Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
[In the gnostic paradigm, secret knowledge may alter the fate of a person. Secret incantations permit the soul to perform the proper actions in order to return to the source.
Can I, seat of choice3V, compare to someone who holds secret knowledge?
Or does the acquisition of secret knowledge compare to a thought experiment3H?]
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[In the astrological fixation, the fate of the person is determined by the alignment of the planets and stars.
Does this sound like a deterministic thought experiment3H or a contender for I, seat of choice3V?]
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[The questions in the previous blogs correlate with the normal contexts of the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
Consider the two-level interscope, then the intersection.]
Here is another issue that he raised:
Can I be determined by my bondage (as depicted in Manichaeism) in the same way that a pagan’s fate is determined by the stars (as in astrology)?
Here is another issue that he raised:
Can I master a secret knowledge that overcomes my bondage, as if we could find a path to release from this world of decay (as implied by Gnostics)?
Here is another issue that he raised:
Is our bondage to sin, law and death so complete that free choice is nullified?
Here is another issue that he raised:
How far do the trappings of bondage go?
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Schoonenberg wrestled with the knotty issue of the haphazard use of the terms ‘free choice’ and ‘Christian liberty’ in Christian doctrine.
[My choice2V and something about me2H solidify into concupiscence, then into cruelty.
Like a dead person, the eyes are open but they cannot see.
Death is the fixation of law. Death is the illusion of words.
Death becomes the mandala of the heart.]
[Sin enters through the mirror of the world3H. Sin is the lie within the mirror.
Words. Arguments. Excuses.
They increase my bondage and reduce my capacity for responsibilities.]
