Jesus As A Teacher within the Perennial Tradition

[Soma-Sight]

"All the teachings of Christ have no other object than to show us how we may re-ascend to our virginal unity with him.
"The regenerated, new-born soul in Christ has not only a new spirit, but is a new creation, with an everlasting (spiritual) body. . . . He is not of this world; he is a stranger to this world, with no understanding of it. . . . He is in the paradise of God, and desires nothing else but that which Christ within his soul desires. . . . This soul must die to letters, reason, scholarship and knowledge, to enter into the only one true life--Jesus!"


Jacob Boehme (1575-1624 C.E.)

http://www.hermes-press.com/Perennial_T ... PTch13.htm

 

[Dave...]

with no understanding of it

A Christian world view is a correct world view.

. . . . He is in the paradise of God, and desires nothing else but that which Christ within his soul desires. . . . This soul must die to letters, reason, scholarship and knowledge, to enter into the only one true life--Jesus!"

This is an idol, not Jesus and not what he taught.

I don't even know where to begin. Your whole statement is in error. Did you ever read the bible, Soma ? It would help if you did, then you wouldn't need to ask these questions, the error would be obvious to you.

 

[Gary]

Did you ever read the bible, Soma?

You must be joking. Soma-no-inSight gets his "knowledge" from drug-induced peyote trips....

:crazyeyes:

 

[Orthodox Christian]

Soma:
The problem with the perspective that you have quoted here is that in plays right into the hands of those who would take the power out of the Incarnation. Some do this by making Christ's trip to earth little more than a legal formality of human sacrifice. Others take away the power of the Incarnation by denying the physical reality of the life of Christ in this world both when He was here and after.

Example of Reformist Gnosticism: Eucharist as a symbol-
This is gnosticism at its most Pietistic. Essentially, it is denied (again) that Christ could/would/can/will/does invade our present world. Not only is the reality of His Presence in the Eucharistic elements denied, but even the physical possibility. "Jesus ina cracker!" they scoff. Small wonder they don't see Christ in the environment they destroy wantonly, either.

My friend, Christian born of the Spirit is also born of new creation, as your quote correctly states. But this New Creation INVADES this world, rather than knowing nothing of it. True, it/he/she is not "of" this world, but this New Creation includes the reason, letters, and humanity- in their proportion- for the WHOLE man is made new.


Regards
James