BrahminBoss
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More particularly, this dualism generated the understanding of all manifestations
of spiritual influence in the passive terms of “grace,” “election,” and “salvation,”
as well as the disavowal (at times accompanied by real animosity) of all “heroic”
human possibilities; the counterpart of this disavowal consisted in humility,
fear of God, mortification of the flesh, and prayer. Jesus’ saying in Matthew (11:12)
concerning the violence suffered by the kingdom of Heaven and the revival of the
Davidic saying: “You are gods” (John 10:34), belong to elements that exercised
virtually no influence on the main pathos of early Christianity. But in Christianity in
general it is evident that what has been universalized, rendered exclusive, and exalted
are the way, the truth, and the attitude that pertain only to an inferior human
type or to those lower strata of a society for whom the exoteric forms of Tradition
have been devised; this was precisely one of the characteristic signs of the climate of
the Dark Age, or Kali Yuga.
of spiritual influence in the passive terms of “grace,” “election,” and “salvation,”
as well as the disavowal (at times accompanied by real animosity) of all “heroic”
human possibilities; the counterpart of this disavowal consisted in humility,
fear of God, mortification of the flesh, and prayer. Jesus’ saying in Matthew (11:12)
concerning the violence suffered by the kingdom of Heaven and the revival of the
Davidic saying: “You are gods” (John 10:34), belong to elements that exercised
virtually no influence on the main pathos of early Christianity. But in Christianity in
general it is evident that what has been universalized, rendered exclusive, and exalted
are the way, the truth, and the attitude that pertain only to an inferior human
type or to those lower strata of a society for whom the exoteric forms of Tradition
have been devised; this was precisely one of the characteristic signs of the climate of
the Dark Age, or Kali Yuga.
