Once you know the truths of initiatic science, you no longer feel free to be frivolous and irresponsible; you are obliged to watch your step, and this is a good thing. As long as you are ignorant, you have some excuse for making mistakes. Your ...
It is important to know how to move from the realm of the intellect to the realm of the heart, and balance the cold current that blows in the region of wisdom with the warm current of love. Truth lies in this balance. If love is not tempered by ...
Those who want to discover the truth must begin by acknowledging the existence of the Creator. And if they want to benefit from God's life, light, love and strength, they must form a bond with Him and make contact with each of these qualities of ...
Truths that have never been fully accepted in the past will be understood and made clear today, and many new truths will even be added to them. For nothing stagnates – everything changes and evolves. Jesus demonstrated this by teaching a new ...
When a truth dawns in the world, who is the first to sense it and receive it? The masses on the lower echelons, or the sages and Initiates who have reached a higher level? Which places on earth capture the first rays of the sun as it rises on the ...
Jesus said, ‘Do not throw your pearls before swine', because it is unwise to reveal spiritual truths to those who are not prepared to receive them.* But for those who are ready, knowledge of these truths is most desirable, for Jesus also said, ‘Know ...
If you isolate a single element to study it, you will never truly understand it, for you will have separated it from the life of the whole. You can understand this single element only if you see how it is linked to all other elements and how life ...
Look carefully and you will see that those who live in truth stand out from the crowd by reason of all kinds of qualities, particularly their goodness, nobility and altruism. This is why, when I meet someone who claims to possess the truth but who ...
The reason why human beings fail to evolve is that they neglect certain truths, truths that they should remind themselves of ten, twenty, thirty times a day. Yes, when you get carried away and do things that are not very fair or noble – that you ...
It is easy to explain why human beings hold certain opinions or behave in certain ways. It is even easy to understand that they make mistakes and do all kinds of stupid things. But to claim that their opinions and actions correspond to the truth is ...
We are always hearing the praises of ‘scientific truth'. Far more important than scientific truth, however, is the truth of life. The truth of life means learning to situate all forms of life within the cosmic structure in order to see how they ...
So many people spend their time criticizing, complaining, and talking about how unhappy and discouraged they are for this or that reason—or for no reason at all!* To be in such a state means that they have no understanding of the truths of life. ...
Jesus said to Nicodemus, ‘No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit.' ‘Water and spirit' means water and fire, because, symbolically, the spirit is fire, celestial fire.In esoteric science, water is regarded as the ...
Human beings will be able to claim that they have found the truth only when they have learned to live together in peace and prosperity. Truth is the expression of an organization in which everyone lives together happily and in harmony. Of course, to ...
Many people claim to have found the truth, but when you see how they behave, it becomes obvious that this is not so. Since their actions are not inspired by the light of the intellect and the warmth of the heart, that is, by wisdom and love, they ...
Although you are unaware of it, you all carry truth within you. But this world of truth that lies within has not yet appeared on the surface. It is buried in the depths of your subconscious and never stirs. Never stirs, that is, until you hear or ...