The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaSUNY Press, 2001 M02 1 - 215 pages Gathering key writings from the French religious philosopher Jean Borella s works, this book moves the reader from the immediacy of the physical world to a world deep within ourselves. Throughout Borella s writings, there is a resurrectional power to his words, a way of seeing things that makes all things new, that endows us with an ability to look anew on Christ and his Body the Church. Translator and editor G. John Champoux has used a selection from Saint Bonaventure s The Soul s Journey into God to preface each of Borella s writings and to show how these insights can take us from our ordinary surroundings into our innermost world. |
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... tion , according to his own image ; so that there is now a third divine image , " 21 so that the Gnostic's very body becomes spiritual.22 Basically , the solution seems to correspond to the one given for the Rosicrucians by Rene Guenon ...
... tion , according to his own image ; so that there is now a third divine image , " 21 so that the Gnostic's very body becomes spiritual.22 Basically , the solution seems to correspond to the one given for the Rosicrucians by Rene Guenon ...
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... tion of true being , the sense of the absolutely real within us . This is an unassailable fact . Man is essentially and first of all an intellectual being , a knowing being , even though this knowing may be of the most humble sensory ...
... tion of true being , the sense of the absolutely real within us . This is an unassailable fact . Man is essentially and first of all an intellectual being , a knowing being , even though this knowing may be of the most humble sensory ...
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... , the goal of the wise man is contempla- tion [ = divine knowledge ] , that of those who are still philosophers [ = those who have devoted themselves to philo - sophia , " the love of wisdom " The Gnosis with a True Name 21.
... , the goal of the wise man is contempla- tion [ = divine knowledge ] , that of those who are still philosophers [ = those who have devoted themselves to philo - sophia , " the love of wisdom " The Gnosis with a True Name 21.
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... tion could be imparted , and , on the other hand , those more partic- ular thematic forms entrusted to the orthodox memory and understanding of the Christic mysteries ( essentially the Trinity and the Incarnation ) , in the absence of ...
... tion could be imparted , and , on the other hand , those more partic- ular thematic forms entrusted to the orthodox memory and understanding of the Christic mysteries ( essentially the Trinity and the Incarnation ) , in the absence of ...
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... tion of Hellenism — along which historians of gnosis and Gnosticism are divided . And the risk is certainly no less great for Christian Gnosticism : either , by pride , to reduce Revelation to some mental form , thus lapsing into ...
... tion of Hellenism — along which historians of gnosis and Gnosticism are divided . And the risk is certainly no less great for Christian Gnosticism : either , by pride , to reduce Revelation to some mental form , thus lapsing into ...
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