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August 08, 2018

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Vertue

First, the reading: ‘And where are you travelling to, Mr Vertue?’ she asked. ‘To travel hopefully is better than to arrive,’ said Vertue. ‘Do you mean you are just out for a walk, just for exercise?’ ‘Certainly not,’ said Vertue, who was becoming a little confused. ‘I am on a pilgrimage. I must admit, now that you press me, I have not a very clear idea of the end. But that is not the important question. These speculations don’t make one a better walker. The great thing is to do one’s thirty miles a day.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because that is the rule.’ ‘Ho-ho!’ said John. ‘So you do believe in the Landlord after all.’ ‘Not at all. I didn’t say it was the Landlord rule.’ ‘Whose is it then?’ ‘It is my own rule. I made it myself.’ C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress (NB the Landlord means God ) Now, line by line: ‘And where are you travelling to, Mr Vertue?’ she asked. This is about a character who is the personification of virtue, right action. Except there is a flaw. Not Virtue but Ver...

I refuse to worry about anything

Today I affirm: I refuse to worry about anything. Nothing can affect me but my own thoughts, and I consciously reject all thoughts that do not arise from God, from love, from life, from trust, from faith, from confidence, from the Secret Place of the Most High, where all darkness is dispelled. I take any apparent darkness and bring it to the Secret Place, watching the light dissolve it into nothingness. It came from nothing and is returned to nothing, leaving not even a memory of its non-existence. That which does not exist, has never existed, and will never exist can never harm me. I believed momentarily in darkness, but the trick of the light has passed, and my error has been reversed. There is only Light, Life, Love, and Goodness. God is always with me, able and willing to direct everything I do, to control my affairs, and to lead me into the pathway of peace and happiness. I release all condemnation and animosity: God is Present in every person, drawing them to Him; I consciously u...

The necessity of prayer to restore order

There is no problem that prayer cannot solve. All resistance to reality comes from rebellion against God and the insistence on a different way. This can be unwound only through reconciliation with God. Neat philosophies about the natural world and natural law that leave God out of the picture (but leave me and my consciousness in the picture) do not correct the original error. One can attempt to delete the self completely in this picture and leave a smooth, uninterrupted lake of glass, but this cannot be completed, because there is a limit to what the deleter can delete: it cannot delete the faculty of deletion, so there is always a residuum, the fly in the ointment, the skeleton in the cupboard, the ghost in the machine, the disruption in the continuum sought. The only way out of this is to recognise that the self and the Self do indeed exist and are real but are not the author of the universe: only an extension of the Source. Then, right relations are restored.

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