RT @nick_routledge: @neerajadeshp What if what we await lies hidden—not by delay—but by some deeper design: veiled by the very structures of consciousness, perception, expectation and recognition that modernity bequeaths? What would it take to faithfully and democratically break that spell and together, see anew?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts12–16 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946362150580289567 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 12/ Thresholders never reveal their full hand. They operate by misdirection—not to deceive, but because real truth cannot be coerced or imposed. It must be invited, recognized, received. Their power lies not in self-assertion, but in being rightly discerned by the other.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts12–16 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946362648830108033 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 13/ What is incarnational truth? It is the ontological depth of prophetic being—not a status conferred, but a metaphysical claim made manifest through the tension between self and world. An ontic interruption, it emerges only through active, co-evolutionary becoming.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts12–16 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946362967559184659 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 14/ Such truth is born of context, not from authority. It isn't declared by recognition, claim, or ordination, but by the shift in reality around the being-in-relation of the one who bears it. New meaning and cosmology unfold. Not charismatic identity but incarnational rupture.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts12–16 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946363799558349197 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 15/ Thresholders are not mystics of escape, but field-transformers. Their fidelity to the Real reorganizes the symbolic order around them—even if no one names it. The world tilts wherever they pass, not by command, but through co-participation in a more integral reality. t.co/WACqsMdEvm
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts12–16 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946364360378736783 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 16/ This is precisely what renders the prophet veiled. The seismic shift they carry is not legible to the uninitiated eye. Their presence exceeds the semiotic field of the 'plain observer.' The prophetic shines too deeply to reflect—it refracts, revealing only through resonance.
Open original document@PageauJonathan 29/ The sunburst of the messianic, then, is not another arrival as much as a collective recognition—the moment when the pharmakon is revealed and the Real is no longer hidden in paradox but seen in the faces of those who bore the ungovernable mercy of God faithfully.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Raimon Panikkar Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946373170317107604 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The wise person is the one who captures the hearts of all people, and Meister Eckhart, repeating a popular belief, affirms that “he who knows himself knows all creatures” (in his treatise, The Noble Man). This linking up of everything with everything else unites us to reality through contemplation, prayer, and glory, as well as by means of participation in the sufferings of creation, whether the agony of childbirth or of despair. Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "‘It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized…’", "reason": "Nick explicitly gives tentative ‘Heschel? Scholem?’ attribution in image and exact saved tweet. Neither candidate is established as author; preserve original uncertainty."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Eckhart Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1795480680505520274 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis Yes, and a conversion that doesn't take context into account is no conversion at all. Jesus didn't come to gussy up a half-way house, rather, to announce the advent of an entirely new social reality. Eckhart: “There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half." t.co/LadvgeurXY Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "‘It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized…’", "reason": "Nick explicitly gives tentative ‘Heschel? Scholem?’ attribution in image and exact saved tweet. Neither candidate is established as author; preserve original uncertainty."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Gandhi and unnamed note-author Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1781699748183031908 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change." t.co/VnUaw2aPnj Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "‘It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized…’", "reason": "Nick explicitly gives tentative ‘Heschel? Scholem?’ attribution in image and exact saved tweet. Neither candidate is established as author; preserve original uncertainty."}]
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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/1789847862659960846 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @krumbbumm As such, the interdependent attitude of the Bodhisattva or Jesus enduring the Cross is the most realistic, locating the meaning of life in whole-hearted, personal identification with the perfection, in this world, of human and earthly solidarity, liberation, salvation and peace. t.co/B3fpV6ZVfl Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "‘It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized…’", "reason": "Nick explicitly gives tentative ‘Heschel? Scholem?’ attribution in image and exact saved tweet. Neither candidate is established as author; preserve original uncertainty."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Raimon Panikkar 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. The bodhisattva, the saint, and the wise one suffer not so much by reason of what does them harm individually, but perhaps even more for humankind, for all sensible beings, for the cosmos. That is the experience of buddhakaya, of karman, of the Mystical Body of Christ, of the universal fraternity—to give quite different examples of this experience of universal solidarity. The reason that makes those who are “fulfilled” more open to this participation in reality is simple. The mahatma (the magnanimous one, the great soul), the jivanmukta (liberated soul), the insan kamil (perfect one), the shen jen (the holy one), the saint (hagios, sanctus, kadosh, etc.), the edel Mensch (the noble soul, according to Eckhart, commenting on Lk 19:12), to cite a great diversity of traditions—in a word, those who have reached human plenitude have broken the barriers of individualism and entered into communion with the entire cosmos. The wise person is the one who captures the hearts... - Raimon Panikkar Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "‘It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized…’", "reason": "Nick explicitly gives tentative ‘Heschel? Scholem?’ attribution in image and exact saved tweet. Neither candidate is established as author; preserve original uncertainty."}]
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