Commitment to the Ideal

(Click here for audio) “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say; ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour” (John 12:27). In this scene, as depicted in the Gospel of John, Jesus is about to enter Jerusalem and become the...

The Pure in Heart

(click here for audio) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “To ‘see’ in the sense referred to here, signifies spiritual perception, and spiritual perception means just that capacity to apprehend the true nature of Being which we all so sadly lack....

Lord of Mercy

(click here for audio) Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. “The vital bearing of the principle covered in this Beatitude lies in its application to the realm of thought. The thing that really matters is that you be merciful in your thought. Kind...