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Spirituality, Part 8: Sabbath Rest and Ceaseless Prayer

Posted on June 12, 2018 by admin

The Sabbath For six days God created the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he rested, so relates the sacred narrative of Genesis. Judaism encoded within this tale the basis of its division betwixt labour and leisure. The … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 7: A Survey of Proposed Pathways

Posted on March 10, 2018 by admin

As the Bhagavad-Gita seemingly moves towards its zenith in a great battle, Arjuna’s companion and friend suspends the near cosmic momentum with a revelation. He is the Lord God Krishna. The astonished Arjuna worshipfully announces his intention to leave behind … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 6: The centre cannot hold: searching for the gospel truth

Posted on January 21, 2018 by admin

The fallacy of the immutable centre “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold” wrote Yeats[i] as he portended the Western world slowly falling from faith both in itself, and its vesture of Christian cult. As with all brought face to … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 5: The Substitutes and the Synthesizers: Angels, Augustine, Aquinas

Posted on May 15, 2017 by admin

As in many times past, the phenomenon of angels is upon us again as common religiosity looks to the heavens for some succor the visions of God and Jesus and saints have, for sundry reasons, ceased to provide. They appear … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 4: Aspects of our genetic code: Jesus, Paul, John

Posted on March 31, 2017 by admin

In contrariety to Greek thought, there stand the visions of man rooted in the spiritualities of Judaism and of Judaism as reinterpreted by Jesus. The quintessential elements of Judaism are embedded in a covenant between the people descended from Abraham … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 3: Aspects of our genetic code: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus

Posted on March 9, 2017 by admin

The spurious rupture twixt spirit and matter is anciently rooted in the divide between the pragmatics of rationalizing and manipulating the world, using the world, and the embracing of the world as at-one with man, man and world as sharing … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 2: From Reservations to Resurrection, The Evolution of God

Posted on February 7, 2017 by admin

I—The God Ambiguity God evolves. While this declaration stands the foundation of process theology, I intend it here to stand first and simply as an historical statement. The human understanding of God evolves as man comes to more fully understand … Continue reading →

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