(discussion) Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries
I’m sending this out because readers of this blog might be interested. Please note that I haven’t (yet) read Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries: Recovering the Sacred Mystery at the Heart of Reality and I haven’t read the review/critique discussed in this Substack post. However, the (rebuttal) post itself is filled with interesting points.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165417836
I acknowledge that Christians have been gelded of the power that the faith was meant to bestow. This includes the power of the Eucharist, baptism, marriage (as an alchemical act through the Water-to-Wine allegory) as well as healing, and exorcism, among others.
There are many issues this rebuttal raises, and I don't want to get too controversial here. Suffice to say that for me, Morello's stance is conservative, and still based on a biased understanding of metaphysics and mysticism.
Davis - from this account - just oozes fear of Wiccan Christians frolicking in the woods with church-going fairy folk, and falling into the darkness of heretical lunacy, or something. To me, the proverbial devil has always dominated the official institutions of every religion.
After all, hierarchical structures have always been the favorite of the proverbial "god of this world". In any case, I have deleted much more than I am posting because at the end of the day, at least a workable engagement with esoteric possibility is proposed that will allow an acclimation from within the boundaries of faith.
Anything further will be offered by grace-infused and defined illumination, provided the mind is open enough, and heart awake enough to release its biases in the face of it. Hopefully, the idea of "where two or more are gathered in my Name", as an esoteric - as opposed to a doctrinal - truth will prevail.
Hopefully, people will realize that the proverbial "miracles" of Jesus were examples of what Christians should be able to do, once the heart, mind and body come into the sacred without rejecting the Natural as if it were profane.