Theos-Talk Archives (September 1996 Message tl00070)

In message <960904012723_74024.3352_BHT216-1@CompuServe.COM>, Keith
Price <74024.3352@compuserve.com> writes
>
>Alan:
>> The spiritual way is not, definitely *not* (IMHE) any kind
>>of *war* and language like "surrender" belongs to warfare, as does
>>"kill" and "strangle" and all those dreadful expressions which the 19th
>>century patriarchal cultures dumped on us.
>
>Keith:
>
>I hate to revert to type so quickly and go where angels fear to tread, but what
>the heck?  It would seem that surrender is an archetypal posture of carrying,
>containing supporting, offering up the  grail.  Kill is an archetypal posture of
>invading, cutting, dismemebering, raping, raviging, the spear piercing the
>flesh.

Tread at your own risk :-)

It would also seem that many archetypal postures are also atavistic -
it's time to move on (sigh yet again).

Alan
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