D I A L E C T I C S     III

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All that is embodied embodies all.

140
India, United States, Russia, Germany and Japan are going to destroy the Chinese capacity for belligerence so that the Chinese can be taught.

141
To know God I must know myself.
To know myself I must know God.

142
Has any individual involved as senior management of the operation which removed the Kennedy Administration felt remorse for their activities in this particular? Sought absolution? Receive absolution? Plenary indulgence?

143
Love is bestowing this commandment, together with all enablements: you will hold your position, and expand it if possible, until relieved.

144
Denial is acceptable if the denied disease causes less disruption than its cure would. If the disease causes more disruption than its cure would, treatment is indicated.

145
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Service to man is Service to God.

Sathya Sai Baba

146

Ora et Labora
Do not pray, be prayer.
Do not work, be work.

147
I pull the strings of this puppet show called life.

Sathya Sai Baba

is true and

You are the architect of your own fate.

Sathya Sai Baba

is also true when

I = You

148
How does God get the authority to forgive sins?  She causes them.

149
Bind kama (desire) to karma (work) and karma (work) to dharma (propriety). This is the way to Brahma (God).

150
Mankind descends from a tail-less, hair-less, tree-dwelling simian.

Sathya Sai Baba

151
There is not anything that has an external referent.

152

Do not pray, be prayer.
Do not work, be work.

153
An educated person is one who has cultured taste, who discriminates between the eternal and the ephemeral.

154
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The Sanctuary of God is the heart of man.

155
The only power in the world is light.

156
Everything we do in this world reminds us of the real one. Start out where you want to end up.

157
Religion is remembering man as paradox, as essential transcendence, radical surprise. Religion is the first and most important quid pro quo for the universe.

158
Measurements measure measuring means.

John Cage's father.

159
The content are wealthy. The wealthy are content.

160
Docta = Learning. Doctrine is an assertion of fact. Christian Doctrine is an assertion of fact that is so.

161
In the Middle Ages we built cathedrals. Now it is hospitals. The standard of living has declined.

162
Everything depends on the Hand of a Living Master.

163
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The Actuality of Divinity is the Engine of Culture.

164
All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

William Wallace

165
Industry, temperance and discipline amongst the people, with moderation and justice in the higher orders, are the only ailments of independence.

William Wallace

166
Education is the plinth of culture.

Fulminacio Escalante

167
A common error is to allow a vision of what ought to be to obscure the view of what is.

168
Life is a river that never flows backwards.

169
A game is a game. Work is work.

170
Christianity is chanting the Name of Jesus.

171
There are three reasons for war:

    tyranny over wealth
    tyranny over dominion
    tyranny over women

By World Wars I and II, humanity disallowed tyranny over dominion.

By World War III (Cold War), humanity disallowed tyranny over wealth.

By World War IV (in progress [January 2003]), humanity will disallow tyranny over women.

172
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The method of tyranny is to call a penultimate ultimate. Tyranny is a superficial vedantha.

174
Happiness burns merit.

Sathya Sai Baba

175
Animals are unaware that they are alive. They are unaware that they die. Humans are aware of both living and dying. Therefore, to compare humans with animals is ludicrous.

176
In every miracle (paradoxical -- unexpected -- phenomenon) there is a physical agency through which the miracle occurs. Usually, but not always, that agency is a human hand.

177
Hardly ever is anyone fully wrong. Usually, each of us is right so far as we go, which could be more or less or more and less depending on the time and the circumstance. But almost never is one of us absolutely wrong.

178
The movers and shakers are the monastics, the renunciates, the see-rs. People engaged in body-consciousness cannot see and therefore cannot do.

179
Faith is the prius of life. This is why Jesus reminded people that their faith is the engine of what happened during their career.

180
Biblical scholarship today is vested in stochastic structure and methodology which calumniate the Church.

This is intentional. So-called biblical scholars hate the church and use their position to boil the church in its mother's milk, the Bible.

181
Jeremiah 7:22 : Pentateuchal stipulations which promote the notion of surrogate atonement are a worthless pill concocted for and cherished by the petulant and the dissolute.

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We have cleared the enemy out of our front yard and secured its perimeter.  It is time to go across the street and play in his front yard.

We need a plan of campaign, an Ecumenical Theology, and we need a plan of battle, the Preaching Protocols.

183
One's problems do not derive from one's color.  They derive from one's behavior.

184
Antarctica is the Sri Lanka of Treta Yuga, the kingdom of Emperor Ravana.
 

185
All existing phenomena are one reality.

186
The Gothic Cathedrals are dedicated to Jesus' Consorts, Magdalene and Lydia. They are fruitful wombs.

187
Laity are the enlisted ranks of the church.

Clergy of all grades are the NCO cadre of the church.

Theologians and scholars are the company officers of the church.

Prophets and monastics are the field officers of the church.

Sages and martyrs are the general officers of the church.

188
Man cannot repress his cognitive function in dealing with the content of his religious devotion.

Paul Tillich

189
A Brahmarishi (Highest Sage) sees through the din and grime of battle to the Shinning Star ahead.

190
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From God In Christ To Peace

191
Erasmus ends with Sartre and Luther never ends.

192
Theology governs the creation and collation of The Canon (The Sacred Scripture, The Standard).

Therefore, Theology is more primal and authoritative than The Canon.

Sages govern the creation and collation of Theology.

Therefore, Sages are more primal and authoritative than Theology and The Canon.

Sages are seeing and therefore puissant human beings.

193
The madness of scientists begins with their astronomy. Scientists are the aliens among us.

194
How do we know that we are not dead?  We do not.

195
A Christian is fully in the Hands of Christ, without agenda and in perpetuity.

196
Existence implies essence.  Essence implies existence.

197
Cosmogenesis is Christogenesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Its axis runs through hermitages.

198
Love is the definition of good breeding, of eugenics.

199
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Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.

200
... the transcendent element that is always present and never manageable.

201
Freedom is the strength which holds desire bound to the ultimate.

202
Learning issues in ecstatic silence.

203
The creative ground of the Church is the monastery.

204
Open, interconnected education ... On-line private schools ...

205
The spiritual procession (Order of Piety) is from the gross to the subtle.

The cosmological procession (Order of Creation) is from the subtle to the gross.

The Order of Piety is the inverse (mirror image) of the Order of Creation.

206

The Vatican is a nation, not a Church.

207
The Descent of the Christ was Jesus' journey from Tibet to Palestine. before the crucifixion.

The Ascension of the Christ was Jesus' journey from Palestine to Kashmir after the crucifixion.

208
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The Davidic and Benjamite Royal Lines are a single element of the Bharatha Line of the Solar Dynasty of India.

They run through Saint Sulpice in Paris, certain Frankish/Celtic families of the Languedoc, Scotland and Italy (Mary Magdalene) and certain Teutonic families of Russia and Prussia (Lydia).

209
Theology is a body of knowledge and a body of practice, just as Law, Medicine and Mathematics are.

210
Self-serving is self-destructive.

211
Education today groans under the tyrannical nihilism of Nominalism -- our so-called Science.

212
Truth is what is left after everything else has been swept away. Truth is the residue of the process of refinement.

213
God loves sinners and by definition, therefore, participates in scandal. Have you stomach strong enough to be loved of God?

214
Things are never as bad as they seem nor as good as they ought to be.

215
It is time to unravel the skien that shrouds the effulgence of truth.

216
The Truth is that which cannot be symbolized.

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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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