Benjamin Cain
Apr 20, 2021

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Indeed, I don't claim to have all the answers. I do explore and write about a pragmatic, aesthetic form of pantheism that incorporates the idea that we're divine. I'm reading Kronman's Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, and it resonates with me in some ways.

That Gnostic or esoteric Christian idea has been secularized and taken on a degenerate form, though, as narcissistic consumerism. We act like self-entitled babies. Even the more mature secular form amounts to a Luciferian will to recreate the wilderness in our image.

In short, naturalized divinity is liable to lose its "spiritual" aspect. If we no longer have to surrender to a higher power, we become the masters, as Nietzsche said.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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