I've been reading The King in His Beauty by Thomas R. Schreiner, and it is scattershot, but it keeps pulling me back in. Here is a quote...

Review the subject of essence and the developing of essence in the Work books. Ways to develop essence: Reading works that develop essen...

There have been some very foundational insights regarding the Work in recent threads. Two of them are: 1. That the context of the Work withi...

I'm now fully embarked on Historical Theology by Gregg R. Allison. I find it to be a very good book because it doesn't have a trace ...

I've been reading the Wisdom of Solomon (part of the Apocrypha originally included between the Old and New Testaments in the King James ...

I was doing searches on Practical Theology and came upon the term 'spiritual formation' being used a lot. Basically by this term the...

I was doing searches on Practical Theology and came upon the term 'spiritual formation' being used a lot. Basically by this term the...

This is from the book Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward: "He [Lewis] was a keen amate...

The Law. (The power of sin in fallen man.) You have to see the Law as a manifestation of all the sin and events and forces of sin in the wor...

An interesting thought for a person who knows the Work and is a Christian...: seeing Work practices in the context of the imitation of Chris...

Some ways you are effecting the Kingdom of God, or furthering it, when you just think you're merely in the third state of consciousness ...

And remember that there are no churches the grail knights attend in those stories. An isolated chapel, a hermitage, usually to encounter som...

It's a big deal getting understanding of biblical doctrine. Seeing it, accepting it, valuing it. It builds your spiritual body. The same...

John Calvin on Eschatological Pilgrims Let us always look at our Lord Jesus Christ. And for as much as we know that God's Son is come do...

We need influences to get self-consciousness and objective-consciousness. The influences that develop us up to the Work are B Influence. Obj...

I am beginning to tangibly feel - physically feel - being in covenant with God. What it is. I'm feeling it from the words in the books o...

Getting understanding of the plan of God in all its elements in revelation and history and human nature is the material of objective conscio...

Two practical efforts: 1. Read the word of God. It is living language. It changes you. Separates your spirit from your soul (Heb. 4:12) and ...

It's interesting, observing the average church Christian makes me value Work (Fourth Way) ideas, practices, and goals; and on the other ...

Reading Human Nature in its Fourfold State gives clear and deep insight into Work teaching. On death, it is clear the unregenerate are in d...

Just read this post by some crazy person: http://electofgod.blogspot.com/2005/12/being-child-king-is-dangerous.html I really liked the metap...

Awhile back Paul (probably a long while back) was mentioning the central role of conscience in the Work. I never really singled it out in my...

Remember this: development that stays with you in the spiritual realm is not about holding a lot of surfacy knowledge in your mind at the sa...

I think it's a big thought whether God can trust me. *He* knows, but for us to ask the question it creates a unique, important perspecti...

Three connections of the Work and Christianity: 1. Progressive sanctification 2. Spiritual warfare 3. The Two Conscious Shocks as means of b...

The Work is like theology where you constantly have to go back and reiterate the basics. Then you sound like - to some - you never knew the ...

I had a trip to the underworld yesterday. Because of unique circumstances I stopped in at a gas station I used to go to everyday in my old d...

Every now and then when I'm reading some secondary source explaining Calvinism (or attempting to) I come across a particular shock that ...

All boils down to having the armour of God. Developing in the possession of and the use of the armour of God. Eph. 6:10-18. It's all the...

At a college, rainy day. Looking at an edition of the Iliad. Start writing a list in the back of it. Title list: Deep Languages. This is rea...

Here's a good quote from the Business of Heaven (the quote is from Mere Christianity) - "One of the things that surprised me when I...

The 3 Great Divides & Two Great Practices: 1. Worshiping the creation rather than the Creator 2. Seeing Jesus as merely a great teacher ...

I think what actually anchors us experientially to the plan of God and the fact of the History and Plan of Redemption is the fact of sin and...

I'm going to try to thread the needle in gaining a rarer, deeper, more striking understanding of the Bible, each book, at a deeper level...

I'll bet once in Hades, in the interval between death and birth, in the recurrence sense, that we get *intensely* nostalgic for our ...

1. Celestial fire...higher energy...it is the Holy Spirit. The H.S. is God. Our fallen nature hates God. Here is something to observe: in th...

1. Rare, new things need new, higher language to be identified. Work language is higher language, but I mean everyday language to identify s...

I'm going to give you a fact about recurrence: we are in Hades now - that interval between death and birth - just as we are here now at ...