The Path of Virtue - Hardcover

Murro, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0917189000 ISBN 13: 9780917189005

Publisher: Ann Ree Colton Foundation of, 1997

Synopsis

The Path of Virtue is a comprehensive work on the evolutionary significance of the virtues expressed by man. The author includes the inspired words of the great teachers, saints, sages, and philosophers of the past who reveal the Path of Virtue to be the classic route to union with God. The Path of Virtue provides invaluable insights into the noblest degrees of the cardinal virtues, so that earnest truth-seekers may work to achieve the highest degrees of all virtues and thereby become one with their Creator.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Murro, co-founder of the Ann Ree Colton Foundation of Niscience, Inc., was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 31, 1927. Following a prayer to serve God, Jonathan met his future teacher and wife, Ann Ree Colton, in 1951. Recognizing the profound value and rarity of her knowledge and communion with God, he committed himself to the preservation and transcribing of her lectures, inspirations, and spiritual receivings. Author and co-author of nine books and countless lectures on spiritual subjects, Jonathan became a qualified spiritual teacher in his own right. After Ann Ree's passing in 1984, Jonathan served as the Administrator of the Ann Ree Colton Foundation for seven years, until his death. Jonathan left the profound legacy of his own initiatory path toward God Realization, his tremendous appreciation and articulation of Cosmos-spirituality, his clarification of the "holy war" between light and dark, and his perceptive elucidation of the challenges of modern-day discipleship, as well as many other spiritual principles related to the higher life.

From the Back Cover

"Our life is short, but to expand that span to vast eternity is virtue's work." (Shakespeare)
"The chief good is the exercise of virtue in a perfect life." (Aristotle)
"Virtue of herself is sufficient for happiness." (Plato)
"Virtue is harmony." (Pythagoras)
"The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort." (Confucius)
"The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he is happy in the next; he is happy in both." (Buddha)
"With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world." (Lao Tzu)
"Divine virtues are regarded as conducive to liberation." (Bhagavad Gita)
"From virtue arises happiness." (Mahabharata)
"He who remains undistracted even when he is in possession of all the psychic powers, achieves, as the result of perfect discrimination, that samadhi which is called the 'cloud of virtues.'" (Patanjali)
"Spiritual virtue is to adore God as if thou sawest Him; and if thou seest Him not, He nevertheless sees thee." (Muhammad)
"Virtue is that perfect good which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality." (Seneca)
"All holy virtues, God keep you, God, from whom you proceed and come." (Saint Francis of Assisi)
"And the whole multitude sought to touch Him [Jesus]: for there went virtue out of Him, and healed them all." (St. Luke 6:19)

From the Inside Flap

The Scriptures of all faiths contain voluminous references to the value and necessity of virtues. The knowledge of virtues is a light that glows in lands and in hearts where love and goodness are cherished and expressed. Individuals and nations that recognize and follow this light are mankind's hope for the present and for the future.

The welfare and survival of a nation are dependent upon the integrity of its leaders and the moral character of its people. The success and happiness of a marriage are determined by the love and virtues of husband and wife. The enlightenment of a spiritual aspirant occurs in direct degree to the purity of his love and the sacramental expression of virtues.

Ann Ree Colton stated, "Jonathan Murro's writing involves one with his ecstasy. The virtue he is writing about is the power within the heart of grace. Such virtue heals the mass energized coagulations of evil and wrongdoing. This virtue gives off the aroma of soul-exquisiteness; gives the balm of mind peace; gives the transfusion of strength and mastery over weakness."

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The Commandments revealed by Moses and Jesus are the Rosetta Stone for mankind's decoding the hieroglyphics of the heavens. Each Commandment is a law of harmony seeking to unite life on earth with the Intelligence of God creating the stars and the galaxies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ann Ree Colton Foundation of
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0917189000
• ISBN 13: 9780917189005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 487