Gnostic - Pico Della Mirandola - You Are Gods

[DreadfulSolemnity]

Ethereal...

[thruthem]

But can I still grovel for stuff I want?

What about teaching my kids hate, bigotry and xenophobia?

Just sayin'

[Antisyncretism]

Pantheism...make no mistake: this is not Christianity

[QuantumProphet]

@Antisyncretism And what is christianity?. Not a single way to define that beast. ...and who cares?. :D

[Antisyncretism]

@QuantumProphet Christianity is the teaching of Jesus Christ, a teaching that is not pantheistic.

[ludachris475]

Socrates was the Lord of Those Who Know

[QuantumProphet]

@ludachris475 yea, like Smeagol for the winners and sanctioned by Charlie Sheen :D

[chith1890]

Absolutely fits with the Eastern Philosophy and negate the outdated Christian teachings. This is the spiritual part of Christianity, The real Christianity.

[AcceleratorPlus]

In response to IMBUED.. I am quoting from the Psalms.

"They have not known, and they do not understand; In darkness they keep walking about; All the foundations of the earth are made to totter.

I myself have said, 'You are gods, And all of you are sons of the Most High." - Psalms 82:5

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[IMBUED]

He does not say we are gods.

[alchemistra]

What pinnacle of intellect to make such lofty propositions regarding the nature of man! And what reverence to the godhead to strive unceasingly to the reflection of its stature!

[ludachris475]

The name 'alchemy' is derived from the Arabic el-kimya, Khem being the name for Egypt where magic was rightly pursued.

[ComradeCrackhead]

You art a Demiurgos.

[ludachris475]

Hermes Three Times Great.

Thrice exceeding.

[ludachris475]

Hermes was a demiurge.

[ludachris475]

The Egyptian Tree of Life is the basis of the arcane rites of the Cabalistic Sephirot, identifying the ten metaphysical characters of God. Adam was to forever till the soil, and not eat of that Tree from which sprang immortality and knowledge of the Divine.

[rabmunch]

At 2:48 - this is the very beginning of his well known oration.

If you want to know what he really thought, the best to do is to read it.

In very truth, Pico was an Averroist, an adherent of the doctrine of the "double truth". To speak more simply: he was a pupil of the true esoteric teaching of the ancients.

Pico's classicism means this: he had nothing in common with his time. He had everything in common with Socrates.

[ludachris475]

Hermes Trismegistus.

[neothomist1275]

Given his sympathy with both Aristotle's contention that unity and being are co-extensive and the Scholastic view that truth is the sum of all true propositions, Pico may be placed on the side of the peripatetics.

But he sought to reconcile Aristotle with Plato. In fact, he he sought to reconcile Hermes, Zoroaster and Orpheus with Plato and Aristotle.

[neothomist1275]

He was the supreme syncretist. His friends called him 'Princeps Concordiae' -- punning on the fact that he was, by inheritance, Lord of Concordia.

[ludachris475]

Leibniz conceived of God as Monas Monadum, the One Supreme Monad, the divine source of the emanation of all material.  He is the Absolute Aiōn teleos of the Gnostics and to the Pythagoreans the source of the number and of the point.

[neothomist1275]

I'm not convinced Leibniz believed all aspects of his monadology. I reckon he was amused at his own cleverness.

[ludachris475]

Hahaaah.

He was not superstitious enough.

[neothomist1275]

"Magic, when it is rightly pursued, is nothing else than the utter perfection of natural philosophy (i.e. natural science)"

[ludachris475]

The enigmatic priest of Salem, Melchizadek represents a literal God on earth, and according to the ancient Tanakh allegory, he is immortal and priest forever.

He is also referred to as the Lord of the Seat. He appears in both the Latin Vulgate and the Septuagint.