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Encouraged and inspired
both by The Tradition we inherit from our predecessors and
by the recent and local example of the Culbone Yogi &
Anglican lay-reader, Doctor Joan D'Arcy Cooper (1927-1982),
we aim to nurture and nourish individual personal growth at
every level of Etheric, Mental or Spiritual Development
through many etheric life-times
"Wisdom is complete willingness to be the plaything of chance circumstances".
- LAO-TSE
"The world is ruled by letting things take their course.It cannot be ruled by
interfering". - THE TAO
"The modern world with its strange, new and probably transient belief in ‘progress’,
tends to give much credit to ‘originality’ even to the point
of doubting whether anything else is quite sincere. It wants
a new contribution to thought, and in its grotesque
individualism supposes that every man who truly expresses
his own relation to the world, will say something different
from what anyone else would say".
- WILLIAM TEMPLE
"Two tendencies govern human choice and effort, the search after quantity and the
search after quality." "Inclinations are never compulsions -
but the condition of independence is submission to the
immortal consciousness." "What we may choose to share are
gestures". - ISHA SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ
"The great events of world history are at bottom profoundly unimportant. In the last
analysis the essential thing is the life of the individual".
- CARL GUSTAV JUNG
"Conversion has nothing in common with any exterior and contingent change which arises simply from the ‘moral’ domain. Contrary to what is usually
considered a ‘conversion’, there is nothing in it which
implies superiority in itself of one tradition over another,
but simply what one might call reasons of spiritual
convenience, which again is something quite other than an
individual preference".
- René Guénon quoted by Robin Waterfield
"If you are going to evolve in your spiritual uniqueness and individuality of
expression, it is essential to become aware of the sharp
differences 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
destroy 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".
- JOAN D'ARCY COOPER
"Just as thoughtless remarks can lead people into error, so also ill-advised silence can leave people in their error, when they could have been shown where they were wrong".
- St. GREGORY THE GREAT
"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" "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". "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 live 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)." "The
reality a person thinks he sees is in fact the mind he
inhabits; recognising this fact, let each person take
responsibility for his mind by questioning every form it
contains." - JOAN D'ARCY COOPER
"The mind of every person on Earth may be thought
of as potentially a seven-storey house, every level of which
opens out into a different sphere of existence in the
etheric world. It may also be thought of as a house having
fourteen possible rooms which a person may inhabit. These
fourteen compartments open out into the seven ‘upper’ and
into the seven ‘lower’ etheric spheres or forms of life."
"Man's mind consists of fourteen kinds of mental state which
open out onto fourteen kinds of place." "As a state of mind
reflects outwards and creates place so a person becomes
enclosed in a world of his own making. On the highest level
a man's mind will reflect all that exists in the etheric
universe; for a man to reach this level, he must will to
know and experience things as they are."
Seventh Etheric
Level revealing by crystalline
reflection the objective reality of all thirteen lower
levels.
Sixth Etheric
Level accommodating those seeking to
serve non-personal Truth in the practical context of
life.
Fifth Etheric
Level bringing together those whose
spiritual journey expresses the desire for At-Onement with
G-d, Mystical Union, Samadhi.
Fourth Etheric
Level manifesting non-personal
concern for the true nature and potential present in
others.
Third Etheric
Level characterised by the desire to
serve others' real needs.
Second Etheric
Level where the desire for
self-expression develops into creative self-expression and
self-expression for others' benefit.
First Etheric
Level,
Paradise or Summerland where the desire for physical and
etheric possessions is satisfied.
First Level of
Distortion - a state in which one's will
is ensnared by its identification with one particular
negative personal emotion, e.g., fear or
resentment.
Second Level of
Distortion
where one is also withdrawn from much in one's own world, in
order to express some negative emotion.
Third Level of
Distortion
where one creates objective distortion in order to validate
for oneself one's own negative state of
mind.
Fourth Level of
Distortion
where individuals indulge their obsessive and
all-encompassing ego-centricity, not excluding
self-violation and violent forms of
self-mutilation.
Fifth Level of
Distortion
- the violent exercise of power in order to impose one's own
world on others.
Sixth Level of
Distortion
characterised by the frequently schizophrenic will to force
Light to submit to Darkness.
Seventh Level of
Distortion
- a zone whose inhabitants may reflect Light brilliantly,
while themselves inhabiting total Darkness, deaf even to the
voice of their own conscience, and very much in need of the
gift of Peace.
"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".
- JESUS OF NAZARETH
A collected edition of all Joan D'Arcy Cooper's writings, from our own Index to which the above scheme of 14 etheric levels has been extracted, may soon be made more
easily and widely available.
Spiritual or etheric levels or planes
- Shalom & Welcome! -