Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell

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2008.08.25

 

  

   

Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell from page 99

 

 Nor can you solve the problems of chakra three in terms of chakra three. Aggression does not remedy aggression. The only way you can civilize little human animals is by civilizing them.That is to say, by opening their heart chakra. And if they cannot open the heart chakra, you can at least give them a system of civilized rules about how to live, which will help them function as though their heart chakra has opened. When illumination comes, and compassion comes, then you do not need rules to tell you how to act compassionately.You are spontaneously compassionate.
You can't make a bad little animal into a good little animal by treating him as though he were an animal.
You have to waken the heart chakra, which is the human sentiment of compassion, and understanding, that of love instead of lust.

 

 

여기저기 주옥같은 현명함이 뚝뚝 떨어져 박혀 있는 보물단지 같은 책.

꼭 읽어보세요.

 

2008.8.17

 

page 72, Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell 中

 

Understanding the Symbol of Judeo- Christian Sprituality 이라는 찹터에서:

크리스쳔의 fish 모티브에 연관된 이야기가 나오는데,
이 세상을 바다속 물과 비교한 대목이 흥미롭습니다.

This narrative, as we have suggested, is evocative of the orphic tradition, which has to do with the fishing of souls and the idea that the world in which we live is, in a way, the waters of the sea.

Water's capacity to reflect in reverse the forms of the heavenly world gives us a basic sense of this symbol so that we can conceive of living in a mirror world- that is to say, that in it, everything is the reverse of what is in Heaven.

The savior pulls us out of this realm and into the realm of true and valid light and experience.
There is, we observe again, a strong fisher motif in all these stories, linked in several ways to the Christ image."

orphic 이란 단어에 대하여 검색해보면 :
Orphism (more rarely Orphicism) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices in the ancient Greek and Thracian[1] world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into Hades and returned. Orphics also revered Persephone (who descended into Hades each winter and returned each spring) and Dionysus or Bacchus (who also descended into Hades and returned). Poetry containing distinctly Orphic beliefs has been traced back to the 6th or at least 5th century BC, and graffiti of the 5th century BC apparently refers to "Orphics".[2]
Classical sources refer to "Orpheus-initiators" (Orpheotelestai), and associated rites, although how far "Orphic" literature in general related to these rites is not certain.[3] As in the Eleusinian mysteries, initiation into Orphic mysteries promised advantages in the afterlife. 

 

 

2008.8.17

 

요즘 몰입할만한 책이 없어 이책 열어놓고 몇찹터 진행하다 저책 열어놓고 몇페이지.
이런식으로 열어 놓고 읽다만 책들이 거의 열권정도 됩니다.

그럴땐 별수 없이 예전에 읽었지만 나를 기쁘게 하는 책을 다시 펼쳐놓고 읽을수밖에요.

그런책들이 있습니다. 내 뇌를 happy 하게 만드는 책. 조세프 켐벨이 쓴 책들이라면.

Joseph Campbell 씨는 현명합니다. 그의 밝고 insightful 한 mind 에 감탄합니다.
어둠속에 발견한 한줄기 빛! 등대를 연상시키는 그.
그럼 제가 읽고 있는 조세프 켐벨의 책 제목부터
소개하죠 : Thou Art That !

페이지마다 좋은 글이 있어서, 아하! 그래 맞어! 라고 생각되는 그런 좋은글.

page 27

Anyone who says, as Jesus is reported to have said ( John 10:30),
"I and the Father are one," is declared in our tradition to have blasphemed. Jesus Christ was crucified for that blasphemy; and nine hundred years later, the great Sufi mystic, Hallaj, was crucified for the same thing.

Hallaj is reported to have compared the desire of the mystic to that of the moth for the flame.
The moth sees a flame burning at night in a lantern and, filled with an irresistible desire to be united
with their flame, plays about the lamp till dawn, then returns to his friends to tell them in sweetest terms the tale of his experience.
"You don't look the better of it," they say, for his wings are pretty much banged up: that is the condition of the ascetic.
But he returns the next night and, finding a way through the glass,is united entire with his beloved and becomes himself the flame.

We in our tradition do not recognize the possibility of such an experience of identity with the ground of one's own being.
What we accent, rather, is the achievement and maintenance of a relationship to a personality conceived to be our Creator.
In other word, ours is a religion of relationship: a, the creature, related to X, the Creator (aRX).
In the Orient, on the other hand, the appropriate formula would be something more like the simple equation, a = X. "