{"id":1046,"date":"2025-11-23T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1046"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:19:21","slug":"magazine-issue-4-winter-2016","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-4-winter-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 4 &#8211; Winter 2016 (Selected Texts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This magazine contains texts from our Publications, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p>The Divine Light Texts are spiritual communications received by the Channel George Pisanis during the years 1961 &#8211; 1979. They are Teachings transmitted by the Highest Authority of the Spiritual World.<\/p>\n<p>The sketches at the front cover come from a collection of a visionary, late member of our Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural phenomena<br \/>\nConfucius<\/p>\n<p>CONFUCIUS: You mortals, after long investigation of natural phenomena, have acquired the habit of giving, according to your discernment, explanations about these things that derive from your observation and your imagination. The result is that for phenomena such as thunder, lightning, earthquakes, tempests, bad weather, heat and cold, you have formed mistaken ideas. Why?<br \/>\nBecause you are not enlightened by Our Cause. You have for example measured the possible central heat of your Earth and you forecast everything in accordance with the law of probabilities &#8211; that your Earth, for instance, will retain its heat for so many centuries to come! How have you reached this conclusion, since no man has ever penetrated into the bowels of the Earth? I mention this, because research from a distance is always fallacious.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1047,"template":"","class_list":["post-1046","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-category-magazines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Issue 4 - Winter 2016 (Selected Texts) - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-4-winter-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue 4 - Winter 2016 (Selected Texts) - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Natural phenomena Confucius  CONFUCIUS: You mortals, after long investigation of natural phenomena, have acquired the habit of giving, according to your discernment, explanations about these things that derive from your observation and your imagination. 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