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3/ Amid war, chronic hunger, mass impoverishment, and forced conversions, Nund Rishi stood not above the dispossessed, but among them—offering not doctrine, but sanctuary. His was a political theology, expressed in the idiom of bread, poetry, and planting fruit trees.

Copy of tweet here: Dec 17, 2020 Replying to @nick_routledge 4/ Cosmic initiation, a land-based, more-than-human experience, grounded. I see now, four decades later, I was awakened to Divine Beauty, as a child, by a pear tree, on the edge of Lake Dal. Painting of pear with calligraphy reading: Now I begin to know at last something you said to me. Orpheus with his lute made trees. Sacred the wood garden. Hallowed the imparth. The soul is made of gold.
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Copy of tweet here: Dec 17, 2020 Replying to @nick_routledge 4/ Cosmic initiation, a land-based, more-than-human experience, grounded. I see now, four decades later, I was awakened to Divine Beauty, as a child, by a pear tree, on the edge of Lake Dal. Painting of pear with calligraphy reading: Now I begin to know at last something you said to me. Orpheus with his lute made trees. Sacred the wood garden. Hallowed the imparth. The soul is made of gold.