/lit/ - Literature

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>The most basic and entry-level step on the path to knowing god is to overcome base urges, leading to the uninterrupted perception of the transcendent at every waking moment

"Transcendence is to be distinguished from a union with the transcendent by participation. The metaphysical relation, the idea of infinity, connects with the noumenon which is not a numen. This noumenon is to be distinguished from the concept of God possessed by the believers of positive religions ill disengaged from the bonds of participation, who accept being immersed in a myth unbeknown to themselves. The idea of infinity, the metaphysical relation, is the dawn of a humanity without myths. But faith purged of myths, the monotheist faith, itself implies metaphysical atheism. Revelation is discourse; in order to welcome revelation, a being apt for this role of interlocutor, a separated being, is required. Atheism conditions a veritable relationship with a true god. But this relationship is as distinct from objectification as from participation. To hear the divine word does not amount to knowing an object; it is to be in relation with an Other overflowing its own idea in me, what Descartes calls its "objective existence."
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To posit the transcendent as stranger and poor one is to prohibit the metaphysical relation with God from being accomplished in ignorant non-engagement with men and things. The dimension of the divine opens forth from the human face. A relation with the Transcendent free from all captivation is a social relation. It is here that the Transcendent, infinitely other, solicits us and appeals to us. His very epiphany consists in soliciting us by his destitution in the face of the Stranger, the widow and the orphan."