söndagen den 21:e april 2013
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söndagen den 20:e januari 2013
Christian Religious Orders
Attending a meeting like this would have been thrilling.
"The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards the right: the same order is observed with respect to the sitting figures. —— A Benedictine nun; a monk of the same order; a Cluniac; a Cistertian and a Carthusian; a nun of St. Gilbert; a regular canon of the same; a Trinitarian; a knight templar; knight hospitallar; a secular canon; a canon regular of the Præmonstratensians. The sitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Augustine; a regular canon of the holy Sepulche (sic); a canon of the Hospital of St John at Coventry; chaplain of the order of St. John of Jerusalem."
Source: Grose, Francis: "The Antiquities of England and Wales" (1783) [link]
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"The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards the right: the same order is observed with respect to the sitting figures. —— A Benedictine nun; a monk of the same order; a Cluniac; a Cistertian and a Carthusian; a nun of St. Gilbert; a regular canon of the same; a Trinitarian; a knight templar; knight hospitallar; a secular canon; a canon regular of the Præmonstratensians. The sitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Augustine; a regular canon of the holy Sepulche (sic); a canon of the Hospital of St John at Coventry; chaplain of the order of St. John of Jerusalem."
Source: Grose, Francis: "The Antiquities of England and Wales" (1783) [link]
måndagen den 26:e november 2012
God-Intoxicated
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onsdagen den 14:e november 2012
fredagen den 9:e november 2012
Be Dead
Abba (father, or wise old man) Macarius was a Christian monk and hermit, living in 4th century Egypt. One of the founders of Christian monasticism, Abba Macarius spent most of his life in the Scetic and Nitrian deserts, along with other famous desert fathers such as Abba Anthony the Great and John the Dwarf.
Below is one of the sayings (apophthegm) attributed to him.
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A brother paid a visit to Abba Macarius and said to him, “Tell me a word: how can I be saved?”
The old man said to him, “Go to the tombs. Curse the dead. Throw rocks at them.”
The brother left. He cursed the dead and threw rocks at them, and when he returned to the old man, the old man said to him, “They didn’t say anything to you did they?”
The brother said to him, “No father.”
The old man said to him, “Go tomorrow and glorify them, saying, ‘you are apostles, you are saints and righteous.’”
He returned to the old man and said to him, “I glorified them.”
The old man said to him, “They didn’t say anything to you did they?”
He said, “No.”
The old man said to him, “You have seen how you cursed them and they did not say anything to you, and how you glorified them and they did not respond at all. It should be the same with you too: if you wish to be saved, go, be dead, having no regard for people’s contempt nor their honors, like the dead, and you can be saved.”
Below is one of the sayings (apophthegm) attributed to him.
—
A brother paid a visit to Abba Macarius and said to him, “Tell me a word: how can I be saved?”
The old man said to him, “Go to the tombs. Curse the dead. Throw rocks at them.”
The brother left. He cursed the dead and threw rocks at them, and when he returned to the old man, the old man said to him, “They didn’t say anything to you did they?”
The brother said to him, “No father.”
The old man said to him, “Go tomorrow and glorify them, saying, ‘you are apostles, you are saints and righteous.’”
He returned to the old man and said to him, “I glorified them.”
The old man said to him, “They didn’t say anything to you did they?”
He said, “No.”
The old man said to him, “You have seen how you cursed them and they did not say anything to you, and how you glorified them and they did not respond at all. It should be the same with you too: if you wish to be saved, go, be dead, having no regard for people’s contempt nor their honors, like the dead, and you can be saved.”
söndagen den 28:e oktober 2012
The Worst Spiritual Teacher?
The other day on Twitter we asked:
Here are some of the answers:
The only name of an active spiritual teacher that came up was Yehuda Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Center, who someone thought was a "blabbering fool."
Who is the worst spiritual teacher alive?
— Integral Monastery (@I_Monastery) October 26, 2012
Here are some of the answers:
@i_monastery Whoever claims to be "the best spiritual teacher alive".
— Rick (@puddlemonk) October 26, 2012
@i_monastery I'm pretty fucking bad myself, I can say without pride.Never transformed anyone's life, as far as I know. Not one.
— Plotinus Plinlimmon (@TuningFork2) October 26, 2012
"@i_monastery: Who is the worst spiritual teacher alive?" Me.
— Matt Williamson ॐ (@vajramatt) October 26, 2012
@i_monastery The one that sees you as a student.
— Mojo 1000 (@MOJO1000) October 27, 2012
The only name of an active spiritual teacher that came up was Yehuda Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Center, who someone thought was a "blabbering fool."
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