Esoteric Talks

The idea of temptation as necessary for self-development, and ultimately, transformation. The devil, the wilderness, temptation and the three levels of truth explained and explored.

There's a reason some people stay with esoteric teachings, enter into the process of internal transformation while others fall away. This is hard and painful! It takes a long time. It can't be accomplished without a lifeline.

No one likes to think of themselves as a piece in a cosmic game. There are many things that are true about which we do not like to think and do not wish to believe. It doesn't change the truth.

We examine the meaning of being tempted and how temptation is employed to bring us to the point of decision between the higher and the lower in us.

We may be born awake but we don't stay that way long. There's a reason for that. It's the reason we contract a disease that both protects us and at the same time keeps us from developing into our full potential as spiritual beings.

Annoyance is a two-edged sword. We can find people, things and life itself annoying at times. The other side of that is that we can be annoying to others with little or no effort or awareness.

Was Jesus born perfect or did He have to develop like everyone else? What does it mean to us and why has the truth been hidden for so long?

Esoteric teachings show us there is an opposing force integrated in all creation and says we are usually blind to it. There is also a second second. If we remain blind to this we will never change our level of Being.

"Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way." Being humble isn't anything like how it appears in the external world. There is a true humility that we can attain much more easily than we might have thought.

In this section of Chapter 2 Dr. Nicoll introduces the idea that Jesus was not born perfect but rather had to develop spiritually. This development opens a path from the lower to the higher for any who wish to follow in such a development.