We have already noted that this paradox appeared also in the treatment of the early Church. It was important while it was still insignificant, and certainly while it was still impotent. It was important solely because it was intolerable; and in that sense it is true to say that it was intolerable because it was […]
It is already apparent that though men are said to have looked for hell under the earth, in this case it is rather heaven that is under the earth. And there follows in this strange story the idea of an upheaval of heaven. That is the paradox of the whole position; that henceforth the highest […]
We might well be content to say that mythology had come with the shepherds and philosophy with the philosophers; and that it only remained for them to combine in the recognisation of religion. But there was a third element that must not be ignored and one which that religion forever refuses to ignore, in any […]
Philosophy also, like mythology, had very much the air of a search. It is the realization of this truth that gives its traditional majesty and mystery to the figures of the Three Kings; the discovery that religion is broader than philosophy and that this is the broadest of religions, contained within this narrow space. […] […]
In Wundersdorf, seiner Zeit immer ein bißchen voraus, ist das Krippenspiel schon einmal über die Bühne gegangen. Die Hirten wenden sich anderen Dingen zu. Und die Schafe? Die Schafe machen Zukunftspläne… Die Paraderolle Ein Sketchlet zum Vierten Adventssonntag 2011 für vier Schafe und beliebig viele Schafstatisten (Die uns nun schon bekannte Weide vor […]
Auf den Text des heutigen Tages habe ich mich besonders gefreut: Chesterton at his very best: The Theosophists build a pantheon; but it is only a pantheon for pantheists. They call a Parliament of Religions as a reunion of all the peoples; but it is only a reunion of all the prigs. Yet exactly such […]
That truth that is tradition has wisely remembered them almost as unknown quantities, as mysterious as their mysterious and melodious names; Melchior, Caspar, Balthazar. But there came with them all that world of wisdom that had watched the stars in Chaldea and the sun in Persia; and we shall not be wrong if we see […]
Am 9. Dezember hatte PuLa gefragt, ob der de facto Ausfall des Hochfests Mariä Erwählung selbst in der Diaspora wirklich sein müsse und die Frage, natürlich, verneint. Die interessanten Kommentare zu diesem Posting zeigen, daß wir es hier leider offenbar mit einem deutschlandweiten Problem zu tun haben, und auch Schwierigkeiten darüber hinaus. Weil ich finde, […]
And the thing they found was of a kind with the things they sought. The populace had been wrong in many things; but they had not been wrong in believing that holy things could have a habitation and that divinity need not disdain the limits of time and space. […] The place that the shepherds […]
Upon all such peasantries everywhere there was descending a dusk and twilight of disappointment, in the hour when these few men discovered what they sought. Everywhere else Arcadia was fading from the forest. Pan was dead and the shepherds were scattered like sheep. And though no man knew it, the hour was near which was […]