Friday, July 15, 2022

The Next Level of Faith

 

The historical Jesus is pitted against the resurrected Jesus.     With you, I must decrease; others must increase.     What it means to be human: anthropology, theology, ontology.     Revelation in personhood, godhead, the luxury of the forgotten.     Self-communication. Upright intrusion. Elusive observations. To have died an infant—to have lived a silent adult—grace becomes vision.     Beatification. Siena. The soul inside of a Soul.     Clear and distinct knowledge—how has it come? By way of nuance, structure, forgiveness, and suffering.     It might be scientific wisdom, the fight of the opera, faith reified.     I am the measure of the volcano; a soul waiting to graduate; a mind bent on learning something esoteric (the flame of the antithesis).     Oh Saint Catherine, it was never so aggressive, you were born pure; many ways now to avoid being human, a person; communication is self-transcendence.     Knowledge becomes belief. Understanding becomes disbelief. The function is unrelatable at times.     Unmerited. Nonetheless, gods. The fever is in loving regardless.                   

Time was Brief

    With deeper allure—to ward off ghosts—melancholia is an empire. Such dialogue confuses—: one wrestling despair. It was remote living, in...