MDDM ch.67: "Yet, does it live" (657.13)

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Aug 5 11:28:30 CDT 2002


I agree with you here, as far as you take it.  I don't necessarily agree
with all the nuances of your religious rap, but that's OK. Dixon does waver
in M&D with regard to how firmly fixed in the Enlightenment worldview he
remains, in that sense he seems to change places with Mason at times.

At 11:32 AM -0400 8/5/02, Terrance wrote:>
>At M&D.101 we get Dixon's explaination of one of the Quaker mystik
>secrets, that is the working of the spirit within or grace. I don't
>think Dixon ever wobbles or wavers on this. It's not a matter of finding
>god or a way or path to god, but of acting and labor and silence, that
>is the taking time out from our mortal requirements, a turning and
>desire, the embodiment in the world,  or what Quakers understand as
>Grace.




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