Maskirovka In The Architecture Of War

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Really, only competent, refined military professionals, engineers, and their knowledgeable, competent sympathizers…

Stories And Scriptures

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. There are stories and there are scriptures. Scriptures are full of stories.…

Vivacious Logic Vice Gangrene Logic

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). At Power Line Blog, which I attend daily, one of the five…

Docta Ignorantia

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 During the decade between the late 1980s and the late 1990s, I produced eighty six meditations titled Docta Ignorantia.  The phrase and concept belong to Nicholas of Cusa, the German Cardinal…

My Last Sermon: Christianity Free Of Religion

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 an American Anglican of Scots, Scots-Irish, German Alsatian and French Huguenot descent.  I have been a Presbyterian and a Lutheran.  I grew up in a Community Church and bear…

Ethics And Ethos

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Inner Necessity and Decisive Freedom The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years. It…

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…

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…

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…