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Thomas Merton and Jacques Maritain, 1966
A reading selection from Approaches to God by Jacques Maritain called The Sixth Way. A simple intellectual exercise that walks one through the spiritual:
"The operations of the human intellect are in time, and, indeed, subject to time, but in an extrinsic manner and only by reason of the materiality of the senses and the imagination to whose exercise they are bound. In themselves they are not subject to the flu; of impermanence.
They emerge above time. They exist in a duration which is a deficient imitation of eternity, a succession of fragments of eternity, for it is the perseverance in being of spiritual acts of intellection or of contemplative gaze. Thus this duration is composed of instants superior to time, each of which may correspond to a lapse of time more or less long, but is in itself without flow or movement or succession – a flash of permanent or non-successive existence.
Such is the proper duration of thought. Thought as such is not in time. The distinction between the spiritual and the temporal appears here in its primary sense. That which is spiritual is not subject to time. The proper place of the spiritual is above temporal existence."
More here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/03/25/the-%e2%80%9csixth-way%e2%80%9d-a-reading-selections-from-approaches-to-god-by-jacques-maritain/
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Thomas Merton and Jacques Maritain, 1966
A reading selection from Approaches to God by Jacques Maritain called The Sixth Way. A simple intellectual exercise that walks one through the spiritual:
"The operations of the human intellect are in time, and, indeed, subject to time, but in an extrinsic manner and only by reason of the materiality of the senses and the imagination to whose exercise they are bound. In themselves they are not subject to the flu; of impermanence.
They emerge above time. They exist in a duration which is a deficient imitation of eternity, a succession of fragments of eternity, for it is the perseverance in being of spiritual acts of intellection or of contemplative gaze. Thus this duration is composed of instants superior to time, each of which may correspond to a lapse of time more or less long, but is in itself without flow or movement or succession – a flash of permanent or non-successive existence.
Such is the proper duration of thought. Thought as such is not in time. The distinction between the spiritual and the temporal appears here in its primary sense. That which is spiritual is not subject to time. The proper place of the spiritual is above temporal existence."
More here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/03/25/the-%e2%80%9csixth-way%e2%80%9d-a-reading-selections-from-approaches-to-god-by-jacques-maritain/
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