Creation
The Root of All Evil: 2 pillars and 5 consequences
14/09/2007 Filed in: Martinism
Is God responsible for all the suffering and evil in
the world?
Is the world completely evil?
What is evil?
Does free will have anything or everything to do with evil?
Age old questions indeed, used as arguments both for an against the existence of a God. These questions were recently raised during an interesting discussion with some friends, so I decided to give a short summary here of the way in which Martines de Pasqually approached the matter in his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings. Read More...
Is the world completely evil?
What is evil?
Does free will have anything or everything to do with evil?
Age old questions indeed, used as arguments both for an against the existence of a God. These questions were recently raised during an interesting discussion with some friends, so I decided to give a short summary here of the way in which Martines de Pasqually approached the matter in his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings. Read More...
Moses on Mount Sinai and the seven worlds paving the way to reintegration
26/08/2007 Filed in: Martinism
Although the
planets only occupy a very small proportion of
Martines’ highly complex body of teachings, they are of
central importance. Indeed, the celestial immensity, in
Martines’ table, is shown as the intermediary between
our universe—represented by the
terrestrial immensity—and the Creator’s closest
agents in the supercelestial immensity.
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The Universal Figure
10/07/2006 Filed in: Martinism
When trying to grasp the entire creation at one glance,
there are few possibilities: you must resort to a
figure that, through heavy use of symbolism, allows
extensive interpretation while remaining true to the
world-view of the person or society that produced it.
One of the most striking interpretations of creation,
the universe and how man fits in it, is the one the
Martines de
Pasqually taught his disciples. Louis Claude
de Saint-Martin drew an interpretation of the
universal figure in his own copy of the
Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, and this
is what I'll be discussing in this post. Read
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Origen of Alexandria, reintegration and inferences on evolution
31/05/2006 Filed in: Church
Fathers & Mystics
I suppose that it is appropriate to start a blog named
‘Apokatastasis’ with a piece on one of the greatest
figures of the early Christian Church, and at least its
first systematic theologian and
philosopher, Origen of Alexandria (185-254
AD).
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