/lit/ - Literature

>>17902101
>reducing metaphysics to morality
The terrifying aspect of karma is not personal consequence by the whole fabric of metaphysical weight (particularly in that direction further from God) that creates the verile dialectic and tumultuous state of worldly existence. God, who is the only one who has will and is know by His bliss, is what I prefer to devote myself to rather than fixating on solely on cosmology.

>>17800725
>Although Sherrard assumes Schuon’s “transcendental unity” approach throughout his book, this insight calls into question one of Schuon’s core teachings: that a personal (or Tri-Personal) deity derives from an impersonal Godhead and will be “dissolved” in the gnosis which transcends Being. (As Sherrard writes, “This view thus involves a total denial of the ultimate value and reality of the personal. It demands as a condition of metaphysical knowledge a total impersonalism – the annulment and alienation of the person.”)”
-article on Philip Sherrard
>Hindu tradition teaches many true things about the end of the kali yuga; but one who merely knows these truths in the mind will be helpless to resist the temptations of those times, and many who recognizethe Antichrist (Chalmakubi) when he comes will nonetheless worship him—only thepower of Christ given to the heart will have strength to resist him.
- letter on Guenon by Fr. Seraphim Rose
nope, it's orthodox christianity

>>17515504
>Hindu tradition teaches many true things about the end of the kali yuga; but one who were merely knows these truths in the mind will be helpless to resist the temptations of those times, and many who recognize the Antichrist (Chalmakubi) when he comes will nonetheless worship him - only the power of Christ given to the heart will have the strength to resist him.

>>14672941
>According to Palamas, the ousia is unknowable, however are the hypostases knowable?
The Energies are knowable, the Energies are effected by the Hypostases. Obviously we can know nothing of the Essence but thy Hypostases are neccessary to enhypostatize the Energies. We reject the idea of abstract, uneffected Energies.
>What does it mean when the Fathers say that Christ introduces us to the Father?
That human essence and energies are united to Divine Essence and Energies in the hypostatic Union of Christ. Christ become the bridge that crosses the chasm between created and uncreated. This allows our nature and energies to be deifed by the Divine Eneriges, we still have no contact of understanding of the Divine Essence.

>>14673057
>is Christ, in this sense, the nous before the One?
No, we reject the neoplatonic meaning of these words. In God, Essence, Energies, and Hypostases are all equal ontologically. Christ being a single Divine Hypostasis who assumed human essence and energies has no lower or subordinate role in the Godhead.

>>14673660
The other guys was right to say that anyone can say the Jesus Prayer and this is the first part of Hesychasm. Hesychasm does have further techniques (positions of sitting, was of rhyming the prayer with a way of breathing etc.) which are rarely taught even in monasteries. One of the fathers says that attempting them without proper preparation and maturity will at best ruin your lungs and at worst be a spiritual catastrophe for you. That is why reading texts like the philokalia is usually recommended only under the guidance of your spiritual father.

I would recommend to this picture Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

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>>7869938
>hard mode, something other than Thoreau