Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@johnmilbank3 Blake: "Time is the mercy of eternity." Michael Kirwan SJ: "Time, the mercy of the Messiah." Raimon Pannikar, particularly incisive on temporality as the deepest aspect of secularity and its ultimate character. "There may be no more formidable problem than the problem of time."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Apr 2024

@Jawnmard1 Hence Guénon's claim that temporality ultimately has no more existential purchase upon the world than the idea it is: “If everyone understood what the modern world really is, it would immediately cease to exist; it exists only by the negation of traditional and suprahuman truth.”

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim Now _that's_ what Twitter's for. Sublime, Tim. Thank you so much. And a perfect correlative, naturally, in terms of 'the postponing of an infinite dimension' (Panikkar) ultimately transcended only in the interruptive mercy of a 'new temporality' come to ground.Quoted by@AimeTim Now _that's_ what Twitter's for. Sublime, Tim. Thank you so much. And a perfect correlative, naturally, in terms of 'the postponing of an infinite dimension' (Panikkar) ultimately transcended only in the interruptive mercy of a 'new temporality' come to ground.