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August 20, 2007 at 1:15 pm

(1) Greg says:

I would dare say that the modern occultist is perhaps another way of just saying Gnostic, with a more modern flourish perhaps? Maybe its a language thing.

From the steps of research I have taken, I am beginning to formulate the opinion that to embrace the notion of the “internal” rather than “external” divinity, that you open up this acceptance of all faiths, because if it’s within, what does it matter what path it takes to get there?

I think this is really counter intuitive to how most orthodoxy wants us to believe because then there is no more monopoly of what people do. I almost wonder if that release of control would cause a sort of morality breakdown as suddenly every individual is responsible for his own salvation, and not under some imagine threat from a guy with a long beard sitting on a cloud with thunderbolts in his hands

Maybe one day we’ll know.

In the mean time, I really really dig Agrippa. I think his spheres between us and the divine are a great way of illustrating the degrees of consciousness and the pilgrim’s path towards connecting that inner divine.

August 20, 2007 at 4:28 pm

(2) Fayanora says:

Sure they can. My girlfriend is a Christo-Pagan. Which sounds like a contradiction, but she believes that the real Jesus (she calls him Yeshuah, which was his real name) combined Judaism with pagan practices. She has some very compelling evidence, too.