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Absolute Atheism Starts In An Act Of Faith In Reverse Gear And Is A Full-blown Religious Commitment. Here We Have The First Internal Inconsistency Of Contemporary Atheism: It Proclaims That All Religion Must Necessarily Vanish Away, And It Is Itself A Religious Phenomenon.

The Spiritual Experience Of The Philosopher Is The Nourishing Soil Of Philosophy; That Without It There Is No Philosophy; And That, Even So, Spiritual Experience Does Not, Or Must Not, Enter Into The Intelligible Texture Of Philosophy. The Pulp Of The Fruit Must Consist Of Nothing But The Truth.

Poetic Experience Is Distinct In Nature From Mystical Experience. Because Poetry Emanates From The Free Creativity Of The Spirit,it Is From The Very Start Oriented Toward Expression, And Terminates In A Word Proffered, It Wants To Speak; Whereas Mystical Because It Emanates From The Deepest Longing Of The Spirit Bent On Knowing, Tends Of Itself Toward Silence And Internal Fruition. Poetic Experience Is Busy With The Created World And The Enigmatic And Innumerable Relations Of Existents With One Another, Not With The Principle Of Being.

It Has Never Been Recommended To Confuse "loving" With "seeking To Please"... ...salome Pleased Herod's Guests; I Can Hardly Believe She Was Burning With Love For Them. As For Poor John The Baptist... ...she Certainly Did Not Envelop Him In Her Love.

At Each Epoch Of History The World Was In A Hopeless State, And At Each Epoch Of History The World Muddled Through; At Each Epoch The World Was Lost, And At Each Epoch It Was Saved.