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The Academy is dedicated to the education,
preservation, and dissemination of European art and culture. Here, one can learn
to see beyond the surface of art and literature to derive a much deeper meaning.
European artists and authors were forced to disguise their spiritual knowledge for various reasons across the centuries.
However, there have always been special groups throughout history that have passed
along this ancient knowledge any way they could--often through art.
Through the Academy, Philosopher Mervyn Brady has continued the evolution of the Fourth Way
following in the footsteps of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Collin. As mentioned before,
Instinct led to Intellect which led to Emotion. Now, the Fourth Way has evolved into Love.
Next to God, Love is the ultimate in human energy, experience, interaction and expression.
When a person finds Love, objective love, he/she will find their Soul as well.
"Those who find fault with any part of your creation are bereft of reason,
just as I was when I decried many of the things which you had made. My soul did not dare
to find fault with my God, and therefore it would not admit that what it found distasteful
had been created by you. This was why it went astray and accepted the theory of the two
substances. This, too, was why it could find no rest and talked so foolishly. Then it had
turned away from this error and had imagined for itself a god extended through all space to
infinity. Thinking that this god was you, it had enshrined this idol in its heart and,
once again, had made of itself a temple abominable to you. But, unknown to me, you soothed
my head and closed my eyes so that they should not look upon vain phantoms, and I
became drowsy and slept away my madness. I awoke in you and saw that you were infinite,
but not in the way I had supposed. This I saw, but it was not with the sight of the flesh
that I saw it."
--St. Augustine, c. 400 CE
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