Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone... And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion... For All God's Children... And All God's Creation! Now Look... We Go On And On And On In Toxic And Unproductive Repetition In This Country... Day After Day... Year After Year... While This Nation Allows Its Own [...]

the imitation of christ, the 1st book: chapters ix and x (obedience and subjection; danger of superfluity of words)

OF OBEDIENCE AND SUBJECTION “It is verily a great thing to live in obedience, to be under authority, and not to be at our own disposal. Far safer is it to live in subjection than in a place of authority. Many are in obedience from necessity rather than from love; these take it amiss and [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxv (exit from the old to the new)

PART V “Fear is weakness. Let us illustrate this. A lad is lost in the woods. You go to that lad and say to him: “I will show you the way out.” But he says: “This wood is filled with wild beasts that are seeking to destroy me.” Then you say to him: “Come with [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxv (exit from the old to the new)

“Having taken this covenant, you have become a neophyte, so to speak, in that wondrous order of Melchizedek, of which Jesus was the earthly representative in his time, for you remember the declaration of the Apostle (quoting from the Psalms), “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” After you have taken the [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxv (exit from the old to the new)

Part V: “Now that you have come to maturity and feel the promptings of the soul's outreaching and yearning for something higher, nobler, and better, you must go forward. But alas, before you, all is dark and uncertain and something within you seems to admonish you that the pathway that lies before you is strewn [...]