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THE MARK Maurice Nicoll THE MARK Maurice Nicoll Copyright page The Mark by Maurice Nicoll © 1954 by Vincent Stuart Ltd. · London Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii 1 Physical and Spiritual Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Feet and the Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Naked Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Wash the Feetin Water in a Basin . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Fight BetweenSerpent and Horse . . . . . . . 10 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2 Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Transformation of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Transformation of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Salt oftheEarth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Lot’s Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Transformation of Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3 The Parable of the Sower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Part V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Part VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Part VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 4 The Grain of Mustard Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 5 Metanoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Thy Will Be Doneon Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 The Idea of the Kingdom of Heaven . . . . . . . 112 6 Nicodemus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 The Woman of Samaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Part V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 7 Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Part V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 The Parableof the Unjust Steward . . . . . . . . . 166 Note on the Parableof the Unjust Steward . . 177 8 A New Heaven and a New Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 John theBaptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 The Teaching of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Esoteric Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 The Consummation of the Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 War in Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 9 The New Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 10 The Telos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Epiousios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Early Greek Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Early Greek Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Preface Before his deathon August 30th, 1953, my father, Dr Mau rice Nicoll, was writing a book to which he referred as The Mark. When Dr Nicoll died he had not yet decided on the order of the contents of this book, and they have therefore been arranged as we think he would have wished. The Parable of the Sower and the Seed, Metanoia, Nicodemus and Truthhad already been finished and corrected and were clearly meant for inclusion in this book. He also definitely wished to include the dream, headed The New Will,the incomplete piece on War in Heaven,and the unfin ished chapter at the end of the book called The Telos. A few fragments from his notebooks have been added where it is thought they may interest the reader. The rest of the material is taken from papers he wrote at various times, and which he might, or might not, have included. I would only add that here, often in passages of great beauty, is the key for those who long for a greater understanding of the teaching of Christ, and the meaning of our existence on this earth. Jane Mounsey vii Chapter1 Physical and Spiritual Man Part I Aman touchesthe earth with his physical feet, but he touches life with his psychological feet. His most external psycho logical level is sensual, a matter of sensation, a matter of the senses. That is, his most external thinking and feeling arise from what he perceives from sense. This level represents the feet of his psychological being as distinct from the feet of his physical being, and the kind of shoes which cover his feet represent his particular views, opinions, and attitudes that he wears or uses in his approach to sense-given life. Without your five senses, external life would not exist for you. How does a man walk the Earth?We speak here psychologi cally. How does his outermost psychology relate itself to external life? Now a man who understands life only through the evidence of his senses is not a psychological man.He is a sensual man. His mind is based on sense. This is called elsewhere “the mind of the flesh” (ό νοῦς τῆς σαρκὸς).1In such a case he thinks from his feet— and has no head. Most particularly, he thinks from 1 Colossians 2:18. 1
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