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Insightful comment today from SS:
This lends some credence to the notion that ordinary language more often than not obscures and confuses our understanding of higher concepts.
I do believe there there may be something akin to a "language of the gods" and that influential humans in times past (and probably today too) have actively work to confuse this language, namely members of powerful priestly castes who have gained much power from obscuring spiritual concepts so the common rabble has no hopes of comprehending the "secrets" of their arcane priest-craft. This is no different than what modern academics do today when they use nearly-incomprehensible jargon to discourse on topics that really aren't all that difficult for the common person to grasp at a basic level. Lawyers do the same thing with legalese. By nature, humans form occupational guilds and do whatever they can to guard the "secret sauce" from the competition.
Lets go back and look at the Biblical Tower of Babel myth. What I glean from that is that the forces of nature or "the fates" (which the Jewish authors/editors re-branded as their 'God') have seen to it that human knowledge and mutual understanding must be fractured and confused so that petty, egocentric, short-sighted rulers can continue to oppress and tyrannize the people. Of course, these priestly scribes inverted the narrative and made this confusion a "good" thing. But that's a whole different topic for a different day.
Gnosis is understanding, but it is understanding through direct experience. The literal understanding of religion/spiritual texts, is the lowest understanding. It also breeds elitism. People who become pious and righteous. They begin to believe that only literal understandings are important. And if you don't follow the rules, well then, bad things will happen. And as history has shown, Righteousness has caused humans to make other humans suffer. The Romans killed people of different religions because they threatened the religious stability of the nation. If people refused to worship the gods, they were inciting a calamity upon the city. It was a crime similar to treason.
Theology is a construct of religion. Those with gnosis are beyond that. They have symbology and mythology. When you have Gnosis, there is no way to concretely talk about it. Words do not do Gnosis justice. That is why Gnosis is an individual experience which may be spoken of to those who have it.
Jung believed that the things he experienced and talked about were real. Just not in a literal way. That is the point of Gnosticism; Gnosis.
This lends some credence to the notion that ordinary language more often than not obscures and confuses our understanding of higher concepts.
I do believe there there may be something akin to a "language of the gods" and that influential humans in times past (and probably today too) have actively work to confuse this language, namely members of powerful priestly castes who have gained much power from obscuring spiritual concepts so the common rabble has no hopes of comprehending the "secrets" of their arcane priest-craft. This is no different than what modern academics do today when they use nearly-incomprehensible jargon to discourse on topics that really aren't all that difficult for the common person to grasp at a basic level. Lawyers do the same thing with legalese. By nature, humans form occupational guilds and do whatever they can to guard the "secret sauce" from the competition.
Lets go back and look at the Biblical Tower of Babel myth. What I glean from that is that the forces of nature or "the fates" (which the Jewish authors/editors re-branded as their 'God') have seen to it that human knowledge and mutual understanding must be fractured and confused so that petty, egocentric, short-sighted rulers can continue to oppress and tyrannize the people. Of course, these priestly scribes inverted the narrative and made this confusion a "good" thing. But that's a whole different topic for a different day.
