Fifth Way Mystery School

DEFINITIONS:

Fifth (fifth) adj. 1. Growth 2. The ordinal of five. 3. The resolution of the second and the third. 4. Spiritual harmony. 5. Pentagonal hetrodyne channel for extraterrestrial information; witchcraft. [Old English fifta, fifth; Latin quintas (<quinc-tos), fifth. Suffixed form penkweros in Germanic figwraz, finger (<"one of five")

Way (wa) n. 1. Progress, passage or travel along a certain route or in a specific direction; path; road 2. A course of experience; technique 3. Symbollic theophany. 4. Ritual participation in guerilla ontology 5. Yoga. [Middle English wey(e), wei(e), way, Old English weg, a road, path].

Mystery(mis'ter-e) n . 1. Anything that arouses curiosity because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret. 2. The quality of being unknown or unknowable. 3. A truth that can be known only through divine intervention; universal. 4. Enigmatic projection of autonomous psychic content. 5. Hologramic irreality. 6. The breath of spirit, magic. [Middle English misterie, mysterie, from Latin mysterium, from Greek musterion, "secret rites," from mustes, one initiated into secret rites, from muein, to initiate, from muein, to close the eyes or mouth, hence to keep secret. Also from Late Latin ministerium, service, work, occupation, from minister, servant.]

School (skool) n. 1. Community; a group of persons, especially intellectuals and artists, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates some common influence or unifying belief. 2. To swim together. 3. Locality in which learning takes place. 4. The world laboratory of kinesthetic shocks. 5. Education provided by a set of circumstances or experiences. 6. Church. [Middle English scole, Old English scol; from Latin schola, leisure, school; from Greek skhole, leisure (devoted to learning), lecture, school.]

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"Some call it magick - the search for the Grail;
Love is the answer. . ."
John Lennon, Mind Games

MISSION STATEMENT

Mystical Science is the Essence of the Fifth Way.

East has met west, and the planet is suddenly too small for sectarian differences and fundamentalist "purity." Religion is something we all have in common, as humans, not something that separates us, as people.

The essence of the religious experience is the encounter with that which is greater than ourselves, however we define that Other. Science, the desire to "know," is also a peculiarly human characteristic; and the essence of science is the quality of experience brought into focus by the mind.

Our current scientific paradigm is nothing but materialist gnosticism. We can "know" quite a bit about reality, modern science says, but we can never know "reality." Absolute qualities, such as space and time, movement and rest, become fluid components of the same, ultimately receding Absolute.

What's left is the mechanical debris of a careless Watchmaker God, one that Newton dreamed of, one that is remote, unconcerned and unreachable. Physics brought us to the Abyss, and as we looked within, we saw that faith had delivered us to that same Abyss.

We live in an information drenched Universe of staggering richness and splendor, yet most of us see only the blue-gray blur of stimulant-driven consumer reality with its gold card security and name-brand authenticity. We are like blind men at a banquet, we smell the food but cannot find the table.

Nietzche laughs from the pages of comic books and the greatest treasures of all are found in unlikely places. Our spiritual practices must offer us hope, sincerity, insight, and most important of all: escape!

This should be an experience which, openly participated in, produces only the profoundest of bliss, a joy so clear and bright, along with a knowing so complete that most of us would be overwhelmed with laughter as we caught the greatest "aha!" of all time, the ultimate Punch-line. Believing, with the Surrealists, that "beauty must be convulsive, or not at all," the Fifth Way Mystery School teaches that "religion must be ecstatic, or not at all."

The Fifth Way Mystery School was formed to support that ecstatic encounter with the Other, be it termed God, our Higher Self, the Consciousness of the planet, or the awareness of Nature. We believe you should have fun in church.

With that in mind, the Fifth Way Mystery School sponsors only the finest moments of convulsive beauty and the best escapes into religious ecstasy. And it also offers a few laughs along the way.

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What could a scientist and sage,

a Longchenpa and an Einstein in one,

have to tell us about the nature of reality?

Will one of the future flowerings

of the great tree of the bardo teachings

be a scientific mystical dialogue,

one that we can still only barely imagine,

but which we seem to be on the threshold of?

And what would that mean for humanity?

SOGYAL RINPOCHE Author of Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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