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.
…valley should be exalted and every mountain laid low and the rough places made plain. And I am sorry to say it was Isaiah, who was dedicated, who made that remark. But the same Isaiah also said something that at least Christians do not often quote,…
…the rough places made plain. And I am sorry to say it was Isaiah, who was dedicated, who made that remark. But the same Isaiah also said something that at least Christians do not often quote, which is this following sentence: I am the lord and there is…
…of mountains and is the most aggressive, domineering symbol of man flattening the earth. I sometimes wonder whether that passage in Isaiah Every valley shall be exalted and the hills laid low and the rough places plain is that a prophecy of something…
…authority did John the baptist speak? And they were nervous about answering that one. He could have asked: by what authority did Isaiah speak etc. Or moses? But moses became official authority and if you could wangle it that what you said was simply an…
…am very, very suspicious about these accounts of religious experience, whether the people who experience god as the extremely transcendent, like Isaiah, where he sees the lord high and lifted up and the cherubim are veiling their faces with their wings, that…
…think that evil is something extraneous to god. They believe that god created evil, for it is said in the book of the prophet Isaiah: I am the lord and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil. I, the…
…Biblical Scholar or theologian is weaving his own marvelous interpretation back into the text. And what you're getting is not Isaiah or jesus Christ, You're getting Tillich or Maritain, with all the historical experience and wisdom that they have through…
…a woman who chooses her own husband and there were very few of them and in that passage in the book of the prophet Isaiah, where it says: behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name shall be called Immanuel, that is, in Greek, Parthenos…
…of mountains and is the most aggressive, domineering symbol of man flattening the earth. I sometimes wonder whether that passage in Isaiah Every valley shall be exalted and the hills laid low and the rough places plain is that a prophecy of something…
…say that is esoteric. You mustn't let it out in church that god has a dark side as well as a light side. But it says so. Isaiah 45 7 I am the lord and there is none else. I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create evil. I,…
…Jews will even go so far as to admit that god created the principle of evil because it says in the book of the prophet Isaiah, in the 7th verse of the 45th chapter: I am the lord and there is none else. I form the light and create the darkness.…
…Egypt, after the great lawgivers like Hammurabi, of the ancient world of the tigris euphrates civilizations, and particularly 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…
…the ancient world of the tigris euphrates civilizations, and particularly 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…
…mercy upon us. And the title of the emperor of Persia in those days was the King of kings, and this title was adopted through Isaiah as a title of the god of the hebrews, the King of kings and the lord of lords. And so the model, the conception of…
…from death and good is different from evil, but esoterically the secret is that they are one. As god says through the prophet Isaiah: I am the lord and there is none else. I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create evil.…
…from death and good is different from evil but esoterically, the secret is that they are one. As god says through the prophet Isaiah: I am the lord and there is none else. I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create evil.…
…authority did John the baptist speak? And they were nervous about answering that one. He could have asked: by what authority did Isaiah speak etc or moses? But moses became official authority. And if you could wangle it that what you said was simply an…
…valley should be exalted and every mountain laid low and the rough places made plain. And I am sorry to say it was Isaiah to whom this but the same Isaiah also said something that at least Christians do not often quote, which is this following sentence:…
…mountain laid low and the rough places made plain. And I am sorry to say it was Isaiah to whom this but the same Isaiah also said something that at least Christians do not often quote, which is this following sentence: I am the lord and there is none…
…say I am the father, I am one. Instead, he identified himself with the messiah described in the second part of the prophet Isaiah, the suffering servant who was despised and rejected of men. And this man is the non political messiah. In other words, it…