Posted on 08/04/2015 6:13:58 PM PDT by SuzyQue
"Life is a long series of forgetting. . an abandonment of the knowledge we entered this world with, so natural and obvious to anyone, including a child. What is truth, what is deeply known and felt, what is bestowed on us by our Creator, slowly drains from our minds, like water from a sieve.
Sometimes we remember again, usually in bits and pieces, in fragments of memory that pierce the darkness. Like light unfolding into day, we get a hint of what was forgotten; and then we have a choice to make: to keep remembering, or to remain, like an amnesiac, knowing something is missing, but not what it is. . . and if we shut it all down, the remembering stops — sometimes forever.
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Much of the knowledge was inborn and didn’t need to be communicated through words or actions: an innate thirst for God, for higher truth, and life’s meaning. A wondrous awe of this astonishing world and the God who created it; a yearning to be close to Him; and a fear of offending Him. And then heaven and hell, always present in the mind; getting oneself to the former, escaping the latter, and worrying about it, not in the way a neurotic worries about getting a good job or finding a new partner, but the necessary anxiety of a human being desperate to spend eternity with his Master.
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And then suddenly everything changed.
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Maybe it wasn’t sudden at all, maybe it was slow, fastidious, carefully planned and executed by people in charge of something new, something radical: The Great Forgetting. ...”
(Excerpt) Read more at robinofberkeley.com ...
The lessons of a thousand generations have been discarded over the course of the last two.
RofB is worth reading. Bump.
Thank you for posting this, its incredibly beautiful and true. I recommend everyone read the actual article in full.
Robin is always good reading.
Thanks!
You’re so welcome!
Very excellent reading. Thanks
Purchased a series of ten + ebooks by Anthony Trollops, an 19 Century English Author. His books are written in the 1850’s. (On Amazon for $3.00)
I’ve read the first five and always looking forward to read the next. They keep me away from FR for long periods of time.
If you can place yourself in the vernacular of the times (Old English)it’s a very joyful ride.
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