Post by david on Sept 10, 2020 17:49:22 GMT
Dear friends,
The Buddhists can explain how we became separate from Nirvana into an illusory world, but they don't reach a truth beyond the illusion. They don't explain how the illusions that we experience come about, and how they have such diversity and logical consistency. This has to be accounted for. Something must cause it.
The Madrian teachings can explain it. They begin with Creation, from which Divine Ideas are reflected on the plane of matter, to be impressed on matter to create material forms. Every Divine Idea is reflected as a thing of the world, and every archetypal principle a phenomenon of the world.
This not only explains how the material world exist, but provides a symbolic system which gives a method of meditation. It explains how the supernatural can be manifest in it, and how ritual and ceremony can gain their potency.
There is no need to suppress the intellectual faculty to practice this. It enables the intellect to be used by means of the symbolism, which means we don't have to suppress part of our natures, but can become fully integrated and whole human beings.
May She be with you,
David.