01-10-2012, 07:50 AM
The renaissance definition of enlightenment is totally different than the Eastern definition, and arguably far more useful.
European enlightenment is actually something achievable fr geveryone within 5-10 years if they follow a course of moral, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual education. Autonomy in the European paradigm is attained through a liberal education, and someone who has realized their essential freedom (essential freedom meaning inner freedom) to the degree of being individuated is enlightened.
Eastern enlightenment on the other hand is this essentially unobtainable state of completely transcending existence, realizing perfect unity with the universe, and achieving total existential freedom (by which is meant an outer freedom - "freedom to be the moon" for instance).
It's funny because a lot f western occultists a clearly involved in the euro tradition of the liberal education, and so consider themselves enlightenened in that sense fr one, but it's really not clear what they are claiming when they say they're enlightened. Can they "be the moon"? Can they move mountains like Jesus did? Or do they just have autonomy in the human sense? The illuminati claim enlightenment and in their case I think they mean access to secret knowledge.
European enlightenment is actually something achievable fr geveryone within 5-10 years if they follow a course of moral, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual education. Autonomy in the European paradigm is attained through a liberal education, and someone who has realized their essential freedom (essential freedom meaning inner freedom) to the degree of being individuated is enlightened.
Eastern enlightenment on the other hand is this essentially unobtainable state of completely transcending existence, realizing perfect unity with the universe, and achieving total existential freedom (by which is meant an outer freedom - "freedom to be the moon" for instance).
It's funny because a lot f western occultists a clearly involved in the euro tradition of the liberal education, and so consider themselves enlightenened in that sense fr one, but it's really not clear what they are claiming when they say they're enlightened. Can they "be the moon"? Can they move mountains like Jesus did? Or do they just have autonomy in the human sense? The illuminati claim enlightenment and in their case I think they mean access to secret knowledge.