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Tuesday 20 July 2021

9 Life Lessons From Plato

 01. Conquer yourself

02. Being angry solves nothing 03. Choose the people you spend time with wisely 04. Find your other half 05. Get involved in politics 06. Learn to be a follower, then a master 07. Be content with little 08. Be in charge of your own happiness 09. Work hard to accomplish great things



Sunday 27 June 2021

Pray together, stay together

 


The life of Polycarpus

The life of Polycarpus
 


The life of Ignatius

 



The inquisition

 testing the guilt of a witch in Sweden by ducking, if she drowned she was presumed innocent, if she survived, it was presumed that it was due to devils aid so she was burnt at the stake




Archaeologia Graeca, Or the Antiquities of Greece

 The first generations of men had neither temple, nor statues for thier Gods, but worship towards heaven in open air




Archaeologia Graeca, Or the Antiquities of Greece, Volume 1

 Archaeologia Graeca, Or the Antiquities of Greece, 1697

John Potter





Sunday 20 June 2021

Monks of the west

 solitude  says a venerable ecclesiastic of the day "solitude is the mother country of the strong - silence is their prayer"

nowhere has the human race in its joys and sorrows found sympathies more living and productive than under the frock of a monk




A Curious Novel: Postmodernism and Holy Madness | Dr. Rowan Williams | T...

Friday 11 June 2021

Laurus, eugene vodolazkin


Animals have souls but the soul is kindred to their bodies and contained in their blood, mind you people did not eat animals until the flood, they spared their souls, for an animals soul dies with its body

What is a soul? Arseny asked. It is what the lord breathes into a body, what distinguishes us from rocks and plants

Weep and pray o arseny and do not fear death, for death is just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation

why are there no names on the graves
because they are already known to the lord
in 100 years no one will know who they belonged to







dante, divene comedy


Midway upon the journey of our life
  I found myself within a forest dark,
  For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

dante, divine comedy

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Religion



 “I cannot speak of religion, but I must lament that, among so many pretenders to it, so few understand what it means.”

Henry Scougal