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@moshik_temkin “History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel @UniteThePoor @RevDrBarber @BRepairers

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2021

9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles "What are we most essentially?” asks Theodore Roszak. “Before all else we are meaning-seeking creatures. As fiercely as our flesh needs bread, our activity in the world needs a justifying purpose.” Yet how poorly formal religion addresses the ultimacy of meaning in our lives.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 3/ Separation? N.O. Brown: “Political and fleshly emancipation are finally one and the same; the god of epiphany is #Dionysus." Or, as he is also known, #Eleutherios, the arriving outsider-god, the entirely unanticipated liberator from the oppressive restraints of the Old Order.Quoted by@shorewalker1 @nils_gilman History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.