St. Benedict found the world, physical and social, in ruins, and his mission was to restore it in the way not of science, but of nature, not as if setting about to do it, not professing to do it by any set time, or by any rare specific, or by any series of strokes, but so quietly, patiently, gradually, that often till the work was done, it was not known to be doing. It was a restoration rather than a visitation, correction or conversion. The new work which he helped to create was a growth rather than a structure. Silent men were observed about the country, or discovered in the forest, digging, clearing and building; and other silent men, not seen, were sitting in the cold cloister, tiring their eyes and keeping their attention on the stretch, while they painfully copied and recopied the manuscripts which they had saved. There was no one who contended or cried out, or drew attention to what was going on, but by degrees the woody swamp became a hermitage, a religious house, a farm, an abbey, a village, a seminary, a school of learning and a city. (The Mission of St. Benedict, the ATLANTIS, 1858)
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“Cor ad cor loquitur!” (John Henry Newman)
Heart speaks unto heart: Contemporary moral philosopher Ernst Tugendhat coined his great three epistemologies, according to common Latin grammar: first person’s subjectivism, second person’s inter-subjectivism, and third person’s objectivism. As regards, subjectivism, selfishness is natural will that only gradually, through the seven angelical days of creation, became capable of inter-subjectivism under divine will, which is humility, but with original sin came knowledge of good and evil that is objectivism, and so our subjectivist, invisible soul, however capable of inter-subjectivism, under God and virtue and immortality, came to be seen as objectivist, mortal body, he or she. God, whose divine nature is grace and whose thrice free will is humility, is inter-subjectivism, God is charity, but angels and natural beings and even the human being are subjectivistic creatures, who are capable of God, but with objectivism, angels and the human soul remain subjectivistic, but natural beings and the body come to be, apparently, causal and mortal, yet objectivism is epistemological false, as great many paradoxes in fake peer reviewed science confound, and it is to be hoped, humiliate us, so that we restore hope for immortality of the soul. Hence monotheistic belief in ressurrection was gradually built up, through divine covenants, with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Ezra, and Jesus who is the living Lord God and Christ. Heart speaks unto heart, in love of God, and in love of neighbour, under divine will humility. The greatest of angels, Satan or the Devil, is not super-natural, although invisible to objectivistic senses, but is only the greatest of subjectivistic creatures whose natural will is selfishness, but who rejects divine humility, once and for all, and the Holy Mother of God, under divine will, subdued the Devil, never objectivizing God nor neighbour, and always orthodox in Jewish faith. Love one another! That is what the Lord taught! Biblical history is first and foremost parable and poetry, according to Augustinian subjectivism, that is also prayer, which acts as the thrice holy word speaks, according to inter-subjectivism, but if studied also for purpose of natural history, according to objectivism, biblical history is also actual fact, for example, Adam and Heva were our first parents who lived in pleistocaenum, and whose eye witness account Genesis is, and ten great tribes from Adam to Noah probably span nine great climate cycles, the golden age of palaeolithicum, until holocaenum, and the tower of Babble, in silver age of neolithicum, contains historical fact on modern language differentiation in great cities, and so on, but it was Abraham who established monotheistic existentialism, in the dawn of the bronze age. However, regular catholics are arguably correct, when they dismiss my natural historical studies, because we read the Holy Bible, as prayer and as parable, but, with modernity, I maintain that modern fake peer reviewed science is in great need of Christians who know genuine science even better than the unbeliefers, and so, we are still allowed to maintain that biblical prehistory as well as biblical history is our only genuine mythological source for spirituality of free men.
Heart speaks unto heart. Love restores creation.