Philosophical Speculations

What you see as "blocking the entry point of the path" I see as a more subtle means of guiding others toward it. Ultimately what the difference comes down to is whether or not we feel that thrusting someone in front of an open door and asking them to choose immediately whether or not to enter it is ...

One of the most important things I have learned from Anthroposophy is that world evolution in the light of the spirit simply cannot be considered discursively on the level of competing concepts. Spiritual currents and impulses are directed throughout world evolution through the deeds of ...

Got it. In that case, I think more fitting terms for this polarity could be something like 'forces of growth and breakdown'. It feels clear why unchecked growth cannot be good, the obvious example being the tumor. On the other hand, it sounds strange to say that the tumor is 'health gone too far ...

The following is a freshly posted summarizing reflection by Matt Segall on what Levin's work and his "Platonic morphospaces" show and mean, from the perspective of the one who seeks the meaning of reality. I'm sharing it here because, as it seems to me, it offers a context for the understanding of ...

Tomberg's writing style in his Catholic-period works is an ingeniously crafted method of speaking two languages at once, as it were. What he explicitly says is aligned with Petrine thinking, while a Johannine message is conveyed for those who know how to see it. Johannine readers are given tools ...

I would like to write to both of you, Cleric and Ashvin : -) But also to you, Frederica. I had to cry today, not out of sadness, but out of joy, because I actually managed to discover the “inner space” and “inner stretching” today. Perhaps it is because I am completely overwhelmed right now, intern ...

Steiner is not expressing similar things in these quotes. The Church and the Scriptures are quite different things, we should note? How could I guess this would be your response? :) You simply need to try and understand what Tomberg is communicating here. Don't focus so much on "RCC", which we know ...

With respect to this: The way of Hermeticism, solitary and intimate as it is, comprises authentic experiences from which it follows that the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, a depository of Christian spiritual truth, and the more one advances on the way of free research for this truth, the more ...

Are you essentially saying that by predeterminately choosing not to choose (what you are doing here in your recommendation) the esotericist should teach less advanced souls how to make choices? If not, it would perhaps help to bring a concrete example of an act of moral creativity that submits to ...

Here's where I still think Tomberg contributed something that followers of this path simply can't ignore. Now one might think that arriving at such a position of moral freedom and responsibility means resisting or attempting to do away with the sense-bound approach imposed by others. However, acts ...