Finding Light in the Darkness, Rising Above the Darkness Into the Light

After expressing some thoughts about war and peace, selected readings from many masters, mystics, and spiritual classics or scriptures of the East & West 

 

1) one of the most mystical passages from the Psalm-scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls composed by the unknown master or right-teacher, who was the founder of the original Essene Community

 

2) back to eden, return to paradise: a plant-based passage from the Hebrew Book of Genesis on the vegetarian ideal at the beginning

 

3) readings about Kabbalah -- Jewish mysticism, and meditation in the Hebrew scriptures: "Be still and know that I am God", Psalm 46: 10

 

"The first century Rabbi Akiva ascended through the seven heavens and the seven palaces in the highest heaven by means of passwords uttered to the angelic gatekeepers. His meetings with God were characterized by luminosity."  (Joan Borysenko, "Seven Paths to God: The Ways of the Mystic")

 

4) The Five Sacred Mantra Names of the Sethians, a Jewish Gnostic sect of antiquity and their meaning

 

5) "I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it." (Rumi)

 

6) George Arnsby Jones, The Pilgrimage of James, An Odyssey of Inner Space

 

7) "No mission is of greater importance to a person than the awareness of his own consciousness, the profound significance and purpose of his existence on earth and to find out the path for ultimate bliss, eternal happiness and cheerfulness i.e. the quest for truth." (quote from the Shabd Pratap Ashram website)

 

8) "Be regular and lovingly devoted to your holy meditations, as that is the central pivot around which the whole sacred teaching revolves and therein an all around development of the soul is granted." (Kirpal Singh)

 

9) a reading from, Radhasoami Mat Updesh, by Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram Bahadur

 

10) A Spiritual Seekers Guide, Dayal Sahab, Dayalpuri Radhasoami publication

 

11) The Saakhi Granth of Kabir, "1008 Kabir Vani" and another passage of Guru Kabir; also, "The Anurag Sagar"/Ocean of Love of the Sant Dharam Das/Kabir Panth

 

12) Huzur Baba Sawan Singh's parable of, A Man Trapped in a Well Arguing with the Person Above (the Master) Holding a Rope

 

13) readings from the Surangama Sutra, a Buddhist scripture: "I will appear as a Buddha to teach them the Dharma to liberate them..." and

 

14) about being rescued by the Light, a passage from, The Book of Faith-Wisdom -- Pistis Sophia, a Gnostic Gospel from Egypt

 

In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhaswami

James Bean

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