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Christianity has at its core an unmitigated horror. Christianity is a Saivite religion.

218
Diversity is in non-essentials. With respect to essentials, there is no diversity.

219
Incarnation Theology means that only Christians and Hindus can cope with God relieving nature and only Hindus can cope with Him and Her engaging in reproductive activity.

With respect to the sanctification of Nature, therefore, Hinduism more fully and accurately reflects the universal Ur-Religion than do Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Christianity, its companions among the Five Great Religions of Man.

220
Jesus is a figure of Oriental culture, of Eastern religion.

221
Les Chansones de Dieu.
The Ballads of God.

222
Gothic Cathedrals are Christian Synagogues.

223
The Curse of the Jews dates from Kaikeyi's exile of Rama. Rama did not charge her with a heinous sin but the ordinary people did. They used her name for a derisive epithet: Kaik.

Kaikeyi was the Royal Princess of Kashmir, the Jewish homeland.

The Curse of the Jews is a bum rap.

224
The Liturgical Year is a medicament appropriate for people having the malady it treats.

225
Geometry speaks to our hearts because it is the general principle of things.

Rodin

Be still and know that I am God.

Psalm 46

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Power is efficient, timely and appropriate maneuver.

227
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing.

Henry David Thoreau

228
Christianity is a bridge between Mounts Carmel and Sinai, between unitarian monotheistic Vaishnava in the north (Persia/Abraham) and trinitarian monotheistic Saivism in the south (Egypt/Moses).

229
If you want respect, you have to deserve it.

230
The power of delusion is pervasive, infinite and unregulatable by man.

231
The great ones live in seclusion. Whom Baba wants He raises.

232
The Church is one who or that illuminates by conforming to the principle, ob sie Christum treiben: that which deals with, concentrates on or drives toward Christ, the intense presence of divinity (Para-ousia), the Prophetic Imperative, the Effusion of Love.

Who or what does not do this is not Christ, not Christian and not the Church.

233
The Feast of Pentacost is the location of Christian Environmental Theology. It is the moment when the Church recognizes the wildness allowed the elements.

234
The original designation for "force multiplier" is "love."

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Jesus had a sizable retinue, variously stationed, a court in fact. He was a ruler, not a priest and certainly not a carpenter or fisherman.

236
The Solar Dynasty of India is the Underground Stream, the Stream of Sacred Sweetness, which nourishes the whole world.

237
The interface of eternity is a personality.

238
The spiritually excellent can be historically accurate. The work of the spiritually excellent is temporally persistent.

239

Theology is the theory.
Scripture is the notation.
The Church is the instrument.
Life is the music.
God is the player.

240
Adwaitha Hermitage is a refuge from the machinations of the world for those who are no longer trying to beat the world at its own game.

The mission of Adwaitha Hermitage is to reestablish the philosophy of Non-Dualism (adwaitha) in the orbit of the Latin Church and culture and to make it flourish.

This mission will succeed.

241
Wealth is not a human goal. It is not an animal goal. It is not a natural or a divine goal. Wealth is a dæmonic goal.

242
Immediate Unconditional Awareness

243
Humans know as much about God as animals know about humans.

Animals are created for man's pleasure and man is created for God's pleasure.

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Life begins at conception.
Death begins at birth.
The cause of death is birth.
The cause of birth is desire.
This is the Tetrarchy.

245


Entertainment
Edification
Education
Enlightenment

246
Take no thought for tomorrow,
for your heavenly Father knows
that you have need of all these things.

Jesus the Christ

247
Quit this world, quit the next world and quit quitting.

Jean Guyon

248
Love God and do what you want.

Augustine of Hippo

249
Abandon everything and live your life.

250
An Incarnation of the Supreme Absolute is a paradox (unexpected, unforeseeable) with respect to both syntax and semantics.

251
May the Camel of Tibet help you find the Star of Heaven.

252
Tara Puttaparthi Sathya : The Star of Heaven has taken birth at Puttaparthi as Sathya.

253
Creedal Christianity is feeble Christianity.

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When Jesus said He was going where some could not follow Him, He meant to Kailas, the Himalyan abode of His Father, Lord Siva.

255
He either fears his fate too much,
or his deserts are small,
That dares not to put it to the touch,
to gain or lose it all.

James Graham,
5th Earl of Montrose
The Great Marquis

256

Awareness is desirable.
Understanding is impossible.
Being is divine.

257

Das Wort ist Der Name.
The Word is The Name.

258

Fundamentum in re.
A foundation in reality.

259

The Church is a corpus mixtum.

260

The Church is The Name.
The Synagogue is The Name.
The Temple is The Name.

261
The Christian Canon is the name, Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus. The Christian Tradition is the name, Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus. The Christian Religion is the name, Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus. The Christian Authority is the name, Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus.

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When it becomes illegal for a child to pull the wings off a butterfly, I will become interested in the peace movement.

Glenn Gould

263
Come autumn, se pensive
in yellow and gray,
and soothe me with tidings
of nature's decay.

Robert Burns

264

Esse qua esse bonum est.
Being as being is good.
Augustine of Hippo

265
The purest and most beneficial worship, and the most efficacious Sacrament, is Selfless Service.

266
The Protestant Principle is that there is always possible fresh experience which is canonically correct, jurisprudentially congruent, logistically comprehensive and comprehensible, and ecclesiastically constructive.

267
A thing and its nature is one and the same.

Sathya Sai Baba

268
All time-fields are concurrent.

269
Medicines are gross aspects of philosophies.

270
Ethics is the strength which holds the consciousness bound to truth.

Truth has no second.

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The redemption of the United States is in the strength which holds the nation bound to India.

272
Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus, Deus Aderit.
Called or uncalled, God is present.

The Oracle at Delphi

273
When you find fault with another religion, you cause disrepute to settle upon your own.

274
The Church cannot contain The Christ.

275
There are no "forces of nature." Every phenomenon is caused by Divine Will.

276
The stone which the builders rejected, and which has become the cornerstone, is Prussia.

277
Contént is the real cóntent.

278
Hold up the penultimate, briefly.

279
The welfare of the whole world depends absolutely on the life and labor of sages in their hermitages.

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Heaven is the absence of attachment to the world. Hell is the consequence of attachment to the world.

281
Realization is a passive activity.

282
The world is not an illusion, but taking it as the world is.

283
Truth is Relaxation.

284

Anima naturaliter christiana.
The soul is by nature Christian.
Tertullian

285

Life is Heliotropic.
Universe is Christotropic.

286
The Latin Church is
Hieronymean Exegesis,
Ambrosian Liturgy,
Benedictine Organization,
Carthusian Piety and
Franciscan Logic.

287
Theologians earn their bread by superior realism.

288

Poverty: Clean Blood
Chastity: Clean Heart
Obedience: Clean House

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Education is for training the heart to be clean and the hand to be useful.

290
An educated person is one who has cultured taste, who imbibes the eternal and leaves the ephemeral.

291
Government responsible for education: drive commerce out of public schools.

Parents responsible for their children: reestablish the curfew.

Citizens responsible for their country: reestablish the draft.

292
Anyone who finds me objectionable has a lot to be ashamed of.

293
We have authority but not infallibility, and when we will not be swayed by wisdom we will be leveraged by it.

294

Man is to God
The Inseparable Other,
The Bride of Yahweh.

295
The denomination is to the Church as a crew is to a vessel: necessary but replaceable.

The fundamental loyalty of each crew member must be not to the crew, the denomination, nor to the vessel, the Church, but to the vessel's Owner, the Lord.

Crews are replaced and perish. The vessel is designed to a specific life-span. But the Lord the Logos abides forever.

296
A religion is an array of practices which rebind the soul to God. Whatever is not a religion is a heresy.

297
All Nominalist systems use a sense-based epistemology: you know it because you hear, feel, see, etc., it.

All Realist systems use a participation-based epistemology: you know it because you are it.

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The picture at the top of this page was drawn by Mary Graham and colored by her, also. Its title is Mother Feeds the Birds and it is part of Orangeblossom, a coloring book from Adwaitha Hermitage which is available for download here.

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