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4.3 the ego is within its imagery (as its reflectivity) 4.31 hence between ego and imagery there is reciprocity, not duality 4.4 ‘I am the awareness of this (reflective/symbolic) imagery’ 4.41 this is the angel mated to its iconology 4.5 animals also are incarnations (≠ reincarnations) 4.6 God is the Universal Consciousness 4.61 our Universe is the imagination of God, ‘the cinema in his mind’ 4.62 thus the universal complexity is within the divine simplicity 4.63 ecology is sacred 4.631 Christ as the gardener (Jn 20:15) 4.7 each person is an incarnation of God 5. Totality 4.71 all are face-forms of the universal Father/Mother 5.1 of images: meta-imagery, the Universe 5.2 of consciousness: meta-ego, God 5.3 of symbolisms: meta-logos, Meaningfulness 6. Trinity Chamber) 7. Unity 6.1 the Father of the images (the Bridegroom; creation, incarnation) 6.2 the Mother of the spirits (the Bride; birth, consciousness) 6.3 the Childhood of ourselves (the Sons and Daughters of the Bridal 6.31 Brother/Sisterhood and compassion 7.1 the incarnate Christ symbolizes the Godhead: 7.2 contemplation 7.3 repose (5) The Paul Paradox 126
Περιπατωµεν κατα τας εντολας αυτου! (II-Jn 6) Those who study the New Testament may well note that popular ‘red-letter’ editions of the text, with Christ's words thus highlighted, contain virtually no such rubrics thruout the Epistles of Paul. With the sole exception of the eucharistic formula at I-Cor 11:24-25, he does not quote any sayings of the historical Yeshua/ Jesus, either as found in the written Gospels or from a contemporaneous oral tradition. 1 Indeed furthermore, he never even once alludes to the panorama of the Savior's biography from the Nativity up to the Passion, as well as his elaborate teaching presented there, which fill the pages of the first four books of the New Testament. This is, on the face of it, a most puzzling omission. I Beyond this remarkable lack of historical concern, however, there is an even more enigmatic aspect of Paul's record in the New Testament. For an objective, philosophical reading of the documents would seem to reveal a number of logical contradictions, both within his biography and also between his theology and that of the Evangelists. It must be emphasized that these anomalies are conceptual rather than empirical in nature. For although they of course occur in interwoven historical, theological and normative contexts within the NT, they nevertheless present themselves as a priori problems of analytical consistency between various texts— regardless of the truth or falsity of any factual claims being made or presumed by those texts. Furthermore, these discrepancies must be similarly distinguished from logically posterior issues concerning the ancient composition, editing, redactions or dating of the New Testament writings, all of which are factual/ historical topics. In sum, and stated more formally: the Pauline antinomies are logical contradictions and therefore cannot in principle be resolved by means of either historical investigation or textual criticism, both of which are empirical methodologies. Neither is this the place to provide a retrospective survey of the many past commentaries on these complex questions. I shall only append a series of quotations from a large number of eminent figures who are in general agreement that Paul's doctrines appear to be seriously at odds with the Gospel message. These 1 Although, astonishingly, at Ac 13:24-25 he does quote John the Baptist! Ac 20:35, on the other hand, is actually a citation from Thucidides' Peloponnesian War II.97.4; whilst Ac 26:14 is in fact from lines 1660-1 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon. 127
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