@jbralston He goes on, "encompassing this world and the next...The perfection of mercy consists in looking after the one receiving mercy for the sake of the one receiving mercy...a kind of mercy beyond the powers of people, related to happiness in the next life." The inclusive Xian analogy?
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Partial copy of subtweet: Rough as this sketch may be, what Moore has seen, others have also seen. In the visionary genius of William Blake, “War is energy Enslav’d.” To the American philosopher N.O. Brown, ‘Make love, not war,’ won’t do because they are the same thing. “Peace lies in finding the true war. Find the true fire; of which the fires of war are a Satanic parody…War is war perverted. The problem is not war but the perversion. And the perversion is a repression.” (LB X) As Blake and Milton perceive it, “corporeal war” is the lowest form of violence, the anti-Christ, the demonic parody, the death decreed to those who run away from the true battle of learning to love the fire, the sacramental fire of transmutation. “The thing then,” Brown concludes, “is not to abolish war but to find the true war.”...
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Experiencing violence as ultimately ours to own and end? A perspective transcending mortality is essential, some cultures aver; others, that sense, means and effect positively converge in the divine light of Redemptive promise; the messianic sunburst, manifesting. Prov. 10:25
@thewritertype Thank you, Paul. Metaphysically stated, I might add that "the suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power", the supernatural locus of a creative experience in which the divided self returns the entire world, as and through us, to an essential wholeness.
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Copy of two tweets, pasted together. Wendell Berry Jul15, 2018 Love someone who does not deserve it. sssfCommunity Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. (Joseph Joubert)