Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation: Vidar and Balder, the Three Elemental Realms and the Inner and Outer Etheric worlds

In March 2020, Are Thoresen contracted Covid-19 and experienced a breakthrough in his daily meditation. He perceived the elemental beings and forces that make up the mineral at an atomic level and an even deeper dimension, a void or vacuum, which revealed an open portal to the entire cosmos. He shares the results of his spiritual investigations, including a life-changing encounter with the Light of the World, and characterizes the Northern way of initiation, which is based on merging or fading into nature. His book is a powerful personal testimony to the human potential for spiritual knowledge and experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2021
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing

In March 2020, Are Thoresen contracted Covid-19. Whilst convalescing from the disease and suffering great exhaustion, he experienced a breakthrough in his daily meditation. Although he has always been able to see into the spiritual world, now deeper, unknown realms appeared to his inner vision. In the soapstone surround of the fireplace in his Norwegian home, he perceived the elemental beings and forces that make up the mineral at an atomic level. A few days later, an even deeper dimension revealed itself, in the form of a void or vacuum. Here, astonishingly, was an open portal to the entire cosmos. In Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation, Thoresen shares the results of his latest spiritual investigations, including a moving, life-changing encounter with the Light of the World. He details the teachings he receives from the beings Vidar and Balder - who stand as guardians to the threshold of the outer etheric world - and characterizes the Northern way of initiation, which is based on merging, or fading, into nature. Thoresen documents Rudolf Steiner's descriptions of this path and shows how it is reflected in the Old Norse Poetic Edda, the Kalevala, and von Eschenbach's Parzival. Based on painstaking research, he describes the individual qualities of the three elemental realms and how the adversarial forces - seeking to corrupt human senses - hinder spiritual observation of them. Thoresen's book is a powerful personal testimony to the human potential for spiritual knowledge and experience in our time.

Weight: 238g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912230839