Salvation does not equal ‘piety’ or ‘ethical propriety’
salvation has to do with God’s love
for our deepest metaphysical nature –
our true self/the human person
which is beyond description/comprehension –
salvation is God’s ineffable love
and our ineffable love of God
and responsibility for our future
has now passed from God to us
“Our life and death are in our own hands
salvation is the realization and integration of this”
– Don Cupitt
“All history is a struggle against good and evil”
– Gaudium Et Spes (The Pastoral Constitution
on the Church in the Modern World, Vatican II)
Christ thus exhorts us to be holy
as God is holy
and God loves everyone
so to be holy is to love everyone
as God loves everyone – good or evil –
God allows sun and rain to fall on the just and unjust
Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism has two parts:
1. The Mystic Fact: how mysticism relates
to Henri Bergson’s Elan Vital
and to modern psychology
2. The Mystic Way: the awakening/purification/training
of the self in the ascent to the blessedness
of the Unitive Life
“A God-fearing person must follow the Truth
regardless of the consequences
even though it endangers their life –
they must trust that a good deed
will have a good result –
they know it is better to die in the way of God
than to live in the way of Satan.”
– Gandhi
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