Machelling Vs Christian

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I believe that if we look at Schelling through the lenses provided by Schuon, then it is arguable that in principle there can be more than one revealed religion. Hence, religious systems other than Christianity can express the same depthness of intuition in the absolute reality. We can see that if we generalize Schelling’s definition of mythology and revealed religion beyond the historical cases he considers. Thus, mythology comes to mean any system of representations of the divine where the potencies are in a state of struggle one with another. On the contrary, revelation in general is an event occuring between the human and the divine that causes the development of an accomplished representation of the Absolute. In other words, revelead

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