Lewis Carroll, Orthodox/Quaker Thought, The Audubon Society, 

and the Willingness to Squint

A Poem, A Vignette, Five Quotes, An Experiment, and Some Assertions

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Callid Keefe-Perry

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One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy.

The Poem: “Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

The Vignette:John James Audubon's Whipporwill

   

Audubon

Audubon

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The Quotes:

Thoughts on Divinization and Theosis

“Thou hast made our race partakers of divinity.” --Cosmas of Maiuma and John of Damascus. First Canon of the Nativity, Ode 3

“God became man so that [humanity] might become god.”

--Athanasius of Alexandria. On the Incarnation 54:3, PG 25:192B The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 460

“If the Word is made man, it is that [we] might become gods.”

--Irenaeus, Against Heresies, VI.i.1

"We are called to be participants, not just spectators, in God's being and work."

--Charles Sherlock, God on the Inside, p.106

...you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants in the divine nature.

--2 Peter 1:4, NRSV

...we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

--Acts 17:29, NRSV

...you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants in the divine nature.

--2 Peter 1:4, NRSV

...we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

--Acts 17:29, NRSV

To all sorts and conditions of men, Fox continually makes appeal to "that of God" within them... Frequently it is the "Christ within." In every instance he means that the Divine Being operates directly upon the human life, and the new birth, the real spiritual life, begins when the individual becomes aware of [God]...

-Rufus Jones, Introduction to George Fox's Journal

An Experiment:

A Willingness to Squint

Scientism pervades, but Life does not conform.

How we express our experience of the Divinecan change our experience of the Divine.

Expressing things as we actually perceive them often bumps up against systematized standards.

Some Assertions

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The question is, " said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty. "which is to be master—that's all."

“[TAG is full of]...Olympic-level postmodern Humpty Dumpty language.”

-Ken Silva, Apprising Ministries

What is our goal?

Where are our chortles?

Power comes with control.

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