The Hymn of the Pearl — THE ACTS OF JUDAS THOMAS from the Syriac (Aramaic)

“We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other fact-hood.”
—the white spirit

— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"When the brain is troubled, we believe everything and examine nothing."

-Jean Meslier, Superstition In All Ages (1732)

“You can’t have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don’t see how you can have such things on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth

The Eternal my Shepherd

Questions

Judith

"We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive."

—The Image, Daniel Boorstin

"By harboring, nourishing, and ever enlarging our extravagant expectations we create the demand for the illusions with which we deceive ourselves. And which we pay others to make to deceive us."

—The Image, Daniel J. Boorstin

“It is also that no change of doctrine or political alignment can ever be admitted. For to change one’s mind or even one’s policy, is weakness.”

1984 by George Orwell

Questions

The Eternal my Shepherd