[Oe List ...] SK

[Ken Fisher]

A few months ago, while in conversation with a number of you about SK, Gene Marshall shared his enthusiasm for the heart of SK’s writing, Training in Christianity.
 
When I make time, it is my summer reading. I’m at p. 70 of 254. Here are some lines that I love. 
 
·      (SK's publication) …. finally encountered that single individual who is willing enough to let themselves be found, willing enough to encounter it.
·      In relation to the absolute there is only one tense, the present.
·      Unconditional contemporaneousness with Christ. Responding to…. ‘Come hither to me, ALL ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.
·      But one cannot become a Christian having without already come to Him (being itself) in His (being it self’s) state of humiliation.
·      The offense of this. “What has He done to provide for his future? Nothing. Has he any definite job? No. What prospect has he? None. What will He do to pass the time when he gets older? Why, he cannot even play cards.
·      His whole mode of existence is typified by the fact that He is an illegitimate child.
·      SK addresses that state of being grounded in ‘Blessed is he whosever is not offended in Me!
 
SK’s ‘offence’ is the existential edge of the Christ Lecture. He also uses the word ‘contradiction’.
 
Michael May is a genius in poetizing and grounding the life experience of all humanity, that is under Christian code words.

Ever grateful,

Ken

> On Jul 10, 2024, at 2:05 PM, Michael May via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Here is what Interior Mythos Journeys has to say regarding the SK quote:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTw7QzskIaE&t=33s
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> Thanks,
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> Michael
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> Michael D. May
> Interior Mythos Journeys
> https://www.youtube.com/@Interiormythos
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> One who merely asks, “how may I pass through?” has no desire for real knowledge.  But the one who asks, “what it is that endures?” has already passed through; they have already gone over from the time order to the timeless, although still alive.                              —Søren Kierkegaard 
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