The highly intelligent are less interested in success by worldly standards and are more attracted to abstract thinking. In other words, they take the water path rather than the earth path. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Solarity and Impassibility
Impassibility was one of the preternatural gifts before the Fall. If the aim of the spiritual life is theosis, to become more like God, then we need to recover the quality of impassibility that was lost. Continue reading
Health Update
St Elizabeth of the Trinity is the patron saint of illness. She herself died of a serious illness at the age of 26. She had devotions ot Teresa d’Avila, St John of the Cross, and John Ruysbroeck. Continue reading
Pulp Fiction
There are few people who know the full force of the different movements of the heart. The vast majority of men are only sensitive to five or six passions, in the circle of which their lives are passed and which define the boundaries of their imaginations. Take away love and … Continue reading
The Soul of a Woman
Cologero has been experiencing writer’s block regarding his upcoming posts on the esoteric meaning of Romance. So he called me last night for help in overcoming that block. We had a long talk — or rather he talked and I listened — about Dante, Malory’s novel on King Arthur, Donne’s love poetry, Charles Williams, and a few other lesser known figures. Continue reading