Assessment and Hoodless Hoodings

You speak of the “bane of assessment”, the foolishness of supposing that knowledge is a matter of facts and skills that can be measured statistically and recorded on charts and graphs. Guénon would presumably have considered this one more...

A Gospel Puzzle

I too was newly struck by the passage you mention (Mark 8:22-26) the last time I studied it in the daily readings from the Gospel. What you call “magical” miracles—that is, miracles in which Christ, rather than simply healing someone by a word or by...

Babylonian Babies

We definitely have a God-given ability, and responsibility, to fight against evil; one thinks of Christ cleansing the Temple. Indeed all the traditions allow for the exercise of “holy indignation”, though at the same time they all equally caution that such...

The Fall-Which-Is-Creation

Yes, we can definitely say that the general resurrection will lead to “something that hasn’t been know or seen, and which didn’t even exist, before”—that is, during the present (or any previous) age. That’s just good Christian...

Milk Before Meat

What would I say to someone, you ask, who was “clueless” but “open” and who needed simple answers to start with? This is a question not unlike the one I tried to address in my last post (“Advice for the Masses”). By way of answer,...