Alan Watts
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The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
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.
…without bounds isn't there. It's like meeting an infinitely tall person. But it is explained, say by such a theologian as Dionysius the Areopagite, that we do not say god is infinite in order to say god has no power. This negative word is affirmative.…
…something without bounds isn't there, it's like meeting an infinitely tall person. But it is explained, say by such a theologian as Dionysius the Areopagite, that we do not say god is infinite in order to say god has no, no power. This negative word is…
…anonymous 14th century English Monk. This monk derived his ideas from a very mysterious figure who wrote under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. Dionysius was a 5th or 6th century Syrian Monk who had learned his mysticism from porphyry, who got it from…
…or something. Like that. It's perfectly amazing to consider the influence that this man had for writing under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite he became identified, you see, with st Paul's first convert in Athens, and legend has it that he was the…
…Athens and was martyred in Gaul where he's known as st Dennis. But st Thomas Aquinas looked upon the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite as having the highest authority. And you could, if all the texts of Dionysius work had been lost, you could restore…
…called theologia mystica, which was written in the 6th century by an unknown Syrian Monk who used the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. It's absolutely fascinating very short little book which I translated long ago back in 1943, and I'm about to reissue…
…takes away and the image is revealed. So in the same way, these mystics of the very ancient Christianity, Particularly Dionysius the Areopagite, who wrote two books one called the divine names which was the cataphatic theology, and the other called mystical…
…another book called theologia mystica, which was written in the 6th century by an unknown Syrian Monk who used the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. But this book ends up with a description of god which is all in negatives, not any kind of anything you…