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Bob's Weekend Acid Trip 26 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
In a letter, Voegelin speaks of how "metaphysical concepts are symbols which only make sense as the terminal points of the existential movement of participation in the divine." For man -- who, as exp...
Man is a Miracle of Evolution (and Evolution is a Miracle of Man) 24 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Humans, in the ironic words of Schuon, are condemned to transcendence, so we can't really escape it short of being comatose. Indeed, to "escape" presupposes somewhere to escape to, and don't let anyo...
There is No God, and He is Obama 23 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
First, we bring your attention to a nice rant by Ace of Spades, which relates to all the Voegeling we've been doing around here lately: "I have long contended that man is a fundamentally religious an...
Ideological "Reality" and the Immortalizing Process 22 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
Not much time this morning. Just flipping through this volume of correspondence by Voegelin, looking for any nuggets of joy before it undergoes the transition from desk to shelf. In particular, I was...
Breaking News From Eternity! 21 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
I don't think I want to plunge fully back into O -- i.e., excogitate something completely new -- until the liberatoreum has been reconstituted. I spared you all from the true extent of the horror, bu...
Dear Prudence, Won't You Change Your Name? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
No time for a new post, and barely enough time for this repost of a post that originally appeared out of gnowhere -- which is where all the posts come from -- six years ago. Things should start settli...
All Politics is Nonlocal 17 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
I'm guessing Tip O'Neill -- Chris Matthews' mentor, proving that the road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass -- must have been drunk when he let the secret of liberal electoral strategy out o...
On the Organ of Spiritual Perception 14 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
I personally don't have an issue with the distinction between gnosis and Gnosticism, but since the question keeps coming up, perhaps we should settle the matter once and for all by handing down some d...
Power Politics vs. Truth Politics: How to Tell a Clenched Fist from an Open Mind 13 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
So, why all the Voegelin? Because in recent months I've raced through number of huge volumes of his, and if I don't write about the experience, then it is soon forgotten, covered over with the next la...
The High Cost of Divorce from Reality 13 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
A post or two ago we mentioned Plato's allegory of the cave. It seems to me that Voegelin is one of the few contemporary scholars who fully accepts the allegory as descriptive of reality. For which re...
