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@sinbad-the-merchant

🇲🇦 Caxcan 🇲🇽 '96
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Theological Texts as Pulp Sci-Fi pt 10

Marguerite Porete — Mirror of the Simple Souls

Rosemary Radford Ruether — Sexism and God-talk

Pseudo-Dionysius — Celestial Hierarchy

D. Preman Niles — The Lotus and the Sun

Linn Marie Tonstad — God and Difference

“There is no remedy for time. Or, at least, we do not know what it is. But we must trust in the flow of time, we must live. […] We are time and cannot escape its dominion. We can transfigure it but not deny it or destroy it. This is what the great artists, poets, philosophers, scientists, and certain men of action have done. Love, too, is an answer: because it is time and made of time, love is at once consciousness of death and an attempt to make of the instant an eternity. All loves are ill-starred, because all are made of time, all are the fragile bond between two temporal creatures who know they are going to die. In all loves, even the most tragic, there is an instant of happiness that it is no exaggeration to call superhuman: it is a victory over time, a glimpse of the other side, of the there that is a here, where nothing changes and everything that is, truly is.”

Octavio Paz, from The Double Flame: Essays on Love and Eroticism (The Harvill Press, 1996)