Of course, there's a tradition. It just tends to get obscured in the West since we have systematically suppressed this kind of knowledge and burned people at the stake for it. But there definitely is a tradition. Normally we look to the the Platonic tradition rather than the Aristotelian tradition to find it.
----- Original Message ---- From: matrixmonitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:08:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Description of mantra?? : D --Precisely, I agree. Besides, is there an unbroken disciplic succession of Enlightened Masters in Judaism or Christianity? No. Giving the most liberal of credit to isolated Enlightened persons in those Traditions, their successors have repeatedly failed to keep up with "The Program" (if there was a Program to begin with). - In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "Stu" <buttsplicer@ ...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Angela Mailander > <mailander111@ > wrote: > > > > there can be variety of interpretation, but it's not a free-for- all. > I don't think Wikipedia's opinion is as valuable as, say, Blake's or > Eckhart's. > > Doesn't any interpretation necessarily fall flat? After all its a > little like arguing whether the unicorn's horn is yellow or purple. > Given that it is all a lot of hooey, mistranslated, miscopied, and > poorly documented - it will not provide any insight into what happens > between the maternity ward and the funeral home for any of us. > > Why waste your time? > > s. > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
