Few Marxists seem to know anything about the man whose ideology they so eagerly endorse; it's just a different form of tyranny from the one he criticized.
Apparently civilization is not a "set it and forget it" affair. Propaganda is most successful when it finds a compliant audience. There is often a hunger in academia for recognition, and a resentment toward less-educated people who are more successful. Thus socialism has a powerful appeal to such deep-rooted envy. Just as the low-skilled unemployed are vulnerable to being seduced by fascism.
Totally tracking with you Michael. I saw the Senate hearing-listened to the whole 3 hours. I had no idea about the difference in the products sold to us vs Europe. The Powers and Principalities are tightening the screws-i think we all feel it.
Michael, Thank you for your presentation, very informative and a fun listen. It seems that no matter how much we experience change, somethings stay the same. The key point that struck me was the changing of word, propaganda to public relations during the 40’s, early rebranding at work. Also how science is used to sell an agenda. How many times did we hear ‘follow the science’ during covid? It was crazy. I really enjoyed your talking about the thriving industry in Detroit in the late 50’s early 60’s. My dad worked in the auto plants. He told me once that he quit a job in the morning and had another job by late afternoon as there was such demand for labor.
I love that quote you said “ when you hate school and have a bad gpa, what god does makes you go to school for the rest of you life”. Haha I can relate to this
09:11 Trinity is hellish Father, heavenly Mother both are uncreated methaphysical Backgroundforces. They become united in Manifestation of the child/ cosmos, our world. What do childeren Love the most? Play! "The perfect state, the summum bonum, is play. Gods life is play. Adam fell when his Play became serious business." Jakob Böhme
Your series on the tarot is simply the best I have found. So many interesting personal reflections. Unfortunately it also makes sense that only 200+ people have seen it.
I’m very grateful to find these videos. I have had this book for a number of years, and I’ve had to absorb some many concepts, ideas and experiences to even be able to scratch the surface of it. Some times I get stressed out trying to understand what he’s trying to explain. But each time I come back to it I understand a little more than I did the last time. Thanks for making these. 👍🏻
Thanks for taking the time and the effort to do these videos. Thanks to this chapter John 3, water and spirit, is an image that my soul embraces and leads it to new depths. Listening to you also coincided with this little nuggest from Magical Egypt with John Anthony West Atum was the supremely powerful, self-created deity who arose on the primordial mound from the waters of chaos at the beginning of creation.
I was very disturbed by what you were describing as "house church," and then got to where you talked about why you feel you cant go back, and now I'm still disturbed, but I'm also sympathetic. I come from the traditionalist end of things, where knowing a few of what we call "home aloners" - faithful who have taken such scandal at the post V2 revolution that they've decided to just pray at home -is not unusual. To be frank with you I believe there is almost nothing more self-deceptively harmful to faith over the long haul. It sounds like youre making a more joyous go of it than the ones I've encountered. I hope with time, and the needed acts of restitution from churchmen for breaking their troth, you'll go back where you ought to be and participate in the mysteries.
In candour Michael I was not listening carefully until halfway into the video, so I missed your introductory explanation of how you got here. I wanted to add that the change in your voice and body language from around 26:30 to 27:30 was so touching. You are articulate and accomplished of course but for that minute you seemed to me like a boy whose parents abandoned him. It is a pure thing, not a put down. It made me very sympathetic to where you are now.
Hello, I've really appreciated watching these first two videos of yours on Meditations on the Tarot. So far your insightful and comprehensive commentary has helped a lot to recapitulate some of the most important parts of each letter, as well as open up new paths of contemplation/investigation that I missed the first reading - for example, your point about "gendered typology." Like one of the comments below, I found your description of Mary as a "lighting rod" for the Pentecost and her placement at the center of the beatific vision of Paradiso as very illuminating. Overall, I think this letter is very "Dantean" with respect to the ideal of Christian yoga as a fully "impassioned" reintegration of consciousness and the focus on "the gift of tears." There's a lot of times in the Divine Comedy where Dante makes it clear that the believing Christian no matter how ascetic their lifestyle is not depersonalized but very much embraces the fire of passion in their heart and warns against the repose in being( As Tomberg puts it, "being without love would be the most appalling torment - the Inferno itself!"): For example, you might remember that near the end of Inferno, when Dante and Virgilius transit the frozen lake Cocytus at the bottom of the pit, Dante stops to converse with Count Ugolino, who he sees chewing the head of the Archbishop who condemned him and his sons to death by starvation in a prison. Possession by the will-to-power has disrupted Ugolino's human passion and moral duty to his children as father to comfort them, but as the days pass in prison, with his children wasting away at his feet, he offers no comfort to them, no words of hope or love, no tears - he is completely silent, fallen to "repose in being" and has already entered a part of that "Inferno" that Tomberg alludes to. You will also remember Ugolino promises "speaking and weeping" together (Inferno 33.9) at the recitation of his tale - Dante doesn't mention himself, Virgil, or Ugolino crying. Because in hell they have lost the ability to cry.
I've run across someone who said that the "rib" incident is a mistranslation. The same Hebrew word means "to split." So, God split Adam into two equal parts. Male and female. Anima and animus. Eve is not subordinate to Adam, in that Adam came first. Eve and Adam are the same original being, split into two parts.
Well done! Fine fiddlin! I've always liked this lyric and you've done it proud. From one of the greatest comedies ever created. I've seen this play many times but the most memorable was a Shakespeare in the Park Joseph Papp production back in the 1980s in NYC. Great cast and direction. Peter MacNicol played Sir Andrew Aguecheek and had me roaring with laughter. I don't think I've ever laughed as loud and as often as during this production. I found out, about forty years later, that Rudolf Steiner saw this play on one of his trips to England and was reported as roaring out loud at the antics of the actor who was playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the production he viewed. Ars Longa.
Glad you like it. That fiddler is mind-blowingly good. Was that the Shakespeare in the Park production with Helen Hunt and Paul Rudd? I saw it on television and remember it being really good.
@@michaelmartin8681 No, I'm old. Way before that. 1986, I believe. Tony Azito as Feste and F. Murray Abraham as Malvolio. Just a lot of fun. They bring back Twelfth Night a lot because it's such a crowd-pleaser. So many opportunities for humor with all the cross-dressing going on. I also caught an excellent production at the American Rep in Cambridge, directed by the great Andrei Serban and featuring Cherry Jones as Viola and Diane Lane as Olivia supported by the top-notch regulars of that repertory company. But the BEST version of Twelfth Night I've ever seen was done by the Globe Theater in 2012 (captured on DVD) with an all-male cast, as it would have been done during Shakespeare's time. Stephen Fry as Malvolio. Mark Rylance as Olivia. Just hysterical. There are so many more jokes to be had when men are playing women in drag. Highly recommended.
Don't know if this is worth anything but I've often wondered if Sophia (the feminine aspect of God) was in conjunction to what is commonly referred to as negative theology..aka..the apophatic as termed in orthodox christianity..?? For me, the apopathic way is in the process of "giving way" or surrender unto simplicity..a dropping of our own ego and will.. Didn't Nicholas of Cusa write a book called The way of unknowing?..a kind of learned ignorance that enhances the way of Wisdom to blossom within..?? And the cataphatic way being the assertive study of our own will the know the things of God through reading writing conversing.. As in a kind of spiritual sexuality..the male has the aggressive nature of action, creativity..the feminine is receptive and passive to coming into spiritual illuminations..the two sides of the same coin..yin and yang to a certain degree maybe Anything to offer along these lines? I don't mind corrections..none of my thoughts are chiseled in stone
I think you're definitely onto something. And I also think 'The Cloud of Unknowing' is the book you have in mind. Not by Cusa, but by an anonymous English monk. I think it's one of the most important mystical texts ever written.
As St. Augustine said "That which is known as the Christian religion existed among the ancients, and never did not exist." All the ancient religions were Christian but they were pre-incarnation versions of Christianity. A recently discovered text written by the Chinese Emperor who ruled during the time of Christ's life on earth discloses that he knew that the God they worshiped, who bore an amazing resemblance to Yahweh, had incarnated in the West and been crucified thus saving Humanity. Christianity did not "borrow" or "steal" pagan rites, rituals, and stories, Christianity fulfilled them. And that's also why the great cathedrals of Christianity are often built over sacred pagan sites. It's the same religion. The main difference is that Christianity is post-incarnation, crucification, and resurrection of the Being of this Universe. So, practicing pagan religions now is pointless, atavistic, and can even be considered "evil," as those practices are out of sync with the current time and needs of Humanity. When the indigenous Americans talked about "The Elders" and the "Holy People," they were talking about the very same angelic hierarchies of the Christian world.
The horror indeed ... coffee hour is where the real challenge is and where alot of the healing and learning and growth happens.. becoming human.. restoring the Image... I absolutely have to force myself to stay.. I go out to the car and have a cigarette and say a prayer for strength and go back in... always glad that I did
Many thanks for this discussion, it touched on several ‘issues’ , questions I’ve had , still meditate on. I read Black Elk Speaks back in the 70s, it had a strong impact opened my eyes to an an appreciation of Native American culture and spirituality. It was a shock to learn later that he converted to Catholicism. The pearls, diamonds are buried so deep, hidden, but the fragrance is unmistakable, defying all attempts by the other to deny….peace
If anyone loved the Sun and the brightness of the day, it surely was Herrick... Maybe that's why the summer Sun came out for you as you read the words of her long-gone minister... Words from the Gospel of Truth. Thanks for posting this.
