“The sacrifice of animals on pagan altars, as with sacrificial ceremonies which sometimes involved human beings, was the result of their ignorance of the fundamental principle underlying sacrifice. They did not realize that their offerings must come from their own...
Georges Gurdjieff or Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff or G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Armenia, was a mystic, philosopher, composer and spiritual teacher. There are 3 ways: – the way of the body: the one who manages to completely master his body is the fakir – the...
There are three levels of development of consciousness, which are all relationships with the world and with oneself: 1) Hylic: physical plane, material consciousness. Key word: objective exterior. Beings in this level are captives. 2) Psychic: psychological level,...
The plan of Spirit is the unmanifest absolute principle. The plane of matter is the temporal manifestation of the principle. The point of contact between these 2 planes is the horizon. All the struggles and wars of mythological stories and sacred writings can be...
Noah built an ark so that he and his family would be saved from the flood. The Noah of Genesis was the son of Lamech, symbolizing the strength of youth. And Noah symbolises the seed of the New. It is in the strength of youth that we idealize matter and attach our...
