As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The Parable of the Talents is a monitory story, a warning, that describes power, responsibilities appertaining thereunto, and consequences of its employment or unemployment, aka abuse. A talent is a power. In First Century Judea and Samaria it was a denomination of money, one of some size. Money,…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. You can have a Fiat-Command economy, which does not last, and you can have a Hindu-Christian economy, which does last. You cannot have both. One feels good for a time but never makes you happy. The other feels difficult for a time and makes you happy. You cannot…
As is the feeling, So is the result. A religion is a set of procedures that can be used to reconnect a personality — body, mind, intellect, spirit — with reality. Saying something is irrational is saying that it is disconnected from reason, where reason is a synonym for reality. Parmenides: Where there is Being…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This essay is a spread of observations launched against idolators, those who claim for something status it lacks, who claim ultimacy for something not ultimate, who seek to extract money and prestige from…
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 Robert E. Lee’s mother wrote at length once to her sister, concluding with the observation that her letter was long because she did not have time to be brief. I feel…
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 just read the 2018 National Defense Strategy Summary (unclassified, open source version, of course). Here are my thoughts thereon: 1- This is the first time I have seen or recall…
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 PDF version of this post is available here. National sovereignty is a sweet fruit tree who grows in the rich, blood-soaked soil of freedom by imbibing the power of rivers…
Chaitanya Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Angelo M. Codevilla is justly esteemed a political philosopher of the first water, of the highest translucence. I consider him the peer-successor of his countryman (of birth) Niccolò Machiavelli. Political philosophy (statecraft) always has been…
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 Nihilists want headlines. Builders do not. Soros and mouthpieces are Fifth Column, not Fourth Estate. The religious denominations, colleges and universities and media of record are shameless partisans…
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 Theme I believe in world peace. I believe in America. I believe in Russia and India as state-brothers of America. I believe the only way to earn world peace today is…
Logic reflects Logos but does not touch Logos and cannot reach Logos. Logos is the origin of logic but logic is not Logos. Logic is a unique tool, not a universal one, much less the universal base (esse ipsum). Logic correlates with Logos but is not identical with Logos. Between logic and Logos there is an…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Genesis creation stories – there are two of them, back-to-back, declaring divine act in reverse sequence – accurately and literally depict the origin of all worlds and all life through all time,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT When I was at seminary (Union Theological, NYC, 1965-1969) I took a course by a strange but brilliant P named Peter Putnam. It was on systems theory and theology. I ended up writing…
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…
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 greatest weapon in the arsenal of democracy is the desire for liberty written into the human heart by our Creator. So long as we remain true to our ideals, we…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Today, the nation-states are the forms of the religions whose cultures produced them. Today, the secular authorities are warring religions. Who can intervene this time, as the secular authorities did in the 17th Century to bring peace…
