
Zdroj: http://www.fatym.com/view.php?nazevclanku=rekli-svati-a-to-plati-aneb-citaty-blahoslavenych-a-svatych-ii-dil&cisloclanku=2011090151
We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient. We have to understand.
"New Maps of Hyperspace" (1989); originally published in Magical Blend magazine, also in The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History (1992) http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna_terence/mckenna_terence_maps_hyperspace.shtml
Varianta: We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient. We have to understand.
Kontext: There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules. The noetic enterprise is a primary obligation toward being. Our salvation is linked to it. Not everyone has to read alchemical texts or study superconducting biomolecules to make the transition. Most people make it naively by thinking clearly about the present at hand, but we intellectuals are trapped in a world of too much information. Innocence is gone for us. We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient.
We have to understand. Whitehead said, "Understanding is the apperception of pattern as such"; to fear death is to misunderstand life. Cognitive activity is the defining act of humanness. Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. We humans may be released into a realm of pure self-engineering. The imagination is everything. This was Blake's perception. This is where we came from. This is where we are going. And it is only to be approached through cognitive activity.
Zdroj: http://www.fatym.com/view.php?nazevclanku=rekli-svati-a-to-plati-aneb-citaty-blahoslavenych-a-svatych-ii-dil&cisloclanku=2011090151
„Život je mostem: přejdi po něm, ale nebuduj si na něm svoje obydlí.“
Originál: (en) To this we must say that He who promised forgiveness to them that repent has not promised repentance to them that sin.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 101.
Originál: (en) Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!
Zdroj: [Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont, The prince of pulpit orators: a portraiture of Rev. George Whitefield, M.A.: illustrated by anecdotes and incidents, https://books.google.cz/books?id=Hg8FAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Carlton & Lanahan, New York, 1871, 400, 54, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit. Repentance and desires after holiness never can be separated.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Christ’s First and Last Subject: A Sermon (No. 329), delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 19th, 1860, www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons06.xxx_1.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„Budeme muset činit pokání nejen za hříchy zlých lidí, ale také za strašné mlčení dobrých lidí.“