Tag: discourse
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The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…
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Living in the Kingdom of God Beloved warrior in our Lord, today we discuss eternal duty defining the true soldier: to live as an eager disciple within the domains of heaven. This aspiration, this calling, requires careful considerations in Courage and Loyalty. Far from any earthly definitions, the redefinition in Logos through Willpower Truth, this…
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Replacing Psychology with Spirituality Today we look to the horizon, dear beloved of God, where the old tools of discourse holding us over have been abandoned for the renewed instruments of spiritual engagement. Modern psychology, though often praised as a science, is, in its current shape, but a mere shadow cast by the light of…
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The Enemy of Contentment Dear beloved, a shadow festers in the hearts of men: envy. An error so insidious it often masquerades as a virtue if turned to materially advantageous works, however it is no more than a false mirror reflecting our own lack of self-worth through the glass of others. Envy, in Structural Virtues…
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The Art of Spiritual Dialogue Beloved seeker after sacred communication, we turn to the weapon which clears the battlefield of any confusion, that discourse in spiritual dialogue which is prayer, a bow only as useful as its last strung arrow, yet handcrafted pliancy of layered Prudent yew, elastic flexibility, and Temperate oak, firm rigidity. This…
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Analysis and Prudence So let us explore the notion of mind as a battlefield, where divine truth clashes with worldly deceits. The mind is an element of spirit and body which must be harnessed and shaped, like all other interactions of the spirit with body, through disciplined virtue-building, lest it succumb to demonic oblivion. The…
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Material Power Without Mastery or Spiritual Power Now, the fool in power is both a victim of his own delusion and a participant in the divine comedy as stumbling block. He may believe himself to be the master of his fate, yet he is but a player in a larger drama written by God, outside…
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Lord, our God, ever guide us to your light, and make it bright so we may see it in our blindness, as despite. See us through the darkness and into your loving radiance. May we ever do right by your will, which is the greatest good. Attach us to your truth, oh Lord, that we…
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Our Condition Dearly beloved, ignorance has always been recognised as fundamental to the human setting. However, it is equally true that error is typically not recognisable without a more complete picture of the correct thing and its purpose. Error, therefore, cannot be ignored. To define ourselves by the sin or error, however, is to lose…
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Humility is Real; All Personality is Euphemism Dear beloved of God, imperfection forever points to perfection, which is why you are so beloved. This is indeed a truism resting at the heart of true faith and all reason. Owning imperfection is not about being proud of wrongness. It is to be truly human as created.…