Love Is Stronger Than Death: The Mystical Union of Two Souls

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SteinerBooks, 2001 - 222 страница
This text, written by an Episcopal priest, tells of her intense relationship with Brother Raphael Robin, a 70 year old Trappist monk and hermit. Enriched by Bourgeault's knowledge of the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff and of Christian mysticism, their story aims to add a new dimension to our understanding of human love and the possiblity of survival beyond the grave.

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In Gratitude
xi
WALKING THE WALK
xiii
Introduction
xxvii
The Road Not Taken
28
HOW WE WORKED TOGETHER
47
The South Lesson
63
Wrestling with an Angel
76
The Body of Hope
87
The Vow
153
Love and Death
163
Working in the Wonders
167
The Mystery of Christ
176
A Wedding Sermon
187
NOTES
191
The Books We Used
193
Further Reflections on the Body of Christ
198

Building Second Body
104
Rafe after Death
115
Do the Dead Grow?
126
Essence and Majesty
132
The Abler Soul
140
A Note on Reincarnation
203
A Note on Sexuality
207
Chapter Notes
210
Index
219
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Страница v - Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
Страница 119 - And if, in the changing phases of man's life I fall in sickness and in misery my wrists seem broken and my heart seems dead and strength is gone, and my life is only the leavings of a life: and still, among it all, snatches of lovely oblivion, and snatches of renewal odd, wintry flowers upon the withered stem, yet new, strange flowers such as my life has not brought forth before, new blossoms of me...
Страница xviii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Страница 189 - Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Страница 57 - As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of truth, Blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor, Be ready bravely and without remorse To find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force For guarding us and helping us to live. Serenely let us move to distant places And let no sentiments of home detain us.
Страница 53 - Last season's fruit is eaten And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
Страница 93 - A sort of idea was gaining an ascendancy over his mind and that for the rest of his life, for ever and ever. He had fallen upon the earth a weak youth, but he rose from it a resolute fighter for the rest of his life, and he realized and felt it suddenly, at the very moment of his rapture.
Страница xxii - God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
Страница 146 - Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent — ?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances.

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