“According to the true gospel, as declared by the prophets, the substance of humanity is not material and created, but spiritual and divine. And man rises out of his lower into his higher nature by subordinating the former to the latter, and so rising wholly into that higher, becoming thereby divine – for between Spirit… Read More
Categoria: Politics: its Problems and its Importance
Christ Jesus Within Man: That Is the Subject of the Christian Credo
“It is the spiritual selfhood of man – the Christ Jesus within him – that is the subject of the Christian Credo. “The Apostles’ Creed is an epitome of the spiritual history of all those who become by re-generation ‘Sons of God’.”” (Edward Maitland., Light, 1893, p. 284; and see Life of Anna Kingsford, vol.… Read More
Mystical Sense, and Not the Literal Sense
“Such was the first intimation (…) given us of the truth subsequently revealed in plenitude, – the presence in Scripture of a mystical sense concealed within the apparent sense, as a kernel in its shell, which, and not the literal sense, is the intended sense.” (Edward Maitland. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland… Read More
The “Woman” Is Not a “Woman”, But the Soul, and the Intuition
“It is the inveterate enmity of the occult powers of evil to the mystic “Woman” of Scripture that is implied in the Apocalyptic presentation of the dragon, “when knowing he has but a short time,” as “casting out of his mouth water as a flood to carry her away.” The imminence of the restoration of… Read More
Christ, the Realisation in Man of His Own Divine Potentialities
“No personage unique, abnormal, unthinkable, of hybrid constitution and disorderly generation, then, is He the Christ of the Bible, of God, of Nature, and of the Gnosis, such as is that of Ecclesiasticism. Counterpart in man of the Logos in the Godhead, He is the Perfect Reason of God in manifestation; the fulfilment, not the… Read More
“Adam,” “Eve,” “Christ,” “Mary” and the Rest – Denote the Various Spiritual Elements Constituting the Individual and His States
“The subject of her second lecture (…) was the second clause of the Creed: “And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who is conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary.” Concerning this clause, she said that in insisting upon the esoteric signification as alone true and of value, we are… Read More
The Bible Insists on the Esoteric Sense
“But, first, to vindicate from Scripture itself the assertion of the presence in it of an esoteric sense on which Scripture insists as its true and divinely-intended sense. That such vindication should at all be necessary is in itself proof positive not merely of the inadequacy, but of the unfairness of the manner in which… Read More
The Blunder of Large Mass Elections and The Power of the Big Organizations
The Blunder of Large Mass Elections Freedom of participation and expression is a universal value, inherent to human dignity, and any a priori restriction on the possibility of someone, or of any group, participating in the political process will vitiate the choice process. Speaking only in general terms, the guarantee of this freedom of participation,… Read More
The Decisive Role and Responsibility of the Elites
Another very clear aspect of the above description given by Leadbeater is the decisive role and immense responsibility of the elites in relation to the welfare of the population as a whole. By “elites” we here refer to those with higher psycho-spiritual potential. This fact will be addressed in more detail further on, but in the analysis… Read More
Table with Opinion on the Credibility of Politicians: Clear Attestation of the Failure of the Current Liberal Model
The chart below, regarding the credibility of politicians, is very clear about the results of this process of choosing political leaders in the current forms of Liberal democracies. These data are about the credibility deserved by those who should be the best that a nation has, as they occupy the most responsible positions. The survey… Read More