Philosophical Speculations

Does it not sound like there's a narrator looking at things from the vantage point? It does sound and seem like there is a narrator until it is discovered that the narrator has always been the Self itself. In other words, it is the Self seeking itself through all evolutionary layers, first confusin...

Instead of debating the teachings of DtA, let's see if what Louth wrote can align with the holistic Ideas we discern through our own logical reasoning. If the higher hierarchies are not individual beings but rather represent stages of our own centripetal evolution back to the Godhead, as all esoter...

Speaking of Pseudo-Dionysius, it's worth noting how in his theological paradigm the "nested spiritual activity of the higher hierarchies in whom we live" co-exists with a possibility of a direct connection with the ultimate Divinity bypassing any hierarchies, with these two perspectives no...

Steiner doesn't mention anything about a "blank or void state" in relation to Eastern esotericism, as far as I can tell. He further elaborates on 'Nirvana' in a subsequent lecture. We should notice how we are not dealing with an inner enlightenment which is discontinuous with the normal e...

Steiner: The first of these forces is Avidja: ignorance. Avidja is what draws us down again into physical existence for the simple reason that we shall only have fulfilled our mission on the Earth when we have extracted from it all possible knowledge. On the other hand we have not fulfilled our mis...

Although the dance of creation changes around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the Same
Sri Anandamayi Ma

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 2:04 am It's not a matter of answering the questions out of our own personal thoughts on the physical plane, but of growing our "I" into the higher planes of Consciousness where we have already answered the questions and turned the answers into World-forming activity.

Exactly

It is time for humanity to awaken that it isn't the only metaphor-forming community of be-ings in the Cosmos, and that its very be-ing is a metaphor for Cosmic Be-ing. Absolutely, and not just a metaphor, but an actuality: our own be-ing it is actually the same as the Cosmic Be-ing. We all are &quo...

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Eugene, Thank you, that's helpful, and no worries, I am not getting it as an argument against Cleric's Deep MAL, at all. If I'm getting your 2D geometry right: rather than a flat MAL strewn with single bubbles (as in Bernardo’s drawings), your geometry looks like a simplified Deep MAL, simply colla...