Healthy food. Exercise. Spiritual practice. Done consistently, these three pillars provide me with complete fulfillment. (I am rebuilding after a depressive episode)
July 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Healthy food. Exercise. Spiritual practice. Done consistently, these three pillars provide me with complete fulfillment. (I am rebuilding after a depressive episode)
As a Martinist I aim to be unknown. Not just in a pseudo-heroic sense of doing good without pride, but to realise the Self is nothing. To be invisible to the universe itself.
July 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
As a Martinist I aim to be unknown. Not just in a pseudo-heroic sense of doing good without pride, but to realise the Self is nothing. To be invisible to the universe itself.
Each meeting with the self reveals its flaws. Beauty is always found in its elimination. The self is an illusion given to us by the greater illusion that is the world of appearances.
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Each meeting with the self reveals its flaws. Beauty is always found in its elimination. The self is an illusion given to us by the greater illusion that is the world of appearances.
Adding noise to your spiritual work may help you hear the Will of the Real.
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The right amount of noise - Between two worlds
The following was inspired by a video published on Youtube by KrKwd. Humans like linear thinking. If you tell someone a vehicle is moving at 50 m/s and ask them how far it will go in 1 minute, most pe...
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June 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Adding noise to your spiritual work may help you hear the Will of the Real.
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I'm not so sure the most important question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"
June 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm not so sure the most important question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"
God is not always in the blinding white of the Sun. Sometimes God is to be found in the play of light and shade.
June 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
God is not always in the blinding white of the Sun. Sometimes God is to be found in the play of light and shade.
Drawing a symbol can be more than just drawing. It can be a fundamental part of the symbol itself, and so add a level of meaning you never quite recognised consciously. The Martinist pentacle is a great example of this.
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Drawing the Martinist Pantacle - Between two worlds
The Martinist Pantacle is the image you see at the top-left of this page, right beside "Between Two Worlds". It comes in various colours depending on the circumstances, the grade being represented, an...
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April 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Drawing a symbol can be more than just drawing. It can be a fundamental part of the symbol itself, and so add a level of meaning you never quite recognised consciously. The Martinist pentacle is a great example of this.
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"A person praying resembles a desert striving to become a meadow full of flowers and, furthermore, he does not demand -- he beseeches"
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)
April 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"A person praying resembles a desert striving to become a meadow full of flowers and, furthermore, he does not demand -- he beseeches"
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)
The question of who to admit to an initiatory order like a Masonic lodge, and how fast to progress them is discussed by Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire".
I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...
I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...
When to accept a candidate? When to let them progress? - Between two worlds
For many good reasons Masonic lodges and other similar initiatory systems take great care in who they welcome into their group. Accepting an application from the wrong person can clearly lead to great...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The question of who to admit to an initiatory order like a Masonic lodge, and how fast to progress them is discussed by Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire".
I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...
I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...
The Creation Myth put forward by a Mystic is an important insight into their worldview and spirituality. Here I try to summarise that of Louis Claude de Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire":
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The Creation Myth of Saint Martin - Between two worlds
"Ten Instructions to Men of Desire", is a series of lectures by Louis Claude de Saint Martin. On the face of it, they are his interpretation of the cosmology put forward by Martinez de Pasqually in hi...
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April 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Creation Myth put forward by a Mystic is an important insight into their worldview and spirituality. Here I try to summarise that of Louis Claude de Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire":
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The world needs more initiatory experiences. More ceremonies that separate life into before and after.
April 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The world needs more initiatory experiences. More ceremonies that separate life into before and after.
The Laws of the material world point at spiritual realities:
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Electromagnetism and the nature of the All - Between two worlds
During my spiritual awakening I had a realization that there was a connection between basic electromagnetism and some ideas I was starting to formulate about the possible existence of God. The key was...
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March 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Laws of the material world point at spiritual realities:
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This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.
I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.
This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.
I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.
The Lessons of the Real World - Between two worlds
Pasqually's Treatise describes how the actions of the first spirits created by God had consequences that can only be described as catastrophic on a cosmic scale. The entirety of the subsequent history...
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March 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.
I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.
This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.
I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.
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The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.
Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.
The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.
Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.
March 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.
Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.
The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.
Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.
Religion & spirituality are not self-help methodologies. They will have similar effects, but concentrating on that will stunt progress and leave you in a very superficial state.
You are so much more than you think.
You are so much more than you think.
March 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Religion & spirituality are not self-help methodologies. They will have similar effects, but concentrating on that will stunt progress and leave you in a very superficial state.
You are so much more than you think.
You are so much more than you think.
A driving force behind starting my blog (and this account) was to provide a place for me to study the Martinist Tradition. The following is the first of (hopefully) many such attempts to better understand how our forebears thought:
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March 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A driving force behind starting my blog (and this account) was to provide a place for me to study the Martinist Tradition. The following is the first of (hopefully) many such attempts to better understand how our forebears thought:
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A very important point. People, places, and things do not exist to provide happiness. Their purpose is not to steer our psychic state.
March 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A very important point. People, places, and things do not exist to provide happiness. Their purpose is not to steer our psychic state.
A soul awakens:
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March 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A soul awakens:
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I've believed for a while that the health kick I was on at the time was a significant contributor to my spiritual awakening. Now that I'm back on a similar routine, I am even more convinced that that is true.
March 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I've believed for a while that the health kick I was on at the time was a significant contributor to my spiritual awakening. Now that I'm back on a similar routine, I am even more convinced that that is true.
March 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Part two of my spiritual story. A "Tower moment," but maybe the reverse of what you might expect.
The pendulum swings - Between two worlds
"Jill and her sister have been taken into care", said my sister. My mum stopped eating, fork halfway to her mouth. I could see the disbelief and the rage boiling up into her face. A refusal to believe...
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February 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Part two of my spiritual story. A "Tower moment," but maybe the reverse of what you might expect.
In "Errors & Truth" Saint Martin argues there are two sources for our thoughts -- from materiality via our senses and via our divine connection.
Having cleaned up my diet and incorporated fasting into my life, I see this to be true. More and more, I feel the Divine everywhere.
Having cleaned up my diet and incorporated fasting into my life, I see this to be true. More and more, I feel the Divine everywhere.
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In "Errors & Truth" Saint Martin argues there are two sources for our thoughts -- from materiality via our senses and via our divine connection.
Having cleaned up my diet and incorporated fasting into my life, I see this to be true. More and more, I feel the Divine everywhere.
Having cleaned up my diet and incorporated fasting into my life, I see this to be true. More and more, I feel the Divine everywhere.
My little tale continues. The problem of evil and converting to atheism.
The pendulum swings - Between two worlds
"Jill and her sister have been taken into care", said my sister. My mum stopped eating, fork halfway to her mouth. I could see the disbelief and the rage boiling up into her face. A refusal to believe...
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February 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My little tale continues. The problem of evil and converting to atheism.