Healthy food. Exercise. Spiritual practice. Done consistently, these three pillars provide me with complete fulfillment. (I am rebuilding after a depressive episode)

As a Martinist I aim to be unknown. Not just in a pseudo-heroic sense of doing good without pride, but to realise the Self is nothing. To be invisible to the universe itself.

Each meeting with the self reveals its flaws. Beauty is always found in its elimination. The self is an illusion given to us by the greater illusion that is the world of appearances.

The right amount of noise - Between two worlds The following was inspired by a video published on Youtube by KrKwd. Humans like linear thinking. If you tell someone a vehicle is moving at 50 m/s and ask them how far it will go in 1 minute, most pe...

Adding noise to your spiritual work may help you hear the Will of the Real.
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I'm not so sure the most important question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"

God is not always in the blinding white of the Sun. Sometimes God is to be found in the play of light and shade.

Drawing the Martinist Pantacle - Between two worlds The Martinist Pantacle is the image you see at the top-left of this page, right beside "Between Two Worlds". It comes in various colours depending on the circumstances, the grade being represented, an...

Drawing a symbol can be more than just drawing. It can be a fundamental part of the symbol itself, and so add a level of meaning you never quite recognised consciously. The Martinist pentacle is a great example of this.
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"A person praying resembles a desert striving to become a meadow full of flowers and, furthermore, he does not demand -- he beseeches"
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)

When to accept a candidate? When to let them progress? - Between two worlds For many good reasons Masonic lodges and other similar initiatory systems take great care in who they welcome into their group. Accepting an application from the wrong person can clearly lead to great...

The question of who to admit to an initiatory order like a Masonic lodge, and how fast to progress them is discussed by Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire".

I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...

Very nice essay by the way. Thank you for sharing.

Every conception of Heaven that was given to me by well-meaning parishioners in the dogmatic church of my youth _always_ reflected the personality of the person explaining it. Always.
A golden shopping mall is a new one though :-)

The Creation Myth of Saint Martin - Between two worlds "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire", is a series of lectures by Louis Claude de Saint Martin. On the face of it, they are his interpretation of the cosmology put forward by Martinez de Pasqually in hi...

The Creation Myth put forward by a Mystic is an important insight into their worldview and spirituality. Here I try to summarise that of Louis Claude de Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire":
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The world needs more initiatory experiences. More ceremonies that separate life into before and after.

Amen

Electromagnetism and the nature of the All - Between two worlds During my spiritual awakening I had a realization that there was a connection between basic electromagnetism and some ideas I was starting to formulate about the possible existence of God. The key was...

The Laws of the material world point at spiritual realities:
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The Lessons of the Real World - Between two worlds Pasqually's Treatise describes how the actions of the first spirits created by God had consequences that can only be described as catastrophic on a cosmic scale. The entirety of the subsequent history...

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This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.

I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.

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The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.

Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.

God must be as much in constant morning as in constant joy.

Yes, for sure. I think of the dream state as being absent of some filter, therefore allowing me to construct a symbolic image that I can carry into the waking world. The waking state has a strong filter that prevents this, thereby depriving me of the imagery.

Something about the dream state allowed the vision to be something I could see and sketch when I woke up. This is different from Divine encounters that have happened when in a waking state which are much less visual and describable.

I thought I would have been terrified, but I wasn't. There was, for sure, a sense of awe and grandeur, but the familiarity of it tempered the fear.

I once dreamt of meeting God as an enormous cliff face. Sandy orange like in the American West, but dotted with evergreens. Extending into the clouds & far below my feet. Inhospitable yet alive. Monstrously huge yet familiar.
This was the only time I've ever felt compelled to sketch a dream vision.

An absolutely superb piece of work that I cannot get enough of.

Religion & spirituality are not self-help methodologies. They will have similar effects, but concentrating on that will stunt progress and leave you in a very superficial state.
You are so much more than you think.

Oh! I'd love to check it out! Thanks!

I wonder if someone as absolutely convinced of physical materialism as him will notice when he passes on. Perhaps the level of consciousness is too low for it to be coherently maintained when melting into the Light?

😀

What do you mean?

For me it was the other way around. I cleaned up my act first, & then came the spiritual awakening. From a pain-in-the-ass Dawkins-style atheist to experimental magician. Crazy times.

I definitely agree with the last statement. A deeply-felt connection with the Almighty certainly changes things.

I wrote about this recently. I had a pretty unhealthy relationship with alcohol until a few years ago. Food as well. I ascribe my spiritual awakening *directly* to cleaning up my physical life.
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