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Friday, June 30, 2017

God has a Bridge to Sell Give Away

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"To say man," writes Schuon," is to say form; man is the bridge between form and essence, or between 'flesh' and ...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

To the Unknown-Known, and Beyond!

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I suppose we could say that the materialist (or any ideologue) naively reduces the world to the known-known, or conflates what is known with...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

One Lie, Infinite Errors

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Another brief blast, as I'm pressed for time... As discussed in the previous post, if ultimate reality encompasses both immanence and t...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Adam's Mistake: Having Your Cake and Going Hungry

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Just a short post because Time. As mentioned in the previous post, the world is a tapestry of radial and circumferential lines emanating fr...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

Images and Artholes of God

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A few days ago we spoke of the two kinds of knowledge and how they relate to God. In one it is as if God is at the center of a series of co...
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Thursday, June 22, 2017

On Speaking Truth to Power, Light to Shadows, and Principles to Principalities

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Another slow news day. Or rather, "eternals day." Slow but nevertheless foundational. Maybe we can pick up the pace tomorrow......
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Doubting Doubt and Ironizing Irony

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This post didn't get very far. Still, it's quite foundational. If you want to build a mansion, don't skimp on the foundation. ...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Point, Center, Circumference, and Radii

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"Heart knowledge," writes Schuon, "is one with what it knows." This is in contrast to merely mental knowledge, which is...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Vertical Gnosis and Horizontal Noises

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Big news day, no? Which is distracting me from the essential. Which actually goes to the subject of this post, for most news is essentiall...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Shocks of Recognosis

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Beneath every veil is another veil, all the way up to God. And God cannot be fully unveiled for the same reason we can't be. Supposing...
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Monday, June 12, 2017

Heaven Veiled and Hell Unveiled

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Back to our hacking expedition into the upper vertical. In truth we're already there. It's just that it's veiled. But a veil s...
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Thursday, June 08, 2017

Fantasies of Finitude & Dreams of Reality

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Every morning, upon washing ashore on this side of consciousness, the first thing I do is review the dreams that occurred on the dark side o...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Hacking into God

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Is that possible? I don't know, the thought just popped into my head. I was over at Instapundit and noticed a link to a book called ...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Inside the Mind of Godlessness

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Even more than usual I have nothing to say but a compulsion to say it. Therefore, if the posts strike you as more elliptical and wandering,...
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Monday, June 05, 2017

Irrational Rationality & Insane Sanity

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Just a few more points about Gödel before we let it go and move on. It seems to me that there are two ways of looking at the theorems, my ...
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Friday, June 02, 2017

Saying What Can't be Said

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I was out late last night making merry at a high school graduation party, so this will probably be an abbreviated one. But you never know. I...
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Thursday, June 01, 2017

Inward Mobility in the Cosmos

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You know the old Zen gag about how, before satori, mountains are just mountains. But upon awakening to one's true nature, wu ! Mountains...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

Freedom and Sacrifice, Determinism and Suicide

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What follows is a little conversation I had with a fellow commenter on Instapundit regarding an article on whether machines can attain cons...
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