Friday, August 6, 2021

"there where they are stored up for us in him, we see reflected as in a mirror both the firstfruits and the whole of the world to come."

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Mosaic of the Transfiguration, Monastery of St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai "For here, in our hearts, Christ takes up his abode together with ...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The influence of Ragley-Hall heterodoxy (not to mention Kabbalah) upon Robert Barclay

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"the understanding of [the pre-incarnate] Christ as a third essence, between God and man, which was suggested by [Anne] Conway and [Fra...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

"bought them back and burned them"

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Source       "The uncompromising sternness with which a few Quakers respected a single point of conscience seems to us now an obsession...

"We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness has permitted us to speak with him."

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"Man has [but] one noble office:  that of praying and loving.  [So] pray, love:  that is the happiness of man on earth!"      . . ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

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 "Le bonheur n’est ni hors de nous ni dans nous. Il est en Dieu et hors et dans nous."       Blaise Pascal, Pensée 465 Brunschvicg...

"We know that we do not dream, and, however impossible it is for us to prove it by reason, this inability demonstrates only the weakness of our reason, but not, as they affirm, the uncertainty of all our knowledge."

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      Blaise Pascal, Pensée 282 Brunschvicg =Faugère II, 108, XXIX / Havet VIII.6 / Michaut 420 / Tourneur p.195-1 / Le Guern 101 / Lafuma 1...

"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."

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      Blaise Pascal, Pensée 275 Brunschvicg =Faugère I, 229, CLXX / Havet XXIV.51 / Le Guern 756 / Lafuma 975 / Sellier 739 , trans. Trotter...
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