Tag: spirit
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Persistent Wrongdoing Blocks Our Use of Divine Grace If you are beloved of God, what does it mean to say that continuation in sin forestalls the fruits of God’s greatest gifts? These fruits of God’s gifts are freely given but require of us preparation, repentance, humility, and prayer to see and attain to. This comes…
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Apostolic Rivalries Dearly beloved reader, within the textual evidence surrounding the earliest churches are hints that some leaders harboured unjust envy toward Paulus, a sentiment that would cast long shadows over the history passed down to us. Jealousy is poison that can corrode the soul if allowed to fester and become central, turning allies into…
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Light Expansive; Fear Naught Dear beloved of God, let us now reflect on the journey that has brought us here to discuss the words of Paulus as inspired by his own journey with the Highest. Paulus’s letters are constructed as living wisdom, written for all in their artistically allegorical way, but most especially crafted for…
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Mirror of the Light, Lead Me Out of the Darkness Dear beloved of God, let me return to my own personal story that brought me to this place and out of that. It was a combination of revelations, single moment of sudden awareness, but also a slow unravelling of certainties and their premises. In this…
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Paulus and Modernity What does it mean to live with faith in a world where faith is so often misunderstood, seen as extraneous, outdated, or irrelevant? What is the purpose in all this? Let’s ask a question which lingers in the back of so many of our minds: What is the purpose of being brought…
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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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Admissions in Practices of Psychiatry and Psychology You do not know everything. I know, big shocker, right? Even if we deny the spiritual entirely, there are still things in any given case which are unknown and, perhaps, unknowable. A person’s obsession with things to gain power may be labelled as “narcissism,” but it could also…
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Moderating Mutual Denials Using Partial Language Language has the power to shape the cultural psychology. The words we use describe reality and reconstruct it. “Illness” in itself is a frame upon which we hang a perceived problem to be solved; “spiritual influence” on the other hand invites us to consider forces beyond ourselves. Both terms…
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Balance Despite Material Obsession A modern spiritual framework accepts the notion that mental phenomena can arise from interactions with forces beyond our visibly manifest material reality. Possession is such an influence upon our minds, causing reactions we cannot comprehend in the mere material. The key here, as in so many things, is moderation. Such a…