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”EXISTENTIALISM”, PRESENT,
ANCIENT AND FUTURE
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PRESENT
”existentialism” can be a philosophical
tendency or attitude but with
few doctrines common to
all
”existentialists”. They are
influenced by Kirkegaard, Jasper,
Heidegger and Sartre whose ”atheistic existentialism” does not believe in a God who creates man. They
can think that man is ”EXISTENCE”
which gets essence. They do often not
know or admit that equal ideas was in
the past. Most religious
people
will still believe in a God who ”creates” our existence and essence
(”Creationism”)
THE
ANCIENT JEWISH BIBLE is thought to
start with the idea
that ”in the
beginning did God ”CREATE”. Then God is believed to be
the creating subject and heaven and earth are created objects.
But some Jewish
cabbalistic interpretation reads ”In the beginning is created
(or emanated) God(s) heaven(s)
and earth(s) . Then even God is
interpreted as created object or
emanated by ”Ain Soph Aur”
which is a negative absolute root, too holy to be mentioned. In the beginning there is for such
cabbalistic
Jews no
”God” but there is negative absolute
existence before ”gods” are
manifested. The bible-words
are then translated according to the ANCIENT
Jewish grammar where the tense is indefinite, which can
make the whole Bible very different, free from petition , more affirmative.
ANCIENT CHRISTIAN ”Gnostics” as doctor Jung (his book ”Seven sermons to the dead”) have also
the
philosophy that in the beginning or
before the beginning there is no ”God”.
”Pleroma” is itself as
a
negative existence which is the beginning and end of the created (emanated) world with its pairs of opposites, (in Abraxas)
manifested first as
God and Devil This Christian
Gnosis and the Jewish
Ain Soph Aur (Cabbala) can be discussed as
forms of ANCIENT existentialism.
ANCIENT EASTERN
existentialism can we find in
the Rig Veda and the Bhagavad Gita of India where the word SAT
represents the Be-ness,
the absolute ever-present
Reality. ”Satta” is the one and
sole Existence – Brahma. In Rig Veda it is said that what we may name ”gods” came later
ANCIENT Buddhism has
the same idea, that there are
”gods” but they are not the
eternal existence. They incarnate in
the beginning of time and disappear at the end of
time and reincarnate in the next
period
of manifestation. The eternal Buddha or Nirvana is the Eternal real existence. Gods are not eternal and therefore belonging to Maya, illusion
and not Real.
THE PRESENT ”FREE CATHOLIC
CHURCH is as Christian nearest to
the Gnostic Branches of
Christians. As interreligious do
we acknowledge the Jewish, Hindu and Buddhistic and other
ways to try
to give
words for mystic experiences and revelations of ”existence, gods, and
essence”. We understand that
words for human minds can not grasp
eternal truth but we convey
different words and symbols in order
to
inspire seekers. We have no
indoctrination but inspire free thinking.
Some of us have their own
spiritual
experiences
of ”Angels” and of beeings of higher existentialism and
essence then some
other seekers can think
and we are free to speak about
it but not to force anybody to consent.
FREEDOM is a common word with
existentialists: They presume that
there is no God who does limit
our freedom,
that there is no God who
decides what is right or wrong. We
must ourselves in freedom
decide what to do and reap the
consequenses. But ideas about freedom is different
with different seekers
MOSES talked about freedom from
slavery in Egypt. That is often
interpreted in a literal way. But it
is originally
(Egyptian) ritualistic words
trying to inspire souls to liberate themselves from worldly desires.
CHRISTIAN popes have limited our
freedom when giving dogmatic teachings.
Luther did write about freedom
from the ”Law” but did bind
his followers with dogmatic catechism
which denies the path of freedom which
is in
other religions. Jesus is supposed to have said that ”The Truth will set you free”. This
is the
truth of the Holy Spirit. Freedom in
the eternal existence is experienced by
few – in contemplation.
Some believe or have
knowledge that our higher or Angelic Self beyond all understanding is real freedom.
But for
the human self is that freedom
experienced only so far as the Angelic
Self finds that it is real
help.
Eph 1 3
says that we are chosen before creation and predestinated so that freedom will be ours…
FUTURE ”EXISTENTIALISM” will
know about earlier
forms of existentialism which
have been appreciated in the
past in other cultures. New mystics
will come with words fitting new
riper generations-.
But the question is always how
ripe the souls are. Christ, Buddha , Krishna, Mohammed and all prophets have found that many souls can not yet receive what they
want to give.