THE COMING OF THE COSMIC CHRIST
Matthew Fox
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"Because all creatures contain the Word of God and express it, there is a radical equality of being that needs to be reverenced."
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"Like fish in water and the water in the fish, creation is in God and God is in creation."
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"The holy omnipresence of the Divine One [is] in all things."
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"Relation is the essence of everything that is." Meister Eckhart
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"The whole is present in each part, in each level of existence. The living reality, which is total and unbroken and undivided, is in everything." David Bohm
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"Even small experiences of creation, such as mustard seeds, contain the divine."
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"Creativity is the fundamental law of the human psyche which constitutes a microcosm of the universe."
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"The heartbeat of the Cosmic Christ fills the universe with overflowing love, binding all things together on earth and in heaven."
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"A river passes through many countries and each claims it for its own. But there is only one river." Sheikh Ragip Frager, 'Love is the Wine: Talks of a Sufi Master'
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"Hildegard of Bingen teaches that prayer is essentially the inhaling and exhaling of the one breath of the universe."
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"The inward person is not at all in time or place but is purely and simply in eternity. It is there that God arises…[and] is heard, there God is; there God, and God alone, speaks." Meister Eckhart
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"Each of us displays a different aspect of the divine face."
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"Creatures can be called God's words, because they manifest God's mind just like effects manifest their causes." Thomas Aquinas
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"I foresee a renaissance, 'a rebirth based on a spiritual initiative', to use historian M. D. Chenu's definition, as the result of the outpouring of the Spirit. This new birth will cut through all cultures and all religions and indeed will draw forth the wisdom common to all vital mystical traditions in a global religious awakening I call 'deep ecumenism.'"
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"The divine mystery and miracle of existence is laid bare in the unique existence of each atom, each galaxy, each tree, bird, fish, dog, flower, star, rock, and human."
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"Each creature is a witness to God's power and omnipotence; and its beauty is a witness to the divine wisdom….Every creature participates in some ways in the likeness of the Divine Essence."
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"Divinity and we are co-creators, equally responsible one might say, for the survival of Mother Earth and for the kinds of personalities, relationships, lifestyles, politics, and economics that we birth."
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"It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature." Hildegard of Bingen
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"All are called to be in touch with the true self."
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"The ancient and long obsolete idea of man as a microcosm contains a supreme psychological truth that has yet to be discovered." Jacobe and Hull, 'Jung'
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"We have a responsibility to give back the cherished blessing of our lives with grace and gratitude. We must return blessing for blessing. Generativity and creativity have been built into the universe from the start."
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"The Cosmic Christ is the crucified and suffering one in every creature, just as much as the Cosmic Christ is the radiant one, the divine glistening and glittering in every creature."
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"The Cosmic Christ IS the 'pattern that connects' and connecting is what all wisdom is about, as the philosopher Gabriel Marcel points out: 'The true function of the sage is surely the function of linking together, of bringing into harmony….the sage is truly linked with the universe.'"
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"The fire at the center of the tepee, pipe, or of sweat lodge represents Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit within the world. How close this comes to Meister Eckhart's teaching that a 'spark of the soul' burns within every creature and every human that will never be extinguished and that this spark of the soul is the divine presence within us all. All of creation shares in this holiness."
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"Divinity is not outside us. We are in God and God is in us."
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