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8/ “The guiding idea,” notes Corbin, “is the idea of an integration or reintegration into the whole,” a natural aspect of life where worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption, mix and match. Gandhi understood: “The sphere of Spirit and politics is one.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Sept 2021

@kebayf Yes, Moltmann’s “messianic hope” and, also, “deeds which, as it were, help to bring about the redemption.” - Scholem. Likewise, Heschel: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @aesthetikeit “The supreme irony of my struggle to ground myself is that it cannot succeed because I am already grounded in the totality.” - David Loy. Believe it now. Come. Images: The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism, 1971, Gershom Scholem.Quoted by@aesthetikeit “The supreme irony of my struggle to ground myself is that it cannot succeed because I am already grounded in the totality.” - David Loy. Believe it now. Come. Images: The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism, 1971, Gershom Scholem.Quoted by@noonessleep 2/ I find a further dimension central, crucial; namely, as Adorno describes it, “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption...” The experience of the redemption of the future from the power of history as a motivating principle in concrete reality, here, now.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Rumi notes the secret of Allah is found between the opposites; Hans-Georg Gadamer, “The integrity of a society demonstrates itself in how that society engages with contradiction”; Bourgeault refers repeatedly to the ‘holy reconciling’ of the Third Way.