DooDoot wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:04 pm
Manopubbangama wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:03 pmI'm guessing that with time all bureaucratic priestly castes grow extremely corrupt and fickle.
If we read the New Testament, composed by authors connected to the Apostles of Jesus, do we read teachings like those of Meister Eckhart? Not really, unless interpreted with a Buddhist periscope. Its seems Meister Eckhart was a heretic. Its seems Jesus by his own design was meant to be a Personal God (rather than the impersonality Meister Eckhart was preaching).
If you read Plotinus, I think its a good place to start to understand M.E.'s theology. Just as good a place as any other I can think of. Either way it all goes back to Alexandrian guilds of late antiquity.
Regarding your comment about the inquisition, food for thought - he appeared before their meeting, they talked it over, and they absolved him of anything after he apologizing for appearing to have deviated from dogma. This all in a society without habeaus corpus.
Would modern day ruling classes of Western Europe forgive someone so easily for saying something like "gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy?"
Of course they woudln't, they would use all their powers in their disposal to burn such a man at the stake. To coin a new verb they would
Jan-Hus him.
Just food for thought when we are comparing the Papist inquisitors to the moral-relativist inquisitors.