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Become wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

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Based on recent reflections on language, I have put together an analysis of the meaning of talking animals in story telling.

Link below!

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@miltonappl3 “For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?”

1 Corinthians 9:9

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@miltonappl3 Augustine says so

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@miltonappl3 Incubi and succubi are real

[Nathaniel R. Clark @NathanielRClark]

Honeycomb icecream as a christological symbol.

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“The way in which men think about the outer world determines, in the long run, the way in which they perceive it also. Indeed it very largely determines what they perceive.”

- Barfield, Israel and the Michael Impulse

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A simple summary of Barfield’s work is that there is a direct relationship between what nameable and what is perceivable. Thus any change in language has a corresponding effect on perception, and vice versa.

Barfield’s definition of poetry is language which produces a “felt change in consciousness.” In other words, it is the use of names, either old or new, which modify the readers or listeners perception. For example, Shakespeare supposedly “invented” or popularized over 1700 English words, thereby producing new percepts, or phenomena.

In Saving the Appearances, Barfield follows Aristotle in splitting the world by into the actually phenomenal and the potentially phenomenal, with perception being the actualization of the potentially phenomenal. The kind of poetry performed by the likes of Shakespeare shifted the domain of the “potentially phenomenal” by providing new names. And with a shift in the potentially phenomenal comes a shift in the actually phenomenal—the perceived. It is by this process that the poet participates in ποίησις (poiesis), or “making.”

The work of the Inklings in general is a self-aware attempt at recovering this kind of ποίησις and protecting it from evil. The imagination lies at the heart of the Inklings due to its relation to the “potentially phenomenal” as opposed to the perceived. Using the imagination, Lewis and Tolkien in particular reshaped the public field of potential phenomena in the modern world, reintroducing angels, demons, and the spiritual world as a whole.

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@clrk_o Hahaha

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I can’t watch the first Harry Potter movie without thinking about Jordan Peterson ranting about the golden snitch being a meta-game

[Plato's Stepchild @MattRob78281471]

“Those who truly practice philosophy practice dying, and death is least of all frightening to them.”

- Plato, Phaedo 67e

οἱ μὲν ὡς ἀληθῶς φιλόσοφοι ἀποθνῄσκειν μελετῶσι καὶ τὸ τεθνάναι ἥκιστα αὐτοῖς ἀνθρώπων φοβερόν

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Samuel and Elijah “controlled” the weather with prayer

[Matthieu Pageau @PageauMatthieu]

"He who controls the weather will control the world!"

- Lyndon B Johnson (a crazy conspiracy theorist)

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@Videogarment “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”

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@Videogarment It’s from the good ol days
https://t.co/jn0uChJert

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@clrk_o This really helps explain the role of Dionysius in Steiner’s thought as well

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This is an excellent essay. It’s notable how much this read of Aristotle approaches the core of Steiner’s thought (and by extension Barfield).

[Jakob Ziguras @noonessleep]

@MattRob78281471 @UntoldFortune @HeavenIsNotLost If you are interested in the proof, I address the issue in the essay "Aristotle: Metaphysics as Theanthropology" here: https://t.co/kzLbKFYJIr.

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@Noesis32 @noonessleep @johnmilbank3 @HuntHolman Yes, https://t.co/XIMeR16ZeB

[Matt Johnston @MattInformed]

Read the books that Elwin Ransom memorized.

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Read the books that Elwin Ransom memorized.

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“Psychology is indistinguishable from cosmology; the theophanic Imagination joins them into a psycho-cosmology.” -Henry Corbin

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@miltonappl3 https://t.co/b91zErjsZV

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Cast(e)ing

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@MTClassical @miltonappl3 https://t.co/1SjzDc2cSP

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In chapter 126, The Life Buoy, the ships carpenter suggests that turning a coffin into a lifeboat is “a cobblers job” and that cobbler’s jobs “end in the middle and begin at the end” thus making the cobbler into the constructor of chiasmi

[Gage Murphy @gagemurphy777]

Eat a star, lose your heart,

That only love can restore, for “a heart’s a heavy burden”
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“Sophie. Your hair is like starlight. It’s beautiful.”

[milton @miltonappl3]

I don't expect to be believed, but from the ancient western mystery school perspective, technology, natural science, the material world, democracy, and the panopticon are all matriarchal total victory conditions.

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@miltonappl3 JRR Tolkien will have his own spike one day