re: wisdom of bible? dlux/sasa
dlux, I too have read some blavatsky's texts, and found them quite inspiring. Thanks for posting that, (i liked the bit at the end). sasa, might pay to stand back and try to take an objective look at your preoccocupation with the "bible" as "god's" only instruction booklet.
A little bit about faith- To me faith comes from experience. If I go to heavymetal concerts and engage in a nights headbanging, I discover that I have a headaches the next morning. through a series of complicated inductive reasonings I develop a theory that if I go along to another one but do not headbang, then I may not have quite a sore forehead in the morning. This is still not faith, it is a postulate (I think). So anyway I go along to another concert and engage in no headbanging, and discover that in the morning my head is nowhere near as sore as in the previous experiences. This is the beginining of faith, as I understand. After many more concerts with no headbanging i develop a degree of WISDOM that tells me that the probability or my postulate is looking to be correct for all intense purposes. Thus faith is developed through experience and wisdom and the application of logic, not blind acceptance of what someone/thing says. Nothing can be known for 100%. Quantum physics, (with some of the most brilliant intellects on the face of the Earth), is showing more an more so that the world(s) we experience are intrinsically probabalistic in nature. In theory, everything could be described in terms of a probabilistic wave function. At the quantum level, matter vanishes and energy waves appear as the fundamental nature of the universe. How did the ancients know this? That is the very meaning of the word Maya. They say god is light, but we now now light is an electromagnetic wave, with no mass, i think. E=mc2. So at some level we could all be god, (except for the ego, probably, since that is always changing) Apparantly in john 10 Jesus was asking the jews why they were going to stone him. His reply to them was straight up, (even though I wouldn't accept it as a christian), he implied that we are all gods, and then presents them with their own precious scripture that they heavily exalt at the expense of the discernment of it's contents (of which there is a lot of muddy water). The garden of eden is, in my view an allegory with hidden truths (as with jc, the message of the parable was more important than the actual event being described). Egoic focusing on one thing alone for too long can result in ignorance of other important factors Sorry for getting side tracked there, it's a bit of a hobby.
I used to preach on the street and hand out new testaments, speak gibberish, and try to save people from going to hell. The blind trying to lead the blind. lol
