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Jul 14 • 38 tweets • 12 min read
📄 St. Bonaventure on Number, Beauty and the Divine Ideas

“This is the sum total of our metaphysics: concerned with emanation, exemplarity, and consummation…Number is the principal Exemplar in the mind of the Creator.” Image
Image This thread is going to interweave three characteristic concerns of Bonaventurian metaphysics

i) Number & Being
ii) Transcendental Beauty
iii) Exemplarity in God and cognition
Jul 12 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
📄 St. Teresa of Ávila on praying the Our Father

Just as the sacraments confer the grace they signify, prayer turns and draws the soul to the one signified. The Divine Beauty of the Our Father is evident here as Divine in efficient (Mt. 6:9-13), formal, material and final cause: Image
Image From Christ, ordered by Christ, spoken by Christ, ordered to the Father by Christ. Thus is God signified as object (v. 9), glory in Himself, "Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be Thy Name."
Jun 24 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
📄 Geopolitical Kabbalah

What you are seeing now is practical Jewish Kabblah. Through din/judgement, kelipot are shattered; Zionism channels the Sitra Achra's into divine rectification. By diabolic cruelty, Iranian bloodshed and death, divine sparks (netzotzim) are released— Image
Image —advancing tikkun olam so God is compelled to send messianic giluy (revelation).

This is how insane they are.
The more chaos and deception, the dead Iranians and Palestinians, the more their cause is furthered. To explain:
Jun 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Because an epistemic discord arises in the dysphoric transgender which induces despair. The idealised sex contradicts the truth of bodily nature. This dissonance fractures conscience, inclining the will to despair, thus suicide, as the good becomes perceived as inaccessible. It's nothing principally to do with "transphobia". Transgender people are uniquely inclined towards this due to their illusory, unattainable standard of self-identity just qua dyphoric ideation.

Suicide rates are high for transgender people because it's innate to transgenderism.
Jun 20 • 46 tweets • 7 min read
📄Geocentrism is True.

The final redpill on cosmology isn't YEC. That's just one point of entry.
And it isn't flat-earth, which is just dull-witted controlled opposition.

The final redpill on cosmology is that Ptolemy, Macrobius, Aristotle, St. Bonaventure & Dante were right: Image The only major rejoinder is that to properly understand geocentrism you need to understand nested spheres. And further, there are a few grades of consideration to geocentrism: symbolic geocentrism, relativity in models, epistemology, empirical argument and Christ's ascension.
Jun 11 • 38 tweets • 9 min read
📄 Appendix: Thérèse's Spirituality and History against Jansenism

Quick appended thread responding to the recent wave of Jansenist-sympathetic attempting to respond, and very clearly misreading my thread. Or just espousing direct errors: Irrelevant. I never once raised the Jesuits against the Jansenists in my St. Therese thread

But this is false anyhow.

Jun 4 • 40 tweets • 12 min read
📄Ficino's Instruction on Correcting the Passions

Marsilio Ficino has quite a few remedies for combatting lust, habits of impure thought and correcting the passions generally.
And this he considers especially vital for the philosopher whose way of life is directly injured by it. Image
Image From De Vita Libris Tres, lib. II, these can be classed into four categories:
i) Diet and Humour
ii) Body and and Phantasy
iii) Harmonics
iv) Contemplation

I will supplement each category with my own recommendations.
Jun 2 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Taking a look at this rather childish diagram and the attempt at an argument here. Rather embarrassing. What I'm going to do is properly formulate an argument for this position. A steelman for Glove here.

And then explain how even that goes wrong against the Scholastic position: Glove argues that observation, as an immanent act (i.e. taking place within the subject), is inherently circular and not valid as a principle for certitude.

A formalisation:
Jun 1 • 36 tweets • 7 min read
📄Plato & Christian Hope Against the Greek Moralists

« When a man lives out his days in justice and piety,
sweet companion with him, to cheer his heart and nurse his old age, accompanies
Hope, who chiefly rules the changeful mind of mortals. » (Republic I, 331a) Image
Image I cite Republic I, 331a, but technically its Pindar Frag. 214. But the reason I cite it in Plato's presentation of Pindar is because he's actually placing hope in a sense contrary to the Greek moralists and much closer isometrically to that of Catholic deiform hope.
May 31 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
We can prove this thesis.
"Martha and Mary must work together... but do not despise Mary’s better part."
(Interior Castle, IV.3)

Protestantism rejects what the saints call the "better part" in favour of feverish material labour: Our major premise: That which scorns spiritual contemplation as idleness, yet glorifies ceaseless material labour, commits the vice of acedia under the guise of virtue.
May 31 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
📄 That the Resurrection of Christ proper to God, Pure Act and Unparticipated Unity, alone.

Again, Kate raises two well placed distinguishing notes for the sake of a stronger theological formulation.

So will I elaborate: Image
Image a) The Resurrection Proves Christ's Divinity

i) That which rises by its own essential power from death to immortal life possesses dominion over life and death—unity and multiplicity—and such dominion belongs to God alone as unparticipated unity (Proclus, ET prop. 1-5, 7, 11).
May 31 • 39 tweets • 5 min read
📄 Despite my rather strong aversion to sedevacantism, I do think examining their ecclesiology is rather worthwhile for any student of theology because it is a rather useful exercise. Kind of like how it's a useful exercise for any Scholastic to examine Kant's system: Now I've heard it said rather boldly, against the sedevacantist position that: sedevacantism actually ends up unwittingly holding to an invisible church structure, thus collapsing into a kind of quasi-Protestant ecclesiology and thereby running afoul of Trent and Vatican I.
May 31 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
📄 All trumpet blasts, bowl-pourings, and unlocking of the abyss, are but the raised stage of the true apocalypse: that of the human soul.

Best to face the sword―God's rod upon the wicked (Ez.21) in this life, than undying horrors beyond comprehension as the heavens wheel above. Image An apocalyptic sense of self.
All sin and virtue is revelatory, and is made light of in its ultimate meaning with regards to the eschaton. One must become an oblation in this life, poured out for Our Lord, sharing in his agony, forcing through detachment and abnegation.
May 30 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
📄 To posit an "alien Jesus" is to rend Christ's singular Hypostasis, making a mockery of the Incarnation. God the Son assumed one human nature, not many.
To multiply Incarnations would multiply Persons or confuse Natures. The Cross is not for your pseud science-fiction sandbox. To multiply Incarnations would necessarily imply either a multiplication of divine persons (violating Trinitarian dogma of the Trinity) or a confusion of natures (violating the Definition of Chalcedon).

And runs against Hebrew 9:26:
May 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
>there are multiple Gods, hard polytheism (Abraham 4:3ff)
>God was once a man a the univocal sense to us (King Follett Discourse)
>"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's." (D & C, 130:22)

Look I knew Mormons were utterly cooked but this is something else Image
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Image The arguments against hard polytheism even the most entry level Phil 101 Thomist could deal with. The idea God was once a man compromises his simplicity, necessity and immutability, thus rendering the Mormon God(s) not "God" — as to be God entails utter primacy.
May 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Extremely crucial point.

Our Lady's dignity isn't first due to her fullness of grace. It is first due to her Divine Maternity, and thus it is of the hypostatic order. And then upon this fact due to her graces.

Fr. Garrigou on this: Image
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Image The Council of Ephesus also teaches this that the Divine Maternity is higher than even the graces Our Lady herself was given in fullness. Image
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May 28 • 77 tweets • 12 min read
📄 Infallibility of Canonisations

"The honor which we show to the Saints is a certain profession of faith, by which we believe in the glory of the Saints, and by which it is piously believed that even in these matters the judgment of the Church cannot be in error." (St. Thomas) Image
Image The Canonization of Saints is the middle between these two (namely between the things that pertain to faith and those pertaining to particular facts): ergo, does St. Thomas argue directly for the infallibility of canonisations (., Quodl. 9, a. 16).S.Th
May 27 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
📄 On Sanctity & Lay Celibacy

The lay celibate life, when freely embraced and ordered to God, is a true vocation, not merely a transitional state. St. Bonaventure's principles, and Vatican II (LG 39-42) affirm that holiness can arise in any state. Image
Image Many celibate lay saints lived this call intentionally and fruitfully. And this is sufficient proof of the statement. St. Bonaventure here also reflects the general teaching of the Church from the Fathers down to the later Carmelites (cf. Fr. Thomas Dubay, Fire Within)
May 27 • 58 tweets • 8 min read
📄 A Refutation of Transcendental Idealist and Sematic Reductions of Verum and Unum

One underdiscussed Scholastic contention with Kant seems to be the question of verum as a transcendental: Image
Image Because it seems that by denying that being as such is knowable we run into a state wherein knowledge is wholly non-referential to real being, which is totally unintelligible.
May 26 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
📄 Upon Cardinal Bessarion’s account, then Marsilio Ficino—together with Savonarola even—has attained to the Beatific Vision. As for Cornelius Jansen, the signs are graver.
Renaissance Catholicism shares in glory, cretinous Jansenism will weep and gnash teeth. Image
Image Ficino vs. Jansen might be the greatest example of a contrast in theological attitude when asked to heed correction. Every single time Ficino was given an inspection or critique he would write up stately corrective pieces in beautiful and amicable tones.
May 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
📄 On the Necessity of the Filioque

If the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son, then there is no origin or relation between them, thus no personal distinction. This means either a polytheistic division in the divine essence or an impersonal modal dialectic; both heretical. Image
Image i) In the Trinity, personal distinction arises solely through relation of origin. (E.g. the Father is paternity, the Son is filiation, the Spirit is spiration)

ii) If the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son as per Eastern "Orthodoxy", they have no relation of origin.