2007-09-13 14:28:44 · 3 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Humans are full of errors. God is not. For a moral mind to become divine it must be the divine which becomes the moral, or as St. Paul said, "Have this mind in you which was in Christ, who although He was God thought divinity not something to be grasped, but emptied Himself taking the form of a servant. And being in the likeness of man Humbled himself even to death on the cross. Wherefore God has given Him a Name above every other name, that at the Name of Jesus everything shall bow." The secret of morality and divinity then lies in emptying oneself and union with God, so that I can say it is no longer I who acts, but God in me. For me to will is to accept God's will.
This process is called in Greek Kenosis kai Enosis, Emptying and Union. It is the submersion of the self totally into the divine. One's imperfection into God's perfection. This is also the ideal of Islam, perfect submission to the will of Allah. The Sufi mystics approached this by meditation and self denial.
2007-09-13 15:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The learned ego is a defensive belief system. Its errors are forgiveable and discardable - with effort.
Only with ego death can we experience unity with the divine (reality). Because THEN there is no barrier left between authentic being and the responsive reality we are embedded in.
2007-09-13 22:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We are. Moral mind is divine mind is imperfect mind. Only Creator is perfect by measure in the perfection for his Creation, and there is none.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-09-13 22:59:57 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋