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COMMENT On Modern Life No.1 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
STARTSI The 'elders' of the Inner Tradition 
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THE ELDERS The Hermit's Message The Western Version Christian Fourth Way Lost Christianity Saints are made
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5. Abstract of: A Psychological view of contemplative abstraction Palamas gives a view of contemplative abstraction that is both psychological and experiential, and well as imparting clear knowledge of its spiritual implications. Despite having trained as an Aristotelian philosopher, he wrote in his Triads about abstraction not in the intellectual Aristotelian sense, but as a change of state, as a result of which the nous sees itself as separate from the thoughts and feelings etc. Studies of the works of St. Gregory Palamas, who resolved many of the differences in use of language between different ‘fathers of the church’ who lived in widely different times and places, show that in his writing he used certain key words from classical psychology, but brought them forward into a true Christian context. One is the Greek word apharaisin. Used in one sense by Aristotle, this word is now generally rendered in English as abstraction, in its 20th Century English sense of intellectual abstraction. But in fact, the early church, including St. Denys, given as the source of certain schools of mediaeval mystics, (Dionysius the Areopagite), and with St. Gregory Palamas – trained in Aristotelian philosophy, as its later spokesman - used the word in The Triads with a very specialist esoteric meaning |
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* CONTENTS * ABSTRACTS A New Vision The Ark A Different Christianity Philosophers of God St. Gregory Palamas Cross-fertilisation Abstraction & attention Lost Doctrines Lost Christian truths The Royal Road Inner language History of Christianity Christian Therapy The First Millennium Christian Psychology Different kind of mind One thing needful Emotional Education Magnetisation to God Eastern Church spirituality God's drill Threshold of prayer Ora et Labora Research Report Mystical History Cultural Evolution Esoteric Christianity The Barbarian Within Spiritual crisis of the West
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