May 2002 * Web version
Ernst Troeltsch, The Divine Seed
Chapters: 
Mysticism: A Direct Religious Experience
Mysticism in the New Testament
Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion
The
Divine Seed
...
It is true that the ultimate end of union with God in contemplation, or in the
surrender of the will to the Divine Love, still somehow always involves a
certain loss of selfhood in God. In this respect Dante himself found it
difficult to preserve the distinction. There can, however, be no doubt that
mysticism intends to maintain the elevation, salvation, and deification of the
true and genuine centre of personality. The whole mystical idea itself is indeed
at the service of a personal living piety, of an "interior life" which
has a direct experience of salvation. This fact, together with the relation
between the inner working of the Spirit and the stimulation, heightened power,
and intensification which come from history (which was somehow always
maintained), distinguishes this Christian mysticism from its ancient foundation
of Neo-Platonism, quite apart from the fact that the Trinitarian-Christological
doctrine was retained and interpreted in this sense.. ... 
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Roger Scruton, Architecture needs a Grammar
"After modernism", of which we present here excerpts, is one of Scruton's stimulating texts. The idea of connecting grammar with the desire for glory, honor and authority, is very close I think to what Nietzsche said about the Greeks, always in a fight to surpass each other with tradition posing the rules of the fight. But was their fight the cause of tradition, or, maybe, the cause of the growth of that tradition? ...
...
It is with modern architecture as it has been with socialism,
sexual liberation, and a thousand other modern fads: those who defend them draw
no other lesson from their failure than the thought that they have not yet gone
far enough. Our present need is not for the uncoordinated and dislocated
architecture that the postmodernists would wish on us but for an architectural
grammar that would permit talentless people once again to build inoffensively.
That is what the classical pattern books taught, and that is why there was such
a thing, before modernism came on the scene, as a serious architectural
education that could prepare ordinary human beings for the enormous
responsibilities involved in building the environment of strangers. ...
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Oscar Wilde, Europe
is Love
| Adorno, Culture industry
reconsidered
Study-tools:
Monastic Studies
| Dickens' London Map
Copperfield forum picks:
Martha
...from whench came she | Uriah,
his creation - and Hans Christian Andersen
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InternetStart News
: City
Journal and Gabion added to Kiosque Browser
"Who knows music better than Bach, or Chopin? Drop by my site, and learn from the works of these, and more great
composers". A site by Joshua Walsh featuring midi arrangements of
classical works. - Thanks for the tip
Joshua!
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Freeware downloads /System tools
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Λόγοι
του Μεγάλου Αντωνίου και του Συμεών του
Νέου Θεολόγου
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The first impression this poll gives, is a strongly positive view of religious feasts, since only 11% of the voters clearly deny the main element of a religious feast, namely its reference to a real and existing God. A feast as an expression of hope, when someone has the alternative of voting for approaching God, is not that positive as it might seem. In this 20% I see mainly a scale that starts from agnosticism and ends to a denial of a real content of a feast - suggesting a more or less vain hope. This way, 11% becomes 31%. It is very interesting, that in the concept of approaching God, only one fourth of the voters see in a feast God's way towards us. This 35% vs 9% suggests God as a far away Being, knowing us - that is, with no interest in knowing us - waiting for us to find him. It also suggests religious feasts as human inventions, which, by itself, is a denial of God, a denial clearer than even that of those who voted for superstition or boredom. Therefore, in spite of the first impression, this poll might reveal an atheism stronger than we think it is, an atheism that reaches the point of corruption, to the degree that it is hidden behind a mask of faith. |
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March 25, 2002 - May 10, 2002. Total Votes: 183 * Poll reference : http://www.ellopos.net/poll/poll.asp?PollID=7 * Monthly Poll Home |
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• Composer Ivan Moody reads our music
pages and says " It takes bravery to say some of these
things"
•
A
church named after Meister Eckhart?!
•
Victor
Hugo in French on the internet
•
Polital Enterprises wrote us about the Point-N-Click review, featured on the
previous issue. You can read the letter and our reply here.
• On Katherine
Mansfield's "There
was a Child once"
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