Re: trinity confusion
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:05 am
As Bertrand Russell had noted, different mystics have experienced different things. I'll quote from "Mysticism" in Religion and Science:iskander wrote: The Triune God is a matter of religious experience ; liturgical. mystical and often poetical. The "Triune God "is no more difficult to understand that the shorter "God".
The things that they do agree upon are rather limited. Again from R&S:We shall find, in the first place, that, while the witnesses agree up to a point, they disagree totally when that point is passed, although they are just as certain as when they agree. Catholics, but not Protestants, may have visions in which the Virgin appears; Christians and Mohammedans, but not Buddhists, may have great truths revealed to them by the Archangel Gabriel; the Chinese mystics of the Tao tell us, as a direct result of their central doctrine, that all government is bad, whereas most European and Mohammedan mystics, with equal confidence, urge submission to constituted authority.
- that all division and separateness is unreal, and that the universe is a single indivisible unity
- that evil is illusory, and that the illusion arises through falsely regarding a part as self-subsistent
- that time is unreal, and that reality is eternal, not in the sense of being everlasting, but in the sense of being wholly outside time