Thursday, May 12, 2016
Saint Paul Hymn to Love
I speak in
the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to
be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.Love is
patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never
ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our
prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass
away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we
see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love
abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (I Corinthians 13)
Saint Paul’s Hymn to Love
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Empedocles
(Wiki)
'For before now I have been at some time boy and girl, bush, bird, and a mute fish in the sea' (fr. B 117)
Empedocles (encyclopedia of philosophy)
Plotinus
THE SIX ENNEADS, by Plotinus
THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE
HOW THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE IDEAL-FORMS CAME INTO BEING:
AND UPON THE GOOD.
(recomended for those who want to understand what God it is or better it is not. Plotinus is neoplatonist and he is difficult to read but sure is understandable for those who have philosophy background)
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