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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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16. Abstract of : Emotional Education A passage from Saint Symeon the New Theologian, one of the great theologians of the early Church and now of the Greek church, directly raises a little know problem with the Biblical passage known as the beatitudes. He pointed out that these gospel instructions although true, are difficult for ordinary men and women: that: "He who does not have attention in himself and does not guard his mind, cannot become pure in heart, and so cannot see God. "He who does not have attention in himself cannot be poor in spirit, cannot weep and be contrite, nor be gentle and meek, nor hunger and thirst after righteousness, nor be merciful, nor a peacemaker, nor suffer persecution for righteousness sake.” This is a doctrine of asceticism, which, in the earlier centuries of the Christian world, gave the institutional church's a role in society that included the education of the emotions. Yet so much have the times changed that the significance of these early church teachings as augmenting the gospel message is only now being rediscovered. They began to be ignored when the influence of Renaissance intellectualism and humanism began to lead to the Christian message about human emotional life being seen as irrelevant to the idea that man could shape his own destiny.. Reinforced by the Reformation maxim of ‘the sufficiency of scripture’, this led to Western Christendom virtually ignoring the teachings that had come down from the early fathers of the church. As a result, the part of the early doctrines that underlay this emotional formation have been progressively lost. The result is a secular world that sees no need to educate the emotions - an error from which we are now reaping the whirlwind in suffering, and in our alienation from our own children. |
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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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