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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
 A glimpse of one of Praxis' new video talks. These articles give brief glimpses into the thinking of Praxis Research Institute. |
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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Page 6 To ponder a passage of a book - or a page on a website like this - we should first read it with great care, making sure that we have clearly dealt with each of its statements separately. Then we should ponder each statement on its own, comparing it with our own experience, until we recognize what it describes. When we have recognized what is described in each statement, we may reconsider the passage as a whole. At this point a characteristic sign is that it will seem less interesting. After all, it is not ‘news’, it is telling only things we already know. This sensation is a sign of success in our pondering. Without learning to ponder, one should not read serious esoteric texts.
Notes: 1. At this point the translator wrote: 'bred from the intellect, the mind, and its reason.' This comment is easily misunderstood as referring to normal intellectual processes, or to those by which Plato defines the intellectual recognition of the ideal, although it is probable that the passage originally referred to the nous or 'intellect of the heart' just as the 'nosis' of gnosis appears to come from the same root as the word nous. This latter form of knowledge is not sensory in origin, but comes from God. 2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. 3. Clement of Alexandria, the Stromata, Book VI, Chap. 7. |
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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