tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post1397628187384196320..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: The Esoteric and the SpiritualBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-92013232668581173802020-09-02T07:16:06.422-07:002020-09-02T07:16:06.422-07:00Very well noticed! I wrote a website about Albion:...Very well noticed! I wrote a website about Albion: How this through my vision actually started off....<br /><br />https://noraaaltenbeingincreation.wordpress.com/Nora Aaltenhttps://noraaaltenbeingincreation.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-64639984858988947972017-11-30T03:53:35.491-08:002017-11-30T03:53:35.491-08:00I like your definition of love as a desire for the...I like your definition of love as a desire for the increase of goodness in the beloved. It shows that all love is due to God first and then, through God to our neighbour. It also makes clear that much that is called love is anything but that really.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-31140795754416751302017-11-30T01:58:24.556-08:002017-11-30T01:58:24.556-08:00I have a mixed opinion about Pythagoras, given his...I have a mixed opinion about Pythagoras, given his reported response to the mathematical proof that the square root of two could not be represented by an integer divided by another integer.<br /><br />On the subject of love, I must reiterated that it is not a matter of what (or who) <i>deserves</i> love but of what love <i>is</i>. Love is a desire for the increase in goodness of the beloved, to love a type of food is to desire that it is prepared with care and made perfectly, and to appreciate when this is done. So much more so love of something that exists not to be consumed but to endure, love involves cherishing and protecting it from harm, anything that would diminish or injure the qualities which are regarded as good in it. Love of a person is love of what makes them a person rather than an object, their mind, their freedom, their life. A desire to possess, control, debase, and degrade someone is <i>not</i> love, certainly not love of them as a <i>person</i>.<br /><br />Nor is the desire to cause someone to be brought to a vile state through neglect of their need for spiritual, mental, and physical growth. To tolerate in someone behaviors which are obviously going to destroy their spirit and body together is not loving. It is not much better than hatred, and probably nearest to utter contempt. The problem is not that we are to careless about who we love (though loving those who <i>cannot</i> be both free and happy is certainly a path to great suffering), the problem is that we are content to deem "love" the sort of attitude and behavior that is absolutely contrary to the sane meaning of the term.<br /><br />On the whole, teachers of especially occult knowledge tend to be frauds. God has made the most important things we have to learn exceedingly obvious, it is our own pride which makes them difficult to accept and believe. There are also those who find and teach knowledge that God has kept hidden for good reason, and these are the really dangerous ones (though I sometimes suspect I am more often than not one of them). But it is true that in many times and places the decadence of society has led to some vital divine truth being so widely denied that it genuinely has been forgotten and must be revealed anew.<br /><br />I see in modernity many cases...though again I hardly claim to know certainly which elements of hidden knowledge I uncover are true, false, or even dangerous. I feel safest speaking of truths which have not been lost yet, even if they are widely denied by the world.<br /><br />Not in the sense of ensuring my own safety, but merely of minimizing the danger I pose to others.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-72037637069184244322017-11-28T03:10:29.539-08:002017-11-28T03:10:29.539-08:00I too honour Pythagoras. He was right for his time...I too honour Pythagoras. He was right for his time and place. <br /><br />However, his kind of idealism - with its divine numerology/ geometry - while beautiful and appealing (e.g. John Michell persuasively and inspiringly advocated this kind of world view) is Not what we need for the future, starting here-and-now...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-2085973816367517822017-11-28T02:24:30.022-08:002017-11-28T02:24:30.022-08:00That's my impression too. In fact, he was prob...That's my impression too. In fact, he was probably about as wise and as good and as spiritually true a man as you could be before the advent of Christ.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-4355375814067466712017-11-27T15:00:12.918-08:002017-11-27T15:00:12.918-08:00What is your opinion on Pythagoras? While not muc...What is your opinion on Pythagoras? While not much is known for certain about his life, from the little there is he comes across as a sincere seeker of Truth and a decent man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com