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It's one thing to interpret the world through the bible, it's another thing to interpret the bible through the world. If I were to interpret the world through the bible, anything that happened during the ice age is post flood. If I were to interpret the bible through the world, the flood was a local event, and the Israelites merely incorporated and preserved bits and pieces of older cultures and reinterpreted them to make it a somewhat cohesive narrative before them, replace Noah with Utnapishtim, Utnapishtim with Atra-hasis, Atra-hasis with Ziusudra. A good story is just a means to convey something else.


I'm not as interested in Christianity anymore, while I've noticed that most people don't really understand what is Neoplatonic metaphysics, since the very word neoplatonism was coined by Christians in the 1800's that wanted to separate that from Platonism and separate Platonism from Neopythagoreanism, and separate Neopythagoreanism from Pythagoreanism, and separate Pythagoreanism from general ancient hellenic monism and separate ancient hellenic monism from aryan monism and separate aryan monism from metaphysical monism falsely called "idealism" despite using non dual dialectic reduction via negativa/apophasis to come to ontological synthesis of the true self with the eidos without physically negating the false mortal psycho-physical vessel from the divine intellect of which there's no separation of the intellect to the absolute one while also being one with the eidos that of which both the metaphysical/"supra-rational" and physical cosmos is based upon this "third realm" that is above duality itself. Said third realm is "heaven", the true "center of the universe", unmoving, unmanifest pure potentiality of which the golden chains of the aether holds together the cosmos from the unmanifest realm to the manifest realm. There's no separation between the good and its expression.

There's too much to get into concerning why I'm not a Christian anymore, but Freemasonry is worse than Christianity. Many Traditionalists (that's with a capital T, not tradition for tradition's sake) despise exoteric syncretism although there could be some esoteric dialogue in only focusing on certain expressions of transcendental and timeless truths that different faiths agree with, religion however is secularized metaphysics or in different terms: making hidden yet absolute truth that could be known by everyone (if everyone knew how to think) become "proprietary" with falsehoods, tweaking the truth for propaganda purposes. Ultimately there is only one true religion yet it is not a religion, it's beyond mere opinions/dogma. I'm also not really a "Traditionalist" either, for not all cultures are worth spending the time understanding while anything true in a culture requires a framework that is beyond their current setup, while other systems are much more fleshed out and elaborate.