Lazarus, Come Forth!: Meditations of a Christian Esotericist by Valentin Tomberg Virgin Mary like the Gospel itself

like the Gospel itself

It acts as a receptacle for the essence of a human being's experiences and lessons in various incarnations

For thousands of years

and the delusion of time and space

The course of the alchemical mystery is followed from the Near East through the Byzantine Empire and into Europe

Lazarus, Come Forth!: Meditations of a Christian Esotericist by Valentin Tomberg Virgin Mary like the Gospel itselfForgetting, sleep, and death are stages of basically the same process. Now, in contradistinction to them stand remembrance, awakening, and resurrection. Just as forgetting, sleep, and death are stages of an apparent disappearance into the darkness of a realm held to be unconscious by normal day consciousness, disappearing beyond waking experience, so do remembrance, awakening, and resurrection signify basically the one single process of reappearance,