* If we ever experienced a problem anywhere, it came about, in some degree, due to certain wrong assumptions, either co-present with, or just prior to the given problem's actually taking place.
* Unless you believe in God, the One, and or the infinite, every assumption is contingent.
* PROCESS (or if you prefer spirit, or activity) PRECEDES IMAGE. Image may, to some extent, (and sometimes almost perfectly) represent process. But process is always superior to and always more real than image. If process precedes image this might suggest also that mind precedes matter and energy.
* Everything we believe, or say we know, is based on a factual or value judgment. Both kinds of judgment always entail the other to some extent, and nothing can be known or exists for us without them.
* No fact or purported fact is true or false without someone to assert and believe it to be such. If an assertion or claim is deemed true or false then, and we are thorough, we should ask who is it that says so (or has said so), and what criteria are (were) they using? There is no such thing as "faceless" truth or reality -- at least none we are capable of knowing.
* You can't escape reason. If you aren't rational yourself, someone else will be rational for you; nor do their intentions toward you need to be friendly or benevolent.
* Every point of view and opinion has its truth to it -- even the most abhorrent and unacceptable to us. This said, we are naturally inclined to assume that some opinions have much greater truth to them than others. Even so, what little truth there is in any point of view must, at least at some juncture, and certainly with respect to issues of heated controversy, be justly and reasonably respected. Why? Because we would not be honest (and therefore not truthful) if we didn't.
*Ultimately, and when all is said and done, thought without heart is nothing.
* Most, if not all, of society's very worst problems arise from (certain) spirit people and those who listen to them -- whether the former comes in the shape of "God," angel, devil or what have you. It is these people who are most the source and cause of real unhappiness. If then you chance to have contact with such, while having (one assumes) overcome their lures, deceptions, and pretenses of benevolence and higher knowledge, I recommend that this (i.e., "unhappiness" or "unhappiness itself") is what you call them. Blame and curse them for (most) everything wrong; for it is it is they who have been and are the ruin of everyone and everything (that is, if anyone is or could be said to be so.)
["2016-05-01 Celtic Spirituality - Before and After Jesus"]
[ch. 3]
...And some say that plagues, and hail-storms, and tempests,
and the like, are wont to take place, not alone in
consequence of material disturbance, but also through anger
of demons and bad angels. For instance, they say that the
Magi at Cleone, watching the phenomena of the skies, when
the clouds are about to discharge hail, avert the
threatening of wrath by incantations and sacrifices. And if
at any time there is the want of an animal, they are
satisfied with bleeding their own finger for a sacrifice.
The prophetess Diotima, by the Athenians offering sacrifice
previous to the pestilence, effected a delay of the plague
for ten years. The sacrifices, too, of Epimenides of Crete,
put off the Persian war for an equal period. And it is
considered to be all the same whether we call these spirits
gods or angels. And those skilled in the matter of
consecrating statues, in many of the temples have erected
tombs of the dead, calling the souls of these Daemons, and
teaching them to be worshipped by men; as having, in
consequence of the purity of their life, by the divine
foreknowledge, received the power of wandering about the
space around the earth in order to minister to men. For they
knew that some souls were by nature kept in the body. But of
these, as the work proceeds, in the treatise on the angels,
we shall discourse...
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), The Stromata, Book 4.
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