Every truth is a shadow except the last. But every truth is substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Rape of the Sabine Women
There is nothing inapplicable to today. Even for Christians, divine predilection and predestination are dogmas, although you don’t hear much about them today. God will favor some over others, in particular, those who offer prayer and sacrifice. Continue reading
Priest and King in Rome
These king-priests were inaugurated with a religious ceremonial. The new king, being conducted to the summit of the Capitoline Hill, was seated upon a stone seat, his face turned towards the south. On his left was seated an augur, his head covered with sacred fillets, and holding in his hand the augur’s staff. He marked off certain lines in the heavens, pronounced a prayer, and, placing his hand upon the king’s head, supplicated the gods to show, by a visible sign, that this chief was agreeable to them. Then, as soon as a flash of lightning or a flight of birds had manifested the will of the gods the new king took possession of his charges. Continue reading
The Multiverse and Massachusetts
I had the opportunity this weekend to watch an interview on C-Span with the physicist Brian Greene, conducted at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The topic was the multi-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanic and the all-white audience was mostly students and retired folk. I know that tribe intimately, … Continue reading