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…

St. John’s Bread And The Sun/Son Liturgy

Guidance And Request For The Bishops Memorandum For The Bishops November 12, 1996 Exegesis of St. John in the desert focuses, usually, on a diet of bugs washed down with a dollop of honey.  “Phew !” one thinks, and rightly, “Who would want to eat that?”  Well, apart from an assassin or a survivalist, no…

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…

On Population And Dharma

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 ordinary wisdom in many circles is that humanity suffers from overcrowding of living spaces. The view is widespread. The so-called condition of overcrowding is employed to explain many social and…

Taxonomy

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Patristic Christianity is two thirds of a religion, and not more. Dualism and Qualified Non-Dualism are grasped and promoted by Patristic Christianity but Non-Dualism is not. In effect, we have from…

Ratio and Integer

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT ‘Irrational numbers’ is a post-Cartesian concept. Euclid/Geometry — which is Theology — does not have the concept of irrationality. Rather, the concept is ‘proportion’ or ‘relationship’ or ‘ratio.’ This is important to grasp.…

Polytime Again – Epistemology Exploration

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 One of MacArthur’s favorite stories about Halsey concerned the day a visiting admiral was coming over in Halsey’s launch. The sea was rough and the coxswain was having trouble reaching the…

Ritual

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 Actually, I am serious, as you are aware that I am. Christian Science is full of ritual formulae. Science and Health is a most carefully wrought, meticulously scripted work. MBE has…

Ritual Formulae

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 What do you feel are the significant ritual formulae from the Bible — and from Sages, such as Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin, Buckminster Fuller and Mary Baker Eddy — that…

Polytime And Deservedness

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT All time-fields are concurrent. The concurrency of all time fields we call poly-time. To separate what we do and what we are — God loves us for one, not the other — is…

Christian Ordination And Clerical Succession: A Memorandum 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 Jerusalem means My God is the Sun. Jesus the Christ was a Priest-King in the perpetual Order of Melchizedek.  This Order conducted the worship of the universal God, the Ground of…

Epigrams V

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 No Nominalist system recognizes much less copes with the phenomenon of delusion. Every Realist system recognizes and more or less appropriately copes with the phenomenon of delusion.   To expand cosmology…

Epigrams IV

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT   Christianity has at its core an unmitigated horror. Christianity is a Saivite religion.   Diversity is in non-essentials. With respect to essentials, there is no diversity.   Incarnation Theology means that only…