law: G-d's saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. No distinction is made: all have sinned and lack G-d's glory, and all are justified by the free gift of his grace through being set free in Christ Jesus.... Faith is what counts, since, as we see it, a person is justified by faith and not by doing what the Law tells him to do. Do you think G-d is the G-d only of the Jews, and not of pagans too? Most certainly of pagans too, since there is only one G-d.... Are we saying that the Law has been made pointless by faith? out of the question; we are placing the Law on its true footing."
Romans 3:20-24. 28-29. 31.
"Rational reflection and daily experience demonstrate the weakness which marks man's freedom. That freedom is real but limited: its absolute and unconditional origin is not in itself, but in the life within which it is situated and which represents for it, at one and the same time, both a limitation and a possibility. Human freedom belongs to us as creatures; it is a freedom which is given as a gift, one to be received like a seed and to be cultivated responsibly. It is an essential part of that creaturely image which is the basis of the dignity of the person.
Within that freedom there is an echo of the primordial vocation whereby the Creator calls man to the true Good, and even more, through Christ's Revelation, to become his friend and to share his own divine life." "The Magisterium does not bring to the Christian conscience truths which are extraneous to it; rather it brings to light the truths which it ought already to possess, developing them from the starting-point of the primordial act of faith."
Pope John-Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, par. 86 & par. 64.
"Of course, it is heretical to voice the thought that the sensory awakedness of the aborigine is preferable to twentieth-century technological comfort, which, in actuality, is a closing off of the sense fields and a narrowing of the perceptions we have of life.... Myth defines the capacity for simultaneous, multi-referential resonance that merges being with being; history is the tendency to limit, measure, and materialize in a uni-referential direction that separates being from being....
The mythic condition constructs from... experience a sacrament or ritual that affirms the bond between light and the greater forces, ultimately the forces of light. The historic mind uses... experience as information that determines practical creature-comfort goals. However, the creature-comfort-seeking aspect of historic consciousness is in actuality the feedback effect of the impulse of DNA to extrude technology. Hence historic consciousness is but a by-product of the larger technological bridging process, moving us from one natural symbiosis to another - from one realm of light to another.
To gain an even deeper level of understanding, let us put forth one more equation:
In this equation, myth or the mythic condition is the self-sustaining capacity of DNA to directly utilize light - the spectrum of radiant energy - to attain its ends. In the mythic condition, therefore, the psychic resonance between organism and radiant energy is direct and provides both primary nurturance and primary reality. This resonance is dependent upon and intensifies a superior sensory capacity for radiant interactiveness. The experience of the senses - eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body - is not only primary, but attuned to nuances that both convey information and expand delight. In this condition, the need for artificial inducements to pleasure become obstructions to the untrammeled purity of sensory experience per se.
History and the historic condition, by contrast, represent the counter-spin capacity for DNA to artificially maximize its potential in relation to the totality of its host body, the planet, in our case, Earth. This accounts for the extrusion of technology - artificial extensions of the sense organs - to facilitate completion of the larger DNA circuit.
Naturally, to the individual cells of the larger organism, humankind, the greater purpose of the DNA circuit is, at best, dimly perceived. Consequently, most of the individual members tend to rely upon and become addicted to the sensory feedback that depends solely on the artificial technological extensions and environment. For this reason, at the far end of history where we find ourselves today, nature is hard-put to compete with television.... There is a profound need to reawaken the sense fields to their own natural capacities....
The critical tension which we are experiencing in our morphogenetic field is due to the inner contradictions of a paradigm bound by its own beliefs. Dominated by a white, male, neo-protestant priesthood defending its scientific 'objectivity' through planetary political power plays - this paradigm paralysis is in reality a reflection of the dissonant shifting of the Earth...."
Jose Arguelles, The Mayan Factor - Path Beyond Technology, Bear & Co., 1987, pp. 149-54.
“Within Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, active, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, sharp, irresistible, beneficent, loving to man, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits; for Wisdom is quicker to move than any motion; she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things.
She is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; hence nothing impure can find a way into her. She is a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, image of his goodness.
Although alone, she can do all; herself unchanging, she makes all things new. In each generation she passes into holy souls, she makes them friends of God and prophets; for God loves only the man who lives with Wisdom. She is indeed more splendid than the sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place, for light must yield to night, but over Wisdom evil can never triumph. She deploys her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things for good.”
Wisdom 7:22-8:1
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