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A Call to Darkness
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Fox suggests that the darkness of Black Madonna is a shriek for fanatics to enter their own darkness. According to Fox, the darkness that she calls us to is the darkness of the soul where we can ascertain the pith of asset. He says that the fear of darkness is a deception perpetuated by the Enlightenment.
On Wednesday, July 2008 a post, in the blog Herescope, connected the God, Elousia, in The Shack to the archetypal Black Madonna that is found around the globe. The post references an treatise by Matthew Fox: The Return of the Black Madonna: A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century.
In his article, Fox describes the Madonna as challenging people to enter into darkness. William P Youngs dark,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], woman, Godhead in The Shack seems to also call followers to enter into darkness a challenge that Christians should shirk.
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In The Shack, Jesus sends Mack down a track and tells him to enter where it ends. He adventured a couple of small treads into the inky gloom and stopped. Fear collared him for he tried to breathe, unsure if alternatively no to persist. As his stomach clenched he felt it another, The Great Sadness settling ashore his elbows with its full weight nearly suffocating him. He desperately wanted to back out into the light, merely in the end he deemed that Jesus would no have sent him in here without a nice purpose. He pressed in farther. (151-152)
Mack continues into the cavern until he meets Sophia, a sagacity entity, who invites him to stand as decide against those around him. (Incidentally, Sophia is a Greek goddess of knowledge who can also be found in Gnostic and neo-platonic adore.) She then proceeds to reveal to him his past log as a judge. As the chapter unfolds, she correctly reveals to Mack that those who seek justice must be willing to have justice went upon them. Her revelation causes Mack to realize that the righteousness sinners deserve would consternation those who quest justice opposition those who sinned opposition them. She works on to caution Mack that sinners do not receive what they deserve but rather they receive elegance.
According to Fox and the mystics that he quotes, the ground of the soul is black and this is where people must go. This is where divinity and the true self hide. If human do not stand on the ground of the soul, they are loosened from themselves. He goes on to quote Meister Eckhart, a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic from the 13th and 14th centuries, as mentioning that Gods darkness is a secret after riddle, a mystery among mystery that no light has perceived. Eckharts quote refers to a mutual idea among mystics that it is in darkness where fact lies.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite wrote we may kas long asUnknowing which is enshrouded below all that is known and always that tin be understood, and that we may start apt contemplate the superessential Darkness which is hidden along all the light that is in existing entities.