Philosophical Speculations

I realize that the way I posed the question of continuity between the works of VT och RS is intellectual and discursive, and see how you are pointing to an extension and an upgrade, so to say. I guess the disagreement here could be seen in terms of wavelength, or tempo, within the unfolding of the ...

Thanks, Rodriel. I’m sure there's much in Tomberg’s work that I'm not able to notice. His figure and stance are in themselves enigmatic (for me) and I can conceive that he may have cultivated the purpose you describe, addressing different souls with different messages, concealed within the same wor ...

I find myself really hoping that would you write above is the case, and I can imagine the Church still serves that function for quite a few souls who are intellectually inclined and enthusiastic to accept its teachings. I am curious though, how you are evaluating this - " And the laity (the real ...

Right, so I suppose that we agree when it comes to souls like us , i.e., who are prepared for spiraling together, the Petrine thinking shouldn't be pursued as something parallel to John thinking. Instead, any teachings we glean from the Church should only serve as symbolic anchor points for our ...

Right, so I suppose that we agree when it comes to souls like us , i.e., who are prepared for spiraling together, the Petrine thinking shouldn't be pursued as something parallel to John thinking. Instead, any teachings we glean from the Church should only serve as symbolic anchor points for our ...

I'm glad I asked, I had not well understood that from the rest of the discussion. Do you have in mind thoughts such as this, when you speak of withholding certain communications? It is worth a hundred times more to know nothing of the fact of reincarnation, and to deny the doctrine of reincarnation ...

I suppose my main concern is when we make this delineation in the imaginative domain, i.e., between Peter thinking and John thinking. In the deeper domain of feeling, what you are saying makes a lot more sense to me, insofar as the Church may still functionally safeguard the devotional feelings of ...

Are you essentially saying that by predeterminately choosing not to choose (what you are doing here in your recommendation) the esotericist should teach less advanced souls how to make choices? If not, it would perhaps help to bring a concrete example of an act of moral creativity that submits to ...

Yet that is exactly what we agree the Church will be highly resistant to. So when a modern intellectual soul confronts the astonishing scientific advances of Levin's research, on the one hand, and the uncertain promises of a nebulous afterlife in Heaven, on the other, how exactly will it be ...

Here's a related thread I posted in another forum which relates this topic back to Philosophy of Freedom . I'm not sure if it adds much to what has already been discussed here, but maybe it does. Ashvin provided a few comments in the other forum, so perhaps he'd be interested in transferring those ...