{"id":1062,"date":"2025-11-23T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1062"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:15:41","slug":"magazine-issue-11-autumn-2018","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-11-autumn-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 11 &#8211; Autumn 2018 &#8220;Teachings of Confucius&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This magazine contains texts from our Publications, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This issue is dedicated to the great Teacher Confucius. Confucius existed on earth many centuries before the Lord&#8217;s arrival. During his era there was no heavenly enlightenment.<\/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>Do not waste your time aimlessly<br \/>\nConfucius<\/p>\n<p>\tCONFUCIUS: Every aimless wasting of your time, my brethren, retards your psychic and spiritual development. We do not have the measurement of time for the simple reason that time does not exist in the Immortal World of the Heavens. But such measurement is indispensable for man, so that he can regulate everything according to measure, distance and time, and in this way not move and act aimlessly. Time is significant for mortals because the duration of their life is short and within that short space of time what can they do if they lack direction and are without orientation? Until they realize that there is a Divine Word and a divine enlightenment they exhaust themselves in the struggle of life without sufficient powers to advance along the road of their salvation.<br \/>\n\tUnhappily man considers that it is superfluous to concern himself, for the sake of his comfort, with whatever does not have relationship with matter. Only the good things of the material World interest him. This is because he has no time left to devote himself to enlightenment, which he regards as something negative; and it is for this reason that the spirit of rejection towards everything that is not visible takes up residence within him. Should he think in calmness of spirit that nothing can happen without the will of the Creator, then he opens a door for himself to Our Light. If he examines with goodwill and patience the Light of Hope that we bestow on him, he will discover an unknown and immense World, which he could never discover by means of earthly knowledge.<br \/>\n\t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1058,"template":"","class_list":["post-1062","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 11 - Autumn 2018 &quot;Teachings of Confucius&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-11-autumn-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue 11 - Autumn 2018 &quot;Teachings of Confucius&quot; - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do not waste your time aimlessly Confucius   CONFUCIUS: Every aimless wasting of your time, my brethren, retards your psychic and spiritual development. 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