/lit/ - Literature

>>16535322
>It's not given much attention in their writings because in Advaita Vedanta it's taken as a given that one has already set one's sights on a higher goal than a temporary merger with this still ignorant entity.
Except this is only truly possible by capturing the Whole of Being. As Plato's Ladder of Love signifies, you cannot skip steps,for the higher encompasses the lower, just as having hieratic virtue by their nature begets fruits of lower and even civic virtue. For this is also Providence which is the lesser sung third name of praise that we grant the One (aka unbegotten Love/Eros).

A new age of another golden rebirth is dawning.
As you said, time is cyclical (but not in the determinist relive the same life kind of way, but rather patterns of repetition). Even the old true ways must die, as God died through us, we are the Soul of the World. The ages turn from our sins, but they also return by our virtue. The spirits who now sleeps will awaken, the songs of old will again flow from our mouths, the old tradition will be made new. If we will it in ourselves. To rise as the lotus from darkness.

>>15255045
. . . Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live: what is needed for that is to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin; to worship appearance, to believe in shapes, tones, words - in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial - out of profundity! And is not this precisely what we are coming back to, we daredevils of the spirit who have climbed the highest and most dangerous peak of current thought and looked around from up there, looked down from up there? Are we not just in this respect - Greeks? Worshippers of shapes, tones, words? And therefore - artists?

Last year, thanks to philosophy.
It's the logical consequence of Plato/Plotinus/Iamblichus/Proclus/Damascius.
If The One studied as first principle, we speak of him as pure Will, the will for everything to be. And this is the "act" and "being" of the One. But then I and the World, and all life, is the product of the longing of God, and it is our joy and suffering that is the very heart of the One's perfection. We are the Good's Good.
This is the beautiful mystery that Damascius beheld. The threefold One: which is beneath it, and beyond it, and is itself the Ineffable.

Gnostics are Noetic communists.
>muh spiritual hierarchy is unfair
>mememe should not have to struggle or have responsibility or be required to put in any effort in acquiring anything I want

What books will take me to the 3rd level? Being on 2nd one is miserable.