Meeting The Masters

 Every virtue has a complementary virtue which stops the excesses of the first virtue turning into a vice. Mercy and justice is one obvious ...

Introductory note: This is a slightly revised version of a piece I have previously posted. It seems pertinent in the light of the previous p...

 This is a follow up to the previous post which stated that Christ can operate through avenues other than mainstream Christianity. This is b...

 I am sometimes asked "What are you?", meaning am I a Christian, a Buddhist, Theosophist, esotericist  or pagan of some kind, what...

 I've been thinking about the difference between love and compassion. Spiritually speaking, compassion is a Buddhist virtue while love i...

Christianity can seem soft and feeble to many men today, a sentimental palliative  that answers none  of the deeper questions of life. It ha...

 We are living through the end times when spirit is obscured by matter as a result of which even when the spiritual is acknowledged it is of...

 Just as there are holy places, sites of pilgrimage imbued with the presence of an angel or a saint or special in some other way, so there a...

 Christine Hartley (1897-1985) was a pupil of Dion Fortune and an important figure in the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition. In later...

 It cannot be denied that every serious religion has produced its share of saintly men and women, and also that bad things have been done in...

 Nietzsche criticised Christianity as a slave religion which sapped the strength of the masculine virtues as a result of its encouragement o...

 As we know, the devil quotes scripture for his own ends. Nowhere has he been busier in this regard over recent years than with the matter o...

Truth is beyond form and expression but for religion to be comprehensible it must be grounded in form. Religious forms can take many varieti...

Over the last 100 years people have looked all over the place for spiritual enlightenment, often adopting various forms of what has become k...

 It is often said that there is nothing esoteric in Christianity. Everything is public and out in the open, and there are no hidden secrets ...

There are many online writings lamenting the destruction of the West and blaming the usual suspects of mass immigration, liberalism, feminis...

 I'm not only a Christian. There is part of me that is pagan, particularly Greek, Celtic and Norse, and part that is Hindu and part Budd...

 I hope it's not sacrilegious to say that sometimes it feels as though the disciples of the world are going through a kind of Gethsemane...

 I was asked this question recently by a young man, some of whose friends had decided that if they were going to follow a religion then Isla...

  The older I get the more obvious it becomes that Jesus Christ really is the Way, the Truth and the Life.* When I was younger I  felt  this...