Blessed are the peacemakers – The mystery of the Beatitudes, J. van Rijckenborgh

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‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God’.

In reflecting upon this Beatitude, we must again free ourselves from all tendencies of habit. For is it not true that in hearing the word ‘peace’, our thoughts relate to the aspects of peace and peacefulness as they are known, loved and sought after in this world? Are peace and peacefulness not very desirable in a distressing world such as ours? Do we not look forward to lasting peace? And wouldn’t such a peace, with its results, be a state of blessedness for all in many respects? Aren’t our hearts burning with Continue reading →

Blessed are the meek – The mystery of the Beatitudes, J. van Rijckenborgh

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‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth’.

After the construction of the two pillars, the Beatitudes which follow are concerned with the methods by which the work must now be continued in order to achieve victory. Therefore, we think it is useful to repeat here that the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes in particular are designed for those who desire to walk the path of threefold regeneration and who, in fact, have already set their feet positively upon this path. Continue reading →

Spiritual Easter – free online program 2022: April 10 – April 17

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SPIRITUAL EASTER 2022

  1. 10-04 the passage, reflection 1, narrative 1
  2. 11-04 going through the gate, reflection 2, narrative 2
  3. 12-04 the mystery of life and death, reflection 3, narrative 3 
  4. 13-04 the cleansing of the inner temple, reflection 4, narrative 4
  5. 14-04 surrender to your inner master, reflection 5, narrative 5
  6. 15-04 showing new inner strength, reflection 6, narrative 6
  7. 16-04 the crucial victory over yourself, reflection 7, narrative 7
  8. 17-04 the liberation of the inner being, reflection 8, narrative 8 

We no longer send daily emails for our free online program ‘Spiritual Easter’. If you would like to participate in Spiritual Easter 2022 (April 10-17), you can access the eight narratives and eight reflections via the above links.

The golden thread of the free spirit – talk by Peter Huijs at the symposium ‘The golden thread of the free mind’

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The high intellectual content and certainly also the high spiritual level of people such as Gadal and Garrigou, and many others we talk about in our book, finds its origins in an insatiable thirst for freedom:

    • freedom of thinking, of feeling and acting;
    • freedom of consciousness;
    • freedom also of religious experience and practice.

Gadal remembered a conversation around 1893 with Adolphe Garrigou, already very elderly, that characteristically illustrates this thirst for freedom. Gadal asked the old man why he and his Continue reading →

Prometheus’s dream: the comprehension of nature – talk by Sergi Grau Torras at ‘The golden thread of the free mind’

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Classical mythology recounts that Prometheus, son of the god Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, created humankind from clay in order to repopulate the Earth. Having done this, he realised that humanity was defenceless against nature and wild animals, so he decided to climb Mount Olympus to steal fire from the gods and to give it to the human population so that this population might reap its benefits. His act, however, aroused the wrath of Zeus, who punished Prometheus by chaining him up forevermore; he was nevertheless set free by Heracles.

The versions of the myth transmitted by ancient witnesses, from those of Hesiod to Aesop and Aeschylus, for instance, contain Continue reading →

Catharism a refuge for women – talk by Gwendoline Hancke at ‘The golden thread of the free mind’

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To bring up ‘a free space’ for women in medieval society of Southern France, might at first sight seem to be a paradox or even an anachronism. In the Languedoc of the 13th century however, women of all social classes moved in social and religious structures that were dominated by men.

Yet, through their prestige in the Cathar teachings and their priestly role in religious life, women could in a modest way open the gates of that male domination. Precisely because the Cathar religion was so deeply rooted in Continue reading →

On the wings of love – talk by Maria Bartels at the Symposium ‘The golden thread of the free mind’

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In the castles of the Occitan nobility and in the houses of the Cathar faithful, in the hymns and the poetry of the troubadours and in the sermons of the “perfects”, there was a word that was perhaps at the very heart of Occitan culture and society in the 12th and 13th centuries: amor.

However, two distinct Greek concepts underlie the Latin term amor: eros and agape, concepts that originally had nothing what­ soever to do with each other and which are, in fact, opposed to each other. What worlds are concealed behind them, and in what way do they form the basis for Catharism and the fin’amor? How did these two kinds of love come together in the Occitania of those days? And how can they still come together in our own souls? Continue reading →