In the age of monarchy, kings justified their right to rule through some form of the argument that they were simply born to do so. A king was not just an ordinary human, but in some sense a vessel for a divine principle of sorts. As such, there exists cases in medieval jurisprudence where the legal issue at stake was whether the king in his human form or his metaphysical form had signed a particular contract.
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Article 65: Materialism as Gatekeeper
This sort of approach is much easier to come up with if you have a more open view which values all sorts of experience modalities rather than trying to limit everything to objective physical measurement alone. It’s not that the latter is unhelpful or wrong, it’s just that it is a fairly narrow spectrum of what can be used to effect thorough diagnosis; it is incomplete, overly narrow.
False Gods
Article 38 False Gods As mentioned in the previous Article, along with the sacred speech of ‘the gods’ there is also profane speech of false gods. I suspect most reading this will know already what that might be…. overly long and boring pause……. Yes, ego. Ego in the Buddhist sense which is how we funnelContinue reading “False Gods”