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Friday, July 05, 2019

Anti-Antifa, Cosmic Jihad, and the City of God

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A double oldie, i.e., a repost of a repost, albeit updated, revised, and enriched with all new vertamins: Since new readers will never cat...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Extremists Meet

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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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Friday, June 28, 2019

The Political Gnosticism of the 20 (D)warves

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"Mr. President, if you're listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love ca...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Finding God's Autograph

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One could say that all of man's problems have to do with truth. First, in order for truth to be possible, one must implicitly maintai...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Person, Ground, and Center

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For the last several weeks we've been stalking several subjects that appear to be implicitly related, otherwise we wouldn't be circl...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

The Triumph of Love Over Contingency

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Recall our pithy formula from the previous post: the human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Obviously, for man ...
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Sunday, June 09, 2019

The Irreducible We of The Cosmos

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The human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Which is another way of expressing the old wise crack of the early Fath...
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Thursday, June 06, 2019

Immutable Life

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Schuon writes of a seeming paradox, that ultimate reality is "on the one hand Immutable, which determines us," but "on the ot...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Adequate to Our Inadequacy

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Schuon often mentions the principle of sufficient reason , which simply means that things happen for a reason , and that this reason -- i.e....
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Saturday, June 01, 2019

The Argument from Stupidity

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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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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The Essence of Stupidity

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It has occurred to me more than once that someone needs to develop a diagnostic manual of spiritual pathology. After all, man is mind, body...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

On the Possibility of Ontological Prisonhouse Conversions

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It is impossible to engage with the simpleton who imagines that because one is religious one is somehow "anti-science," because th...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Prisons of Knowledge and Adventures in Faith

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We never did finish our discussion of Purcell's From Big Bang to Big Mystery before veering into Hitler and the Germans , but the two a...
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