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Wisdom & The Role of Cosmic Awareness East & West |
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only Thomas Aquinas, but Eastern mystics too call us to wisdom by way cosmic awareness. French philosopher Gabriel Marcel finds a necessary connection between cosmos and wisdom among Eastern and Western sages. |
He writes: The true function of the sage is surely the function of linking together, of bringing into harmony. I am not thinking only or even chiefly of the Greeks, but of classical China, of the China of Lao Tse, and what here strikes me in a really marvelous light is that the sage is truly linked with the
universe. The
texts are unmistakable and revealing: the order to be established in life—whether of the individual or of the city or of the empire—is in no way separable from the cosmic order. | Philosopher and Dramaturge Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), in Rotterdam in 1969. Photo by Anefo. Wikimedia Commons. |
Humankind cannot live wisely, sanely, or gently without the cosmos. Without it, humanity becomes arrogant and manipulative in its idolatry of itself and its ways. |
A brief introduction to Gabriel Marcel. Video by Vis Philo. | As Marcel puts it: The important thing—and I think it is hardly possible to insist on it too much—is that in this outlook, the true aim of knowledge and of life is to be integrated in the universal order, and not at all to transform the world by bringing it into subjection to the human will, to man’s needs or his desires. |
Richard Wilhelm tells us that all of Chinese philosophy is built
on the premise that the cosmos and humans, in the last analysis, obey the same law; that humans are a microcosm and are not separated from the macrocosm by any fixed barriers. The very same laws rule for the one as for the other. The psyche and the cosmos are to each other like the inner world and the outer world. Therefore, humans participate by nature in all cosmic events, and are inwardly as well as outwardly interwoven with them. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. pp.71-73.
Banner Image: The Moon and the Milky Way arch over the Golden Hall, which is located on top of China’s Tianzhu Peak. Photo by
Likai Lin. Wikimedia Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation “The sage is truly linked with the universe” says Gabriel Marcel. Are you? Are we? Are our educational and political and economic and religious institutions and professions? Is this a key to taming the power of raw knowledge and steering it toward wisdom? |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation
Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story | |
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