Friday, April 27, 2007

AN APPROACH TO THE GROUND OF BEING

I am adapting in my research a Rosicrucian (AMORC)conception of a possible cognitive encounter with the Absolute or the ground of being,where

The Absolute is understood as both an end in itself and as a point of reference for a constellation of ideas/
and as a point of reference for the correlation of a contellation of ideas.

I see this conception of an ultimate cognitive goal as exemplified by

1.Harvey Spencer Lewis,a modern Rosicrucian philosopher, on the cosmic: "The cosmic mind does not contain the particulars of human knowledge and experience but is an exalted level of evaluation"
from a 1980s edition of The Rosicrucian Manual.

2. The summatuion of Dante's Paradiso-see in particular the comentary on the concluding canto by Singer.

3. Kunene's description of the climatic congnitive realisation in classical Zulu thought:

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