Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@anglicanspb 1/ And also, of course, the patron saint of Moscow. One of the more popular, trans-historical, trans-cultural prototypes in our midst, St. George or Khezr as he is known in Islam, has of late come to represent a transcendent, evolutionary turn within common, planetary experience.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Oct 2020

@ResonantPyre 3/ Here's HRH Prince Charles: “We forget too easily that the veneration of the Virgin is shared in the Middle East to this day by Christians and Muslims alike; that the mysterious prophet of the Muslims, Al-Khidir, was identified with the Christian St George. To this day..."

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Quoted by3/ Thomas Merton, American: "There is in the English school less blood and anguish, less hellfire and horror than is to be found in any other school of Christian mysticism, and this, of course, is how it should be." @AtomicAnalyst