Simone Weil was a NeoPlatonist who became a Christian in response to her noetic prayer. She was an extraordinary intelligence and a great inspiration to many people who came after her. I don't think we've seen anyone like her since then.
So called Christians on this forum, like Robin, don't have a clue about such things. Someone has to be a contemplative (whether working in the world or not) to understand her qualities. You don't just "get it" just because you went to some TTC at some time or another. Gravity and Grace is justifiably her most famous publication. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > Weil did not limit her curiosity to Christianity. She was keenly interested in other religious traditionsâ"especially the Greek and Egyptian mysteries, Hinduism (especially the Upanishadsand the Bhagavad Gita), and Mahayana Buddhism. She believed that all these and other traditions contained elements of genuine revelation. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil > > No comment re: Vaj's "teacher", but this woman was quite extraordinary. > > > >________________________________ > > From: emptybill emptybill@... > >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:14 PM > >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula > > > > > > > >Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all I dare say. > > > >Oh, you must mean Simone Weil ... "Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. " > >No wonder you ended up Buddhist. Now I know that date of you initiation: 1941. > > > >"The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through." > >ââ¬â¢ Simone Weil > > > >"Now, this self is a dike, a divider, to keep these worlds from > colliding with each other⦠Upon passing across this dike, therefore, a > blind man turns out not to be blind, a wounded man turns out not to be > wounded, and a sick man turns out not to be sick. Upon crossing this > dike, therefore, one even passes from night into day, for, indeed, this > world of Brahman is lit up once and for all." > >-Chandogya Upanishad, 8.4.1 > > > > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: > > > >> > > >> > And please give the exact date of your initiation and all your advanced techniques, this is requested by each application form, so you must know it by heart now. And how was the weather on these day? Did it rain? How old was your teacher, and how many initiations did your teacher have at the time? Curious minds want to know. > >> > >> > >> Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all I dare say. > >> > > > > > > > > >
