/lit/ - Literature

>>21670152
> As if there isn't ample evidence of moral and spiritual corruption that St Paul takes to task in his Epistles.
Everywhere there is body there is corruption. Nowhere in the sense realm is the soul untained by matter. But everywhere manifests the goodness of the Gods. This passage gives you a hint at late Platonic moral attitudes:
>It is not to be thought that such beings (Divinities in the celestial realm) engage themselves in human affairs in the sense of making men thieves, slave-dealers, burglars, temple-strippers, or debased effeminates practising and lending themselves to disgusting actions: that is not merely unlike gods; it is unlike mediocre men; it is, perhaps, beneath the level of any existing being where there is not the least personal advantage to be gained. (IV.4.31)
I think Guenon is right when he distinguishes between mysticism and esoteric truth. The former depends on an unreasoning faith in grace, the later has a certain refinement of reason as its principle of access. Christian is either exoteric dogma or mysticism as I've come to see it, it's supposedly esoteric dimension is really just an eclectic, mystic, syncretism of pre-Christian beliefs with an exoteric dogma holding it all together. Of course to top off the inauthenticity of its theology the Church wins the crown of being the most stridently, hypocritically decadent institution on earth.

>>21628262
There's both. Time is the reflection of Eternity. Time is striving to replicate the Ideals that permanently exists in a state of fixity in the eternal mind of the Divine but because of Souls inhabiting matter in order to try achieve this the replication can never be perfect.