" +"KS2+18 knowledge - and sacred knowledge remains the " +"supreme path of union with that Reality wherein " +"knowledge, being and bliss are united.
"
+"KS2-8 he has lost the sense of wonder
"
+"which results from his loss of the sense of the Sacred
" +"KS2-3 that he can turn inwardly upon the infinite " +"world within himself and also objectivize the " +"world outside, to possess inner subjective knowledge " +"as well as knowledge of a totally objective order
" + "
" +" "); } function msh3( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=292, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS3+18 with the possibility of contemplating Reality...
" +"KS49fn6 that knowledge comes out in so far as the object " +"known is within the knower
" +"KS3-2 the rational faculty can become a luciferan [satanic] force
" +"KS4+6 He can be defined as being endowed with a total " +"intelligence centered upon the Absolute " +"and created to know the Absolute
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh4( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=292, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS4+9 It is at once the source of all that comprises " +"the objective world and the supreme Self which shines at " +"the center of human consciousness
" +"KS4+11 it is related to intelligence as the sun is related " +"to its rays
" +"KS4+13 it has been replaced by reason
" +"KS4+17 the sacred quality of principal knowledge
" +"KS4+18 by tracing the trajectory which knowledge followed" +" in its fall from being the fruit of the Tree of Life to " +"becoming limited to the realm of profane knowledge " + "
"+" " ); } function msh5( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=292, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" + "KS4-10 it destroyed that natural theology, which in the " + "Christian context represented at least a reflection of " + "knowledge of a sacred order, of the wisdom or sapientia which " + "was the central means of spiritual perfection and " + "deliverance.
" + "KS49fn7 It was the highest form of philosophy which was to " + "know the Supreme Good through the intellect.
" + "KS6+9 of knowing things in principle and the principles of all " + "things leading finally to the knowledge of Ultimatel Reality.
" + "KS6+16 it has lead them to take refuge in faith alone, leaving" + " belief or doctrinal creed to the mercy of ever-changing " + "paradigms or theories caught in the progress of " + "relativization and constant transformation.
" + "KS6-17 faith is inseparable from knowledge
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh6( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=313, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" + "KS7-12 illumination, which implies knowledge. (Its beginning is " + "the) 'birth of awareness that all things are void.'
" + "KS12+10 al-`arif bi-llah, which means in the gnostic who knows " + "through or by God and not only the gnostic who knows God.
" + "KS15-7 to be one of Christ's precious gifts, to be sought " + "earnestly by those qualified to receive and to transmit it.
" + "KS16+1 it gradually eclipsed, ... leading to the secularization" + " of the concept of knowledge itself.
" + "KS17-1 it is sacred Scripture which nourishes the soul of man " + "and provides for his need to know.
" + "KS18+9 it is to discover (the) inner meaning of revealed truth," + " and to use their intelligence in the contemplation of spiritual" + " realities.
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh7( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=272, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS18+14 it is the presence of the Logos in the heart of man and at " +"the root of his intelligence.
"
+"KS18c it is the illuminator of souls or the light which makes "
+"intellectual vision possible.
"
+"(fn le logos est présent, en l'homme, chez qui il "
+"est l'intelligence. Parcequ'il se trouve à la fois "
+"en Dieu et en l'homme, comme en deux extrémités, "
+"il peut les relier et il le fait. (lumiere de l'object et du sujet,"
+" intermediare de vision ...)
" +"KS18-8 it is the science of penetration into the inner meaning of " +"sacred Scripture on the basis of a veritable sciencia sacra (sacred " +"knowledge) and with the aid of an intelligence which is already " +"illuminated by the Word or Logos.
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh8( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=313, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS19-19 from Christ as source of knowledge and the illuminator of " +"the human mind (to the role) as the saviour of man from his sins
" +"KS19-13 he accepted the innate power of the intellect as given by God " +"to man to receive divine illumination. To think the truth man needs " +"illumination which proceeds from God.
" +"KS19-7 the antithesis between knowledge and faith
" +"KS20-3 (it was) a sacred knowledge or wisdom which was for him ... the " +"authentic philosophy: 'true religion is true psychology'.
" +"KS21+11 because man has become separated from God...The men of this " +"age can no longer 'speak to God' and see things " +"in divinis " +" as did Adam in paradise or as did men in the Golden Age.
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh9( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=335, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS21+15 it is accessible through Scripture and nature.
" +"KS21-18 (he saw in it) the means of discovering that sacred " +"knowledge which lies within the very substance of human microcosm.
" +"KS21-14 it begins with the awareness of the human mind.
" +"KS21-12 it becomes transformed into sapientia and the soul of man" +" becomes illuminated by God, who ... contemplates Himself in those whom" +" He has illumined. fn Trouillard, J.
" +"KS21-9 that the very essence of things is Gods knowledge of them and" +" that there is a reciprocity and finally, identity between knowledge" +" and being.
" +"KS21-7 the intellect becomes transformed into what it knows, and the " +"highest object of that knowledge is God.
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh10( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=291, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS21-1 the soul must pass through eight stages.
" +"KS22-12 it tended to become overrationalistic in imprisoning " +"intuitions of a metaphysical order in syllogistic categories.
" +"KS23+9 impregnated by gnosis; had not the reality of knowledge as " +" theosis become transformed into the question of using " +"rational knowledge to preserve faith from being corroded or weakened " +"by the attacks od rationalism...
" +"KS23 cl he is the most powerful and majestic expression of " +"Christian gnosis in the medieval period.
" +"KS23-14 (because) the intellect is i n c r e a t u s " +"and i n c r e a b i l i s ( ie. uncreated and not to be created)
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh11( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=250, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS23-3 this eye is none other than that supernal intellect or intelligence " +"which relates man to the Sacred in a direct manner and which enables " +"knowledge to become the central means of access to the Sacred.
" +"KS24-14 it is ignorance s.p.112, 181, 212, 258
" +"KS25-9 except through being experienced and tasted (lat. sapere)
" +"KS26+2 that our "positive knowledge" is ignorance, so he " +"confirms the wisdom that .. all limited and limiting knowledge " +" i s ignorance
" + "
"+" " ); } function msh12( ) { var win = window.open ("", "", "height=184, width=600, status=yes, resizable=1"); win.document.write (""+"" +"KS26+19 through union which is the goal of both love and knowledge, " +"so is faith related to knowledge through the fact that without some " +"knowledge there cannot be faith, for were there no knowledge one " +"could just have faith in just anything and the object of faith " +"would not matter.
" +"KS27-3 it is at once the language of paradise and the essential " +"knowledge of all things.
" + "
"+" " ); } |
The answers are quotes from the book 'Knowledge And The Sacred' 
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What was Reality in the beginning at once? KS1 o
What has happened with knowledge over time? KS1-11
What has become well-nigh unattainable to the vast majority of humans? KS1-7
What is is the very substance of knowledge? KS1-2
Intelligence is endowed with the possibility of what?KS2+3
What is is symbolized by the tree of Life, and
What happened to man after having tasted from the Tree of Good and Evil? KS2+10
What remains the supreme way to gain access to the Sacred? KS2+18
Modern man has lost the sense of what? KS2-8
To what mystery has man become oblivious to? KS2-3
What is man's long journey in time? KS3+15
With what continues the human conciousness to be blessed? KS3+18
What is the principle of adequation of the medieval scholastics? KS49fn6
What can happen to the rational faculty if divorced from intellect and revelation? KS3-2
How can man be defined - rather than being a 'rational animal' ? KS4+6
What is to be human? KS4+7
What is the supreme Substance ? KS4+9
To what is the supreme Substance related? KS4+11
This intellectual faculty has been replaced by what? KS4+13
What has to be discovered in order to rediscover the Sacred? KS4+17
How can this process be facilitated? KS4+18
What was the consequence of the reduction of intellect to reason ? KS4-9
What was the consequence of the limitation of intelligence to cunning and cleverness in the modern world? KS4-10
What was theologia for Plato? KS49fn7
What possibility has the traditional doctrine envisaged man to be possessing? KS6+9
What has the reduction of man's intellectual faculty to only the extroverted and analytical function of the mind led many religiously sensitive persons? KS6+16
What is the relationship of faith and knowledge ? KS6-17
How does Shankara explain the Upanishads (lit. 'near-sitting')?KS7+2
What was the supreme experience of Buddha and what does it imply? KS7-12
What is the gnostic or illuminated sage called (in Islam) KS12+10
Paul asserted sacred knowledge to be one of Christ's what? KS15-7
What happened during the last 2000 years to this sapiential dimension of the Christian tradition ?KS16+1
How can a mind totally depleted of the Sacred grasp the significance of the Sacred as sacred? KS16+18
What is the central depository of sacred knowledge for Origen? KS17-1
What is (according to him) the function of spiritual beings (concerning sacred Scripture)? KS18+9
What is the spiritual life of man? KS18+12
What makes it possible for man to grasp the inner meaning of scripture and to become illuminated by this knowledge ? KS18+14
What is the Logos? KS18c KS21+6
What does the 'kiss of his mouth' from the songs of songs (OT) allude to? KS19 c
What change of perspective took place in Christianity concerning the role of the Christ? KS19-19
What did St. Augustine (in spite of Christianity's emphasis of Christ's role as the saviour of fallen man from his sins) accept concerning the intellect? KS19-13
What elements of later Western Christian thought does one not find with St. Augustin? KS19-7
What did Erigena see at the heart of Christianity? KS20-3
Why is divine knowledge no longer immediately available to man, although the Logos is ever present in him? KS21+11
ST21: In wisdom psychology and religion become united and wisdom is a virtue common to man and angel.
What is the Logos? KS21+6
Through what does this light of God remain accessible (and available) to man even now-a-days? KS21+15
What saw Erigena in the book of nature? KS21-18
What is the beginning of human perfection and the quest for the attainment of sacred knowledge according to Erigena? KS21-14
What happens to scientia after this first stage? KS21-12
What does this illumination in turn enable man to realize concerning the essence of things? KS21-9
The intellect becomes transformed into what? KS21-7
Why is this knowledge of the Divinity [sacred knowledge] not immediately accessible to man in his present state, according to Erigena? KS21-5
What has the soul to do to regain that sacred knowledge? KS21-1
What were the drawbacks of the metaphysical system of St. Thomas? KS22-12
The philosophical agnosticism after St. Thomas could not have come about had the intellectual life of Christianity remained impregnated by what? KS23+9
In this context Eckhart, is what? KS23 cl
Why is - according to Eckhart - the root of the intellect grounded in Divinity? KS23-14
What is the seat of conciousness through which man can reach knowledge of the Divinity (or Grund) according to Eckhart? KS23-12
What is , according to Eckhart the eye with which man sees God and with which God sees man? KS23-3
The knowledge [of the Divinity] can be attained - according to Cusa except through what? KS25-9
What realization does Cusa's doctrine constitute concerning our "positive knowledge"? KS26+2
What did Luther state concerning faith? KS26cl
But Christian love is (or can be) related to knowledge through what? KS26+19
What is man's natural language according to Böme? KS27-3
to be continued - inshA
KS = Knowledge And The Sacred, Seyyed Hossein Nasr; NY. 1989
KS3+2 = page 3; row 2 from above
KS4-9 = page 4; row 9 from bottom
vs.2.3