Tree of Life – Level 1

The answer to the questions raised by Hinduism found two “heretical” answers – Buddhism and Jainism. Of the two, only Jainism was able to survive the repeated assaults on it by the orthodox Hindu religion. One explanation given for the rise and growth of these two religions is their clarity against the Read more

The way of Zen is that of self-searching to realize one’s own true nature through meditation and self-discipline. Zen is a meditation for the becoming of Self!Read more

Buddhism is more of an ethereal and psychological approach to God, than a religion. But because it has a systematic approach to devotion, it is classified as a religion. There are over 350 million followers of the enlightened one.Read more

Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt was a mortal truly illuminated by the Cosmic. Today those of the scientific and literary world regard him as “the first individual in history.”Read more

The philosopher Thales, lived and worked during the time between c. 625 – 640 BC, and passed through transition c. 543 BC. He formed the earliest philosophies in Greece and founded the Ionian school.Read more

The Greek philosopher Democritus of the 4th Century before Christ was called the founder of the atomic theory. His teaching was a philosophy, most likely received from the Cosmic Mind. He had also spent much time studying in Egypt.Read more

Little is known about this famous philosopher of the Ionic school. We have only a few fragments from his writings and what is written about him by other writers and philosophers. We do know that he traveled many years before settling down. Most of these travels were in North Africa. He most likely became Read more

Some twenty-three and a half centuries have gone by since Socrates, sentenced to a felon’s death by his fellow-citizens, drank hemlock in his prison at Athens. Socrates was born in Athens in 470 or 469, ten years after the victories which barred Greece to the Persian advances.Read more

Zoroastrianism is a system of religious thought brought forth by the teacher Zarathustra (in Greek Zoroaster) in ancient pre-Islamic Persia eleven centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ. The area to which this system was given was the Middle East. Zoroaster, as all great teachers, tied together many of the Read more

First of all, let us understand that the term Jew is a misnomer. The actual term for this ethnic group is Israelite, or prior to the Jacobean period, the Hebrews. They were named after the Hebron Valley in Chaldea from which Abraham came. He was born in a town named Ur, in Chaldea, the center of the Hebron Valley.Read more