“When Difference is received as a gift (and Barfield provides the key with his line “Only one religion has ever taught that God is to be sought in the Ego of another man, and that religion is Christianity,” emphasis in original) then we are Free to move away from the self-hating incestuous slime polycule to the Communion of the Saints, who are always gloriously different and In Love. Through their love of God’s face they receive their own.”
Is this correct? I am reminded of the Upanishadic formula “Ātman = Brahman.” Is the difference perhaps in the differentiation or individuation of the soul in the Christian conception; that it is not a mere “drop in the ocean of consciousness,” as it were? I’m not trying to be contentious, just curious about this.
Not contentious at all. I will try to answer and please let me know if I misunderstood you. Is it not the critical difference between Hinduism and Christianity; as Lewis said, it was Hinduism or Christianity for him, these were the most self-consistent and very different choices. Do we return through the Yugas to the One, or does Time baptize Space and we become particulars? At a certain level of mysticism a few have pointed that these can become the same, but I think I need to answer with a Trinitarian understanding and say I believe there is an individual soul which becomes more, not less individual as its knowledge of God (its relationship?) deepens.
“When Difference is received as a gift (and Barfield provides the key with his line “Only one religion has ever taught that God is to be sought in the Ego of another man, and that religion is Christianity,” emphasis in original) then we are Free to move away from the self-hating incestuous slime polycule to the Communion of the Saints, who are always gloriously different and In Love. Through their love of God’s face they receive their own.”
Is this correct? I am reminded of the Upanishadic formula “Ātman = Brahman.” Is the difference perhaps in the differentiation or individuation of the soul in the Christian conception; that it is not a mere “drop in the ocean of consciousness,” as it were? I’m not trying to be contentious, just curious about this.
Not contentious at all. I will try to answer and please let me know if I misunderstood you. Is it not the critical difference between Hinduism and Christianity; as Lewis said, it was Hinduism or Christianity for him, these were the most self-consistent and very different choices. Do we return through the Yugas to the One, or does Time baptize Space and we become particulars? At a certain level of mysticism a few have pointed that these can become the same, but I think I need to answer with a Trinitarian understanding and say I believe there is an individual soul which becomes more, not less individual as its knowledge of God (its relationship?) deepens.
Please find an Illuminated Understanding of the Life & Teaching of Saint Jesus of Galilee and Reality as Indivisible Conscious Light
Introduction http://www.daplastique.com/essay/the-maze-of-ecstasy The Maze of Ecstasy
http://beezone.com/current/ewb_pp436-459.html The Teaching of Jesus About man (male & female) The Enlightenment of the Whole Body
http://www.dabase.org/up-6.htm The Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee Retold
Conscious Light & the psycho-physical structures of the human body-mind-complex
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds18.html
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds6.html
Shakti & the Pleasure Dome Principle
http://beezone.com/adida/quandramamashikhara/thelawofpleasuredomeedit.html The Pleasure Dome Principle
http://beezone.com/category/shakti.html Shakti or the Goddess