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,...
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...
The Path of Self-Mastery and the Process of Transformation to a Higher Level of Consciousness
The idea that life on Earth is a school for the soul that’s designed to teach us in some way can seem a bit confusing to many because we often associate this idea with our pain and suffering brought on by the constant challenges that cause us to struggle...
The Archetypal Nature of the Spirit, the Creative Power of the Soul and the Nature of the Self
One of the most fundamental errors we make in how we think about things comes when we start from the premise of duality and separation. Any hypothesis that’s based on a concept of separation while referring to our essential self or spiritual nature is an illusion in the most...
“17” – The Star, Hope, and Rebuilding after the Destruction of Illusion
In the Hermetic Arcane of the Tarot, the archetypal idea of the “starâ€, which is Key 17, follows the “the Lightning Struck Tower†(Key 16) which represents the destruction of illusion (Key 15) and is what prompts the “the dark night of the soul†as an identity crisis that...
Transforming Fear and Isolation into Compassion and Community
What I have come to realize in my lifetime is that all true change only seems to come through extreme situations. The greater the intensity of the situation the more pronounced the emotion it elicits in me, the greater my ability to transform myself and my way of thinking...
We Only Cultivate Spiritual Powers through Live Experiences
One of the greatest forms of self-delusion that we’re all prone to comes through our natural tendency to create a false image of ourselves as we’d like to be seen instead of as we truly are. This image starts in childhood and is set into place through our conditioning...
“16” – The Lightning Struck Tower, Destruction of Illusion, and the Dark Night of the Soul
The major Arcane of the Tarot, also known as the “Hermetic textsâ€, is comprised of 22 Universal Archetypes that operate simultaneously on multiple planes through the “creative process†conducted through the utilization of the 10 primary Universal Laws that govern all material manifestation. The first 11 principles involve the...
How we Create Ourselves through our Life Experiences
Once we gain a fundamental understanding of how consciousness as an energetic flow works, we can acquire the self-awareness necessary to create in a much more meaningful way. The principle represented in Sacred Geometry by the Monad is the toroidal energy system that operates within the material world as...