The Eighth Sermon to the Dead

A lot is made of Gnosticism as an individual path. The individual must attain Gnosis, and since it is primarily an individual quest, that's where the primary emphasis should be. But I've been thinking a lot about community. As we all begin to take our individual paths, which we alone must walk, we start to separate from those who disagree. And thus, we begin to move into schism, antagonism, and duality. "I'm different than you because..." Because why? Because I use Roman Catholic Rituals and you use Greek? Or I find Oberon to be more meaningful as the bearer of Gnosis than Sophia? Isn't that ... kinda dumb? In thinking about this, I'm reminded of the eminently reasonable suggestion of the Moravian Church : "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love." The Moravians have a Covenant of Christian Living , which states: We will be eager to maintain the unity of the Church. Realizing that God has called us from man...

Lately I've been pondering Schism, The ultimate individualism. Where no one agrees, Cause all that they sees, Is the world through their own little prism.

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Meditation. Why is it something so simple is so freaking hard? Sit. Breathe. Even given that you need a special way of sitting or of breathing, it's still NOT THAT HARD. So, why can't I do it? I have a theory: I've been taught to think. Not thinking has gotten me in trouble, both as a child and as an adult. Now, I can't turn the fricking thing off. I can't just sit and breathe. Or do I just think I can't? Do I think so much "I can't do this" that I can't? Musings on a Friday afternoon.

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I don't have it right now. My outlook is very non-Blake. I so wanted to be reading and commenting on Blake, but I just haven't been there. I've been working on the Friary and the Formation, as well as learning my masonic lectures, and now I'm out of time. I guess I'll try to comment on it as I have time.

"Real spirituality does not fortify the separate self, but utterly shatters it—not consolation but devastation, not entrenchment but emptiness, not complacency but explosion, not comfort but revolution." -Ken Wilbur

You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) . The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn't matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you'll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone. Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 94% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 88% Serenity (Firefly) 88% SG-1 (Stargate) 88% Moya (Farscape) 81% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 69% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 69% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 69% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 63% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 50% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 50% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 38% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com I've never even seen the show.

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