Not exact matches
VERY OFTEN
TRUE STATEMENTS
ARE POSTED HERE, BUT THEY
ARE CATEGORICALLY DENIED BY THOSE WHO HAVE AN AGENDA TO PROMOTE ONLY BELIEF IN THINGS THAT
ARE NOT
MYSTICAL, NOT SUPERNATURAL, AND
ARE MEASURABLE ONLY SCIENTIFICALLY AND INTERPRETED ONLY THROUGH 21TH CENTURY WESTERN CULTURAL FILTERS.
Perhaps the latter
is true in some
mystical sense but as a history scholar I can tell you that I can't think of a worse position that
being an early Christian in the Roman Empire.
There
is no evidence that your
mystical, magical stories
are true.
The
mystical Christ has not yet attained to his full growth; and therefore the same
is true of the cosmic Christ.
There
are mystical based traditions in all the major religions that
are more focused that the divine lives within each one of us as our
true self.
We Catholics believe that the Catholic Church («Roman», if you wish)
is, as Pius XII puts it: the «
true Church of Christ», His «
Mystical Body».
Exactly how would somebody practicing Advaita Vedanta or any of the
true mystical traditions benefit from
being part of a religious organization?
Even if it
is held that Christ's
true church, «the
mystical Body of Christ,»
is sinless, there
is no existing, visible church of which this can
be said.
It
is true that Dostoevsky personally assented — despite occasional episodes of doubt — to the creeds of the ancient church, and that he believed deeply in the
mystical and sacramental traditions of the Orthodox church, and that in general his vision of things
was shaped by traditional Christian understandings of sin and redemption.
Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I
am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»),
is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which
is the completing or
mystical element of thought («all
is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in
true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It
is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.
Call it «
mystical» if you like — though that surely
is not a very good description of it — but whatever the
true and adequate word for this tremendous apostolic experience, it
is perfectly clear that the earliest Christianity we know had a twofold basis, and stood upon two feet, history and experience.
This
was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached
true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the
mystical government of the world.»
A very
true understanding of
mystical experience
is contained in the vision of Moses, and his needing the protection of God lest he die, even in the vision of «My hinder parts».
This shooting PROVES that if there
is an omnipotent God he could have stopped it but chose NOT to... He
's evil Or he
's playing a magical /
mystical GAME with everyone that only makes sense to him and deluded humans, EACH of who
are screaming that only THEY know «His»
true word...
It
was his as the
true gospel because he
was himself a man «in Christ» — and that phrase signified for him, as his letters make abundantly clear, that he
was, and knew himself to
be, what the Book of Common Prayer calls — in another phrase which yet
is remarkably Pauline in expression — «a very member incorporate in the
mystical Body of Christ, which
is the blessed company of all faithful people.»
It
's a
mystical path for discovering and embodying YOUR
true essence... in the work you do in the world and in expressing your unique gifts... and in your daily interchanges with your loved ones and communities.
Making friends with
true believer Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Strange becomes obsessed with learning all he can about these
mystical arts, never thinking for a moment that outside forces, led by the deranged and emotionally damaged Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen),
are conspiring to destroy Kamar - Taj and bring unfathomable ruin to the citizens of the Earth.
Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to
be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to
be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I
AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the
true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the
mystical.
Rose Quartz
is famous for two things: its successful marriages, and its namesake mines that produce the
mystical Love Stone, reputed to keep lovers
true.