Yogananda on Mind and Matter

The Western day is nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of Nature. The Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. The human mind can and must liberate within itself energies greater than those within stones and metals, lest the material atomic giant, newly unleashed, turn on the world in mindless destruction. An indirect benefit of mankind's concern over atomic bombs may be an increased practical interest in the science of yoga.

-- Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi  (p 265)

To be a student

(We begin the year, as is our tradition, with a discussion of how to be a student of the path.)

The difficulty on the path is what comes from ourselves. People do not like to be pupils, they like to be teachers. If they only knew that the greatness and perfection of the great ones, who have come to this world, was in their pupilship and not in teaching! The greater the teacher, the better pupil he was. Such a teacher learned from everyone.

No idea can be called one's own. All ideas have been learned from one source or another, but in time one comes to think they are one's own, yet all the time they keep one's cup covered up from further knowledge. The first thing to be learned is to understand how to uncover one's cup, that is, how to become a pupil. What are one's (preconceived) ideas? They are just collected knowledge. This should be unlearned.

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Warlock Awakens

Conforming Teaching to Environment

The teaching, and the public work in general, must be adaptable enough to allow itself to be conformed to the environment and the milieu in which it (and its proponents, students and teacher) find themselves.  The teaching must remain flexible, adaptable, even amorphous if that is what is called for.

In the wilderness, on the road, the teaching must be portable, easily memorized, summarized, translated and carried from one individual to another, without a lot of props, accessories, or accoutrements.

Petrosz on "How to Be a Student" -- Updated!

Petros will be offering a free class on the foundations of what it means to be a student of spirituality, and how one must be clear about one's attitude toward the teacher as well as being clear about one's own goals in the pursuit of a valid path of spiritual growth.

This class has been offered for many years as a continuing tradition to start off each new year.

The class will help get students off to a good start in the new year.

Date: Friday, Jan. 6. 2017
Time: 7pm
Location: The Temple House

Triangular Invocation

We are None
We are One
We are All

(mundane incarnation)


We are One
We are None
We are All

(ewakenment in life)


We are All
We are One
We are None

(avataric descent)

Sorcerer's Invocation

New draft of the Sorcerer's (shaman's) invocation by the Nagual Petrosz

Choosing a path with heart

And erasing personal history

I take death as my adviser!

Calling impeccable intentI stop the internal dialogue
And collapse the world of ordinary perception!

Supporting the description of the sorcerer's world
I shift the assemblage point

And see luminous bands of awareness!

Burning with the fire from within

I lose the human form

And leap past the grasp of the Eagle's beak!

Crossing the threshold of infinity

I attain total freedom

And infinite awareness!

Petros addresses U.S. Dept. of Energy Forum

Petros recently (June 2015) addressed the U.S. Dept. of Energy Small Business Forum in Phoenix on "The Spiritual Energy Crisis."

"The spiritual energy crisis in an inner crisis ... a crisis of the self, when it fails to realize the vast depth of energy that is available to it."

Petros on How to Be a Student of the Path

Petros will be offering a free class on the foundations of what it means to be a student of spirituality, and how one must be clear about one's attitude toward the teacher as well as being clear about one's own goals in the pursuit of a valid path of spiritual growth. This class will help get students off to a good start in the new year.

Date: Friday, Jan. 4, 2015
Time: 7pm

Location:

Alpha Book Center
4532 N. 7th St.
Phoenix, AZ 85017

Spiritual Resolutions for the New Year?

... learn what makes them work, and what doesn't.

Friday, December 19, 2014 at Alpha Book Center.

in association with AUMM (Aeonic University of Magick & Mysticism)

contact us for directions if needed.  donation basis.