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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…
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Transformation Begins Within So spiritual transformation is to find focus in spirit, acquire a peaceful spirit internally, and, eventually, attain to spiritual warfare. This is absolute progression that mirrors the structure of creation itself. There is the act of choosing to align oneself with higher truths rather than the distractions of the world. There is…
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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.…