On this journal’s one-year anniversary, my detour into the polarization of the passions has brought me back around to my original impetus for journaling
Before I became Orthodox, I would tell people that my religion was more or less according to the structures of music. An objective reality that allowed for every kind of drama to play out within its winding scales and rhythms. Harmony, dissonance, counterpoint. All of it is there. I found in the Liturgy, the perfect embodiment of this structural interplay between fixed structure and mellifluous flow, although I've had a hard time explaining it or demonstrating it to others. Sounds like my prayers are being answered. Looking forward to hearing more!
Before I became Orthodox, I would tell people that my religion was more or less according to the structures of music. An objective reality that allowed for every kind of drama to play out within its winding scales and rhythms. Harmony, dissonance, counterpoint. All of it is there. I found in the Liturgy, the perfect embodiment of this structural interplay between fixed structure and mellifluous flow, although I've had a hard time explaining it or demonstrating it to others. Sounds like my prayers are being answered. Looking forward to hearing more!
Ah! Interesting!
My stuff, for the most part, is a poor attempt at making Orthodoxy somewhat intelligible and an interesting possibility for the 'unchurched'.
Except perhaps for this one:
https://stevenberger.substack.com/p/a-most-profitable-discourse-on-sobriety?utm_medium=reader2
Amen brother. I’m a beggar as well who can only polish the pearls of ancient teachers, that have been overlooked in our modern malaise.
You do know that "octavo" is the most natural book size... : )
We can never solve the problems we have created for ourselves on the same octave as they were created.
The only real solution will come by by ascending to a higher octave.
Jesus said clearly that His Kingdom was 'not of this world' and He meant that quite literally.
https://stevenberger.substack.com/p/the-secret-of-the-universe?utm_medium=reader2