TR . . sure Gaddis is christian in perverse way (shade of gray)

[Richard Ryan]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> for instance, this bit about chance:
>
> http://www.compassionatespirit.com/Recognitions/Book-8.htm
> 8.2 -- Genesis.
>
> Then the old man proceeded to say: "I saw you bathe in the sea, and
> afterwards retire into a secret place; wherefore observing, without
> your noticing me, what you were doing, I saw you praying. Therefore,
> pitying your error, I waited till you came out, that I might speak to
> you, and instruct you not to err in an observance of this sort;
> because there is neither any God, nor any worship, neither is there
> any providence in the world, but all things are done by fortuitous
> chance and genesis, as I have discovered most clearly for thyself,
> being accomplished beyond others in the discipline of learning.2
>
> "Do not err, therefore: for whether you pray, or whether you do not
> pray, whatever your genesis contains, that shall befall you."
>
> Then I Clement was affected, I know not how, in my heart, recollecting
> many things in him that seemed familiar to me; for some one says well,
> that that which is sprung from any one, although it may be long
> absent, yet a spark of relationship is never extinguished.3 Therefore
> I began to ask of him who and whence he was, and how descended....

Kind of like a Dylan song, eh?  Glad the CR is growing on you, Mike.
Haven't gotten that far into them yet, but so far I'm finding them
enchating.




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