MDMD(8) Christ true Pity

[Doug Millison]

At 9:43 AM 9/15/97, Doug Millison wrote:
I think Emerson expresses a cynical view
>both of priests and of the deeper Christian belief that through direct
>experience of Christ (in prayer, through direct revelation, Paul struck
>blind on the Damascus road, for example) we can "catch the Trick of it".

Don't forget that expressing this anti-clerical belief is Emerson, the
geomancer and astrologer, the adept who takes Dixon and his other students
flying, shows them the ley lines -- a practioner in a tradition that
pre-dates Christianity, a male witch?

Looking at the passsage again, it's not clear to me that Emerson is
discounting the possibility of direct experience of Christ as I said in my
post, he says "'tis not for us to presume to act as Christ alone may" which
indicates he recognizes some reality there.

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