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2025-04-23 last modified 2025-04-23

I’ve tried to articulate this before but I feel like it’s continually evolving. In various conversations with others I feel like I diverge in some areas and now feel compelled to write a bit more about where I am.

So, I don’t know. What are the nouns here? I don’t think this goes too far astray inside of Anglicanism, but cites a lot of the Neoplatonist tradition, adds synergism, theories of sacred magic, appeals to detachment and self-emptiness[^7] more normally in accord with Buddhism … I think I am more of a purgatorial universalist than an absolute universalist, but I think overall it involves the human will to turn to God who will wait, no matter how long it takes, for He is with us, has always been with us, and will always be with us, “even to the end of the age.”[^8] So on a long enough time scale … maybe it’s all reconciled, anyway.

may renounce all spiritual memories of the past. Because the awakened memory is not always beneficial; it is often a burden. It is so, above all, when it is a matter of a vocation which demands an attitude entirely free of all prejudice, as is the case with the vocations of priest, doctor and judge. The priest, doctor and judge have to concentrate themselves in such a way on the tasks of the present that they must not be distracted by memories of former existences. […] For reincarnation is neither a dogma, i.e. a truth necessary for salvation, nor a heresy, i.e. contrary to a truth necessary for salvation. It is simply a fact of experience, just as sleep and heredity are. As such, it is neutral. Everything depends on its interpretation. One can interpret it in such a manner as to make it a hymn to the glory of God—and one can interpret it in such a way as to make it a blasphemy. [^2]: Julian of Norwich writes that “love uncreated” is God, “love created” is the soul within God, and love given is virtue, a gift of grace or deeds. This is also translated as ‘charity’ which is itself sort of a difficult term to translate. So, eg. loving-action is one way I describe it. It’s both love for God and love for Man at once, turning your will to act as God does with love for others, interpersonally, yourself. [^3]: That’s right! Meditations on the Tarot again: “No, the work of the Redemption, being that of love, requires the perfect union in love of two wills, distinct and free—divine will and human will. The mystery of the God-Man is the key of divine magic, being the fundamental condition of the work of the Redemption, which is an operation of divine magic comparable only to that of the creation of the world. Thus miracles require two united wills!” [^4]: via Meister Eckhart himself, in the Talks of Instruction. [^5]: Merton – “only when there is no self left as a “place” in which God acts, only when God acts purely in Himself, do we at last recover our “true self” (which is in Zen terms “no-self”).” Augustine – “Therefore, as long as I journey away from thee, I am more present with myself than with thee”; “You were more inward than my most inward part and higher than the highest element within me”, from various translations. [^6]: Describing the fishhook theory originally posited by Origen, Girard writes, “The Passion accounts, allowing us to understand the single victim mechanism and its mimetic cycles, enable us to find and identify our invisible prison and to comprehend our need for redemption. Since the “princes of this world” were not in communion with God, they did not understand that the victim mechanism they unleashed against Jesus would result in truthful accounts. If they had been able to read the future, not only would they not have encouraged the Crucifixion, but they would have opposed it with all their might. When the princes of this world finally understood the real import of the Cross, it was too late to turn back: Jesus had been crucified, and the Gospels had been written. Thus Paul is right to affirm: “If the princes of this world had known [the wisdom of God] they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” [^7]: I genuinely think / thought Psalm 23’s opening, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” was announcing the abolition of all desire. This makes my girlfriend laugh a lot. [^8]: Matthew 28:20.

  1. I will also note that the anonymous author of the Meditations on the Tarot points to this: “Just as one does not make propaganda for or against the fact that we sleep at night and wake up anew each morning—for this is a matter of experience—so is the fact that we die and are born anew a matter of experience, i.e. either one has certainty about it or else one does not. But those who are certain should know that ignorance of reincarnation often has very profound and even sublime reasons associated with the vocation of the person in question. When, for example, a person has a vocation which demands a maximum of concentration in the present, he 

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