Moral Strength – The Power of Being Willfully Directed
Strength is a virtue that’s employed as the means for subduing and bringing your lower, instinctual nature under your control so it can be utilized as a vehicle for higher forms of self-expression. It’s the moral strength and discipline you exercise by using your ‘will’ to control your own...
Karma – Beyond the Veil of Negative Existence and the Process of Rebirth
What’s portrayed in Esoteric texts as the “Veil of Negative Existence” can be a very elusive idea in the most basic sense because it deals with another realm of life on a higher plane of existence that’s hidden, and therefore unknown to us while living in this realm. Yet,...
The Nature of our “Self” as Our State of Mind, and How We Create Our Reality
As humans, we’re always locked into a very fundamental paradox due to the fact that we have what you might think of as two different natures or aspects of ourselves, which, when left to operate in a purely unconscious and natural way, tend to contrast and seemingly contradict each...
Symbols are Living Entities on the Inner Planes that Produce Corresponding Realities in the Outer World
If we hold a symbol of some kind in our mind and concentrate on it in a single-minded fashion, while also setting an intention to penetrate its deepest secrets, our attention serves to activate it, causing it to come alive and start unfolding as a kind of evolutionary flow...
Understanding the Nature of Karma as the Seed for Our Soul’s Evolution
The idea of Karma has been greatly misconstrued over the years due to a fundamental lack of understanding as to what its design and purpose is and how it functions as a form of archetypal seed for our lifetime. Many have been taught to think about their life as...
The Illusion of Thinking you can Wake other People Up
One of the main themes playing out in society right now, especially among the spiritually oriented communities, is that it’s somehow their job to try an ‘wake people up’. The first and most immediate question that arises from this idea is what do they mean by wake people up?...
The Power of Focus – How We Manifest Our Reality without Realizing It
The things that come most natural to us often go completely unrecognized because we do them without a direct awareness of what it is we’re doing and what it causes. What prevents people from understanding the power of their own mind usually comes because we don’t know how to...
Self-Love: The Conditional, Unconditional, and Universal Love for Others
The idea of what it means to love yourself can often seem confusing, because the very concept of self is used in a vague manner without being accompanied by a description of the principles involved. What is typically called the self, is a creation as a concept or image...
The Pineal – the Sexual Principle, Fall of Humanity, and the Law of Polarity and Self-Regeneration
I gained profound insights into the idea of the true function of the Pineal and 3rd eye of the subtle body, and how it relates to our sexuality by concentrating in a meditative state on a dream I had just woken up from regarding the Principle of Polarity and...
The Right Understanding of the Subtle Body – How to Work with the Chakra System of the Etheric Double
The most common way the subtle body is represented in the West is through the chakra system where it’s viewed as a chain of vertical energy centers that are aligned along the spine and divided into separate compartments as different aspects of our self and how those aspects are...