Peaceful prayer walks in dhm

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The intelligibilities/forms/essences/spirits behind dumb sense data and matter are more primary. He next suggests angels pull the veil of the physical world — light, heat, and breaths of air — thinly over the face of God and these broader, more fundamental, immaterial realities.

". of those heavenly facts which fill eternity. Her mysteries are but expressions in human language of truths to which the human mind is unequal.". While language and symbols and allegory are all legitimate ways at reaching God, St JHN is right—they're ultimately insufficient.

". still under the veil of the letter, and in their season to be revealed. The visible world still remains without its divine interpretation; Holy Church in her sacraments and her hierarchical appointments, will remain, even to the end of the world, after all but a symbol. ".

". were but a preparation for the Gospel. The Greek poets and sages were in a certain sense prophets; for "thoughts beyond their thought to those high bards were given." . And thus room was made for anticipation of further and deeper disclosures, of truths . ".

"I understood these passages to mean that the exterior world, physical and historical, was but the manifestation to our senses of realities greater than itself. Nature was a parable: Scripture was an allegory: pagan literature, philosophy, and mythology, properly understood, . ".

Incidentally enough, I began reading his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, which has languished on my shelves for three years, only two nights ago. This section struck me. So strong was his Platonic, mystical sense that he struggled to believe in the relative reality of MATERIAL phenomena.

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Well intended, but a fundamentally ridiculous speech. He talks about absurd and accidental constitutional arrangements in which Members of Parliament, who may or may not even be believers (let alone Anglicans), can dictate CofE policy — as if they're some eternal gold standard.