Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00118)

Nov 12

Dallas offers:

This is (to me) a valuable review of this subject.

Taking reincarnation into account and the progressive learning
process implied in the cumulative experience of many births
directed at acquiring a wisdom (meaning a complete knowledge of
Self and self, as well a the laws and purposes of the Universe)
Would not the "sudden" realization in any one life be the result
of the striving for that end in perhaps many previous lives?

There has to be (logically) a point in any one life when the past
is made available and usable.

As to "sentimentality"  I had used this word so as to be included
among the "passions and desires -- the Kamic, feeling principle,"
rather than  one of the faculties of the Mind or "thinking
principle."

Best wishes,

Dallas

Dallas
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-----Original Message-----
> From: Hazarapet@aol.com [mailto:Hazarapet@aol.com]
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:43 AM
> Subject: more gradual/sudden path/wasRe: sentimentality

Hello,

I thought I would develop the gradual path and sudden path
comparison.  It seems to be a cross-cultural phenomenon.

In the west (pagan Neo-Platonism, Hellenistic Judaism, and
Christianity), the gradual path is characterized as three stages
of purgation, illumination, and union.  The two premier early
Christian representatives of this gradual path are Dionysius
the Areopagite and John the Silent.  Later, John of the Cross
and Teresa of Avila are representatives of the gradual path.
The representatives of the sudden path, in the west, were
Evagrios, R. Bacon, and Eckhart.  In the Buddhist east,
the representatives of each are well know.

		SNIP