Just remaining continuously in a bright sense of presence without grasping at anything will bring us a sense of inexpressible peace. We still continue to see all of the mountains, lakes, trees, houses, people, and so on , that exist in the world, but we will not be distracted by anything that we ...

Hermes, the God who presides over language, was formerly very properly considered as common to all priests; and the power who presides over the true science concerning the Gods is one and the same in ...

YouTube video by Lesley Keen

YouTube video by Lesley Keen

The Practice of Recognition: A Meditation Before beginning: Find some undisturbed time – fifteen minutes is enough to start; longer deepens the work without changing its basic shape. You don't nee...

Who peers out through these eyes? Who hears through these ears? Who thinks with this mind? Who walks in these feet? Who indeed is it that moves this body? Who or What lies behind these outlets to...

MEDITATION The Sea Picture the last flood of feeling that entered you — grief, anger, desire, does not matter which. Where in you is the shoreline that never moved, however high the water rose? Fi...

On Gnosis The kingdom is within you. This is not a comfort. This is a demand. If the kingdom is within you, then the seeking stops. The pilgrimages, the doctrines, the correct interpretations, t...

On Descent Everything that is most divine has first gone down. The seed descends before the vine. The rain descends before the river. The light descends into the eye before the eye knows what it...

I am what the Vine knows and the Word speaks and the singer mourns into music. I am what the grape becomes when it has given everything. I am what the soul recognizes in the moment of its greatest ...

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Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood - William Wordsworth The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Ther...