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Chris:  Might be a interpretation indeed.  With regard to Paul's
experience, though, would it not be relevant to examine the recorded
experience of those who came after Paul within the same tradition (I am
of course thinking of the fathers of the church, who had plenty to say
on the matter), rather than speculating what Paul's experience "might"
or "could" or "would" have been?

George:  Subjective, yes; but within the tradition at which St. Paul
stands nearly at the very head, it's not purely private and idiosyncratic!

Entering into Paul's thought-world doesn't mean just handling computer
concordances!  Why do we try to understand Paul (etc) without reference
to what his disciples said he taught?

Regards to all.

John Burnett



Chris Cutler wrote:
> 
> George Blaisdell:
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > Certainly his associates cannot see Christ living within Paul with their
> > eyes.  They can see what he does, and what happens subjectively within
> > themselves in his presence, but the Source is not visible to normal
> > vision.  How could it be?
> >
> > And likewise for Paul.  Is not his experience of Christ living within
> > him by definition subjective?
> >
> [snip]
> 
> One interpretation would be that Christ is not the historical Jesus but a
> state of high spiritual consciousness of which HJ was the example par
> exellence. Christ living in Paul would mean that he to had (or he
> considered that he had) reached a similar level of consciousness.
> 
> -------------------------
> Chris Cutler
> "Auditeur Libre"
> 
> What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, what we became; where we
> were, whereinto we have been thrown; whereto we speed, wherefrom we are
> redeemmed; what birth is, and what rebirth." (Exc. Theod. 78.2)
> 
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