Month: April 2021
A Brief Study of Origen
Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253) was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described as “the greatest genius the early church ever produced”. (more…)
Daily Exercises
I previously posted eight posts on this subject i.e. Rudolf Steiner’s Days of the Week Exercises. I thought for some it might be easier if all of the exercises were in one single post. The following is reposted verbatim from the Rudolf Steiner Archive website. Once you develop a routine for the exercises here, you can expand on your development by adopting practices as outlines on the Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy website. (more…)
Supplemental Helps
This post provides several visual aids to help understand who and what we are as human beings. (more…)
Another Look at the Seven Hermetic Principles
There is much to be said regarding these ancient principles, much one can read about them on the Internet, in the Kybalion. Rather than copy and paste either straight from the Kybalion or another’s work, as so many do on the Web, here I offer the Light shown to me in these foundational principles of the inner life. (more…)