Sub Specie Aeternitatis

How to “envisage the essential points of Christian doctrine” sub specie aeternitatis? It seems you’re well on your way to doing that already. You adduce Eckhart, but one needn’t look only to the works of an “alleged heretic”! The...

The Technique

I forget whether you’ve read my Advice to the Serious Seeker. If not, no matter. I mention it simply because what little I know on the subject of prayer, and feel confident enough about to discuss in a public forum like this, can be found in the fourth part of...

Androgyny of the Virtues

When the Bible says we were created “in the image of God, male and female created He them” (Genesis 1:26), the implication is that the Divine is at once masculine and feminine, and that our participation in God (2 Peter 1:4) thus entails the realization of...

Life as Ascesis

You’ll perhaps be disappointed with my response, but I don’t think the answer to your question is significantly different from the answer one would give to anyone who is struggling to rise above the demands, the aches, and the pains of the body or the...

The Work II

Since posting some brief observations on the Gurdjieffian “Work” earlier this month, I have received quite a number of comments. Some have come from those who’ve actually practiced the methods of the Fourth Way and who are critical of me for...