I don’t wish to say “I instructed you so,” however many individuals are contacting me saying that it actually works for them to make use of the time period “antichrist” in mild of the goings-on within the MAGA regime at the moment.
Slicing one trillion {dollars} from the funds devoted to kids’s poverty and previous folks (Medicaid) and meals stamps for the hungry? Why? To pave the way in which for tax cuts for billionaires and firms.
Within the seek for phrases to speak about Evil, the archetype of the antichrist is one such time period employed over the centuries.
Saint and physician of the church, Hildegard of Bingen, painted a strong portray of the antichrist within the 12th century, and 16th century artist Luca Signorelli painted a significant fresco on the antichrist within the 12 months 1501. Every tells a strong story of the antichrist, and I function each in my e-book on the identical.
Luca’s fresco even has ninja-like warriors wearing what seems to be black Klan outfits operating round within the background. To me, these figures bespeak the younger fellows that Elon Musk employed to invade all of the departments of the federal government, and steal personal info on all of us, for his or her computer systems. Test it out.
On Friday, all of us witnessed an alternate within the Oval Workplace with America’s vp and president shouting at a hero of our time, President Zelenskyy. A religious warrior certainly, who had the braveness to face as much as an invading military by a tyrant searching for to destroy his nation and threaten European democracy. One appears for phrases that may match what we noticed occurring within the Oval Workplace.
Trump known as it “nice tv,” and he and Vance invoked Putin’s speaking factors for all of the world to see. They shouted over the visiting president, behaving like bullies of their therapy of him, striving to be identical to Putin, the bully they each admire.
America, it appears, in forty days, has moved away from honoring and supporting those that wish to defend their nation from invasion and search to uphold their democracy, towards siding with despots. America voted within the UN alongside Putin, North Korea and Sudan, to not criticize Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s fairly an ending to 80 years of peace in Europe, and of NATO serving to to maintain that peace. And provided up on stay tv.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the US was seen burying her head in her lap. Individuals who know one thing about how the world and diplomacy works, known as it “abominable,” “harmful,” “beautiful,” and “embarrassing.” It demonstrated precisely the work of the antichrist that Hildegard painted, that of undoing hopes of order and substituting chaos and dysfunction. With “luxurious residing” (gold bogs anybody?) and greed and violence being integral to the whole dynamic.
We’re reminded of the knowledge spoken by Thomas Aquinas, about how tyrants want the corporate of dangerous folks over good folks (Putin as an alternative of Zelenskyy for instance). The latter has demonstrated what true management and true braveness are, by rallying his nation to withstand a tyrannical invader.
He deserves our reward and thanks. As Meister Eckhart says: “Who is an efficient individual? A great individual praises good folks.”
To be continued.
See Matthew Fox, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, pp. 122-126.
And Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A Centering Guide, p. 128.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 301, 306.
And Fox, Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, pp. 493ff.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
And Fox, “Character and Chakra Growth,” in Fox, The A.W.E. Challenge: Reinventing Training, Reinventing the Human, pp. 138-145.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Refusing to lend a serving to hand. Notice the colours of the wristbands — USA’s on one, Ukraine’s on the opposite. Picture by Lisic on Shutterstock.
Queries for Contemplation
How did you are feeling on watching the general public debacle within the Oval Workplace that every one the world noticed? How do you are feeling about America beneath MAGA now being on the aspect of Putin’s Russia? Do you agree with Eckhart that good folks reward good folks? And with Aquinas that tyrants want the corporate of dangerous folks to that of fine folks?
Advisable Studying
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations reveals the life and teachings of one of many biggest feminine artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Custom. On the age of 42, she started to have visions; these have been captured as 36 illuminations–24 of that are recorded on this e-book alongside together with her commentaries on them.
“If one individual deserves credit score for the nice Hildegard renaissance in our time, it’s Matthew Fox.” – Dr Mary Ford-Grabowsky, creator of Sacred Voices.
Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A Centering Guide
A centering e-book by Matthew Fox. This e-book of easy however wealthy meditations exemplifies the deep but playful creation-centered spirituality of Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart was a Thirteenth-century Dominican preacher who was a mystic, prophet, feminist, activist, defender of the poor, and advocate of creation-centered spirituality, who was condemned shortly after he died.
“These quiet shows of spirituality are exceptional for his or her immediacy and readability.” –Publishers Weekly.
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given at the moment’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e-book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox provides a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the normal notion of fine and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He additionally translated lots of his works equivalent to Biblical commentaries by no means earlier than in English (or Italian or German of French). He provides Aquinas a discussion board in order that he may be heard in our personal time. He presents Thomas Aquinas completely in his personal phrases, however in a type designed to permit late Twentieth-century minds and hearts to listen to him in a recent approach.
“The educating of Aquinas comes by will a fullness and an perception that has by no means been current in English earlier than and [with] an important message for the world at the moment.” ~ Fr. Bede Griffiths (Afterword).
Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the which means and follow of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and international therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Properly value our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
The A.W.E. Challenge reminds us that awe is the suitable response to the unfathomable surprise that’s creation… A.W.E. can be the acronym for Fox’s proposed model of studying – an method to steadiness the three R’s. This method to studying, eldering, and mentoring is clever sufficient to honor the teachings of the Ancestors, to nurture Knowledge in addition to imparting data, and to Educate by Fox’s 10 C’s. The ten C’s are the core of the A.W.E. philosophy and means of schooling, and embrace: compassion, contemplation, and creativity. The A.W.E. Challenge does for the huge topic of “studying” what Fox’s Reinvention of Work did for vocation and Authentic Blessing did for theology. Included within the e-book is a dvd of the ten C’s put to 10 video raps created and carried out by Professor Pitt.
“An awe-based imaginative and prescient of instructional renewal.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Apply.
