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Based on recent reflections on language, I have put together an analysis of the meaning of talking animals in story telling.
Link below!
Link below!
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I'm not saying what I'm not saying but it's worth saying that the [expletive deleted] GLOBE theater BURNT DOWN because of a PROP CANNON MISFIRE [sic] during the staging of Henry VIII, which is also known as "All is True." Now, careful readers will note that this firing unifies the system of Earth Water Air and Fire.
Now did the most poetickal act of pyrotechnics ever devised actually happen, or were the history books themselves written by a cabal of DARPA-tech scribes. If the latter, we need to shut them down until we know what the [expletive deleted] is going on. If the former, then they were getting rid of evidence, in which case we need to shut them down until we know what the [expletive deleted] is going on.
Now did the most poetickal act of pyrotechnics ever devised actually happen, or were the history books themselves written by a cabal of DARPA-tech scribes. If the latter, we need to shut them down until we know what the [expletive deleted] is going on. If the former, then they were getting rid of evidence, in which case we need to shut them down until we know what the [expletive deleted] is going on.
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It’s notable that Origen certainly believed there existed people hearing the Gospel much farther away. But manifestly: Origen did not regard them to have the same eschatological significance as the Brits.
Curious.
Curious.
As an aside, patristic scholars do not discuss the fact that Origen was an absolutely shameless Anglophile frequently enough. He veritably believed the evangelization of Britain in particular would determine the eschaton.
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I absolutely cannot edit on a screen. I can write well enough on a computer but once it’s time to edit it has to be on paper. Night and day.
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German calligraphy of the first chapter of the book of Sirach, 1654
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The whole passage (book VII, from about 1248a) is amazing. For instance: "The object of our search is this—what is the commencement of movement in the soul? The answer is clear: as in the universe, so in the soul, God moves everything. For in a sense the divine element in us...
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Finally saw "You Can See Everything". Video coming soon.
So brilliant. It contains the last postmodern move revealing that pure "investigative journalism" is impossible and accurate portrayal can never be the purpose of representation. Realism sometimes attempts to hide its artifice which brings it closer to lying. The movie blows this up in ways that will send long waves into culture.
So brilliant. It contains the last postmodern move revealing that pure "investigative journalism" is impossible and accurate portrayal can never be the purpose of representation. Realism sometimes attempts to hide its artifice which brings it closer to lying. The movie blows this up in ways that will send long waves into culture.
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When you see your father drunk and naked, the ONLY solution is to walk backwards and cover his nakedness. Not so much for his sake, but for you and your own children.
Filiation means nothing but pain to the abused orphan masses.
What of the son who isn't loved by their father?
Or a dead father who wasn't there to form the son?
The Nietzschian spark is formed in the abyss of despair as the only light in the darkest of worlds.
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“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” Genesis 50:20
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St. Paul uses the word στοιχεῖα in Galatians 4 to refer to “those that are not gods by nature,” and “guardians and managers.” Likewise in Colossians 2 the στοιχεῖα are connected to new moon festivals and the worship of angels.
στοιχεῖα then, should be taken to mean the as the syllables/elements of the world. This is further supported by the additional meaning: the shadow on a sundial, derivative of the orderly movement of the sun. As St. Paul says, we have died with Christ to the στοιχεῖα — we have been born from the waters above the heavens.
For Tolkien this is expressed in the fact that the Valar do not comprehend the children of Ilúvatar. It is the gift of death that may ultimately allow men to participate in the second music, beyond the powers that formed Ea.
στοιχεῖα then, should be taken to mean the as the syllables/elements of the world. This is further supported by the additional meaning: the shadow on a sundial, derivative of the orderly movement of the sun. As St. Paul says, we have died with Christ to the στοιχεῖα — we have been born from the waters above the heavens.
For Tolkien this is expressed in the fact that the Valar do not comprehend the children of Ilúvatar. It is the gift of death that may ultimately allow men to participate in the second music, beyond the powers that formed Ea.
"The ἐπίσημον symbolizes Christ, who enters the writing of the world and alters the constitution of its oral letters/elements (στοιχεῖα). Clement plays on the ambiguity of στοιχεῖον, treating it primarily as a letter of the alphabet, but also alluding to its alternate meaning iverse. He regards the inconcinnity between the alphabet and the numbering system to be the key to interpreting the effect of the Incarnation on creation. This same inconcinnity explains the numbers latent in the Transfiguration."
The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity by Joel Kalvesmaki
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Tomberg’s work on the Tarot is fundamentally an effort to reconcile letter, number, and cosmos in Christ. To order the στοιχεῖα from beyond them. One might argue that this task is not possible in this age, or that it is not possible for a single person, but there is no denying that this is what he is after.
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For anyone who might be interested, the videos of the Barfield conference, at which I also presented a paper (on the relation between Barfield's Christology and his philosophy of language), are now available here: youtube.com/@OwenBarfieldS…
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“I was seeking for you outside myself, and I failed to find the God of my heart”
Augustine, Confessions
Augustine, Confessions
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If you think a story is yours to give or to withhold, then you are the first thief.
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Marriage is Symbolic
by: Peter Leithart
"Married couples inescapably represent Christ and the church, or misrepresent them."
theopolisinstitute.com/leithart_post/…
by: Peter Leithart
"Married couples inescapably represent Christ and the church, or misrepresent them."
theopolisinstitute.com/leithart_post/…
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