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One Love
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| Posted 8/27/2008 10:50 PM (GMT -6) |   | | See this.
Not a perfect analogy, I know..but...
Imagine that God's Divine Energies were the lightening bolt source and procession ( + ) and the self-giving human soul in poverty-of-spirit before God (like the Theotokos) is the ground of reception of the Divine Energies ( - )...and the "birthplace" of the Eternal Only Begotten Son of God, Christ-the-Logos.
See the continuing "bolt".
The incredibly fast movement that looks so unmoving.
Ever-moving "rest".
Perhaps this would be would what theosis/divinization might be like?
Maybe?
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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| Posted 8/28/2008 6:35 AM (GMT -6) | | |
The gorgeous ones directly above look more like "cloud to ground"...but the first lightning movie may have been positive lightning...
Positive lightning, also known colloquially as "bolts from the blue", makes up less than 5% of all lightning. It occurs when the leader forms at the positively charged cloud tops, with the consequence that a negatively charged streamer issues from the ground. The overall effect is a discharge of positive charges to the ground. Research carried out after the discovery of positive lightning in the 1970s showed that positive lightning bolts are typically six to ten times more powerful than negative bolts, last around ten times longer, and can strike tens of kilometres/miles from the clouds. The voltage difference for positive lightning must be considerably higher, due to the tens of thousands of additional metres/feet the strike must travel. During a positive lightning strike, huge quantities of ELF and VLF radio waves are generated.
As a result of their greater power, positive lightning strikes are considerably more dangerous. At the present time, aircraft are not designed to withstand such strikes, since their existence was unknown at the time standards were set, and the dangers unappreciated until the destruction of a glider in 1999.
One type of positive lightning is Anvil to Ground, since it emanates from the anvil top of a cumulonimbus cloud where the ice crystals are positively charged. The leader stroke of lightning issues forth in a nearly horizontal direction until it veers toward the ground. These usually occur kilometers/miles from (and often ahead of) the main storm and will sometimes strike without warning on a sunny day. An anvil-to-ground lightning bolt is a sign of an approaching storm, and if one occurs in a largely clear sky, it is known colloquially as a "Bolt from the blue."
Positive lightning is also now believed to have been responsible for the 1963 in-flight explosion and subsequent crash of Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707.[32] Subsequently, aircraft operating in U.S. airspace have been required to have lightning discharge wicks to reduce the chances of a similar occurrence.
Positive lightning has also been shown to trigger the occurrence of upper atmosphere lightning. It tends to occur more frequently in winter storms and at the end of a thunderstorm.[33]
An average bolt of positive lightning carries a current of up to 300 kA (kiloamperes) (about ten times as much current as a bolt of negative lightning), transfers a charge of up to 300 coulombs, has a potential difference up to 1 gigavolt (one billion volts), and lasts for hundreds of milliseconds, with a discharge energy of up to 300 GJ (gigajoules) (a billion joules.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 8/28/2008 6:49 AM (GMT -6) | | | One of my favorite movies of all time...
Here is a Spoiler film from the end of the movie. DO NOT WATCH THIS...if you haven't seen the movie, will want to see the movie, and don't want to see the end right now!! Warning! 
That said, the sense of "surrender" seen lends so much to the piece. ( Orans?)
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 8/28/2008 7:09 AM (GMT -6) | | |
Actually, I'm also reminded of a comic book hero even my DAD used to like as a kid...Captain Marvel.
And guess what, y'all?
The Holy Name of God (experienced in the Name of Jesus) is our version of Captain Marvel's "Shazam!"
When we call on that blessed Name, in self-giving faith and trust...
look out. 
John 14:13 TNIV Chapter
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 TNIV Chapter
You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 15:16 TNIV Chapter
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
John 16:23 TNIV Chapter
In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
John 16:24 TNIV Chapter
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 16:26 TNIV Chapter
In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 8/28/2008 7:40 AM (GMT -6) | | |
The "Jesus Prayer", y'all.
All day. Ee'ry day!
Seeing this picture...imagine people in the area just calling on Jesus. For real.
Isn't it JUST like that, in the spiritual realm?
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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| Posted 8/28/2008 8:09 AM (GMT -6) | | | Contrition before God and the need for not depending upon our piety and our strength:
Father Moses (St. Moses the Black) increased in piety and in the struggle with himself to a great extent; but in spite of these desperate measures, the vigilance and the defeat of the self, he could not avoid imagining the lustful ghosts that were intensified as his struggle increased. His additional abstentions were probably without the permission of his spiritual mentor, for when he went to him to complain about his situation, he said to him, "My son, stop fighting the devils for the human being's strength has its limits. (One Love's Thought: Only God is infinitely strong.) However, if God does not have mercy upon you and He alone gives victory over them, you will never overpower them. Go now and submit yourself to God with repentance before Him. Persevere in humility, He will have mercy upon you." Moses answered,
"I trust in God in whom I have placed all my hope that I be constantly armed against the devils*, and never stop fighting them until they depart from me."
When St. Isidorus saw this faith in him, he said, "And I also believe in my Lord Jesus Christ, and in the name of Jesus Christ, from this moment the devils will stop fighting you." He added, "Go to the Holy church and partake of the Holy Sacraments." St. Moses continued to do as the Elder had said with perseverance, and God gave him a great blessing, humility and serenity. (One Love's Thought: The "Peace" that passes all understanding.) The power of thought came upon him, and from that moment Moses lived in peace and grew in wisdom.
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Shazam.
*Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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| Posted 8/28/2008 8:38 AM (GMT -6) | | | Hey, it wouldn't be "me" if I didn't do at least ONE "Neo/Matrix" reference...heh...
"In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one."
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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| Posted 8/28/2008 10:05 AM (GMT -6) | | | New code words: "Got your drink on?" and "Shazam!"
OL: "Hey, it wouldn't be "me" if I didn't do at least ONE "Neo/Matrix" reference...heh..."
Brandon: See that WOULDN'T be me? But that's the way God likes it.
Brandon
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, but vows to every purpose must not hold.--A friend.
To love without love is slavery--Mother Teresa
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One Love
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| Posted 8/28/2008 11:21 AM (GMT -6) | | Brandon:
Brandon: See that WOULDN'T be me? But that's the way God likes it.
Of that, I have no doubt...
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
If I speak in human or angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body [to hardship] that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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| Posted 4/15/2010 7:48 AM (GMT -6) | | | The Blessed Name of Jesus is my Vajra.
Vajra (Devanagari: वज्र, Chinese: 金剛 jīngāng; Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ; Wylie: rdo-rje; ZWPY: dojê, Japanese: Kongou 金剛) is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond. As a material device, the vajra is a short metal weapon that has the symbolic nature of a diamond (it can cut any substance but not be cut itself) and that of the thunderbolt (irresistible force). The vajra is believed to represent firmness of spirit and spiritual power. It is a ritual tool or spiritual implement which is symbolically used by Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, all of which are traditions of Dharma.
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