Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.philosophy.taoism,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage,alt.christnet Followup-To: alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.newage Subject: holey stories (was taoism and holy spirit) References: From: i@no.self (!) Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <_njJ9.53835$Ik.1533962@typhoon.sonic.net> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:31:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1039516282 208.201.242.18 (Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:31:22 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:31:22 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:35242 alt.philosophy.taoism:106657 talk.religion.misc:390773 talk.religion.newage:157484 alt.christnet:689231 | ...I interpreted the Holy Spirit as yang makes sense. some translators do that with Chinese works, and in some measure to pleasurable effect. Merton's explorations are not to be overlooked, for example, and I gather Waley or some others were Christian. translation of a text will make all the difference | discuss? did Jesus (AD=0) have knowledge of Lao Tzu's | philosophy? Buddha's? Confucius's? no no, they're all fictional characters