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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
“Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.”
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“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
“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
“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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“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.”
― The Crisis of the Modern World
― The Crisis of the Modern World
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