Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Plutarchian Puzzles (there are several)
After a week with Plutarch I'm right back where I was whenever it was I was last reading him. His writing is dense and demands some concentration not to miss a detail from which the next several pages will unfold and still, at the end of reading a dozen pages or less, if asked, I probably couldn't recall what I'd just read. Not very clearly anyway. Is that because of the translation? Is it me? What? Such strange and perfectly normal writing. Puzzle.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
God protects ...
Parzival's problem, and it is ours too, is his difficulty recognizing the progeny of the Watchers and understanding that despite all outward appearances, they are utterly inimical to the Light that draws us from the dark realms of non-being. Maybe as Books of Enoch & Jubilee say, not all that fell were condemned but certainly great enmity came upon those that followed the Angel Sataniel who befouled the earth. As simplistic and child like as it may seem to talk of light & dark, good & bad and so forth, these qualities remain factual experiences. An innocent like Parzival cannot see the dark intentions of the rulers of the darkness of this world but that does not in any way halt their actions. The fact that the innocent and the ignorant are incapable of perceiving inimical forces only draws out the confrontation ... Let's thank God for His protection.
II Cor. 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
II Cor. 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
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