The introduction to Schuon's 'The Transcendent Unity
of Religions' deals with this subject in a very
unmderstandable and approachable manner. The line
between the exoteric and the esoteric represents the
contrast between the human and the divine.
--- brightimperator <brightimperator@...> wrote:
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Perhaps my last post was misunderstood. I agree with
Schopenhauer,
Guenon, and Schuon that the literalist folk mythology
in religion is
intended for those psychologically unable to handle
truths at the
level of pure metaphysics. In the case of
Aryo-Zoroastrian and Aryo-
Christian dualism, the exoteric moralism and the
concrete mythology of
embattled deities serves as the outer covering of a
sophisticated
ontology. Ahriman-Jehovah thus stands for the force of
externalized
manifestation and relativity, the dispersion of the
primal energy into
our present fragmented world the Hindus call MAYA
(illusion), while
Ahura-Mazda, or the "Supreme, Unknown God" of the
Aryo-Christians and
the Aryo-Gnostics, stands for the Absolute and
Unconditioned, the
Platonic world of essential realities or Ideas. Thus
this system
represents the longing for an 'Evolian' ascent from
the underworld of
mere contingency to the superworld of real power.
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