All love emotions are expansive, all emotions of hatred are restrictive. Hope and faith are of the nature of love and expand the soul, while fear and doubt and despair are of the nature of hate and contract our souls, making us feel uneasy, and unhappy. The snake stands for contraction, for tightness and indrawing; while men fight and quarrel with one another they always resemble more or less the old snake, each drawing to its side, anxious for self-preservation. Freedom from the snake's anguish can only be had by ceasing from the snake's ways, and learning to obey the law of love, the first dictate of which is self-sacrifice. W. W. ATKINSON

Bible Mystery
and Bible Meaning

Thomas Troward

Chapter 1 — The Creation
Chapter 2 — The Fall
Chapter 3 — Israel
Chapter 4 — The Mission of Moses
Chapter 5 — The Mission of Jesus
Chapter 6 — The Building of the Temple
Chapter 7 — The Sacred Name
Chapter 8 — The Devil
Chapter 9 — The Law of Liberty
Chapter 10 — The Teaching of Jesus
Chapter 11 — The Forgiveness of Sin
Chapter 12 — Forgiveness, Healing,
             and the Other World
Chapter 13 — The Divine Giving

 

 

Mysteries of John

Charles Fillmore

 METAPHYSICAL BIBLE students recognize in the Gospel of John a certain spiritual quality that is not found in the other Gospels. Although this is not true of all Bible readers, it may be said that those who look for the mystical find it in the language of this book. The book is distinctive in this respect and is so successful in setting forth metaphysical truths that little interpretation is necessary. Only in a few instances does the original writing conceal the deep truths that the student seeks to discern. Written language is at best a reflection of inner ideas, and even though a teacher couples ideas and words as adroitly as Jesus does, elucidation is sometimes difficult.

The Power of Silence

Horatio W. Dresser

Individual man now has far more material to draw upon in his effort to investigate the inner life in a free, profitable spirit. Whatever one may think of the conclusions which bear upon the belief in a future life, it is clear that the finer aspects of psychic research have thrown light upon the mysteries of the inner world. Meanwhile, a new science has been springing up, midway between experimental psychology and the realm of the individual soul, namely, the psychology of religion; and a new literature of the soul has also begun to appear. It remains for the individual to seize upon the results of all this finer, more exact thinking, and verify or correct them in the light of personal problems. The farther science advances into the inner world the easier it will be to avoid imprisoning subjectivism.

Symbolism of the Tarot

Peter D. Ouspensky

Now, if we imagine twenty-one cards  disposed in the shape of a triangle,  seven cards on each side, a point in the centre of the triangle represented by the zero card, and a square round the triangle (the square consisting of fifty-six cards, fourteen on each side), we shall have a representation of the relation between God, Man and the Universe, or the relation between the world of ideas, the consciousness of man and thephysical world. The triangle is God (the Trinity) or the world of ideas,or the noumenal world. The point is man's soul. The square is the visible, physical or phenomenal world. Potentially, the point is equal to the square, which means that all the visible world is contained in man's consciousness, is created in man's soul. And the soul itself is a point having no dimension in the world of the spirit, symbolized by the triangle. It is clear that such an idea could not have originated with ignorant people and clear also that the Tarot is something more than a pack of playing or fortune-telling cards.