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Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 2

Jan Amos Comenius experienced a turbulent life

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Philosophy in a time of tribulation - Part 1

'About Fortitude in General Disaster ' by Justus Lipsius

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Is it possible to understand the Bible rationally? - part 2

The wedding at Cana in Galilee

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Is it possible to understand the Bible rationally? - part 1

Parable of the Talents

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Initiates of the Christian Era: The Princess of Foix

A true Esclar Mond, “clarity for the world”, and one of the most prominent female figures of the Middle Ages.

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The Mythical Space

The mythical space is a space of meaning and represents the interspace, the bridge between religious, mythical imaginations and our three-dimensional world of space and time.

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‘Free is the realm of the soul’, part 2

Etty Hillesum and Rilke saw Russia as their second homeland

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‘Free is the realm of the soul’, part 1

Diary of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)

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Comforting words

If you are not able to save yourself, abandon yourself, only taking care that you do not lose God – Jan Amos Komenský

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Andersen and the "fairy tales"

Among the most universal and well-known authors of children's literature is the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875).

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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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The beheading of John in the vision of Oscar Wilde

“The door to soul consciousness remains closed, as long as we live from the known, from the old knowing. Because the ‘known knowledge’ is like a veil, like a door, which hides the unknown from us.”

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Born by the ear of Mary

The unique receptivity of our primal organ the ear for the inner and the outer message

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Sleeping Knights - Part 2

When the time comes, the sleeping knights will wake up, get on their steeds and free the mountains and the land

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Sleeping Knights - Part 1

“The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale”

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Catharic Heritage. Part 2: Catharose de Petri, Rose of the Cathars

It is in the rose of the Cathars that the light of love shines.

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Ma’at alias the cosmic order

The Goddess of Truth, Equilibrium and Order

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Looking at Hieronymus Bosch is looking at yourself – Part 1

Hieronymus, isn't this about me?

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Catharic Heritage. Part 1: A Brief History about the Cathars

The ideal of brotherhood goes back to pure Christianity, as the Gospel call recalls: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself".

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Looking at Hieronymus Bosch is looking at yourself – Part 2

What path of self-redemption from this demonic world would Hieronymus Bosch have envisioned?

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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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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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Chinese cycles of time - In the cycle of silence

A method of looking at time originated in Ancient China. It draws upon the 8 trigrams of the Chinese compass (Ba Gua), from which 9 subsequent and recurring cycles of time are derived.

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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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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