Why can't monotheism accept the possibility of both good and evil originating with the same source - God?
Here is an extract from the Mystical Journal called 'The Song of Simon:
God stands above morals because all morals are a dichotomy – Good vs. Evil, Right vs. Wrong, Honourable vs...
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An extract from the 'Song of Simon' mystical journal....
God is indeed the Author of suffering said the head Master. Without God nothing can exist. In contracting to distinct and separate expressions, with the ignorance that arises from such contraction...
Yes, I have found Spong interesting too...mainly in helping to shake off my off fundamentalist beliefs. Though anumber of my experiences have been spontaneous, I have used free imagery techniques...meditation and relaxation initially using guided imagery approaches as advocated in...
I have always understood gnosis as a type or means of knowledge. Arthur Deikman, amongst many others defines two ways of knowing:
a) Discursive reason - logical analysis, deduction, rationality. An active form of knowing.
b) Intellectus or perception - intuition, creative insight...
Is there anyone here into mysticism or had mystical experiences? I think that mysticism is the essence of all religion and a very important, indeed core component of spirituality. At a time when many traditional approaches are under attack from post modernism, mysticism offers a key...