Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2018 i PEARL

It is man’s duty on earth to set himself the highest attainable goal, and to strive for this goal with all the powers at his disposal. But as a human being! This excludes from the beginning that, like an animal, he should merely trouble himself about food and drink as, unfortunately, many men do; or let himself be goaded by the intellect into striving only for worldly greatness or fame without keeping in view as the main purpose the general welfare and advancement of mankind. Troubled times would seem to animate us to search for a calm and clear mind in re-examining fundamental questions such as: What does it mean to exist? How do we fit in the world? One moment we are babes in arms, then, as if in…

There is frequently more to be learn’d from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke Conscience unfolds as an attribute of inner knowledge in the young person; with it develops a sense of self and relationship to the wider world. Just as in nature, plants cannot help but ripen in order to flourish by producing fruit and seed, so also the human being cannot avoid the lawful requirement to grow and mature. ‘Ripeness is all,’ Shakespeare says in King Lear, with which he means to suggest that inner maturity is a consummate state and induces deep happiness. The lightness of being, which the achievement of the goal of striving to mature suffuses our ego, lifts us out of the travails of the past.…

Monique Giraud Monique Giraud writes on topics of spirituality, nature and health. She was filled with wonder to discover that the same laws are at work everywhere. This universal knowledge makes it possible to establish links between subjects as diverse as, for example, the relations between man and woman, imbalances of the body, agriculture, the true nature of water, as well as economic and financial problems. She is author of ‘Water at the heart of the movement of life’ [in French]. Chuma Ikenze Chuma Ikenze is a Business Management Consultant with interest in writing, history, philosophy, religion and in the broader sense of how our ‘spirituality’ manifests in the way we live in the world.…

I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore. When I asked the policeman why we had to be pushed around? He said he didn’t know. ‘The law is the law. You are under arrest.’ I didn’t resist. Rosa Parks Over 2000 years ago, a preacher announced to the populace in Judea: ‘Repent for the Kingdom of God is at Hand’. Quite a few have, perhaps, wondered why repentance had to be a prerequisite for the advent of the Kingdom of God. Or why God would need man’s repentance in order to institute His Kingdom on earth? Very intriguing question, indeed. Yet the preacher, who, we can safely assume, knew what he was talking about, linked the two. Similar…

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. Søren Kierkegaard SWITZERLAND IS RICHLY BLESSED IN HAVING the most beautiful valleys. Although not one of the finest, but one of its most prosperous, is the valley in which Heimiswyl lies and which ends on the right bank of the river Emme above Burgdorf. The mountains which surround it are not grand, the shapes are not visually remarkable; they are massive Emmental hills, bright-green at the bottom and dark green above, bordered below with meadows and fields, covered above with tall pines. Visibility in the valley is not far because it is a cross valley which borders the main valley in the…

Childlikeness is the result of inner purity, or the sign that such a human being has submitted to Purity and serves It. ... Thus only a child who is pure within itself, and an adult who cultivates purity within himself, can have a childlike effect. That is why he has a refreshing and vitalising effect, and also inspires confidence! And wherever there is true purity, genuine love can also enter, for God's Love works in the ray of Purity. The ray of Purity is the path It treads. It could not possibly walk on any other. The ray of Divine Love can never find its way to him who has not absorbed the ray of Purity! Abd-ru-shin In writing a letter to the magazine, please include the writer’s name,…

One should always be on the trail of one’s own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the divine. David Henry Thoreau A vision of light EVERYTHING THAT CAN ASSUME FORM IN THE Cosmos lies in the radiation of the Light, thus of God. God is apart from His radiation. The two are not one and the same, even though the primordial radiation issues from Him. The direct radiation of God is divine in substance and as such is circumscribed to the Divine Sphere, the nearest proximity of God. The Divine Sphere lies outside the Cosmos. God Himself, however, is unbounded and unsubstantiate. Beyond the boundary of the Divine Sphere, the vastness of which defies human comprehension, since…