This was an interesting series to listen to on a long drive, thanks for writing. However, I find it strange that you equate Christianity nearly 1:1 with Reason / the cult of Reason given the supremely unreasonable nature of it. The early church called its rites “mysteries” instead of the sanitized “sacraments” and there’s even a theory in books like *The Immortality Key* that the original Eucharist contained psychoactive plant admixtures, although that book also trots out the tired “Christ is Dionysus because of the Canaan wedding miracle” thing so idk. Even today there are people sanctified for living as Fools for Christ.
Yes I hope this does not come off as “christians ruined everything” #477 as I place the genesis of this elevation of reason in as far back as, at least, the pyramid age of ancient Egypt. Both Homer and Heraclitus are already remarkably “rational”; Wilamowitz once remarked that if the latter was Athenian they wouldve butchered him for impeity far more brutally than Socrates. Same applies inverse, this series is almost identical to thought of Schleiermacher and Rudolf Otto.
“Seele and Geist” are forces larger and prior to the establishments of individual world-historical religions; nevertheless Christianity within itself has always been more hostile to its own flavors of mysticism than others. Millions of extinct heresies can attest to this
This was an interesting series to listen to on a long drive, thanks for writing. However, I find it strange that you equate Christianity nearly 1:1 with Reason / the cult of Reason given the supremely unreasonable nature of it. The early church called its rites “mysteries” instead of the sanitized “sacraments” and there’s even a theory in books like *The Immortality Key* that the original Eucharist contained psychoactive plant admixtures, although that book also trots out the tired “Christ is Dionysus because of the Canaan wedding miracle” thing so idk. Even today there are people sanctified for living as Fools for Christ.
Yes I hope this does not come off as “christians ruined everything” #477 as I place the genesis of this elevation of reason in as far back as, at least, the pyramid age of ancient Egypt. Both Homer and Heraclitus are already remarkably “rational”; Wilamowitz once remarked that if the latter was Athenian they wouldve butchered him for impeity far more brutally than Socrates. Same applies inverse, this series is almost identical to thought of Schleiermacher and Rudolf Otto.
“Seele and Geist” are forces larger and prior to the establishments of individual world-historical religions; nevertheless Christianity within itself has always been more hostile to its own flavors of mysticism than others. Millions of extinct heresies can attest to this