Tag: Gandhi

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