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From: foga0301 at stcloudstate.edu
Subject: LL-L "Etymology"--the east in the west

Mark wrote:

*"Now* I wonder if Gael studies the Kabbala.  Gael wrote: 'Oh, and in the
images of inner soul space I read about in the Eastern side of Byzantium,
people talk of this inner space as being shaped like a tree growing *inward
*with lots of branches.' "

Dearest Mark and all mystics out there,

   I'm sure that my paper-thin knowledge of the eastern parts of the West do
not exhaust the topic of inward growing trees.  Before I was run out of
seminary for my heretical ideas, I managed to read only a small amount of
the patristic sources arising from the Syrian christian tradition (east or
west).  The point of doing that reading was to reground christianity in its
jewish roots. Language issues and the oscillating imperial boundary between
Roman-held turf and Persia had a lot to do with the way this early and most
fruitful link got submerged and swamped by later (western) desires for a
more definitive wall between east and west.

    I'd really like to know more about the Kabbala.  Maybe you could explain
its role in all this?

Gael Fonken

p.s. I still have a link to a journal that covers things Syrian:
HUGOYE: JOURNAL
OF SYRIAC STUDIES [Home <http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/index.html>]. They
also have a list Hugoye Email Group

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