However, the mystical aspects of Christianity had spread throughout the Empire, blending with various other currents, such as the essentially pagan beliefs of Gnosticism. This created a vast Christian movement that was far from content with the simple apostolic interpretation of spiritual authority. T...
The seven stages of the labyrinth represent the stages in spiritual development as well as the 7 chakras and energetic centers of our bodies. The Labyrinth is a spiritual tool that acts in a similar way as meditation. It works to bring to inner connectedness and divine experience. The ...
Of course during periods of actual concentration there is no time whatever for anything but the work itself; but to make even the mildest asceticism a rule of life is the gravest of errors, except perhaps that of regarding Asceticism as a virtue. This latter always leads to spiritual pride,...