Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World: The End of the World and our True Destiny By PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA

3/18/2011

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Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World
The End of the World and our True Destiny

PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA

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Lack of faith in a transcendent God leads to possessive knowledge. Wisdom cannot be possessed but only received gratuitously. To possess something is to lose it. The libidinal desire to own, to possess, to take hold of something is to give up the way of wisdom, the way of endless openness. True wisdom is a vision, an ever-growing and widening vision, not a private possession.

Speculation about the end of the world is a betrayal of Christian message. Such a preoccupation is the slipping away of the day-to-day historical living. Our business is to live each day joyfully and faithfully without apocalyptic anxiety. Unnecessary anxiety is anti-Christian. By living fully we prepare ourselves for any apocalyptic eventuality. 

Even if God decides to end the universe today, those who have attained eternal life will remain in that state forever. Nothing will be taken from them; nothing will be lost to them. Even after the end of the world, the eternal life continues.

Whatever graces they may have been granted will never be lost to them.  Eternal life is a permanent reality and nothing can jeopardize or jettison it, not even the end of the world.

The end of the world is not the end of God’s love, creativity, compassion and mercy. The end of the world would be an act of his unrestricted, unconditional, unreserved love. Both the beginning as well as the end of the universe is a work of Divine love. God is never malicious, merciless, ruthless, heartless, cruel or mischievous.

The end of the world is insignificant in comparison to the love of God. Absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God. Not even the end of the universe can separate us from it. The universe has a beginning as well as an end. But its end is not like any other end we know of.

The shape of the future to come cannot be known exactly. This massive lust, gnostic libido, cognitive concupiscence for certitude is symptomatic of false prophets and futurists. Wise person lives by faith in a God whose presence is ever active in history.

Futurism is false knowledge. Wisdom comes from doubt, anxiety, questioning, “the waiting, the periods of aridity and dullness, guilt and despondency, contrition and repentance, forsakenness and hope against hope, the silent stirrings of love and grace.” (Eric Voegelin)

Ash Wednesday reminds us that the way to heaven is a dusty and a sweaty path. 

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Christmas, Captivity and the Cosmic Christ (Divine Nativity and Human Captivity) By Professor Anton Meemana

3/5/2011

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Divine Nativity and Human Captivity

The divine nativity is the death of human captivity. The moment of his birth is the moment of a new birth for humanity and the memory of it is the memory of joy and peace, light and love. We have no future without keeping that memory alive. The glory of human existence is in its best memories. Nativity liberates us from captivity in all its myriad manifestations. Christ is the true light which yearns and burns in our hearts. Without his nativity, there is no real freedom in our lives.

The only ultimate meaning in life is to love God. The failure to do so is the origin and summit of all our misery, emptiness, and suffering. Emptiness is the absence of love in our hearts, it is the absence of fire, the lack of embers in our innermost chambers. The divine fire propels us to serve and love, to break and die, to bless and pray. Without a burning and a bleeding heart, one cannot contain the divine spark in one’s heart. All finite human love points to an infinite divine love. All our conditional love yearns and longs desperately for unconditional love and real frustration in life is not to glimpse it.

One’s interior darkness, gloominess can darken, further and add to the already existing exterior darkness. By the same token, one’s interior light can also lighten the exterior light further; more light is added to already existing light.

Jesus is the true torch bearer; that is , Jesus is the torch as well as the bearer. He is the true light and the carrier of it as well. Without divine light, love is not possible. One cannot love heart-bleedingly if one lives in darkness. The quality is love is in proportion to the light we bear and breed. He it is that loves us saves us. He saves us so that we can continue to love Him.
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