Chapter 363: What's the Difference?
The whole meeting will last for 10 days, and although it is in the name of the climate conference, it is impossible to really discuss climate. Dignitaries are responsible for grand strategic divisions and cooperation, and practitioners are responsible for specific contacts and battles.
So in the next few days, Gu Yu went to Erhard's party every night, and got to know several people better.
Erhard is over 80 years old, probably the oldest in Europe in terms of generation. He inherited the mantle of Paracelsus, and was proficient in magic and alchemy, which was subdivided into artificial people, golem stone statues, magic circles, and potions.
Marianne is a Norse witch who specializes in divination and curses. During the witch hunt in the Middle Ages, the ancestors fled to that cold place, survived by luck, and developed in seclusion to this day.
Enes is a pure magician, skilled in elemental magic, and quite high in combat power.
As for Cohen, it was a little surprising that he was of Jewish descent and did not serve any country, believing in the Kabbalah. Eh, this is exactly what Gu Yu's appetite is, and one of the purposes of his coming to the West is to study the so-called Tree of Life.
"Different schools of thought, different worldviews are naturally different, Taoism believes that Qi is the origin of the world, Enes believes that it is the element, Marian thinks it is the spirit, and I think it is all kinds of interesting substances that can be used by human beings. โ
Next to the warm fireplace, the five of them were talking today, only to hear Erhard say: "So, it doesn't matter what it's called, what matters is which school can be better applied and form a strict cultivation system. โ
"Yes, after I came to the West, I found that there is still Reiki and can still absorb it. The world is one, and there are thousands of cultivators, and in the end, they all end up on different paths. โ
After a few days of contact, Gu Yu fell in love with this kind of fireside night talk, and said: "Actually, I have always wanted to ask a question, in the Xia Kingdom, the place where the aura is the most intense and eruptive, we call it a node, I don't know if there is one in your country?"
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Erhard narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Of course there is, but we call it the Origin, the Origin of the New World." โ
"Origin...... Well, that's a good name. โ
Gu Yu nodded, and did not continue to ask, for example, how many nodes or something - that must be top-secret information.
Then, when he looked at the sky, there was a light red in the east, and he said, "It's dawn, and I should go." By the way, I have brought you a small gift, I hope you enjoy it. โ
As he spoke, he took out a stack of talismans and gave each of them two: one was a blank talisman paper, and the other was a very common healing talisman.
"Oh, thank you, a bonus!"
Marianne was most interested in the talisman, and accepted it happily, then thought about it, and also took out a small pocket and handed it over, and said with a smile: "This is not a good thing as a return gift, a little plant seed, very beautiful." โ
"Hehe, this is the tail feather of a phoenix descendant, which can be used as a decoration. โ
Enes was not stingy, and took out a long feather that was gold and red, which felt extremely gorgeous.
The phoenix in the east is two, an ancient mythical beast, and in the west, it is an immortal bird, shaped like a vulture or giant eagle, with a beautiful singing voice.
Gu Yu liked it very much, the other party said that it was a descendant, but it was obviously not the phoenix body, so the fluctuation on the feather was relatively weak.
Seeing this, Erhard smiled and said, "I don't have anything to give, there is a little puppet here, which can accurately tell the time and last for three or five years." โ
As the words fell, he handed over a magic puppet of an owl, with a realistic shape, even the hair was lifelike, and its bulging head swayed back and forth, looking weird and cute.
"Uh......"
Everyone returned the favor, but Cohen was very embarrassed because there was nothing suitable.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's going to be a long time!"
Gu Yu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, then I'll leave first, see you tomorrow." โ
"I have something to attend to, and it's time to leave. Cohen also stood up.
After a few moments, the two of them left the hut together.
Gu Yu looked around and suddenly said, "Mr. Cohen, I don't know if you are in a hurry to go back, there is something I want to ask." โ
"Okay, but I can't delay too long. โ
"Then we'll talk as we go. โ
So saying, the two of them walked out of the village without hailing the carriage and ran towards the city of Bonn.
"You're practicing Kabbalah, and to be honest, I'm very interested in that. So can you explain a little bit about, oh, if it involves your secrets, you can circumvent it. Gu Yu said.
"The Kabbalah system is very complicated, and I don't know how to talk about it when you ask that. Cohen frowned.
"In our Taoist theories, the description of the universe is often too nihilistic, the universe is born from the Tao and made of qi, and I want to know what Kabbalah knows about the universe. โ
"This ......"
Cohen pondered for a moment, obviously in the mood to talk, and said, "Actually, I think Kabbalah's theory is somewhat similar to Taoism. We believe in God, but it is not the God of existence, but the sum of all contradictory thoughts, such as good and evil, fairness and favoritism, benevolence and indifference, knowable and unknowable, and so on.
In our spiritual practice, we pursue one goal throughout our lives, which is the union of man and God. โ
"Heaven and man are one?" Gu Yuqi said.
It can be said that at the beginning of the universe, man and God were one, and this state is called the original man. And our cultivation is to return to the realm of the original human through the tree of life. โ
Hey, I'll it!
Gu Yu is really complicated, I didn't understand it before, but when I hear it now, isn't this a Taoist return to simplicity?
What is it? The original appearance was a real person in ancient times! How similar it was to the original person.
For a while, he was a little confused, he had studied many Western sects, most of them were God who created the world, created human beings, and then God was supreme, and people had to go through suffering, redemption, and love, and finally they could get God's gift Balabala.
Calabar was the first he had ever heard of the idea that instead of these, he had to be united with God.
"We have a good analogy of God, it's like a light in a mirror, and this light is reflected in the second mirror, and then to the third, and then to the fourth...... And so on, and in the constant reflection, the light gradually loses part of it, and gradually gives birth to part of it.
And God is the first light, which developed from the origin and formed nine lights, and these ten lights are called the source body. โ
Cohen spat out a very obscure word: Sephiroth. Gu Yu pondered for a long time to understand, and this statement is also the Taoist "once things are formed, they are born into each other." โ
Then, Cohen pulled out a card, on which was a strange pattern composed of three pillars, ten source bodies, four worlds and twenty-two paths, arranged vertically and horizontally, it was the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
"This tree is the path of human beings to return to God. Our main way is meditation, so I won't talk about that. โ
Cohen pointed to the card and gave the other party a simple explanation: "At the top is the crown, which is the god." The other nine sources are Wisdom, Understanding, Compassion, Severity, Beauty, Glory, Victory, Foundation, and Kingdom. The three pillars are the pillars of mercy, gentleness, and severity......"
Gu Yu listened very carefully, but his explanation was too routine, and it was obviously a business-oriented advertisement, no different from the Eight Virtues of the Wika Sect.
There may be a lot of secrets involved here, but Cohen is reluctant to reveal them, and continues: "The Four Worlds, the First Divine Realm, means fire, energy. The second creation is wind, time. The third form boundary, which means water, space. The fourth material realm, which means earth, matter. โ
"Feng Shui, Earth and Fire: Energy, Time, Space, and Matter......"
Gu Yu muttered to himself, thoughtful, and asked, "What is your personal understanding of these things?"
"Do I understand personally...... The first is the primordial realm, which is the origin of the universe, from which all other worlds are born.
The second is the creation world, where light evolves and develops, and there are all kinds of magical elements.
The third is the realm of formation, the realm of the soul, where there are thoughts and concepts, and there is a distinction between men and women.
The fourth is the material realm, where light breaks down and becomes crystallized to form nature and man. Abstract consciousness also becomes concrete things, which is the human world...... Huh?"
Before he finished speaking, Gu Yu suddenly stood still, Cohen was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?"
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The other party was still silent, his eyes were empty, as if he was thinking, as if he was blank, as if he was wandering out of the world.
Cohen didn't quite know that there was an experience in the East, called enlightenment, but he also understood that he couldn't be disturbed. He looked around, and was kind enough to protect him.
So what was Gu Yu thinking?
He was thinking about the Taoist worldview.
Taoism has never had a clear, systematic description of the universe and the world, but only a general mystery that can be applied to any time and any controversy.
For example, the Tao gives birth to all things, the Tao is in all things, and all things are a part of the great reincarnation of the universe.
Then, the next systematic discussion, gone.
Many people believe that Taoism has a clear division of the world, such as "jumping out of the Three Realms", such as "Thirty-six Heavens".
Let's talk about the thirty-six heavens first, this is just something that the Maoshan Sect borrowed from Buddhist theory and conceived, like the twenty-eight heavens, the four Brahma, and the four heavens of the holy realm...... Please, does Taoism use the word "Brahma"?
Speaking of the Three Realms, there are several sayings about the Three Realms:
Some are divided into heaven (the heavenly court where the gods and saints are located), the earth (a place full of fear like the underworld), and people (the human world); some are divided into three elements: heaven, earth, and water; and even more, they directly use the things of the Buddhist family, and they actually divide the three worlds of desire, color, and colorlessness!
It's funny, Taoism still has the saying of color, desire, and colorlessness!
Therefore, the division of Taoism is too confusing, because the mythological system is always changing, and every time it changes, something new will be produced, and in the end, it will contradict itself, and each faction will play its own faction, and even the Taoist priests themselves can't tell the difference.
In contrast, Kabbalah's argument is very interesting. At least there is a relatively vivid and clear idea of the composition of the universe.
"Hmm......"
As if a moment had passed, and as if hundreds of years had passed, Gu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, only to feel that his consciousness had never been clear, and an impulse was about to come out in his body, almost unable to suppress it.
He knew what the difference was when he was promoted to a human immortal!
(PS: Judaism is the oldest of the three monotheistic beliefs, from which both so-and-so and so-and-so are derived, and Kabbalah is a branch of Judaism.) ๏ผnt
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