Tag: logic
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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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The Weight of Inaction: Cowardice as the Most Foundational Sin and the Last to be Conquered in Materiality Hamlet, whatever version you wish to watch, is a clear mirror held to the human soul’s deepest struggles, revealing how the sin of Cowardice, rooted in the Fear moment of the Confusion aspect, paralyses action and distorts…
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Redirect Your Anger The first domain of Kratos rules, in rejections and acceptances, is where we lay down our foundational stones upon which a virtuous life may be built. We choose what to uphold and what to cast aside, shaping our moral landscape like an architect designing a grand cathedral. For what happens when that…
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Sin and Error; Most Outwardly Amnesis The sin of Amnesis is a dreadful forgetting eroding all virtues into nothingness, so it becomes much more than some personal failing; it is the rot at the heart of all failures in civilisation. Most horrible of all forgetfulness is in our godly purpose. The erosion of history’s lessons,…
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A Christian Philosopher Watches The Godfather There exists a profound confusion in this age of noise regarding greatness. We tend to equate importance with stature: a towering building, a commanding voice, or an unquestioned position. Something within each of us admires the one who sits highest upon the mountain, yet they more often remain blinded…
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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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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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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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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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Going to be focusing upon this series for a bit due to the extent of the arguments I must make. There is much to say on this topic, as well as confusion, so my efforts here are fruitful, especially at this moment in history when our task will be to expose self-obsessive materialists to the…