From the fog of the cold past.
Mass fashion for occultism blossomed almost simultaneously with fashion for Nietzscheanism. It arose independently, but from the same root.
In fact, occultism existed as much as Christianity. And the reasons for its occurrence are the same - "Twilight of the Gods", the global crisis of paganism in the then civilized world. One of the ways to overcome spiritual stagnation was precisely Christianity. But in the early period he dictated a complete rejection of the legacy of the past. In fact, Christianity was a revolution in the spiritual sphere.
Someone thought that it was too much. It was a shame to give up existing magical knowledge. And there were many of them. In pre-Christian Ancient Rome, there was complete freedom of religion. Many traditions have gathered here. Many of them were fascinated by the sophisticated mysticism of Ancient Egypt, honed for centuries.
So, the sects of the Gnostics, and then of the Hermetic sects in the first five centuries of our era, tried to reduce something to the system from the mystical legacy of the past, which seemed valuable to them. Then, trying to reconcile this whole thing with Christianity, then, starting with it. As a result, a fairly harmonious system of ideas arose. All religious systems were only a "pop-reflection" of true knowledge, which should be approached. With victorious Christianity, this approach was not unified by definition.
"Knowledge of God is acquired through direct divine inspiration or through sacred traditions created under the influence of divine inspiration. This knowledge causes the person who acquired it to transform and ascends to participation in the divine being: to know God means to be God. the chosen one is not the one who leads a righteous life, but one who is enlightened, who knows about the deity. The sin separating man from God is not in any deviations from the norms of morality, but in ignorance. The doctrine of the gnosis of the fundamental ideas of the occult. This explains the contempt for moral conventions that many Gnostics and Kabbalists have shown, and, oddly enough, is the cause of the Gnostic and Kabbalistic passion for classifications, which are an attempt to match all the properties of God and the world in a kind of logically harmonious scheme "(Richard Kravdisch ," Black magic ").
Strictly speaking, this is what all those who set foot on the slippery path to go beyond, decided.
Then all this somehow died out. But the foundation was laid.
Mass fashion for occultism blossomed almost simultaneously with fashion for Nietzscheanism. It arose independently, but from the same root.
In fact, occultism existed as much as Christianity. And the reasons for its occurrence are the same - "Twilight of the Gods", the global crisis of paganism in the then civilized world. One of the ways to overcome spiritual stagnation was precisely Christianity. But in the early period he dictated a complete rejection of the legacy of the past. In fact, Christianity was a revolution in the spiritual sphere.
Someone thought that it was too much. It was a shame to give up existing magical knowledge. And there were many of them. In pre-Christian Ancient Rome, there was complete freedom of religion. Many traditions have gathered here. Many of them were fascinated by the sophisticated mysticism of Ancient Egypt, honed for centuries.
So, the sects of the Gnostics, and then of the Hermetic sects in the first five centuries of our era, tried to reduce something to the system from the mystical legacy of the past, which seemed valuable to them. Then, trying to reconcile this whole thing with Christianity, then, starting with it. As a result, a fairly harmonious system of ideas arose. All religious systems were only a "pop-reflection" of true knowledge, which should be approached. With victorious Christianity, this approach was not unified by definition.
"Knowledge of God is acquired through direct divine inspiration or through sacred traditions created under the influence of divine inspiration. This knowledge causes the person who acquired it to transform and ascends to participation in the divine being: to know God means to be God. the chosen one is not the one who leads a righteous life, but one who is enlightened, who knows about the deity. The sin separating man from God is not in any deviations from the norms of morality, but in ignorance. The doctrine of the gnosis of the fundamental ideas of the occult. This explains the contempt for moral conventions that many Gnostics and Kabbalists have shown, and, oddly enough, is the cause of the Gnostic and Kabbalistic passion for classifications, which are an attempt to match all the properties of God and the world in a kind of logically harmonious scheme "(Richard Kravdisch ," Black magic ").
Strictly speaking, this is what all those who set foot on the slippery path to go beyond, decided.
Then all this somehow died out. But the foundation was laid.