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Friday, May 11, 2012

Creation: It Looked Good on Paper

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Not really enough time for a post made of all new materials, but enough to revisit and recycle what was going on in the Cosmos four years ag...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Rules for Radicals and Nostrums for Gnostics

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As mentioned a few posts back, what is especially interesting about Voegelin's writings on modern political Gnosticism is his attempt t...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Permanent Cootie Protection from the Left

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In his introduction to Science, Politics, and Gnosticism , Ellis Sandoz writes that Voegelin's new science of politics -- you heard me: ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

From Uncertain Truth to Certain Untruth

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Okay people, we've got a big problem, and it has to do with truth. The way I sees it, one first has to establish that the world is in...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

The Cause and Cure of Causes and Cures

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For the last several weeks we've been elliptically circling several subjects that appear to be implicitly related, otherwise we wouldn...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Getting Off the Cosmic Dreadmill

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Recall yesterday's opening salvO: the human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Obviously, for man as we find...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Reality is in the We of the Beholder

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This is an interesting way of expressing it: the human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Which itself is just a tw...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

MacrO and MicrO

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The following observation of Schuon is interesting, because it goes directly to the nature of O, and therefore man, the latter of whom we mi...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Freedom and Truth, Intelligence and Reality

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No time for a new post, but just slackenough for a peerback on what was happening in the Cosmos five years ago this month. One of the conso...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Catch a Falling Man

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I believe we were discussing man's sufficient reason, i.e., why we are here. This reason needs to be proportionate to the phenomenon, a...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Boredom Kills

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There is something in human beings that not only allows us to be objective , but without which we could hardly be human. Animals, for exa...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

We Don't Need No Steenking Sufficient Reason!

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Time only for a brief post. Gotta run. But it shall be continued... Schuon is -- to express it in a breezily non-Schuonian way -- very bi...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Your Call: TransCosmic Plenitude or Infrahuman Nihilism

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Before continuing in our effort to develop an objective definition of spiritual normality -- and therefore pathology -- I want to address an...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

De-divinization, Dehumanization, and Radical Stupidity

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The question of spiritual pathology is again tied in with the issue of universality, for only if man has a specific definition can there be ...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Spiritual Pathology and the Freedom to F*** Up

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In reviewing these verbose volumes of Voegelin, it has occurred to me more than once that some innerprizing fellow needs to develop a system...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Photosynthesis, Pneumosynthesis, Logosynthesis

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It is impossible to respond to a simpleton who imagines that because one is religious one is somehow "anti-science," because the p...
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