{"id":1060,"date":"2025-11-23T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1060"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:18:01","slug":"magazine-issue-9-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-9-spring-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 9 &#8211; Spring 2018 &#8220;Teachings of Chinese Spiritual Teachers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This magazine contains texts from our Publications, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current edition is dedicated to teachings of Chinese Spiritual Teachers. The great country of China along with its people have always possessed the qualities of kindness and humanism as well as the deep sense and instinct of civilisation.<\/strong><\/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>Buddhism is a complicated religion<br \/>\nConfucius<\/p>\n<p>CONFUCIUS: A lot of people have the impression that Buddha was a distinguished personality. They are deceived. Buddha was a simple man. He did not have a spiritual education but was pious towards the Powers of Heaven, without knowing them. He founded, in his own way, a religion without eyes. His successors cultivated this religion and ascribed a lot of things to the first Buddha, without these things belonging to him.<br \/>\n\tBuddhism played a big role in the peoples of that time. Many leaders followed a different way than the established one and harmed many of their brothers. Buddhism today is a complicated religion and whoever wants to abide to it ought to abandon everything, seeking the Divine Breath in the isolation and in the study of the various works of the Buddhist Dogma. In other words, Buddhism is not humane. Man cannot be inactive towards his fellowmen and care only for his soul, being indifferent to his body, as if the latter did not belong to him.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1056,"template":"","class_list":["post-1060","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 9 - Spring 2018 &quot;Teachings of Chinese Spiritual Teachers&quot; - 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-9-spring-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue 9 - Spring 2018 &quot;Teachings of Chinese Spiritual Teachers&quot; - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Buddhism is a complicated religion Confucius  CONFUCIUS: A lot of people have the impression that Buddha was a distinguished personality. 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