the suffering inside the Church “would have originated not from external enemies, but from within the same Church” … ~ Pope Benedict XVI The title was motivated by the idea that, as bad as things seem today, things were bad in yesteryear. So I used the story of Abraham from … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Fedeli d’Amore
This is the clue to the alchemical transformation. The etheric and astral bodies need to be purified. Eva represents the astral body in the Fall, so the opposite of the Fall is Mary. The goal, then, is the transmutation of the chaotic soul into the pure mirror of the divine word. Continue reading
Attack Thoughts and Cold Hearts
These tales were not told in a church, where things must be spoken of with the proper frame of mind and suitable words. Nor were they held in schools of the philosophers, where a sense of propriety is required. But they were told in a garden, in a place suited for pleasure, in the presence of young people, who were nevertheless mature and not easily misled by stories. Continue reading
Last Word
The next task is also the last task and therefore the most difficult one. Four things are necessary to fulfil it. Live by Principles Research the principles of Bernard of Clairvaux for a good life and live by them. That has been your task from the start. Everybody forgot. Do … Continue reading
Spiritual Challenge and Renewal
A religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life that must be essential for our political alignment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life, because only those who feel this way possess … Continue reading
The Temptations in the Wilderness
Force is unspiritual time, chance the lack of causality, and matter, the mechanization of life. The results are sleep, prostration, and death. Continue reading
Myth as Eternal Idea
Every myth expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an eternal idea, which will be intuitively recognised by him who re-experiences the content of the myth. Continue reading