Philosophical Speculations

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...

Cleric, I've read your response here a number of times in the days since you posted it and it is finally started to resonate. Much of what you write is irrefutable. But the connection between spiritual activity and thinking would be challenged by the average theist who would want to maintain a sepa...

Hello everyone, I wanted to post a little Essay wich I have written 2 days ago. It is nothing new to many people in this forum, but I want to share it to get a clearer idea myself. Maybe it will help somebody unfamiliar with this topic, to understand the direction of this things. ------------------...

One thing that has been animating me of late is what I perceive as a disconnect between various elements of esoteric/SS spiritual practice. On one hand we have the classical spiritual practices of prayer, devotion, ethical/moral development and the reading of spiritual texts. But then when we turn ...