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@jbralston @SST_Theology 2/ A couple of immediate questions come to mind. To what degree have each of us been ‘divided and conquered’ by the epistemological Balkanization of religious triumphalism? Is our primary historical challenge, a common way of not-seeing - a Cycle of Occultation, ‘dawr al-satyr’?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Dec 2021

@antoniogm @nfergus Thoreau clarifies: “So little has been tried. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof." What have our religions proved? Time-tested failures. Kook: “On the desolate ruins wrought by heresy, the sublime knowledge of God will build her temple."

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Quoted by3/ The charge of Judaism and other world religions that the Messiah cannot have come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent in this regard. Then again, organized religion conflating the false sacred with the true sacred is hardly a uniquely Christian trip.Quoted by3/ Narrow, the view through the eyes of the isolated self - William Blake’s ‘Fall into Division’, the fracture between external realities and our inner life, between visible and invisible worlds, between the shell of our condition and the meaningfulness loaded into it.