[Arlo previously]
[The Secret Teachings of All Ages] opens with a very MOQish (in my
opinion) premise, "Man's status in the natural world is determined,
therefore, by the quality of his thinking." (Introduction)
[Craig]
Also:"PHILOSOPHY is the science of estimating values.The superiority
of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy.By
assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all
that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true
index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.The
mission of philosophy a priori is to establish the relation of
manifested things to their invisible ultimate cause or nature."
[Arlo]
Yeah, that opening sentence is quite MOQish. I also like that the
last sentiment here is about "relations", not about subjects or
objects in-and-of themselves. This is echoed in Dewey's approach to
"activity" (as it is in Leon'tev, Bahktin and Engelstrom and others
following the Vygotskian School). It is evidenced in modern
philosophies that attempt to draw from an ecological paradigm, rather
than a non-interwoven paradigm.
[Ron]
The legend has it that the stone was buried on the banks of the
Schuylkill river..
[Arlo]
Of all places! The Schuylkill River flows through the heart of my
hometown, Schuylkill Haven, it was a river that a few decades back
was so polluted from unregulated chemical dye companies dumping their
waste directly into the river that to this day, despite efforts at
clean up, I won't go in it at all. (My mother tells me when she was
growing up, the funeral homes would drain all their...err...
discarded bodily debris into the river. Ick.)
[Ron]
I laughed, I immediately said to my wife how what they were talking
about was a concept, an understanding not a material thing.
[Arlo]
The same idea surrounds the Holy Grail. For some, the Grail is a lost
physical object, the actual chalice used during the mythical Last
Supper. For others, it's meaning is more esoteric, it's stories
reveal (and conceal!) a bloodline between Jesus and Mary Magdelene
(the topic of Holy Blood, Holy Grail which later became the
watered-down "Da Vinci Code"). For others (such as Hall, I'd argue),
the Grail represents encoded knowledge used to point the individual
towards her/his own Enlightenment (the Grail represents achieving
Enlightenment), with the Arthurian stories and lore encoding
monomythic elements pointing towards that path. "In the personality
of Arthur is to be found a new form of the ever-recurrent cosmic
myth." (Hall writes). He continues, "In Nature worship the
ever-flowing Grail signifies the bounty of the harvest by which the
life of man is sustained; like Mercury's bottomless pitcher, it is
the inexhaustible fountain of natural re source." (Hall) (More on
Arthur and other aspects of esoteric Christianity in the chapter
"Mystic Christianity" (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta44.htm))
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