What do you think of the idea of drawing down the essence or body of the HGA as a means of union in a eucharist/mass/holy communion? This is something I am experimenting with currently.
I have a strong religiosity that I find brings me a great sense of wellbeing when I express it through creativity and building my own theological concepts and rituals. I find that God(s) provide a useful focal point for that urgency to create and to live meaningfully.
Why do art? Why create...
For those involved in occult spiritualities such as Thelema (as just one example among many) can you elaborate on your concept of the Holy Guardian Angel?
What is it?
Who is it?
How do you obtain union with it?
Is it identified with God or the Logos?
Any other thoughts?
I've been reading about the Gnostic Mass. I am trying to understand, when the elements are consecrated as the Body and Blood, is this meant to be the Body and Blood of the Holy Guardian Angel?
This doesn't address any thoughts whatsoever contained in my post, but suffice it to say, since you did not discuss any of them, that I am strongly grounded in Tradition, and I disagree with elements of protestantism. But I'm not going to condemn you to hell for it.
Just a few thoughts this post brings to mind:
In Jeremiah 35, pagans, the Rechabites, receive a blessing for adherence to their traditions. They were faithful, honest, and sincere. Judah herself according to Jeremiah had been unfaithful, and the Rechabites were held up as an example of...
This is too simplistic. I cannot speak for all others, but I am for the flourishing and wellbeing of all conscious beings, and I believe that God will reconcile and save all.
Furthermore, nothing that is good and true in pagan religions should be rejected. It may even be, in a Christian...
Though traditional practices in Christianity wouldn't use the term witchcraft, there are traditions of folk magic in Christianity going back centuries.
Although these days this is a minority position (albeit one growing in popularity), I am hopeful for universal salvation, and we do indeed in the Catholic Church in popular prayers and in liturgy pray for universal salvation, and we believe God does will all to be saved. We hope and pray for...
Lack of free will does not imply lack of intent or intelligence. What most deniers of free will would assert is that the intent and the intelligence are accountable in some way and trace back to causes that the agent has no control of.
Behavior is either accountable or it is not.
If it is...
Non-realism in regard to religion is summed up in the article below, though I am leaning these days toward an archetypal viewpoint based on experience and study.
What do you mean by "except for her?" She didn't say it doesn't work both ways -- she said that every act with another person...