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One Love
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Posted 4/21/2007 11:49 AM (GMT -6)

http://hinduwebsite.com/divinelife/auro/auro_fateandfreewilll.asp

http://hinduwebsite.com/divinelife/auro/auro_natureofsupermind.asp

I'd just like to see what y'all think about some of his ideas. I'm just pondering them myself...

One Love
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Posted 4/21/2007 12:10 PM (GMT -6)

For those who choose to dive into the readings...

Focus on the word "Ishwara". Ishwara is conditioned Brahman. It is said that Ishwara is a REFLECTION of Brahman against Maya, the inscrutable power of Brahman. Through this inscrutable power, Brahman relates to itself. Ishwara is what essentially relates BECOMING to BEING. Supermind (Ishwara) that is the organizing principle and sustainer of all things...and is in the heart of every quantum event...and is the source of all regularity and freedom.

Does any of this remind you of Someone you know? (Three guesses...)

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete Unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

PotOnWheel
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Posted 4/21/2007 3:45 PM (GMT -6)

Philosophy won't get you there

The very raggedness of early christian writing about the trinity betrays the in ability of mere philosophy to handle the mysteries of "theology" (within God) and "economy" (the work of salvation).

Anything that begins with a system (and should we say seeks a system) ussually tries to conflate "economy"and "theology." In contradistinction to that is the writings of Origin I read in Bobrinskoy this morning. Origin is free to refer to make statements about theology where it guides us to emphasis that scripture makes, and if also free to make praises pertaining to economy: Origin emphasizes that _all_ points to the Father, and all prayers. But he also talks tenderly of "my Jesus" as Savior. (Over all, some of his earlier writings got his into trouble generations later. His later were more strongly scripture based.)

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