The Sacred Flame - Unlocking Spiritual Power Each pain, blockage, or repressed emotion is an echo of deep energies reverberating beyond what the eyes can see. Yet, there is a portal, a silent invitation to enter a dimension where sacred flames, endowed with transformative power, offer the healing you have always sought but never knew how to reach. These flames are divine forces capable of transmuting dense energies, dissolving emotional wounds and karmic scars that limit your spiritual potential. This path is not merely another journey of self-discovery, but one of profound transcendence, where body, mind, and spirit intertwine to touch the sacred that dwells within each of us. The practices revealed here are portals to elevated states of consciousness, from meditations that align your energy field to decrees that release the invisible chains binding us to suffering. As these energies are transmuted, they guide you to deep levels of healing, discovering a new balance between the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes.

Spiritual practice is essential to the Johannite tradition, and this book will show you how to begin. Using the framework of the Logos Service, the quintessential Johannite practice, you will learn the basic techniques of many different types of prayer, meditation, contemplation, asceticism, and esoteric practice from a Johannite perspective. Whether you attend mass regularly at a Johannite parish, or if you live far from one, you will find a practice or two that will help guide you on the path to Gnosis.

A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By the time we began to paint cave walls, we were producing lamps consisting of an illuminant, a fat or oil, and a wick, such as a strip of fabric or a piece of reed or wood. Drawing on archaeological, textual, and iconographic sources, Meghan Strong examines the symbolic part that artificial lighting played in religious, economic, and social spheres in ancient Egyptian culture. From the earliest identifiable examples of lighting devices to the infiltration of Hellenistic lamps in the seventh century BC, Sacred Flames explores the sensory experience of illumination in ancient Egypt, the shadows, sheen, color, and movement that resulted when lighting interacted with different spaces and surfaces. The soft, flickering light from lamps or hand-held lighting devices not only facilitated the navigation of darkened environments, such as allowing workers to see in underground chambers in the Valley of the Kings, or served as temple offerings, but also impacted upon the viewer’s perception of a space and the objects within it. Sacred Flames illustrates the active role that lighting played in Egyptian society, providing a richer understanding of the symbolic and social value of artificial light and the role of lighting in ritual space and performance in ancient Egyptian culture, while serving as a case study of the broader impact of artificial light in the ancient world.