“In the twenty-first century … India will conquer her conqueror” “Around the middle of this century Arnold Toynbee predicted that at its close the world would still be dominated by the West, but that in the twenty-first century ‘India will conquer her conquerors’.1 Preempting the place that is now held by technology, religion will be restored
The Second Birth of Man “The undreamed-of technical advances in civilization made possible by the splitting of the atom and the harnessing of subatomic energies will ultimately bring all peoples into such close proximity in travel and communication that humanity will have to reevaluate its attitudes. Either persistence in ignorant intolerance will spawn mass suffering,
“While the Spirit-Paraclete is the true broker, the brokers they rely on are imposters.” “As the spirit is in the Gospel proper, so the Spirit-Paraclete is a benefit that Jesus will broker to believers. But as with the other benefits that Jesus provides, the source of the Paraclete is with God. The Father sends the Paraclete via
“What I found in the story (of Jesus) was an incredibly revolutionary figure.” “Like many people, my sense of who Jesus was was primarily informed by the prevailing culture. The Jesus that I knew was really the Jesus I saw on TV and in movies, the Jesus depicted from the pulpit, and later the Jesus
Jesus’ Revolutionary Vision “Unlike the Buddha, or Krishna, or any of the Eastern sages whose wisdom of transcendental knowledge left fundamentally intact the status quo of a world often characterized as illusory, the Jesus we see in the Gospel of Thomas saw and knew this world as the constant epiphany of the divine kingdom and
“This is reflected in numerous sayings. The Kingdom is like a treasure or a costly pearl whose possession outranks all other goods (Mt. 13:44-46). It is something to be sought here and now (Mt. 6:33) and to be received as children receive a gift (Mk. 10:15 = Lk. 18:16-17). In this saying the Kingdom is
Chi-Divine and Universal “In Tantrism, a practice of using the body for spiritual transformation found in Buddhism and Hinduism, ‘the body, the earth, nature, etc., are associated with the divine feminine, with shakti, and the aim is to unite it, or bring it into harmony with consciousness, with shiva, the male principle.’ Shakti is the power or energy of
Walter Mercado: “But before it comes, the old must be purged.” “The Bible speaks of the Second Coming of Christ, of a millennium of peace that comes when Jesus returns anew and all of us join together universally. The time is at hand. Christ is coming, but not physically, spiritually. The Bible spoke in many
Happy ending will be collectively “realized by the coming of the Messiah” Huston Smith Can Religion Save Us?Tradition, Transcendence, and Ultimate RealityAn interview with Huston Smithby Jessica Roemischer WIE: So, will the “happy ending” or final salvation that the traditions prophesy actually manifest? And, if so, do you believe that will eventuate—as the traditions predict,
For if you walk on this road, it is impossible to go astray. “The sage Valentinus gives the central Gnostic teaching, which is the same perennial wisdom taught by all Christian mystics and, indeed, all other mystical traditions: ‘Knock on yourself as upon a door and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For
