/lit/ - Literature

>>20480624
No, the resisters of Catholicism. This religion has had schisms from start to finish

>>18850386
>1.
No.
>2.
Ah. The Roman Imperial Catholic Church preferred burning, and the rack. Not versed in such things.

> Marguerite Porete even writes a sort of manual to help others remove their armor. She calls her book a Mirror of Sim ple Souls. It is a profoundly anti-Christian work. When a re pressed Christian looks into the mirror, a free human being is to look out. Christian humility and self-denial are not the goal, they are part of the condition to be overcome. Zarathustrian light, a light so bright that it blinds, shocks the individual out of the dark Leviathanic pit, wakes her from the centuries of stony sleep. Outside the pit there's undreamt-of joy, there's exultation, not in an Afterlife but in Life. The wakened person recognizes the repressiveness, the sinfulness, of the separa tions; she recognizes her oneness, her kinship with all that is; she recognizes herself as Life, as Earth, as Deity. She mates as freely as other divine beings, enjoys the sexual act, and knows that the Sin is in the priests and their doctrine. She rediscovers the ancient community of free, sinless beings, and she sees the community fenced in by repressive powers, by artificial obsta cles. Without qualms, she turns to sweeping away the obstacles: the sacraments and preachers and their salvation machin ery, the Virgin and the Saints and God himself. Communities of free human beings are to reappropriate the powers usurped by Leviathans with no more qualms, "with such peace of mind, as they use the earth they walk on."
>This message is no Christian heresy. It is as far from any thing Judea-Christian as the wisdom of Dakotas, Ojibwas and other communities as yet unknown to Europeans.

>>18844259
I donno man. You just have to accept what you are, but know that you can build on that.

Organized religion is always a trap and perversion of natural spirituality. Don’t fall into the Catholics iron maiden.

>>18843362
You get to pick one or two, just like everyone else.