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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 8 Dec 2024 21:45:55 GMT
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 11:59:17 +0100, D wrote:


> But there is this wonderful inflection point, where christianity went
> from a personal mystic method to find enlightenment, to become a tool to
> control and build society.
> 
> I wonder if the mystics lost because of 1. being more interested in the
> "within" and personal experience than power and 2. the other guys being
> more interested in power and cared nothing for god, but saw the
> opportunity. I guess the 3. is St Paul fearing that christianity would
> split into a 1000 pieces if the mystics with their own individual
> experiences were allowed to continue.

Other than the Gnostics I don't see much mysticism in early Christianity 
rather than sort of a consoling belief for the lumpen proletariat. 
Constantine was the start of the control. 

Mystics like Ecckhart, John of the Cross, Tauler, Teresa of Avila, and so 
forth were a problem for the hierarchy and treated with suspicion if not 
outright condemned as heretics.

Even in recent times Teilhard de Chardin was ordered not to publish or 
teach his ideas. That's no different than Eckhart who would have been 
ignored if he hadn't tried to teach.