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"Bulgakov rejects the Thomistic/Aristotelian notion of God as a "first cause" of the world on the grounds that this ultimately swallows up both creaturely freedom and the world's ontological reality. God doesn't "cause" the world any more than He "causes" Himself, because the world is nothing other than the divine essence posited in creaturely becoming. The world is a living icon, not a manufacture." — Mar 03, 2026 06:08PM
"Bulgakov rejects the Thomistic/Aristotelian notion of God as a "first cause" of the world on the grounds that this ultimately swallows up both creaturely freedom and the world's ontological reality. God doesn't "cause" the world any more than He "causes" Himself, because the world is nothing other than the divine essence posited in creaturely becoming. The world is a living icon, not a manufacture." — Mar 03, 2026 06:08PM
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""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
“When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.”
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Man is but a reed, the feeblest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him… But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him – the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Without Contraries is no Progression.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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