Esoteric Talks

It's difficult to make progress when you don't have a clear, well stated, well organized aim or goal. It's like wandering in the woods when you have no sense of direction or purpose.

Chapter one, part two of The New Man. We look at the reason for parables. Esoteric truth cannot be understood directly by the outer man. The parable is designed to penetrate to the inner man.

Self-Remembering sounds easy. It may well be easy for someone who is awake. Since we're not, we need to make the kinds of specific efforts needed to move along toward something more real, more internal than where we ordinarily live.

At the threshold of a new year is a good time to consider deeply the idea of renewal. There is much for us to do to prepare ourselves to be renewed. It's not easy but it is a worthwhile effort on the path of development.

Our first look at Maurice Nicoll’s book, The New Man. We start off with learning the ancient language of parables. There’s a deeper esoteric meaning nearly lost to modern man.

Esoteric teachings tell us we are not the body. This can make sense to us intellectually and even emotionally to some degree. It's hard to rise above body consciousness however. Here are some practical ways to assist you in this vital realization.

Merry Christmas, an announcement and a gift for you.

Not all imagination is negative, but we don't know much about the part that isn't. This doesn't mean we can't learn. Properly directed imagination can be a powerful tool helping us to bind that which enslaves us.

Pigs wallow in filth for a reason and science has shown us what that reason is. Esoteric truth shows us how and why we wallow in filth too. Pigs can't be transformed but we can. It's up to us to make the effort.

There aren't many people who wouldn't accept bliss if it were offered to them. The numbers thin quickly when the idea of making effort to attain the inner state of bliss is introduced. Nonetheless, effort is required and that effort must be of a specific kind to be effective.