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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Persecutions by creedal religionists of mystics and their groups of separatist
transcendentalists across Europe are often a theme in these communal
narratives.
Recently retired to a safety in community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa a
From reading their histories evidently practicing transcendentalists would move
around Europe to the protection of more progressive aristocrats. That safety
could vary by locality and through time. A challenge in this is that natural
mortality [turnover) could quickly change the climate of a
Yes, evidently transcendentalism and transcendental meditationist practice goes
way back. It seems that about every generation or so mystics by their own
experience with it would satsang and teach a meditation.
Often time meditationism as spiritual practice gets put under the label of
Doug,
Did these European transcendentalist use a meditation method. Do you know any
of them. Is it like TM? If yes, these may be similar to what Angela Mailander
learned when she was a child, as she described in the BATGAP interview.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
The European Transcendental Satsanga, and the forming of the Western
ashram-like village:
Mysticism and spiritual community growing through individual spiritual
experience, to living room 'satsanga' gatherings, to meetings, to intentional
community...
---In
Rudolph Steiner 1861-1825
I have often emphasised that one who attains really spiritual perception does
not become a dreamer or enthusiast, living only in the higher worlds and not
seeing external reality. People who are ever dreaming in higher worlds, or
about them, and do not see
-of Bohme: he wanted
to dissolve the contradictions and the dissonances of life into harmony.
If a tree has faded leaves, he writes,
you know there is lack at the root.
Jakob Spener
Jakob Spener (1635-1705)
Spener as the Quietist
(Heartfelt Longing for a God Pleasing
Jakob Spener (1635-1705)
Spener as the Quietist
(Heartfelt Longing for a God Pleasing
Convalescence) In this work Spener laments the material distress of
the age — plagues, hunger and war — but he is even more concerned
with the spiritual misery that exists within the church. Our poor
If a tree has faded leaves, he writes,
you know there is lack at the root.
Jakob Spener
Jakob Spener (1635-1705)
Spener as the Quietist
(Heartfelt Longing for a God Pleasing
Convalescence) In this work Spener laments the material distress of
the age — plagues, hunger and war —
The new Jerusalem . . . where thee will not be harmed by pagen,
Turk or stranger, for the whole world will be one, and will
have no enemies. ~Paracelsus
The European Satsanga, and the forming of the Western ashram-like village:
Spirituality from individual spiritual experience to living
The lives, ideals, and writings of these early German Pietists give an
indication where most of the German-American communal societies,
especially their leaders, received much of their sustenance, comfort, and
encouragement. It was in Pietism that they found their spiritual roots.
-VICTOR
Johann Heinrich Jung (1740-1817),
better known as Jung-Stilling.
The word Stilling comes from the
(Biblical) stille, meaning quiet.
Jung-Stilling on one occasion listed his favorite Scriptural passages.
These account not only for his name but also for his popularity among
Pietists
Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
was directly involved
with the founding of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Like the leaders of the German communal societies Zinzendorf had an
implicit faith in God and himself. He died with these words: I have
submitted to the will of my Lord, and
Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769)
Described as a quietistic
Pietist Tersteegen said of his own writing that its purpose was to
awaken, to revive, to strengthen a secret life in Christ. This
introspective approach to Christian living struck a responsive chord
Count Nikolaus von
Re Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf (1700-1760):
He founded the Moravian school (and utopian community) I attended in England.
I only learned years later that Zinzendorf's theology was sometimes
controversial to his contemporaries. And why would that be? Well he encouraged
followers to
August Hermann Francke (1663-1727)
Francke was concerned with propagating a personal piety
the inspiration that had given the world the bible,
continued to reveal itself through individuals, a belief much like the
acceptance of the Werkzeuge (instruments of God) of the Amanas.
Francke
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