Redemption of the Adamic Man by Manly P. Hall

Redemption of the Adamic Man by Manly P. Hall

Man, the banished Adam, seeks to pass from the outer court of the Sanctuary into the sanctum sanctorum, but before him rises a vast creature armed with a flashing sword that, moving slowly but continually, sweeps clear a wide circle, and through this “Ring Pass Not”...
A Day is a Life

A Day is a Life

Every day is a microcosm of our life. In the morning when we wake up we are born. The day unfolds with all of our various activities and within that we try always to raise our level of being. At the end of the day the night closes in and we recline and enter into the...
Spiritual Values and Sexuality

Spiritual Values and Sexuality

What does it mean to have spirituality in harmony with sexuality? Spiritual or religious traditions that require celibacy and renunciation of relationships to achieve a connection with God are unfortunately pointing to a dead-end path. Sexual energy is creative...
Love Transcends Time

Love Transcends Time

Jesus Christ, when asked what was the greatest commandment of Moses, replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as...
Why Pride Misses the Mark

Why Pride Misses the Mark

Pride is one of the 7 classical deadly sins. Sin is translated from the Greek hamartia which means “to miss the mark”, it is the fatal or tragic flaw that brings about a person’s downfall. “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit...
Gnosis is Transcendental Knowledge

Gnosis is Transcendental Knowledge

Image: from The Red Book by Carl Jung Creation is Sacred All religious cosmologies start with a nothingness, a void. That which precedes creation and manifestation.From this primordial chaos creation unfolds. This is called sunyata “the illuminating void”...
Sex and Love

Sex and Love

Image: Artist and his Bride by Marc Chagall “It is written with burning coals in the extraordinary book of life that the ardent love between man and woman works magically. Hermes Trismegistus, thrice great God Ibis of Thoth, said in his emerald tablet: ‘I give...
The Seed of the Tree of Life

The Seed of the Tree of Life

“Behold, a sower went forth to sow.And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside; and the fowls came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth; and forthwith they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth.And when the...