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Distillation of Esoteric Sources: A Comprehensive Synthesis for Enlightenment
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Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)Tibetan Buddhism · compiled c. 8th–14th c. CEgrounds · high
“O nobly-born, listen. Now thou art experiencing the Radiance of the Clear Light of Pure Reality. Recognize it.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz, 1927), Chikhai Bardo — the setting-face-to-face with the Clear Light
Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallels · medium
Read the original · iapsop ↗Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounds · high
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinModern process/evolutionary theology · 1881–1955 CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“L'homme n'est rien d'autre que l'évolution devenue consciente d'elle-même.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Le Phénomène humain (1955), conclusion — 'Man is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.'
William JamesModern philosophy/psychology of religion · 1842–1910 CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.”Read the original · gutenberg ↗— The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture II ('Circumscription of the Topic')