Browsing the "Esoteric/Speculation" Category

May 22, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay I wrote an old artilce on Sacred Tradition and the Book of Enoch, and it’s always interesting to see what St. Augustine said on a subject. In his masterful City...

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May 5, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I had always thought, following James B. Jordan’s analysis as well (in Through New Eyes), that the three levels of the Temple signified a three-tiered, symbolical view...

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May 1, 2010 - 0 Comments

“He, the Eternal King, recapitulates everything in himself” (Adversus haereses, III, 21,9) By: Jay Dyer For a long time I assumed that the Eastern notions of the eschaton sounded universalist and...

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April 19, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer If you’ve read much in terms of Catholic theology and Church History, it’s not too long before you come into contact with various theories about what has...

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April 16, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Peter Parker Although the idea that Weird Science is rife with occult underpinnings might, at first, seem a ludicrous contention to some, on closer examination of the text numerous...

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April 14, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I loved the 90s. It was a fun time in my life and one film that sticks out as a kind of goofy, tongue-in-cheek indulgence is The...

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April 14, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer A common thread in non-Christian religions and worldviews is that of dualism. In fact, nature itself does exhibit all forms of dualities, such as night and day,...

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April 13, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Yes, I admit it, I went to see Transformers 2. It was so bad I was hoping it would transform into a different movie. But what can...

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April 10, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Peter Parker   Poised on the cusp of the summer season, as Hollywood begins to release it’s usual torrent of mind numbing crud, the “paranoid” observer would do well...

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April 10, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I’m posting this because the St. Maximus section is often referred to (and it’s all St. Maximus anyway). The western corollary to the Logos/logoi is “divine exemplarism.” Both are rooted in...

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April 7, 2010 - 0 Comments

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April 6, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer A couple years ago I wrote a note about the reality of the spiritual realm and that it was far more diverse than we tend to assume...

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March 25, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer A strange title for an article, indeed, but they told us in high school to make your opening line catchy, so hopefully that will bring sweat to...

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