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What is the meaning of 2 Corinthians 12 ? - All of my questions have been rooted in how to read the given text, and I'm not the first to puzzle over those words. On the other hand, yes, I do have a particular experience that I bring to the text, and that experience influences my questions. I'd like to explain. I had an inner experience once where there was a overwhelming feeling of being forcibly "caught up." The ascent had three phases: 1) a feeling of being caught up in my physical body, like a levitation almost 2) next, a distinct feeling of exiting my physical body; but still, some bodily sensations remained -- an intuition of a body shape and intense pleasure and 3) ascending into a near perceptual void; just the faculty of thought with no bodily sensations whatsoever except a feeling of ascending and a whisper like breeze. From that level of ascent, my faculty of thought was suspended such that I have no memory of anything until suddenly, I awoke in my body, puzzled about where "I" was in the unremembered interim between seemingly being ascended without any body and being awakened in my body. The feeling upon awakening was of complete bliss without bodily desire. - Read Complete
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What is the need of Baptism? - A discussion that starts from the meaning of Baptism, continues to the relationship between faith and reason with reference to Plato, and finishes with an understanding of the aim of Christian life - ... it is important to not forget that this is a bliss not by itself, but because it brought you a real way, it brought you closer to a truth you must prove for yourself, by meeting with Him. When that happens, then you will have real knowledge and complete bliss, but even then you will not be able to convince those who are closed to truth. They still can say that you see illusions, ghosts, etc. It doesn't matter. Just speak with whomever wants to hear and is after truth and not after prejudices... Read Complete
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More topics : Homer in Ancient Greek * Septuagint Genesis 2:19 translation * The Holy Scripture in modern Slavonic Languages * Are horis and ektos the same? * On Elpenor's Greek lessons * Identifying Ancient Greek Authors - Titles
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A note on the degradation of knowledge
To the degree that science gains in society central value and tends to be recognised as knowledge rather than ingorance, and even more, as source of the only or best possible knowledge, it is obvious that it becomes the most powerful drug against Philosophy. Here we have perfected what men in the platonic parable of the cave had in order to develop their addiction to darkness and make as impossible as it can be an exit to the light. As Wittgenstein says about this, “man has to awake in order to begin wondering (and maybe the same happens with peoples). Science is a way to send him back to sleep”… Read Complete
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The phrase “body of Christ” is often used as a synonym for the Church. This use is hardly valid, it seems to me, as I think about the Ancient and Christian cosmology... Even pantheism is closer to truth compared with a theory that would claim a God creating the world as the existence of His absence and alienation... If we are to use this metaphor, it seems to be more proper to use if for the world and not only for the Church. A Greek Father was referring to the Church not as the body of Christ but as the soul of the world... Read Complete
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News : 4th World Biennale of Children’s Painting * The Holy Mount in Greek art
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Oracle Evening, by Arcadian
... You have always appeared in my time of need,
like a messenger from the heavens.
You are before me now.
Explain to me the omen you presaged
and clarify again, the exact steps needed
to avert these hidden dangers you see ... Read Complete
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More poems by Arcadian: The Currency Trader * The Unbearable Departure * Oracle Evening * The Photographos - Image Maker * A Question Of Identity * Metaphors for Adaption * On a Trireme at Salamis * Kynikos * When it Rains -- ( Sestina ) * The Diaspora Sight Pharos * Chronosequence * The Byzantine Defence * Amaranth * The Southern Fruit Pickers * The Song of the Syrinx
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Word of Farewell
This is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths. - Plato
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