Julian:
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> I fail to understand this particular gnomic comment.
Pretty simple, I think. If you understand that you are transcendentally right you are a liberated mystic, which illuminates are not.
Julian:
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> There are several different kinds of transcendance. I mean middling levels of
> transcendance, above the normal transcendance of ordinary consensus and
> communication, but far below the level of the huge entities or mystic voids that
> you mention.
That is _very_ debatable. I certainly don't think it is meaningful to speak of degrees of transcendence.
> If orthodox mysticism can be conceived as a vertical transcendance, with a focus on
> the mystic's understanding of his individual cosmic nature,
The mystic's concept of individual cosmic nature is that it doesn't exist.
> illumination is a
> horizontal transcendance, where the mystic's place in the world and its societies and
> otherworlds is radically redefined by high level transcultural insights.
In what way is this transcendence?
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