More good-time religion. On Grace from "Gravity & ..."

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 23 11:36:47 CDT 2009


SPOILER FOR NEW ATD READERS!

Do you all keep thinking about the scene in AtD wherein
Lew comes out the other side of a dynamite blast and feels
grace? No?, well I do.

So, another Klever Korrespondence or, at least, a kind of gloss
if it is not a TRP source. 

In Ms. Weil's extreme 'theology' so to characterize, she pushes
 the notion of eliminating self and world quite far. [Buddhist-like
but with lotsa Western suffering and angst, maybe to describe.]

She writes of 'the hollows bitten into us by reality'...which hollows
'imply the presence of a third dimension".. "That 'nature abhors a vacuum'
[like what a bomb makes?]
is also strictly true in psycholgy." "But this vacuum is precisely what
grace needs in order to come into us." 

Remember in AtD, when Cyprian experiences that 'religious surrender of self' after carrying, suffering for,  what's-his name-? When he then after it is over, spontaneously, unbidden feels different, is different: Good beyond an effort to be, shall we call it? ...

Ms. Weil:  ...."by arriving through self-effacement and love at that state of perfect docility to grace whence goodness spontaneously emanates." "Action is the needle that shows the balance. We must not touch the needle but the weight."---body-weight metaphorized? 



      



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