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The divine stratum
Saturday, 2 November 2024 at 22:00
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix
The divine stratum
And it all seems to turn on the mystery of Love, which is God. This means that unless there is Love in the individual’s own life, he cannot know God. And I do not mean simply a shallow show of lurv for one another, I mean a real crushing, life-changing experience of Love. Dante for one knew that Love belongs to the divine stratum and through one we can experience the other. This was the reason for the divine status of Beatrice in the Divine Comedy.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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Given an opportunity
Friday, 1 November 2024 at 22:43
Given an opportunity
God as Love restores to man the freedom which he has lost, the freedom to take possession of his own authenticity.169 We may question the validity of the Word, but in doing so it is we who are questioned. Remember, shunning idolatry means that God, the Word, Logos, Truth are not to be considered as a pre-existent entities. In questioning the validity, we are confronting ourselves, now and at each moment, in a way that is analogous to Jesus’ confrontation with the Jews who chose to reject him.Forget the idolatry of churchy religionism; we are each given an opportunity of understanding ourselves through the analogy which is the death and resurrection of Jesus. Death and resurrection mark the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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