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COMMENT On Modern Life No.1 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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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
PRAXIS NOW
A glimpse of one of Praxis' new video talks. These articles give brief glimpses into the thinking of Praxis Research Institute. |
Inner Christianity Glimpse of Truth Different knowledge Darkness of the psyche
Inner states
Consciousness retold Speaking of God Seeking Self Inner Identity Civilising Knowledge |
Page 2 The background to the loss of this great reservoir of truth, is that, in two thousand years, Christianity has acquired - and often lost again - an enormous corpus of experience that has shaped its knowledge and ideas. Nobody can know all of this, so everybody has had to be selective. More than this, there are both historical and psychological reasons why this selective process has developed a particular bias over the centuries, so that some of the knowledge acquired by the church during its early years has for long been forgotten -- either it has been totally forgotten, or in other cases the words are remembered, but part of their meaning, their significance, has been forgotten, so that they are effectively misunderstood. Thus the criteria for interpretation have clearly changed with the times - until what is believed now as a result of reading the Gospel is entirely different from what was believed in the early days of Christianity. Now, if the early meanings are made available again, we find them difficult to understand, and if we do get close to them, we discover that it is even more difficult for us to see their value to us, their relevance to our personal questions, and to the main questions of the civilization of which we are part. The connections have worn thin with time, although the problem of the misunderstanding of inner knowledge is not a new one. We no longer have the intellectual tools to recover that early knowledge; we have replaced them with a 'newer model.’ As long ago as the third century, Origen, head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school previously led by Clement of Alexandria, wrote that the Bible should be interpreted in ways other than historical, because, in the historical interpretation, the inconsistencies of the text make it look foolish. Sixteen centuries later, vast numbers of scholars now study the Bible simply as a history text and, in the attempt to maintain 'scientific objectivity,' regard it is misleading to study it against criteria other than those of history. |
A NEW VISION 
These Different articles from the previous Praxis website give some idea of the thinking that brought us to this point |
A New Vision Page 1 A New Vision Page 2 A New Vision Page 3 A New Vision Page 4 A New Vision Page 5 A New Vision Page 6
PRAXIS PAST 
praxis web 4 ARCHIVES including most of the text articles from praxis Web 4. Main texts are listed with simple descriptions under CONTENTS and more fully under ABSTRACTS |
* CONTENTS * ABSTRACTS A New Vision The Ark Text List 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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