In regards to Jesus I take a lot of inspiration from a Taoist perspective on Lao Tzu. Whether Jesus was one man, a collection of men, or a story, it doesnt really matter. If you pay more attention to his race or age and not on the living conciousness of his spiritual work in the modern church...
I dont feel that it is remarkably satanist to believe in evil.
Let no one justify their actions on "good" or "justice" or "fairness" or any other vague concept. If an action is taken it has to be explained logically if one considers themselves the illuminator and advesary rather than the...
The trinity is an important concept to keep in mind here, god is seen as sacrificing hisself as his own avatar, which is an amazing narrative.
Wearing a necklace of a torture device is still creepy though.
Though contemporary taoism doesnt have a lot of basis in classical thought and is wraught (for good or bad) with western ideals, its now often more understood to be mostly philosophy centered around pacifism neutrality and positivity. While this is nice, those who are looking for god will be...
Good observation actually, a lesser adveratised fact of cao dai is that part of its formation was heavily spearheaded by French Freemasons. As for everyone elses question, to my understanding cao dai is commonly understood as poetic and metaphorical ritual to unite vietnam and the earth. Though...
Though others have already pointed out that "chinese folk religion" is largely syncretic, and translation from the stated atheist government and then into western language mucks up our understanding a lot, I think its worth pointing out that there is a word for what youre probably thinking of...
In my opinion, me having an opinion on that would be more material than the cosmos could ever be due to the presence of ego. I cant even begin to make such claims on timeless concepts like the cosmos. Concepts like good and evil just contributes to dogmatic thinking and distracts from our...
Gnosticism, both contemporary and classical, is stupidly diverse, and though there are modern organizations and clubs with a gnostic flair, and im sure one is "the largest", I dont think that any of them have any real say as to what gnostics should believe seeing as how theyre still not large...