Böcker av Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet

Volume 4 of The New Way is a series of twenty essays written by Thea for students and friends living in India and throughout the world. Originally presented in The Vishaal Newsletter, between 1989 and 1994, they retain an extraordinary relevance for the world today. Thea offers insights about historical and philosophical issues from a very unusual perspective. In each of her four major themes, she makes a direct application of an Indocentric Cosmology, which she calls The New Way.She writes from the 'centre' that is India: this nation is the 'planetary soul' of our Solar System. It is India, by destiny, who is to come forward to assist the Earth in the work to be done in this 9th Manifestation. The essays offer a vision and a methodology to ensure that the seeker does not isolate him/herself and escape from the experience which is presently being offered to our planet - to see ourselves as parts of one luminous whole Earth. We are a race in transition; a higher Truth is evolving within us and our Earth is the place where the process unfolds, where the Light of a Higher Being can increasingly manifest through us.

Astrology is older than any religion known today. It is more ancient than the most ancient scriptures. It will last long after these have past into oblivion, when religions, philosophies, metaphysical systems, the various spiritual disciplines will appear as myths, because it does not depend on man, though he be divinely inspired. Its scriptures are the movement of the planets. Its Truth lies in the workings of the Cosmos, in the harmonies of the Spheres, and as long as these exist, so long will astrology live.

In ancient times the zodiac - astrology's basic alphabet - conveyed a body of higher knowledge, hence it formed part of the sacred sciences, not only in India but in all the Mystery Schools of the ancient world... (Patrizia Norelli Bachelet, 2014) For millennia wisemen of all traditions have searched for a key of knowledge which would unlock the mysteries of the universe. The Alchemists called this universal key, 'the Philosopher's Stone' and revealed that it was based upon the structure and harmonies of the Cosmos. This legendary 'stone' or Lapis Philosophorum was believed to be a magical object having the power to change base metals into gold, but, in a deeper sense, it symbolized the final goal of the initiation process which was the attainment of the highest wisdom. Possession of the 'Philosopher's Stone' was the coveted condition resulting from the realization of 'Gnosis', an enlightened state in which one knows with a certainty that one knows and sees with an understanding which can be infinitely extended to all situations. Over the centuries, the system of knowledge which emerged from the alchemical tradition represented the pinnacle of enlightened thought. It was based upon the known universe which then consisted of six planets and the central Sun. But it was not until the 20th century, following the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, that the complete key of knowledge could be revealed and man's integral transformation fully understood. The Gnostic Circle is that key and contains the highest wisdom of our age.