#esoteric Christianity

[reality-nihilism]

"The Vision of the Cross"

Gustave Doré, 1832.

[chicagognosis]

It is important to understand that real knowledge is of the heart. Real wisdom is what we live. Real knowledge comes from experience, and more importantly, that experience of higher realities comes when we investigate our own heart, our own mind, our ways of living, and to look, not to assume that we know, “I am of this race, this culture, this religion, this belief system, these politics, this upbringing.” It means to really look at what is inside in terms of our emotions, our impulses, our will.

This active looking is precisely what every tradition teaches about meditation: to look, to observe, to acquire new information―not to assume that we already know who we are, but to be open and to watch in a state of stillness, of observation, of clarity. It is that inner discrimination of ourselves that really helps us to distinguish right from wrong. It is our heart, our conscience, that tells us what is right and what is wrong. We may have traditions that tell us these things, but what do we know in our being about what to do? ― especially when we are faced with situations that are so complex that we are baffled. We are confused. We are overwhelmed, like you heard in Carmina Burana. When fate hits, the hammer of karma, of hardship, strikes, and we find all of those things that we typically ignore come to the surface of our mind, things we may neglect or fail to look at.

New Lecture Transcription!

[maidenofsophia]

Let us now consider the Divine Feminine Trinity of the Mother, the Daughter and the Holy Soul.

The Divine Mother is essentially the whole of creation, embracing all the stars, planets, Sun, Moon, the Earth, and all living creatures. Valentin Tomberg teaches that the heart of the Divine Mother is to be found in the center of the Earth and that the plant kingdom resonates with the very heartbeat of the Mother.

The Divine Daughter is the wisdom of the cosmos, pictured as the soul of the world embracing the entire cosmos extending from the realm of the fixed stars down to the planets and the Moon. This awe-inspiring image of Sophia as the world soul can be found in the Book of Revelation, where, as I mentioned earlier in the book, she is depicted as a woman clothed with the Sun, with the Moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

Between the Divine Mother in the center of the Earth and the Divine Daughter Sophia as the world soul, weaves the Holy Soul, the third aspect of the Divine Feminine Trinity. The Holy Soul is the creator of community, who ensouls and elevates groups of human beings in the progress of unfolding evolution. We find an example of this in the spiritual tradition of Israel that conceives of the Shekinah as the soul of the community of Israel. Here, Shekinah corresponds to the Holy Soul weaving between the Divine Daughter and the Divine Mother.

In this Sophia teaching of the Divine Feminine Trinity—Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul—we reach the pinnacle of the Sophia tradition of Russia. This central teaching of the Divine Feminine Trinity will be a source of inspiration for seekers of divine wisdom in the coming ages, just as the teaching of the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—has been a source of inspiration for Christians in ages past. Valentin Tomberg arrived at an extraordinary understanding of the Divine Feminine synthesized in these three persons—Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul.

- The Sophia Teachings by Robert Powell

(An interesting excerpt I found. Personally, I still subscribe to the Filianic belief that the Mother is the transcendent creatrix, rather than creation itself, and I see the Daughter as the world soul and divine presence within all living things).

[amor-madonna]

Mother Mary altar ideas

[asinusrufus]

Even when I don't feel a special sympathy towards Christianity, I've to admit Jesus seems one of the few magicians that effectively —probably more effectively than anyone before and after him—achieved the goal of reaching the status of divinity/being one with the Gods— he did not only turned himself into a living God, but was —and still is— recognized as one by all for it (ok, yeah, both the curation of textual sources for New Testament to avoid the magical stuff and St. Paul helped a lot, but you know)

[eyeoftheheart]

Wise as a serpent, pure as a dove, invoking celestial fire from above…

“I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am watching over it until it blazes.”

―Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, The Gospel of Thomas

The Gnostic Temple of the Greater Mysteries

[realbeeing]

"[E]very mortal being, situated between birth and destruction, merely manifests an appearance, a feeble and uncertain image of itself. If we try to grasp it with our understanding, it is as when water is tightly compressed and runs over merely through the pressure, spoiling what it touches. For the understanding, pursuing a too definite conception of each being that is subject to accidents and change, loses its way, now in the origin of the being, now in its destruction, and is unable to apprehend anything lasting or really existing. For, as Heraclitus says, we cannot swim twice in the same wave, neither can we lay hold of a mortal being twice in the same state, for, through the violence and rapidity of movement, it is destroyed and recomposed; it comes into being and again decays; it comes and goes. Therefore, that which is becoming can neither attain real existence, because growth neither ceases nor pauses. Change begins in the germ, and forms an embryo; then there appears a child, then a youth, a man, and an old man; the first beginnings and successive ages are continually annulled by the ensuing ones. Hence it is ridiculous to fear one death, when we have already died in so many ways, and are still dying."

Rudolf Steiner, Christianity as Mystical Fact

[lonergurl]

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, Max Heindel, 1909

[uncrossedrhyme]

Hamannian Hermeneutics: The Marriage of Reason & Faith (or: ‘the Letter & the Spirit’)

The Birth of the Milky Way (1636–1638) by Peter Paul Rubens “Reason is the source of all truth and of all errors. It is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, both parties are right and wrong which deify it and which vilify it. Faith, likewise, is the source of unbelief and of superstition. ‘Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing’”—J. G. Hamann, 1787 Intuition, in the…

[brother-hermes]

THE CHYMICAL WEDDING AT CANA

To understand the transformation of water into wine requires we take an in-depth look at the symbolism. The difficulty in doing so is tied into language and cultural shifts as the mystical elements of the mysteries moved from culture to culture. Let us approach the subject with an open mind and bring mystic union into the 21rst Century.

[esotericgenesis]

There is an ecstacy of love that seals the lips, an inward craving for truth, and gravitation of the soul toward it, that can find no words to express it, but turns the soul toward God like the flower toward the sun.

Evans W. F. Esoteric Christianity and mental therapeutics

[reality-nihilism]

A veiled Carmelite nun.

[chicagognosis]

The Master Jesus, more than just embodying a figure to worship or to follow, represents something very deep within our consciousness. This is why in our Gnostic studies we explain the physical personages of the past, from diverse religious traditions, came to represent principles. They lived in their flesh and bone a state of being that we need to cultivate. Therefore, Christ as the human individual represents in us the principle of the inner Christ, our inner divinity, that light which can shine within the depths of our very heart, to illumine the mistakes of our past and the state of our suffering.

Our focus today is to learn how to develop that principle in us, to understand what it means psychologically, and to know how to apply methods to develop greater insight in our daily life, especially in terms of how we approach problems, how we cultivate virtue, and also how we conquer vice.

We will learn how to awaken, develop, sustain, and expand the intelligence of the heart, the wisdom of the heart, the ability to understand, very deeply, how to negotiate and navigate the great crises that are afflicting our contemporary humanity.

We will also learn that the heart must learn to balance the mind if what we really seek is genuine peace.

[maidenofsophia]

Someone: Any plans for New Years Eve?

Me: Yes....

What just arrived in the post:

[amor-madonna]

things that remind me of Certain Saints!!

𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦

Silk

Blue Roses

Southern Europe

Pearl Jewerly

Dark grey clouds with the sun peeking out and its a mix of dark clouds and warm golden sky

Going to a new city with your Family

Forests

The Full Moon

Going to Catholic Church on a Sunny day.

This song ⬇️💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑒

Rose Water

Red Roses

Rain

Hippies

Feminists

Rubies

The Beach

Caves

Mugwort

Cloves

Nazar Jewerly

Lavender

Grapes

This Song ⬇️🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝐽𝑜𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑐

Pop Rock Music

Silver

Diamonds

Daisies

Persian Cats

Red Ribbons

Tom & Jerry for sm reason?!?

Flappers

The Sea

White Candles

Doves

Sunflowers

Rue Sprigs

This song⬇️💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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[asinusrufus]

Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician.