Dirt Bag Media / Dirt Bag Politicians

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Evergreen State College is owned by the taxpayers of Washington State.  Faculty, staff and politicians premise that their grads have no jobs ahead of them and that they can destroy vestiges of living-wage…

The Freedom Bestowed By Spiritual Grandeur

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Dirt Bag Media (DBM) never will understand that a self-confident and duty-focused person can talk with anyone without suffering loss of prestige.  Spiritual grandeur bestows that freedom. Always, Pharisees — Puritans, White-Washed Tombs…

Revealing The Institutional Rot

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 An irony attached the lives of the pure ones is the personal and institutional rot they engender.  This rot is a phenomenological constant in the lives of pure ones from Gnostics…

Communications

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Anyhow, an improving day was had.  I am getting a sense of the logistics of battle in Valley conditions mid-19th Century.  You know, it occurs to me — perhaps inaccurately — that as soon as man achieves reliable…

Of Prudes, Puritans and Sanctimony

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 Language common to locker rooms (of both genders), movies, stages, gyms, golf courses, gender clubs (both), private elevators, night clubs and thousands of ad hoc locales is suddenly verboten?  We’re Americans.…

Academe And Ecclesia

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 Academe is ever trying to distinguish or even separate itself from The Church (ecclesia). This is like the brain trying to separate from the heart or the clouds from the ocean.…

The Rev. Dr. Paul Tillich On The Motivating Power Of Law And Morality

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 principle of agape expresses the unconditional validity of the moral imperative, and it gives the ultimate norm for all ethical content. But it has still a third function: it is…

Corpus Christianum And Moslem Ummah

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 Correlations exist between what are called Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah. What are Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah and what is their significance linguistically, theologically, ideologically and as phenomena of history? Corpus Christianum…

Preach The Holy

The Church has won the war to establish human values in the national and, in principle, multi-national orbits. It took about 300 years. The Church’s secular message and mission succeeded. Additionally, humanism of all varieties has hidden religious sources and agendas. Now the Church must preach the Holy, the essential, on the far side of…

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…