Having played around with googlepages and still feeling that it's all pretty clumsy, I will continue with this and other blogs not only because Blogger is easy to use but because I can access it anywhere and web pages are perhaps more structured and organised and really I do all this for myself primarily.
Just to nail it, to define what purpose this address serves, and I said it in the first post: a tool for spiritual growth.
And I'll define that as I please, literally. It's an obvious point, though the obvious is often in need of re-stating, the way is a strange mysterious experience, different for each and all, yet in the spirit of mystery, a shared experience - not just among individuals, but down through centuries and across cultures. Because no man is free who is not master of himself. Let's not be deceived by foolish imaginations, this is not the first estate, we live in a fallen kingdom - it takes all our energy to weed out vanity from the dark recesses in which it lurks. And that is barely preliminary to engaging the work, such efforts are we bound to endure, or die here to the flesh.
You are responsible for what you have understood.
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War in the Spirit
Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Canons of Dort III-IV.14
Faith is therefore to be considered as the gift of God, not on account of its being offered by God to man, to be accepted or rejected at his pleasure, but because it is in reality conferred upon him, breathed and infused into him; not even because God bestows the power or ability to believe and then expects that man should by the exercise of his own free will consent to the terms of salvation and actually believe in Christ, but because He who works in man both to will and to work, and indeed all things in all, produces both the will to believe and the act of believing also.