Tag: confiabilidade

  • Random (Dedans:173-175) – Mme de Salzmann e Luc Dietrich (2)

    Encontrei [Luc Dietrich] a Sra. de Salzmann, que estava prestes a partir para Paris. Ela parece triste e cansada para mim. Fomos juntas para a estação. Enquanto caminhávamos, lhe disse que estava muito triste por deixá-la: “Sim, sabe-se o que se deixa, mas não se sabe aquilo que se encontra”, ela diz. Ficamos sentados na…

  • Lizelle Reymond (Anirvan:152-155) – mestre-discípulos (2)

    Por que você gostaria que o momento do conhecimento durasse? Nem mesmo Brahma pode guardar para si o que ele cria! Tudo brota dele e flui imediatamente para fora… Imediatamente, dez milhões de deuses ou leis se apoderam dele. Aqui estamos humildemente entre aqueles que estão tentando subir a correnteza. O que estamos vendo? Perto…

  • Schumacher (Guide:26-29) – Progressões entre níveis de ser (1)

    Os quatro grandes Níveis do Ser exibem certas características de uma maneira que chamarei de progressões. Talvez a progressão mais impressionante seja o movimento da Passividade para a Atividade. No nível mais baixo, o dos “minerais” ou matéria inanimada, existe a passividade pura. Uma pedra é totalmente passiva, um objeto puro, totalmente dependente das circunstâncias…

  • Jacob Needleman: Lenda de Asmodeus

    Jacob Needleman — O Dinheiro e o Significado da Vida Para construir o templo, para criar o lugar dentro do qual a mais elevada santidade poderia ser contatada — óbvio que esse grande templo era interno, e não um simples edifício externo —, ele precisava da ajuda do shamir — alguma coisa pequena e oculta,…

  • Michel Conge: No caminho da oitava do homem

    Extraído do livro “Sur Le Chemin De L’Octave De L’Homme” — Testemunho de um aluno de G.I. Gurdjieff, escrito por Michel Conge. Este nasceu em Pau, sudoeste da França em 1912. Cedo decidiu devotar-se à “procura do real atrás das aparências”. Sua questão levou-o primeiramente à medicina. Enquanto trabalhava como médico biólogo no Instituto Pasteur…

  • Tracol: Busca

    Excerto de “A Busca”, Jean Sulzberger (org.), trad. Octavio Mendes Cajado. Pensamento, 1989. O homem nasceu buscador. Equipado como o foi pela natureza, para vibrar com uma vasta série de impressões, não está predestinado a um surpreender-se interminável? Obrigado por necessidade a escolher, dentre essas impressões, as que se ajustam a uma assimilação consciente —…

  • Russia

    Soon after the definite inculcation into my nature of the said new inherency, that is the unaccountable striving to elucidate the real reasons for the arising of all sorts of “actual facts”, on my first arrival in the heart of Russia, the city of Moscow, where, finding nothing else for the satisfaction of my psychic…

  • B635

    B634 B636 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 635] “’Let us suppose that some Pharaoh or other named “John Geoffrey” lived peacefully and with full satisfaction, and ruled over all the Egyptians. “’Well, once this same king or Pharaoh John Geoffrey felt a very great “weariness” from this reigning of his, and one sleepless night, having pondered…

  • Russian

    Although I have begun to write in Russian, nevertheless, as the wisest of the wise, Mullah Nassr Eddin, would say, in that language you cannot go far. 38 BTG I The Russian language, it cannot be denied, is very good. I even like it, but … only for swapping anecdotes and for use in referring…

  • B1151

    B1150 B1152 [BTG XLV Extraction of Electricity, p. 1151] “And he continued further: “’The point is that during the last few “Ftofoos” I constated very definitely that, among the beings of our planet, the “Noorfooftafaf” increases each “Ftofoo,” and parallel with this, I observed in them a proportional diminishing of the intensity of their potency…

  • B214

    B213 B215 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 214] “For instance, a crow would appear to them to be a peacock; a trough of water, a sea; a harsh clatter, music; good will, enmity; insults, love; and so on and so forth. “When King Konuzion became clearly convinced of all this, he immediately dispatched everywhere…

  • B190

    B189 B191 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 190] “The custom of ‘pleasing-their-gods’ by destroying the existence of other beings is followed there, on your planet, until now, only not on the scale on which these abominations were practiced by your favorites at that time on the continent Ashhark. “Well, then, my boy, during the…

  • B612

    B611 B613 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 612] “When my first acquaintance, the important Russian, learned about this decision of mine, he was greatly grieved; greatly grieved also were yet several other Russian beings who indeed wished more or less good for their fatherland, and who, during this period, had had time to become clearly convinced…

  • B611

    B610 B612 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 611] “Those petty ‘intrigues’ of theirs proceeded in full between the separate parties as well as between the separate members of that absolutely indispensable state organization, just at the time I arrived with my first Russian acquaintance in the chief place of existence of the said community. “When those…

  • B610

    B609 B611 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 610] “It is further also necessary to tell you here that when from among these learned beings of ‘new format’ some become power-possessing and happen to take up important responsible posts in the process of ordinary existence, they then often serve much more as the sources of every kind…

  • B609

    B608 B610 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 609] “And in the beginning, all my suggestions which he reported at the general meetings of the Trusteeship were always accepted for actualization. “But when several participants of this Trusteeship accidentally learned that the initiative for many useful measures had issued from me – some foreign doctor or other,…

  • B608

    B607 B609 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 608] “And you of course well understand that if any one of them were to have seen it, then everyone would very soon have known that I was not a being of their planet, after which it would have become already entirely impossible to remain among them and to…

  • B595

    B594 B596 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 595] “After this talk with the important Russian being, I soon got ready, and several days after left Egypt together with him. Two weeks later we were already in the chief place of existence of this large community, in the town at that time still called ‘Saint Petersburg.’ “After…

  • B594

    B593 B595 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 594] “’Now, my dear Doctor, that you already know approximately the gist of that affair, which was the cause for my present spiritual unbalance, I will frankly confess to you my inner thoughts and hopes which have arisen in connection with my acquaintanceship with you. “’The point is,’ he…

  • B593

    B592 B594 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 593] “Having said this, he became a little thoughtful and continued thus: “’If now, my dear Doctor, you were to ask my personal opinion as to the results expected from this Trusteeship of ours, sincerely speaking, I should, although I am at the head of it, find it very…