John Kerry

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. John Kerry is a self-promoting liar who should have been tried for treason. Here are some facts. The bad guys attacking mankind are the clergy of all religions, but especially muslim and christian (to include jewish) clergy. Their agenda is to promote and…

Kevin Phillips

Question: Is Kevin Phillips right in American Dynasty? Answer: Kevin writes to sell books. The critical ponderable regarding Kevin writing to sell books is the distinction between facts and how they are taken and then what they are taken to mean. I can say downrightly that Bonesmen do not feel dynastic or entitled to rule,…

Mission Of The Knights Templar

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Question: Were not the Knights Templar also tasked with protecting the Holy Grail? Anwer: Not directly. Their main task was keeping open lines of communication. With respect to artifacts, they were…

Constant Mission, Adjusting Ministries

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The Ministries of the Church Target the Needs of the Times A lady wrote wishing to revive and reinstitute the ministry of 19th Century Divine Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kansas. I replied: The writer of this article on Sheldon’s ministry shares your enthusiasm for…

Comments On The Levant

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Responding to an inquiry: When I was at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1965 to 1969, I participated with UTS/JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary) faculty and students who were colloquial-izing…

Short Takes, AUG98-NOV99

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on this “where does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?”  The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is…

Death, Regret, and Destiny

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The first thing is to recognize the facts, the essentials, the constants, the fundamenta, the intrinsic phenomena. These are distinguished from the variables, the ephemera, the partialities, the extrinsic phenomena. This…

Answering Questions On Tillich’s Systematic Theology

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT He is describing the purpose of theology, and says “European theological orthodoxy,” comparable to American fundamentalism, which combines both “wrongs” of confusing the eternal truth with a current interpretation. What is…

Realism, Budget, Staffing And The Truth About Apostolic Succession

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A Planting Apostolic Succession is not a palpation.  It is a way of living.  St.  Jerome said, “A vestment does not make a bishop.” A laying on of hands does not make an ordination. Recently, our parish church witnessed this truth in…

Rakshasas

Most human embodiments in this Kali Yuga are in fact rakshasas of Treta Yuga: human embodiments but demonics hearts. Quite apart from Swami’s witness to the fact, which should be sufficient, the evidence in behavior throughout the world is overwhelming. It is a transnational phenomenon. The Church bears witness to this phenomenon through the Doctrine…

Evidence

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT When we see that everything is attached to the Ground, we do not ask for evidence because we see it. We are adwaitins, non-dualists. When we see that some things are attached to…

The Church And The Vatican

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There is some lack of understanding about the Vatican position on the papacy and the pope. The pope IS Christ. He is God, pure and simple. It is important to understand…

Paradigm Shift For The Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I am very happy the subject of an ecclesiastical, even ecclesiological, paradigm shift is being discussed in the parish. For what they are worth, I am enclosing my thoughts on the…

Three Depositions On Theological Education

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Deposition  I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…

Implications of Incarnation Theology / A Conversation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Christian Scientist and I were discussing the sentence, “Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.”  A conflation of my side of the conversation follows. Reason is a word…

Homeschooling Today: Problems And Possibilities

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT As we are all aware, the homeschooling movement is experiencing problems and possibilities attendant upon its successes. I would like to mention some of these that seem to me important enough to merit…