A New Model of the Atom

The Nucleus of a Structured Atom You might think you know what an atom is. As part of your education you were probably told that an atom has protons and neutrons in the middle and electrons scoot around this nucleus in specific orbits. And most likely, as with many...

What Is Intelligence?

The Birth of a Distinctly Different Venus   I was entertaining myself with ChatGPT – the “latest thing” in artificial intelligence. I gave it the task of composing a sonnet to Artificial Intelligence in the style of William Shakespeare. This is what...

Holy The Firm

The Gates of Hell Consider the prayer: Holy God, Holy Immortal, Holy Firm, Have Mercy on us. (The Tales p752). What does it mean? And in particular what does “Holy Firm” mean? The Holy Firm is the greatest denying force in the universe, the greatest...

The Two Wolves

Two Wolves The Inner Battle In the twilight of a cool American evening, beneath the watchful gaze of the crescent moon, an old Cherokee chief named Akecheta sits near the crackling fire, embers dancing upward into the starry sky. His grandson, Takoda, a growing boy...

Time and Eternity

The Six Dimensions of The Living Universe There is little agreement between modern science and the Work. If you cannot agree about the nature of something as fundamental as time, then it is no surprise that there is disagreement about lesser things. Modern science...

Issue #23

Subscribe Issue #23 May/June 2023 “Without trouble, conflict, life become dead. People live in status quo, live only by habit, automatically and without conscience.”~ Gurdjieff   Hi We enter June, and the Summer Solstice will soon be upon us. Modern...

The Struggle of The Absolute

The inevitable paradox of creation. It begins with the simple childhood question: If God is good why does he let bad things happen? This valid query is usually brushed aside by priests and preachers, but it is not so easy to brush aside. From the perspective of The...

Kindness

Children, a photograph of a kind               Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so...

Why The Herald

The Angel Moroni, in the skies of Salt Lake City Our 2nd-3rd Series study group, has finished its journey through the 2nd and 3rd series and has begun to focus on The Herald of Coming Good. The first clear fact that steps out of the pages of this short paperback, his...

The Ether Problem

A Representation of the Ether which pervades the Universe   The physicist James Clerk Maxwell laid the foundation to the field of electromagnetism and defined the nature of electromagnetic radiation. In doing so he assumed the existence of a hypothetical medium called...