Raphael

'Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet.' - Saint Porphyrios ⚔️🩸🌻⚡ ☦️

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

God bless the Midwest. Christ made my home so beautiful.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@BeautyWentFirst I had Kindzmarauli for Pascha and I'll never be the same

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Knotted vortex lines in superfluids untie via reconnections that break and rejoin the filaments.

This converts a trefoil knot into linked rings. Ideal rope-length configurations ensure uniform geometries where strand spacing sets the loop radius. Links and knots with minimal crossing numbers 2–9 are shown with phase field representations.

Minimal diagrams mark crossing signs and writhe values like n=3, w=+3 and n=4, w=-4.

These findings aid modeling of quantum turbulence in superfluid helium and vortex dynamics in ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@chunguskitten Yeah I went with a group of ~8 guys a month ago or so, Fr Menas is a wonderful man. Beautiful monastery. They need help fixing some things up right now so anyone who wants to go should go!

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@ThePurpIeKnight @sympractical Ok first of all aliens are not real, they are either demons or half-fallen spirits. Secondly, just because Mary is juxtaposed to Christ does not make her a god. Rather, she is the created component of the Eucharistic incarnative nexus that is at the center of creation.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@ThePurpIeKnight @sympractical I am not Catholic, Mary is a created human.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@NickyZalez @revenant_MMXX Ipse venena bibas

[Iroquois Pliskin ☦︎ @pliskin1roquois]

There is absolutely no substitute for Jesus Christ. It is better to die as a prolactinated paraplegic in a state of grace than to pass out into the outer darkness as a virile energetic specimen.

Applying bioenergetics to your life has made you more attractive? Smarter? More powerful? Great. These things are of little value.
(1 Timothy 4:8)

What will you do now? Will you use these gifts for good?

Or will you become a beast — using your newfound power and prowess to feast on the blood of those weaker than you? Will you use your physical beauty to fornicate senselessly like a stray dog, and to defile yourself?

Who is Satan? Was he not the angel Lucifer? “The light bearer”? A morning star? Second only to God in intelligence, beauty and power? What happened to him?

He exalted himself, he became proud and rebelled against Creator of heaven and earth.

He fell from grace and now he is the most pathetic being alive. He keeps his intelligence but he is blind with hatred, his power did not leave him and he was murdering from the beginning. There is no truth in him.

He is going to be utterly annihilated and he knows it. And yet he continues his futile and unrelenting battle against God with all his strength.

What profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

CO2, T3, aspirin and all the things that increase generative energy are completely worthless unless they can contribute to meekness, mercy and all good works that are pleasing to God.

There is nothing new under the sun. This biological energy that was researched by Dr Peat and his scientific forbears has many other names:

Prana, Chi, Vril, Orgone, Generative Power (see the Freemason logo), and so on and soforth.

The point of this message is that raising one’s biological energy is not the answer to life. Ray Peat asks: “What could be more important to understand than biological energy?”

The answer to that is this: walking the narrow road that leads to life.

Jesus Christ is the way and the truth and the life.

I have written this for anyone with eyes to see but it is specifically directed at individuals who I can see embarking on the path of false light.

[Holly Blake @hollycurates]

my soul feels so deeply soothed when i look at Lee Kyutae’s illustrations. it feels like crystal-clear, cool water in a thin glass, sparkling in the summer sun

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@TyrReborn If God was identical with everything knowledge would be impossible because there would be no true difference. This is obviously false. God is the source of Being and thus all things participate in Him, but He is not equivalent with everything. He preserves difference out of love.

[FeelsGuy @FeelsGuy2003]

The heartbreaking thing is knowing we are the men that surround Him.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@wylfcen What would you call an ecologist/botanist?

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

The Ocean of Mercy

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@OutlawKitsune @DnDTheology @JadeAtrophis I assume it has something to do with that time being the densest concentration of human consciousness occupying the dream state. Night + dream density + lowest body temperature. Death and liminality is just closer.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@OutlawKitsune @DnDTheology @JadeAtrophis I always assumed the reason monasteries do liturgies in the middle of the night is because that's when the veil is more thin.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

If you listen closely to the warm wind blow gently through the coneflowers and the rushes and the wild white indigo, you will hear the soft words of the Spirit's mercy; you will feel the sun's course nest your impermanent life tenderly in the seasons, and your heart will repent.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@wylfcen Found this in my church library yesterday

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@OrthodoxLurker For my parish's group of guys ~21-28 we talk about politics, theology, physiognomy, ecology and botany (my doing), menswear/how to not dress like crap, singing, home improvement, yogurt making, aesthetics and culture and phenomenology (Goethe's come up a lot), and memes

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@fyrewede I went from atheist to having a vision of a man in a desert in whom the whole universe was contained at 15, to an occultist obsessed with physics, Eastern religion, and psychedelics until 22, then eventually I realized God had to be a person, and that person must be Jesus Christ.

[Raphael @PrairiePoietes]

@clrk_o The cell is elemental too. The membrane is water, the mitochondria is fire, the cytoskeleton is earth, and the endoplasmic reticulum/golgi apparatus is air. The nucleus might be aethery. I'd have to think about it more tho.