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5/ Heschel spells it out, unambiguously: “Impartiality with regard to history," he says, "is a pretense.” Pivotal to such prophetic discernment is an awareness of 'enlightened being' as existentially indivisible from Teilhard de Chardin’s “irresistible march of evolution.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Sept 2021

@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.

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles Big fan of Batchelor, but on the false freedom of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial, Jung: “Invited or not, the Gods will be present.” William Irwin Thompson: “When we cannot create our destiny through enlightenment, our fate is inflicted upon us through ignorance.”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TheKingCenter Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.Quoted by@TheKingCenter Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.