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"The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7)
The Fourth Way is a school of Christianity. Of reality. It is the spiritual warfare and development of being of a Christian eschatologically with Christ in Heaven while yet in the midst of the fallen creation until the return of the King.
The pure spring for the ideas, practices, and goals of the Fourth Way are Ouspensky's books: Fourth Way, Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, and In Search of the Miraculous. Thomas Boston's Human Nature in its Fourfold State comes closest, as an on-the-mark work of biblical doctrine, to giving direct insight into Work teaching from the Christian foundation of it. Berkhof's Manual of Christian Doctrine and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress as well. The Homeric epics embody, foundationally, the teaching in higher visual language. The Word of God, pure and whole (AV 1611, i.e. the King James Version) is obviously necessary for regeneration - which is, of course, the main thing - and the necessary armor of God for the spiritual battlefield. Without regeneration you won't value or understand Work teaching (or Calvinist, Reformed doctrine for that matter). The Work language and Christian language can't be mixed, thus it is easy to mock Work language from a shallow Christian point-of-view. The two languages are intentionally not meant to be mixed. This requires discipline and understanding. The Work is not for everybody, but it's available to anybody. Shallow Christian environments are shallow because of pervasive man-fearing. Fear God alone, and not man, it is the beginning of wisdom.
The pure spring for the ideas, practices, and goals of the Fourth Way are Ouspensky's books: Fourth Way, Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, and In Search of the Miraculous. Thomas Boston's Human Nature in its Fourfold State comes closest, as an on-the-mark work of biblical doctrine, to giving direct insight into Work teaching from the Christian foundation of it. Berkhof's Manual of Christian Doctrine and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress as well. The Homeric epics embody, foundationally, the teaching in higher visual language. The Word of God, pure and whole (AV 1611, i.e. the King James Version) is obviously necessary for regeneration - which is, of course, the main thing - and the necessary armor of God for the spiritual battlefield. Without regeneration you won't value or understand Work teaching (or Calvinist, Reformed doctrine for that matter). The Work language and Christian language can't be mixed, thus it is easy to mock Work language from a shallow Christian point-of-view. The two languages are intentionally not meant to be mixed. This requires discipline and understanding. The Work is not for everybody, but it's available to anybody. Shallow Christian environments are shallow because of pervasive man-fearing. Fear God alone, and not man, it is the beginning of wisdom.
CHIEF FEATURE
Dismissive (Contemptuous, Arrogant, Insolent)
Useful Work Lists
Influences
Holy Bible, AV1611
Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
On War - Carl von Clausewitz
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Fourth Way - Ouspensky
HPW - Thucydides
Lives - Plutarch
Athletics
Music
Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
On War - Carl von Clausewitz
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Fourth Way - Ouspensky
HPW - Thucydides
Lives - Plutarch
Athletics
Music
Blog Archive
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December
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- J. A. Wylie - History of Protestantism
- The Work and the Faith meet in Spiritual Warfare
- Reading the Bible
- The three renunciations
- A mark for the mind to fasten onto...
- Just enter the realm...
- Bringing cosmos to this...
- Things get easier
- Knight of the Inner Order
- Failed event
- An email from me
- I'm a Christian, and the Fourth Way is my school o...
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December
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Followers
Self-Remembering
Non-Identifying
Become a Fused, Conscious Center-of-Gravity
Non-Identifying
Become a Fused, Conscious Center-of-Gravity
1 comment:
A comment I wrote regarding this event, on another site:
A string of lights on a Christmas tree have gone out. I wi... Wait a minute. Just glanced at the clock. It's too late to go out and get more. Unless they sell them at a grocery store that stays open 'til midnight. OK, I will go to that grocery store and buy a string - or strand, or whatever they are called - of lights, or look for some anyway, starting now, and will be present at each step of the way, through all intervals, until I get back and finish this comment in this box (I will leave now and then finish this comment when I return and give a report . . .) --
ok, I'm back. My old observation of intervals and how you can fall into waking sleep at 'turns' and walking through doorways came back to me. Getting into a car or out of a car. I only slipped almost away when weighing three oranges (didn't find the lights I needed).
Third state of consciousness. When you stay in it, time and perception start to change...
OK, I'll disengage from the debate sites (Christian, because repetition is just emptiness).
I've started tonight. One complete event. This third state should also be used for reading/meditating on the only language that is living language... That should be with an aim too. Not necessarily complete-reading aim, but not just read a little here or there. Probably focus on whole books. But with Work you are engaging the Spirit.
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