Good morning Kokanje,
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Happy to read your reply. I'm also not a scientist, so I live a life with ringing bells.
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1. bell:
Your description of Christian mysticism reminds me of some people describe gnosticism. I'm Not an expert of History of christianity, mysticism und gnosticism. When it comes to this I Always think about how famous comic-writer Alan Moore described a difference between Gnosis and faith or believe in a britisch magazin for gnosticism - he Said Something like: 'gnosis means to know, believe ist for "cissies"'. A note of this ist in this article:
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2. bell:
There ist a Joke about Steiner and Religion in Helmut Zanders Steiner-biography. IT goes Like this: several known holy man meet good at the end of their life, when they come Back from good they understood that they thought in mistakes about god. But then there is Steiner. After He met god at the end of His life, it's god god who understand his mistakes.
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3. bell:
I assume Zander's Joke ist about Something that is known to me as "negative theology", something I don't fully understand. But it's some kind of religious scepticism about the own believes. A concept that seems unknown to anthroposophists, because they have a promise of answering every Last question, If you do "spiritual science" right. (Anthroposphy means to know, If you will, believe ist for everyone else.)
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Greetings!
Finn?
Finnef