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Tag: spiritualty

  • The Night is Far Spent pt. ii

    The Night is Far Spent pt. ii

    A rant, the fruits of fracture, and unholy patterns My capstone course for my history degree, historiography, is making me realize how abstract and nonessential much of what passes as academically rigorous is essentially, myth-making. Myth in this case means a narrative construction supported by meaningful frameworks and prior commitments.   Not only that, but…

  • The Night is Far Spent

    The Night is Far Spent

    The files, Fractals, and fighting evil “And let us strive that wrath rule us not nor lust overcome us, for it is written, ‘The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. And lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin, and the sin when it is full grown bringeth forth death.’ Thus living, let…

  • Hidden Martyrdom: The Furnace of Prayer

    Hidden Martyrdom: The Furnace of Prayer

    Prayer, pastoral care, and perfection “Make the following a rule—first of all, anticipate trouble at every moment and when it comes encounter it as something expected. Secondly, when something happens that conflicts with you will and is on the point of irritating and upsetting you, hasten to bring your attention into your heart and strive…

  • Search the Scriptures

    Search the Scriptures

    Noah, the Prophet, and the Word of God “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. “I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that…

  • Recovering Sight

    Recovering Sight

    A final reflective essay This is an essay I wrote for my Mysticism: East and West course. It’s essentially a final exam. I spent a lot of time on it and thought it’d be good to share as an example of reorientation: moving beyond pure reason and abstraction, and taking steps toward re-enchantment. Praxis is…

  • Against Utility

    Against Utility

    Seeking the heart amidst revival “And I shall give you a new heart and establish a new spirit in you and remove the heart made of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I shall establish my spirit in you, and I shall work so that you walk in my…

  • The Way is the Word

    The Way is the Word

    Recovering the lost memory of God and eyes to see Him I’ve been writing weekly essays on theories of religion and, more recently, mystical texts for about a year now. What follows is part formal summary, part exploration. I’ll indicate when the shift occurs. While the summary specifically looks at the comparisons and contrasts between…

  • The Possessed

    The Possessed

    Abdication of the Will “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten…

  • Untitled: F Diminished

    Untitled: F Diminished

    Clearing My Throat “Quite honestly, they seem to have been quite a different breed of men. In those days people seem to have been animated by one idea, but now they are much more nervous, more developed, more sensitive – they seem to be animated by two or three ideas at a time – modern…