Yes, It's A Process...

 

Eily Sayegh

Yes, it’s a process 

and maybe also grace to find something real! 

I keep realizing 

how the Academy is here to protect our souls. 

Mervyn said 

the soul does not know the ground rules of the creature. 

This is why we have our teachings. 

He asks us to exercise caution with creatures 

as we have a lot to lose. 

~S

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On Understanding

 

Peter Oespensky - Image Credit to Whoever Credit is Due

"Understanding always comes that way—

you understand, and then 

you cease to understand. 

But if all attempts to understand 

something go wrong, 

try not to think about it 

but try to remember yourself, 

that is, to be emotional, 

and in time you will understand. 

Understanding does not become 

permanent at once; as in everything else 

there are many steps and you can 

understand something one day and 

not understand it the next day, 

for you may be more conscious 

in the same circumstances one day 

and more asleep the next. 

So many days may pass 

before it becomes your own."

Ospensky - The Fourth Way

We are reminded to listen to Mervyn's lecture on

Knowledge, Understanding and Being

which is in the video section of our archives at this link:

https://academylibrary.online/index.php/knowledge-understanding-and-being/

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Like The Morning Breeze...

 

Like The Morning Breeze

Like the morning breeze, 

if you bring to the morning good deeds,

The rose of our desire will open and bloom.

Go forward, 

and make advances down this road of love;

In forward motion, 

the pain is great.

To beg at the door of the Winehouse is a wonderful alchemy.

If you practice this, 

soon you will be converting dust into gold.

O heart, 

if only once you experience the light of purity,

Like a laughing candle, 

you can abandon the life you live in your head.

But if you are still yearning for cheap wine and a beautiful face,

Don’t go out looking for an enlightened job.

Hafiz, 

if you are listening to this good advice,

The road of Love and its enrichment 

are right around the curve.

~Muhammad Hafiz

Translated by Thomas Rain Crowe

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Maurice Nicoll...

 

Vincent Van Gogh

Maurice Nicoll would say that we need to become aware 

that there is another world. 

For me that came as a deep sense of there being 

a missing aspect in my life, 

that I should be able to go higher, 

but I could not find the way. 

When I found Mervyn, 

this school, you all, 

this possibility of a higher life opened up for me.

 I SAW it in the energy around me in the school. 

But my ego had to be wrestled to the ground, 

so to speak, in order to free me to soar.

~J

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Pregnant with a Soul

La Primavera - Sandro Botticelli

Mervyn used to say that we are 

pregnant with a Soul, how can it be? 

 Here Hafiz expands on the topic:

"My master once entered a phase

That whenever I would see him

He would say, 

“Hafiz, How did you ever become a pregnant woman?”

And I would reply,

“Dear Attar, you must be speaking the truth,

But all of what you say is a mystery to me.”….

And Attar replied….

“Though if you want to know the Truth

I can so clearly see that God has made love with you

And the whole universe is germinating

Inside your belly

And wonderful words,

Such enlightening words

Will take birth from you

and be cradled against thousands of hearts.”

I, even though a man, was pregnant with nothingness.

And out of this nothingness God was born.

~Hafiz

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Recently...

Briton Rivière

Recently, I did a workshop on dancing through fear.

I had two very strong realizations.

Following my fear, 

and allowing it to be with me and not stop me,

will lead me to growth and expansion. 

Then I felt my fear move to a higher vibration  

and it became just another emotion 

because I didn't identify with it.

That was so liberating.

~P

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Our Goal...

 

“Our goal must be infinite, 

not the finite. 

The infinite is our homeland. 

Heaven has been waiting for us forever.”

~Carlo Acutis (soon to be a Saint)

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Resist!!!

 

A Water Baby - Herbert James Draper

As I go through my everyday routine 

struggling with the efforts to self remember 

I am reminded of Mervyn's words: 

"We must resist the urge to go back to sleep"

"Remember, Remember yourself, Always."

~T

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I Am Thinking...

 

Mugur Kreiss

I am thinking 

that what helps me is the realization 

that Self-Remembering is at its best 

an act of prayer. 

And then I can truly feel it in eternity.

~J

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Self - Remembering...

Self-remembering is like a world without end! 

Mervyn emphasis 

to stay in a state connected to higher worlds, 

we need to love. 

Without love the work is not moving. 

I cannot stay and identify with the ordinary time. 

There is a need in my work to remember 

the universal brotherhood. 

They are here to help. 

Mervyn was always reminding us 

how much the gods are here, now. 

Let's connect again to our brothers and sisters, 

influence C, 

who guide and protect the Academy.

~S

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Divine Loneliness Guiding Us Home

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We often treat loneliness as a modern malady, 

a psychological flaw to be cured with distraction and noise. 

But, What if it is a sacred inheritance, 

purposefully embedded in our very essence?

My art teacher, once told me that loneliness was placed 

within us so that we would never stop searching for our 

divine union and complement. It is this loneliness that 

serves as the true driver of our awakening, a holy restlessness 

that prevents us from falling asleep in the comfortable but 

incomplete world of ordinary life.

Mervyn, once observed that this very feeling of loneliness 

is often what stops people in the awakening process. 

The ache becomes so acute, the void so terrifying, 

that we rush to fill it with anything that might numb the pain. 

“...But you," he said, "you have a school that walks with you, 

protecting each other's divine loneliness, allowing it to do 

its sacred work of pulling us ever forward, ever deeper.

Christ said, "The Son of Man has no shoulder to lay his head on."

This is not a cry of misery, but a statement of cosmic reality. 

It speaks to a state of being so completely united with the divine 

that it no longer fits into the ordinary forms of comfort and consolation. 

It is the ultimate acceptance of that sacred loneliness.

It is Divine Loneliness Guiding US Home

~T

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To Be Yourself...

 

"To be yourself 

in a world 

that is constantly trying to make you something else 

is the greatest accomplishment."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Call to Be Conscious

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I wish to be conscious of myself. Yet, as I am at this moment, 

can I know myself, can I be conscious of myself? 

I cannot. I am too scattered. I feel nothing. 

But I see that I am asleep, and I see the symptoms of this sleep. 

I have forgotten the sense of my existence, I have forgotten myself. 

We do not realize how passive we are,

always pulled along by events, people and things.

We begin an activity with great interest, fully aware of our aim. 

But after a certain time, the impulse weakens, overcome by inertia.

We must become active in relation to our inertia, 

the passive work of our functions. If we wish to change, 

we must look for the new man in ourselves, the one who is hidden. 

This is the one who remembers, who has a force that can only be 

brought by our wish, our will, and must grow degree y degree.

The New Man - Jeanne de Salzmann

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What Helps Me...

 

What helps me 

is the realization that Self-Remembering

 is at its best an act of prayer. 

And then I can truly feel it in eternity.  

~J

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Patience Is...

 

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

~Aristotle

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I Love...

 

Pamela Groppe

 I love to re-member Mervyn’s words: 

“Presence is Consciousness Loving You into Existence.” 

To me that is remembering oneself in Eternity. 

To be Present 

and allow The One to Experience Itself through us. 

The other night I was having a Higher State, 

and I wrote this:

True rebellion 

is when the Divinity finds Joy in being You. 

When you realize 

the filament of light is finding joy in being you. 

That is when the Creator experience itself 

(The Creation) through you. 

That is Presence.

And that gives me a great feeling of Gratitude.

~C

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Aim in The Work

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We can all understand what aim means in life. 

It gives us a direction. Without aim

we are aimless—going nowhere. 

The most general definition of what aim means

in the Work-sense is that it is to hear what the 

Work teaches and to do what it says. 

~from Psychological Commentaries 

on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky 

by Maurice Nicoll

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I Verify...

 

I verify that my machine 

sometimes raises an inner barrier 

where finer hydrogens won't come in. 

In the distance of my inner world, 

I hear the song of conscious beings calling me 

to read their works. 

When I answer, I am pierced, 

and I know I am connecting to the divine.

~T

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Think Of The World...

 

Think of the world that you carry within you,

and call this thinking what you will,

whether it be remembering your own childhood

or yearning toward your own future -

only be attentive to that which rises up in you 

and set it above everything that you observe about you. 

What goes on in your innermost being 

is worthy of your whole love."

~Rene Maria Rilke

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The Internal Man

 

Old Man in Prayer - Rembrandt

"When thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, 

and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which 

is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret 

shall recompense thee. " Matthew vi, 6. 

It is only the 'internal Man' in a man that can obtain

response to prayer and can communicate with a higher level.

-Maurice Nicoll

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Shameless Impudence

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While the work of parables, as used in the Gospels,

is to provide a venue for the Higher 

to communicate with the Lower; 

Prayer is the Lower communicating with the Higher.

Because we are not at the same level, there are barriers 

in communication and prayers are not easily answered.

Man must insist. A man's prayer, his aim, his request, 

must be persisted; it must go on, in spite of not being answered. 

He must have shameless impudence.

Only persistence and intensity can cause 

the Higher to respond to the Lower.

~Excerpts on Prayer - The New Man 

by Maurice Nicolle

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Search, Search, Search

Prophet Anna - Rembrandt

People should search, search, search; 

try to be sincere; not imitate each other; 

and respect the truth everywhere…

study something, almost anything, 

deeply, from all angles; 

try to do original research, 

using what we have been given as the key of

understanding. 

The system is too big to waste…

- Rodney Collin

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The Good Servant

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Memorial 

by Jo Mora

"When the inner man is aware… 

we can come to see the body as its servant. 

Just keep desiring to serve.. 

and to see the perfection of yourself, 

how beautiful it is? 

How much you have transformed 

to this point in time? 

Then the two can become one- 

then step by step keep inviting 

the spirit to join that peace 

Keep the mind at bay… 

but invite it now and again 

as a tinder to ignite the soul.

~C

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In The Morning...

 

In the morning, 

I slow my breathe down to 4x per minute. 

This helps my thoughts to slow down 

and for me not to identify with them. 

Then I do my prayers and meditations 

and sometime take a walk. 

While walking I appreciate the beauty of the sky, 

the trees, the flowers, 

they are miracles. 

This helps me to connect to the divine.

~J

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Presence Is...

 

“Presence is Consciousness Loving You into Existence.”  

    ~ Mervyn Brady

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The Power of Attention

Gemini AI Generated image

 OCTOBER 27, 1949 Attention has the power of holding in a 

fixed field certain invisible matter or energy in molecular* 

state, which without attention diffuses indefinitely. 

This matter in molecular state has all kinds of powers of 

penetration, indefinite expansion and contraction, and so on, 

which of course the physical organism lacks; 

and in certain circumstances, through 'thinking— 

visualizing—sensing' exercises done with great attention, 

the 'experience' of this matter in molecular state can, 

I think, be communicated back to the understanding. Certainly laws*

 can be studied in this way with very interesting results. 

As I say, I think this idea that attention controls matter 

in molecular state is of is of greatest possible importance to us, 

and leads to many interesting things indeed. 

Rodney Collin -

The Theory of Conscious Harmony

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