Oluwaseyi, I am absolutely delighted ti come across your work. This piece weaves and highlights more than I can articulate in a comment. I was particularly struck by your use of the word, imaginal, your intertwining of Jesus and not only Dionysus but especially Persephone. I wonder if you know the work of Peter Kingsley re: Parmenides and Persephone in both “Reality” and “The Dark Places of Wisdom.”
Are you familiar with Margaret Barker's work? She posts a father God El, and national gods ("sons of God") of which one, and the firstborn is YHVH, though in her hypothesis these two were conflated as one being by Deuteronomist revisions. El being the father of all gods. In exile, the Israelites began to resent similarities between themselves and their captors, so any vestige of polytheism began to be expunged, even erasing most of the angelic hierarchies. With the arrival of Christianity, rabbis quickly dissociated themselves from the Book of Enoch, which provided too clear a link between Judaism and the new impulse. Though, obviously, the hierarchies are maintained in the whisper tradition of Kabbalah.
This is very interesting . I am still not clear if “Christ” is a God like Ganesha, e.g. At times I have dealt with Christ and gotten clear answers. My hypothesis is that Christ is a variation of divinity that reflects the empathy and mercy of the Platonic Good, although Christ can be many things depending on what people think. I will investigate more your posts about Christ
I've always like Hindu metaphysics the more monastic ones say the upanishad ofc for the sense that not only are the gods icons of the divine but in incarnation and he liberation not just men but all things even living plants down to germs even object or simply space if one hold it to be something or nothing could be seen as fully valid icons and aspects of the divine Godhead in its nature. I think it expresses quite colorfully the logic of logos ontology and poetic wisdom sayings of much of Daoist literature.
I see Jesus and all of creation as a living symbol. In other words, everything happened exactly as it happened but at the same time is a symbol of something relevant to each of us in our life.
Oluwaseyi, I am absolutely delighted ti come across your work. This piece weaves and highlights more than I can articulate in a comment. I was particularly struck by your use of the word, imaginal, your intertwining of Jesus and not only Dionysus but especially Persephone. I wonder if you know the work of Peter Kingsley re: Parmenides and Persephone in both “Reality” and “The Dark Places of Wisdom.”
Are you familiar with Margaret Barker's work? She posts a father God El, and national gods ("sons of God") of which one, and the firstborn is YHVH, though in her hypothesis these two were conflated as one being by Deuteronomist revisions. El being the father of all gods. In exile, the Israelites began to resent similarities between themselves and their captors, so any vestige of polytheism began to be expunged, even erasing most of the angelic hierarchies. With the arrival of Christianity, rabbis quickly dissociated themselves from the Book of Enoch, which provided too clear a link between Judaism and the new impulse. Though, obviously, the hierarchies are maintained in the whisper tradition of Kabbalah.
When the timing is right!
Is the title a reference to the Christian band Casting Crowns?
This is very interesting . I am still not clear if “Christ” is a God like Ganesha, e.g. At times I have dealt with Christ and gotten clear answers. My hypothesis is that Christ is a variation of divinity that reflects the empathy and mercy of the Platonic Good, although Christ can be many things depending on what people think. I will investigate more your posts about Christ
I've always like Hindu metaphysics the more monastic ones say the upanishad ofc for the sense that not only are the gods icons of the divine but in incarnation and he liberation not just men but all things even living plants down to germs even object or simply space if one hold it to be something or nothing could be seen as fully valid icons and aspects of the divine Godhead in its nature. I think it expresses quite colorfully the logic of logos ontology and poetic wisdom sayings of much of Daoist literature.
I see Jesus and all of creation as a living symbol. In other words, everything happened exactly as it happened but at the same time is a symbol of something relevant to each of us in our life.
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