Fourth Way: Language of Cosmoses

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2.05.2008

Being comsos/aura phenomena

Common language describes cosmos-aura phenomena. 'Hold your ground.' 'Get a hold of yourself.' 'She's very self-possessed.' 'Get yourself together.' 'Keep it together.' Etc...

Think in context of your being cosmos/aura. The Work practices change your aura and get responses and challenges from people and the world around you. Be aware of this. They want you to come apart. Stand your ground.

Microcosmoses

Humans as cosmoses experience - and are able to experience - nature and life differently. A higher degree cosmos will experience times of day and environment (and seasons) more physically, acutely, and suffused with more time as in history, personal memory and more general history or even world history. More pleasure and joy as well. Environments and weather and place are relative. Sterile and dead for one person, suffused with meaning and sensation and joy for another person. Things like feelings of safety and calm and feelings of danger and chaos can be relative to the same place and environment too, as a general example.

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.

2.05.2008

Being comsos/aura phenomena

Microcosmoses

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