THE COMING OF THE COSMIC CHRIST
Matthew Fox
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"Healing is still possible. This is the hope that the Cosmic Christ, wounded but resurrected, holds out to our times."
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"We need to worship in circles again, preferably on the soil of Mother Earth wherever possible. Circles invite all creatures to be part of the grateful event and they allow the humans present to look each other in the eye while rounding and connecting themselves in step with the universe."
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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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"Beloved child, come swiftly to Me, for I am truly in you. Remember this: The smallest soul of all is still the daughter of the Creator." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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"All are called to be in touch with the true self."
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"It is Love that moves 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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"The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom." Nicolas Berdyaev
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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 cosmos we live in is the one we choose to make. The worlds we live in ARE the worlds we choose to give birth to. Our soul is, as Meister Eckhart says, the world."
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"Humanity has the power and responsibility to increase the glory that is the divine presence in the cosmos."
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"Since 'every creature is a word of God' as Meister Eckhart put it, it follows that Mother Earth is a special word of God: a unique expression of divine wisdom, of divine maternity and caring, of divine creativity and fruitfulness."
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"The whole universe is the great world, the macrocosm; its parts are small universes in themselves, microcosms. Such a microcosm is man, who is in himself an image of the universe and a perfect being." Otto Rank, 'Art and Artist'
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"Each of us displays a different aspect of the divine face."
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"It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature." Hildegard of Bingen
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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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"Divinity is not outside us. We are in God and God is in us."
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"Creativity is the fundamental law of the human psyche which constitutes a microcosm of the universe."
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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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"Inside, outside, o friends, all one." Kabir
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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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"All creatures are interdependent." Meister Eckhart
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"Our bodies are the temple that con-temples us with other temples, other bodies of the universe, bodies of stars, of suns, of earth, of winged, finned, four-legged and two-legged brothers and sisters, children all of a living God."
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"Every creature is a ray of God, a radiance of God, a divine expression of God."
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"The Divine One is the 'One who is with us', Emmanuel, 'God with us.'"
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