01-11-2013, 10:00 AM
(01-11-2013, 09:14 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Perhaps I misphrased that. I mean it's hard to have a discussion when we don't agree on what the terms mean. The left-hand path means something different to you than it does to me, so when I talk about the left-hand path I'm talking about something different than you are.
Yes, I agree it is difficult. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
However, that same difficulty is going to be realized in all effort to discern individual interpretation of the material.
However, in the course of that discerning it is also inevitably going to come down to what the Ra group means when they speak of the left hand path as well.
Are they speaking of it with my understanding of it or yours?
That makes a great difference in the ability to come to an accurate interpretation of what they intend to profess. We cannot assume that they mean the same thing we do. An understanding of what they mean when they apply the term is crucial to accuracy of interpretation.
I am not familiar enough with the material to argue what their meaning is but from what I have read they do not seem to refer to it as a path of darkness or atheistic belief structure.
Are you able to provide any Ra quotes that further illuminate their actual definition of the left hand path?