August 2024 Paul Betteridge August 2024 Paul Betteridge

The Mystery of Life and Death (repost)

But friends could we possibly detach from the idea that the earthly human being is the eternal being. Could we allow the thought to rise up within us that there is something that is bigger than we are, something that does have eternal value and of which we as earthly human beings are partaking only temporarily.

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November 2023 Paul Betteridge November 2023 Paul Betteridge

The Prayer of Quiet

In this state all the faculties are stilled and have no wish to move, for any movement they may make appears to hinder the soul from loving God. During the prayer of quiet what the soul has to do in the time of this quiet is no more than to be gentle and make no noise.

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November 2023 Paul Betteridge November 2023 Paul Betteridge

Difficulty and a Helping Hand

By completely standing in self-realization, by spontaneously going the path without regard for the outcome, without worrying about consequences and difficulties, we invoke that absolute help from all who have been received into the Gnosis circle.

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November 2023 Paul Betteridge November 2023 Paul Betteridge

Rainy Days

Perhaps our low vibrational thoughts and the emotions they engender can be seen in a similar way in that they create ripples in our four personality vehicles, keeping us distracted which forms, strengthens and obscures the bars, the prison walls of our consciousness, so that we barely perceive that consciousness is imprisoned.

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October2023 Paul Betteridge October2023 Paul Betteridge

Faith (Repost)

The key to the Path is faith, that is to say : the union of the spirit-spark atom in the heart with the pure Divine light. When this gate has been opened and the new power can enter the system of the pupil and work in him, he is ready for the path of renewal.

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June 2023 Paul Betteridge June 2023 Paul Betteridge

Inner Room for Divine Therapy

To live in the presence of God on a continuous basis can become a kind of fourth dimension to our three-dimensional world, forming an invisible but real background to everything that we do or that happens in our lives.

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June 2023 Paul Betteridge June 2023 Paul Betteridge

When the Conditions are Right

So why don't you feel at home here? Why do you feel so lonely and forsaken? Well, that is the reaction of the ‘Other One' in you. That feeling is caused by the activity of the primordial atom, the rose, and what lies within it.

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