Musician : Audience : : Theologian : Student

When an ordinary person wants to listen to a Brandenburg Concerto, they put on a CD. When a musician wants to listen to a Brandenburg Concerto, they leaf through the score. A musician hears far more from the score than an ordinary person hears from the CD. Likewise: When a student wants to delve into…

Redaction

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Regarding any phenomenon, there are five questions: Who?, Why?, What?, Where? and When?. As scientists, we ask, What?, Where? and When?. As philosophers we ask, Why? and What?. As theologians or sages, we…

Apostolic Authority

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 It is all right to talk about Matthew writing this and Mark that so long as you have their autographs as the literature bearing their names. But you don’t know that…

Memorandum II: The Sai Era

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Memorandum I is here. To: Whom It May Concern From: The Rev. David R.  Graham Date: October 4.  1994 Feasts of Sts. Francis of Assisi and Glenn Gould Subject: Jesus In India Within five…

A Little Of This, A Little Of That

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The sacrament is merely a reminder for believers. It has no soteriological efficacy on its own, as part of its own nature. If it did, this world would have been perfect ‘er now. Claims respecting a soteriological efficacy…

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…

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…

Illusion

One point: knowledge of the spiritual and the true is also illusion, just as much as knowledge of matter is. This is a subtle point, but true. All knowing is illusion, but some knowing leads to seeing and some to unseeing, some to truth and some to falsehood, some to spirituality and some to carnality.…

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…

Descartes

We were discussing Descartes at the table here, mentioning my intuitive feeling that his cogito ergo sum is not a low (e.g., dualistic) view as is usually assumed, but a high (e.g., non-dualistic) one. I was ruminating that whereas Descartes is often taken for the father of modern science, or, one of the main fathers…

A View of the Field

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, DIAGNOSIS The salient phenomenon today, world-wide, is that lawyers (Kshatriyas) are attempting to usurp the Magisterium from clergy (Brahmins). Rulers are attempting to confiscate the responsibility of teachers and doctors. Underneath all other activities, this is the operational character of the times.…

Trinity

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The Trinitarian discussions of the first four centuries AD were an intra-Pythagorean argument over the nature of number. They were not a discussion of the nature of Jesus the Christ. Both of the resolutions of the argument — the affirmations of Nicaea and…

A Priest of Baal Speaks

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 wishing that the world and such importunate fellows as that Elijah nuisance will understand the following: We are not stupid people. We are very skilled in the use of…

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…

The Story Of 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 This Statement Composed 1992 And 2001 Adwaitha Hermitage is a Residence of Sanathana Dharma. The evolution of Adwaitha Hermitage has sprung from a Franciscan logos or germ.  It began in the…

For The Vestry and Staff of St. Thomas Episcopal Church

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 We are living in a Global Village (R. B. Fuller). We always have been living so, but certain circumstances enabled us to disregard the fact. Our people are dealing with adherents…