And I Will Give Them One Heart, and Put a New Spirit Within Them
Part IV in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger
Women Picking Olives, Vangogh, 1889
The way to the Holy Mountain of the Divine Father is a path trod by prayer. If one ascends through prayer, they will find themselves ascending through the cloud of unknowing that veils the summit from prying eyes (cfr. Job 28:12-28; Isa 45:3; 1 Cor 2:9). There beyond they […]
At the East of the Garden of Eden God Placed the Cherubim, and a Flaming Sword To Guard the Way
Part III in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger
The space shuttle Challenger lifts off from the Complex 39A launch pad, National Archives, 1983.
The soul’s journey towards the divine may travel outward from herself, might propel herself outward and upward under her own power, her own ingenuity, her own vainglory. To be sure, the powers of man, of body, mind, […]
Listen, While I Tell Again the Story of the Lord’s Mercies, What Renown the Lord has Won
Part II in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger
Bergidyll Hans Dahl (ca. 1900)
The little of our Heavenly Father that we see in this world below is enough to cry out to Him Glory! — at least it should be. Creation cries out to Him unceasingly, praising Him for the sundry multitude […]
Come, Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the LORD
Part I in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger
Soria Moria by Theodor Kittelsen (1881)
Gregory the Sinaite instructed those who desired to pray to take a guide, lest they get lost in the venture. Who then should we take for our guide? There is a two-fold temptation; the first, to chart our course using […]