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"Mary had her metanoia event through motherhood. This is very important. The joy of belonging to the other (the child in this case), the trinitarian mode of being, is the opposite of what is proposed by the liberal, modern, industrialised machine. The latter wants to replace the womb with an artifical matrix. This is the enmity between the serpent and the mother of all living. I want to write more on this..." — May 20, 2026 12:49PM
"Mary had her metanoia event through motherhood. This is very important. The joy of belonging to the other (the child in this case), the trinitarian mode of being, is the opposite of what is proposed by the liberal, modern, industrialised machine. The latter wants to replace the womb with an artifical matrix. This is the enmity between the serpent and the mother of all living. I want to write more on this..." — May 20, 2026 12:49PM
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.”
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“The ultimate goal of Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy was assimilation to god through the cultivation of virtue and truth. It meant a return to the first principles reached through philosophical education (paideia) and recollection (anamnesis), scientific investigation, contemplation, and liturgy (or theurgic ascent), based on the ineffable symbols and sacramental rites.”
― The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy
― The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy
“An adequate manifestation of the good can occur only dramatically, only in the ascent that is reversed in order to reveal absoluteness and relativity at once.”
― Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic
― Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic
“We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.”
― East and West
― East and West
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