Ryan Haecker

Delighted to share the republication by Fr. Al Kimel @EOrthodoxy of my 2019 Noesis essay 'What do Angels Sing?' on angels, music, and the Pythagorean Harmonia Mundi.

Chinese poetry is basically all psychogeographical — in a metaphysical way.

One of the finest Art Deco buildings in the world, the GE Building in New York City 🇺🇸

“If the Spirit sanctifies it, every genuine book is a Bible.” — Novalis

@AimeTim Please spread the news, and invite anyone you know who might be interested.

@RyanHaecker Sorry I can’t join for this.

Join us for an exciting discussion of Gaston Bachelard on Sunday at 3 pm CST. Links below.

It is not sufficient, but it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise you become no better than what you claim to oppose. And as Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in “War and Murder,” God will not be impressed by those who try to rationalize butchery by saying to him: “We had to break your law… We could not obey your commandments, for we did not believe your promises.”

"Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness" Vladimir Miskovis & Steven Jay Lynn hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Byzantine Aura-maxxing

“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.” C.S. Lewis

Cathedral of Malta, Mdina

Another world is possible

making some enhancements to de chardin as presented in @RyanHaecker's jesuit cybernetics. post-jesuit cybernetics

The real reason why the Protestant doctrine of total depravity and its (appropriately) totally depraved fruits—such as the works of Hegel and Kierkegaard—is so hard to critique in contemporary America is that doing so means imposing as a radical social contradiction, against every counsel of good prudence, an epistemic doctrine of divine illumination that, as Jean-Luc Marion says, is fundamentally connected to the Illuminative etymological root of “accusation.” Satan, of course, is the great accuser—but it is the Satan in all of us, the original sin we all suffer from, that accuses our own conscience when we are faced with the manifestation of genuine Catholic Truth through the procedure of divine illumination, which as St. Augustine saw very well and as Marion outlines magisterially in “In the Self’s Place,” provokes every spasm of resistance imaginable from those sinners who cannot bear to have their conscience accused in confrontation with and overcoming of the Satan (which is just as much to say the Gnostic heretic, or even the liberal) within them—Catholic and Protestant alike. To be on the other side of this vale of accusation is truly to be a sort of “living dead”… dead to the world, precisely as Christ counsels. Trust me: orthodox Catholic gnosis is far headier than any of that heretical stuff. youtu.be/nHF6YGfGRM8?si…

Rowan Williams: ‘I don’t know whether the Anglican Communion will survive’ telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…

"The question is whether the Holbein image, focusing so sharply the issue of whether incarnate goodness can live effectively in the mechanical world of violence and counter violence, is meant to be in some way an image of Myshkin himself [...] At the very least, the picture tantalizingly puts before us an image of Christ that is—in Orthodox terms—no image at all, as if to alert us to the novel’s central paradox, that the person who is presented as innocent and compassionate in Christ-like mode is in fact unwittingly a force of destruction."

Days after Pete Hegseth said the U.S. war in Iran is protected by God, Pope Leo XIV denounced those who “involve the name of God in choices of death.” “At the moment in the world, many of our brothers and sisters suffer because of violent conflicts, caused by the absurd desire to solve the problems and the divergences with the war, while it is necessary to dialogue without hesitation for peace. “Some then even intend to involve the name of God in these choices of death. But God cannot be ruled by the darkness, and he is rather given light, hope, and peace to humanity, and peace that those who invoke him must seek.”

#SaintJoseph cared for the family that the Lord entrusted to him. Guardianship means being attentive to others, respecting their choices, and caring for them. St. Joseph shows us that presence and guardianship are inseparable dimensions: we can only care for others by being present, and we are only present when we assume responsibility for the other.

1. Bruno Latour’s work of course is one long "anxiety of influence" in relation to a number of thinkers – Garfinkel, Whitehead, Schmitt, Stengers, Serres, Souriau, etc. But IMO the key one, that unfortunately he only had a few years to engage with before his passing, is Voegelin.

A French Jesuit in Peking, Joachim Bouvet (d. 1730), came to believe that the “I Ching” was not only China’s oldest text — but humankind’s. Older, even, than the “Book of Genesis”. Bouvet’s theory led G. W. Leibniz to perfect his binomial notation of mathematics (0-1) — which led, several centuries on, to digital computing, cybernetics & AI. #future #humanities