Philosophical Speculations

Cleric, I have not said I find SS unconvincing, at least in its core ideas. Rather I am yet to be convinced of attempts to connect it to Christianity as broadly understood. In terms of what you have outlined above, my attention is drawn to points 3 and 4, the depth structure of reality. Christianit...

The continuity between the old faith and the perspective of SS is something I still aren't seeing. This seems to be a common result with the various interactions I've seen here. There is quite the leap from "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" to "Strive for hig...

Anthony, Can you just say a few words on what significance this has for you? If there is a progressive transformation in humanity's understanding and relationship with the Divine, which I would say could not be made more plain for anyone who examines the whole corpus of OT and NT without modern pre...

Again, this is all well and good if by Lord one has in view the ground of reality which Christian theology, particularly classical theism eventually landed on. But in popular piety, Lord is the OT figure who had a keen interest in the status of flesh on penises, the mixing of fabrics, slaughtering ...

As a sort of quick and dirty phenomenological approach to this question, one could start by experiencing their current linear sequence of thoughts. For ex. right now I have thoughts condensing related to 'how to phenomenologically illustrate the Lord to Anthony'. These are linearly experienced as t...

Who or what is the Lord in your polytheistic universe? What I read in these words: "Who or what" = "I don't prefer to be invited out of the anthropomorphic perspective". "polytheistic" = "I prefer to look at images at a 1-pixel resolution. Any resolution above 1 i...

Since the following thought has just come to me in a roundabout way (not from the daily thoughts) I'll share it here :) Who or what is the Lord in your polytheistic universe? As a sort of quick and dirty phenomenological approach to this question, one could start by experiencing their current linea...

Cleric K wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:13 pm

Anthony66 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:43 pm Who or what is the Lord in your polytheistic universe?

It's LUCA! (but upside-down)

You're learning to express yourself more concisely!

Since the following thought has just come to me in a roundabout way (not from the daily thoughts) I'll share it here :) Bless, thank, consecrate: a rule of life "Do you want to make your life ever richer and more beautiful? Bless every creature you encounter, every object you touch. Thank the ...

If spiritual science and the views expressed here were dissociated from the religious traditions, particularly Christianity, then these issues that I'm highlighting wouldn't have the same gravity. But tying concentration exercises and the transformation of consciousness to the Christ event is quite...