humility
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The Eternal Virtues in a New Era Beloved seeker after wisdom, let us now consider the most crucial virtue in an age of relativism and information overload: discernment. Truth is now too often drowned out by all the noise in our environments, with falsehoods and AI lies dressed as virtues, the soldier must wield their…
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Proper Humility Against Conceit Beloved warrior in Christ, let us now confront the most dangerous enemy of all: our own damnable arrogance, that one of three aspects of materiality entitled Conceit in Structural Virtues Theory (SVT). This sin, more than any other, threatens to shatter the fragile bridge between man and God. In SVT, arrogance…
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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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Inner Discipline Inner stillness of the known beloved, how glorious. This is something like the feeling one gets after a job well-done, but all the greater for its attachment to divinity. Let us turn to the fortress that guards against the storms of distraction, the meditation of spiritual discipline, something not just for hermits or…
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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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God’s Will: Self-Denial and Divine Fulfilment Gaze upon the crown that adorns all virtues, which is Truth, in fact identical with God’s Will, sustaining the virtuous in spiritual power. This is pure passion and tenacity, and nothing is capable of greater passion. Forged in self-denial’s crucible, it blazes with the flame of divine fulfilment. This…
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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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Willpower as Spiritual Weapon Dear seeker after truth in God’s love, as we advance in our exploration of spiritual warfare, we are skipping forward all the way to the end now to encounter a weapon of unmatched potency: Willpower. This is not the typical definition of willpower however. What is it then? This is not…
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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…