Philosophical Speculations

The bold is incorrect. You forget a crucial point here. That Tomberg utilizes this subtle half-messaging is only your disputable hypothesis (I have asked Rodriel how these conceptions were formed). Notice, the entire Catholic project absolutely needs this tenet in order to stand . For my part, I do ...

Neither Satan, nor Belial, nor Lucifer, nor Mephistopheles have ever deprived anyone of his freedom. Temptation is their only weapon and this presupposes the freedom of he who is tempted. But possession by an "evil spirit" has nothing to do with temptation. It is invariably the same thing as with ...

The point is that imaginative cognition and arcana cognition intersect but do not coincide. What I have described as astral CGOL referes to the arcana experience. If it doesn't coincide with imaginative cognition, then what would you compare it to? You said it isn't comparable to lucid dreaming ...

It points to a rapidly escalating epidemic of eroding the soul's cognitive-moral foundations, and without such foundations, there is zero chance for higher knowledge to infuse the Earthly spectrum. The fact is that the Church is the only institution in the modern world that even recognizes this ...

Thanks, Cleric, for sharing your meditations on this topic again. These are great points of departure for a potentially fruitful exploration and discussion. Let's start with something from MoT: Neither Satan, nor Belial, nor Lucifer, nor Mephistopheles have ever deprived anyone of his freedom ...

Ashvin, Where is the "precision" and the "spiritual-scientific inquiry" in the emotionally triggered thought of a Catholic soul saying "Sorry POTUS, but I refuse to obey this order"? BTW you will notice, my point was not that a Catholic can do horrors, but that such observation (that a Catholic can ...

Yes, I agree that Cleric didn’t mean that MoT was written out of a series of 22 lucid dreams :) I think you have paraphrased him correctly. But the key point is that the way “our living soul stances relate to one another and fit into the wider evolutionary picture” is strictly lawful, not free. The ...

I saw a movie recently about the possibility of nuclear holocaust, "A House Full of Dynamite" (it's interesting to me how it was released right in the middle of this discussion). Chicago is about to be hit with an ICBM, and the question is whether and how to retaliate. A fighter pilot is sent out ...

This basically splits human knowledge into the practical sphere and the sphere of mystical revelation , which is a matter of personal experience that shouldn't be talked about much (does this remind us of Eugene, who says that his meditative experiences are too intimate to share?). In other words ...

So I will limit it to only one followup question: How is the modern Hermetic impulse supposed to restore the unity of science, art and religion, according to VT? What does it concretely mean to "serve" art and science, for the modern Hermetic? What are some examples he gives? I am not looking for ...