Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Ancient Wisdom at an Ancient Library" video.

  1. A definition of "divinity" as "the deepest most profound" is no good for its vagueness. All we know of "divinity" is self-awareness! Otherwise, it's just another philosophic technical term of no direct utility; the name of an idea--"identification". How does "God" fit in? As pinnacle of greatest hierarchy? Ok, then, flesh it out! Connect the dots! You possess the "spark of divinity", a "sliver of God", that forms your spiritual identity, in potential. The realization of that potential is a dynamic process of stimulus and response in awareness. Imagination sits between spirit and awareness in both refractive and reflective capacities: spirit offers a leading from its side of imagination; from the other side awareness accepts it, naturally, as having a degree of reality. However, that leading of the spirit may be obscured by self-interest on awareness's side. As "our spirit" works to make the human being and body more responsive to it, so does the macrocosmic God work to redeem matter to responsiveness to spiritual gravity...toward an end and purpose unimaginable.
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  2. Given hell is God's creation, I wouldn't disparage it so clumsily! hehehe...the fear of pain is merely a substitute for the fear of death; approach the latter to master the former. The Serpent tempted Eve with "the greatest possible good"! Just sayin'...don't instantiate your own arrogance with a determination of what constitutes "the good". To many the obvious "good" is luxury--but that's a horrible standard!
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  3. I think Jordan found the setting especially inspiring--he's hitting on all cylinders! His intro, though, regarding "microcosm vs macrocosm", struck me as a bit unfortunate, as it confused the modern and traditional conceptions of the dichotomy. The modern interpretation is one of degrees of size, the microcosm being the smallest things of the macrocosm. The traditional, even ancient, interpretation has man occupying the microcosm as a MINIATURE of the macrocosm, obeying the same rules as the macrocosm...in a kind of "identity" with it.
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