The Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Religionless Christianity

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 Christianity is religionless. It is not a religion. Christianity is a Faith, a Faith in, over, under, around and through Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of history and history’s subordinate…

Biblical Literalism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Discussing the internet hoax about the Koran containing a verse that specifies the date of the air attacks of 11 September 2001 on the United States: This is an excellent example of how…

On Transcending The United Church Of Christ

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A close friend recently removed themselves from the membership roles of the United Church of Christ. I responded with several notes over a period of days, as follows: First: Thanks, and I a UCC ordinand and ECUSA member! Well, at least I…

Politics And Ecumenism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Question: It seems to me that politics surrounding/related to terrorism (for lack of a better phrase on my part) is the impetus behind the Muslim ecumenical movement. Do you know if there was a political reason for the ecumenical movement in the US,…

On The Supreme Court’s Release Of Private Property To Commercial Interests

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 This is great. The nerve this decision touched is Boston Tea Party strength. There is a doctrine (true, standard-forming learning) in theology that the virtues and the civil laws aiming to…

Idolatry Of The Koran

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 a-and anti-religious press around the world is making a fuss over treatment of the Koran by United States military personnel guarding Islamist prisoners at detention/prison facilities controlled by the United…

Where The Dissolute 60s Began

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The dissolution that characterized the 1960s in Europe and the Americas started with Pierre Boulez’ attack on Arnold Schoenberg, in the form of a notoriously nasty obituary dated 1952 and titled Schoenberg Est Mort!. The dissolution was made irrevocable by Harvey Cox’s attack…

The Union Theological Seminary In The City Of New York

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Union is not important generally, as I am sure everyone on site understands. It has been parochial for a narrow range of opinion, justly characterized as tendentious, even bumptious, for decades and has…

Where Is The Church? … Take One

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 Faith, Prayer, Service, Evangelism The Church comprises four activities.  The Church, therefore, may be identified by the presence of these four activities.  They are: Faith Prayer Service Evangelism Where these activities…

Ecumenical Theology

Religious Basic Training For Leadership In The Family Of God This is an offer to lead a year-long seminar at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the subject of ecumenical theology.  Details are: The purpose of this seminar is an assimilation of intellectual and moral content. Meetings are for clarification of material already digested, through recitation…

Gregory Bateson

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I am not familiar with optimization theory directly — and do not have the tech math background to follow it in detail — but I am grasping enough from your indications to be able to make a…

Sadhana

Back around ’69 I developed from Bateson and Wiener and myself a three stage leading to fourth stage stageless stochastic structure of mental/emotional activity. I did not know it but it was the trimurthi leading to experience of statelessness in not crude language. The articulation was systems theory of the time, which was very capable…

Distinctions

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The sense of distinction is different in each of the stages of yoga. In karma yoga (thamasic, no vedantha), it is vivid and necessarily so. In bhakthi yoga (rajasic, qualified vedantha), it is…

Curriculum Vitae Meum

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 Before Swami hauled me in, I had risen rapidly (age 23) to the verge of very great prominence in both academic, governmental and industrial circles. I was a classic “fair haired boy.”…

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…

Over The Khyber: Research Findings At Adwaitha Hermitage

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 Jewish Homeland is Kashmir.  In the Bible, when heaven is mentioned, Kashmir is meant.  This is invariable. The issue is suzerainty: to whom does one belong?  One belongs either to…