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1st Irrefutable Axiom: Man is born ignorant. 2nd Irrefutable Axiom: Ignorance is rooted in the perception of separability. This illusory vision is caused by the ego, which in turn depends on the false identification of one's Eternal Self with the physical body. 3rd Irrefutable Axiom: Ignorance has a limit, its end is the beginning of knowledge. 4th Irrefutable Axiom: The acquisition of knowledge is obtained by a double way, following the Path of Full Understanding. The inner path comprises asceticism, concentration, meditation and samadhi, until one realizes one's own timeless Self, One with the Absolute, the apperception of the impersonal God in oneself. The external way is through intense study, reflection, analysis, discernment, deduction, inference, investigation, experimentation, through the empirical and formal sciences. To understand the Self and Nature is the superior and integrating objective of complete knowledge.

It is not important whether God exists or not, what is important is the existence of the consciousness that you can experience directly, in which you can immerse yourself in deep silence and realize that you yourself are God. He is not alien to what you truly are. Your soul in you is God in you. When you penetrate into conscious silence the mind is absent and divinity manifests directly from your soul in you, revealing to you God awake in yourself.at the ultimate level of consciousness the individual self integrates with the Divine Universal Mind. Then one comes to perceive directly all beings, the entire Creation in one's own soul, no longer sees separation or differences between one's Self and all that exists. Nature, all living beings, the entire universe, all that one can experience are connected and interacting with our inner self, life itself expresses itself through us, it flows through our inner self, to reach this high level it is necessary to eliminate the mental contaminations, the impurities of our mind, which prevent us from the pure direct perception of reality as it is. This is the stage of the self-realized, the enlightened one.

What is Positronics? The method is simple, it is about focusing your thoughts and replacing harmful ideas with constructive ones on a constant basis. From the deep study, the paused and meditated reading of this book, blessings of personal spiritual perceptions will be born in you. God who is now conscious in me writes to you here, so that God who dreams in you, remembers through these gentle words the desire to be awake forever in you. The different instances of life test us from infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood and old age; relatives, friends, loves, work, accidents, adversities, gains and losses. Our Soul crosses the river of experience and each new stage that appears and begins on the horizon of our perception and heart is a challenge and at the same time, an opportunity to take a firm step further in the deep knowledge of oneself and towards freedom. Each stage of development, each trial of the path is lived from the singular; but it is part of our special general human condition. For this reason, there is an abundance of studies, advice and recipes to preventively remove the stones from the path.

Nirvana in Sanskrit means "extinction". In other words, it is the extinction of worldly desires and ignorance, sources of suffering and ego. Through meditation and asceticism it is possible to reach this state of full bliss, which frees from the cycle of reincarnations. Regarding the latter, Maitreya says: "knowledge has advanced sufficiently so that we can now understand that thought and consciousness have a physical substratum, so that we are getting closer and closer to the understanding of the existence of God as an objective material fact and not as an immaterial subjective potentiality, and therefore, unrealizable and incomprehensible.We can now identify our perception of God, or the Absolute, with the Unified Consciousness Field or Quantum Information Field. The Fifth Force that regulates order in all Creation in the physical universe.God being now a real and not an imaginary fact, we can contact Him in a simpler and more direct way, as we have never done or tried before".

Anabasis (an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It narrates the expedition of a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Though as an Ancient Greek vocabulary word, ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐς means "embarkation", "ascent" or "mounting up", the title Anabasis is rendered in translation as The March Up Country or as The March of the Ten Thousand. The narration of the army's journey across Asia Minor and Mesopotamia is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history". Xenophon, in his Hellenica, did not cover the retreat of Cyrus but instead referred the reader to the Anabasis by "Themistogenes of Syracuse"-the tenth-century Suda also describes Anabasis as being the work of Themistogenes, "preserved among the works of Xenophon", in the entry Θεμιστογένεης. (Θεμιστογένης, Συρακούσιος, ἱστορικός. Κύρου ἀνάβασιν, ἥτις ἐν τοῖς Ξενοφῶντος φέρεται καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδος. J.S. Watson in his Remarks on the Authorship of Anabasis refers to the various interpretations of the word "φέρεται", which give rise to different interpretations and different problems.) Aside from these two references, there is no authority for there being a contemporary Anabasis written by "Themistogenes of Syracuse", and indeed no mention of such a person in any other context. The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. While the journey of Cyrus is an anabasis from Ionia on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea, to the interior of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, most of Xenophon's narrative is taken up with the return march of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, from the interior of Babylon to the coast of the Black Sea. Socrates makes a cameo appearance, when Xenophon asks whether he ought to accompany the expedition. The short episode demonstrates the reverence of Socrates for the Oracle of Delphi. Xenophon's account of the exploit resounded through Greece, where, two generations later, some surmise, it may have inspired Philip of Macedon to believe that a lean and disciplined Hellene army might be relied upon to defeat a Persian army many times its size. Besides military history, the Anabasis has found use as a tool for the teaching of classical philosophy; the principles of statesmanship and politics exhibited by the army can be seen as exemplifying Socratic philosophy. (wikipedia.org)

A remarkable woman who lived through extraordinary times, Houri Mostofi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1919, descended on her mother's side from Iranian royalty and on her father's from a "God-fearing" family of scholars and government administrators. When she was twenty-two, Houri married Mohsen Moghadam, a young man from a merchant family who went on to become a successful businessman, often traveling abroad, while Houri dedicated herself to teaching, charitable public works, and running international women's associations in Tehran. Together, they also raised three children, in whom Houri was keen to instill the same spirit ofindustry and self-discipline she had learned from her own parents.Houri was among the first women to go to university in Iran, working as a teacher for nearly forty years and diligently continuing with her own education in later life, including traveling to the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar, and, after being forced into exile following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, studying for a PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris. From a privileged social class, with a glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle, Houri was a pioneer, nonetheless, and a feminist for her own time. Through her hard work and frequent acts of bravery-from standing up to sinister intruders to dogged persistence in the face of intransigent officialdom-she made sure that, as a woman, she was never overlooked, never invisible, even when hidden under a dark chador at the Revolutionary Court. It was women like Houri who were the precursors of the young women fighting for equal rights and justice in Iran today.¿The resulting memoir tells the fascinating story of her life, with all its ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, set against the backdrop of an impending revolution that would topple the world she and her family had always known and turn it upside down.