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Chap 5

This book is frightening. It scares to the core. This kind of teaching must have been reserved for the hierarchs of the past, it would not have been taught openly. Even then, it is as a precious gem, I had never seen a condensation of the teachings of the fathers so well put together. And I am actually "reading" through the audio format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dh_g...

Already know this is going to be one of the greatest books I have read. It is prompting me to read more the works of 3 cardinals, cardinal Jean Danielou, cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and cardinal de Lubac. It is a shame he says close to nothing of Boehme.

Essential. Elder Sophrony had early experiences with the Shankarian and Vedanta spiritual path, he regretted it later with pain, but it is of much benefit for us that he had to go through this, so that a genuinely Christian spiritual path can be understood in face of this age of syncretism and confusion. Let those who are able read it, because it will benefit you, as long as you’re a serious seeker with a pure heart.

Peterson is pointing to a return of the understanding of alchemy just as Carl Jung, the science of the microcosm. That is, of individual being inasmuch as it is a reflexion of Total Being. And I believe no one has synthesized a Christian alchemy as powerfully as Jakob Böhme. One has to keep in mind however that the science of the microcosm as such is only cosmological and psychological, it does not go beyond this.

"In communicating illumination to each other, the angelic powers also communicate either their virtue or their knowledge to human nature. As regards their virtue, they communicate a goodness which imitates the goodness of God, and through this goodness they confer blessings on themselves, on one another and on their inferiors, thus making them like God. " Saint Maximos the Confessor

Only going to read chapter four which is where he discusses the perennial point of view on the Male and Female principles in men and women, other chapters seem irrelevant at the moment

his 'worker' does not describe a social class - the working class - nor does it have anything to do with the Leftist idea of the industrial proletariat. Rather, Jünger's term 'worker' refers to a broad human type which shares certain traits with both the ascetic and the warrior, and affirms its way of being with detachment and clarity in all aspects of life.

Only reading the parts about the Ten Commandments.