Philosophical Speculations

Thanks for these considerations, Kaje. There is an interesting issue to explore in the bold. As your post highlights, the core task of our age is not to change the bodies of spiritual truth - words or institutions - but the consciousness of those who inhabit and utilize the bodies (which also ...

If we disregard the problematic aspects of the Church, then it is not primarily about the actual Church as it existed in past centuries, but rather a form of archetypal Catholic Church that represents these specific spiritual values . But then I see the question: Do we really need an institution or ...

The Catholic project could only work if it were guaranteed that the Church would also follow the course of spiritual evolution, that'd be ready (at any point in time) to even abandon itself, sacrifice itself, if necessary. But this is precisely where I also think that the cat bites its own tail ...

It seems we have established there is no principal impossibility that the Church body can be transformed and immortalized (when understanding the immortalizing process from the proper spiritual perspective, as you indicated), when we take the Impulse that Christ already brought to the Earthly ...

These are all great points! I fully agree about the inversion and that gradually things will metamorphose much more fluidly, without reaching abrupt dead ends. We must always remember, however, that all of this happens in proportion to how much the Spirit has mastered the accretion flow of ...

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 ...