/lit/ - Literature

>>19580076
based in all fields

>>19580114
not true brother as long as you look in the right places, picrel

I understand this is a very niche topic, but I've noticed similarities between different religious traditions regarding the idea of "light" as expanded in scripture.

In the Bible (transfiguration of Jesus, in Matthew 17, Mark 9, Luke 9, 2 Peter 1):
>Many Orthodox theologians have identified the Tabor light with the fire of hell. According to these theologians, hell is the condition of those who remain unreconciled to the uncreated light and love of and for God and are burned by it.[10][11][12] According to Iōannēs Polemēs, Theophanes of Nicea believed that, for sinners, "the divine light will be perceived as the punishing fire of hell".[13]
Something very similar was written by Meister Eckhart, but I couldn't find the exact passage.

In the Tibetan Book of the Dead:
>At the moment of death one experiences the ultimate ego-death. All of one’s conscious selves, which are in reality manifestations of the subconscious self[4], cease to be; and one is alone with the subconscious self, the Clear Light. Most people, not having prepared themselves for this moment of death, lose consciousness[5] at this point and thereby fail to recognize the Clear Light. Those, who have prepared, recognize the Clear Light as themselves - they become the Clear Light, and are liberated from the cycle of birth and rebirth.[6]

Thoughts? Does anyone know where I can read more about this topic?

I've decided going to college would be a foolish decision financially speaking, though I'm still young and this is subject to change. But for the time being I'm looking for some ideas on how to structure my learning. I tend to be disorganized in the books I read, jumping from one to the other and feeling a bit aimless. Currently I try to tackle 4-5 books at a time balancing classic lit with some nonfiction and something in the sciences. If anyone has any ideas for creating a better personal curriculum I'd like to hear them.

>>16603204
However, in answer to your point: Is it true that the spiritual life will follow from meeting material needs? This does not seem to be the case in the West, where the material circumstances of the majority have been vastly improved, and yet their spiritual life continues to degrade, not in spite of, but perhaps due to conditions of material abundance; a society oriented around enjoyment and comfort does not produce individual greatness, but rather the sinking of all to the lowest possible level; the levelling of classes does not lead to the raising of the masses, but rather the contamination of the upper echelons, and their inevitable diminution -- in short, without the spiritual grounding that hierarchy helps secure, and without a genuine transcendental alternative that Anarchism (I would argue) could provide, but instead a purely egalitarian ethic based on Marxist materiality that severs all links to the Past, and leads to an irresistible decay, Society will continue to descend into despair: like the suicide of the man who has everything, a nation whose material conditions are ideal moves rapidly to a violent end.

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