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What works have you been pondering on lately? Any interesting ideas you've come across?

“To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.” - Thomas Merton

>> No.13305309

Meditations on the Tarot

>> No.13305355

>>13304146
I've been reading Jacob Boehme's commentary on Genesis. It's fantastic so far. He has the ability to blow my mind in the preface of his books.

>> No.13305521

>>13305309

seconding this, bigly.

valentine tomberg is the real deal

looking for other christian mysticism recs, I'm actually decently interested in anabaptist literature (doubt there's much), also primitive Christianity, quaker, shaker, that kind of stuff

>>13304146
OP you might be interested to know that merton had a book posthumously published on Shakers, haven't checked it out yet tho.

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>>13305309
BASED.

>> No.13305542

>>13304146
been thinkin bout thos enneads

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>> No.13306086

I wish I could see an Angel lads

>> No.13306103

>>13304146
I can't reconcile the Greeks and Christianity. Maybe I'm not supposed to. Any recommendations?

>> No.13306108

>>13306103
Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, MacIntyre

>> No.13306154

>>13306103
hermes trismegistus
augustine

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Is Zizeks connection to Christian mysticism as big as some make it out to be? Some of his lectures on Christ were supremely fascinating, but he claims to be an atheist (at least a Christian one). Kind of sceptical of his sincerity due to his leftist beliefs though. Does anyone know much about this?

>> No.13307755

>>13304146
Bamp

>> No.13307765

>>13304146
I too like Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Though I prefer the whitehaired boi to the bleeders.

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>>13304146
Mystical sermons of Master Eckhart

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>>13306103
Neostoicism.
Stoic terms and phenomenon are literally all the throughout the New Testament in it's original Koine Greek

>> No.13308332

Not really related to much of this thread but didn't want to create a new thread but what is someone to make of the Book of Enoch?

>> No.13308439

Is there anyone that can give me a tip concerning where to begin with christian mysticism? Assuming one has read the Bible, obviously.

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>>13308460
Thanks.