--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Judy, > You would be spinning your wheels like the other speculators here. There > is no relationship, whether actual or imagined between the various > strata of the Vedic system and any form of Christian theology.
* * An interesting postulate. Just to play Jaimini's advocate I would suggest on the other hand there is always a relationship, "actual or imagined," between everything and everything else. > Christian theology developed as various layers of Hellenic polytheism > were grafted onto Semitic monotheism. This shotgun wedding was recently > called a "bastard union of the inherited conglomerate" and > rightly so. It only became de rigueur in the parlors after being made de > jure by Constantine. Such is the history of this Godly > "illumination" made popular by privileging the > "faithful" (City people) over the pagans (country folk). * * You are probably aware that I am essentially with you in your take on Christianity; to me the Gospels appear to have been carefully constructed by the Romans specifically for political, anti-Semitic purposes. Nonetheless, underneath that there appears to be an archetypal layer of initiatic wisdom with interesting parallels to MMY's teaching of consciousness-expansion. Perhaps I am imagining it, but then I don't draw a hard-and-fast distinction between imagination and actuality; for me imagination plays a crucial role in our perception of "actual" reality. > Perhaps it could be intelligible to talk about Latin horizontal > hypostases versus Orthodox vertical hypostases as two different ways to > think while considering Trinitarian speculations. But what's the > point? * * What's the point of anything? > I think the key here is to recognize just how speculative all this is. > It is even more vacant of meaning than trying to stitch Blavatsky's > Theosophy onto Vedic/Puranic/Tantric cosmology. > * * I suspect anyone who has diligently studied Blavatsky's Theosophy (I have not, particularly) would be hard-put to find much of her thinking in my cosmologies. And while I enjoy speculation as much as anyone, all of my cosmologies are grounded in my own experience.
