ON MEANING AND BECOMING. MYSTICAL EXALTATION AS A TRAVAIL OF DISCLOSURE AND PERMEATION INTO NUMINOUS
ON MEANING AND BECOMING. MYSTICAL EXALTATION AS A TRAVAIL OF DISCLOSURE AND PERMEATION INTO NUMINOUS
Author(s): Alexandru-Ioan CândaSubject(s): Anthropology, Systematic Theology, Phenomenology, History of Religion, Ontology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Mysticism; becoming; numinous; meaning; exaltation;
Summary/Abstract: Love is a given of the being that is found as a presence not only in a social context of affective conjuncture that pushes-attracts new feelings but is revealed through exercises at the limit of the ontic – both mirrored-doubled by another equivalent being, as well as by receptive-integrative transfiguration of the being as part of the personal essence of the numinous. If the anthropological-rationalist primacy exposes love didactically enough as a limiting product of the species that is diluted by successive cumulatively affective consumptions and socio-cultural constraints, the philosophical approach forces new perspectives on love through points of view and projection methods that seek matrix-ideological impositions aiming to achieve meaning and essence. Mystical theology comes to enrich the human emotional complex by juxtaposing sacred realities that push towards love through the very personal character of the Godhead. In this process of re-establishing the being through love for divinity, we have two peaks of the fullness of devotional love: Christian mysticism (fulfillment of love sought through communion with the incarnate God) and Islamic Sufism (revelation of God sought through self-understanding towards Him). The profane pragmatized by rhythm constraints archetypally integrates these philosophical-theological peaks and sublimates them into works of art and cultural bursts of impact that recombines volcanically and reflects harmoniously towards old fulfillments of meaning and new discoveries of passions.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 37
- Page Range: 386-399
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English