Alexandermen (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alexandermen) wrote,@ 2007-11-24 08:46:00 |
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II-18 Fr Men on Space Exploration and other thoughts from "Seven Lectures on the Creed."
These are thoughts taken from here and there in the important
Sevn Lectures on the Creed. we have given 5 to 7 in full and
a section of 1 already at: http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/881
http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/922
http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/398
covers concisely and very clearly the possiblities of life on other
planets and says that in any case the cosmos is not a finished
thing but a "kind of task a vocation for humanity", he covers in
brief what C.S.Lewis does at greater length(and delightfully of
course)in "will we lose God in outer space?", the other thoughts
gathered here in Pensees are also,I think you will agree,
fresh and important.
From the Seven Lectures on the Creed
Man appeared in a late moment of the history of the cosmos. It remains
a mystery whether he was created only on earth or on other worlds also...
There can be two variants: either God colonized the universe with
various humaniies or our humanity is the epicenter from which in
time will go forth a rational colonization. But what is important is
something else that our world, according to the Bible, is NOT a
finished thing, but a kind of task , a vocation for humanity.
When man betrays his vocation he begins to destroy the world instead
of transfiguring it...
Just as a locater picks up the vibration of the Universe, the
subtle structure of the brain becomes the bearer of spirit...
Two thousand years before our era many peoples were on the move
but the little group headed by Abraham was not merely in search
of new pastures and lands, as Soren Kierkegaard said "Abraham
went to meet the unknown trusting the mysterious voice that
called him..."
Real poetry when it speaks of the spiritual, of the divine, only
attains its aim when it speaks indirectly by way of suggestion...
As we grasp in some measure the laws of the cosmos we come to
the conclusion that nature in its depths ,like humanity,
is constructed on paradoxes...
Man suffers from alienation,from loneliness, from being crushed
by the crowd or by himself. The Church is not the crowd, it is a
spiritual unity where all are transparant to one another...
The divisions which have taken place over the centuries do not
reflect the nature of the Church itself, rather cultural, political,
national and psychological barriers...but the more many faceted it
is the more fully the Church expresses itself, in Africa Madonnas
with black faces , Indian churches with Christ sdeated in
the lotus position , every culture including those of the North
American Indians and eskimos creates its own aspect of
the Church and this in no way diminishes its unity...
Christ did not revive, he was transformed. Therefore the apostle
Paul says 'we shall all be changed' this is a transformation , a new
level of evolution for all souls that have ever been created in
the world...death and nonbeing are vanquished and our crumpled pitiful
little soul breaks loose into colossal freedom."
These are thoughts taken from here and there in the important
Sevn Lectures on the Creed. we have given 5 to 7 in full and
a section of 1 already at: http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/881
http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/922
http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/398
covers concisely and very clearly the possiblities of life on other
planets and says that in any case the cosmos is not a finished
thing but a "kind of task a vocation for humanity", he covers in
brief what C.S.Lewis does at greater length(and delightfully of
course)in "will we lose God in outer space?", the other thoughts
gathered here in Pensees are also,I think you will agree,
fresh and important.
From the Seven Lectures on the Creed
Man appeared in a late moment of the history of the cosmos. It remains
a mystery whether he was created only on earth or on other worlds also...
There can be two variants: either God colonized the universe with
various humaniies or our humanity is the epicenter from which in
time will go forth a rational colonization. But what is important is
something else that our world, according to the Bible, is NOT a
finished thing, but a kind of task , a vocation for humanity.
When man betrays his vocation he begins to destroy the world instead
of transfiguring it...
Just as a locater picks up the vibration of the Universe, the
subtle structure of the brain becomes the bearer of spirit...
Two thousand years before our era many peoples were on the move
but the little group headed by Abraham was not merely in search
of new pastures and lands, as Soren Kierkegaard said "Abraham
went to meet the unknown trusting the mysterious voice that
called him..."
Real poetry when it speaks of the spiritual, of the divine, only
attains its aim when it speaks indirectly by way of suggestion...
As we grasp in some measure the laws of the cosmos we come to
the conclusion that nature in its depths ,like humanity,
is constructed on paradoxes...
Man suffers from alienation,from loneliness, from being crushed
by the crowd or by himself. The Church is not the crowd, it is a
spiritual unity where all are transparant to one another...
The divisions which have taken place over the centuries do not
reflect the nature of the Church itself, rather cultural, political,
national and psychological barriers...but the more many faceted it
is the more fully the Church expresses itself, in Africa Madonnas
with black faces , Indian churches with Christ sdeated in
the lotus position , every culture including those of the North
American Indians and eskimos creates its own aspect of
the Church and this in no way diminishes its unity...
Christ did not revive, he was transformed. Therefore the apostle
Paul says 'we shall all be changed' this is a transformation , a new
level of evolution for all souls that have ever been created in
the world...death and nonbeing are vanquished and our crumpled pitiful
little soul breaks loose into colossal freedom."
