The Friar's Cell

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The Friar’s Cell: Anthology of Spirit

Ian Fennsen is the persona who appeared to transmit the life stories found in The Friar’s Cell: Anthology of Spirit. The stories began to write themselves around 1972 as an experimental, non-generic novel. Like consciousness itself, the stories continued to expand and blossomed into metaphor. In the spring of 2008 they coalesced into completion as an entertaining, enlightening teaching novel–and publishing became possible.

The Friar’s Cell: Anthology of Spirit is a portal to greater understanding of Spirit Within. The Friar’s Cell door opens to reveal the esoteric principles behind the extraordinary circumstances of ordinary lives, for Ian Fennsen lives in a dimension of Truth closer than the heart.

As Ageless as Wisdom itself, he sees through the soap opera of incarnate life and lays bare the reality of Eternal Spirit—for those who want to see. All the people, all the Sacred Halls connecting the veils of birth and death, not knowing they seek higher consciousness, arrive at The Friar’s Cell Bar & Grille to tell their stories and learn their lessons. Violating Time and Space, folks slide into Ian’s booth, the last one on the left, and buy him a beer. Captive of the icy mug, Ian listens . . . .

The esoteric philosophies emanating from The Friar’s Cell range from Buddhism to Hindu, to Judaism, to Islam, to other major religions, and to both traditional and Esoteric Christianity. For instance, reincarnation is not a new concept to Christianity, but a forgotten staple of the early church. Each life-story entering The Friar’s Cell is a springboard for teaching many Higher Principles that are part of the hidden foundation of all organized religions—for those who read their religion-of-choice’s official doctrine with “eyes” that see the metaphor. As Joseph Campbell says: “Metaphors only seem to describe the outer world of time and place. Their real universe is the spiritual realm of the inner life. The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor, Eugene Kennedy, ed. New World Library, Novato, CA, 2001,7.)

These Higher Principles surface as mystery teachings in Esoteric Christianity, in the Sufi orders, in Kabbalah, in Hermeticism, in Esoteric Buddhism, and in Rosicrucian Qabalah. "Mystery Teaching" reflects Spiritual Truth as transmitted via metaphoric imagery. This Truth cannot be communicated any other way than through symbols that resonate with, and affect, our deepest levels of consciousness – deeper than verbal language can penetrate.

For those with the Will, Reason, and Time to read, the mysteries are all presented, exhaustively, in the works of Helena P. Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey, who were guided by Ascended Masters of Compassion—higher vibratory energies and intel

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