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Montheism is a vulgarization of Transcendental Monism
The is the first installment in a new Comment Of The Day (COTD) series. These will be comments I find posted in various placed around the internet, usually from topic-specific message boards. It shall be known that the comments I quote here are not my wholesale endorsement of the content within, but rather just an indication of what I find to be very thought-provoking and relevant to the overall theme of topics I talk about on this journal. Anyway.....
Today, OH says:
"Monotheism is a vulgar exoteric version, one might say, of transcendental monism, ready packaged for the masses. That is the main fundamental problem of the Abrahamic faiths and that was, more or less, the main argument of pagan philosophers of late Antiquity against Christianity - that it vulgarizes the deep truths of the Mysteries and in trying to bring to the masses that which has ever been hidden in the Mystery Schools, it denigrates those Mysteries.
The best system in this regard, truth be told, is Sanatana Dharma of Hindu India. It follows what once was common to the Aryan primal Faith of the [Indo-European] Urheimat - the multiple levels of religious reality - from the very basic animistic and fetishistic notions, through popular cults of the gods (popular polytheism), through polytheism of the higher classes, through various henotheistic (and in some interpretational frames even "monotheistic") currents (that define the three main branches of current Hinduism - Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism) up to the Monism of the Upanishads that is beyond any exoteric trappings."
Today, OH says:
"Monotheism is a vulgar exoteric version, one might say, of transcendental monism, ready packaged for the masses. That is the main fundamental problem of the Abrahamic faiths and that was, more or less, the main argument of pagan philosophers of late Antiquity against Christianity - that it vulgarizes the deep truths of the Mysteries and in trying to bring to the masses that which has ever been hidden in the Mystery Schools, it denigrates those Mysteries.
The best system in this regard, truth be told, is Sanatana Dharma of Hindu India. It follows what once was common to the Aryan primal Faith of the [Indo-European] Urheimat - the multiple levels of religious reality - from the very basic animistic and fetishistic notions, through popular cults of the gods (popular polytheism), through polytheism of the higher classes, through various henotheistic (and in some interpretational frames even "monotheistic") currents (that define the three main branches of current Hinduism - Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism) up to the Monism of the Upanishads that is beyond any exoteric trappings."