…and of course this kind of light experience is recorded again and again in the literature. The most familiar case is the case of St. Paul on the road to Damascus. We find Mohammed's call to being a prophet. came when he woke up in the middle of the…

…is an immense white light of extraordinary power. Well, the example with which we are all most familiar is, of course, that of St. Paul on the road to Damascus when he suddenly saw this overwhelming light and fell down and was actually blinded by it and…

…there appeared a series of Christian Neoplatonic volumes under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, who was the first disciple of St. Paul in Athens. And these volumes were taken to be almost of apostolic value, inasmuch as here was the first disciple of…

…St. Paul in Athens. And these volumes were taken to be almost of apostolic value, inasmuch as here was the first disciple of St. Paul. And if he said this, this must be guaranteed on the highest apostolic level. In point of fact, of course, these books…

…repeated Now let us consider language in relation to religion We find a number of remarks about this in the epistles of St. Paul And the remarks, of course, are all the more curious when one reflects that it is precisely the language of St. Paul's…

…thought, that we are carrying on a very ancient tradition. And similarly, we find the Bible is full of these same ideas. St. Paul, for example, in the epistle to the Hebrews says, God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in time past…

…of three factors, of a body, what the Western philosophers call a pure ego, and what the Eastern philosophers call an atman, what St. Paul called a pneuma, and a mind, a psyche, which is not a separate unity, a watertight unity, but is rather a thing…

…in physiological terms. For example, Joseph's bowels yearned upon his brother. God's mercy is equated with bowels by Isaiah. St. Paul urges the Colossians to put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering. In Philippians, he…

…of traps which we lead ourselves into by taking language too seriously. This, of course, we've been constantly warned against this, and Paul is full of it. He speaks about the newness of the Spirit, the oldness of the letter, the letter killeth, the…

…is absolutely true. If we take the letter too seriously, we actually prevent ourselves from having certain types of direct experience, which St. Paul was describing as in terms of the word spirit. So that what we have to do is to be profoundly aware of…

…Well as I say most education is predominantly verbal and suffers therefore from the defects which the great religious teachers like St. Paul have pointed out. The letter killeth is a stultifying and dangerous thing. And one of the strangest facts, I think,…