Gnosis: the Perennial Philosophy

Gnosis: the Perennial Philosophy

“I advise you, whoever you are, who wish to explore the mysteries of nature, if you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither shall you find it outside. If you ignore the excellencies of your own house, how do you intend to find excellence...
The Gospel of Thomas: The Inner Mind

The Gospel of Thomas: The Inner Mind

The Gospel of Thomas is part of the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of ancient scriptures discovered in Egypt in 1945. The word Gospel is from godspel meaning “good story” or “good message”, indicating a message brought from an angel,...
The Veil of Isis

The Veil of Isis

The divine feminine is by nature mysterious, shrouded, veiled. This is symbolized in the famous veil of Isis-Neith of the Egyptian mysteries, the veil of Mary mother of Jesus, and the ancient veiled goddesses Cybele, Brigid, Atargadis, and Demeter. “The conquest...
The Astrological Ages

The Astrological Ages

The Great Year The Great Year, also called the Platonic Year, is the voyage of our solar system through its complete orbit around the star Alcyone. In this process our solar system passes under the influence of each sign in the zodiacal belt. This Great Year lasts...
Everything in Nature Ritualizes

Everything in Nature Ritualizes

“Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in archetypes and images. The world will not receive truth in any other way.” -Gospel of Philip 67:9-12   The Universal Ritual Everything in nature ritualizes. The unfolding of a flower, the rhythm...
The Way of the Bodhisattva

The Way of the Bodhisattva

A bodhisattva is generally understood as a being who has reached enlightenment but chosen to stay on Earth, or even in the hell realms, committed to helping every single being reach spiritual liberation. Within the teachings of Gnosis and Kabbalah a bodhisattva is...
Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

“Peter said to Mary, Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of women. Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them. Mary answered and said, What is hidden from you I will proclaim...
Conscious Remorse and the Rune RITA

Conscious Remorse and the Rune RITA

The rune RITA reminds us of the importance of the law, both the earthly law, and the divine cosmic law known as karma. We must pay what we owe with love, good deeds, conscious remorse and voluntary sufferings, or else it will inevitably be bitterness. We must always...
A Sufi Story of Tea

A Sufi Story of Tea

The esoteric wisdom of the Sufis has been preserved in many beautiful teaching stories or parables that can be understood on several different levels. The following is from the book Tales of the Dervishes by contemporary Sufi master Idries Shah. “Tea” in...