Doing the spiritual work and cultivating an inner life are the only things we can do that will sustain us through our lifetime and beyond.

Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbor of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. - Zoroaster

Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence. - the instructions of Ptah Hotep

I simultaneously entertain multiple views on the Demiurge, without settling on one alone, as I’m committed to exploring them all as potential truth, allowing time, reality and ongoing life experience to sort the matter out for me over time.

We wait, starving for moments of High Magick to inspire us, but life is already full of common enchantments just waiting for our alchemists' eyes to notice. - Jacob Nordby

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. — Anais Nin

Do you know a Spanish speaker who might be interested in learning about classic Hermeticism, Gnosticism, etc.? My friend Selbyd Ochoa creates quality Spanish-language content on these topics for his YouTube channel, "fragmentos del todo" (fragments of the whole)." www.youtube.com/@selbyd_ochoa

【𝕾𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝕺𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘】 "Rise from the depths. Be bright as the sun. Bring Earth and Heaven together as one." 🜁 𖤓 🜃 #ocart

Plato’s tripartite of the soul. history-of-ancient-philosophy.com/Ancient/plat...

the powers that be are an illusion. the true power is in the birdsong and shifting clouds and in the challenges of light and dark. it is a constant turning of desires and of return. the night inverted shows threads woven there, which when pulled leave a space, in which you will find the dream keys.

ㅤ We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about. — Joseph Campbell img: ? ㅤ

If you observe nature and perceive only matter, your attention doesn’t penetrate deeply enough. No matter what’s in your field of vision, quiet your mind, put aside your ideas and let your vision merge completely with the objects of your sense perception: all you will see is God. 🙏

If truth and good are crushed, beauty will perform the work of all three. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Think you know Gnosticism, having read the Gospel of Thomas or Gospel of Mary Magdalene? The Apocryphon of John reveals the whole Gnostic myth, with deep insights on the nature of God, creation and salvation, Sophia (the divine feminine) and the Demiurge Yaldabaoth. www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apoc...

The Essential Message of Alchemy

Universal intersubjectivity. 🙏

Is your craving for the Real greater than the desire to be seen by others in some particular way or is the path overgrown, obscured by the ego's tangle of endless self admiration?

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends. - Bokar Rinpoche

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart make it ready to be the dwelling of the Beloved When you depart, love will enter In you void of yourself God will display his beauty - Mahmoud Shabistari

This is no mystery to the awakened heart; Peace on earth to men of universal will, who rise above their selfish limitations and see the world as God would have them see. - Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. - Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Conventional knowledge always deceives It always limits the Truth; every concept and image does. From cage to cage the caravan moves, but I give thanks, for at each divine juncture my wings expand and I touch Him more intimately. - Meister Eckhart

Were not the eye like to the sun The sun it never would perceive; Were God's own power not in us, How ever could the Divine enchant us? - Goethe

But when you see the formless, very holy fire shining by leaps and bounds throughout the depths of the whole world, (then) listen to the voice of the fire. - Chaldean Oracles, trans. Ruth Majercik

I'm doing some writing on Socrates, who had a "little daimon" (daimonion), and for background I went back and looked at how Homer and Hesiod used the term. I'm not expert in this area, but here's a summary of what I saw....

Might it be the case that the greatest lesson which #philosophers of #Antiquity—above all #Plotinus— have to teach us is that #philosophy is not the complicated, pretentious, & artificial construction of a learned system of discourse, but the transformation of perception & of life. - #PierreHadot

We only think that sensate experience and the feeling of conscious being are two different things. In truth, they're only different modes. In meditation, this realization unveils a greater wholeness.

Field of vision implies something outside of "you" but there's no such thing. Your field of vision is really your expansiveness, your field of being. The eye is merely an aperture; your luminosity flows both directions through it. Vision isn't confined to biology: it is light, pervading everywhere.

There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. - #OctaviaButler, epigram from the unfinished 'The Parable of the Trickster'

Subject-object reversal. Notice the sense of an internal subject looking outwards towards external sense objects. Then reverse it: the phenomena "outside" become the experiencing subject. Last of all, let the line of demarcation between inside and outside dissolve. Everything will begin to shine.

Immortality, by the way, is not something you can pursue; it is a natural result of attuning your life to the Way. Becoming immortal does not happen because of the many things you do, but because of the many things you do not do. - Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awaken from dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish