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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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Modern Prophecies by Mackay
An Epidemic Terror of the end of the world has several times spread over the nations The most remarkable was that which seized Christendom about the middle of the tenth century Numbers of fanatics appeared in France Germany and Italy at that time preaching that the thousand years profhesied in the Apocalypse as the term of the world's duration were about to expire and that the Son of Man would appear in the clouds to judge the godly and the ungodly The delusion appears to have been discouraged by the Church but it nevertheless spread rapidly among the people
The scene of the last judgement was expected to be at Jerusalem in the year 999 the number of pilgrims proceeding eastward to await the coming of the Lord in that city was so great that they were compared to a desolating army Most of them sold their goods and posessions before they quitted Europe and lived upon the proceeds in the Holy Land Buildings of every sort were suffered to fall into ruins It was thought useless to repair them when the end of the world was so near Many noble edifices were deliberately pulled down Even churches usually so well maintained shared general neglect Knights citizens and serfs traveled eastwards in company taking with them their wives and children singing psalms as they went and looking with fearful eyes upon the sky which they expected each minute to open to let the Son of God descend in his glory
During the thousandth year the number of pilgrims increased Most of them were smitted with terror as with plague Every phenomenon of nature filled them with alarm A thunderstorm sent them all upon their knees in mid march It was the opinion that thunder was the voice of God announcing the day of judgment numbers expected the earth to open and give its dead at the sound Every meteor in the sky seen at Jerusalem brought the whole Christian population into the streets to weep and pray The pigrims on the road were in the same alarm
Losque pendant la nuit un globe de lumiere
S'echappa quelquefois de la voute de cieux
Et traca dans sa chute un long sillon de feux
La troupe suspendit sa marche solitaire
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Empire of Reason ~ Cardinal John Henry Newman
What an empire is is political history such is a university in the sphere of philosophy and research It is as I have said the high protecting power of all knowledge and science oof fact and principle of inquiry and discovery of experiment and speculation; it maps out the territory of the intellect and sees that the boundaries of each province are religiously respected and that there is neither encroachment nor surrender on any side It acts as umpire between truth and truth and taking into account he nature and importance of each assigns to all their due order of precidence* It maintains no one department of thought exclusively however ample and noble and it sacrifices none It is deferential and loyal acording to their respective weight to the claims of literature of physical research of hisory of metaphysics of theological science It is impartial toward them all and promaotes each in its own place and for its own object -
the profession of faith from catichitism of the catolic church
The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being For if man exists it is because God has created him through love and cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknoledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator
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As St Paul says of the Gentiles: For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature namely hid eternal power and deity has been clearly percieved in the things that have been made
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And St Augustine issues this challenge*: Question the beauty of the earth question the beauty of the sea question the beauty of the air distending and diffusing itself question the beauty of the sky...question all these realities. All respond: "See, we are beautiful." Their beauty is a profession [confessio} These beauties are subject to change Who made them if not the Beautiful One {pulcher} who in not subject to change
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Though human reason is strictly speaking truly capable by its own natural power and light of attaining to a true and certain knowledge of the one personal God who watches over and controlls the world by his providence and of the natural law written our hearts by the Creator; yet there are many obsticles which prevent reason from the effective and fruitful use of this inborn faculty for the truths that concern the relations between God and man wholly trancend the visible order of things and if they are translated into human action and influence it they call for self-surrender and abnegation The human mind in its turn is hampered in the attaining of such truths not only by the impact of the senses and the imagination but also by disordered appetites which are the consequences of original sin so it happens that men in such matters easily persuade themselves that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful
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I am a man that lives so far out in left field that the world of responsibility baffels me. With nothing but time on my hands I engage in philosophy by reading the works of men in history that reguard the world in some universal so as to be regarded by others as profound. I contend that all these men would agree upon the soundness of reality in relation to the gods but only divide ourselves in our selfish need to personally attain it. Such is the intelectual persuits I entertain myself with in the garden.
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