The Gnostic Academy of Chicago

A lecture and meditation for anyone to attend. Beginners welcome!

Location and Directions:

5875 N. Lincoln Ave, Suite 223
Chicago, IL 60659

Enter through the main entrance on Lincoln Avenue. Proceed upstairs to the 2nd floor and turn right to access Suite 223.

• Free parking is available on side streets.
• Bus 84 stops at Peterson and Sacramento, which is less than a 5 minute walk to our location.
• Bus 11 stops directly in front of the building on Lincoln and Sacramento.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend. We look forward to seeing you!

A lecture and meditation for anyone to attend. Beginners welcome!

The Voice of the Silence: The Heart Doctrine

"False learning is rejected by the Wise, and scattered to the Winds by the good Law. Its wheel revolves for all, the humble and the proud. The "Doctrine of the Eye" is for the crowd, the "Doctrine of the Heart," for the elect. The first repeat in pride: "Behold, I know," the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess, "thus have I heard.”

"The Dharma of the "Eye" is the embodiment of the external, and the non-existing. The Dharma of the "Heart" is the embodiment of Bodhi, the Permanent and Everlasting." ―The Voice of the Silence

True spiritual knowledge, the Heart Doctrine, is gained from direct experience, not from books, lectures, scriptures, scholasticism, intellectualism, or debates. Discover how true wisdom and understanding of Dharma, the divine law, is based upon our living experiences of the truth, denominated in the East as bodhi: the light, perception, and wisdom of Christ*.* This lecture explains the nature of the Heart Doctrine and the essence of bodhichitta, the wisdom-mind, mind-heart, or heart of compassion within esoteric Buddhism and the Christic path of initiation. Real wisdom is gained through selfless service, for in order to attain complete liberation of the psyche, compassion and sacrifice for others is necessary.

To access previous lectures in this course:

https://chicagognosis.org/the-voice-of-the-silence.html

Location and Directions:

5875 N. Lincoln Ave, Suite 223
Chicago, IL 60659

Enter through the main entrance on Lincoln Avenue. Proceed upstairs to the 2nd floor and turn right to access Suite 223.

• Free parking is available on side streets.
• Bus 84 stops at Peterson and Sacramento, which is less than a 5 minute walk to our location.
• Bus 11 stops directly in front of the building on Lincoln and Sacramento.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend. We look forward to seeing you!

A lecture and meditation for anyone to attend. Beginners welcome!

The Voice of the Silence: Liberation and Renunciation

"The PATH is one, Disciple, yet in the end, twofold. Marked are its stages by four and seven Portals. At one end — bliss immediate, and at the other — bliss deferred. Both are of merit the reward: the choice is thine. The One becomes the two, the Open and the Secret. The first one leadeth to the goal, the second, to Self-Immolation.

"When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open PATH leads to the changeless change — Nirvana, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

"Thus, the first Path is LIBERATION. But Path the Second is — RENUNCIATION, and therefore called the "Path of Woe."

"That Secret Path leads the Arhan to mental woe unspeakable; woe for the living Dead, and helpless pity for the men of Karmic sorrow, the fruit of Karma Sages dare not still." ―The Voice of the Silence

Upon entering the heavenly regions of Nirvana or the superior dimensions of nature, two paths open before the initiate: the spiral path of liberation or selfish bliss, or the straight path of sacrifice and renunciation. Learn about the secret, straight path of the bodhisattva: "the essence or incarnation of wisdom / Christ" that leads the practitioner towards the absolute heights of divine attainment, known in the Hebraic Kabbalah as the Ain, Ain Soph, and Ain Soph Aur: the Absolute.

​This path has been taken by all of humanity's greatest sages, prophets, and luminaries, especially Jesus of Nazareth, who demonstrated with his revolutionary life the way of selfless service and boundless compassion. Through sacrificing oneself for numerous humanities, the bodhisattva of the straight path may be granted entrance into the highest degrees of enlightened experience.

To access previous lectures in this course:

https://chicagognosis.org/the-voice-of-the-silence.html

Location and Directions:

5875 N. Lincoln Ave, Suite 223
Chicago, IL 60659

Enter through the main entrance on Lincoln Avenue. Proceed upstairs to the 2nd floor and turn right to access Suite 223.

• Free parking is available on side streets.
• Bus 84 stops at Peterson and Sacramento, which is less than a 5 minute walk to our location.
• Bus 11 stops directly in front of the building on Lincoln and Sacramento.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend. We look forward to seeing you!