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Battle for Basic Identity This dichotomy is an eternal struggle between national autonomy and empowered external empire. Nationalism, properly arranged, seeks merely to honour the natural states of man, where empire seeks to undermine them to empower itself, never coming to grips that they also undermine themselves in the process. They seek to create a…
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Persistent Wrongdoing Blocks Our Use of Divine Grace If you are beloved of God, what does it mean to say that continuation in sin forestalls the fruits of God’s greatest gifts? These fruits of God’s gifts are freely given but require of us preparation, repentance, humility, and prayer to see and attain to. This comes…
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A Call to Humility Dearly beloved of God, imperfection guarantees ignorance. Our very fallibility is the gateway to wisdom, if we allow it to be. In the imperfections of our human incompleteness are sown the seeds of our understanding, and our patterns of understandings which result in our gifts to the world. The more we…
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Mirror of the Light, Lead Me Out of the Darkness Dear beloved of God, let me return to my own personal story that brought me to this place and out of that. It was a combination of revelations, single moment of sudden awareness, but also a slow unravelling of certainties and their premises. In this…
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Paulus and Modernity What does it mean to live with faith in a world where faith is so often misunderstood, seen as extraneous, outdated, or irrelevant? What is the purpose in all this? Let’s ask a question which lingers in the back of so many of our minds: What is the purpose of being brought…
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Our Stories of Acceptance, Rejection, Craft, Product, Egoism, Altruism, Mastery, and Power Let us now step back from the individual domains of Resurrexit Spiritus and see how they all weave together into a single and coherent framework. Of course, this is merely a “best” theoretical construct, imperfectly reflecting our human journey toward spirit, which also…
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Altruism and Egoism in Extremes and Moderations The third domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Eros, where love is a divinely transformative force that can change everything overnight. It is also worthwhile to note here that while the next domain of Logos is the final one, it is an encapsulation of the previous three making Eros…
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Odds Defying Logic Improbability of life on Earth is inexplicable to scientists and statisticians. The conditions required for life to arise (with all physical constants, stable temperatures, liquid water, a protective atmosphere, and just the right balance of chemical elements) are so finely tuned that even among billions of galaxies, the chance of finding another…
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Admissions in Practices of Psychiatry and Psychology You do not know everything. I know, big shocker, right? Even if we deny the spiritual entirely, there are still things in any given case which are unknown and, perhaps, unknowable. A person’s obsession with things to gain power may be labelled as “narcissism,” but it could also…
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Moderating Mutual Denials Using Partial Language Language has the power to shape the cultural psychology. The words we use describe reality and reconstruct it. “Illness” in itself is a frame upon which we hang a perceived problem to be solved; “spiritual influence” on the other hand invites us to consider forces beyond ourselves. Both terms…