Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@TaraAnnThieke The Good News? The Messiah as a revelation of love and mercy, yes, and synchronously, the ontological dividing line separating a diabolical corruption of the historical imagination from a concrete, experiential encounter with a 'this-world' divinity that has largely escaped us.

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Because. Because. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelation have of necessity developed gradually. 17/

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For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit. 1 John 3:8
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Copy of tweet: Because. Because. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelation have of necessity developed gradually. 17/ With art of cross and calligraphy: For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit. 1 John 3:8

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 May 2024

@Sophiologist_ 1/2 That was glorious. As for endings and beginnings, John Moriarty's "the Second Coming is but a better understanding of the First Coming", now has me imagining the transcendent shock of the Parousial Hour or Day of the Eschatological Event as, at heart, a spell-breaking event.

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To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
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Copy of tweet: To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BrianZahnd And fascinating, isn't it, how clean the cut, here, in this stuff, cleaving truth from falsehood, wheat from tares, and the New World Creation from an Extinction Tyranny. Cosmic severance for real, in real time, delineating in the minutiae of Twitter posts and comments. #osintQuoted by@BrianZahnd And fascinating, isn't it, how clean the cut, here, in this stuff, cleaving truth from falsehood, wheat from tares, and the New World Creation from an Extinction Tyranny. Cosmic severance for real, in real time, delineating in the minutiae of Twitter posts and comments. #osintQuoted by@BrianZahnd Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex" (Whiteley).