Fourth Way School UK

09/10/2026

New on the blog: “Who is asking?” — a short reflection on presence, longing, and the surprising wisdom that comes when we accept what we cannot change in our everyday lives. Who in us wants to be present? https://wix.to/VLkI9pR

07/10/2026

05/10/2026

23/09/2026

Bisweilen gelangt man an einen Punkt,
an dem der Druck des Lebens schier unerträglich erscheint.
Das Wichtigste ist, sich trotz allem den Reiz des Neuen und die Sehnsucht nach dem Wunderbaren zu bewahren.

RODNEY COLLIN
Die Theorie der bewussten Harmonie

18/09/2026

THE FOURTH WAY AND ESOTERIC TRADITIONS — BUFFERS

We have special appliances in us that prevent us from seeing contradictions. These appliances are called buffers. Buffers are special arrangements, or a special growth if you like, which prevent us from seeing the truth about ourselves and about other things. — Ouspensky

Just as free circulation of blood throughout the body is necessary for physical health and growth, so free circulation of memory throughout the long body of man's life is necessary for health and growth of essence. Where blood-circulation fails, where organs are blocked or constricted against its flow, there disease inevitably strikes. So also in the temporal sequence of life. Those years, months, incidents or relationships which we do not wish to remember begin to fester for lack of understanding. A blockage forms, a 'complex' develops, and without our recognising what is happening, the whole present may become poisoned by that which we will not remember. — Rodney Collin

To remember oneself more, one must begin to see one’s buffers. The greatest of these is one’s imaginary picture of oneself. To remember oneself, one must let go of this picture. One of the dangers of using Facebook is that it may strengthen one’s imaginary picture of oneself. Even when one lets go, inevitably, the picture returns—it dies only temporarily—and then one lets it go again, and again, and again. Each time one lets go, one has an opportunity to become one’s Real Self. The more often one does this, the more the possibility grows that it will eventually begin to occur spontaneously.

Reality spontaneously shines throughout, with no ‘I’ or ‘they’ — one need not seek it thought after thought. — Zhang Boduan, Understanding Reality (Taoist text)

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18/09/2026

A letter written on December 10, 1954 by Rodney Collin taken from his book The Theory of Conscious Harmony

“We were taught—and I understand it better every day—that understanding is not the product of one function in man, but the resultant of several functions working in harmony. For example, if one appreciates something with the mind, one 'knows' it; if one appreciates it with the emotions, one 'feels' it; if one appreciates it with the external physical organs, one 'senses" it. But if one simultaneously appreciates it with the mind, emotions and physical senses, then one really UNDERSTANDS* it. This is very rare as we are. It can be developed. But in order to do so, something like 'self-remembering' is necessary—that is, one has to remember all one's functions and their relations to the thing in question.

Modern mathematics is a powerful tool of thought, not only in the physical sciences, but also in relation to life itself. Only, for this, one has to understand mathematics not only with the mind, but also with the emotions and the whole physical organism. ‘Emotional mathematics' can solve any problem in the universe. After all, what else is the idea of the Holy Trinity?”
Rodney Collin

*Words that are all capitalised are the result of Facebook and Instagram not having a font for italics which have been intentionally used in Rodney’s book.

Painting of The Trinity by Andrei Rublev

05/09/2026

PART 6 The fourth way to developing a Soul/Consciousness
(The Fourth Way is quite extensive and will come in additional posts in the subsequent days)

“There is, however, a fourth way, about which much less is ordinarily known. This way consists in mastering instinctive, emotional and intellectual functions AT THE SAME TIME;* in transmuting pain, fear and thought into their higher counterparts of will, love and understanding SIMULTANEOUSLY.*

In this way, a man tries to be conscious in at least three functions at once. And he tries to harmonize the work of these functions, to make them help each other, and serve the same aim.

Thus, if he forces his body to carry out some very difficult physical task, he also deliberately works to transform the petty fears and resentments which may arise from it, and further still, he tries to understand what he is doing and why he is doing it, and to relate everything connected with his endeavours to the great natural laws with which he has already made himself familiar. In this way, he has three separate fields of study, each of which explains and reinforces the others.”

From Rodney Collin in his book The Theory of Celestial Influence

*Words that are all capitalised are the result of Facebook and Instagram not having a font for italics which have been intentionally used in Rodney’s book.

The depiction of this ancient symbol, the enneagram with the inner triangle, has been copied from Rodney Collin’s first edition book, The ChrIstian Mystery

01/09/2026

In the ideal state, Man's powers of vision are unbounded.
― William Blake
Let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will,
and he might bring into existence the ideal state
about which the world is so incredulous.
— Plato
Now is the ideal place, the ideal state.
— Robert Burton

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The Ideal City, Fra Carnevale

01/09/2026

Укрепление в своей цели помнить себя является первой силой, инерция машины — второй, или силой сопротивления, а трансформация страдания — третьей силой.
«Самовоспоминание»

Будь счастлив в этот миг. Этот миг и есть твоя жизнь.
Омар Хайям

Лишь тот достоин жизни и свободы,
Кто каждый день за них идёт на бой.
И. В. Гёте

Рубенс Питер Пауль, Антонис Ван Дейк
Пир у Симона Фарисея, 1618–1620 гг.
Государственный Эрмитаж, Санкт-Петербург

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