esoteric studies
studying the spiritual
We rarely hear our inner music.
But we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
— Rumi
In past times those related by blood loved each other and all love, as far as it was not sex-love, sprang from this blood relationship. Men must free themselves more and more from this group-soul love and offer love as a free gift from the 'I'. At the end of the earth evolution, a time will come for mankind when the ego, then become independent, will receive into its inner being, in full surrender, the impulse to do the right and good. Because the ego possesses this impulse, it will do the right and the good. When love becomes spiritualized to such a degree that no one will wish to follow any other impulse. Then will be fulfilled what Christ-Jesus wished to bring into the world. For one of the mysteries of Christianity is that it teaches the seeker to behold the Christ, to fill himself with the power of His image, to seek to become like Him, and to follow after Him. Then will his liberated ego need no other law; it will then, as a being free in its inner depths, do the good and the true. Thus Christ is the bringer of the impulse of freedom from the law, that good may be done, not because of the compulsion of any law, but as an indwelling Impulse of Love within the soul. This Impulse will still need the remainder of the Earth period for its full development. The beginning has been made through Christ-Jesus, and the Christ figure will always be the power which will educate humanity to it.
As long as men were not yet ready to receive an independent ego, as long as they existed as members of a group, they had to be socially regulated by an outwardly revealed law. And even today men have not, in all things, risen above the group-egos. In how many things in the present are men not individual human beings, but part of group identities! The truly free man (in esoteric terms a certain stage of discipleship, called 'the homeless one') is still only an ideal.
The man who voluntarily places himself within the cosmic activities is an individual; he is not ruled by law. In the Christ Principle lies the victory over law. “For the law was given by Moses, but Grace through Christ.” According to the Christian meaning of the word, the soul's capacity for doing right out of the inner self was called Grace. Grace and an inner recognition of truth came into being through the Christ. You see how profoundly this thought fits into the whole of human evolution.
— Rudolf Steiner | Gospel of John | 1908
the thirteen flowers | study
TREE OF LIFE
being
action | reaction
joy
devotion | power
love
strength | mercy
peace
understanding | wisdom
conscious
love versus fear | study
love | fear
positive | negative
relaxed | tensed
active | passive
conscious | unconscious
expanded | contracted
joy | pain
dancing feeling | stress fixations
Hermetic principles | study
Mentalism | all is mind
Correspondance | as above, so below
Vibration | nothing rests, everything moves
Polarity | everything is dual, everything has poles
Gender | masculine & feminine is in everything
Rhythm | all things rise & fall, rhythm compensates
Cause & Effect | nothing escapes the law of karma
Human Being | series
the brain duality | study
right brain | left brain
parallel processor |serial processor
alpha brainwaves | beta brainwaves
cyclical time | lineair time
feeling | thinking
now moment | past/future
imagination | logic
music & art | science
experience | remembering
creative | analytical
connected | divided
holistic | fragmented
flow | resistance
connected | disconnected
soul consciousness | study
awareness soul | emotional awareness
the five senses, digestive organs, sacral & root chakras
intelectual soul | logical thinking
brain, spine, stomach chakra
sensing soul | feeling sensations
nervous system, heart chakra
conscious soul | spiritual consciousness
heart, eyes, throat chakra, third eye chakra
states of consciousness | study
unconscious | conscious
night | day
sleep | awareness
dream | thinking & feeling
sleepwalk | act
Breath of Life | series
cyclical time | study
new moon | birth | morning
spring | grow body awareness
first quarter | 21 years young | summer solstice | noon
summer | develop soul hapiness
full moon | forties midlife | evening
fall | integrate spiritual empathy
last quarter | 63 years old | winter solstice | midnight
winter | experience conscious silence
breath of life | meditation
be silent
breath in
hope | blossom
surrender
breath out
fruit | let go
be silent
Tree of Life | series
THE SEVENFOLD PEACE
from the Essene book of Jesus
And seeing the multitudes, Jesus went up into a mountain and his disciples came unto him, and all those who hungered for his words. And seeing them gathered, he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
"yea, I tell thee truly,
the paths are seven
through the Infinite Garden,
and each must be traversed
by the body, the heart and the mind
as one,
lest thou stumble and fall."
TREE OF LIFE
the 13 Sephirot
creation
the apple | the snake
body
dependence | dominance
heart
judgement | mercy
mind
acceptance | awareness
consciousness
— esoteric studies (2013-2018)
