Tag: eros
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Balancing Pride and Humility Fight against pride’s perils, the armour padding of Temperance brings full value to Magnanimity and Honour. Like Conservation and Excellence, Temperance in the Propriety moment enables the work of the virtues in Awareness and Morality moments. In the case of Temperance, it enables comfort in the armoured boots of Magnanimity, and…
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Devotion to the Divine Bond Ah, dearly beloved! Shift your focus to where we stow our blade cleaving division in Loyalty, the sheath to the sword of Willpower. This is an emotional bond and divine covenant, a truth-forged alliance tempered by ethical commitment’s steel. In Eros’s domain, where relationships and Logos dynamics entwine, higher Loyalty…
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Courage Facing Adversity The heart of Perseverance and Analysis is in Courage and Willpower, the indomitable spirit of the soldier of Christ. Within Resurrexit Spiritus’s expansive comprehension of human spiritual existence, Courage is our shield against the hatred, metal honed to withstand the many foul blades of lies and against the sins of Cowardice and…
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The Fairness of Spirit Beloved seeker of divine equity, another vital component of the soldier’s armour is Justice. In the battlefield of the mind, Justice serves as bulwark against injustice and inequity, ensuring thoughts and actions align with Ethics, in a principled universalising manner. The Essence of Justice Justice offers common ground in the recuperative…
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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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Forgiveness and Care Dear beloved of God, you might be wondering, what of those who are beyond even their own power? Most could use forgiveness and care more than anything else. This is a profound statement that speaks to the deepest spiritual need: to be needed and loved. God loves you and needs you to…
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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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An Experiential Framework for Humanity We find ourselves, throughout our journeys in life, as both children and parents; prodigal sons and tearful fathers. Resurrexit Spiritus, or “The Risen Spirit,” is a philosophical framework that maps the entire arc of the Christian life, which is to say the spiritually human, in a phenomenology. It is a…
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What Boiling Bubbles in Toils and Troubles In depths of human experience through the light of God, where philosophy meets spirituality, Resurrexit Spiritus is a phenomenology attempting to lay out the immortal truths of human experience structurally. Imagine, if you will, a map drawn in representation of the shoals to our souls. This map is…