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13/08/2009 Filed in: Other
Just a quick note to point
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A while back I had disabled comments on this website for
esthetic and logistical reasons, yet now a place like
Posterous opens up a few interesting possibilities.
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Holy Trinity or Holy "Quatrinity"?
09/08/2009 Filed in: Martinism
In his
Treatise on the
Reintegration of Beings, Martines de Pasqually
often refers to the hypostases of the divinity. However,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the
Treatise,
don’t seem to follow strict Catholic dogma. Martines de
Pasqually was a roman catholic, yet his use, and probably
his grasp, of common theological terms teetered on a fine
line between orthodoxy and heresy. Robert Amadou,
arguably the greatest specialist of Pasqually’s teachings
since the 18th century, described Martines’ archaic
christology as antiochian and
pre-nicene.... Read More...
What God is not
28/03/2009 Filed in: God
God is not a
dove. God is not a fire, nor is God light, life or the
word. God is not these things because divinity is beyond
anything we can touch, see, smell, hear, imagine or
think. God is not even the negation of these things. God,
indeed, does not exist.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.
Martines de Pasqually colloquium
22/02/2009 Filed in: Martinism
Martines de Pasqually tricentenary meeting
Organised by the Eleazar
Institute
In collaboration with the Martines de Pasqually Society
and the bookshop l’Etoile du Mage
In:
Marseilles, France, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th
September 2010