During a debate the other day with a friend about Roman Catholicism, it was suggested to me that the reason Reincarnation was left out of the Bible was not just because it (seemingly..) conflicted with the doctrine of general Resurrection, but because the order of incarnation adopted by the Church in their metaphysical scheme of things placed women in a blatantly inferior position (!).
Going on to explain that Pauline Christianity reflected Paul's metaphysical schemata which was adpoted wholesale from the Indian mystical tradition, he claimed that the big secret was the order of Incarnations that the soul went through, and that in this order the soul went through mineral, plant and animal forms before becoming a Woman - and thence finally, at the pinacle of temporal existence, a Man. Only God was above Man (naturally..).
Thus it was claimed that every Man alive had once been incarnate as a Woman, and that since Woman was second last behind Man (and God) in the order of a progressively more powerful and more advanced incarnational cycle, her inferiority was therefore certain and the Church's sexism (and that of the West in general) thoroughly justified - for if Woman were equal to or better than Man, she would either be last in the series (under God but above Man) or God would have devised a different sort of way than Reincarnation to establish the continuity of the soul thru its changes in form.
It was thus said that this is what the RC Church secretly believes, because it was what Paul believed.
My question is, if it were true that to become a Man one would have to graduate from the inferior female Womanly state first, how would that being a "fact" change the world? How would it affect your own view of the sexes? More generally, what do you think of what was claimed above?
I personally am highly dubious about it, but unsure. It certainly can seem plausible if you think about it in a certain light. But regardless, I don't like it one bit.
Going on to explain that Pauline Christianity reflected Paul's metaphysical schemata which was adpoted wholesale from the Indian mystical tradition, he claimed that the big secret was the order of Incarnations that the soul went through, and that in this order the soul went through mineral, plant and animal forms before becoming a Woman - and thence finally, at the pinacle of temporal existence, a Man. Only God was above Man (naturally..).
Thus it was claimed that every Man alive had once been incarnate as a Woman, and that since Woman was second last behind Man (and God) in the order of a progressively more powerful and more advanced incarnational cycle, her inferiority was therefore certain and the Church's sexism (and that of the West in general) thoroughly justified - for if Woman were equal to or better than Man, she would either be last in the series (under God but above Man) or God would have devised a different sort of way than Reincarnation to establish the continuity of the soul thru its changes in form.
It was thus said that this is what the RC Church secretly believes, because it was what Paul believed.
My question is, if it were true that to become a Man one would have to graduate from the inferior female Womanly state first, how would that being a "fact" change the world? How would it affect your own view of the sexes? More generally, what do you think of what was claimed above?
I personally am highly dubious about it, but unsure. It certainly can seem plausible if you think about it in a certain light. But regardless, I don't like it one bit.
