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Magnus Arvid's avatar

I felt so bad that I dropped all my comments on Reddit, I wanted to drop one here, haha!

Reading through this I did notice and love the equation between the Oneness-doctrine and the centralization of power around, well, technically a god, although in practice, of course, oftentimes an emperor or king - If you ask me, in discussing the movement towards the idea of a single, unitary god, it's a great critical awareness to have, especially working with mysticism, which I think, while it certainly is rich in Oneness (which is still an idea I tend to like, despite it's use for political manipulation), I think the mystic disciplines, like Kabbalah, or Merkavah, Sufism, the ways of the Church fathers, and so on, really do a good job of paving the way for the less 'political tool' and more human-spiritual aspects of it!

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Morgan's avatar

Thank you for this work! I’m on a similar journey, working within the Christian tradition.

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