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I have to think of suffering in a few different classes: First class - you broke the rules of natural law, anywhere from breaking the laws of gravity to breaking the laws of maintaining good health or good finance; this kind of suffering is the type you can actually learn from and not repeat in...

You might consider that in addressing the concept of God you're not talking about consciousness as most people would typically think of it. One of the doctrines that I think tends to hit a bit closer to home, albeit often considered somewhat heretical, is the concept of the Ain Soph or the...

I'd have to fall on the same side as to ask is it Christian to own a hammer, a saw, or a spare tire. You have to size up the world we're given and consider what's generally done and not done on our behalf. Divine will has to be on display to some extent in that schema.

I have my own controversial suggestion - there should be a certain qualifying threshold on this where in essence the kids would go to boarding schools and essentially have the influence of their parents separated from them. I think of, for instance, the situation in the inner city where the...

I think it's about time that antitheism was formerly classed as a religious belief and have antitheists held to the same separation of church and state standards as any other faith-based initiative. The arguments of 'off is not a TV channel' or 'bald is not a hair color' is ridiculously...

There are all kinds of spiritual ideas that look to evolution as their engine. In the east you have the Hindu and Buddhist philosophies, in the west you have your Kabbalistic, Alchemical, Rosicrucian, and other ideologies that find their fusion of Egyptian, Greek, and Judao-Christian thought...

You probably do better to just inflame yourself with prayer and find it yourself than worrying about what science says. Just take both POV's as valid in their own ways, that it's a really big universe when it comes to data, and consider that the two just haven't found their obvious points of...

That really depends on who or what they're talking about. If it's Doreen Virtue or Rhonda Byrne then it's completely appropriate. If it's something properly Hermetic, Rosicrucian, Wicca, etc. they're probably better off in that case to refer to it by what it is.

To tell the truth, after reading about six Steiner books I came away feeling like while he had some interesting notions regarding the synoptic problem the planetary evolutions seemed increasingly specious from the standpoint that his analysis of previous root races had some very strange...

I tend to think also of the church, as well as the RCC, as a very different place than it was in the times of Constantine or Justinian. Back then assassination politics and the likes were incredibly common and memories of what was going on between the Arians, Nestorians, etc. it got super-nasty...

The 'hidden' part is a strange one in western context. What I mean by that: First angle - hidden by the burning of books in the third and fourth century, erasure of competing histories, much of anything to undo that being collection work of the Renaissance by people of the likes and...

timewerx, thanks for the caveats. I've been through it, examined the lines of reasoning in from all over the bible including probably the heaviest hitting stuff such as Deuteronomy. Oddly enough it was the bible itself, particularly from the NT John's writings and their tie outs with what you...

It was more the later - generic sense. To me it simply means cross-check and comparison to get the whole story behind certain movements, events, and historic spiritual impulses. I'm still not sure what to say on the Theosophic Society. Supposedly it's based on a valid eastern tradition (handed...

(this is a long response - don't worry it's not at you, it's general :) ) I spent some time in the demon-hunting circle myself in reading all the David Flynn, Tom Horn, and Steve Quayle I could get my hands on. The trouble was - I checked and verified only to find out that nothing was what it...

Interesting to see this thread catch a reply. I actually in the past several months joined AMORC (Rosicrucian) and BOTA (Paul Foster Case's Builders of the Adytum). Part of me in reading the bible finally had to admit to the likelihood of its eclectic origins by way of OT and Revelations...

No. The reason I say that is because the terms religion and science are mutually exclusive. Science is a method, religion is a collection of doctrine/dogma. Science can aid religious clarity, religion can propose scientific hypotheses to be tested, and thus they can be complementary but are in...

Partially but not entirely. Emerson was a mystic and while I haven't read much Thoreau from what I did read in school it seemed like he was aiming toward minimalism in his life with regard to physical 'stuff' in order to get closer to what he really felt was God's laboratory. As far as new age...

I was cruising the Poke Runyon Hermetic Hour archives a few months back and found out about a pretty interesting book by K Paul Johnson 'The Masters Revealed' which delves into the actual history of what happened in Blavatski's life and where she got the theosophic doctrine. Sounds like a couple...

This and it got to be a place as well where religious philosophy and historicity were taken for a road-test in ways that couldn't be done when state religions were autocratic. Seems like anyone who really wanted to explore reality under those conditions and have other people to explore it with...

I'm really speaking for myself there and understandibly it's not quite in mainline terms. I'm still somewhat new in the WMT world but from what I gather it seems like most orders related to Rosicrucianism and Martinism have this intention albeit the concept of 'God' is probably along the lines...