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MLBD Opera Omnia Vol - 10 Philosophy And Theology The Rhythm Of Being Part - 1 by Milena Carrara Pavan
He submitted to the music, yielded to the dictation of a song, listening with rapt attention Became, like his lyre, its instrument.Czeslaw Milosz, "Orpheus and Eurydice"It was the late Ewert Cousins, one of the pioneers of interfaith dialogue in the twentieth century, who as early 1992 in his book Christ of the 21st Century formulated the thesis that we are at the dawn of the Second Axial Age, and that Raimondi Panikkar is one of its paradigmatic and pioneering thinkers. The notion of the First Axial Age was put forward by Karl Jaspers in The Origin and Goal of History, the idea of an axial period pointing to one of the fault lines of history. Referring to and describing the period from roughly 800 to 200 bce, Jaspers pointed to the distinctive and formative religions and the associated forms of consciousness that came into being at this time-from Zoroaster in Persia, Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism in India, the Hebrew prophets, particularly Isaiah, Amos, and Jeremiah in Israel, the rise of the Socratic-Platonic-Aristotelian phase of Greek philosophy in Athens, and finally the emergence of the great teachers of the Chinese tradition, Laotze, Confucius, and Mencius, the canonical figures of Chinese philosophy. Jaspers's thesis was that this period not only marked a dividing line in terms of the growth and development of human consciousness but also shaped it for the next two and a half millennia.The distinctive mark of First Axial Age consciousness was that it was personal, self-reflective, and inner-directed in contrast to the mythic, ritualistic, tribal, and collective forms of consciousness in the pre-Axial period. Whether one refers to the Delphic injunction to "Know thyself."