RT @nick_routledge: @dysangelistes @lukeburgis Their track record says enough, and brings us to a practical concern with systemic possession. As such, the Messiah: functionally, an exorcism recalibrating identity at the planetary level, establishing an axis of ontological legitimacy restoring individual and cosmic order.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Walter Wink and referring to Rev Dr Lewis Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top Wink Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892947986499485971 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @richvillodas Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers." In a form of world 'exorcism' as Rev. Dr. Lewis calls it, the Messiah effectively vaporizes a vast, diabolical enchantment. t.co/xgNxKFTfzu
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Wink and Whiteley Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Once Powers Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1805959597016125480 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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). t.co/A4SpR1d1Dg
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Perhaps NPC and Then again Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Perhaps it's timely to ask to what degree all of us have been 'NPC-ed' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality-in-actuality, and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions its all-pervasive optics exclusively represent, validate and secure? @nick_routledge and @johnrobb 2/ Then again, a culturally-constructed Spectacle passing for substantive reality is hardly news; nor, for that matter, is the dark sorcery of veiled powers commanding us to be fooled by appearances - ravenous wolves disguised as angels of light. There is another way, of course.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting John Moriarty Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: That was glorious Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1796194645547851986 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/X5v1cfuNvD
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: To see Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 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.
Open original document13/ Incarnation is thus neither doctrine nor distant horizon but God’s pivot-presence—the eschaton disclosing itself through history’s fractures. Nothing lies outside its scope. Evolutionary history, ecological survival, political justice: all are enfolded in the kairotic now.
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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/1904908968277008875 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @phelismino9455 The Second Advent, then, as a _planetary_ pedagogical method equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. t.co/EwH3TK5eib
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Cyril of Jerusalem and Moriarty, three inset bodies 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. Copy of tweet here: The Second Advent, then, as a _planetary_ pedagogical method equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. 2/ "We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but the second as well, much more glorious. The first coming was marked by patience; the second brings the crown of a divine kingdom. We look then beyond the first coming to the second.” - Cyril of Jerusalem "The second coming is but a deeper understanding of the first coming." – Moriarty 3/ "The Savior will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. His first coming was to fulfill his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity." - Cyril of J.
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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/1903917473096978601 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ThinkingFaith Like a thief in the night. Surprise, Illich avers, is the structure of messianic experience. Ultimately, the Eschatological 'Day' or 'Hour' is a promise to Empire as much as to the planetary poor. Not, of course, that a 'Judgment-Deferral Complex' welcomes or announces The Event. t.co/FQBTkj6FOj
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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/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @trippfuller end/ The Verus Propheta's primary obstacle? Dominative, global structures of consciousness and power militantly vested in a totalized, symbiotic, existential imperative to eclipse the Messianic. No matter. The supersessive truth of Reality will not be denied nor its Day deferred. t.co/XyoHSVvrwZ
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