Issue #46 November, 2025
“Patience is the mother of will. If you have no mother, how can you be born.”
Gurdjieff
Dear ALL
It almost feels as though the year is over, although here in America, we have yet to have yet to navigate Thanksgiving and the run-up to Christmas that inevitably follows in its wake. Perhaps 2026 is casting its show on these final months of 2025. I’m reminded for some reason of that immense poem The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
On a lighter note, Stephen Aronson has published a second book, in a series of three, entitled As Outside, So Inside, As Above, So Below. You can find it here on Amazon
Regards
RB
The Questions of Zarathrustra
This I ask Thee, tell me truly, O Lord:
Who was the father and begetter of Righteousness at the beginning?
Who established the course of the sun and stars?
Through whom does the moon wax and wane?
These things, O Wise One, Ahura Mazda, and others, I wish to know.
The Many Arcs of The Tales
The Tales embodies multiple interweaving themes and arcs. In factual books there is usually a single linear theme. In fictional work there can be several interweaving themes with a sub-plot here and there, but it is rare to have more than three interweaving themes.
A good example of three…
Prayer, In The Round
The world feels disconnected, chaotic and irrational. Prayer is not going to alter the outer world much, if at all. Nevertheles, the ancient practice of prayer provides a sanctuary to those seeking solace and spiritual depth. We have an innate desire to connect with something greater than ourselves—a higher intelligence, a divine light—and prayer …
Gravity and Magnetism
Wal Thornhill, in his talk “The Long Path to Understanding Gravity,” offered a critique of the conventional understanding of gravity and provided a possible alternative theory based on the Electric Universe.
First the Critique:
Thornhill’s first began to questioning Newton’s laws in light of Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision.Â