This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
Character | Conscience | Instinct | Soul |
All life is initiation. Each experience, each act, deed, especially thoughts, are a portion of initiation. Initiation then is the process whereby the entity - the soul force, is given the opportunity to develop spiritually. This means, that when the soul chooses to improve itself - to move towards a greater light, the soul body so changes its vibration as to remove from its spiritual fabric those attachments detrimental to its path upward.
Body | Character | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Light | Means | Opportunity | Soul |
Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen
Self-expression can be wrong as well as right... When self-expression is identified with irrational surrender to lower instincts, it ends by making the person a slave to those passions. Self-denial is not a renunciation of freedom; it is rather the taming of what is savage and base in our nature for what is higher and better. It is a release from imprisonment by our lusts and passions.
Better | Character | Ends | Freedom | Nature | Right | Self | Self-denial | Surrender | Wrong |
A soul without watchfulness is, like a city without walls, exposed to the inroads of all its enemies.
Character | Soul | Watchfulness |