@prayerofconsent Across the Semitic Tradition, Moses and Elias side-by-side represent the archetype of revelation and transfiguration as a completeness, presaging a sunburst of trans-cultural integration at the planetary level and the coherence and fulfillment of God's redemptive work on Earth.
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Copy of tweet here: Moses and Khezr's pivotal Eliatic encounter in Surah 18 famously unites their perspectives by illuminating the enigmatic nature of the concordance mediating between sublime and corporeal worlds, esoteric and exoteric knowledge, and the Way and the Law. Image of tweet: 2/ In effect, Khezr represents an archetype not of a weird, mystical trickster, but of a sympathetic awakening to the miracle of a hidden concordance mediating between inner/outer, visible/invisible, exoteric/esoteric worlds, all things and, yes, all religions and nations.
@trippfuller 11/ For Shari'ati, one's integrity in God is defined by transfiguration occurring simultaneously as a mix-and-match of inner/outer, eternal/temporal, spiritual/political registers. Where a co-evolutionary complex signifies change, growth and freedom, revelation is revolutionary.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Pir Vilayat Khan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1556304976040693760 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SophiaCycles The true authority of the illuminated conscience. "The spirituality of our times requires a shift from merely awakening consciousness to the awakening of the conscience, which encompasses a realization of interdependence and interconnection between all beings." - Pir Vilayat Khan
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1455390275837202435 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 7/ What is it then, to reconcile our autobiographies to the enormous force of the spirit of an age, to wed consciousness to conscience in the concrete embodiment of a personal response proportionate to the needs of our era, concomitant to awakening to life's intrinsic wholeness?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1557738284616335360 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @noonessleep 5/ Rare indeed is the text (Merton's 'New Seeds of Contemplation'?) 'effortlessly' dissolving esoteric and exoteric tensions in a seamless, inclusive, unifying embrace or, rarer still, a life functionally transcending the prisons of secular and religious distinction and division. t.co/iTLqXQG9Pv
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Image of an earlier text. 3/ By all means let us celebrate genius, but let’s not conflate the excessive drive towards higher states of religious or scientific consciousness, or exultation in such exclusionary brilliance, with what is practically required to wed humanity, as a whole, to justice and peace.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1481005531666030594 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @JonathanSBlake @nils_gilman Indeed, why eschew a syncretic secular-religious concatenation, when a mature synthesis advances an evolutionary perspective transcending the agency of either camp, alone? What if a coherent planetary response is accessible to us only because it is inherently reconciliatory?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1433813224483217414 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @CarlMcColman It always seemed to me an essential power of the Jesus Event arose in His capacity to simply annihilate the ontological and narrative distinction between inner and outer reality, in a fundamentally comprehensible, democratic, accessible form. Mysticism for the masses, manifest. t.co/QeBOUrJYKn
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