Μαθητεία και Ακτίνες
Αλικη Μπεϊλη, 1934
A discarnate teacher reads a student's soul like a chart, naming his rays, flaws and fears, and asks whether he is great enough for the work ahead. The voice is oracular and aphoristic, moving between stern address and cosmic awe, with an undercurrent of unease.
Feels like awe and unease. About faith and morality.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you are drawn to early twentieth-century esoteric teaching and enjoy being addressed directly by a discarnate teacher. Be warned that the vocabulary of rays, initiations and soul bodies is dense and dated, and the telepathic-dictation framing asks for patience.
Why read it
It offers a compact look at how one strand of modern esoteric language took shape, and its questions about readiness and responsibility still unsettle.
A page from the book
The question a mentor finally asks: are you big enough for this?
Είσαι άραγε αρκετά μεγάλος γι’ αυτό το καθήκον που περιγράφηκε ανεπαρκώς, αδελφέ μου; Είναι άραγε η αντοχή σου, ο εσώτερος πνευματικός σου προσανατολισμός και η σταθερή ψυχιστική σου απόφαση επαρκή για το τόλμημα; Μπορείς άραγε να το κάνεις με τον τωρινό σου ψυχιστικό εξοπλισμό, ή πρέπει να δομήσεις νέα σώματα για ολοκλήρωση, χρήση και υπηρεσία; Η απόφαση εναπόκειται σε σένα, γιατί εκείνοι που διανύουν την Oδό του Παγκόσμιου Λυτρωτή αφήνονται ιδιαίτερα ελεύθεροι (λόγω ορισμένων δυσχερειών του χρόνου και χώρου μέσα στην πλανητική ζωή) και πρέπει να εργάζονται όπως θέλουν, με ό,τι επιλέξουν να προσφέρουν και με μια εκγυμνασμένη κατανόηση του χρέους τους. Αλικη Μπεϊλη.Alice Bailey wrote that the Tibetan, her co-author, dictated these texts telepathically; the arcane vocabulary of rays and initiations reached the New Age through her Lucis Trust, founded in 1922.
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- Is Μαθητεία και Ακτίνες for me?
- You may like it if you are drawn to early twentieth-century esoteric teaching and enjoy being addressed directly by a discarnate teacher. Be warned that the vocabulary of rays, initiations and soul bodies is dense and dated, and the telepathic-dictation framing asks for patience.
- What is Μαθητεία και Ακτίνες like?
- The voice is oracular and aphoristic, moving between stern address and cosmic awe, with an undercurrent of unease. Feels like awe and unease. About faith and morality.
- What should I read after Μαθητεία και Ακτίνες?
- If you liked Μαθητεία και Ακτίνες, try The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot), Crossing the Threshold of Hope (John Paul II) and The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin).
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Hell is less a sentence handed down than a door locked from the inside.
Resurrection of the body is to be preceded by a judgment passed upon the works of charity, fulfilled or neglected. As a result of this judgement, the just are destined to eternal life. There is a destination to eternal damnation as well, which consists in the ultimate rejection of God, the ultimate break of the communion with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Here, it is not so much God who rejects man, but man who rejects God.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope · John Paul II
The monuments we raise so we never have to look at death.
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
The Fire Next Time · James Baldwin
The hour when the world admits how deep it is.
O man! Take heed! What saith deep midnight’s voice indeed? “I slept my sleep—, “From deepest dream I’ve woke, and plead:— “The world is deep, “And deeper than the day could read. “Deep is its woe—, “Joy—deeper still than grief can be: “Woe saith: Hence! Go! “But joys all want eternity—, “—Want deep, profound eternity!”
Thus Spake Zarathustra · Friedrich Nietzsche
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