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66 - The Anthropology of Mysticism

The Symbolic World

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The Church Fathers Understand the Person

The structure of a person is what you do. And then the actual actions of the body, because we do live in a body. I've taken some of one of the best words and the best concepts to help us understand the basic structure of the person. The way that the fathers understand the person is that at the center of, your center of center, there is, you have the grace of God in you. You are in communion with God. That's how someone can become just a passion or completely taken over by an aspect of themselves where they're so far from their heart that they can't see anything else.

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