EP 18 This is the Common Selfhood. In another place Joshua speaks of this: "I am the vine, ye are the branches" (John 15:5). That we all share an equal part in the body of Christ is one of the most profound and greatest truths.

Joshua continues "... for without me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5).

EP 18 What did Joshua mean when he said, " I am the way, the
truth, and the life" (John 14:6). What is Christ? What is
the Logos? Is it not Love, Wisdom and Power? This is a
sacred triangle: the universal, unconditional Love from
above; the Wisdom of a unified heart and mind; and the
Power of Goodness to overcome weakness. What Christ was
saying for those "with ears to hear" (Mark 4:23) was that
any man or woman who uses reason, love and power in the
proper and Divine way is a Christian, be he called a
Buddhist, a Muslim or any other brother or sister from the
many faiths. The Church has so misunderstood this point.
Joshua comes to us to free us from illusions, not to oppress
us. Why did He come? He said it: "I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"
(John 10;10).

EP 18 The practise of meditation in the West seems to have been
repressed, if not indeed suffocated by certain forces?

This has been the course of things, but let us not see it as regrettable. It is what happened. What is lamentable is that so many continue to feel the need to go to the East - to India or elsewhere - because they believe they will find something that Christianity fails to offer. They often return more disenchanted than before they left. Christianity has everything and it belongs to us - it is our tradition; it belongs to our bodies, our hearts and our minds. So "drink waters out of thirie own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well" (Prov.5:15).

The church is the church, reflecting the Love of the God-man to greater or lesser degrees, built of stone and some old ideas. Christ doesn’t care how much gold may gild a church (Matt.23:16-19). His concern is for what goes on within a temple. The church is a holy place as it demarcates a sacred area, a place of worship. But the real church is the human form, with the three bodies. We "are the temple of God" (1 Cor.3:16).

Within us is the holy of holies, an inner sanctum, in the heart of every man and woman. This temple can neither be soiled, nor destroyed. Go there, supplicate, pray and work. Christ is there, He awaits you.

HS 64 Excommunication threat to Daskalos

HS 68 Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 AD

EP 15 One of the most valuable exercises we instruct is the exploration of the Circles of Possibility inscribed to each form. For when we understand the single life-course of the smallest thing in nature, we will see a testimony of the Greatest. We should study all phenomena of life in order to expand our understanding and experience. This most edifying work requires centuries.

Our study of the Circles of Possibility - the "hands" behind the sculptor - lead us naturally to an examination of the macrocosm.

Yes, for if we understand the forms of all things have within them a heartbeat and a metabolism - the Circle of Possibility - we are drawing closer to the causes. This is our work, this is life itself; drawing closer to our Cause ... our Source.

Exercise and meditation at higher levels mean exploring, attuning to, and eventually becoming unified (at-one-ment) with the Causes, Principles, Ideas and Laws. Each Circle of Possibility works according to the Divine forces of Total Love, Power and Wisdom. These most perfect forces of life are within our archangelic human form. Ecstasy, real ecstasy, is aligning ourselves with the Divine.