What is a spiritual school

A Spiritual School is an Inner Path. The inner Path of Islam is Sufiism. The Inner Path of Judaism is Caballah. The Inner Path of Buddhism is Zen Buddhism. The Inner Path of Christianity is Mystical Christianity. The Order of Christ/Sophia is an Inner Path and a Mystical Christian Path. We are a Spiritual School because we teach the ancient wisdom that all students have learned from a long oral tradition passed down from Teacher to student. The inner teachings were always passed down in this way from ancient times to this day. A Spiritual School has Teachers and students; Masters or Priests and disciples. The disciples learn from the Teachers or Priests about the spiritual life and about themselves.

In a Spiritual School, book learning is less emphasized than interior, meditative training. Students are asked to go within in meditation to learn about themselves and about God at the center of their being. They work with spiritual exercises and meditations designed to bring them into the Illumination and into Self-Realization. In our Order new students are assigned a Priest to teach them who will watch over their spiritual growth. The student will be given exercises, meditative practices and will be counseled on various aspects of their spiritual life. In time, the student opens their awareness of their own purpose in life and of the nature of their own being in relation to God. Spiritual development and spiritual consciousness are the sole basis of advancement into higher consciousness or deeper levels of responsibility.

The purpose of a real spiritual school is to bring the student face-to-face with God at the center of their being. This is not a mental concept but an actual experience. Spiritual experience changes a person from someone who is speculating to someone who actually, really knows what is real. The purpose of a spiritual school is to bring a person as far as they can go spiritually in any particular lifetime. Through dedication to the Way and obedient devotion to the process of the spiritual lessons given, the student comes to know what the Teacher knows. The knowledge is experiential rather than cerebral and so demands a complete transformation of our personality. All the old concepts about life are shattered in the awakening of who one really is and how each person was created.

A spiritual school is as different from a theological seminary as a recipe is different from the food that one will experience when eating it. Theology is for the brain while spiritual experience is for the soul and the heart.