(March 5, 2014 at 4:32 am)Urizen Wrote: The truth is timeless. Belief and faith only prefigure the awakening of the truth in oneself. Belief is indirect and volitional; knowledge is direct and Intellective. But belief encourages an attitude of interiorisation, and culminates in the reflection of the Intellect upon itself. We can know the truth, because we are the truth. The truth is merely eclipsed by the vanities and worldly attachments of man. Christianity gives man a key-idea that opposes these illusions, so that he can find the truth in himself.
Buddhism is another interiorising religion. Despite its methodological differences, the Buddhist vision actually reinforces the truth of Christianity; it may not call it God, for its method is one of silence, yet it contains the reality of God in the form of Transcendence and Immanent Justice.
Vaguely defined terms and pseudo-intellectual bare assertions are not impressive.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
