tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post7968272425980025314..comments2023-10-14T23:56:22.016-10:00Comments on Reflecting Light: Nonperforming SEALRick Darbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-52765667592392462612007-09-13T15:30:00.000-10:002007-09-13T15:30:00.000-10:00Yes, Chesterton is thought-provoking and tends to ...Yes, Chesterton is thought-provoking and tends to look at things in unexpected ways.<BR/><BR/>I can't resist one more quote. This is also from CSL, in "The Preface to Paradise Lost"..<BR/><BR/>"Adam talks about God, the Forbidden tree, sleep, the difference between beast and man, his plans for the morrow, the stars and the angels. He discusses dreams and clouds, the sun, the moon, and the planets, the winds and the birds. He relates his own creation and celebrates the beauty and majesty of Eve…Adam, though locally confined to a small park on a small planet, has interests that embrace ‘all the choir of heaven and all the furniture of earth.’ Satan has been in the heaven of Heavens and in the abyss of Hell, and surveyed all that lies between them, and in that whole immensity has found only one thing that interests Satan.."<BR/><BR/>And that “one thing” is, of course, Satan himself…his position and the wrongs he believes have been done to him. “Satan’s monomaniac concern with himself and his supposed rights and wrongs is a necessity of the Santanic predicament…”David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-25141436183004331752007-09-13T14:07:00.000-10:002007-09-13T14:07:00.000-10:00Dave,Great quotes. I didn't know you were a Cheste...Dave,<BR/><BR/>Great quotes. I didn't know you were a Chesterton fan.<BR/><BR/>I'd <I>slightly</I> disagree with him: it's fine to worship the <I>God</I> within; that is progress on the soul's journey. What rouses the barking dogs of Hell is worshiping the Ego within.Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16646992.post-83470442990611515872007-09-13T12:57:00.000-10:002007-09-13T12:57:00.000-10:00The idea that anything good can come out of endles...The idea that anything good can come out of endless focus on one's own emotions is a strange one. C S Lewis spoke of the "ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self, which is the mark of Hell."<BR/><BR/>Also, G K Chesterton:<BR/><BR/>"Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within. Anyone who knows anybody knows how it would work; anyone who knows anyone from the Higher Thought Centre knows how it does work. That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within."David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com