I am excited to announce Solea Press, a new imprint of Symbolic World Press. We will be publishing more specifically religious books with the level of attention and love of beauty we have put in all our other projects. Our first volume will be an illuminated Gospel that will hopefully be the Bible we all wish existed.
“Perhaps the terrifying thing about the new media for most of us is their inevitable evocation of irrational response. The irrational has become the major dimension of experience in our world.”
Marshall McLuhan
‘Culture Without Literacy’
in ‘Explorations 1’
1953
NFL really needs to do something to solve the crowd noise problem. Aside from hearing loss issues, nobody wants to watch a game where the players can’t communicate strategy to one another
New video on my channel The Art of Imitating Heaven. "Ancient people knew the sky the way that we know the highways around our cities."
Today's video is a bit different. Deacon Seraphim Rohlin is here to introduce you to our new Symbolic World Course presenter, Joshua Sturgill. Together they discuss ancient cosmology, symbolism, and the meaning, power, and dangers of observing the night sky. They discuss the ancient pagan views on this, Biblical astronomy, the reservations of the church fathers, and modernity's determinism on the one hand, and confusion on the other hand. I hope you enjoy this conversation and will join us for Joshua's course. Link below.
NEW COURSE: The Art of Imitating Heaven: Structure and Meaning in Ancient Cosmology By Joshua Sturgill
What is heaven? Where is it? For ancient people, the answer was obvious: simply look up at the night sky. For them, to see the stars and planets was to see the face of the divine. Christianity, too, understood the visible sky as the realm of unfallen creation. What does this belief mean, and why was it lost?
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This is the reason that God permitted death and pain as soon as sin had entered in, *not so much to inflict a penalty on the guilty* but to supply a remedy for him who had fallen into sickness. (NICHOLAS CABASILAS, LIFE IN CHRIST, 58)
ENGLEWOOD, NJ — Metr. Saba (Isper) has called on the faithful of the Antiochian Archdiocese to establish parish-based retreat houses, or “Bethany Houses,” to address the growing spiritual, emotional, and psychological strain of modern life. In a pastoral encyclical, the Metropolitan reflected on his own retreat experience in Lebanon and emphasized the Orthodox tradition of renewal through prayer, silence, and communal life.
According to Business Insider, this was Scott Adams' favorite Dilbert of all time. So, I thought it might be nice to share.
Keep them laughing -- and thinking -- in Heaven, @ScottAdamsSays. We will certainly miss you down here.
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