There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorises facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.

"Perhaps you can now understand what the School means by ‘negation’. Negation is no exaltation or denial of dialectical reality, but an inward detachment from it. And this detachment means hastening towards a wonderful liberty. Is such a negation an act of will as many people suppose?

The Greek word for sin (hamartia) is derived from archery and means something like missing the goal and not being well-focused. So, sin is actually not badness in a moral sense, but rather ignorance and lack of practise.

Now let us analyse this mystery. The true pupil is able, in his broken and mortal microcosm, to construct amidst this perishable world, something imperishable and immortal, namely: the mental conception of immortal man, the mental image of the immortal, heavenly being.

When you understand what Lao Tzu really meant to convey, many of your preconceptions will be shot to pieces, for it tears apart the whole paradigm with which humankind has surrounded itself and which has been handed down from generation to generation since time immemorial.

"The Kingdom of God is in your midst"

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

The filling of the microcosm with the birth and subsequent development of the personality vehicles, the physical, etheric, astral and mental bodies in the material sphere.

In our world everything manifests itself in contrasting pairs only. Day and night, light and darkness, joy and grief, young and old, good and evil, life and death are inseparably bound together, they inescapably succeed and beget each other.

“The human being suffers the afflictions of Delusion. He is tormented by Unreality. He lives in Time, but Time is a fiction, and thus he does not live in the Absolute sense. Yet, buried deep in his microcosm, a tiny Spark is left of the Original.

O Bharata (Arjuna)! Know the the darkening quality of tamas to produce spiritual ignorance, which deludes the mind and makes people lazy, heedless and excessively attracted to subconcious sleep. (14:8)

"The God united yogi, relinquishing attachment to the fruits of action, attains unshakeable inner peace. That person, however, who does not direct his energies upward toward union with God is ruled by desire. Attached to the fruits of action, he lives in perpetual bondage."

If you release the power which lies sunken in the Primordial Atom by surrendering yourself in inner silence and calm; if, in this way, the 'fragrance of the Rose' can find expression, then the New Soul, which is of God, will be able to achieve whatever it wills.

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

First of all we have to broach an old subject discussed at length in our ranks by stating that Christ is not a hierophant of majestic stature residing somewhere outside the gross material world, but is first of all an impersonal, limitless Being, manifesting Himself as Light, as Power, as a mighty Radiation-Field.

"Divinity is at the heart of you. It is the root of you. It is the core of the core of your being……..