TEGEN DE WERELD

"I shall here write my thoughts without order, and not perhaps in unintentional confusion; that is true order, which will always indicate my object by its very disorder. I should do too much honour to my subject, if I treated it with order, since I want to show that it is incapable of it" (Pascal, Pensees 373).

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" (Plato, Republic).

Now Spinning the Finest in Funk

"The heritage of values which has been received and handed down is always challenged...To challenge does not necessarily mean to destroy or reject a priori, but above all to put these values to the test in one's own life, and through this existential verification to make them more real, relevant and personal, distinguishing the valid elements in the tradition from false and erroneous ones, or from obsolete forms which can be usefully replaced by others more suited to the times" (John Paul II, Centesimus Annus).

"If there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of his corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy. Thus, it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden and partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without knowing God" (Pascal, Pensees 686).

Cryptography is the study of means of converting information from comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format--the art of encryption. In the past, cryptography helped ensure secrecy in important communications, such as those of spies.

Icon (n): a graphic symbol that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface; a visual representation of an object or scene or person or abstraction produced on a surface; a religious image on a small panel--venerated in the Eastern Church.

If I could through myself / Set your spirit free / I'd lead your heart away / See you break, break away / Into the light / And to the day.

Svjatyj Bozhe, Svjatyj Krjepkij, Svjatyj Bezsmertnyj, Pomiluj nas.

Tegen de Wereld 26 June 2014.

31 december 2005

Tegen de Wereld: blogging into 2006

Always ready to lend a hand

Spiderman

Berlin

Feast of the Holy Family

Tegen de Wereld's People
of the Year 2005

For Mrs. de Wereld

28 december 2005

Feast of the Holy Innocents

27 december 2005

26 december 2005

Bernardo Daddi, The Martyrdom of St. Stephen, 1324

Happy Boxing Day

25 december 2005

Blessed Christmas from us to all

And the angel said to them, 'Be not afraid; for behold, I bring
you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people;
for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is
Christ the Lord.'

Luke 2: 10-11

24 december 2005

Christmas Eve

Master of Raigern, "The Birth of Christ," c. 1425

I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love

Dr. Paul Hewson, "In God's Country," The Joshua Tree, 1987

As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,
A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear...
Alas, quoth he, but newly born in fiery heats I fry,
Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I !
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,
Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;
The fuel justice layeth on, and mercy blows the coals,
The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls,
For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good,
So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.
With this he vanished out of sight and swiftly shrunk away,
And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.

St. Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe," 1595