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ОглавлениеPart One: The Love of Wisdom
I In Jesuit Spirituality
I,1 From Benedictines and Sulpicians to Jesuits and Franciscans
I,1.1 Leaving the Seminary Fifty Years Ago
I,1.2 Why I Must Tell the Story of the Leaving in Detail
I,1.3 For It Had to Do with a Sublimated Eros
I,1.4 Which Platonically can Contribute to Agape
I,1.5 And which Makes the Love of Wisdom so Intriguing
I,1.6 So that I was Inspired to Learn from the Jesuits
I.1.7 And to Teach with the Franciscan Sisters
I,1.8 And to learn Franciscan Spirituality from Them
I,1.9 While being Loved by So Many Female Students
I,2 The Seminarian Meets a Young Lady
I,2.1 Anxiety
I,2.2 Security
I,2.3 Enchantment
I,2.4 Awe
I,2.5 Guilt
I,2.6 Joy
I,2.7 Sorrow
I,2.8 Glory
I,2.9 Out of Boredom
I,3 And Discovers the Sublimation of Celibacy
I,3.1 Apprehension
I,3.2 Generosity
I,3.3 Ambiguity
I,3.4 Eros
I,3.5 Innocence
I.3.6 Presence
I,3.7 Humility
I,3.8 Reverence
I,3.9 Gentleness
II In Mark’s Gospel
II.1 The Father’s Beloved Son Loves Altruistically
II.1.1 And He is Called the Agapetos
II.1.2 And John the Baptist is Not Worthy of this Jesus
II.1.3 Jesus Preaches Love and is Delivered for Love
II.1.4 The Structure of Mark’s Altruistic Gospel
II.1.5 Jesus’ Altruistic Agape in the First Major Section
II.1.6 The Authority of the Agapetos is Heard in his Words.
II.1.7 The Authority of the Agapetos is Seen in his Deeds
II.1.8 The Unclean Spirit Recognizes His Authority
II.1.9 The Agapetos has Authority to Forgive Sins.
II.2 The Agapetos Reveals the Abba Father’s Unconditional Love
II.2.1 The Agape that he Preaches and Practices is for All
II.2.2 For Even Sinners are the Beloved Father’s Children
II.2.3 And Jesus has Compassion for All the Oppressed
II.2.4 The Disciples of the Agapetos Do Not Now Fast
II.2.5 Because You Do Not Patch an Old Love with a New Love
II.2.6 And You Do Not Put New Love in Old Wine Skins
II.2.7 The Messiah and the Son of Man were Old Figures
II.2.8 But the Agapetos as Son of God is New
II.2.9 And This is the Messianic Secret
II.3 The Agapetos Reveals the Abba Father’s Missionary Love
II.3.1 He Appoints the Twelve to Proclaim His Message
II.3.2 All Can be His Mother, Brother and Sister
II.3.3 He Teaches His Company the Secret of the Kingdom of God
II.3.4 But He Teaches this to the Crowds in Parables
II.3.5 His Disciples Must Not Keep the Secret
II.3.6 But as Missionaries They Must Share It with All
II.3.7 Even though They will be Rejected as He is Rejected
II.3.8 For the Secret is that Agape Suffers for Others
II.3.9 And This is the Messianic Secret
III In the Gita’s Bhakti
III.1 Bhakhti and the Great Tradition of Hindu Mysticism
III.1.1 Hindu Mysticism—A Blessing for All of Humankind
III.1.2 Bhakti Love is at the Center of the Bhagavad Gita
III.1.3 A Summary of the Gita Brings Us First to the Vedanta
III.1.4 And Then to the Way of Bhakti as it Relates to Wisdom
III.1.5 And to Our Character Traits Rooted in Matter
III.1.6 Which Shows Us How Freedom is Possible
III.1.7 Is Bhakti Really at the Center of the Gita’s Teaching?
III.1.8 How do Ethics and Religion Relate in the Gita?
III.1.9 Be Free from the Flesh to be Free for Bhakti
III.2 A Study of the Bhakti Verses of the Gita
III.2.1 The Four Bhakti Verses in Chapters 4 and 6
III.2.2 There are Four Levels of Bhakti between God and Man
III.2.3 The Highest Kind of Bhakti Lets Us Die into Eternal Life
III.2.4 For My Worshipers Come to Me
III.2.5 Even if They are Men of Evil Conduct
III.2.6 Love Me because I am the Source and End of All
III.2.7 Loving Bhakti for the Terrible One of the Vision
III.2.8 Chapter 12 is the Bhakti Yoga Chapter
III.2.9 And it Stresses the Equanimity of the Lover
III.3 God’s Bhakti and our Salvation
III.3.1 By Being United with Him in Unswerving Devotion
III.3.2 Which Depends on Constancy in Knowledge of the Self
III.3.3 We are fit to Become the Abode of Brahman
III.3.4 By Worshipping the Highest Spirit with Bhakti
III.3.5 Chapters 16 and 17 Do Not Mention Bhakti
III.3.6 True Love Depends on Freedom from the three Gunas
III.3.7 Which Influence Thirteen Aspects of Our Lives
III.3.8 And Prepare Us for Equanimity
III.3.9 Beyond Liberation to a Loving Salvation
IV In Bataille’s Inner Experience
IV.I Altruistic Love and Bataillean Sex
(From Kierkegaard to Bataille)
The Community and its Secrets of Alterity
Marks Gospel and its Messianic Secret
The Bhagavad Gita and the Secrets of its Transpersonal and Personal Mysticism
IV.1.1 Bataille’s Logic of the Paradox and its Mixed opposites.
IV 1.2 The Non-Knowledge of Kierkegaard and Bataille
IV 1.3 Is Related to the Irony of their Absurdity
IV 1.4 And to Dramatizing the Agapeic Event
IV 1.5 As it repeats the Gita’s Advaita Vedanta Drama
IV 1.6 And the Gita’s Personal God Drama
IV 1.7 Leads us to the Question of Bataillean Communication
IV 1.8 Even in the Mysticism of Mark’s Gospel
IV 1.9 So that we might Wonder about Mystical Reconciliation
IV.2 Eternal Love and Bataillean Death
(From Nietzsche to Bataille)
Eschatology and the Secrets of its Anxiety
Mark’s Temporal Son of David, Apocalyptic Son of Man
Resurrected Son of God and the Women Frightened
out of their Wits.
The Gita’s Vision and Arjuna’s Hair standing on end.
IV.2.1 Bataille’s Nietzschean Physiology Reconciling Opposites
IV.2.2 Nietzsche’s Mystical Eternal Return
IV.2.3 The Son of David’s Highest Formula of Affirmation
IV.2.4 The Son of Man’s Move from Death to Life
IV.2.5 The Son of God’s Death and Resurrection
IV.2.6 So it is with Arjuna as he Beholds the Dying.
IV.2.7 But for Nietzsche and Bataille it is the Death of God
IV.2.8 Through God’s Death we can Live Forever.
IV.2.9 The Child-like “Yes and Amen” of Nietzsche and Bataille
IV.3 Universal Love and Bataillean Religion
(From St. John of the Cross to Bataille)
The Desire to be Everything and its Mystical Secrets
Mark’s Twofold Agape between God and Man
and for Neighbor and even the Enemy
The Gita’s Bhakti between God and Man
and the Secrets of its Self-Realization Ethics
IV.3.1 Bataille’s Mystical Psychology of reconciliation
IV.3.2 John of the Cross’ Bataillean Psychology of Ego and Ipse
IV.3.3 As they reveal the Holy as the Secret of the Sacred
IV.3.4 For the Holy is a Mysterium Tremendum
IV.3.5 Before which there is a Dramatic Loss of the Self.
IV.3.6 In an other-realization ethics with Jesus
IV.3.7 And not the Self-Realization Ethics even of the Gita
IV.3.8 The Christ of John of the Cross leads Bataille to Torment
IV.3.9 And Teaches him to Renounce his Ego and Himself
Part Two: The Wisdom of Love
I. In Franciscan Spirituality
I.4 And He Leaves Her and the Seminary for Loyola
I.4.1 Fraternity
I.4.2 Mirth
I.4.3 Trust
1.4.4 Hope
I.4.5 Intimacy
I.4.6 Individuality
I.4.7 Communality
I.5 Growing in the Love of Wisdom at Loyola
I.5.1 By Studying Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
I.5.2 By Studying Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death
I.5.3 By Studying Nietzsche’s Anti-Christ
I.5.4 By Studying Heidegger’s Being and Time
I.5.5 By Studying Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations
I.5.6 By Studying Scheler’s On the Eternal in Man
I.5.7 By Writing my Master’s Thesis on John Wild’s Existentialism
I.5.8 By Studying Gilson and Maritain
I.5.9 By Studying the Philosophy of Josiah Royce
I.6 Learning the Wisdom of Love with the Franciscan Sisters
I.6.1 Graced with a New Feeling for the Beautiful Holy
I.6.2 Sr. Helen Marie Taught me the Franciscan Wisdom of Love.
I.6.3 I Came to have Special Friendships with Some Students
I.6.4 For Barbara Henning and I Worked Very Much Together.
I.6.5 And Kathleen Thompson Taught Me How to Drive
I.6.6 And Sarah Jungels Took me Home with Her
I.6.7 We had an Adult Education Course on Love
I.6.8 And with Fr. Ernest I Taught the Old Testament
I.6.9 And I Loved Five Beautiful Young Sisters
II. And Mark’s Agapetos
II.4 The Agapetos Reveals the Abba Father’s Childlike Agape
II.4.1 And the Twelve Must Trust Him like Children
II.4.2 Even Though They Might be Killed like John the Baptist
II.4.3 Jesus Feeds the Crowds Who are Like Hungry Children
II.4.4 And Jesus Shows How the Father Loves the Sick
II.4.5 And Jesus Teaches a True Childlike Reverence
II.4.6 But His Disciples Do Not Understand Him
II.4.7 For They Do Not Yet Understand an Agapeic Heart
II.4.8 And How Jesus Will Love Them as He Has
II.4.9 Jesus Ironically Lets the Blind Man See
II.5 The Agapetos Reveals his Eternal Agape
II.5.1 At his Transfiguration he is again called the Agapetos
II.5.2 His First Prophecy of his Passion and Resurrection
II.5.3 The Agapetos’ Altruistic Love implies his Eternal Love
II.5.4 Jesus Teaches them of Agapeic Prayer.
II.5.5 His Second Prophecy of his Passion and Resurrection
II.5.6 The Agapetos’ Eternal Agape is Childlike
II.5.7 His third Prophecy of his Death and Resurrection
II.5.8 The Disciples begin to Understand Agape as Eternal
II.5.9 Faith in Agape Grows through Prayer
II.6 Agape, the Greatest Commandment of All
II.6.1 Is further Explained in the 5th Major Section
II.6.2 Which begins with his Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
II.6.3 An Agape that Curses Fig Trees to teach Forgiveness.
II.6.4 And that curses Money Changers in the Temple
II.6.5 These days of preparing them for Agape
II.6.6 Getting your Mind and Heart Right with Respect to Taxes
II.6.7 And Beginning to ponder the Resurrection of the Body
II.6.8 Agape with all our Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength
II.6.9 And Agape for our Neighbor as we have it for ourself.
III. And The Tamil Culture
III.4 How Krishna’s Bhakti can bring Persons to Jesus’ Agape
III.4.1 From a Self-Realization to an Other Realization Ethics
III.4.2 From a Universal to a Missionary Universal Love
III.4.3 From a Spiritual to a Fully Personal Eternal Love
III.4.4 From a Conditional Bhakti to an Unconditional Agape
III.4.5 From a Sophisticated Bhakti to a Childlike Agape
III.4.6 From Bhakti’s Stages of Purity to Agapeic Celibacy
III.4.7 From a Limited to an Unlimited Missionary Task
III.4.8 From the Purgatory of Rebirth to Agapeic Purgatory
III.4.9 From Loving God to an Agapeic Love of Neighbor too
III.5 The Dravidian Background of the Gita’s Bhakti
III.5.1 What made Possible the Gita’s Leap Forward with Bhakti?
III.5.2 The God Siva in Early Tamil Texts
III.5.3 The Sudden Appearance of Bhakti in Southern India
III.5.4 Bhakti in Three Early Tamil Texts
III.5.5 The Dravidian Siva in the Pattinappali
III.5.6 The Dravidian God, Siva, in the Tolkappiyam
III.5.7 Dravidian Love in the Tirukkural
III.5.8 Tamil Bhakti in the Kural
III.5.9 South India’s Ancient Bhakti cult
III.6 A Study of Bhakti and Philosophy with Singh
III.6.1 Seeing Bhakti in its Wider Context
III.6.2 The Term bhag the Root of Bhakti is in the Vedas
III.6.3 The Meaning of Bhaj and its Relation to Prema
III.6.4 The Root of Singh’s Disagreement with Dhavamony
III.6.5 Does the Bhakti of the Gita Arise from Secular Love?
III.6.6 Does Singh’s Argument Against Dhavamony Work?
III.6.7 The Singh-Dhavamony Debate
III.6.8 Makes us Think More Deeply into Agape and Bhakti
III.6.9 Raj Singh, the Sikh, and Guru Nanak
IV. And The Sacred’s Secrets
IV.4 Childlike Love and Bataillean Art
(From Bataille to Breton, Sartre and Marcel)
Beyond the Project of Self-Realization Ethics
The Vocation of Mark’s Jesus to his Disciples and the Women
The Gita and the Eight Steps of Patanjalis’ Yoga
IV.4.1 Sartre Does Not Appreciate Bataille’s Altruistic Ethics
IV.4.2 For Sartre makes a Project of Self-Realization Ethics
IV.4.3 And does not Appreciate Jesus’ Agapeic Ethics
IV.4.4 But sees Bataille Only as a Big-Time Sinner
IV.4.5 Marcel Misinterprets Bataille’s Refusal of Salvation
IV.4.6 And sees Him as Miserable without God.
IV.4.7 And as a Mad, Egomaniacal Nihilist
IV.4.8 Breton Sees Bataille as Preoccupied with the Obscene
IV.4.9 And Yet This is the Secret of Bataille’s Surrealism
IV.5 Unconditional Love and Bataillean Sovereignty
(From Bataille to Kristeva)
The Stabat Mater and Difference Feminism
Mark’s Persons in Process on Trial
The Gita’s move from Liberation Salvation
IV.5.1 Bataille and Kristeva’s Psychoanalytic Revolution
IV.5.2 Bataille and Kristeva’s Poetic Revolution
IV.5.3 Bataille and Kristeva’s Semiotic Revolution
IV.5.4 Bataille and Kristeva’s Sexual Revolution
IV.5.5 Bataille and Kristeva’s Women’s Revolution
IV.5.6 Bataille and Kristeva’s Philosophic Revolution
IV.5.7 Bataille and Kristeva’s Scientific Revolution
IV.5.8 Bataille and Kristeva’s Christian Revolution
IV.5.9 Bataille and Kristeva’s Political Revolution
IV.6 Celibate Love and Bataillean Transgression
(From Bataille to Foucault)
From Animal to Human Sexuality and its History
Mark’s Women and Herstory of Sublimation
The Gita’s Freedom from the Gunas of Prakriti
IV.6.1 Bataille, Foucault and the Heart of Divine Love
IV.6.2 Their Notion of Animal and Human Sexuality
IV.6.3 And of Transgression and the Sacred
IV.6.4 In the Play of Limits and Transgression
IV.6.5 Transgression Can Even be Glorious
IV.6.6 And Help Free Us from the Gunnas of Prakrity
IV.6.7 And Can be an Affirmative Postmodern Leap
IV.6.8 So that Bataille and Foucault are Men of Prayer
IV.6.9 As Transgression Takes Them Beyond Hegel
Part Three: To The Things Themselves
I. In Phenomenology
I.7 From St. Francis to the Phenomenology Workshop
I.7.1 Spiegelberg’s Workshop in St. Louis
I.7.2 Doing Phenomenology Together
I.7.3 Even as Sartre Did in The Devil and the Good Lord
I.7.4 And as Kierkegaard Did with His Four Stages
I.7.5 And We Did Discuss Heidegger the Nazi
I.7.6 But I Became Most Intrigued with Scheler
I.7.7 Because He was the Philosopher of Love
I.7.8 And I Taught Kierkegaard, Scheler and Marcel
I.7.9 And Barbara Henning and I Worked on Being and Time
I.8 From Loyola to the Phenomenology Workshop
I.8.1 John Wild’s View of the Community and the Individual
I.8.2 Got me Thinking about Love and Personhood
I.8.3 My Professors at Loyola Discussed All This with Me
I.8.4 And 1966 was a Big Year
I.8.5 I Presented Being and Time and Got a New Job
I.8.6 The Autobiographical Consciousness
I.8.7 The Story of Sex, Religion and Art
I.8.8 The Three Great Secret Things
I.8.9 The Autobiographical Unconsciousness
I.9 Getting back to the European Roots
I.9.1 With Wilhelmina’s Family in Simpelveld
I.9.2 In Her Country of Holland
I.9.3 At the Goethe Institute in Brilon
I.9.4 At the Goethe Institute in Berlin
I.9.5 On our European Trip
I.9.6 Studying in Bonn
I.9.7 Flying back to Chicago
I.9.8 More Reflection on the Three Great Secret Things
I.9.9 Settling in at Brock University
II And Mark’s Reconciliation
II.7 The Altruism, Eternalism and Universalism of Mark’s Jesus
II.7.1 True Altruism Loves the Neighbor as Oneself
II.7.2 The Poor Widow Loved Altruistically
II.7.3 The Universal Agape of the Apocalyptic Discourse
II.7.4 Will be Proclaimed by the Holy Spirit through the Disciples
II.7.5 And Jesus’ Eternal Agape Will Not Pass Away
II.7.6 And We Must Not be Deceived about It
II.7.7 For Jesus Did Teach us to Love like Children
II.7.8 And He Does Reveal our Sweet Abba Father
II.7.9 And the Women Who Loved their Sweet Jesus
II.8 The Unconditional, Childlike, Celibate Love of Mark’s Jesus
II.8.1 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Unconditional
II.8.2 And is So Loving it Leaves with Us the Eucharist
II.8.3 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Childlike
II.8.4 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Celibate
II.8.5 Jesus’ Unconditional Agape Lets Him be Scourged
II.8.6 And it Lets Him Accept the Crown of Thorns
II.8.7 And it Brings Him to Carry the Cross of Love
II.8.8 And to Die on the Cross out of Love for Us
II.8.9 Even His Loving Death could Convert Others
II.9 The Resurrection Most of All Gives us Faith in Agape
II.9.1 And Jesus Foretold it All Along
II.9.2 The Women were Struck with Amazement
II.9.3 But the Young Man Told Them Not to be Amazed
II.9.4 And He Tells Them to tell Peter and the Disciples
II.9.5 And the Women are Frightened Out of Their Wits
II.9.6 How are We to Understand the Agape of Mark’s Gospel?
II.9.7 The Added Part on the Appearances of Christ
II.9.8 Proclaim the Gospel to All Creation
II.9.9 Does Mark have Many Messianic Secrets about Agape?
And Beyond The Caste System
III.7 Dr. Singh’s Treatment of the Narada Bhakti Sutra
III.7.1 Can Lead Us to Refine our Understanding of Bhakti
III.7.2 As Bhakti becomes the Standard for All Loves
III.7.3 It Lets the Lover be Overjoyed, Quiet, Self-Satisfied
III.7.4 As Knowledge of God Helps Him to Love God
III.7.5 And to See that God is Like a King
III.7.6 And that the Poor People can be the Most Loving
III.7.7 Bhakti is an Indescribable Mystery
III.7.8 Bhakti, though One, Appears in Eleven Forms
III.7.9 And it Manifests Itself Through Lovers
III.8 The Bhakti Movement and Bhakti Literature
III.8.1 All the Arts of India Express Bhakti
III.8.2 But Singh Concentrates Especially on Literature
III.8.3 And Brings out Bhakti as the One in the Many
III.8.4 Singh Quotes Krishna Sharma to Bring out Differences
III.8.5 And Yet he Must be Critical of Even Her
III.8.6 What is the Sikh View about Bhakti?
III.8.7 Bhakti is the Prime Mover of Art in India
III.8.8 Chandulal and Raj Singh on Bhakti
III.8.9 From Bhakti and the Caste System to Agape
III.9 Bhakti and the History of Western Agape
III.9.1 Jesus, Krishna and the Caste System
III.9.2 Augustine, the Caritas Synthesis and Serving Others
III.9.3 Benedict and Bringing Agriculture to Europe
III.9.4 Dominic and Serving the City’s Poor
III.9.5 Francis and Agape for all God’s Creatures
III.9.6 Ignatius Loyola and Modern Agape
III.9.7 The Agape of St. Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross
III.9.8 Mother Teresa’s Agape for the Poor of Calcutta.
III.9.9 The Brock Philosophy Department Learns from all the Others
IV. Which Science Cannot Know
IV. 7 Missionary Love and the Bataillean Simulachra
(From Bataille to Klossowski)
Successfully Proclaiming the Gospel
to Every Creature with a Communication
that Fails and the Simulachra of the Gita
IV.7.1 Communicating the Movements of Pathos with Simulachra.
IV.7.2 Which are Not Ideas but like Ideas
IV.7.3 Which can Poetically Express the Agony and the Ecstasy
IV.7.4 And the Carefree Abandon that Brings One to Laughter
IV.7.5 So that We Might Die with Laughter.
IV.7.6 And Express our Laughter Until we Cry
IV.7.7 Over an Expenditure Tending towards Pure Loss
IV.7.8 Bataille is a Missionary Speaking in Poetic Simulachra
IV.7.9 That Others Might become Sovereign Suffering
IV.8 Purgatorial Love and Battaillean Violence
(From Bataille to Derrida)
Mourning the Guilt of Decisions
Made over the Abyss of Indecidability
For Justice must be Done
in this Life or the Next
IV.8.1 The Instant of decision is Madness (Kierkegaard)
IV.8.2 The Decision to Give the Pure Gift
IV.8.3 And Move from a Restricted to a General Economy
IV.8.4 On to the Move from Hegel to Nietzsche
IV.8.5 And from Hegel’s Lordship to Bataille’s Sovereignty
IV.8.6 And from Hegelian Continuity to the Simulacrum
IV.8.7 Brings us from Desoeuvrement to Dissemination
IV.8.8 And from Dramatization to Difference
IV.8.9 For in doubling Lordship Sovereignty is Dialectical
IV.9 Loving Love and the Bataillean Sacrifice
(From Bataille to Boldt)
The New Mystical Theology’s,
Nine Philosophical Implications
Mark’s Agape and its Nine Implications
The Gita’s Bhakti and its Nine Implications
IV.9.1 Bataille’s New Mystical Theology
IV.9.2 Implies a New Ethics of Altruistic Love
IV.9.3 And a New Economy of Pure Giving
IV.9.4 And a New Politics of the Human Family
IV.9.5 And a New Metaphysics of Excess
IV.9.6 And a New Epistemology of Nominalism
IV.9.7 And a New Logic of Mixed Opposites
IV.9.8 And a New Psychology of Embodied Spirit
IV.9.9 And a New Poetics