Elias and Eckhart

You ask whether the following, admittedly mysterious, passage “implies a doctrine of reincarnation”: “And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John…. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger...

Corruptio Optimi Pessima

You’re right of course that there’s no Byzantine Empire. But as to whether it should, or shouldn’t, serve as a model for “a truly Christian society”—a pointer to the pattern “laid up in the heavens” (Republic,...