Axor and the Zacharian scholars have found significant-seeming regularities and recurrences in Ancient symbols. Axor wonders:
"'Who knows where that may lead future scholarship? To the very revelation of Christ's universality, that will in time bring all sentient beings into his church?'" (p. 403)
He asks too much of scholarship and mixes the cosmic with the parochial. Every spiritual tradition claims that its most basic content is transcultural and universal. Logos, Dharma and Tao are (said to be) both immanent and transcendent. And, indeed, ultimate reality is within or behind empirical reality and must also transcend every concept that has been applied to it. The most basic disagreement is between those who personify ultimate reality and those who do not. Axor and Adzel could discuss this in the Old Phoenix.
("Axor" and "Adzel" can be searched on this blog. They are converts respectively to Jerusalem Catholicism and to Mahayana Buddhism, both Wodenites.)
4 comments:
Well, they can't all be right. OTOH, one of them -might- be right. I don't think that's probable, but it can't be ruled out.
I think that Logos, Dharma and Tao ("Word," "Law" and "Way") can be different words for whatever makes things the way they are.
The theist equivalent is "God's will."
Kaor, to Both!
And I believe Catholic Christianity, founded by Christ, is the path God wishes all beings to follow. "Beings" because I think the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, will rule non-humans can also become Christians.
Ad astra! Sean
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