Dec
19
Kabbalah – Five Basic Principles
December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kabbalah – Five Basic Principles
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Nov
11
Mysticism, Dogma and Truth
November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
At a recent lecture on Belief Systems, a student asked, “Is mysticism a religion?”
Mysticism is a spiritual discipline aiming at direct communion with God or the ultimate truth. It is not a religion and, in fact, all religions have mystics. There are Christian mystics, Jewish mystics (Kabbalists), Islamic mystics (Sufis), Buddhist and Hindu mystics. Where [...]
Sep
30
The Use and Abuse of Mysticism in The Song of Songs
September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The incorporation of Aristotelian thought into the dogma of Catholicism was not the first attempt to have alchemy co-opted or hermeneutically imbued into the whole system of thought. The fact that Aquinas did this under the tutelage of a Dominican Bishop who is regarded as the forbear of Goethe and Illuminized thought has not escaped [...]
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