{"id":1078,"date":"2025-11-23T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1078"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:31:01","slug":"magazine-issue-18-summer-2020","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-18-summer-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 18 &#8211; Summer 2020 &#8220;Homer&#8217;s Man and Peace, Part 1&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This magazine contains texts from our Publications, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this issue we present a few selected Speeches from the book \u201cHOMER MAN and PEACE\u201d, published by our Society. The book is an English translation from Greek by John Alexander.<\/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>The importance of Moderation<br \/>\nTeaching 75th<\/p>\n<p>Moderation is the basis of human life.<br \/>\nModeration is not unjust, does not abuse, and does not hate.<br \/>\nModeration is the love of balance.<br \/>\nThe saying \u201cModeration in all things\u201d was not a manner of speaking but a true revelation of the Divine light to men of spirituality and reason.<br \/>\nPoetry without measure has no harmony and music deprived of measure sounds wrongly. You ought therefore to possess moderation as a yardstick for everything.<br \/>\nThe frenzied imagination has no moderation, only madness.<br \/>\nInsistence on an idea or on a mistaken tradition leads to fanaticism, which compels man to backtrack from the right path and changes him from a calm person to a crazy detractor of the truth and an enemy of love.<br \/>\nDo not ignore moderation. Everything done in moderation is correct; beyond that you create chasms which lead you to the irredeemable abyss.<br \/>\nThe value of moderation is a priceless treasure for man.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1074,"template":"","class_list":["post-1078","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 18 - Summer 2020 &quot;Homer&#039;s Man and Peace, Part 1&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-18-summer-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue 18 - Summer 2020 &quot;Homer&#039;s Man and Peace, Part 1&quot; - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The importance of Moderation Teaching 75th  Moderation is the basis of human life. 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