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Readings and True Learning

Its been a while since my last post, and I haven’t really been as engaged in online discussions as I used to be. In fact, quite the opposite. I’ve been a real recluse lately, and drawn closer to reading. Apparently we had a copy of The Jesus Mysteries in one of our surplus piles of books and I decided to read it. It was somekind of amazing to see the similarities between Christ, Mithras, Osiris-Dionysus; and at the same time many of those ideas were not so amazing.

It shouldn’t surprise us that Classical Pagans were both very scientific-minded individuals, as well as very devout religious minds. The same standard appears in the best Western scientists and poet-philosophers up through the 19th century. It makes one wonder how we wound up living in a world where the biggest lie centers on the myth that the two are wholly incongruous. We really need to move back into the frame of mind that accepts this kind of functionality not as a duality but as two parts of the whole; the individual.

However, the reading of Paganism and Christianity in Late Antiquity made me consider what area I would like to focus my educational studies. This is that area. That period in the Classical world that focuses on Ancient Paganism, Pagan Mystery Religions, Zoroastrianism and Babylonian Astrology, Judaism, and Early Christianity.

~ by tavthe on September 23, 2008.

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