August 15, 2009. Today is the feast day for the Assumption of Mary. As I read a novena for Her on this her day of Assumption I am shaken deeply to realize why CGJung was so excited about her formal, legal assumption: truly the integration of the material and the spiritual. It is in her, through her than we find our way home.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
Sons and Daughters of the Earth, steep yourself in the sea of matter, bathe in its fiery waters, for it is the source of your life and your youthfulness.
You thought you could do without it because the power of thought has been kindled in you? You hoped that the more thoroughly you rejected the tangible, the closer you would be to spirit: that you would be more divine if you lived in the world of pure thought, or at least more angelic if you fled the corporeal? Well, you were like to have perished of hunger.
You must have oil for your limbs, blood for your veins, water for your soul, the world of reality for your intellect: do you not see that the very law of your own nature makes these a necessity for you?
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from Earth Prayers from Around the World, edited by Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon 3 coS
deChardin addressing the overdevelopd thinking function in himself, I suspect, but also addresssing the bewitchment of our era in which worshiping a Sky God, we have sought to do away with the corruption of the flesh, read some St Augustine, that has led to our enslavement of all of creation that we judge as inferior to god's crowning creation, yep you got it!, humanity.
We already have everything that we need to free ourselves. I no longer believe the stories of heaven and hell as being something in the future-somewhere we will go after we die-
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