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Thomas but in my thinking, man out-symbolizes a building anytime ... Thomas: Well man stands at the apex of creation, yes, but as I've mentioned elsewhere, the author of Meditations on the Tarot had an epiphany contemplating the Rose Window at Chartres Cathedral. Bishop Kallistos Ware of the...

I recognize this is one of my longer posts. It doesn't have to be read all at one setting. However, reading it I think will help give yet another perspective. I try not to allow myself so much time to type because it runs into page after page, but some things need fleshed out and expanded, and...

Thomas In the Abrahamic paradigms, for example, that's not the case. God causes the universe to be, but the energy of the universe is not God, nor divine. SS Not so the Jewish Kabbalah... So I suppose it depends on which Abrahamic religion you and I are looking at to see if God is also not the...

Yes, this is good... I had more in mind the Medieval view and version of the art of Christ as Cosmocrator and Emperior, etc. Never smiling, the Church Militant type of thing, which I realize is only focusing on a single era. But on the other hand, there are rarely any sermons, papers, etc. where...

Thanks, I will look at this in more depth. Browsing it looks like a good site of info.

Oh, I dunno, it's pretty important to know what others think as well, but on your idea that its more important to know what God thinks, the problem so far as I can tell is, who gets to decide what God thinks?

This is something I wrote about a month ago in another discussion that might dovetail nicely with some good discussions I am having with Thomas and RJM. I appreciate their inputs and all others' inputs as well. I don't seek to diss religion, I seek to give ourselves due credit where it is due. I...

Sometimes I worry about over doing it, but then one can read what I write anytime, and so its better to at least get it out there, and if its liked great, if its not liked, great, at least we are reading and learning and sharing and critiquing constructively, and just having fun! I appreciate...

Your response to my esoteric/exoteric was simply outstanding good sir! THANK YOU so much for responding so adroitly. I have to say I shall reassess some things without question, always a good thing. It is exactly what I was looking for. Am I off base (usually, but where? You show me where in...

I'm not sure if I promote either. I'm throwing out thoughts as they occur to me for interesting reading. At least I hope so.

Why Study Zen? The Waterfalls are creating Bubbles on the Lower Level of the Pond When asked what is reality? A Zen response is What is the sound of one hand clapping? O.K., when asked once what is Buddha? The response was “Dried Dung.” (Alan Watts, Zen, New World Library, 2019, 1948 original...

So God… Wanna Come Out and Play? You remember reading in school about the discovery of penicillin? Yeah, me neither, but reading about the discoverer, Alexander Fleming was quite a delightful surprise. He was a very serious scientist, and very, very good at his scientific research and labors...

It isn't God that forbids it, it is finite man who sets the limits...GRIN! God can do anything God wants. Who is man to limit God?

Or, as some say, on the other hand, rather than exclusion, it shows God is everything. There is that esoteric idea... I might have worded that incorrectly, when I get back from work (on the way out the door at the moment), I shall have to re-read that. Thanks man, and just remember, you are...

What, are you deliberately trying to make it so I can't argue with you? GRIN! I agree with you entirely here. The beauty also involves the physical seeing of how the geometric truths unfold so perfectly in so many cases. But I mean, after all nature gives math a run on it, even though deep down...

Well, it depends on which group of Jews are being discussed. There are Messianic Jews these days who do believe in Jesus after all. If we are talking Orthodox, then sure. But there are many different groups of Jews though not as many as Christians. I'm not arguing, just noting the historical...

So far as I can see, based on readings I am involved in, the esoteric and exoteric really can’t be reconciled easily, if at all. There are reasons for this which I will describe briefly. Exoteric wants things tidy, all cleaned up, logical, in line, orderly, scientific and simple. No messy...

The Fundamentally Unique Zoharic Interpretation of Bereshit bara Elohim - “In the Beginning God Created” The Jewish rabbis have a rabidly exalting yet acidic exacerbating interpretation of the Torah in the Zohar, which is what makes it at once mysterious, yet exhilarating to crack open the...

Excellent points. Yes, the actual Greek Logos has to do with ratio, mathematics, proportional thinking, at least in the Liddell Scott Lexicon of Greek. It was this basis which gave the Christ such a marvel in the minds of so many, I mean other than his ministry, of course! The very idea that the...

OK man, the new thread in Esoteric is called YHVH and AUM with a graphic....... fun stuff I think! Yeah it's not the chakra/Tree of Life diagram, but it's yet another angle on all this connections I keep finding.... I also have 2 new threads in the Christianity section on the Logos and another...