Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
OBLIQUITY IS AXIAL TILT
Obliquity, or axial tilt, is our earth's and our own accommodation within our contextual environment, in time, space, life, and grace.
"To devise the obliquity of the Zodiac and the circling path of all the celestial bodies beneath it, and this earth of ours--and all in such a way that reason can be given for the plan--this could never be the work of an image ; it tells of that Power (the All-Soul) next to the very Highest Beings."
P. 124, "Against the Gnostics," THE ENNEAD by Plotinus (1991)
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