Miscellaneous References
• Ancient of Days
- Bô Yin Râ - Psalms, page 25:
You show me how the First Word speaks eternally the ‘eternal man’: – the one born in the spirit who remains eternally in him…
You show me how the human spirit in this darkness is but a witness to that ‘eternal man’, – to the ‘ancient of days’ – to the ‘Father’ of all your Luminaries…
• Angels
- Bô Yin Râ - More Light, page 172:
Yet almost all of them, except those few whom northern Buddhism knows as the ‘Boddhistavas of mercy’, the older Christian church as its ‘saints’, ‘angels’ and ‘archangels’, – (the later ‘fourteen auxiliary saints’ belong here too!) – strive further upwards from this higher spiritual state.
• Archangels
- Bô Yin Râ - More Light, page 172:
Yet almost all of them, except those few whom northern Buddhism knows as the ‘Boddhistavas of mercy’, the older Christian church as its ‘saints’, ‘angels’ and ‘archangels’, – (the later ‘fourteen auxiliary saints’ belong here too!) – strive further upwards from this higher spiritual state.
• Angelus Silesius
- Bô Yin Râ - Letters To One And Many, page 122:
The scholarly poet Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius) was in the opposite situation. As a Protestant he eventually took refuge in Catholicism by reinterpreting every Catholic teaching as a poetic symbol.
- Bô Yin Râ - Hortus Conclusus 64
or what, for instance, Angelus Silesius meant with the famous line:
“Heaven is in you – and also the hellish state: – what you choose and want, – such will be your fate!”…
• Anthony of Padua
- Bô Yin Râ - Letters To One And Many, page 103:
When, for example, it is said of the great saint of Padua, ‘canonised’ by the people long before he was awarded this honour posthumously by the Pope:
“For what you plead, Anthony,
• Asclepius
- Bô Yin Râ - The Path Of My Pupils, page 86:
If ‘miraculous’ cures once conferred the highest reputation on the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus, or today Lourdes enjoys the same reputation among its faithful: – in both cases the ‘miraculous’ agent is the stimulation of the will to cure, the freeing of the imagination, the belief in the possibility of a cure, even though it may only provide the precondition for opening access to other kinds of helping powers. – –
• Athos, monks of
- Bô Yin Râ - The Mystery Of Golgotha, page 141:
Without any guidance, without any help from the spiritually awake everyone can become aware of a spiritual light within himself, the image of a flaming star which the monks on Athos believed they could only revere sufficiently by calling it the “holy light of the godhead”.
- Hortus Conclusus 156
• AUM
- Bô Yin Râ - Scintillae Mantra Practice, page 11:
Outwardly
I call
Myself,
and call
“AUM”!– – –
• Avidyâ (ignorance)
- Bô Yin Râ - The Book On The Beyond, page 105:
I have often deliberately repeated myself and will have to continue repeating myself so that that this basic truth enters your consciousness as deeply as possible.
Therefore I need to remind you here that reality remains forever the same oneness and causality, even though it enters the perceptions of the worlds of physical or spiritual phenomena in the most diverse ways.