The Tree of Life: The Form of Human Consciousness
Publisher:
, March 2021
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Overview
What if the literary form of the Bible derived its pattern from the elementary process of creation? Is there an underlying symbolic form to the book? The Tree of Life is an analysis of this form and compares it to the operations of the intellect. These operations are the process by which we come to know what is. It also corresponds to the metaphysical elements, which are the core of our being. What becomes evident is that there is a form to human consciousness.
- Analyzes the symbolic form
- Suggests that the images acquired through spiritual perception correspond to elementary symbolic forms
- Uses Bernard Longergan's Insight to illustrate the process of coming to know things, each other, and who we are
- Some Experiential Background
- The Analytical Trail
- Lonergan: A Conscious Operation
- Between Soul and Spirit
- Man Created in the Image of God Reflects a Symbolic Cosmology
- The Symbolic Form of the Menorah
- Feelings Related to Knowing
- Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary
- The Burning Bush
- The Menorah and Its Elements
- The Holy Grail
- Chronology of the Shroud of Turin
- The Celtic or High Cross
- Glastonbury
- The Tree of Life
- Long Term Cycles
- Green Olive Tree
- The Battle of the Trees
- The Book of Romans, a Similar Pattern
- The Tree and Menorah in Revelation
- Relationship between the Books of Daniel and Revelation
- Moving Forward
- The Function of the Eternal in the Temporal
- Conclusion