Good point. ‘Transcendent’ peace would work. This last week we had a sing-along of Handel's Messiah in Fairfield and I sat there singing through the libretto wondering how it sings as a Transcendentalist might sing it. The paraphrase pops a meaning out right away in to a more contemporary ‘spiritual but-not religious’ vernacular. Start right from the beginning substituting ‘Transcendent’ for ‘The Lord’. It works in meaning very well. A lot of times ‘The Lord’ is sung inside tied notes where ‘the Transcendent’ substituted works fine in high lighting a deeper meaning.
Substituting in paraphrase.. How beautiful are they who preach The Transcendent peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. It puts a whole 'nother level of meaning and also a sympathetic context of those teachers of Transcendentalism, like TM initiators or to mystics who come seemingly as avatars. Though whole sections of the original libretto wander through some other theology otherwise the switch makes for a good spiritual reading/ sing through of The Messiah. # ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : "Transcendence of peace" means to go beyond peace, I am not sure that is what you meant. It would mean peace is bypassed. The might mean the absence of peace or it could mean something beyond peace and non-peace, but not peace itself. It could also mean one transcends non-peace, and somehow gains peace, but the word order is ambiguous as removing non-peace might be neither peace nor its opposite. Until enlightenment, expressed as "The Transcendent," this terminology considers this goal as an object even though it is the subjective value of experience and not an object of experience, it is the value that contains the objects of experience and illuminates them (if you think of it dualistically). Transcendence is more like a verb than a noun. It implies passage rather than arrival. You pass beyond ignorance, but the removal of ignorance does not mean you are in a different place -- you are in the same place, but not quite so half-witted, seeing things clearly for once. Transcendence as a concept is a stand-in word for the process of renewal and repair. The destination is always where you are and this never changes. Using transcendent as a noun implies one is at the bottom of the spiritual ladder, hopefully looking up to supposedly a better life. If still hoping for this, the point of it all is missed once again. Difficult it is to get out of this mental straight jacket. Religion tries to maintain the straight jacket, while spirituality tries to break the mould so the nature of freedom and captivity become clear. If you consider it from a unified perspective, differences pale, it cannot be thought because there is no subject or object, even if you were standing in the midst of a thunderstorm and being pummeled by hail, deafened by thunder and blinded by lightning. And remember pride is the inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority. "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." You want to transcend ignorance but pride is an unfortunate by-product of ignorance. It is a crutch and shows lack of courage, lack of self reliance, a mask of puffed up self image. On Monday, December 18, 2017, 11:28:40 AM GMT, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] <[email protected]> wrote: How beautiful are they who preach the Transcendence of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Unified Field Transcendent, and against it's anointed. Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. Friends; Transcendentalist pride, evidently in the long course of human events this is really important to humanity. Transcendental-ism. Certainly if only by our life experience as Transcendental-ists we should all correctly and fairly feel strongly and rightfully so in the -ism of Transcendentalism. With pride. It is time to sit up, to straighten the back and hold our heads high in public discourse and take back Transcendentalism from the fictions of utopia and the materialism of ignorance. It is time for transcendentalists to take back transcendentalism from those who would trammel on our sacred and unified field of transcendentalism. It is time. It is time to meditate and then affect, unified and in field effect. N-squared! N-squared is the cosmic cry of these times. It is time for transcendentalists to come up, close ranks and meditate once again together. The science tells us and our experience shows us. Stay close. Proximity and numbers matter in this fight. I would be grateful to any who would join us in this. -Buck # Now, Om, Om, Om! The Pride of my Transcendentalism. In changing the public discourse around the word Transcendentalism I should count progress in the war with some people here who are against Transcendentalism when we can have some of these real negativists come to ontologically change their own thinking and feelings about Transcendentalism and Be able to claim themselves as, Transcendentalists once again. The world should be much a better place and safer for with less hate for the word, Transcendentalism and our own people as Transcendentalists then. We will never stop fighting until the nature of the anti-Transcendental negativistic thinking here is changed. “All we are saying is give Peace a chance” as so obviously Transcendentalism is the answer inside of everything in nature. Finding that 'change' begins within for everyone, even the FFL neganauts here, it is time to change some wrong thinking around the word, Transcendentalism and take it back for the pride of the Transcendentalist in everyone of us. -Buck in the Dome In reclaiming Transcendentalism now, for a moment do feel in to the -ist and -ism etymology with Joss Whedon, http://www.upworthy.com/a-room-full-of-feminists-just-applauded-a-guy-who-attacked-feminists-wait-for-it-re2-7a?g=2&c=ufb1 http://www.upworthy.com/a-room-full-of-feminists-just-applauded-a-guy-who-attacked-feminists-wait-for-it-re2-7a?g=2&c=ufb1 ---In [email protected], <Buck> wrote: # Transcendental-ism. Changing the public discourse. I am in favor of Transcendentalism. Yes, I am a transcendentalist with a capitol T. -ist. But something has happened to the term, Transcendentalist because of, Utopian. We got to change that. Let's with science make it more real. And make it more real by having more people meditate. A lot more people. Make it over. People should be proud to be Transcendentalists once again. But it has become a line behind which those other have lived before. Thoreau, Emerson, Blake, those German Transcendentalists who preceded so much of American spiritual and religious history, others like Whitman and Boroughs. We got to do something now to reclaim the pride of Transcendentalism. -Buck in the Dome
