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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
Followers
Self-Remembering
Non-Identifying
Become a Fused, Conscious Center-of-Gravity
Non-Identifying
Become a Fused, Conscious Center-of-Gravity
2 comments:
I just left this page open so that it's there every time I open the browser. A really fascinating article with interesting quotes, none of which, taken singularly are all that special, but their collective might conveys something fundamental about the love that is drawn down when one is connected.
There's that famous tension within us all of that common embarrassment that I think our fallen nature inculcates in us (and the world does too) when we contemplate God and eternity and giving ourselves to God (or, that kind of language, you know) vs. the fact that when we die we die alone and will face that event and whatever journey it holds alone, so we think: "Against that what is the embarrassment worth?" Or we should think that.
I always think: imagine being encased in rock six hundred feet below the surface of the earth and you are alive for eternity and nobody can hear you or come to save you and you are there thinking "I was too embarrassed to cling to, to throw myself at the feet of, the Saviour and King that was offered to me, the only Person who could save me from where I am now..."
The practical thing is: recognize vanity, worldly pride, and rebellious self-will and mortify them. Faith, repentance, and God's will will take their place, will be quickened in you. And you become a prophet, a priest, and a king to ever greater degree in the process, with legal standing in the Kingdom of God, for eternity...
Then see what's going on. Get the basics first. Have your wealth secured, get your mansion, have your glorified body, then see what there is to do. - C
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