 Guillaume says: Check out this guy. Great ideas. A lot more links on the source page. Wow, Guillaume, thanks a lot! It seems you have discovered a new treasure. Just look at this quote from "About the Holy bible": They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart. They forget that it is the enemy of intellectual freedom. Liberty is my religion. Liberty of hand and brain -- of thought and labor, liberty is a word hated by kings -- loathed by popes. It is a word that shatters thrones and altars -- that leaves the crowned without subjects, and the outstretched hand of superstition without alms. Liberty ... the agnostic christmas - a beautiful text. more gnostic than agnostic in my opinion. it is a pitty that so many people don't want to see the universality of religious symbols and miths and seclude themselves in a sort of grey or even dark spiritual ghettos. I think it's neither gnostic, nor agnostic acrv56. Rather materialistic but poetically shining with skillful touches which sound somehow "pantheistic". All the root symbols of religions which look universal has stems in ancient astronomy and cosmology. And the festivities are related to the cycles of the nature and cosmos. Like the original idea of Christmas being the celebrations dedicated to the "returning sunshine" on Winter Solstice, or the Easter, being a salutation for the spring, renewment of the nature and soil after the Vernal Equinox. A praise for the nature as a magnificent generative force.I think Ingersoll puts the matter quite poetic; I agree, a nicely written piece. these cycles of nature and cosmos are so intriguing. i always questioned myself about the correspondances between the names of the zodiac and the religious teachings and ceremonies. i read a very interesting book about religious symbols and miths, a dictionary of gaskell - do you know it? No, I haven't heard of it but I'd love to read it since I'm deeply interested with the belief systems, myths and religious symbolism. Gaskell... Is it a book by Elizabeth Gaskell? sorry, i wasn't at desk. it is by george arthur gaskell. title: dictionary of all scriptures & miths, 1960. i have read the edition from 1981 Thanks for informing about this book. I've just found it at Amazon.com and looks like very interesting and noteworthy. By the way, it's 842 pages  I feel I should have it on my bookshelf. I'll never be a rich man as long as I spend all my money for buying books and DVD's. Unfortunately, my wife just does the same and every last week of each month we find ourself broke, because of paying Amazon.com bills  Glad you like this link. I dodn't know this guy either, and I just stumbled upon this site while randomly surfing the web. Some of those are great, and as you said it's amazing they were written in the 19th century ! great discovery, Guillaume! thanks invictus, not the money are the problem. the problem is that one can read an entire library, have interesting and challenging life experiences and after 2-3 decades may be in the position to discover that most of what have learned and appreciated as certain have no more value. one may be really open minded, but won't be spared of bafflement when it comes to knowledge and the basis of understanding the world and the self. indeed, the gaskell dictionary is a thick book and requires patience (the same with the bible - it took me some time to get the proper mood to read it, very slowly, 10-15 pages/day, pencil in hand, with no prejudices). over years i discovered the pleasure to read slow-pa... Slow pace is indeed a luxury. Let's preseve it in this stressful world. |
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