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COMMENT On Modern Life No.1 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
STARTSI The 'elders' of the Inner Tradition 
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THE ELDERS The Hermit's Message The Western Version Christian Fourth Way Lost Christianity Saints are made
PRAXIS NOW
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Inner Christianity Glimpse of Truth Different knowledge Darkness of the psyche
Inner states
Consciousness retold Speaking of God Seeking Self Inner Identity Civilising Knowledge
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P age 5 But then, this book exists to help us recreate those old interpretive tools and with them again to make connection with that ancient knowledge, through just those channels used by those holy men of old, through three processes: - to draw on personal observation and direct experience, related to the comments of others, so as to discover certain current concerns, personal as well as those concerning our whole civilization, to take cognisance of the experiences that give rise to them, to give an idea of why they have been forgotten or ignored for so many centuries, and finally to show how they are at root concerns that have lasted as long as Christendom, and are often rooted in inner and often mystical experiences that have recurred since the earliest days of the Christian era.
- to illuminate this by study of the esoteric tradition, so as to show how the early Christian tradition of inner knowledge relates to both personal and social concerns and experiences that have become important in our contemporary life.
- finally, to comment as necessary on the relation of the two, in keeping with the methods of that early tradition, and analyse them with tools of contemporary but not purely intellectual understanding.
It should be noted in this latter that this kind of understanding must include a full intellectual content, and with this there is always a danger that to the untrained mind such a text will look as if it is pure intellectualism. As Saint Nilus of Sora once did, I must ask pardon of my reader if anything appears in this work that is "inconsistent with the sense of truth." To me, this means that if you do not recognize something from my description, I would ask you to classify it as untested, until experience makes its accuracy -- or inaccuracy -- clear to you. But this is a good point to introduce an ancient practice sometimes described in odd corners of the tradition, known today as pondering. To understand this book, certain parts of it -- and there may be many of them -- need to be pondered. Today, we are so used to ‘speed-reading’ and other methods of reading superficially, that we need to know a technique that most people perhaps once knew; what it means to ponder a statement. |
A NEW VISION 
These Different articles from the previous Praxis website give some idea of the thinking that brought us to this point |
A New Vision Page 1 A New Vision Page 2 A New Vision Page 3 A New Vision Page 4 A New Vision Page 5 A New Vision Page 6
PRAXIS PAST 
praxis web 4 ARCHIVES including most of the text articles from praxis Web 4. Main texts are listed with simple descriptions under CONTENTS and more fully under ABSTRACTS |
* CONTENTS * ABSTRACTS A New Vision The Ark Text List A Different Christianity Philosophers of God St. Gregory Palamas Cross-fertilisation Abstraction & attention Lost Doctrines Lost Christian truths The Royal Road Inner language History of Christianity Christian Therapy The First Millennium Christian Psychology Different kind of mind One thing needful Emotional Education Magnetisation to God Eastern Church spirituality God's drill Threshold of prayer Ora et Labora Research Report Mystical History Cultural Evolution Esoteric Christianity The Barbarian Within Spiritual crisis of the West
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