c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…the language of court flattery, and the title King of kings as a title of god was borrowed from the Persian Emperors, the Cyrus of Persia, the kyrios. Hence kyrie eleison, lord have mercy upon us, is a kind of image drawn from things earthly and applied…
…very titles of god in the Bible King of kings and lord of lords are of course borrowed from the Persian Emperors, the Cyrus, which is the Greek word kyrios, meaning lord. So the mass begins with the invocation: kyrie eleison, lord have mercy upon us.…
…him for saying so. Because the Jewish people had a sense of god as the cosmic King, the boss. It was modeled on pharaoh, on Cyrus of Persia the King of kings and the lord of lords was Cyrus. Title kyrie eleison means Cyrus have. But you don't have to…
…cosmic King, the boss. It was modeled on pharaoh, on Cyrus of Persia the King of kings and the lord of lords was Cyrus. Title kyrie eleison means Cyrus have. But you don't have to think of god in that image. When modern Protestant Theologians of the…
…It was modeled on pharaoh, on Cyrus of Persia the King of kings and the lord of lords was Cyrus. Title kyrie eleison means Cyrus have. But you don't have to think of god in that image. When modern Protestant Theologians of the sort of liberal type are…
…comes from, that's where even the titles of god come from: King of kings and lord of lords is the Jan Khan that's the Cyrus of Persia borrowed. And if you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you…
…of lords is the Jan Khan that's the Cyrus of Persia borrowed. And if you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you sing kyrie eleison, it means Cyrus have mercy on us. How can you as members of the…
…you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you sing kyrie eleison, it means Cyrus have mercy on us. How can you as members of the republic of the United States, believe that the universe is a monarchy…
…the sense of man being made in the image of the governor, you get fundamentally an aggressive attitude to the world, because the Cyrus of Persia rules by force. So then if man conceives of himself in the image of this tyrant, he attempts to govern the…
…kings and lord of lords being the title of the Persian Emperors. And we say kyrie eleison in church, which means in fact Cyrus have mercy, Cyrus being the English way of pronouncing the Greek Kyrios. So when you have a monarchical view of nature, then…
…lords being the title of the Persian Emperors. And we say kyrie eleison in church, which means in fact Cyrus have mercy, Cyrus being the English way of pronouncing the Greek Kyrios. So when you have a monarchical view of nature, then the natural orders…
…the language of court flattery, and the title King of kings, as a title of god, was borrowed from the Persian Emperors, the Cyrus of Persia, the kyrios. Hence kyrie eleison, lord have mercy upon us, is a kind of image drawn from things earthly and…
…so what you see is a court official addressing the throne. So this title King of kings was borrowed from the Persian Shah. Cyrus was called the Jan Khan, which means the King of kings. And so those royal honors which the Jews Didn't believe should be…
…Jan Khan, which means the King of kings. And so those royal honors which the Jews Didn't believe should be given to Cyrus although they had a special liking for him, because he liberated them from the babylonians. So they just transferred the titles of…
…although they had a special liking for him, because he liberated them from the babylonians. So they just transferred the titles of Cyrus to god, to jehovah. So we've been hung up for centuries with this political theory of the government of the universe…
…even the second Isaiah, who wrote the book of the prophet Isaiah from chapter 40 onwards, he was very beholden to the then Cyrus of Persia, who invaded the babylonian empire and set the Jews Free, and so this word Cyrus is the Greek Kyrios, which means…
…he was very beholden to the then Cyrus of Persia, who invaded the babylonian empire and set the Jews Free, and so this word Cyrus is the Greek Kyrios, which means the lord, the King as in the prayer kyrie eleison, lord have mercy upon us. And the…
…comes from, that's where even the titles of god come from: King of kings and lord of lords is the Jan Khan. That's the Cyrus of Persia borrowed. And if you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you…
…of lords is the Jan Khan. That's the Cyrus of Persia borrowed. And if you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you sing kyrie eleison, it means Cyrus have mercy on us. How can you as members of the…
…you're going to look at god in the image of the Cyrus of Persia, That's idolatry. Every time you sing kyrie eleison, it means Cyrus have mercy on us. How can you as members of the republic of the United States, believe that the universe is a monarchy…
…of the universe as being governed and when you think of man as made in the image of god in the sense of man being made in the image of the governor, you get fundamentally an aggressive attitude to the world because the Cyrus of Persia ruled by force.