3/ 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
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Tweet from @AtomicAnalyst In the sculpture, a human being slays a dragon (as in the allegory of St. George and the Dragon). But here, the dragon—representing nuclear war—lies amidst pieces of actual SS-20 and Pershing II intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which were destroyed under the INF treaty.
@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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