Seven Ingredients of a Living Spiritual Path -- Seven Gnostic-Sant Mat Parallels: 1) living masters/teachers with students (past masters, scrolls, cuneiform tablets or old scriptures are not enough; a living guide is required); 2) a cosmology of several heavens/inner regions/planes/spheres; 3) an understanding that souls can access these realms here and now during this present life (a present-tense Kingdom of Heaven available to souls right now, not a spirituality postponed till some magical date on a calendar or hypothesized future age); 4) an initiation into the mysteries of the heavens, imparting to spiritual seekers the meditation techniques and sacred names; 5) visionary and auditory mysticism (inner Light and Sound, spiritual seeing and hearing) -- descriptions of souls traveling within through various inner regions; 6) they have an ethical code, and this ethical foundation includes a vegetarian diet, then and now; and, 7) The Goal of the teachings and meditation practice is experiencing direct union with God. Subscribe at santmat.substack.com