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On reaching atman or, the inner Divinity. The adoption of Indian material by selected Czech occultists of the 20th century
Authors: Skopal Vilém
Year: 2021
Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster
Page from-to: nestránkováno
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eng On reaching atman or, the inner Divinity. The adoption of Indian material by selected Czech occultists of the 20th century The paper focuses on the question how Czech occultists of the 20th century understood Indian term atman. The answer shall contribute to the understanding of how material from Indian thought systems has been adopted by Western authors. There is a consensus among occultists that atman is the Divine substance in humans. Therefore, the following question is: What is the divinity withing humans? This topic was partially inquired by Milan Fujda (2010, in Czech). He shows that the conception of substantial identity of Divinity and humans in occultism is to be understood as the reaction to a particular movement within secularism described by P. Berger as the radical transcendency of God. The Protestant demand on evangelical simplicity removed multiple ways of how the sacred might enter the world while, at the same time, kept the Divine grace as the only mean. When also Divine grace lacks its credibility as a way how sacred enters the world, the process of secularism is finalised. Fujda shows that occultists opposed this process by formulating the conception where Divinity is not radically other but is within every human being. Therefore, the conception stems from intra-Christian discussion on a relationship between God and humans. Nevertheless, despite this observation Fujda applies a problematic assumption regarding the adoption of Indian material when he claims that Czech occultists used this material to oppose secularism. In other words, the interchangeability of Christian and Indian conceptions is presupposed by Fujda. As shall be shown in the paper, this presupposition is rather problematic because it distorts Indian conceptions in a peculiar way. Drtikol, František (1883-1961); Minařík, Květoslav (1908-1974); Tomáš, Eduard (1908-2002); atman; divinity; occultism – modern Czech; Protestantism – God; secularisation

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