Tag: domains
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Truth & Temptation Dear seeker after the gifts of God, this field of spiritual warfare requires discernment. This is not an intellectual exercise but a discipline piercing the soul, separating truth from deception. How can we be expected to perform on this spiritual battlefield if we cannot discern our spiritual enemies from our allies? 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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Bridge to Gratitude for Grace On this blog I have discussed the importance of Magnanimity at length. It is the first of the structural virtues and it truly cannot be overestimated as all other virtues depend completely upon it. “Magna” means great and “anima” means spirit, together it produces grace and forgiveness, the greatest GRACE…
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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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Mastery and True Power The final domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Logos, where all things converge to bring about self-mastery and the only real power deemed worthy of mortal man’s purpose in empowering others. This stage is not directly alluded to in terms of the prodigal son’s development, however it is plain in the culmination…
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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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Product and Craft from Self and Other The second domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Telos. This is where balance is achieved in terms of goals, labour and habits through the reconciliation of product and craft. This is where we spend most of our time experientially as humans. It is the more selfish paradigm in the…
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There is a dangerous illusion that one can live a good life without ever facing struggle, and that this is somehow preferable to make it to the end of life with least amount of pain, rather than most amount of triumph. This belief suggests that if we simply avoid wrongdoing, we will automatically become virtuous.…
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Human Experience Value Lost with Sacred Selfhood / Selfness Sanctified To understand how this myth of immutable selfness wreaks havoc on the human soul, we must turn our attention to the Resurrexit theory phenomenology. This theory divides the human experience into four structured domains, each with its own role in the journey of becoming. Let…