"The Sabbath [. ] is the complete inactivity of the passions and the universal cessation of the intellect’s movement around created realities, and the perfect passage [διάβασις] toward the divine.".- St Maximus the Confessor, Ad Thalassium.@lavitalenta.

"Saving participation in God or Christ is not reducible to merely the acquisition of virtue-forming habits; human beings are incapable to attain to righteousness apart from being joined with the Incarnate Word.".- Josh Heavin on Nyssa.

"There is no third alternative between complete nihilism and divinity". New article from Eric D. Perl:

"When love has entirely cast out fear, and fear has been transformed into love, then the unity brought us by our savior will be fully realized. For all human beings will be united with one another through their union with the one supreme Good.".St. Gregory of Nyssa

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It will be argued here that Aristotelianism is incoherent. If it is reasonable to accept the existence of universals, universals should be Platonic. - José Tomás Alvarado

"Men are by nature. desirous of the beautiful. But that which is truly beautiful and desirable is the Good. Now, the Good is God, and since all creatures desire good, therefore, all creatures desire God." - .St. Basil of Caesarea

Dionysius followed the Neoplatonic fascination with triads, finding a triadic structure throughout the cosmos and the Christian liturgy, and introducing the triadic rhythm of purification, illumination, and union (or perfection) to understand divine grace. - Fr Andrew Louth

RT @LexDecs: Me at the gym listening to the Dionysius Circle. @dionysiuscircle

"Tell me what it is, by whose presence in a body, that body will be living."."Soul.".- Plato, Phaedo

FYI: Helen participates in the Form Beauty. From

The other things have a share of everything, but Mind is unlimited and self-ruling and alone, itself by itself.- Anaxagoras, B12

Join us this Saturday for a free online symposium exploring Sts. Maximus the Confessor and Dionysius the Areopagite!. Register here:

Pietà by Virgil Rainer (1910)

Register for our 3rd annual Symposium on Saturday, October 12th!.

"In noetic contemplation, the feeling of being behind our face vanishes completely, as the face is no longer a wall between the outside and the inside.".- Mateusz Stróżyński

"In noetic contemplation, the feeling of being behind our face vanishes completely, as the face is no longer a wall between the outside and the inside.". Check out our discussion with Mateusz Stróżyński on Plotinus and contemplation!.

Question 50.2, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture.

The word of holy Scripture is limited according to the letter, but unlimited according to the spirit. - St Maximus the Confessor

"Plotinus says not only that all things (and he does really mean all things) want to contemplate and are from contemplation, but also that all things are contemplation.".- Mateusz Stróżyński