“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness.”~ Matthew 23:27. We are redeemed by what we are, not by what we do. To sense the permeation of spiritual and material as … Continue reading The Desert Approaches
Christianity
Three Temptations
In 1938 the Catholic esotericist Valentin Tomberg gave a series of seven lectures on inner development, his fifth lecture being on Christ’s temptations in the wilderness. The devil’s three temptations in reverse order of Matthew’s Gospel account are as follows:1. The world and its glories, if he worships him2. Testing God by jumping from the … Continue reading Three Temptations
Man the Animal
Science and the materialists say we’re apes. Traditional teachings say the same, to a point. This shouldn’t be an observation that alarms anyone, though of course it’s a common tendency to desire to be special and view oneself as somehow separated from the animal; and we are, ideally. Part of what sets us apart from … Continue reading Man the Animal
Epiphany of Being
Correspondence "Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being" ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy. Traditional teachings say that our empirical, material world is a reflection of the spiritual from which it receives all of its reality; or in other words the metaphysical manifests itself in the world. Everything in existence expresses this in … Continue reading Epiphany of Being
Sum Ergo Oro 