title: Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit
author: R. D. Gold
description: <b>From School Library Journal</b> <P>With all the energy of an iconoclast of 1859 or 1927, R.D. Gold has pitched himself against the hyperliteralism of Orthodox Judaism, which is just as likely as conservative Islam and Fundamentalist Christianity to take the words of its scripture not just as holy writ but as bare, literal and inerrant fact. Gold patiently explores the not just scriptural literalism, but the notion of Mosaic authorship and "hidden codes" in the Torah and concludes with a vision of an illusion-free sense of religion.
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  Proclus on the teacher-disciple bond of love v. 12.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 28 October 2017 
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  Proclus on the 
  teacher-disciple bond of love 
  
  PROCLUS ON THE TEACHER-DISCIPLE BOND OF LOVE 
  TRAIN OF THOUGHTS 
  Proclus on the teacher-disciple bond of love v. 12.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 28 October 2017 
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  Train of thoughts 
  Selections from Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s First Alcibiades 
  <18-50>  
  4 
  The memory of one’s father inspires the pursuit of virtue. 
  5 
  Father “has sown the fire-laden bond of love” so that the divine lovers turn, recall, and 
  rally around him. 
  6 
  Perfection comes for those who love contemplating Truth. 
  6 
  Love is the cause of dis-integration of the One, the medium between spirit and matter 
  (i.e., upper triad and lower quaternary), and the cause of re-integration. 
  7 
  When love meets with a bad receptacle it brings about a life that is tyrannical and 
  intemperate in five different ways. 
  10 
  1. The coarse lover h