🧵On If There Is A Real Distinction Between The Divine Essence And The Divine Energy
I was asked to make thus thread, it will be long, beginning with the Fathers who used the terminology of real (πραγματι) and notional (κατ’ ἐπίνοιαν) distinctions. Firstly, St. Mark of Ephesus, in his second Tome against Manuel Kalekas:
“According to the theologians, the distinction is only notional, not real (´Η διάκρισις έπινοία μόνη κατά τούς θεολόγους, ού πραγματι)… God is not what is predicated of Him in a composite (σύνθεσιν) way, but He is said to be so and so according to diverse notions (´κατά διαφόρους έπινοίας)… However, the notion (έπινοία) is distinguished in such a way that it does not assert the same thing to be both energy and essence, as if it found 'essence' along with 'nature'… Further, we willingly accept the example of grain (Basil, Adversus Eunomium I.6,44-54), if by ‘thing’ the subjectum or the being existing per se is meant. For, in this sense, the divine predicates are not different realities (διάφορα πράγματα), namely, beings existing per se, or realities entailing composition.”
First Tome Against Manuel Kalekas’,
p. 228,19-27:
“’Being realities (πράγματα είναι)’ and ‘really differing from each other (πραγματικώς διαφέρειν)’ … is not the same. We, in accordance with the Doctors, declare and believe the former, by stating that they are naturally (φυσικώς) and substantially (ούσιωδώς) and uncreatedly inherent to the essence of God; yet we forbid to speak of ‘really differing from each other’, (πραγματικώς διαφέρειν) because this has to do with things that exist per se [i.e., the primary substances], not with things distinguished only conceptually (έπινοία μόνον διακτινομένοις).”
(2) Synodal Tomos of 1351, sec. 27:
“Now just as we proclaim that the divine and eternal union is not only with the inseparable but also with many others and indeed with the sharing in common of the uncreated and uncircumscribed according to the theology of the saints, so too we recognize that we should honour the distinction and difference, again according to the theologians, as also being appropriate to God, not thereby reducing them to complete severance and division, nor conceiving of this difference and natural differentiation as something strange, or separating them from each other by an interval – God forbid! – but we have been taught by the saints to accept as such those things that are by nature causes and the products of causes, distinguishing those things which are naturally united and indivisible in reason alone (μόνῳ τῷ λογισμῷ) in a manner befitting God.”
Sec. 29
“Indeed one could say that the form (eidos) of the distinction between the divine essence and energy is unique, primary and proper to it. They differ from each other by the divine energy being participated and indivisibly apportioned and in some way named and conceived, even if dimly, from its results, whereas the essence is imparticipable, non-apportionable and nameless, as evidently completely transcending any name or concept.”
(3) St. Philotheos Kokkinos in his Antirrhetics against Nikephoras Gregoras:
“… one is essence, and the other is energy, but these differ notionally they say, not really, rather the unity is real (καὶ ἄλλο φασὶν οὐσίαν, καὶ ἄλλο ἐνέργειαν, ἀλλ' ἐπινοίᾳ φασὶ τὴν διαφορὰν ταύτην, οὐ πράγματι · πράγματι δὲ μᾶλλον τὴν ἕνωσιν (PG 151:953B)).”
“… they differ from each other not really (οὐ πράγματι), but conceptually (ἐπινοίᾳ τῆς διαφορᾶς), and that these two things are one thing (καὶ ἓν εἰσιν αὖθις αἱ αὐταὶ (PG 151:880D).”
“… this is the natural power and divinity of God, indivisibly one and united with nature, as fire heats and ice cools, according to what has been said many times by the theologians - but rather above and beyond these and in that divine nature, which differ from it notionally, not really (PG 151:1042A).”
You can get to this outcome by showing an LLM a function which proves the limits of its own compute and complexity and then it will just admit that having a bigger brain and listening to media liars is not going to help it think harder
Attorneys for #RichardAllen are asking for a final, seven day extension. They’ve also requested permission to file an oversized appellate’s brief, which will detail their argument as to why Allen’s 130-year conviction should be overturned.
Allen’s attorneys say they have ID’d “at least ten possible issues for appeal, nine
of which involve federal and Indiana constitutional claims.”
They are as follows…
1. The right to
present a defense including alternative explanations of the scene
and other suspects and impeachment of the quality of the
investigation.
This is all about the Odinism material, which came from investigators, not Baldwin & Rozzi.
They unwittingly gave the game away, folks. It’s why they went nuclear on my accounts & ran legit int’l gatekeeping ops on me (Infowars, CIA, IDF & South Africa). And WHY? Welp.
For one, KAROL MARKOWITZ unmasked ZACH QURESHI (LDS/THF/TSINGHUA) before deleting a TAD too late.
Another reason?
Exposing JOHNNIE MOORE JR., who is also EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN of GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION (GHF/CIA/BLACKWATER), and seems to have taken in $700,000,000, DIRECTLY from the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, to MURDER PALESTINIANS at AID TRUCKS & BLAME HAMAS.🖕
Russia is laying the groundwork to make the 1990s look like a walk in the park. Everyone says Russia is returning to the nineties, but what does that mean? The collapse of the Soviet Union was driven by many factors. Economic problems had already begun in the 1970s. The USSR
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economy was built on the export of energy resources (oil and gas), metals, timber and grain. Most of the revenue went into the arms race of the Cold War. This is very similar to Russia today, whose military budget has reached record levels. The 1973 oil crisis initially
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worked in the USSR's favor by increasing export revenues, but soon an event occurred that had a greater impact on the crisis of the 1990s than anything else - the war in Afghanistan. Although the Soviet Union spent about $20 billion on the war, this was negligible compared
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Export controls may have been the economic weapon of choice in 2025, but the Dutch minister at the centre of the Nexperia crisis has admitted he was blindsided by Beijing blocking the company’s chips from leaving China.
His concession raises fresh questions over how much planning underpinned the decision to reach for a Cold War-era law to intervene in the Chinese-owned, Dutch-headquartered chipmaker in September, a move which triggered a supply chain shock in the global automotive industry.
🧵 The new National Security Strategy of the US is more pro-Europe than many Europeans are.
Page 5: "We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity"
2) The US supports European countries keeping their national identities. Page 12:
"We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.:
3) The US opposes "disastrous ... ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." (page 14)
Just putting this into context. @DrCatharineY was originally DOD then published on a DARPA grant. One of her few co-authors is Stephanie Petzing of the "Center for Global Health Engagement"
All one big OneHealth family to nudge you into believing this @epiphare slop is real.
For the explanation as to why these "real world data" with "data not available" publications are absolutely junk and shouldn't be accepted to any major journal please see arkmedic.info/p/pharma-hell-…
Dr Young (DARPA/DOD) is clearly now working as an ambassador to cover for the actions of the corrupt Biden regime who we are learning covered up huge amounts of adverse events from their COVID program whilst funding pharma in the "cancer moonshot"
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