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The ‘other’ Johann Valentin Andreae

‘A true educator must be balanced and excel in four virtues: dignity, sincerity, diligence and generosity’

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Female Initiates of the Christian Era: Madame Blavatsky, the messenger of the masters

She reminded the world of the message that the voice of silence exists within each of us.

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Externally, internally and the innermost - An illustration

"Some words from the inside" by Karl von Eckartshausen

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Encounter with Chidr

A fictitious discourse in Damascus

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The Upanishads and the ancient Teachings about the Self

The self residing within your heart is smaller than a grain of rice – and yet it is greater than the Earth, greater than the heavens, greater than all worlds.

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The Mystic Dorothee Sölle

Mysticism must not be an ivory-tower inwardness, but it can culminate in an active life. Dorothee Sölle experienced: "My happiness has always started in selflessness."

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Who is Lucifer? Or: Lucifer - the evil one within us?

Is Lucifer the devil and a counterpart to God? Or is he the personification of evil in the world or of our own inner evil part? What is “evil”? Is there such a thing as “evil” or does that which we

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The Teachings of Hermes and Satori Zen: what passes and what remains

What the Absolute Being does is the full deconstruction of the barriers that crystallize, imprison us and create lenses which distort the Absolute Truth.

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On human dignity according to Pico della Mirandola - or a call to a new humanness

Human dignity and human rights – who is a human being?

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The sound of the world-soul

Creation - a symphony

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Psyche and her lover

While the personality suffers from its belief to be an 'I', the Greek myth of Psyche enlightens us how it could be cured of this impossible 'disease', for being inspired by the

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Monument of the Finnish identity The epic “Kalevala” unveiled as a road to initiation, part 2

In the previous article, we have described the life and work of the editor of Kalevala, the physician and botanist Elias Lönnrot. In this part the groundbreaking spiritual interpretation of the

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Plato and the reminiscence of the soul

Plato says that knowing is to remember, and that cultivating the "practice of remembering" is the way to reach the essence of everything and return to the original life.

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An evening in Mostar

An evening in Mostar. But not an evening in our century.

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The myth of the Pistis Sophia speaks again

The gospel of the Pistis Sophia is one of the few gnostic writings that were available already in the eighteenth century

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Onhemonkandire and Endura: Eternal Life for Guaranis and Cathars

The search for Iwi Maraê, the Earth without Evil, reflects the spiritual journey of the individual on the way back to his original condition.

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African traditions and religious syncretism: Introduction to the Mvett

Are we able to integrate the African traditions into the corpus of the universal teaching? An overview of the possible religious syncretism might help here. As we decipher the Mvett, we become aware

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If you were a Guarani

The Guarani people's capacity for abstraction runs counter to the idea of savagery so often attributed to indigenous people.

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From within to the ocean: The Peabiru

The Peabiru is better understood as a symbol of an inner path.

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"Hardships Are Carpets Full Of Grace"

Hikam - Words of Wisdom by Ibn ’Ata’ Allah

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Monument of the Finnish identity The epic “Kalevala” unveiled as a road to initiation, part 1

The Iliad as Finnish Kalevala is sometimes called. The epic has a firm place in world literature. More than one hundred years ago, on the 6th of December, 1917, Finland became a sovereign state and

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Heritage, Transmission, Life

We are spiritually both heirs and donors. This is how we are placed in the heart of the impersonal and fraternal life.

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Easter Island - Mystery center of the South Pacific

The Song of Waitaha

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Native American wisdom

The goal of life for us is not to worship an external god

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Peter Deunov - Wisdommaster of love

‘A man who has understood Love becomes immortal.
A man who has understood wisdom becomes complete.
A man who has grasped Truth becomes free.’

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Symbol - The dragon

Things that do not exist can not fly. Dragons do not exist. Why then a short article about the magic wings of a dragon?

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Solution of an enigma

The world of art has its own language. For centuries, especially in the sacred architecture, artists have manifested all their consecration to spirituality depicting or representing scenes coming