Sublime

The new spirituality, the transformation of consciousness, is arising to a large extent outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions.

Meditation, control of the senses And passions, and selfless service of all Are the body, the scriptures are the limbs, And truth is the heart of this wisdom. 9

But if one takes pains to fathom a being or an object down to its divine foundation, then one also begins to love it.

Heliodorus, a priest of the Mysteries, explains: Philosophers and theologians do not disclose the meanings embedded in these stories to laymen but simply give them preliminary instruction in the form of a myth. But those who have reached the higher grades of the Mysteries they initiate into clear knowledge in the privacy of the holy shrine, in the

what some Christian sects of the first centuries after Christ called gnosis, direct spiritual experience.

The temple of God is made of your consciousness. You cannot go there with your friends, with your children, with your wife, with your parents. Everybody has to go there alone.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.