Hey Larry, Your dissertation below deserves a serious reply, but I'm just not up to it at the moment....<(:oP It puts me in mind of William Henry's famous...
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004....
Wow! There is so much here, I don't know how to respond. I know the names of Luria and Zevi, but not much more (browsed Gerson Scholem on Zevi; fascinating)....
Hello: I recall reading that Cabbalah is Pythagorian mysticism made...cabbalah. Mysticism is a Greek concept unknown to ancient Hebrews. The reason one does...
We cannot know as long as our perspective is through our minds, as long as our minds are oriented towards the Finite, because the Finite cannot grasp the...
Well, I accidentally bypassed my mind and now ... YES... I know ALL !!!!!!!!!!! O.K. It happens ! But then, I am, as usual, unawake and require awakening,...
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May 4, 2005 10:44 pm
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ACB...... God may appeal to you but not so much to me ! (although I think you menat Dio, not Deo (?) Actually, mysticism goes back well into ancient Egypt. The...
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Hmmm. This Akhenaton-Hebrew link keeps cropping up, and it seems to have a certain face validity, but I'm wondering if there is any real generally accepted...
Dear Larry: Regarding "Deo vs. Dio, I am an Eastern Roman, not Eastern Italian! Thank you for explaining the genesis of mysticism-Cabbalah. I still have a...
Just as a general observation. I have been a professional calligrapher for many years now, and I have been thinking of well know British calligrapher who while...
ACB.... I apologize for the mistake. I suppose I should have said Roma locuta causa finita ! Eh? Anyway, Kabbala is entirely mystical. In fact, it is central...
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May 5, 2005 11:31 pm
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I was hot in Cheboygan, too. Just flopped everywhere else. That's why I studied Medicine instead of stand up ! Maybe I needed a good comic writer. Let's see, A...
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But why deny the curiosity ? ... From: Malcolm Schosha To: Pythagorean-L@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: [Pythagorean-L] Re:...
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... ............................ A major problem is that is so easy to completely misunderstand. Even words themselves are used differently in Kabbalah. Simple...
Malcolm........ I have no argument with you on that point (ref. to my response to Ballasac!). My knowledge of Kabbala is entirely of the theoretical variety...
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Larry: This Kabbala stuff reminds me of a graduate student of philosophy who did research to determine the gender of the soul. Is the soul, he asked, male or...
This statement of yours puzzles me: "My real argument with you actually concerns your implication that one should refrain from inquiring about certain concepts...
... ......................... By the way, I meant to ask in my previous post, what was the name and location of the Yeshivah? I am not sure I understand why...
Malcolm.... Yes, of course, I agree with you! It is not all one melting pot ! Sometimes it is necessary to find some way to relate matters that are foreign to...
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May 7, 2005 7:48 pm
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ACB.......... Some believe that Averroes' philosophy falls under the same category as Kabbalism, however most would disagree. He really had a more practical...
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Regarding the "Life of Pythagoras," at 6:01 PM -0600 2/18/05, Larry ... Larry was later able to provide me with Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie's English translation of...
Hmmm. Once again, the Pythagorean list seems to have gone quiescent.... I really don't have anything to say myself, but maybe I can stir y'all up with some...
i have read be the secret masters of the east that pythagoras among many other avatars(snscrt)and of rosecrucian records that he was born of a virgin,divine...
... among ... was born ... ballarama of ... can study ... the ... shouldnt ... If you want to de-mystify Pythagoras have a look at a book published recently on...
... I imagine that some here might be shocked, but I don't. Let me bring in another perspective. Western society (and most acutely, the U.S.) is in a highly...
I came across Lucretius' work, "The Nature of Things". There's also a book, "The Nature of the Universe". I have a couple of questions: Are these one and the...
Cal, I say go for it. In Masonry we have a degree called Master of the Royal Secret. They tell you during the first part of the ceremony that when you're...
Luretius struck me as not having the mystical depth that I think you're shooting for. I recommend a look at Eriugena's Periphyseon, (On the Division of Nature)...
Cal <mainevent@...> wrote: I came across Lucretius' work, "The Nature of Things". There's also a book, "The Nature of the Universe". I have a couple of...
Hi Cal, ... been ... the ... cycle ... to ... understandable, and ... As part of your research, you might want to read my discoveries regarding Pythagorean...
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